The drivers who are too fast to compete! Nissan Insider


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GT Academy was conceived by Darren Cox, a former Nissan Europe executive, in 2006 to help Sony PlayStation racing gamers become professional racing drivers. [2] [3] A small event was held in 2006 in a partnership with Sony, where participants competed in the Gran Turismo game and on an actual track for a Nissan 350Z prize.


Darren Cox Leaves Nissan What’s the Future for GT Academy?

Conceived by Nissan Europe general manager Darren Cox in a joint vision with Sony Interactive Entertainment, the reality series aimed to collect the best Gran Turismo racers across six different.


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Orlando Bloom as Nissan executive Darren Cox, the creator of the GT Academy in Gran Turismo. imdb.com/Sony The movie's biggest-name star is Orlando Bloom, who plays a character based on Darren Cox, the Nissan executive who invented GT Academy. Watching Bloom portray him in a film "was a bit surreal," the first time he watched it, Cox told Hagerty.


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In real life, a Nissan employee named Darren Cox dreamt up the idea for GT Academy. It took Cox, who was a general manager for Nissan Europe at the time, three years to get his pet project off the ground. That GT Academy actually worked did elevate Cox's status. He went on to become Nissan's global brand head and global motorsports director.


Nissan motorsport boss and LMP1 architect Darren Cox leaves company

The tagline "From Virtual to Reality" often gets repeated when chatting with executives such as Darren Cox, Nissan 's director of Global Motorsport, who works closely with the successful program.


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During his 13 years at Nissan, Darren Cox was in charge of a number of other innovative projects, including the Nissan Deltawing, the ZEOD RC, and the GT-R LM NISMO P1. After leaving Nissan in 2015, he founded a new project rooted in video games called eSPORTS+CARS, which is the first professional esports racing team.


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Nissan has confirmed that global head of sales, marketing and brand for NISMO Darren Cox has left the company after 18 years of service, tendering his resignation.


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Nissan motorsport boss Darren Cox, the driving force behind the Japanese manufacturer's return to top-line sportscar racing in LMP1 this season, has left the company. Cox has relinquished his role as global motorsport director and marketing boss of the NISMO brand to end a 13-year stint at Nissan.


The drivers who are too fast to compete! Nissan Insider

Darren has, this week, left his post as Global Head of Brand at NISMO, Nissan's motorsports arm, to pursue his own projects with the IDEAS+CARS group.


Darren Cox (GBR) General Manager Nissan in Europe. Nissan DeltaWing Announcement, London

In 2008, Nissan Europe marketing executive Darren Cox (a character based on him named Danny Moore is played by Orlando Bloom) launched the Nissan GT Academy with Sony. The idea was to capitalize.


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Darren Cox (born 1974) is a British businessman and automotive and motorsport executive who is known as the creator and director of GT Academy. [1] [2] A character based on Cox is portrayed by Orlando Bloom in the film Gran Turismo. [3]


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The idea for the program was conceived by Darren Cox (a loose approximation of whom is being played by Orlando Bloom in "Gran Turismo"), who was a former Nissan Europe executive. In 2006, he.


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Darren Cox. Creator of GT Academy (now a Hollywood film 'Gran Turismo') Advisor - Speaker - Innovator - Founder. 3w. A great summary of some of the challenges we faced to convince the world.


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Darren Cox / Courtesy of Jann Mardenborough Aug. 25, 2023, 10:00 AM UTC By Arturo Conde Can a video game franchise that sold over 90 million units as of last year turn a gamer into a.


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We recently spoke with Darren Cox, the former Nissan wunderkind behind the GT Academy—which ran from 2008 through 2016—and even he had a hard time wrapping his mind around it all. Cox did.