Nissan India has found its six winners of the GT Academy 2015 competition. After 10,000 contestants who participated in this event, 20 made it to the national finals in Chennai. The finals that were hosted over two days at Chennai’s MMSC racetrack saw the top 20 qualifiers from online and live qualification events compete for the top spots.
The six winners of the second season of GT Academy in India will now move to Silverstone, UK for the race camp, where they compete with the finalists from Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines in the GT Academy Asia Championship. One winner from here will then get a chance to undergo a driver development program and compete for Nissan at Dubai 24-Hours.
“I am very excited to see the growing enthusiasm in the country towards motorsports. In just a month’s time, over 10000 participants competed in GT Academy 2015 with hopes of making it to the top spot," said Guillaume Sicard, president, Nissan India.
The winners of the Nissan GT Academy 2015 are
Abhishek Dwarknath
Anush Chakravarthi
Askhay Gupta
Dhruv Dayal
Jaideep Chahal
Shantanu Kallianpukar