Makes sense, I'm relatively quick, already, on the track, and I'm a mid-level GT5 player.

Academy winners are otherworldly, already. But what you don't get from the press releases is the fact that many of them have amateur-level experience in motorsports before attempting to win Academy seats, and they have the raw skill and discipline to win a competition filled with tens of thousands of great drivers.

And then GT Academy winners are sent to class to train... It's the innate skill and the classes given to them after winning that make them overqualified compared to the "gentlemen racers" they're up against, who are mostly older amateur racers with much less experience (and much more money).