Ever since the news release of Gran Turismo 5, I have always wondered how the skills we master in a game translate to the real world. Top Gear answers my burning question as well as the other million gamers who probably wonder the same thing.

Geek, rebooted

On a normal Thursday, Greger Huttu sits in the blue glow of a computer screen, in his bedroom in the teeny town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. In the afternoons, he joins his fisherman father to land a catch of perch netted from Arctic waters. But not today. Instead, he’s wedged into the cockpit of a single-seater race car, in the boiling heat of Road Atlanta raceway, Georgia. He’s never driven anything like this before – his regular drive is an old Ford Sierra – yet an empty track awaits him, a full race team is at his service and he has full permission to drive as fast as he pleases. Slippery fish suddenly seem a million miles away.

Words: Dan Read
Photography: Daniel Byrne

This article was originally published in the November issue of Top Gear magazine

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