Wired news reporter Mark McClusky got to drive the $200,000 Ford GT (pictured here) and notes
that the hours he logged playing Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) helped him perform on the racetrack, but not as much as
he thought they might.
"Turning all those laps gave me a good mental model of how the track flows: what turns come where, where you need to set up to make the turns, where the fast and slow parts of the track are."
He goes on to compare the differences of driving a really fast car around a race track to the experiences of driving similar cars in Gran Turismo 4. For any armchair drivers that think they're ready for the tracks, this is required (and inspirational) reading.
