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**This is a gaming comp so read all info below carefully**

Win a Real Mercedes Racing in Unreal Gran Turismo 5

News Sunday, December 26 by Captain


Sony has announced that an exclusive competition for owners of the Gran Turismo 5 Signature Edition will go live at 09:00 GMT/20.00 AEST on Monday, 27th December 2010.

That's 8pm on the night of the 27th, for Sydneysiders.

The racing competition will see the ultimate winner get their hands on a brand-new, real-life Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG worth more than $AUD 235,000.

With 15 regional winners from across 22 countries set to benefit from a stint at the Mercedes-Benz Driving Event, the winner of the spectacular gull-wing, 6.2 litre supercar will have to demonstrate to the judges that he, or she, is best placed to handle the SLS’s 571hp that delivers acceleration of 0-100km/h in 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 317km/h.

How better than to impress them with your GT5 abilities?



Yeah, but we want THIS one!


The limited-release ‘Signature Edition’ of Gran Turismo 5 included a number of exclusive and collectable items, both virtual and real, but the voucher code contained in the GT5 leather wallet is the key to entry to the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG competition. So if you just got it for Christmas - do NOT chuck that stuff away!

To enter the competition, owners of the Signature Edition should make sure they have downloaded all the latest updates to GT5. Then they will need to redeem their voucher code via PlayStation Store on their PS3 and register their details on Gran-Turismo.com.

Once they have completed these steps they will be able to access the Signature Edition Challenge from within Gran Turismo 5.

The Challenge takes place in Gran Turismo 5’s innovative B-spec mode – where players take the role of team director with their own AI drivers doing the racing. The Challenge is being held over a series of five races on different circuits. The choice of B-spec mode opens the competition to more than purely the fastest GT5 racers, and there will be no limit on the number of times entrants can complete the races. In-game leaderboards for each region will display the top 50 race times for each circuit, as well as the top 250 combined times across the five races.

This is really going to annoy the hardcore drivers, but will be excellent for those of us without the driving skills of Mark Weber.

You'll have just over a month to get your best time in.

Entrants with the fastest total time from each region] at the closing time (23:59 GMT on 31st January 2011 / 10:59 AEST 1st February 2011) will be invited to take part in the second phase of the competition – the Mercedes-Benz Driving Event where winners from each international region will compete against each other in a series of real driving challenges under the scrutiny of judges.

Points will be awarded for each challenge with the winner taking home the stunning SLS AMG.

2011 - it's going to be a good year for some lucky gamer.