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Cox (Nissan) «Podium am Saisonende wäre schön» / FIA WEC

Nissan motorsport boss Darren Cox, the driving force behind the Japanese manufacturer's return to top-line sportscar racing in LMP1 this season, has left the company. Cox has relinquished his role as global motorsport director and marketing boss of the NISMO brand to end a 13-year stint at Nissan.


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GT Academy was conceived by Darren Cox, a former Nissan Europe executive, in 2006 to help Sony PlayStation racing gamers become professional racing drivers. [2] [3] A small event was held in 2006 in a partnership with Sony, where participants competed in the Gran Turismo game and on an actual track for a Nissan 350Z prize.


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Conceived by Nissan Europe general manager Darren Cox in a joint vision with Sony Interactive Entertainment, the reality series aimed to collect the best Gran Turismo racers across six different.


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Nissan has confirmed that global head of sales, marketing and brand for NISMO Darren Cox has left the company after 18 years of service, tendering his resignation.


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Orlando Bloom as Nissan executive Darren Cox, the creator of the GT Academy in Gran Turismo. imdb.com/Sony The movie's biggest-name star is Orlando Bloom, who plays a character based on Darren Cox, the Nissan executive who invented GT Academy. Watching Bloom portray him in a film "was a bit surreal," the first time he watched it, Cox told Hagerty.


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In real life, a Nissan employee named Darren Cox dreamt up the idea for GT Academy. It took Cox, who was a general manager for Nissan Europe at the time, three years to get his pet project off the ground. That GT Academy actually worked did elevate Cox's status. He went on to become Nissan's global brand head and global motorsports director.


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Orlando Bloom as Danny Moore (left) and Darren Cox (right) It was, as portrayed, the brainchild of a Nissan marketing executive, although the movie's Danny Moore (played by Orlando Bloom) was based on the real Darren Cox — who was Nissan's global motorsport director at the time.


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The idea for the program was conceived by Darren Cox (a loose approximation of whom is being played by Orlando Bloom in "Gran Turismo"), who was a former Nissan Europe executive. In 2006, he.


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Darren Cox (born 1974) is a British businessman and automotive and motorsport executive who is known as the creator and director of GT Academy. [1] [2] A character based on Cox is portrayed by Orlando Bloom in the film Gran Turismo. [3]


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In 2008, Nissan Europe marketing executive Darren Cox (a character based on him named Danny Moore is played by Orlando Bloom) launched the Nissan GT Academy with Sony. The idea was to capitalize.


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WEC Commentary Opinion: What will be Darren Cox's legacy? The departure of Darren Cox, the driving force behind Nissan's LMP1 project, from the Japanese company was announced on Friday -.


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Nissan motorsport boss Darren Cox, the driving force behind the Japanese manufacturer's return to top-line sportscar racing in LMP1 this season, has left the company Author Gary Watkins.


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We recently spoke with Darren Cox, the former Nissan wunderkind behind the GT Academy—which ran from 2008 through 2016—and even he had a hard time wrapping his mind around it all. Cox did.


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Darren has, this week, left his post as Global Head of Brand at NISMO, Nissan's motorsports arm, to pursue his own projects with the IDEAS+CARS group.