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I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:20 am
by Stigy
For those that asked, I won the Australian/New Zealand region of the Gran Turismo 5 Signature Edition competition :D
About the comp
Basically we had to have the fastest total time over 5 laps of 5 tracks, with a month to put our best times in. I won my region by 0.1 seconds, out of a total time of over 43mins!!! MANY hours were spent improving times, so not much Revoing went on in January :?

So we're still waiting on full details, but I, along with 14 others from around the world, will fly to Germany, and compete over a few days in driving events in real cars (probably AMG Mercs) on real tracks, and the winner of that gets a half million dollar SLS AMG. Should be good fun win or not :D

SLS AMG
http://www.cardotcom.com/mercedes-benz/ ... z-sls-amg/

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Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:23 am
by bluesign2k
:shock: :shock: :shock:
Wow! Well done dude!

Best of luck for the finals :!:

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:24 am
by AFKAN
That's fantastic Stigy 8-) 8-) 8-)

Good luck in the finals matee ;)

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:25 am
by Paradox
That sounds brilliant!

Good luck to you, let us know how you get on! :D

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:49 am
by mhuti
Step on up the real STIG(T5)Y! Cool... 8-)

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:06 pm
by MikeyZee
Whoa, that is unreal!

Keep up the good work and go get that benz!

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:21 pm
by Gdamatov77
win an SLR McLaren for me while ur at it please. :lol: JK.

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:39 pm
by maztec
That's totally awesome stig! Good job.

Luckily you're not in the U.S., iirc Australia counts prizes as windfall so no tax? In the U.S. you would have to pay taxes on that beauty if you win (approx $137k) Ooph! :) Hope you tracked your losses and expenses put into winning the prize. But remember, you will still have to pay insurance ;)

Good luck!

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:30 pm
by adamwest
maztec wrote:That's totally awesome stig! Good job.

Luckily you're not in the U.S., iirc Australia counts prizes as windfall so no tax? In the U.S. you would have to pay taxes on that beauty if you win (approx $137k) Ooph! :) Hope you tracked your losses and expenses put into winning the prize. But remember, you will still have to pay insurance ;)

Good luck!
You sound like a tax lawyer :lol:

Re: I won the GT5 Sig Ed Comp!!

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:44 pm
by maztec
adamwest wrote:You sound like a tax lawyer :lol:
Oh heck no! That is another year of school and then being damned to the never-ending drudgery of tax law. Not going to happen, no way, no how.