The Incredible Story of Jann Mardenborough

[@CharliePayneJohns17]

I was lucky enough to meet Jann Mardenbrough at my local karting track 2 years ago, he’s such a nice guy, and I was fortunate to meet him. I will always have huge respect for him.

[@rhyswilliams4893]

Same from my experience. Super down to earth. Pretty timid for a racing driver

[@JanWaibel_Official]

Sup Charles :D

[@CharliePayneJohns17]

@@JanWaibel_Official omg, it’s 🗿

[@TheNewbiecheese]

Holy shit your hella lucky

[@dannythorne9761]

I am lucky enough to be his perants next-door nabors

[@avensCL]

For those that think these are just games, Max Verstappen, the current F1 world champion, is one of the most active simracers in the world. And in his position he could race in whatever category he wanted to, but instead he prefers to do simracing to try different categories. These "games" have gotten that good over the years.

[@WromWrom]

And the companies developing them strive to make them as realistic as possible - within the boundaries of a simulation, of course.

[@badgoogle9938]

Blanket statements like this don't tell the whole story, not all games are created equal. You have sim racing games and you have arcade racing games, (and simcade, which falls somewhere in the middle) sim racing games is what Max Verstappen is playing.

[@ghomerhust]

jimmy broadbent got a seat in a prada prototype because of his sim racing

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Don't Lando and Charles also regularly stream sim-racing?

[@alieffauzanrizky7202]

And on this day and age where sim racing developers going all out with laser scanning a whole circuit and getting direct access to many car manufacutres just to make it as close as possible, just state for itself. This is as close as we can get from a bedroom to an actual race car

[@Tommy-gm7uo]

The fact that there was even an opportunity like this and it fully went ahead is just amazing. Fair play to Sony and Nissan and of course Jann himself for all making a story like this happen.

[@Rand0mGypsy]

His father scored a goal against Liverpool, and he scored a goal against the odds, awesome story!

[@lorddarlo6194]

Who was his dad playing for unless I have it confused I might see his dad watching his other brother or potential maybe cousin play at my local non League side I believe it his brother who did play for Wales. Although the name of this Jann's mum doesn't match the guy I know who was commenting on fans of a higher side slating him as he returned to our club. But the person who is apparently his mum mentioned Jann on Facebook I have no idea if she loosely related like a Stepmum to him and this guy is her actual son.

[@Rand0mGypsy]

@@lorddarlo6194 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mardenborough

[@desirefusion532]

Cardiff fc it says in the film​@@lorddarlo6194

[@FF18Cloud]

​@@lorddarlo6194 Apparently it was the wolves in 1984 So says wikipedia

[@scsutton1]

I was invited to the GT Academy Finals at Silverstone in 2014. I wasn't good enough to qualify on the Gran Turismo 6 route, but I had entered an online competition and scored highly enough to be invited to the Silverstone finals. Unfortunately, I couldn't go as I didn't have a driving license at the time.

[@Denverbroncos87]

But remember, you proved you’re good enough to have that opportunity. That’s cool you entered online competitions and did well. I did iracing with my 3 closest friends for a long time. I have 2 highlights. A photo finish win and I had the opportunity to race against former wwe star bob holly who loves iracing. He gives great advice for newbies and he explains everything no matter what the question. His knowledge helped me and my friends figure out road courses. Our struggles on them ended with his advice.

[@H-Real_8]

​@@Denverbroncos87Amazing story. Both of you. I can't afford racing, not even sim racing which can be as expensive. I could barely scrape together enough for a few local karting sessions.

[@Denverbroncos87]

@@H-Real_8 I was too right there. Me and 2 friends couldn’t afford it. But our other friend ( there was 4 of us) His dad and step mom had great jobs. His step mom was a model from Japan. His dad worked in a factory with my dad . Due to his step mom being a model, she knows a lot of people. 1 of her closest friends is Michelle yeow. Her husband Jean todt is a good guy. Doesn’t say much. When we all graduated college they bought 4 racing sims so we can race whenever. Michelle and Jean had 1 rule we couldn’t race unless we turned 21, did well in college if any of us graduated before the others, and earned by our actions. I miss every off from work, we’d race and have a great time randomly picking which tracks to do and if we did daytona/talladega we’d draft together. I haven’t raced since 2017. I’m now married. 36, but even though all of us got bullied, dealing with that is how we became good friends. I most likely will never race again. But. Idk player KZbin channel has my iracing fire going. I enjoy watching his streams of iracing. Bob holly is 1 celebrity/race car driver I miss racing against. A hilarious 1 to race against is jewel. The singer. She was hilarious. She made even the worst wrecks and people angry to laughing and forgetting about it. Edits: mistakes I made typing. Typing the wrong words by typing to fast and not reading it back before I commented, I asked Michelle and Jean what the rules were for us to race.

[@m-seb]

@@H-Real_8 you can get a G27/29 for like 100 bucks and a copy of Assetto Corsa Ultimate Edition for less than 10 during sales, simracing is nowhere as expensive as it used to be

[@adyanakhlaq2111]

yes @lulubelle808

[@Mathewmusic2003]

jann grew up in the house next to my mum, janns mum still lives there and I always ask how he's getting on especially when he was in Japan, about a 2 years ago he bought a ferrari which proves his success, and he also brought home a 370z nizmo and let me get a little ride in it, he is absolutely amazing and he loves cars and racing, any time he's home I always speak to him

[@Dupylo]

Seems super chill but he is a gamer we're always friendly

[@rabiulyt21224]

gamer dreams , we gamers too...simulation in other games ofc...

[@kzdp_ae]

Sooo lucky brooo 🎉

[@ParaBellX]

@@Dupylo Depends on the game though haha!

[@JustKandyMan1]

Dude got to live out the dream so many of us have and did so for a decent amount of time. Hats off to him for taking the chance and running with it.

[@zetto156]

As much as I enjoyed the film, it's incredible to me that they took Jann's story and somehow made it LESS interesting by disregarding many of the details to make it a better advertisement for the PS5/GT7. I really wish they'd committed more to telling the true story, and not just a story based on a true story.

[@darthdingus8642]

Hated that Le Mans and silverstone was just the Hungaroring

[@emdotrod]

If they put how Jann still raced at Le Mans (with the GT-R LM Nismo) weeks after the Nurburgring crash instead of using it as a plot device for a race that actually happened in 2013, the film will still be good enough for me. The disregard of details for entertainment kinda bugs me

[@dezenove8449]

​@@darthdingus8642I swear I was going crazy with the Le Mans end sector looking so much like the third sector of the hungaroring

[@darthdingus8642]

@@dezenove8449 yeah that editing didn’t fool me.

[@XA-lm5oz]

@@darthdingus8642 As a racing fan I can get over it. Most people will never know the difference and it saves production a ton of money.

[@FreshTillDeath56]

Yeah, the real story is amazing, and honestly, it's more inspiring than the film.

[@Amm17ar]

I really enjoyed the film. I didnt know much about him, but it did open the door to me learning a lot more about him. The movie did take some "liberties" with his story, but I still felt it was a good movie for non-racing fans and racing fans would enjoy it. A bit of a disappointing decision to make a crash that happened a couple years after the movie as a big story element, especially when it resulted in the loss of life though. Kinda felt like they turned a tragedy into a opportunity without paying proper respects to the individual who died and Janns story. However, it was a good movie, the acting was good, the story (minus the crash) was good, and the cinematics were amazing.

[@KaiserBob99]

Jann gave them the approval to add the crash to the movie.

[@cheddarmx5969]

Especially when they played up Jann’s injuries (irl he had little to no injuries and walked off), I feel it wouldve been more proper to show what actually happened, which was Jann breaking down crying because he realized his car had killed someone just trying to watch a race.

[@Amm17ar]

@@KaiserBob99 Ah, okay. I didnt know that. Thanks!

[@jcarter5521]

Agreed, real life was better than film depicted. The story deserves a documentary and R.I.P 🙏🏾 to spectator

[@nissansilvia3746]

​@@cheddarmx5969they did show a bit of jann having a breakdown about it though

[@luneva5498]

timing is impeccable, i literally just got home from watching the movie 😭

[@metaliczic96]

He is also the stunt driver of Gran Turismo movie as well.

[@mrsantoyo97]

Jann and William Byron's back stories are such incredible stories. Definitely an inspiration to keep grinding

[@kaderator]

Bro that’s what I was thinking

[@octanegamer1576]

Even though Willy B had connections with Jimmie Johnson through his dad with Liberty University and had a been driving Legends to get where he is now

[@andrashennel3765]

We have a same story in Hungary. Norbert Michelisz. Touring car world CUP winner and 2 times independent champion also started his carrier from the Simworld.

[@samkwant4050]

You also have Tim Heineman in DTM at the moment

[@JessInThe999]

In the same vein, Id love to see you do a video on Jimmy Broadbent. Hes proof that not only sim racers can become real racers, but that its never too late or too much of a ling shot to pursue your dream

[@Arlan997]

I've just finished watching the film, the timing of this upload is incredible ahah!

[@Luckybomb21]

It seems like his career was a bit all over the place, being so good he was just kept on climbing the ranks. The movie was great and it was definitely inspiring. Coming back from such a traumatic accident takes guts and skill.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

He's a terrific racer. Hope he's got a seat for next year somewhere, if not during this one. Getting away from Nissan might be the best thing to happen to him given the increase in the hypercar grid (taking over from LMP1) in the last couple of years. More manufacturers are due to join, so it's possible we'll see him up the front again. Very proud of my young countryman! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@MoptopTofer]

I hope he gets a shot at an LMP2 team or hell maybe even Hypercar if he's lucky enough.

[@theocousins6386]

He’s still a gold-rated driver in the FIA’s categorisations. There’s certainly worse options out there than Jann…

[@AbrahamArthemius]

Honestly i really think a move to Toyota/Lexus could prove beneficial. As far as manufacturers go in Japan (if he still wanted to get into the Japanese scene), Toyota is currently the only brand that has a variety of racing programmes to get into (especially compared to what Nissan has right now). Toyota/Lexus is currently developing a brand new GT3 car for WEC and other GT series use and it can also be used as a clear stepping stone if he really wants to go to the Hypercar class.

[@theocousins6386]

@@AbrahamArthemius that’s not a bad shout - it’s rumoured that AKKodis ASP are parting ways with Mercedes to run Toyota’s WEC GT3 team, which means they’ll be in need of new Pro drivers to replace the factory Merc drivers

[@AbrahamArthemius]

@@theocousins6386 Yup, the AKKodis rumour will prove to be a good one if it turns out to be true. Of course they will use the RC F GT3 as a place holder for the GT3 in 2025, but that old gurl can still kick newer machines in the right hand (Vasser Sullivan in IMSA as the best example of that)

[@juliobrian4757]

I actually remember trying out for the Gran Turismo Academy for Gran Turismo 5. This is why I loved the movie because I was actually involved in this story as well! NOTE: I didn't even make the first 20,000 let alone the first 20. But I felt glad that I entered the Challenge.

[@TheShrike616]

Pretty bloody good, just like your vids. A mate of mine, Kenny Herremans, was a bit of a backmarker in that Nissan Academy program. Kept on soldiering on in Belgian Ford Fiesta Sprint cups and now does pretty well in Euro GT4 ... It wasn't a total waste for a broke bloke from Belgium.

[@bfure1]

Makes you wonder about all the great drivers that just never got an opportunity

[@emdotrod]

Many GT Academy alumni have decent racing career

[@KaoriKorazon19]

THANK U FOR THIS! Great story and great story telling gentlemen 👏🏿👏🏿

[@Anigaming-dz5gh]

Ah yes, the movie when games help you get skill instead of skill issues

[@CFCMAMO1]

Josh Revell - "thanks to the movie and skillshare. Skillshare is..."

[@csbr75]

SR [down] PENALTY: 00:05:00 Causing a controversy

[@ryobibattery]

Moral of the story: You just can't beat Goatiffi

[@wezosukwana3926]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sandwich1506]

This truely felt like i watched a different version of the gran Turismo movie. Thanks a lot

[@shig.bitz.3205]

I remember seeing how distraught he was when he realised what had happened. RIP to spectator. Best of luck to Jann in the future.

[@LaczPro]

He was living the dream. That's how excited I have been about the movie since I saw how that guy made it from the PlayStation to a GT-R. I know the drama movies need to have these days, but I don't care, it's a truly inspiring story. Edit: I loved the movie. Way better than NFS, and while it has its "Hollywood" element, it's amazing for almost every people.

[@rabiulyt21224]

Bro Im living a gta lifestyle....how cool is that...gaming inspires my every heartbeats

[@TheJudge2017]

Josh Berry is taking a similar route. He was discovered playing iRacing by Dale Earnhardt Jr. He is scheduled to go full time in NASCAR next year

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

Funny... three racecar drivers, all with names that start with J, all started as sim racers: Jann Mardenborough Josh Berry Jimmy Broadbent

[@CyanRooper]

So..... Josh Revell is next?

[@crystaljon]

William Byron?

[@Cody2nd]

So you can really go from sim racing to the real thing?? How the hell do you afford the car? The practice time in the real car? All the fees, etc etc….I don’t get it.

[@RACECAR]

Alot of people don't realize that this is exactly how Martin Truex Jr also got discovered (On Nr2003 of all things). And just like that, Dale Jr got him signed up (First to his previous Chance 2 Motorsports team, then to DEI)

[@gweggorz]

I was at the global reveal for the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo the night before the Chicago Auto Show in 2015. A bunch of Nissan and GT Academy people were there, including Jann. I wasn't confident enough to talk much to him, but he genuinely seemed like a cool dude that couldn't wait go race LMP1 at Le Mans. It was so cool being in that room as one of the first to see that car and their whole program launch. And then within that same year it was dead :(

How in the hell have I never got Cameron recommended. The man has a voice that could charm an Eldritch horror.

[@Jabbatan]

Was waiting for this vid since I saw the movie

[@davebutlarge7458]

Amazing video, actually! one of my favourites from you!

[@Bs_Void]

12:48 probably my biggest nitpick from the movie. No amount of text that said Le Mans can change the fact that the Hungaroring is still the Hungaroring

[@jordandriverlp]

I never knew, what was the origin story of the GT Academy was but yeah... I enjoyed the Gran Turismo movie really much. But I was really confused, that everything outside the actually race tracks was just Hungaroring. I mean, it might be (and probably is) that you switched from actually Silverstone from Hungaroring or Le Mans sometimes to Hungaroring. That kicked me out of immersion

[@lchollies3651]

It was more the fact that they where running around the hungaroring backwards was more of the issue I had. That’s what kicked me out of the immersion.

[@jordandriverlp]

@@lchollies3651 Ohohoho right. I just saw it and said; Yep, seems absolutely legit xD

[@markburns7854]

Really like the video man you made it seem like a documentary with all the information really appreciate it as I didn't know much about jann or the game racers before the movie so this video was very good thanks

[@JoshCell_Gameplays]

I think the story of the first GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordóñez, it's very underrated, having in mind that he was the first of all, going to the absolutely unknown, and having a pretty good career after that. His success was the seed that made posible to people like Jann became driver too, because without that success, Nissan would have been shut down all the project fast, and instead, they felt encouraged to look for more talents like Ordóñez and Mardenborough. As I said, pretty underrated. Needs more recognition.

[@Atrail_Mckinley4786]

​@Con.tactONTele.gram-JoshRevellthis is a scam

[@ciello___8307]

yeah i was kind of sad that lucas wasn't mentioned, but I guess they couldn't fit everyone in the movie.

[@budokpantai]

This is what I disappointed the most about the movie. I get it they did the movie for promotional purposes, imho, they should acknowledge and mention about Ordonez as the 1st GT Academy Winner.

[@rockzs74r]

​@@ciello___8307Antonio Cruz is based on Lucas Ordonez

[@FlixRacing]

Respect and thanks for making a vid on this topic, and as always it’s a great vid

[@Khalhemwho]

When the world needed him the most he vanished Josh: SIKEEEEEEE

[@KingoftheHatch]

I don't comment on anyone's videos very much but I have to say this video gave me chills

[@strohzylinder693]

thanks for the content mate :D

[@matto763]

I always love hearing the story of Jann Mardenborough. Its such an inspiring story and he was a man on a mission. Went from gaming on gran turismo to racing with people who raced their whole lives and he was able to hold up against them. A fairytale story :) The movie on the other hand... Was alright. What pissed me off the most about it was the shots of le mans... The final turn was of the short layout and somehow there were a lot of shots of the hungaring thrown in there...For a non motorsport viewer that is completely fine... But for motorsport fans its a thing that makes your fucking blood boil

[@Fr3ddaK]

Good video an thank you for explain more of the detail about Jann Mardenborough and the Protaganist in the new film.

[@_azurejake]

This movie inspired me to conquer my fear of driving and ironically my first video game purchase was Gran Turismo on the PS1. Jann and I also share the same birth year (1991) his story means a lot to me.

[@CycloneRecords113]

William Byron in NASCAR did the same thing with iRacing and currently has 5 wins on the season in the cup series in his 6th year for a total of 9 wins

[@PIERS212]

Jann deserves all of this, what a guy, wishing him more success in the future 💚

[@El_Mastermind]

Awesome info man, thanks!

[@traderduke1880]

Great Vid...Great story. Looking forward to seeing the film. Thanks

[@KrypticTMG]

James Baldwin is another sim racer that got a real drive in British GT and managed to win a race in the mclaren 720s

[@hidematumoto6657]

I'm Japanese Motorsport lover and for us Jann is just as a good driver regardless his background and when I was kids I didn’t know this background but I saw him as a good talent driver and he made good results in Japanese category so I was surprised and everyone was surprised after 2020 he lost Super GT seat! We still want him back to Super GT 500 and we still remember his stunning his Japanese F3 season! At that time Toms( Kenya Yamashita ) had been dominating the season but he compete that team even he was not driver for Toms! I really wanna him back to full time race driver and I hope he back to Japanese category!

[@chrisclermont456]

Jann's story is beyond incredible. It is miraculous!!

[@lancercool1992]

Bruh that capa team went from some euro series team to lmp2 and was contending for podium LMAO

[@HirokaAkita]

The fact that he did in 10 years what most drivers say took them OVER TWO AND A HALF, its astonishing. He's a race car driver. A well deserved one.

[@megacup3977]

wot

[@JustSomeDinosaurPerson]

Do you mean two and a half decades?

[@TheIndoGod]

Lmfaoo What? Is This Sarcasm Or A Typo? 😂

[@jeffreydorval2573]

They were trying to get this kid to F1 by any means necessary. That would have been incredible. Imagine the doors it would have opened up for others.

[@KompadoodleLEL]

i watched the movie 10/10 the most eerie part of the actual movie is at the end where they showed side by sides they even replicated his childhood photos

[@Bond3773]

Thank you for the video

[@joshuaandrew83]

Jann is a top bloke and has an incredable story, not many drivers in the 21st centry can say that they never raced karts and won in Formula 3! Great video as always bro!

[@carlo9524]

Max Verstappen is a sim champion but he still started karting.

[@Ryeeshyng]

Watched the movie and it got me so emotional. What an absolute legend

[@imHxriZyN]

Even though the movie's story didnt completely follow along the true story, it was a good movie overall for both non-racing and racing fans nonetheless. I honestly was spectical about the movie since racing movies have had a few horrid attempts of depicting decent racing but the movie was really enjoyable actually and the cinematography was on point

[@kolossis8283]

"Gamers can't be racers😡" mfs when a proper training and funding can make anybody turn into professionals at a particular mastery of subject🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@redleaderracing]

GT Academy really suited guys who didn't have a full time job - I did have one so only had time to give it a handful of tries at the time. If I was practicing all day like these guys I reckon I would've had a good shot of progressing haha. Was well within the top 1000 after only a few goes. ... I can dream.

[@waynez4657]

Very nicely summarised

[@TruthMerc]

Years ago I thought to myself that turismo should make a movie. I never thought they would make one about a young man like this. 😮. But I have to say he earned it, at least comparatively. I pray Jann Mardenbrough much more success. Despite its imperfections, Gran Turismo has always been “my favorite game “. 😊

[@lautaroagustinvicente6039]

Josh, you should make a video about Agustín Canapino. He started playing simulators as a kid and now he has just completed his first IndyCar full season at 33 yo for Juncos Hollinger Racing. He won 15 titles in touring cars championships in Argentina (including 4x Turismo Carretera titles and 2x TC2000 titles).

[@xnotasweatx]

Wait that was him in the GTR crash?! Holy crap I didnt know that

[@miguelcascan4306]

I am Happy for him, he got the Chance to chase his Dreams and took her. Generations of Talents in so many Resorts never got a Chance to show their skills because Nobody discovered them or had the wrong color or Family. Today a Playstation can be enough to Show up, i am whit that Guy from the Nismo Pro Team who Said "One day a Gamer will become F1 World Champion"

[@LexusTX]

Had the movie not been based on a true story would’ve called bullsh** on the plot because he did the literally impossible! Amazing story.

[@Cameron-Cc]

'Twas a privilege sir 🙏🏾

[@eddsson]

Noice!

[@そうですでチャンネル]

There is nothing more heartbreaking than victory that comes in exchange for the death of one person.

[@sdx3918]

Love this guy's story and career but it still amuses me how Nissan decided to send him to lemans along with 5 other drivers to pilot two basically unfinished cars and to add insult to injury Nissan decided to cancel the project the following year.

[@NeatCarsTaped]

I've been obsessed with the Gran Turismo games. I have lived within a 30-minute distance from the Hungaroring for two decades and was really looking forward to an incredible cinematic experience like 2013's Rush from Ron Howard! Unfortunately, I've set the bar too high and the film couldn't have lived up to my expectations. The idea of the game is to feel like a 'Real Racing Driver' with lifelike models of machinery and courses! The movie was unable to give back the same feel, and as you have said Josh, being a bit of a racing nerd and someone who's a frequent visitor to the filming location in real life, the immersion was broken. No amount of CG could mask it once you've seen it, although they did mask the 'HUNGARORING' sign of the main building with an extra layer of reflective windows. Going backwards on the track layout also didn't do anything. Credit where credit's due, they did manage to shoehorn in the Mulsanne Straight with some in-game footage to the layout!😂 I'm sure Jann is happy anyway getting a well-deserved movie, and a Josh Revell video made about his journey! Well done, Sir!

[@nachoalvarez7171]

I wanna say, it surprised me when i saw how well he did in the Toyota Racing Series in 2013, especially because he could not deliver in European F3 that same year

[@farishanafiah8461]

GT Academy is a big slap to boomers who always think that gaming only waste time and has no benefit. That kind of programme should still be alive to this day.

[@JLewisRacing927]

Great video as always, but why is Cameron whispering? It is quite off-putting

[@Liquiddna89blaa]

After watching the movie I thought they must of over inflated his career for the movie but his real life career is even more impressive than the movie

[@smcvids814]

The real story is so impressive, the film was great, I have no gripes

[@exailiaxystian2049]

7:08 Background track on the video really took my interest out of the mood to finish the video. I'm not a content creator nor am I an editor, but as a consumer of lots of content that covers historical events of any kind, and especially watching lots of gaming content, the music in the background was too distracting for me to want to finish the video to the end. Maybe it's just a me thing with the times of my ADHD riddled brain, but this is honest critiquing that I believe will help your content improve. It doesn't need to taken seriously and drastically, but just something to ponder on about for not just you, Josh Revell, but for anyone else that comes across this comment and has an inspiration for content creation. Essentially, there is always a time and place for certain styles of music to accompany anything whether that be KZbin videos, movies, games, stores, restaurants, etc. Find a way to not just have music fill in the empty space between visual and vocal aspects of content, and instead think about how the choice and style of music could further enhance the content. For instance, the music before the 7:08 time in the video, there was intense and serious music playing in the background. However, there's just goofy royalty free music that doesn't suit the format and content of the documentary. Of course, not everyone can afford to pay for copyrighted music or create their own music to put into their content, but that doesn't mean there aren't better options than using some happy go lucky goofy ahh music. Not to mention that the music wasn't used for a "bit" either in the section it was placed in. I'm not knowledgeable about the Toyota Racing Series, and it is entirely possible that the "bit" was that this race/tournament was a joke. Despite what the representation was intended, it more so was off-putting rather than interesting or attention grabbing. It made it seem like the progress that Jann had made in the Toyota Racing Series seem like a joke or some sort of clown act that shouldn't be taken seriously by consumers of this content with no knowledge of the subject such as I. The whole section between 7:08 and 9:13 was all talking about the upbringing of the underdog Jann and how far he has come in the driving and racing scene, going from finishing behind all of his teammates to now finishing ahead of all of his teammates. The choice of music just trivializes the importance of what the Toyota Racing Series had done for Jann during a tough learning curve that he had overcome during that period of time. Fitting the mood of the content isn't easy for everyone, but that doesn't mean it isn't a skill that people cannot learn. From a viewer's perspective with no interest in racing, driving, cars, etc. and even more so since I have no previous knowledge of the history behind the movie, I was excited to just know the real story behind the plot of the movie. And unfortunately, I lost all of that excitement and interest to learn what really happened only because of just some music that took all the intensity of real life events and threw it out the window. Now that I've created a whole essay about this video in a single comment, I just want to make it clear here that this is meant to be constructive criticism for people to take and to think about how they can improve their content with subtle but very important editing aspects that separates good content creators from amazing content creators. Don't get me wrong now. This video is very informative and and unique in it's own ways with amazing pacing and story telling. However, the way that content is conveyed to an audience can make or break a video at times, which clearly didn't break the views as much as previous videos have, but it did make a very decent and informative video that was relatively enjoyable for the first half and the ending 4 or so minutes, not to mention mostly well received by a lot of others. This is even further exemplified within the video itself where the primary jump in watch time for the "Most Replayed" section is right as the goofy music is starting, and it only picks back up at the point in the video when the music has stopped and returned to a more serious tone. In the end, I hope Josh Revell will continue to succeed in the content creator space in the future. I just won't be along for the ride along with his 380k subscribers, and that's honestly perfectly fine. It just wasn't the content for me despite having the enthusiasm to check it out in the first place only because of a single background song. I'm still glad I got to find out about the real story, but I just wish I could have enjoyed it to the fullest without being pulled out of the moment, and turning a 14 minute video into a 30+ minute essay dissecting why background music matters and giving reasoning behind it unfairly using this video as an example. Good luck Josh, if you see this, and keep on going and striving to improve! Good luck!

[@gordonritchie9341]

Whilst appreciating your comments it seems interesting to me that you use some isolated music in this video to not watch it it full and then decide you will not subscribe to the channel! I’m interested to know if you have viewed any other of Josh’s 14:02 14:02 videos And further have you critiqued any other F1 you tubers videos? I’m thinking perhaps not but I could be incorrect Yes it’s constructive criticism but maybe a little over the top at the same time Look forward to hearing from you

[@jeffsebestyen4666]

This was a good mini documentary. I think he deserved to have an episode. I thought the movie was surprisingly good myself.

[@andysPARK]

The movie wasnt the best made, but I enjoyed it and that's how I found this video. Great story :)

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

Three racecar drivers, all with names that start with J, all started as sim racers: Jann Mardenborough Josh Berry Jimmy Broadbent

[@JTR_14]

James Baldwin

[@ItsMasonic]

That was a Great Inspiring Movie! Could be a Classic! Has your Basic Karate Kid Theme of Teacher/Mentor and Underdog/Student.

[@davidmann1558]

I watched it and it’s so good it was my most fav movie so good even the crash’s btw how did you sell underwear’s for 1 month to get that racing wheel thingy

[@davidmann1558]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR A LIKE THAT MEANS SO MUCH FOR ME

[@scottmeredith3359]

Amazing content as always Josh. Gotta say, Cameron F1 makes some decent content too, but good Lord, it’s hard not to laugh at how over-dramatic his narration is. So much so that I always wonder if he’s just taking the piss and trying to be goofy, or just over-doing it 😂

[@siwiskate]

Lucas Ordoñez is the OG Gran Turismo Academy driver

[@FlixRacing]

AMAZING movie, didn’t even know all this happened.

[@ajthenascarexpert]

I watched it today as well and I thought it was freaking awesome

[@Gelo.Hernandez]

The GT movie brings me here!

[@skittleman0439]

Where is Jimmy Broadbent’s movie coming out?

[@enzoking5959]

Could say the same for Isack Hadjar. I raced him on F1 2019/20 and now he is in F2

[@shewhoisaudacious]

1:57 and I was like oooooo. Your beard, eyebrows and hair looks so good. I can tell you take good care of yourself. Plus loving your accent. If you don’t me saying, you looking like a full course meal. God bless you. 😅😊

[@nathanroberts23]

Just got to meet jann today, really nice guy

[@louisjohnson3755]

I got to see the Gran Turismo movie about him 2 weeks before the movie was released because I got tickets to the preview which I think were expensive and I saw it with some of my friends on august 11th, I’m in the us by the way

[@ScoundrullonYouTube]

Oh my God could you imagine being so good at Battlefield or Call of Duty that the government comes and knocks on your door with recruitment papers for becoming a Navy SEAL😅😅

[@skyrunr]

This is a fantastic documentary. The only thing missing in an interview with him, and what he's up to these days. I'd still be playing GT5 shuffle 300pp rooms if they hadn't shut down the server! We had some groups that made up games like golfing a fiat 500 around the track with a Lambo and the lowest pp cars on the hilly dirt track. I was NOT a fan of grinding those Nissan challenges for 1/1000's of a second.

[@TimSenna]

That Molly Mae Hague reference got me

[@EmperorEdwardXIII]

That was why I was NOT expecting this movie. My friends that are into sims and automotive called me weird because I said It will be not good. Not bad but not good will be a super hyped drama, with lots of crazy fights and hollywood crap. But hey... its good he got the attention he is cool. Hope he get a good cut of money. The good - as a track assistant I WOULD ENCOURAGE SIM RACERS TO TRY THEIR LOCAL TRACK! I hope more and more young blood assisting the local track open track days and local racing! The bad - The Sim racers that will try their cars in the streets...and put in danger other people and themself.

[@emdotrod]

Gran Turismo was an amazing movie if only Sony treated it as a true homage to Jann instead of making it as 2 hour Gran Turismo/PS5 and Nissan ad.

[@jdbb3gotskills]

The collab with Mr. ASMR himself was nice to see.

[@alastairman1223]

Tbh the movie was like a 6.5, maybe a 7, and it has so much potential

[@siddheshpillai3807]

For me it 5 out of 10 at best

[@DanChristianLV]

Jimmy Broadbent also has a story I would like to watch a movie about

[@Desert_Rogue_Tanker]

I hope Jann gets a reliable and competitive drive somewhere 😊