History Film / GranTurismo2023

** The whole point of deviating from the most popular racing line is AwesomeButImpractical. Everyone follows this line for a reason as it is the fastest way to make a turn, and deviating from it would be slower at best, and throw you off the track at worst. So most of the overtakes Jann makes (both in-game and for real) are pretty much impossible to make, unless you have a much more powerful car, or a car with insane downforce.[[note]] This is in and of itself a heavy simplification. The most popular race line is not necessarily the optimal one on a per-vehicle basis, due to the minute differences in each car and how that affects their performance at 200+mph. A prime example of this in action can be seen on, of all things, Series/TopGearUK, where all the F1 drivers used one racing line, with Lewis Hamilton and the Stig instead taking their own racing lines. Despite all using the exact same car, the Stig and Hamilton ended up being markedly faster[[/note]]

** The whole point of deviating from the optimal racing line is AwesomeButImpractical. Everyone follows this line for a reason as it is the fastest way to make a turn, and deviating from it would be slower at best, and throw you off the track at worst. So most of the overtakes Jann makes (both in-game and for real) are pretty much impossible to make, unless you have a much more powerful car, or a car with insane downforce.

** The film portrays the Le Mans race as occurring after [[spoiler:Jann's crash in Nürburgring]]. In reality, it was the other way around, and there was a two year gap in between the events. Jann had also already competed in the Dubai 24 Hour Race before Le Mans, while in the film it's his first taste of endurance racing.

** In the film, Jann wins third in class at Le Mans by passing the third-place car on the final lap. In reality, Jann was in fourth place when he crossed the finish line, but a car ahead of him was disqualified after the race for an out-of-regulation gas tank, bumping Jann's team up to the podium.

** The final turn of [[spoiler:the 24 Hours of Le Mans]] is a right curve, but the actual [[spoiler:Circuit de la Sarthe]] is ending with a left-right chicane. Mostly due to the movie being not filmed on location but at the Hungaroring and to make [[spoiler:the final overtake]] more cinematic.

** The first professional real life race of Jann at the Red Bull Ring.

* BloodSport: As with other similar stories, automobile racing is portrayed as an extremely dangerous sport that could very easily cost someone's life in seconds, which is the reason why GT Academy students have to undergo a tough training program to begin with just to become a racer. Despite the comparatively much better safety standards than racing in the old days, accidents could still happen and any crash could still be fatal, and it ''does''. [[spoiler:Capa, Schulin, and Jann himself all end up crashing their cars at one point in the movie, with Jann's crash also killing a spectator as in real life. Jack's backstory also involved the death of his fellow driver, which shook him so much that he retired from the sport entirely.]]
* TheCameo: The real life Kazunori Yamauchi cameos as a sushi chef during Jann's trip to Tokyo.
* CareerEndingInjury: Happened to [[spoiler:Jack Salter in his prime with a crash that killed spectators in the same fashion as Jann. Even though he wasn't physically harmed, he gave up on racing after that crash. He uses that experience to help Jann to deal with his own crash.]]

** As revealed during the night before the final GT Academy race, Jann listens to relaxing music such as Kenny G to help him sleep, or, as does Jann in real-life, meditate before races. Jack takes notice of this prior to one of the races in the film. In the final stretch of [[spoiler:the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Jann is struggling from the trauma of his Nürburgring wreck, and Jack plays some of that music through his radio (via his new Walkman that Jann gave to him as a gift, which itself is a ChekhovsGun), to get him to snap into it and get angry, which instantly helps.]]

** A Ligier-Nissan [=DPi=] Prototype and a [=McLaren=] P1 GTR in [[spoiler:the 24 hours of Le Mans, the former driven by Jann and the latter driven by Capa.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Federik Schulin may be one of the rival racers who gave Jann a hard time during the races, but even Jann is horrified [[spoiler:when Schulin ends up in a fiery crash not long after starting the 24 Hours of Le Mans and worries about him. Part of that is because Jann was in such a terrible crash himself not long ago as well, and Schulin's crash reminded him about it and sent him into a short HeroicBSOD until Jack managed to pull him back to his senses.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: Those who know the true story of Jann Mardenborough knows that he wins GT Academy, [[spoiler:finishes 3rd at the 24 hours of Le Mans]], and suffers from [[spoiler:a spectator-killing crash at the Nürburgring]]. Note that in the movie, [[spoiler:the crash happens before Le Mans when in real life it happened 2 years after.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jaan's Gt Academy competitors and [[spoiler:the teams that come in 1st and 2nd at Le Mans.]]

* OpposingSportsTeam: Nicholas Capa and Federik Schulin are the only named rival racers, perfectly okay with attacking Jann's car and Capa [[spoiler:tries to exploit Jann's accident to lead a "anti-virtual racer" movement and get Jann banned forever from racing.]] Capa also keeps insulting everybody he encounters.

** The [=FaNaTiX=] song ''Vroom'', which was made specifically for Gran Turismo 7, is played in the car Jann drives on the way home from the party.

** The characters of Danny Moore and Jack Salter are only loosely based on real people. Jann's real mentor on the show, Johnny Herbert, was one of three provided for the contestants. Herbert was not mechanic who had washed out of racing due to his nerves but rather a successful Formula One veteran who was doing commentating work when he joined the show. Herbert also did not follow Jann into his professional racing career like Salter does in the film.

** Jann is shown playing ''Gran Turismo 7'' at a gamer cafe prior to competing at GT Academy. In reality, [=GT7=] was released in 2022, over a decade after Jann participated in GT Academy - largely due to a SettingUpdate in the story.
** Jann is shown driving a Ligier-Nissan [=DPi=] prototype at [[spoiler: Le Mans]], in reality, [=DPi=] cars were not legal at Le Mans and Jann drove a Zytek [=Z11SN=]-Nissan [=LMP2=] car instead.

** The characters of Danny Moore and Jack Salter are only loosely based on real people. In reality, Jann's mentor on the show (Johnny Herbert) was one of three provided for the contestants. Herbert was not mechanic who had washed out of racing due to his nerves but rather a successful Formula One veteran who was doing commentating work when he joined the show. Herbert also did not follow Jann into his professional racing career like Salter does in the film.

* CastingGag: A couple of these in the Japanese dub:
** This is not the first time Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka (Jann) has previously voiced a protagonist [[Literature/SwordArtOnline using his abilities he learnt from games in both gaming and real life]].
** A pretty ironic one happens with Creator/ShinichiroMiki's role as the Nissan's marketing executive David Moore, as he previously voiced [[Manga/InitialD Takumi Fujiwara, the main protagonist and an underground racer]]: In this film, not only he doesn't race at all, but he also works for the company who had build many of the cars Takumi had faced in the manga and in the anime, since he drives a ''Toyota'' [=AE86=].

* HateSink: Nicholas Capa, Jann's primary rival in the film, is an arrogant, hotheaded, and snobbish professional driver who has a very low opinion of GT Academy drivers, thinking that they are beneath him even though Jann constantly proves again and again that he has what it takes to race among the pros. Every time Jann makes a move to overtake him, Capa displays downright nasty unsportsmanlike conduct [[spoiler:by bumping or grinding on Jann's car and gloating about it in the pits later. He also pulls dangerous overtake moves himself to gain his position back that endanger not only himself but other racers on the track; something that [[{{Hypocrite}} he accused Jann]] of doing.]] Not only that, [[spoiler:after Jann's near-fatal crash at Nürburgring which killed a spectator, Capa uses this tragic event to discredit Jann and the rest of GT Academy project publicly and almost causes the program to be shut down out of petty spite]]. Also, even before that, [[CantTakeCriticism Capa]] violently dresses Jack Salter down when the latter sarcastically criticizes Capa's driving skills earlier in the movie, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain which proves to be the last straw]] that causes Jack to take up Danny's offer to become an instructor at GT Academy. Put simply, there's pretty much nothing likable about this guy.

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: This happens in the second part of the movie, where Jann has:
** To place 4th in a single race in a series of six.
** To finish 3rd at the 24 hours of Le Mans to secure his racing contract with Nissan.

** The film portrays [[spoiler:the Le Mans race as occurring after Jann's crash in Nürburgring.]] In reality, it was the other way around, and there was a two year gap in between the events.

** To finish 3rd at the [[spoiler:24 hours of Le Mans]] to secure his racing contract with Nissan.

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* HeroOfANotherStory: [[spoiler:the teams that come in 1st and 2nd at Le Mans.]]

* HeroOfANotherStory: [[spoiler :the teams that come in 1st and 2nd at Le Mans.]]