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He did it ... Jeff's on his way to follow in the steps of Bryan Heitkotter, as one of the 16 finalist in GT Academy!

Jeff came into the US Finals with the fastest qualifying time in the US, and ended up fourth overall. The idea being just to make sure you qualified for the Big Show. No need to fight it out and risk crashing and losing big time.

And, it looks like STR racer (2nd at the 2011 Nationals) Nicholas Barbato finished right behind Jeff, and will also be representing the Solo community

Awesome!!!!

Way to go Jeff! Quite an accomplishment.

It's happening fast now ... Jeff having measurements taken for their custom racing suits that they'll be wearing at Silverstone ...

Karen and I spent hours watching the racing live on-line ... exciting, often very close racing, at tracks like SPA. The I guess automatic camera angles are usually awesome.

Congrats Jeff!

Bryan showing them how it's done:

SOME of these guys are fit. After seeing all of the grueling physical Boot Camp stuff in last years show ... I hope Jeff is working out ....

Duuuuuuuuude! Congrats, Jeff!!

Nice Prizes for the Fastest ... fastest coming into the competition, Jeff ... and fastest person to qualify as the wild card AT the event. I believe that fellow actually gave away his prize to someone in line, so that he could get another run, to make sure he got into the competition, as the 33rd driver. That is he said he would give away his prize if he did qualify, by taking someone elses run ... and it worked.

Mako Koiwai wrote:Nice Prizes for the Fastest ... fastest coming into the competition, Jeff ... and fastest person to qualify as the wild card AT the event. I believe that fellow actually gave away his prize to someone in line, so that he could get another run, to make sure he got into the competition, as the 33rd driver. That is he said he would give away his prize if he did qualify, by taking someone elses run ... and it worked.

The guy he gave it to ended up texting Patrick on Saturday and told him that he deserved to keep the rig, which was pretty awesome. Patrick is going to give him his old racing wheel though, since he's getting a new one with the rig.

Big congrats Jeff!