Det finns få saker inom Japan GT-racing som legenden Tetsuya Yamano inte åstadkommit. hans främsta framgångar rimmar ju såklart på GT3000-racingen där han under 2004-2005 års säsong vann rubbet med tre olika bilar. Yamano har en tät relation med speljätten Sega och eftersom Sonic-skaparna med bas i Tokyo agerar utgivare för Project Motor Racing i Japan, har de sett till så att Tetsuya nu blivit en del av Factory driver-programmet. Detta är ett beta-test-program för framförallt erfarna simracingprofiler och riktiga racingförare som via en särskild portal för spelet kan testa olika "development builds" och framföra sin feedback, där.
Carwatch:
"Yamano says he hasn't had many opportunities to play games or simulators, so he's not very familiar with current racing games, but he has had the opportunity to play them a couple of times. But even in games that are said to be realistic, he felt a huge difference between real driving and the real thing. Because of this, he couldn't drive the cars in the game the way he wanted.
Because of this, racing games gave Yamano the impression that he was "bad at it," so he naturally distanced himself from them. However, it was precisely because of this feeling that he found it so appealing to participate in the Factory Driver Program, where "virtual and real are matched almost perfectly and become as precise as a real car." He also commented that he "can't wait" to see how the appeal of motorsport will spread to a wide variety of people, both adults and children, through games that allow them to experience truly realistic car behavior."