From Gran Turismo video game to Le Mans, a Hong Kong boy racer’s story

I was born and raised in Hong Kong, in Sha Tin. I went to a really good secondary school, Diocesan Boys’ School. My dad was a salesman and my mum helped out with my grandfather’s trading company. I’d always played racing games, learning the fundamentals. In 1997, when I was five or six, the first Gran Turismo computer game came out. We only had Need for Speed before that, set on wide open US roads. Now you were on a circuit – and you actually had to brake.

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International racing driver Edgar Lau went from playing Gran Turismo on the couch to the race track ... and you can too!