Twenty-six-year-old Queensland native Matthew Simmons has taken out the 2015 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, becoming the first-ever Australian to win the gamer-sourced racing challenge.

Now in its seventh year, the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy is a development competition created by Nissan, PlayStation and the people behind the iconic driving simulator Gran Turismo, aimed at turning bedroom gamers into professional racing drivers.

Outperforming top gamers from Mexico, North Africa, Turkey and the United States, Simmons, a Brisbane-based Australia Post contractor, proved victorious in the GT Academy International race camp based at the UK’s Silverstone circuit.

Other camps comprise pools from Asia (India, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Japan) and Europe (France, Italy, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic).

Nissan Australia says Simmons is now on his way back home to pack his bags before moving to the UK to take part in an “intense” Nismo driver development program, where he'll attempt to qualify for his international race licence ahead of officially becoming a full-time professional Nissan racing driver – or ‘Nismo Athlete’.