What is Team NLD Racing?We can answer this question quite shortly; we are a virtual racecrew thats focussed on simracing at the Playstation 4.
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Team NLD Racing's history...Team NLD Racing was built and founded by Joey Bogaars in September 2010 for the game Need For Speed World which recently, along with other EA titles, ceased services. At the time Team NLD Racing was simply known as "Team NLD" and it was a slow start with just one member out of the Netherlands, Dylan Schmit. Joey and Dylan did a lot to gain some attention from the community and the developers in name of Team NLD and it worked out well for Team NLD as they showed rapid growth going from just two members to over 100 in the first five months. After two and a half years the decision was made by Joey and Dylan to leave Need For Speed World and move over to another game, genre and gaming-platform alongside with Team NLD. Seeking to race at higher-levels with a more realistic feel the team opted to move to the Playstation 3 and Gran Turismo 5. They were joined by one former Need For Speed World member, Roy Klijnstra, who had also at the time worked his way upto being a co-leader of Team NLD. Team NDL were small again following the switch of game and platform meaning that some radical decisions were made which, along with the switch itself, could end Team NDL. For instance the name of the crew changed a twice in the early months of racing on Gran Turismo 5 from "Team NLD SideDrifters" to "Team NLD Racers". After a few months the decision was made to change the name into what was seen as a stronger and cleaner name. Joey, Dylan and Roy came up with a name that stands today, Team NLD Racing. After the name change it was time to rework, add and remove some of the rules to better suit the sim racing scene that Gran Turismo provided. They also began recruitment of some dutch-speaking racers that wanted to join Team NLD Racing. In December 2013 Team NLD Racing made the move to Gran Turismo 6 with sixteen official crew members of Team NLD Racing following suit. As things stand now Team NDL Racing has moved once more, this time to the Playstation 4 and recently released sim racing offering Project CARS with half of Team NDL Racing already on that platform. The future of Team NLD Racing will still be an unknown... But we will never give up!
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