By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net
YOU may know her from the shampoo commercial and the February 2007 cover of FHM Philippines.
Gaby dela Merced is one of the few Filipinas in the professional racing league Asian Formula 3. And it was by her admission that long before she started racing, she was a video game sim addict, both in the arcades and on consoles.
“My brothers were racing game addicts, like Gran Turismo so it was then that I got really hooked into it. I caught on with the games so I tried out the real thing,” Dela Merced said.
In some of the racing sims she played, she would notice that some of the race tracks were the same ones on which she has competed. In particular, she cited the tracks in the realistic sim Forza Motorsport for the original Microsoft Xbox.
“I’m already surprised at the level of realism in some of the games to the point that I practice there first,” she shared.
While most of her time is spent racing real cars that most guys could only dream of, still Dela Merced wishes that she’d have the new Xbox 360 so she could play the more realistic racing game Forza Motorsport 2.
“I hope Microsoft can sponsor my Xbox 360,” she said jokingly.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
woohoo!
cant get enough of ms. GABY DELA MERCED
she totally rox!
my inspiration…
my idol…
my racing goddess…
lahat na ng nakikita ko, its reminds me about her!!!
she rox!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Grabe!!!!!!!
Idol na idol q po tlga c ate Gaby…..dme q n mga collections bout sa knya….every time na my mga new issues sa mga mgazine n feature c ate Gabs..meron aq lhat…Sna mameet q xa in personn…Haaays sobra saya q nun…hehe
January 20th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hello,
ang cute mo
ang ganda mo
ang bait mo
sna ma panood ko mga laban mo ng racing
gud luck
January 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
woooooo!brabe super idol po kita
sna po my time n mkta kita s personal
kc po insperasyon kita s pag-aaral ko….
gusto kng mgng ktuld mo, na-achive m n pangarap mo bilang international racer…
ay oo nga pala isa po s pangarap ko ung makita k sa personal,para po skin ikaw ang big winner s lht ng eddition at season ng pbb….at hindi c ruben… mas diserving mo sa pwesto nya…..GALING MO PO…
IDOL KITA 4EVER….promise!
January 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
congratz kay gabz, n tnx sa mga gabster na sumuporta skania until the end of the game..and i am proud that iam one of it…gaby rulez!!!