Willow Springs Raceway Appears in Gran Turismo 5 Video
Careful observers will have noticed an unfamiliar circuit in the latest Gran Turismo 5 video trailer, released to commemorate the launch of the new 2014 Corvette Stingray in the game.
Thanks to users in our forums, it was quickly identified as Willow Springs International Raceway, a 2.5-mile road course located in California.
For reference, here’s a real on-board lap of the circuit filmed with a Corvette C6 Z06 last year:
The new circuit is shown off several times in the Corvette Stingray trailer below, as highlighted in the screenshot gallery.
It is important to note that, although the track is clearly rendered in GT5‘s environment, this does not imply or confirm the circuit will be coming to the game as downloadable content in the future.
Willow Springs has, of course, never been featured in any previous Gran Turismo title.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:25 pm - #biftizmo
And I tell you what I’m surprised how little this car costs….if I ditch the wife and sell the house this car is in my price range.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:34 pm - #playnthru
What are you waiting for..haha joke
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January 14th, 2013 at 10:34 pm - #biftizmo
Yes obviously ..I can’t loose her
Yet as I have 2 broken ribs..lol ha ha. Ouch!
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:08 pm - #BHalpen
What current racing series races at Willow Springs anyways?
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January 14th, 2013 at 10:56 pm - #Amac500
SCCA sanctions road racing there but that’s obviously nothing major. It holds competition at a Tsukuba level I guess you could say.
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January 15th, 2013 at 1:36 am - #researchALLwars
it also seems that LOTS of auto testing goes on there- not often by manufacturers, but by journalists for auto magazines and websites/youtube channels.
It’s a Cali thing. Can’t blame em. I’m an ohio boy, and always hold out hope for a little Mid-Ohio action. Drivers from around the world rave about Mid-Ohio being one of the most fun tracks to run on.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:05 pm - #hobanator24
Remember the Acura NSX concept video? We didn’t get the car but we DID get the track featured, SSRX. So it is a possibility that this track could appear as dlc. Also, SSRX was featured at the end of the 2.0 intro. And we didn’t hear any news of Willow Springs being scanned for GT5 or GT6.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:01 pm - #TheeFrogmanlego
This game has more tracks than any other game.. more cars than any other game… yet content an issue.. pfft…
not to mention we have received four new locations.. * around 12 new variations* !-
January 14th, 2013 at 8:09 pm - #JeremiahTB
“More cars than any other game” isn’t saying much when half if them are really only five cars…Skyline, S2000, RX-7, MX-5, Civic, and Fairlady Z. Not to mention most are poorer quality Standard models.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:09 pm - #SimonK
No it doesn’t.
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January 14th, 2013 at 10:04 pm - #HuskyGT
If you take out the repetitions, you’re left with around 400 cars. There is another game that has double than that.
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January 15th, 2013 at 3:39 am - #MeanElf
There may be close to 100 models of Skyline but there are not 100 each of the other car models Jeremiah mentions. So I think GT5 has more than 400 cars…
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January 15th, 2013 at 7:49 am - #SimonK
No matter how you want to debate the cars it’s flat out not true that it has more tracks than any other game.
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January 14th, 2013 at 7:37 pm - #liampage123
SEems like a boring track. In the middle of no where, and no trees or big objects to give you a sense of speed.
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January 14th, 2013 at 7:42 pm - #patriotzero
There’s no tree in real one,too
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January 14th, 2013 at 7:08 pm - #The_Paladin
Great to see this presentation, sadly i dont like the car at all, looks like the Ferrari F12Berlineta with the back of the Camaro SS 2010, i prefer C6 Z06 much better.
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January 14th, 2013 at 7:04 pm - #LR-MR-Cole
Willow Springs will be in gt6 not 5 its 2 years old with gt6 atleast 1-2 years away. Also this c7 vette will be last DLC car till GT6 sorry guys ohh and Corvette over Viper anyday. The new Viper does not inspire confidence when driving yeah its alot better but not great like it should have been the vette was built the way a a super car is built but this this a sports car that has improved very much so over an outgoing model that was an all around fast/fastest sports car. C6 zo6 has highest g force on skid pad over Viper ACR, LP700 I just think the Corvette is heading in the right direction and anyother direction would have been unacceptable, but yeah its still built in a shed in Bowling Green Kentuckey
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:28 pm - #GODfreyGT5
If it has all the layouts, best DLC so far, we’ll have to wait and see….
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:19 pm - #GTP_Versatile
At least we know they aren’t done right?
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:12 pm - #goatman64
Awesome. I really wish Polyphony would take a look at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama for a future game. It’s a great track.
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January 15th, 2013 at 7:30 am - #NascarManiaco99
Someone readed my mind lol They could take a look at Interlagos, Brazil as well. It currently hosts the WEC and the F1. :D
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:56 pm - #JDMTuningJZX90
Screw this, all the cars that GT5 Players wanted were not given. GT5 Is no longer about catering for their players. if they did they wouldn’t give us a half ass game. Supra’s, AE86′s, Silvia’s, Koenigsegg’s an Mustangs, and many more. PD is no longer mean anything to me than a money hungry game developer. Which leaves me to support Turn10 and Forza. They haven’t been in this as long as PD, and yet their are teaching GT5 what to do.
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:32 pm - #GTRACER1998
AE86′s are ugly.
And if PD is a “money hungry game developer” than how come the Corvette is FREE.
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:33 pm - #MeanElf
Bye then.
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:42 pm - #TokoTurismo
Seriously. Why are you complain? Mind as well leave if you can’t get over yourself and appreciate PD’s hard supporting this game.
And what a dumn thought to say PD are money hungry, they are not. Honestly some people can be so ungrateful…
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January 14th, 2013 at 7:17 pm - #JeremiahTB
If PD was “money hungry”, why is there hardly any DLC? That is the best way to nickel & dime us to death…nickels and dimes I would gladly spend for badass cars every month. I wish PD was money hungry.
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January 14th, 2013 at 8:35 pm - #GTP_Yamicarlos
If Polyphony Digital is “mone hungry”, then Turn 10 is robbing you everytime you buy their games, because the amount of money being spent on Dlcs in a lot more than the game itself. In the old days, the game we bought was finished, in sense there was no dlc, no update, nothing to upset the gaming time.
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January 14th, 2013 at 10:08 pm - #HuskyGT
I wish PD was “money hungry.” Imagine all the amazing cars, features and tracks we would have by now!
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January 14th, 2013 at 11:23 pm - #Page71
Are you kidding me..? I came from Forza because I thought they were money hungry…
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:22 pm - #Slashfan
New Corvette but no Mustangs, No Chargers, No Ferarris, No Koenigsegg? Come ONNN
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:23 pm - #Slashfan
*Viper as well
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:38 pm - #sangdude82
I know but at least we got a 2014 car, right?
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:32 pm - #GTRACER1998
So many complainers.
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:37 pm - #playnthru
Wait there’s new Mustang………AWESOME.:)
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:37 pm - #playnthru
They took out the no?
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January 14th, 2013 at 4:36 pm - #TokoTurismo
This is so much win, this track and Vette C7 Stingray! :D
Thank you so much PD and GM for all this, you guys rock as a team working together. :)
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January 14th, 2013 at 4:21 pm - #balang_479
Theres a shot of El Capitan in there aswell at 2:04!
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:09 pm - #The Prodigy
speaking of which that course is my fav orig course
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:20 pm - #ZEROX
Nah, just Trial Mountain.
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January 14th, 2013 at 6:12 pm - #sirjim73
Yeah, I think someone got a bit over excited. I’d go along with Trial Mountain.
Personally I think the new Stingray looks great, even if it is a rip off of parts of other cars it looks to me like they put them together pretty darn tootin well! And if it does anywhere near 30mpg that seems pretty impressive for a car like this. Looks like an early morning for me tomorrow then!
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:54 pm - #Foxiol
Now I remember where I saw this circuit before…it was one of the first circuits for pCARS when it started back in October 2011.
PD is doing its work guys and looking at the competition. Hell yeah, to me seeing this circuit is not only good to add more real life world tracks…but PD is aiming to compete head to head against itself (Forza counts?) and pCARS which is going to have lot of tracks and amazing visuals at least on PC.
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:31 pm - #notStig
It looks like a course maker track…
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:29 pm - #StiggyGT
Interlagos, Imola, Swiss alps (from gt3) would be great tracks for me! Don’t get me wrong, I still love PD s attitude towards new content.
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:15 pm - #Evo10
I think this too!! Interlagos, Circuit of Americas, Bahrain, and more!!
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January 14th, 2013 at 5:42 pm - #JeremiahTB
Really? You love PD’s attitude toward new content? There is hardly new content for this game other than the Seasonals. Kaz himself said there would be new DLC every month…doesn’t happen. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the new C7; but I’m sure that was just as much GM’s doing as PD’s. GT DLC is severely lacking in content. In this day and age consistent DLC is a must.
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:22 pm - #Jahgee1124
What the hell sorg, you were supposed to warn us of this :lol:
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:20 pm - #Rob-F1-Fan
Somethin tells me Gran Turismo 6 will have a huge amount of tracks! What with Silverstone, this, and many others that PD have been spotted at.
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:28 pm - #Amac500
Bathurst
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January 14th, 2013 at 3:15 pm - #hairystig
Another Acura NSX concept.
Might turn up in GT 6 might not.
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Is the prototype the freebi there on about…I don’t mind paying for new tracks cars and anything we get is great. But a freebie from the manufachure should be in order for all the coverage this new car is getting..this is first of many big deals well done PD..now for a GTA colaberation…gt5 is dead….GT5 as only just begun.