Polyphony Digital hosted a special event at their Tokyo offices today which featured some friendly competition between Super GT drivers. The event was streamed live on NicoNico, and revealed the newest track coming to GT6: Circuito de la Sierra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvZwkh4gebA

When Kazunori Yamauchi accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge from Forza Motorsport’s Dan Greenawalt last week, he took the opportunity to pass along the challenge to two more people: Lucas Ordoñez, original GT Academy champion, and Ken Kutaragi, the “Father of PlayStation” who was instrumental in the design and development of the original console.

Bloomberg TV, the business and financial television network, aired a segment yesterday (as spotted by Wax Free Vanilla) on the ever-increasing importance of video games for automotive companies. It featured Aston Martin’s Vision GT project, the DP-100, and revealed that 2.5 million people have downloaded the car in Gran Turismo 6.

A new batch of events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring a series of new drift and super lap challenges exclusive to the Formula Gran Turismo, non-race cars, pre-1980’s Japanese cars, and two-wheel drive race cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY4YXl_YZd8&feature=youtu.be

As you probably know, the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” has taken the world (and social media) by storm over the past few weeks. It’s resulted in a lot of fun videos of people getting cold water poured over their head, and it’s raised more than $88.5 million dollars to help victims of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and help fund a global team of researchers looking for a cure.

Questions about GT6 update installation problems are frequent around our community here, and Polyphony Digital addressed this with an official support document published earlier last week. The core issue is related to Update 1.02 and a generic issue with all subsequent updates.

A new batch of A-Spec races are now available, ranging from a beginner’s challenge to that of an expert while overtaking as many opponents as possible within the allotted time.

Polyphony Digital has announced two periods of online maintenance for the GT6 online services this week, which will be unavailable for approximately two hours starting at the following times:

Each year at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – the world’s most famous and prestigious car show – Kazunori Yamauchi selects a car to be awarded the “Gran Turismo Trophy”, after which it will be digitized and immortalized in the Gran Turismo series.

A new batch of A-Spec races are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring a series of new drift and time trial challenges exclusive to any non-racing car of your choice, tuner cars, GT500-class Super GT machines, and the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S.

The Toyota FT-1 Vision Gran Turismo concept car was fully revealed today at McCall’s Motorwork Revival at Monterey Airport. Designed by Toyota’s North American Calty Design Research facility, the FT-1 Vision GT is an evolution of the original FT-1 concept originally designed for Gran Turismo 6 before going on to receive an incredible response at the North American International Auto Show this past January.

It would appear that Toyota’s FT-1 Vision Gran Turismo variant isn’t the only thing coming to GT6 next month as a full scale model of the FT-1 concept was unveiled today at the McCall’s Motorworks Revival hosted in California.

With the conclusion of the 2014 European GT Academy Race Camp, a new group of competitors arrived at Silverstone from nearly every corner of the globe for the international region of the competition, which includes Australia, India, Mexico, Middle East and Thailand.

Italian website Quattroruote recently participated in an interview session with Kazunori Yamauchi, and – as is often the case when journalists get to spend time with him these days – they were eager to ask about the future with Gran Turismo 7.

After the overwhelming positive response when revealed to the world at the North American Intertnational Auto Show earlier this year, Toyota is once again showing off its FT-1 concept vehicle, this time in racing trim as reported earlier.