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One great thing about the pervasion of real world circuits in racing games is the ability for the gaming community to compare how different companies approach the modelling of the tracks.

The online time trials may have finished a month ago, but qualification for GT Academy is still very much available if you can get yourself to a Live Event in your region.

To utter the phrase “What a week this has been!” as has become synonymous with the Spotlight in recent weeks would be a gross understatement. This has been one of the most active weeks for the GTPlanet community in recent memory, and with no end in sight and even more expansion in the works, GTPlanet is not only the de facto standard in bringing forth Gran Turismo news the second it’s available, it is also becoming the standard in delivering news relating to a number of other popular racing games that pique the community’s interest. The question now becomes, for those worried, what has happened to GTPlanet – isn’t this supposed to be a community that celebrates only Gran Turismo?

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F1 2015 may very well release for the European audience tomorrow, those in North America more than a week later, and those in Brazil days after, the Italian audience will be able to enjoy the game today. This bodes well for the passionate Tifosi, supporters of Scuderia Ferrari, a team far more competitive than last year and will no doubt want to drive their team to a championship victory.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring non-race cars and rally cars. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.

Marco Massarutto, Licensing Project Manager at Kunos Simulazioni, revealed today on his Facebook page that BMW’s M4 coupe is on the way to Assetto Corsa. This revelation comes after a test drive Massarutto had in the M4 at Vallelunga Circuit last year – a circuit home to Kunos as they occupy a pit garage outfitted as an office – and would inquire about licensing the car for inclusion in the game.

Last week, Turn 10 began its weekly Garage reveal, announcing the entire Formula E grid as well as 30 other cars, bringing the total of announced vehicles for the upcoming game to 174. This week, the slow tease is continued.

As announced earlier last month, Assetto Corsa will be making the transition to the current generation consoles in 2016 and Inside Sim Racing’s Darin Gangi brings us the first look of the progress being made with the new user interface coming to consoles and PC.

Patch 2.0 is now available for Project CARS across all platforms and promises to fix a number of issues brought to light by the passionate community. Weighing in at 1.4GB, the 2.0 patch covers a wide range of areas and the fixes for all platforms are as follows:

Additional content continues to make way to the 2014 open world racer and this month is no exception as tomorrow Forza Horizon 2 is set to receive an additional 6 cars; 5 of which are included in the IGN Car Pack, with the final being available to all players for free. Available tomorrow through Xbox Marketplace and the Forza Hub app, the car pack will cost $5.

Hot on the heels of an unusual 3 hour online maintenance period, Polyphony Digital has announced more online maintenance for GT6 during July – and if you thought it was odd last time, this one will boggle the mind completely.

We’re hot on the heels of the British Grand Prix and I’m not full of the typical vigor when talking about an F1 weekend. Fernando Alonso, who is evidently plagued with decision-makings that appear bright but are ultimately regrettable in hindsight, is quite frankly being wasted away at McLaren as they’re struggling to stay in a race let alone be competitive. Jenson Button is yet another superb talent that’s being wasted; both of these men are driver’s champions and have now been relegated to a team in a more complex stupor than even Ferrari – the only difference being that Button has been in this stupor for longer.

Click here to download the slides from Mike’s presentation (PDF, 5.1MB).

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring beginner, intermediate, and expert level challenges featuring sports and race cars – with new prizes unlike those offered in previous weeks. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.

At this year’s E3, Turn 10 revealed 117 of the more than 450 cars available at launch in the upcoming Forza Motorsport 6. Beginning today and leading up to the launch of the game on September 15th, Turn 10 will be revealing more details not only regarding the game’s car roster but additional information on the new tracks being introduced for the first time in the series in what is being dubbed as “The Forza Garage”.

If you’ve had a go in any version of the SRT Tomahawk – the newest Vision GT concept car in Gran Turismo 6 – you know how crazy it is. The “X” model takes things to the furthest extreme, producing over 2,590hp with the use of “experimental technologies”.