The latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges is becoming available to players around the world, replacing the previous quintet as your console ticks past midnight into the morning of Friday, August 21.
As usual there’s five events, comprising four from the existing World Circuits races (this week including a new one added in the 1.71 update) and a fifth “Special” event create just for the week — which may not even be a race. Completing them in the seven-day window earns you bonus rewards as you check off one, three, and five events by placing third or better.
Weekly Challenges unlock once you’ve completed the GT Cafe career through Menu Book 39 and watched the ending movie, making them a bonus game mode for players who’ve already done the core progress. Including the additional rewards, race prizes, and clean race bonuses, each week offers around 1.3m credits in cash and in-kind.
This Week’s Highlights
For this week we do have a race in the Special Event slot, comprising what’s essentially a looped, touge-like event for front-engined, rear-wheel drive cars from Japan. The race regulations are unusual, allowing road and tuned cars as well as Vision GT and concept cars, for a six-lap run around the Eiger Nordwand circuit in gloomy, dusk conditions, woth 90,000cr for victory.
This one-off “Japanese FR Challenge 550” race is the second-best paying after the 115,000cr for the World Touring Car 600 race, this week a two-lap race around the Nordschleife. You’re limited to a 600PP cap here, however you achieve it, despite the AI looking like they’re not playing by the rules. You’ll likely have to defend your spot down Dottinger Hohe on at least lap one.
Elsewhere the new-to-game race is the European Clubman Cup 600 at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP’s No Chicane course. It’s only four laps, and this race seems to have the new Caterham Seven Superlight R500 in mind going by the thumbnail. Don’t feel beholden to that “600” figure, as it’s just advice for a PP value for a fair race against the AI which you don’t need to follow if you want the 70,000cr for the win..
Dirt makes a rare appearance too, by way of the Evolution Meeting race at Colorado Lakes Spring. You’ll need a road-going Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution model for this one, with Dirt tires mandatory fit, and the four laps earn you 72,000cr when you take victory.
That leaves a Sunday Cup race over two laps of Sardegna Road Track C Reverse. The only limit here is the requirement to use a road car, so you can go for something really wild if the 20,000cr isn’t worth expending the thought on it. Watch out for the bump in the dip though if you pick something particularly low-slung
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – August 21 Events
- Sardegna Road Track C Reverse – Sunday Cup
- Laps: 2
- Restrictions: Road cars
- Win Reward: 20,000cr
- Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP No Chicane – European Clubman Cup 600
- Laps: 4
- Restrictions: European road cars
- Win Reward: 75,000cr
- Eiger Nordwand – Special Event (Japanese FR Challenge 550)
- Laps: 6
- Restrictions: Japan, FR, Road/Tuned/Vision/Concept
- Win Reward: 90,000cr
- Colorado Springs Lake – Evolution Meeting
- Laps: 4
- Restrictions: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Dirt tires
- Win Reward: 72,000cr
- Nurburgring Nordschleife – World Touring Car 600
- Laps: 2
- Restrictions: ≤600PP
- Win Reward: 110,000cr
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – August 21 Rewards
- 1 Event Complete: 100,000cr Credit Ticket
- 3 Events Complete: 200,000cr Credit Ticket
- 5 Events Complete: 500,000cr Credit Ticket
Gran Turismo 7 Power Pack Challenge – August 21 Rewards
Power Pack DLC owners have a second reward track running alongside the standard Weekly Challenges.
There’s no specific races required, and you only need finish — not even win — three, to claim the rewards, which refresh on the same schedule as the main event set (and in fact this week are identical).
Our original coverage of the GT7 Power Pack has the full rundown if you need a refresher on what’s inside.
- 1 Race Completed: 100,000cr Credit Ticket
- 2 Races Completed: 200,000cr Credit Ticket
- 3 Races Completed: 500,000cr Credit Ticket
The set runs through midnight local time on Thursday, August 27, when the next batch of Weekly Challenges (and a fresh round of Power Pack rewards) arrives.
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