Andrew Evans

After a little tease yesterday during the 2021 FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship announcement, Polyphony Digital and Toyota Gazoo Racing have confirmed a third season of the online Toyota GR championship — but there’s a couple of changes.

An announcement from both Polyphony Digital and Toyota Gazoo Racing has revealed that the new Toyota GR86 will be coming to Gran Turismo Sport later this year.

Toyota has taken the covers off its replacement for the nine-year old 86, which sports a familiar name with one important difference. The car is now called the GR 86, making it the fourth car revealed in the Gazoo Racing line of performance models following the GR Supra, GR Yaris, and flagship GR Super Sport.

As well as announcing the new format for the 2021 season of the FIA Certified Gran Turismo Online Championship, Polyphony Digital has also revealed the largest expansion in eligible players since the esports series first started. Around a billion more people can now join in, as India and South Africa are both now officially part of the event.

Kazunori Yamauchi has taken to the PlayStation Blog to announce a new-look format for the upcoming 2021 FIA Certified Gran Turismo Online Championship, the fourth season of the flagship esports competition. As we were able to reveal last month, this year’s championship will remain online only, and with that in mind Polyphony Digital has delivered a shake-up to proceedings.

There’s a fresh set of GT Sport Daily Races now available, with players taking race cars — albeit in name alone in one case — to three of the game’s real-world circuits dotted around the globe. As with last week, you’ll be using the two core vehicle classes of GT Sport — Gr.3 and Gr.4 — and enjoying the most-recently added circuit too.

If you’re after a fun diversion over this long Easter weekend, Codemasters has a nice little gift lined up for you. From now through to April 5, DIRT 5 is free for everyone on PlayStation 4.

Unless you’ve bought your 2021 calendar from Wolfsburg, you’ll know that today is April 1 — that one day each year where news organizations and press offices are allowed to send out stories that they’ve made up without damaging people’s trust.

If you’ve actually been able to get hold of a PlayStation 5, there’s a good chance you will have been getting your next-gen driving game kicks in Destruction AllStars over the last couple of months. The PS5-exclusive, cars-and-stars arena battle royale game launched on February 2, and has been available for free to PS Plus subcribers ever since.

Legendary rally specialist Prodrive is set to build a fully road legal version of its BRX Dakar Rally Raid car for general sale, with a prototype slated for the end of this year.

The live stream for the next Forza Horizon 4 series update is almost upon us — it goes live at 1730 UTC on Thursday April 1 — but already we have a pretty decent clue for what cars S34 will bring.

Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers and best-known brands, is taking the extraordinary step of re-branding itself for the North American market, to Voltswagen. Although this might sound like something you’d expect to read this coming Thursday — April Fool’s Day — it actually appears to be a genuine thing that’s really happening.

Just like Formula One, Formula E has a new safety car for the 2021 season, and it too is British. However, a big V8 wouldn’t really fit the image of the series, so the new car is — appropriately — an EV.

The line between real-world motorsports and its virtual equivalent continues to get blurrier by the day, as Dirt Rally and DIRT series developer Codemasters has now launched its own rally team.

A new set of GT Sport Daily Races is available today, and will see players head to three of the game’s real-world circuits. You’ll be using two GT Sport’s core vehicle classes — Gr.3 and Gr.4 — as well as a recent addition to the game in this week’s trio of events.

Rocket League players will soon be able to get their hands on official machinery from Formula One and NASCAR as the extremely popular car-based game enters its third season this spring.

Uniquely styled rally game art of rally will make the jump to consoles this summer, with a launch on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass — allowing mobile players to get a taste of the title too.

The Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), the organizing body behind many of the global GT3 race series, has announced three new esports series to run across this year, each consisting of two parts, in an expansion to its esports offering in 2021.

The very first race of the lengthy 2021 Formula One World Championship will get underway this weekend. There’s 23 races between now and December to determine who’ll be taking home the two trophies — driver and constructor championships — and it’s surprisingly difficult to call.

A new major update is coming for DIRT 5 next week, bringing with it some more content for everyone as well as a DLC pack that’s a blast from the series’ past.