Andrew Evans

If you’re feeling glum about motorsport right now, we’ll forgive you. Every other headline these days seems to be a big brand pulling out of some race series or other. Even this week, Aston Martin pulled out of Le Mans Hypercars before anyone’s ever raced in the category.

If you’re champing at the bit for the full PlayStation 5 reveal, we’ve got two more dates for you to strike from your calendar. Sony has announced that it is withdrawing from two games industry events over the next month, due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.

New US brand Czinger Vehicles will officially reveal its first car at the Geneva Motor Show next month, and it’s quite the debut. Known as the 21C — shorthand for 21st Century — Czinger’s first vehicle has some startling performance figures.

If you were looking forward to watching Aston Martin’s Valkyrie compete in next season’s World Endurance Championship, including Le Mans, we’ve got some bad news for you. As of today, Aston has withdrawn its entry for the 2020-2021 season, while it “considers” its future participation.

Even for people who aren’t fans of F1, Netflix’s F1: Drive to Survive was a must-watch in 2019. The no holds barred documentary of the 2018 season saw Box to Box films granted unprecedented access to the F1 pit lane, and it was eye-opening.

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed some interesting facts about the relationships between Gran Turismo and the car manufacturers who appear in the series.

GT Sport’s first World Tour event of the year is still fresh in our minds, but already it’s time to prepare for the next stage. The Pre-Season for 2020 FIA Online Championship gets underway this week, ahead of the full season starting in mid-March.

Kazunori Yamauchi has made some interesting comments about the future direction of Gran Turismo’s graphics. The Polyphony Digital studio boss has suggested that frame rate, rather than display resolution, may be the area in which the next titles in the series look to improve.

This week’s GT Sport Daily Races will take you to some tight and twisty real world circuits, in the UK and Japan.

Brazil’s 2018 GT Sport World Champion Igor Fraga has won the 2020 Toyota Racing Series title, by taking victory in the deciding New Zealand Grand Prix.

Polyphony Digital has revealed another new car on its way to GT Sport soon, and it’s a vehicle with quite some history.

A report from Bloomberg has suggested that Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 5 console may be getting expensive to make due to supply issues. The site estimates each unit costs around $450 to make — 20% more than the PS4 at launch — and this may have a knock-on effect on the console’s market price.

Back in December we were celebrating the 25th birthday of PlayStation. Yes, Sony launched its maiden gaming console a quarter of a century ago, on December 3 1994. With remarkable timing, the opportunity has come up for a well-heeled bidder to pick up the very first PlayStation — and we don’t mean something as mundane as a 25-year-old commercial console, but something rather older.

After a little leak earlier in the year, Thrustmaster has officially revealed its new load cell pedals in full.

It’s back to Japanese shores for the next two weeks in the GT Sport time trials, as you’ll face a tricky challenge on two compact circuits.

In a surprising move, Criterion Games will once again produce Need for Speed games for EA. UK-based Criterion, which developed three titles in the franchise from 2010 to 2013, will take over as NFS developer from Ghost Games.

After a couple of weeks of speculation, Formula 1 has followed in the footsteps of Formula E and postponed its event in China.

It barely seems like three months since we were all in Monaco, watching Mikail Hizal lay waste to the best drivers in the world, but here we are.

Brazil’s Igor Fraga endured a weekend of drama as big rival Liam Lawson retook the lead of the Toyota Racing Series. The GT Sport world champion had to fight from the back in the feature race, but takes the title challenge through to next week’s final round at Manfeild.

You’ll get to visit some of motorsport’s oldest venues in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races, as well as somewhere a good deal more virtual.