Andrew Evans

It’s almost time for the last of the Gran Turismo FIA GT Championship World Tour events before the big final in Monaco. We seem to have rattled through them in recent weeks, with New York and Salzburg in quick succession, leading up to the last event this weekend in Tokyo.

Although arguably entirely expected, it’s now confirmed: after this weekend’s World Tour event in Tokyo, GT Sport will get a new content update.

If you’ve been keeping an eye on Gran Turismo Twitter today, you’ll have spotted something rather unusual. A Tweet posted by racing driver Teruaki Kato showing the GT Sport World Tour stage build at the Toyota Mega Web venue has revealed a very unexpected equipment change.

We’re fast coming up on the last World Tour event before the grand final in Monaco, so it’s time to take another look at our driver rankings.

After being rescued from the financial doldrums, the project to get a car to drive to 1000mph is reaching its final stages.

The next update to Assetto Corsa Competizione is on its way, and it’s bringing some neat content. Dubbed v1.1, the update promises “major changes”, along with news car and a new track, as part of a free bundle.

A tight, tactical battle has seen Williams claim the title in the first season of GTPlanet League, beating Team Redline in the final.

Defending GT Sport World Champion Igor Fraga put in an impressive showing in Italy over the weekend to round out his Formula Regional Championship season in style.

There’s a bit of a globe-trotting theme to this week’s GT Sport Daily Races, as we take in real race tracks — all with F1 history — across the globe.

It’s taken more than a month to get here, but the grand final is now upon us. Eight matches, 18 races, and 26 drivers, and it all comes down to Sunday evening’s head-to-head between Williams and Team Redline.

Starting today, ten gamers from around the world of virtual motorsport will be competing for the chance to win a year-long race contract.

We’re still a week away from the next World Tour event, but already Polyphony Digital is teasing some of the new content it might bring.

Hyundai has unveiled the latest vehicle in its “N” brand of performance cars, and it’s fair to say it’s not exactly what we were expecting.

It doesn’t seem like it, but two years has now passed since GT Sport landed on our consoles. After a long wait that became unexpectedly longer, Polyphony Digital’s first racer on the PlayStation 4 finally arrived almost four years into the console’s life.

Please put your flags at half mast, for the reported demise of a fallen engine. According to British publication Autocar, Mercedes-AMG is dropping the characteristic V8 engine from its range, starting with the next version of the mid-size C63 in 2022.

Jann Mardenborough is a man who can claim to be the world’s fastest gamer. The Brit won the third GT Academy competition back in 2011, and since then has been plying his trade in some of the world’s top racing series. At 210mph down the Hunaudieres in the ill-fated Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, chances are he’s driven quicker than any gamer before — or since.

Google’s new streamed gaming service, Stadia, will officially launch on November 19, at least for those customers who’ve already bought the Founder’s Edition package.

Toyota’s race and tuning division, Gazoo Racing, has been turning its attention to everything Toyota in the last couple of years. Aside from the hypercar class GR Super Sport and, of course, the GR Supra, there’s all sorts of cars in the Toyota brand available with Gazoo Racing’s fettling. There’s even a Gazoo-tuned Toyota Century sedan, just for Toyota’s President Akio Toyoda.

Two more enthralling matches have seen the teams book their place in the first GTPlanet League Final this weekend.

GT Sport’s three Daily Races recreate a bit of a classic for you this week, along with a bit of a pace injection for speed fiends.