Andrew Evans

There’s a familiar feel to this week’s Daily Races, with some new traditions and something a little older.

If you happen to be an evil megalomaniac with a serious automotive passion, there’s some good news for you at Pebble Beach this weekend.

Depending on who you believe, the future of gaming might be either a much more powerful console or outside the box altogether. While both Sony and Microsoft are working on next generation consoles for next year, Google is going the other way with the cloud-based Stadia.

Born-again luxury performance brand Bugatti is planning to take something very special to Monterey Car Week this year. It wowed the crowds at the same event last year with its Divo, which it said heralded a return to Bugatti’s coach-building traditions.

The new GT Sport Time Trial mode has its second set of events right on cue this week.

Electronic Arts has dropped the official reveal trailer for its next Need for Speed game, confirming that title we reported on yesterday: Need for Speed HEAT.

Tradition returns to the Daily Races selection this week, with some very familiar formats — even if all three races feature add-on content.

When it comes to icons of world motoring, there’s not much equal to the Mini. Arguably the progenitor of the transverse-engined, front-wheel drive hatchback shape that dominates Europe’s roads to this day, the first Mini rolled off the British Motor Corporation (BMC) production line in Oxford in 1959.

If you’re anything like us, you’re still getting stuck into GT Sport’s latest content update. The old favorite Mazda Roadster Touring Car is making an appearance in the Daily Races, alongside the Porsche 930 Turbo which also shows up with the Civic EK Type R in the new Time Trial mode.

If you happen to be in the market for a two-seat hypercar that can breeze through 200mph with ease, your decision just got slightly more difficult. Slovenian performance car manufacturer Tushek has revealed its newest offering, the TS900H Apex, ahead of the official launch at Salon Privé next month.

Continuation cars — modern builds of rare, original, historic cars made to the same specifications or using the same tooling — are so hot right now. British brands Jaguar and Aston Martin, among others, have been busy rebuilding lost and missing cars from days gone by. Whether it’s the nine burned XKSS cars, or 25 gadget-laden DB5s, there’s a big market for new old cars.

The second of two final qualification spots for the second season of World’s Fastest Gamer (WFG) goes up for grabs today.

This week the Daily Races give you a chance to try out some of the new content from the most recent update.

Just as it doesn’t take long for crafty gamers to find exploits, it doesn’t take Polyphony Digital long to slam the door shut again.

It’s always been the case that a major part of any game is gaming the game itself. There’s always the odd player who will probe and test the game’s limits to work out exactly what it will and won’t allow at any given time, then exploit any unintentional gaps in the rules. Or, to put it a more succinct way, cheat.

The virtual world of motorsport is rapidly gaining a sense of parity with the physical world. Gamers become racing drivers — or just beat them in real cars — while racing drivers increasingly gravitate towards racing games, and beat the gamers too.

There’s not many marques that survive 30 years in the original mold any more. Even some of the most venerable badges have either had breaks in production, or have switched things up a bit to pander to market tastes.

There’s always some stuff to pick through with a new GT Sport game update. It might be interesting or rare new cars, new tracks to learn, new Scapes locations for the shutterbugs among us, or something else entirely.

As we’ve previously mentioned, the latest update for GT Sport will arrive in around 12 hours, but it contains a little more than we originally thought.

It’s official: Sony’s PlayStation 4 has sold 100m units, to become the fastest-ever selling home console.