Andrew Evans

Once again, April has come round and that means that the European motorsports season has started in earnest. Fresh from their successes at the Dubai 24 Hours, the latest crop of GT Academy winners are making their first steps in a variety of championships – joined by more experienced NISMO Athletes as they start a racing career.

The 2014 Bathurst 12 Hours didn’t end so well for the GT Academy team. After a strong qualifying performance, a colossal accident for Katsumasa Chiyo at Skyline in the third hour ended their race.

Hot on the heels of Alpine‘s Vision GT comes another concept car for the Gran Turismo series, this time from Japanese brand Lexus.

It’s been the prize for winning GT Academy for six years now, so this weekend’s Dubai 24 Hours shouldn’t come as a surprise to any wannabe-racer Gran Turismo fan out there.

Gran Turismo 6 was officially launched on this day in 2013, following a party that occupied the Spanish town of Ronda and the Ascari Race Resort. So how have things changed in the last year.

It may seem like a while since we last got a new Vision GT car in Gran Turismo 6, but the project rumbles on. The latest manufacturer to join the ranks is Japanese industrial concern Subaru, which has today joined Polyphony Digital in the release of a teaser video and some in-game images of the impending Subaru VIZIV GT Vision Gran Turismo.

For tech-heads, Gran Turismo 6’s GPS Data Logger function is something quite exciting, but for the gamers it’s something that appears limited in scope at first glance.

Since v1.12 was released with new options for steering wheel controllers, many players have noticed a dramatic alteration to force feedback behaviour – indeed Polyphony Digital has already updated the game once with a hotfix for this very issue.