2011 GT Academy winner and inspiration for the upcoming Gran Turismo movie Jann Mardenborough is set for a return to the race track later this month in the gruelling Super Taikyu 24 Hours of Fuji on May 27-28.
“After a rather dull and derided race in Baku, F1 heads off to another circuit which styles itself as a street circuit, although at least Baku was actually on streets.”
“It’s super quirky to look at, very much a design where the designers of the front and rear didn’t know each other or what they were doing. But that gives it character and it stands out in a sea of bog standard hatchbacks.”
Bentley’s Continental GT is effectively the brand’s “entry level” offering, with the coupe coming in at just over £180,000 ($224,000) before any options. Having originally launched in 2003, as the first new vehicle since the marque became part of the Volkswagen group of companies, it’s now in its third generation.
Ferrari’s Vision Gran Turismo, a concept car unique to Gran Turismo 7, has been recognized by the Red Dot design awards — becoming the first fictional car to earn a “Best of the Best” award in the process.
“Just as everyone else is pivoting from diesel to hybrid petrol and reducing the number of cylinders across the board, Mazda has developed a brand-new diesel engine that’s also its largest ever engine for any European non-commercial vehicle”
“Albert Park is often one of the most packed circuits for in terms of spectator numbers, as the City Centre parkland circuit becomes the nation’s Motorsport Festival for a weekend.”
A Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Paul Walker in Fast & Furious — the fourth film in the saga — is heading across the auction block in a special online event from Bonhams beginning April 28.
A slightly mis-timed in-game announcement has revealed that Polyphony Digital and the organizing body behind Super Formula, Japan Race Promotion, are due to reveal a new partnership next week — and it’ll bear the first fruit in the April update for Gran Turismo 7.
One of the most spectacular and certainly rarest vehicles ever made is heading to auction in May, with the only original TVR Cerbera Speed 12 getting ready to find a new home through Silverstone Auctions.
“This will be a very different challenge to the massive braking points of Sakhir. Who will come out on top here? Will the reprofiled corners make this track a bit less obviously unsafe, and can we avoid another missile strike?”