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The Mercedes AMG F1 Esports team has signed reigning world champion Jarno Opmeer to its squad for the 2021 season, replacing Ferrari-bound 2018 and 2019 champion Brendon Leigh.

Following its PC debut back in November, the latest DLC pack for Assetto Corsa Competizione has arrived today for console gamers too.

The next generation of Gran Turismo, GT7, is set to arrive this year, but racing wheel manufacturer Fanatec is expecting it later rather than sooner. While Sony’s promotional material is anticipating a launch in the first half of the year, Fanatec thinks the second half is more likely.

Racing peripheral manufacturer Fanatec has indicated that it’s preparing to enter a new market segment, with a new product range for PlayStation 5 coming later this year.

This week’s new set of GT Sport Daily Races will take players to three race tracks around the world, all linked by a history of wine-making. You’ll be taking in Italy, California, and the county of Kent in the United Kingdom for the next seven days.

This year’s GT World Challenge will see one of the strangest real-world/esports crossovers to date, as pro racing drivers could win points towards their championship challenge from sim racing.

As the weather begins to turn and the leaves changes color, a new Autumn season has begun in Forza Horizon 4. There’s no plans to slow down soon, with more events and more content to win

Fanatec has revealed its new CSL Universal Hub, allowing players to bolt a multitude of steering wheel rims — including items from real-world vehicles — to virtually any Fanatec wheelbase.

The FIA Rally Star competition announced last year will get underway in the coming weeks, with the hopes of finding a future World Rally champion via digital motorsport.

Ferrari has announced that it has signed one of the biggest names in the F1 Esports scene: two-time world champion Brendon Leigh.

A mysterious new feature in Forza Horizon 4 has been seemingly teased by mistake on some players’ Xbox dashboards, before disappearing again just as enigmatically.

The USA’s Mitchell DeJong has taken the lead in the Porsche Tag Heuer Esports Supercup Championship (PESC) following the second round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

There’s a new set of GT Sport Daily Races this week, to tide us all over while we’re waiting for the next FIA season to start. The options are relatively simple this week, with a classic time attack formula and some high-speed action.

Polyphony Digital has announced that its flagship FIA Gran Turismo Championships series will return for another season in 2021.

One of the stars of the 2020 esports racing scene, the F1 Virtual Grand Prix, is returning for a second season in 2021.

The warm embrace of Summer has settled over the UK to mark a new series in Forza Horizon 4. Series 31 has now officially started, bringing more new and returning content as well as refreshed events.

If you drive the Subaru Impreza 22B in Gran Turismo Sport — and you should, because it’s brilliant — it turns out that you’re actually driving a bit of history. The car you’re driving virtually is the personal car of the man you could arguably suggest is the father of the Impreza: Akira Teshima.

The first new GT Sport Time Trials of the year are with us, and there’s something a little different to try for the next couple of weeks.

We don’t think we’re going too much out on a limb when we say GTPlanet has a whole lot of creativity within our membership. One only has to look at our various livery editor and photomode forums to see this in action.

Fans of classic, and long-absent Gran Turismo tracks can rejoice, as it’s now possible to race on them again. There’s one slight catch though: it’s not in Gran Turismo, or even on a PlayStation console.