Gran Turismo Series

The penultimate set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges for January 2026 are upon us, arriving on your consoles as the clock ticks past midnight into Friday morning.

A new Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenge has made its debut this morning, with another V8-powered, roadgoing GT car at an established North American racing circuit replacing the outgoing one.

Update (22/01): We’ve spoken to HPA and, unfortunately, this one is a mere slip of the finger. The company’s website was supposed to read “Gran Turismo 5” for the TT (the game in which it made its debut), and this has now been corrected. As it’s HPA’s 35th anniversary this year though, wouldn’t it be a nice way to mark it, Polyphony? The original article continues below:

A brand-new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is available from this morning, running across the next seven days, although you’ll be forgiven for thinking there’s something a little familiar about it.

As your PlayStation console clock ticks over into midnight Friday morning, you’ll be able to participate in a brand new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges — the third for 2026.

The latest Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenge is now available, bringing an interesting dilemma of sorts as Polyphony Digital opens an entire category for selection in the new event.

A trio of real-world circuits awaits us in the brand-new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, beginning today and running for the next week.

The surprisingly early official 2026 Gran Turismo World Series season is almost upon us, and with the online qualifiers set to begin in under a week Polyphony Digital has revealed the all-important race details that will determine who’ll be heading to the four live events this year.

The 2026 Gran Turismo World Series will once again return home for its grand final, with the host city for the season-ending spectacular now confirmed as Tokyo.

The second set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges for 2026 are beginning to become available to players around the world as their local clocks tick over into midnight Friday morning.

One Toyota leaves and another one (sort of) arrives as the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenges rotate as usual every Thursday morning.

The first Monday of the new year sees many of us returning to work and education after a well-earned festive break, but also brings the first new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races of the year too.

24 hours after celebrating the coming of the New Year, gamers will be also be partying — perhaps with a little less vigor — at the latest new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, arriving at midnight Friday morning in your local time zone.

2026 gets off with a bang in the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenges, with a rare appearance of the hardcore Pagani Zonda R in the global hotlap competition.

At its traditional year-end party held at its Tokyo headquarters, the Polyphony Digital team has delivered a special message of thanks to Gran Turismo’s fans, in musical form.

The sim-racing hardware landscape has undergone a massive transformation in the last few years. What was once a niche market dominated by a few key players has exploded into a multi-million dollar industry, with brands like Fanatec, Logitech, Thrustmaster, Nacon, and Moza fighting for space on sim-racer’s rigs.

It’s the final week of 2025, and with it there’s a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races to see us out of the old year and into the new.

Although the situation has improved in recent iterations, for much of its history the Gran Turismo series has been heavily criticized for its engine sounds. During the PlayStation 2 and 3 eras, engine notes were often compared to “vacuum cleaners”; the result of synthesized loops that lacked the soul and mechanical violence of their real-world counterparts.

During the 2025 Gran Turismo World Series Finals in Japan last week, Polyphony Digital announced that for the first time in its history, the World Series is heading to Abu Dhabi.