Gran Turismo Series

The new set of GT Sport Time Trials provide some novel challenges this week, with a big, British GT car and a hot hatch to tame.

Super Formula will become the latest series to stage an online substitute for its real world events, with a grand prix planned for Sunday May 17.

May’s GT Sport Daily Races kick off with a duo of real-world circuits and a little more practice for upcoming FIA events.

The one-off events are coming thick and fast in GT Sport, with Audi revealing its second this month. This new Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo Challenge is part of the brand’s #RaceHome campaign, which it’s running both to keep its professional drivers and its fans busy while much of the world is cooped up at home.

It’s hard to believe, but Gran Turismo 3 turns 19 today. Initially launched on April 28 2001 for the Japanese market — arriving in July in both Europe and the USA — GT3 was the debut Gran Turismo title for the PlayStation 2 console, and an important milestone.

This coming week is one of Japan’s biggest annual holidays: Golden Week. To celebrate — and also to mark the hiatus in world affairs right now — GT Sport and Red Bull are running a competition in the game.

There’s three more GT Sport Daily Races to get your teeth into this week, with a rare appearance from one of the game’s original circuits.

Update: On May 8, Polyphony Digital pushed out a new set of Terms and Conditions in the UK for the game’s FIA mode, which modified the “Prizes” section. Previous versions of the rules included laid out Live Event attendance as a prize — including flights, transfers, hotel, and meals — with a value of around $3,000, and trophies where applicable.

In recent weeks we’ve seen a gradual increase in the number of otherwise idle F1 drivers getting into the world of sim-racing. McLaren’s Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen were already heavily involved, but almost half the grid is now racing online of a weekend.

If you like going incredibly fast or incredibly slow, this fortnight’s set of GT Sport Time Trials will cater for you.

Players booting up their PS4s this morning will discover that the 1.57 update for GT Sport has arrived. It comes in at just over half a gigabyte, weighing in at 503MB. That’s enough to bring a little bit of new content, but the update’s main focus is on changes to Sport Mode.

The next GT Sport update is almost upon us, arriving on April 23 after a period of server maintenance.

After circumstances dictated that Polyphony Digital had to transmute the original first ten races of the 2020 FIA Season into an Exhibition Series, it’s ready to start again for real. The official 2020 FIA Online Championship season restarts this coming Saturday, April 25.

The outside world might be in all kinds of disarray, but GT Sport’s Daily Race schedule continues unhindered. This week we’ve got three more races, which include a track we haven’t seen in the rotation for a very, very long time.

Last month, we began celebrating the second anniversary of our GT Sport Livery Editor competitions with a special GTPlanet-themed round.

We’re getting used to catching up with some esports action every weekend right now, as a whole host of famous drivers get to grips with the virtual world. This weekend’s racing starts a little early with a GT Sport event tonight, courtesy of two drivers you might not normally associate with the game.

If you’re furloughed or otherwise social distancing right now, there’s not a lot to do. Many of us have been shut indoors for a month or so, and every possible small job that we can do is now done. It’s probably not much surprise then that we’re all turning to our games consoles for solace.

Audi’s factory DTM drivers have launched another esports initiative, with an unusual twist. Members of the public can gain a spot on the grid each week, not by playing but by painting.

There’s three more GT Sport Daily Races to get to grips with this week, and there’s a bit of a thematic spread.

There’s another unusual vehicle mix in this new GT Sport Time Trials for the next two weeks, although thankfully a little less pricey than the previous set.