Reigning FIA Motorsport Games Digital Cup champion Cody Latkovski has laid down the early marker at the FIA-Certified GT Sport Online Championship Nations Cup final, in Monaco.
The finish line is in sight, and Kazunori Yamauchi is getting ready to wave the checkered flag. This weekend it’s the grand final of the FIA-Certified GT Sport Online Championship, in Monaco.
We were quite surprised when a leak last week revealed the fact that another famous real-world circuit was coming to GT Sport. A document circulated to players at this weekend’s World Final showed Laguna Seca was next up on the track list, hot on the heels of October’s new circuit, Spa-Francorchamps.
Everything changed at the 2018 FIA GTC World Finals. We didn’t realize it at the time, but we were witnessing the birth of one of the great rivalries in racing esports.
So this is it. All the racing’s been done, all the preparations made, and this weekend the world’s best Gran Turismo Sport drivers will meet in Monaco. They’re all chasing one trophy, and a money-can’t-buy prize of lining up alongside Lewis Hamilton, Ott Tanak, Fernando Alonso, and other world champion drivers to receive their adulation in Paris in December.
Following a long hiatus, GTPlanet’s Weekly Race Series (WRS) will resume hosting Online Races, beginning this week. The races, using GT Sport, are modeled after our weekly time trial events, with multiple time slots to account for varying time zones of our members.
At the most recent Gran Turismo World Tour event in Tokyo, I had the opportunity to tour Polyphony Digital’s studios to see exactly how Gran Turismo is made.
The recent Tokyo World Tour event for GT Sport had a significant part dedicated to the newest entry in the Vision Gran Turismo project. Jaguar’s design is the first we’ve seen since the Audi Vision GT in 2018, and marks the 28th vehicle in the unique project.
Polyphony Digital studio head Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed that there’s a “possibility” that fan-favorite tracks from previous Gran Turismo games could feature in a modern Gran Turismo game.