Here, it's possible to have up to six drivers, and your job is to manage them. In-game, that means maintaining their physical and mental conditions, issuing commands to get them to speed up, slow down or attack the driver in front. It's represented in three different views; there's the command view where the action's restricted to a small window while the rest of the screen is taken up with telemetry read-outs. Another view offers up the live timings, with sector times fully broken down and a final one shows the racing off in full-screen glory.
A live demo shows it in action as a Ferrari 458 Italia is put through its paces around the Nurburgring's Grand Prix circuit. It looks gorgeous, as you'd expect, but there's another revelation in the action. At the player's command, the Ferrari attacking outside the first corner and then holding its line for the inside of the next as it pulls an aggressive and impressive overtake on a Citroen GT car.
The next opponent is a Gallardo, which the Ferrari hangs on the tail of looking for gaps at each turn. As the first corner approaches again, it dives for the inside but the Gallardo blocks him off. At this the driver's mental status takes a dip as indicated by an onscreen bar and as it continues to push it makes more and more mistakes, overshooting apexes and letting the rear-end slip out a little too far as it falls into the clutches of the Citroen behind it. It's dynamic behaviour that suggests that Gran Turismo's A.I could, at long last, have been brought up to scratch.
