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It’s a bad guess.
Ich auch nicht, aber irgendwie seltsam, dass nach Tagen und kurz vor Release jemand auf einen Kommentar antwortet. Naja, bald wissen wir es.
A random German Youtuber won't have any knowledge about this.
I'm not saying it's true. I was just confused and thought that it's already listed on the store.
And they are out there replying to random Youtube comments 😅
I’ve had this experience first hand - I had the extreme luck of meeting and interacting with a PD employee not just once, but twice. While the first time wasn’t in any sort of professional capacity, me sharing what I learned could easily damage either my relationship with them, or their relationship with the studio/having a job, or both, if it made any sort of newsworthy waves.Sometimes the things we know come from privileged conversation, where both parties have the expectation of privacy, and sometimes it's wholly off-the-record, so these can never be shared ahead of time. Even when it's not, and something that has come from other sources, I don't really like spoiling stuff for other people, and the whole "we know something that you don't and we're not sharing except to say that we do" thing seems a bit gauche.
That said I might drop hints, but they don't look like hints most of the time - even after the fact- but sometimes people will read virtually anything into virtually anything, so I don't do it often in case folks get the impression I do it a lot and start hyping up random crap from putting two and two together and getting cheesecake.
In this case, I think everything that I did know is now in the public domain, so I'm going to be as surprised as anyone by what is and isn't in Spec III and the PP DLC.
) power mods in the engine bay if that was on his radar. He had apparently already found a different one and handled the full recording process a few days prior to the event. Apparently the GT Sport Mercedes F1 car was an absolute misery to put in the game, cuz Mercedes AMG was unwilling to let PD touch or scan or capture any of their IP directly, and would only let PD have slivers of data they sent out. The audio process took numerous back and forths to get specific types of engine note samples cuz there was apparently a game of telephone being played between the email recipient, the engineers, and the person handling the recording, and it was the same with the visual side as well.That’s always the awkward part of being in the know. I’m currently building into a career in Motorsports media/journalism, and at COTA for Lone Star Le Mans I got to chat and network with some fairly notable commentators and journalists, and got some spicy news early from them at a small nerdy community meet. The big stories were the Toyota/Lexus GT3 delay, Porsche pulling out of WEC, and a WEC calendar expansion. Many of the other folks present were major community organizers or moderators, and regularly get to interact with these well respected Motorsport staff and learn all kinds of secrets, but have to act like they don’t know anything. It’s extremely common to get accused of knowing something on subject A, when in fact you literally have never been clued in on that subject, but in fact have a super spicy secret you’re holding onto about subject B that no one has picked up on.But these dudes are holding all the secrets
Journalism, particularly in this hyperspeed social media age, can get really wacky. An example I got at this Motorsport meetup was the news about Mercedes’ Hypercar program. In some cases a source’s press team will have a review process where they either need to see the piece being written before publication, or be in an active situation where they allow the outlets to start their write ups with current given information, and be amended by the embargo.
Way to keep your dignity bro 😂
Fascinating post. Please more of this, even if it is just meta information on how it is to be somewhat in the know and not actually spilling any beans.I’ve had this experience first hand - I had the extreme luck of meeting and interacting with a PD employee not just once, but twice. While the first time wasn’t in any sort of professional capacity, me sharing what I learned could easily damage either my relationship with them, or their relationship with the studio/having a job, or both, if it made any sort of newsworthy waves.
Just as an example of how it can go down:
In 2021 I bought an imported Celica and started getting involved in the local car scene, particularly the weird and wacky import/kei crowds. Someone I was connected to let slip a PD employee was in the area and looking for a heavily modified Suzuki Cappuccino to source audio from, apparently bit more desperate than normal (I later learned a huge amount of cars captured both for visual scans and audio capture are sourced from people their employees meet in public in local communities - you never know where they might be at any given time). I got unfathomably lucky, and a week and a half later actually ran into him at an event. I let slip that I knew a guy with a Cappuccino with a custom straight pipe and sizable (at least as sizable as you can get with 660cc
Said Cappuccino I knew the owner of at the time:
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My hope was that I could position myself to be lending hands with car sourcing here and there via my increasing presence in the local car scenes of Seattle and Orange County, and seeing where that kind of professional contact could lead me. TL;DR it went nowhere, but I at least had some really great chats with them about roles they played, stuff they’ve done, and struggles they overcame. That last bit in particular is how I learned about the Porsche 918, cuz apparently they’d tried (and failed) 3 times at that point to record it, but even with Porsche technicians on staff the ECU/traction control system was freaking out on every type of dyno they tried to put it on. I don’t know how they ultimately solved it but clearly we got the car and it’s audio some way some how.
I could’ve “leaked” this to the forums or Reddit publicly for some cool internet points, but fundamentally as you describe, that would just lead to very quick future professional disconnects and dead end. The 2nd interaction I got to “see” some “behind the curtain” type stuff, not quite in a professional enough scenario where NDAs were on the table, but either way, the same kind of mutual understanding of privacy applies.
I don’t think there was much more yet unreleased content I was privy to beyond that, save for maybe the fact they were capturing the door/hood/trunk/panel closing sounds, but we haven’t seen any of that used for anything, and the two times I interacted with them was shortly before the horn update released, and they never let slip that was something they were going to be doing. Everything else I learned was just cool factoids about work they’d done and weird hiccups that came with their role. Like, for example, when they almost doxxed Lewis Hamilton by mistake.
I even learned a little bit of tidbits from Jordan of some inner workings of the LA love event, and technically learned about the Polestar a few hours before the reveal.
But anyways, much time and distance has passed since my interaction with the PD employee, so it’s probably more than fine to share this stuff now, but in general, in the moment, even letting slip that “I know a guy” on the team is risky, cuz it could bring unwanted attention to the private individual and would just lead to unnecessary witch hunts for more info that fundamentally won’t matter. Ultimately, what we get is what we get, leaking things early at best changes nothing, at worst may damage partnerships and actually cause content to not release due to license holders/PR folks unhappy about information leaks.
That’s always the awkward part of being in the know. I’m currently building into a career in Motorsports media/journalism, and at COTA for Lone Star Le Mans I got to chat and network with some fairly notable commentators and journalists, and got some spicy news early from them at a small nerdy community meet. The big stories were the Toyota/Lexus GT3 delay, Porsche pulling out of WEC, and a WEC calendar expansion. Many of the other folks present were major community organizers or moderators, and regularly get to interact with these well respected Motorsport staff and learn all kinds of secrets, but have to act like they don’t know anything. It’s extremely common to get accused of knowing something on subject A, when in fact you literally have never been clued in on that subject, but in fact have a super spicy secret you’re holding onto about subject B that no one has picked up on.
Not to mention even if they do know stuff, like that GT8 is expected to come 2027 or PS6 launch title, that is of course subject to change at any time.
Journalism, particularly in this hyperspeed social media age, can get really wacky. An example I got at this Motorsport meetup was the news about Mercedes’ Hypercar program. In some cases a source’s press team will have a review process where they either need to see the piece being written before publication, or be in an active situation where they allow the outlets to start their write ups with current given information, and be amended by the embargo.
The journalist I was hearing from reached out to their Mercedes contact for final checks that all the information presented was correct, got no response after a full week, and since they’d been given preapproval to break the story, went ahead and published the story at the end of the embargo (since they still need to compete with other outlets to being “first” to the story). Turns out, within that week, leadership and middle management changed internally, the contact he had was now in a completely different wing, and the new leadership had killed the program, making all the outlets with the story look like they got egg on their face.
The reality is truly as you say - things can, in fact, change at any time.
, and tyre indicators showing for all opponents.
Hype deflated.Real Racing Is Here! New Paid "Power Pack" DLC Offers 50 New Races Across 20 Themed Categories! - Gran Turismo® 7 - gran-turismo.com
On December 4, 2025, the much-anticipated Gran Turismo 7–Power Pack DLC launches for the PlayStation®5 version of Gran Turismo 7 as a paid add-on, introducing a brand-new game mode centered on the essence of real-world motorsports—and including 5,000,000 in-game Credits.www.gran-turismo.com
Real Racing Is Here! New Paid "Power Pack" DLC Offers 50 New Races Across 20 Themed Categories! - Gran Turismo® 7 - gran-turismo.com
On December 4, 2025, the much-anticipated Gran Turismo 7–Power Pack DLC launches for the PlayStation®5 version of Gran Turismo 7 as a paid add-on, introducing a brand-new game mode centered on the essence of real-world motorsports—and including 5,000,000 in-game Credits.
Don't know why they've said "event car" singular when it looks like there's multiple to choose from in each event, and you choose a more difficult one to get better rewards.Real Racing Is Here! New Paid "Power Pack" DLC Offers 50 New Races Across 20 Themed Categories! - Gran Turismo® 7 - gran-turismo.com
On December 4, 2025, the much-anticipated Gran Turismo 7–Power Pack DLC launches for the PlayStation®5 version of Gran Turismo 7 as a paid add-on, introducing a brand-new game mode centered on the essence of real-world motorsports—and including 5,000,000 in-game Credits.
The emojis look to have gone
Special reward cars
£24.99. I'm in at that price.
$30
Sophy is not available on ps4 and it’s the AI used in these races from the power pack.
This seems absolute fair in my opinion.
$30
