Gran Turismo Has Partnered With IMSA

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo Has Partnered With IMSA​

IMSA’s president John Doonan has rather surprisingly announced that the motorsports organizing body has added Gran Turismo to its list of esports partners, during a special “State of the Sport” live stream. His comments were discovered by GTPlanet user “PSN offapple” and shared in our forums...

 

[GTFan24]

Potentially DPis or the new LMDhs? Pretty pls?

 

[Coquico]

Greattttttt! I hope they bring cars and tracks from the championship! Missing that C8R

 

[MisterWaffles]

We knew PD already had a licensing agreement with IMSA due to their branding appearing in the game. The Ford GT for example is the IMSA livery with full branding rather than the WEC one.

Could just be nothing more than that, but it’ll be interesting to see where this could go. There has been more attention given to America from PD recently with Watkins Glen and Daytona being brought in to GT7.

Personally if any American track content were to be added later on Id like to see Sonoma Raceway return to the series. It’s been absent since GT PSP.

 

[jonoholland29]

Let's hope WEC see sense and drop developing their own game and just license it to Gran Turismo

 

[The359]

Have they partnered though? The slide specifically says that they have a footprint with Gran Turismo, which is true, we have the IMSA-spec Ganassi Ford GT and the Daytona International Speedway road course. But I wouldn't say that they have a partnership for eSports.

 

[Nuschel01]

Waiting for...

We understand that, without our agreement, IMSA have put out a statement that they are partnering with Gran Turismo. This is wrong and we have not signed a contract with IMSA. We will not be partnering with IMSA.

 

[bduddy]

IMSA announced a fancy new partnership with SCCA a couple years ago. So far that partnership has meant, uhh, a couple of articles in the SCCA magazine. So I wouldn't hold your breath for anything big.

 

[jpine324]

Really hope we get updated cars, and more of the IMSA tracks. It was cool to be at the address. So damn packed in that room! Would love to get Road America into GT7!

 

[JPVSPAndrade1]

ok so GTP and GTD cars for GranTurismo 8? yeah, I'll wait.

 

[st3vao]

uhmmm
Just hoping we get the awesome USA and Canada legendary tracks
Sebring
Indy
Road America
Montreal
Toronto Street
Vancouver Street
To name a few tracks

 

[WolfpackS2k]

Clearly this means that Virginia International Raceway will be added to Gran Turismo. IMSA holds races there, so the logic makes sense

 

[dwolff]

MOSPORT!

 

[Suzuki-Cara]

Potentially DPis or the new LMDhs? Pretty pls?

Porsche LMDh with a champion racing livery. yas plz

 

[SPhilli911]

I'll add Lime Rock Park to the wish-list of tracks that I'd like to see as part of the IMSA partnership.

 

[Scuderia Paul]

This is awesome news!!! I know a couple of cars from an IMSA series have been scanned but this is great to hear.

 

[danimac]

I think this is really cool. Id love more USA tracks and cars in GT7 please. Like Road America, Daytona Prototypes etc. Anything new to the game from IMSA would be awesome.

 

[TheRacer94]

Add BMW M4 GT3 to the game and i happy with my BMW M4 GT3 Wheel later this year 😍😍🥰😍

 

[Suzuki-Cara]

I think this is really cool. Id love more USA tracks and cars in GT7 please. Like Road America, Daytona Prototypes etc. Anything new to the game from IMSA would be awesome.

Sebring and Road Atlanta for sure. Timed events simulating the 12 hour and petit leman make ez pickings

 

[WolfpackS2k]

^I had the pleasure of racing on both of those tracks in 2021 and, wowzers, loved them!

 

[dimassa19]

Nice!

 

[crooky369]

Let's hope WEC see sense and drop developing their own game and just license it to Gran Turismo

I dunno. As much as I love Gran Turismo I don't think they really do a great job at modelling the hybrid cars that are one of the biggest components of the WEC.

 

[GBalao888]

This is awesome news!!! I know a couple of cars from an IMSA series have been scanned but this is great to hear.

You must be a clairvoyant or perhaps someone with a link to Polyphony.

We all knew this was coming. Besides Road Atlanta I'd like to see some familiar IMSA tracks (e.g. Road America, Lime Rock Park, VIR, Sebring) and perhaps the cars, ranging from IMSA GT/GTO/GTX, as well as numerous Gr. 1 and Gr. 3 cars.

 

[BrunusCL82]

Finally!

I have always been a supporter of the idea of PD signing agreements with sports leagues. In theory, this facilitates transit for licensing cars and circuits of the modality.

Other important leagues that PD could have commercial agreements with would be the Spanish (GT Open) and German (DTM) leagues.

DTM could bring cars from past to make up Group 2 of GT7, as well as important circuits like Hockenheimring and Lausitzring. The Spanish league could bring all that diversity of fantastic circuits from Iberia.

 

[Nathan88]

Let's hope WEC see sense and drop developing their own game and just license it to Gran Turismo

There’s very little substance of note to suggest a Le Mans/WEC title is coming anytime soon. They may have acquired licences, but at best, it’s in the early planning stages.

Regardless, it’s the car & track licenses that matter. None of which are exclusive. With WEC & IMSA now having the same prototype & GT regulations. Much easier to cover the bases of both series.

 

[Sunzi]

Hopefully a step closer to the C8.R

 

[O604]

Brembo - Genesis - Hagerty - Dior - IMSA - ......

Guessing the next partner is harder than picking the World Series Manu winner.

 

[SPURS3420]

Reading over that article, it looks like IMSA plans to maintain a tighter relationship with iRacing than GT. So don’t get your hopes up that this will add much to the game.

However…if this partnership is something more, a full IMSA track and car list added to the game either as an update or expansion would be very cool imo.

 

[MisterWaffles]

Brembo - Genesis - Hagerty - Dior - IMSA - ......

Guessing the next partner is harder than picking the World Series Manu winner.

I don’t really think so, it’s either automotive-related or fashion brands, both of which GT has had a long history of collaborating with.

Now if you threw in like Walmart and a Crypto company, then it would be kinda confusing. But as it stands they all make sense given PD’s track record imo.

 

[Techlet]

Cool, hopefully we'll get some more IMSA tracks and current gen GT and DPi and upcoming LMDh cars out of this partnership and not just a Brand Central entry with a fancy promo video that nobody will even know to watch.