With us all coming down from the excitement of the weekend’s Gran Turismo World Series in Los Angeles, and a new Manufacturers Cup Exhibition Season about to get underway, there’s no better time for a fresh set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races.
We’ve got another little shake of the snowglobe of regulations this week, as Driver Rating (DR) updates have flicked back to being active across the board — so it’s a good time to find a race that’ll get your DR boosted for a higher League placement in the new online season — as well as the regular Sportsmanship Rating (SR) updates.
There’s a pretty unusual car up for the one-make road car series that usually appears in Race A, and not because of what it is but what it represents. It’s the Hyundai Genesis Coupe, which was a pretty short-lived attempt to make a sporty coupe from the Hyundai Genesis executive car, and one which didn’t survive the marque’s transition into a standalone brand.
That wasn’t due to any shortcoming on the car’s behalf, with the simple front-engined, rear-wheel drive set up featuring a 345hp, 3.8-liter V6 being plenty characterful enough. It just never sold particularly well in a pretty densely packed sector.
You’ll get to stretch its legs in Race A though, in a five-lap race at Monza. In fact at the “No Chicane” layout of Monza which skips out the very first chicane (although the other two remain), leading to some pretty high speeds into the long Curva Grande.
The cars are all in standard specification, meaning Sports Hard tires, so watch out for late-braking in slipstream as you might become a pinball, but otherwise it’s a five-lap blast.
Following the weekend’s F1 shenanigans at Interlagos, it’s your turn during the next seven days — though not in anything quite so rapid as an F1 car.
In fact this race, also over five laps, is one for the Gr.4 category. It’s a GT4-like class, mostly featuring stripped-back road cars tweaked for the race track (we ignore the Megane V6 Trophy in this description), although with a variety of powertrains from front-, rear-, and all-wheel drive, and front- and mid-engined.
This does make the class Balance of Performance pretty tricky, and usual sees one or two cars pop up as overwhelmingly preferred for each event. For this week’s race, on Racing Medium tires, that’s looking like the Citroen GT by Citroen, but there’s a handful of others also on the leaderboard.
Finally we have the strategic Race C, which this week heads to the classic (but updated) Trial Mountain circuit for an 11-lap race in the Gr.3 cars.
Unlike Gr.4, Gr.3 is usually pretty well-balanced and a lot of cars will do a solid job even if the leaderboard is looking pretty BMW M6-heavy right now. Still, one-lap pace might not translate to race pace, especially as there’s a non-trivial tire wear multiplier and a mandatory tire grade switch.
You’ll need to use a full set of both the Racing Medium and Racing Soft tires in this race, so you’ll have to head down the funky pit lane at least once before you start the 11th and final lap. With the 4x tire wear multiplier in effect, wearing the tires four times quicker than normal, you’ll likely not forget but do make sure you use each type once or you’ll end up with a one-minute penalty added to your race time.
It’s pretty difficult to make a hash of Trial Mountain’s pit lane entry and exit but do be warned that crossing the solid white lines in either case will earn you a three-second, on-track penalty each time.
Daily Races are the main ranked multiplayer events in Gran Turismo 7. Your Driver Rating (DR) and Sportsmanship Rating (SR) are determined by your performances, updating at the end of each race, and these are used to set your ranking and league for the game’s flagship esports series each season.
In order to access the Daily Races, you’ll need to unlock Sport Mode, by completing Menu Book 9 (“Championship: Tokyo Highway Parade”) in the GT Cafe single player hub. A PlayStation Plus subscription is required to take part.
With GT7’s Daily Races updating every Monday across the game’s life to date, the next new set should arrive on Monday, November 17.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 10: Race A
- Track: Autodromo Nazionale Monza No Chicane – 5 laps
- Car: Hyundai Genesis Coupe ’13 – Garage/Specified Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (H)
- Tires: Sports Hard
- Settings: Specified
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: 0
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 10: Race B
- Track: Autodromo de Interlagos – 5 laps
- Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Specified Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Medium
- Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: 0
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 10: Race C
- Track: Trial Mountain – 11 laps
- Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Specified Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Medium†, Racing Soft†
- Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: 0
- Fuel use: 2x
- Tire use: 4x
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