With the annual forced affection celebration of St. Valentine’s Day coming up this week, Polyphony Digital has introduced a wild card into the latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races as something of a love letter to the older games.
That does create a very unusual look to the line-up this week, with the “one-make” (actually two sibling cars) road car race appearing in the final slot and without Driver Racing (DR) updates, while the two regular racing categories sit in the first two slots instead.
Table of Contents
- Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race A
- Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race B
- Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race C
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race A
- Track: Deep Forest Raceway – 5 laps
- Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Specified Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Hard
- Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: –
- Fuel Multiplier: 1x
- Tire Multiplier: 1x
It’s a pretty generic-looking race in Daily Race A this week, even if it is using a race car category as noted above. Deep Forest hosts this one, with the Gr.4 cars the class in question.
As usual you can pick any car you like from this group but, also as usual, the unbalanced nature of the class pushes a car or a drivetrain type to the fore. This week that’s the all-wheel drive cars, so it is at least a break from the regular Citroen-fest and while the Mazda Atenza is the car of choice for the most part there are some alternatives.
Whatever you go for it’ll need to be on the least satisfying Racing Hard rubber — you’d think a sprint race with no discernable tire degradation would use grippier stuff — with the race lasting just the five laps.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race B
- Track: Red Bull Ring – 5 laps
- Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Specified Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Medium
- Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: –
- Fuel Multiplier: 1x
- Tire Multiplier: 1x
Accordingly it’s the Gr.3 cars up in Race B this week, for a sprint at the full Red Bull Ring. Given that there’s a road car time trial there right now, we reckon the incredibly rarely used short course would be a lot more fun…
As is often the case, there’s not a great deal to say about Race B, with it just being a straightforward sprint race: five laps of the Red Bull Ring on Racing Medium tires for your choice of Gr.3. The class is usually pretty well-balanced, so you can usually just pick what you like, but there seems to be a lot of people on the practice leaderboard going for the Subaru WRX Gr.3…
Otherwise there’s no particular considerations for this one and Red Bull Ring should be pretty familiar given its routine appearances in Manufacturers Cup seasons.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races February 9: Race C
- Track: Tsukuba Circuit – 12 laps
- Car: Toyota Corolla Levin/Sprinter Trueno ’83 – Garage Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: 226hp/810kg
- Tires: Racing Hard
- Settings: Allowed; Widebody, Naturally Aspirated required; ABS prohibited
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Mandatory Pit Stop: –
- Fuel Multiplier: 1x
- Tire Multiplier: 6x
The list of regulations for Race C this week is longer than most of our articles. There is a lot going on even before you get to the race — and a 12-lap run around Tsukuba is likely to take less time than prepping the car for it.
First off you’ll need either of the Toyota Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX ’83 twins — and we do mean “you’ll need”, as you cannot borrow cars for this one. If you don’t own one, they appear in the Used Car Dealership regularly but are not available right now. Otherwise you can pick up the Corolla from Menu Book 10 (if you’ve only done up to Menu Book 9 to unlock Sport Mode), or download the free My First Gran Turismo game demo and score a free Sprinter for GT7 from there in about an hour.
Next up, you’ll need to ensure it has a Widebody kit fitted from GT Auto, as this is mandatory this week. Then you’ll want to get it as close to the maximum power and minimum weight settings as possible this week but without any use of turbocharging/supercharging or the engine swap function (the MR2 swap available is pre-turbocharged). For reference that’s 226hp (169kW/230PS) — which we don’t think it can reach with the other caveats and will require either parts tickets or Collector Level 50 — and 810kg (1785lb); fit Racing Hard tires too.
All settings are available too, so you’ll want to tinker with the car’s setup in your garage to get it how you like it — and getting some custom parts fitted for the body will help by unlocking downforce settings. One final note: while it’s not flagged in the Race Information overview, the Race Details page tells you that ABS is prohibited. Given the three hairpins, some practice may be needed on this one.
After all of that, the 12 laps will go by in a blur, especially as Driver Rating updates are switched off. Sportsmanship Rating updates remain active though, so make sure you’re not locking up an inside wheel going into the three big braking zones.
Daily Races are the main ranked multiplayer events in Gran Turismo 7. Your DR and 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, February 16.
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