A brand-new Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial is available from today, featuring a time attack legend and a world-famous racing circuit.
RE Amemiya is a famous name in Mazda tuning, with founder Isami Amemiya an expert in extracting the maximum from rotary-engined cars for over 50 years — in the shape of touge monsters, drift cars, and even participation in Super GT.
The FD3S, officially known as the μ Boost Up 7, belongs to the former category, designed to be as rapid as possible on the famed mountain courses. Successfully too, with the car capturing titles in the renowned Hot Version touge battles.
You’ll not be on the mountain roads this week though, instead taking the RX-7 along to the Nurburgring GP course for the virtual time attack — and it’ll be taking on itself in this global hot-lap challenge.
In contrast to the other time trial that’s still available from last week, you’ll be on Racing Medium tires to sling this grip monster around the circuit. At present the record time for that is a 2:01.665 and while it’s early days right now this time is one of only two even in the 2:01 region.
That means we’re not expecting a huge amount of movement over the next two weeks, so while the current gold target is a 2:05.314 it might not fall all that much. We’d estimate a flat 2:05 to be sufficient, but we’ll look at it again next week.
Last week’s event in the Nissan Silvia S13 remains in place, and surprisingly the exploit discovered very early on has been allowed, without any prevention or leaderboard wipe, making for considerably lower lap times.
In essence the method requires you to spend a little time moving cones around to increase the available driving area. The track limits are not well-defined in some places, with only the cones — which invalidate your lap time if you clip them — fencing them off. Repositioning them with a spot of cone hockey prevents that, helping you to faster times (and comical replays).
As a result, the top times are now down into the high 1:24s. This sets the current gold marker at 1:27.248 but it is a dynamic target and any improvement to the overall record will lower that further. Anything in the 1:27.0s should be enough.
In order to access the Online Time Trials, you’ll need to unlock Sport Mode, by completing Menu Book 9 (“Championship: Tokyo Highway Parade”) in the GT Cafe single player hub. As it’s just you against the clock and not a direct, head-to-head multiplayer event, PlayStation Plus is not required.
You’ll usually need to be within 3% of the fastest time globally once the event finishes in order to secure “gold” status and a 2m credit bonus prize. There’s smaller prizes of one million for being within 5%, and 250,000cr for bronze at 10% off.
The events update every Thursday, with each individual challenge usually remaining available for two weeks and the oldest of the two events being replaced each week. You can look forward to the next new Time Trial arriving at 0700 UTC on Thursday August 21.
Gran Turismo 7 Lap Time Challenge August 14 – Nurburgring
- Track: Nurburgring GP
- Car: RE Amemiya FD3S – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Medium
- Settings: Fixed
Gran Turismo 7 Lap Time Challenge August 7 – Willow Springs
- Track: Willow Springs Streets of Willow Springs
- Car: Nissan Silvia (S13) Q’s ’88 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (L)
- Tires: Comfort Soft
- Settings: Fixed
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