24 hours after celebrating the coming of the New Year, gamers will be also be partying — perhaps with a little less vigor — at the latest new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, arriving at midnight Friday morning in your local time zone.
Weekly Challenges have been with us for more than two years now, since being introduced in Spec II, and while there was a little change in the Spec III update, the format remains roughly the same. Especially in a week like this where the “Special Event” is a regular race.
It presents five challenges each week, comprising four standard race events from World Circuits and a fifth Special Event created just for the week which now may be a standard race or a time trial or mission event.
A bonus game mode available to players who’ve finished the main GT Cafe career mode, Weekly Challenges update each week at midnight on Friday morning and offers a quick way to get a little bump in your credits while checking off some races you might have missed from your Event Directory.
Table of Contents
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Events
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Overview
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Rewards
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Events
American Clubman Cup 700 – Daytona
This week’s lowest-reward event is the American Clubman Cup 700 at the Daytona Road Course. You’ll need any road or tuned car from any US brand (SEMA winners fill out that secondary category) for this one, and you can run in any state of tune; don’t worry about the “700” notation, as that only refers to a Performance Point value for a competitive race and not a limit. It’s a four-lap race that’s longer than you might think, so the low 30,000cr payout is barely worth the energy thinking up a non-smurf car.
European Sunday Cup 400 – Grand Valley
Slower, shorter, but better-paying is the European Sunday Cup 400 race at Grand Valley’s South Reverse course. Racing the new layout of Grand Valley this way gets the nasty part out of the way first before returning to something more familiar from memory, and you’ll need a road car from Europe for this one. Again, the “400” part of the name is just to get a relatively fair race against the AI, but with just 35,000cr on the table we won’t blame you for whipping out a Vision GT and lapping them.
Porsche Cup – Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
The first of two marque-themed events this week takes you to the “No Chicane” layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP — which misses out the final RACC chicane of the GP circuit. It’s a round of the Porsche Cup which allows you to use any Porsche of any kind in any state of tune so long as it’s within a 650PP limit. There’s one AI who comes on a bit strong near the end when he escapes traffic, so don’t get complacent on the final lap if you want your 81,000cr reward.
Nissan GT-R Cup – Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve
The Nissan GT-R Cup is back for the second time in three weeks, offering you a 700PP-limited race in any of the roadgoing Nissan Skyline GT-Rs and GT-Rs in the game at the new Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. You can even use the new GP-Tuned car from the Power Pack if you have it. It’s a relatively quick, five-lap affair, with 88,000cr on the table for taking the win.
Special Event – Yas Marina
An anachronistic F1 fantasy mashup awaits in this week’s final event, a Special Event featuring either of the two fictional Gran Turismo F3500 cars inspired by 1990s Formula One. The track is, of course, the new Yas Marina Circuit which — having been opened in 2009 — never featured the real thing in-era. Both the A and B are available with no tuning limit, and the AI uses both with a variety of body mods and engine swaps, so this five-lap race is quite the treat even if the 90,000cr victory prize is on the low side.
Completing Weekly Challenges will score you some bonus rewards in addition to the prize values of the events, awarding higher-value bonuses as you finish more events. These are sent as tickets to your Garage’s Gifts section, and you’ll to need to redeem them to claim the prizes they contain.
It’s a set of three credit rewards this week, with the most common line-up of prizes of all. There’s a 100,000cr ticket for finishing any one event, an additional 200,000cr ticket for completing any three, and the regular top-prize 500,000cr ticket when you clear the whole set.
In order to have access to the Weekly Challenges you’ll need to have completed GT Cafe Menu Book 39 and watched the ending movie. The events update at midnight local time on Friday mornings, so we’d expect the next set of the new-look events on the morning of Friday January 9.
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Overview
- Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP NC – Porsche Cup
- Number of Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Porsche, ≤650PP
- Win Reward: 81,000cr
- Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve – Nissan GT-R Cup
- Number of Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Nissan GT-R (Selection), ≤700PP
- Win Reward: 88,000cr
- Daytona Road Course – American Clubman Cup 700
- Number of Laps: 4
- Restrictions: Road/Tuned Car, USA
- Win Reward: 30,000cr
- Grand Valley South Reverse – European Sunday Cup 400
- Number of Laps: 3
- Restrictions: Road Car, Europe
- Win Reward: 35,000cr
- Yas Marina – Special Event
- Number of Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Gran Turismo F3500-A/B
- Win Reward: 90,000cr
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 1 Rewards
- Complete 1 event: 100,000cr Ticket
- Complete 3 events: 200,000cr Ticket
- Complete 5 events: 500,000cr Ticket
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