The second set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges for 2026 are beginning to become available to players around the world as their local clocks tick over into midnight Friday morning.
For the most part, the format of the Weekly Challenges remain as they have since being introduced in Spec II just over two years back. A change in the Spec III update saw a little shuffle wherein the “Special Event” — one created just for the week — could be different event types than a regular race, and that comes into play this week.
Each week there’s five challenges, composed of four standard race events from World Circuits and that Special Event. Completing them during the seven-day window earns you bonus rewards, as well as offering a way to check off some races you might have missed from your Event Directory with an added incentive.
However it’s a bonus game mode, available only to players who’ve finished the main GT Cafe career mode, so you’ll want to rocket through Menu Book 39 if you want the quick rewards it offers.
Table of Contents
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Events
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Overview
- Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Rewards
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Events
Sunday Cup Classic – Brands Hatch
The challenges begin with the lowest-paying race in the entire single-player game, with the two-lap Sunday Cup Classic race at Brands Hatch Indy awarding a paltry 5,000cr for taking victory. As you only need a road car for this one, and the AI includes some very slow-moving classics, you can either aim for a “worst car wins” challenge or blast them away with a Ferrari Vision GT — or any point between.
Japanese FF Challenge 450 – Tokyo Expressway
There’s quite the bump in prize money to the next race, which heads to Tokyo for three laps of the reverse-ish layout of Tokyo Expressway Central (the one from the worst Circuit Experience of all). As the name of the Japanese FF Challenge 450 suggests, you’ll need a road car from Japan with a front-engine, front-wheel drive layout for this one — although the “450” is a suggested Performance Point (PP) value for a competitive race with the leader — and there’s 45,000cr on the table for a win.
Special Event – Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
You’ve got two visits to Spa this week, and the first is a Time Trial-type Special Event. This takes place over most of the second sector, from Les Combes to the exit of Pouhon, and places you into a loaner Renault Espace F1 with its screaming V10. It’s not especially challenging if you can keep it clean, with bronze worth 12,000cr, silver an additional 18,000cr, and 30,000cr more for gold — totalling 60,000cr for a gold time — but each reward can only be claimed once. Still, it takes less than a minute to earn it…
Porsche Cup – Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
We’ve got a second successive week in the Porsche Cup, and that’s also the second event at Spa this week. As ever, you can use any Porsche of any kind and tuned in any way so long as it doesn’t breach the 650PP limit, and you’ll want to watch out for a late charge from one of the AI cars once it can get out of traffic. The five-lap race lands you an unusually non-round 87,500cr for first place.
World Touring Car 700 – Deep Forest
We’re back to the regular situation of a WTC event finishing off the week, and this week it’s the WTC700. This event allows you to use any car of any kind, with the only limitation being the 700PP cap — and despite BOP changes across the game’s life, this puts the AI into Gr.4 cars even though many Gr.3s are now on the cusp. That makes your life easier if you want to exploit it, with the ten-lap race at Deep Forest — with relatively high tire wear and fuel consumption rates — worth 110,000cr if you claim the win.
Along with the credits you earn from completing the individual events in the Weekly Challenges, you’ll also pick up some bonus rewards that increase in value as you finish more events. The rewards vary, but whatever they are they’re sent as tickets to your Garage’s Gifts section, where you’ll to need to redeem them to claim the prizes they contain before they expire.
It’s another a set of three credit rewards this week, once again representing the most common rewards line-up. Regulars will know what to expect here: a 100,000cr ticket for completing any one event, rising to a 200,000cr ticket for checking off any three, and the big-ticket 500,000cr when you finish 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 16.
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Overview
- Brands Hatch Indy Circuit – Sunday Cup Classic
- Number of Laps: 2
- Restrictions: Road Car
- Win Reward: 5,000cr
- Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps – Porsche Cup
- Number of Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Porsche, ≤650PP
- Win Reward: 87,500cr
- Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps – Special Event
- Number of Laps: –
- Restrictions: Renault Espace F1 (Provided)
- Win Reward: 60,000cr
- Deep Forest – World Touring Car 700
- Number of Laps: 10
- Restrictions: ≤700PP
- Win Reward: 110,000cr
- Tokyo Expressway Central Counterclockwise – Japanese FF Challenge 450
- Number of Laps: 3
- Restrictions: Road Car, Japan, FF
- Win Reward: 45,000cr
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – January Week 2 Rewards
- Complete 1 event: 100,000cr Ticket
- Complete 3 events: 200,000cr Ticket
- Complete 5 events: 500,000cr Ticket
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