Bragging rights for the lap record at the Nurburgring Nordschleife are back in German hands, but it’s not Porsche that’s reclaimed its title. Instead it’s Mercedes which has finally grabbed the record, with a 6:48.047 official lap time.

Update: There’s now a further official statement which notes that this issue is now resolved.

As we’ve been following throughout this year, our friend Tom Brooks is looking to get out of the commentary booth and onto the race track. His latest video is now available, and again focuses on driver training.

Michelin is staging a very special race this week, pitting celebrities against each other for a $20,000 charity prize fund.

Polyphony Digital will broadcast the Regional Finals of the 2020 FIA Online Championship over the next three weekends, revealing the results and who has qualified for the season-ending World Final.

Honda’s famous VTEC engine leads the way in this week’s new set of GT Sport Daily Races, which see players take on two short sprint tracks and one of the world’s most famous endurance circuits.

The 2020 season of the Logitech G Challenge is coming to a close over the next couple of weeks, starting with the Europe/Middle East/Africa region grand final today.

In addition to releasing the new Toyota GR Yaris into GT Sport today, Sony and Toyota Gazoo Racing are running a rather exciting competition. Four lucky users could find themselves winning a PlayStation 5, courtesy of the homologation special hatchback.

For players in seven countries — the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan — the age of the PlayStation 5 is upon us. Sony’s new generation console officially launched on November 12, and among GTPlanet’s users there is only one question right now: how does GT Sport play on PS5?

Players booting up Gran Turismo Sport today will be in for a treat as a new update lands. It’s a relatively compact update file, but v1.62 brings along a relatively compact car — albeit one that packs a lot of fun.

The sun is out and the fresh Spring air once again descends across the UK to mark a new season in Forza Horizon 4. Alongside the recent launch of FH4 on Xbox Series X/S, we’re now into the last stretch of Series 28, with a final serving of content before Series 29.

November 2020 is an exciting month for gamers, as four brand new consoles make their debuts on three separate launch days. The first of those, for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X, came on Tuesday, November 10, and according to Microsoft it was the largest launch in the entire history of the console family.

2020 will bring a significant first in Gran Turismo Sport’s Online Championship history: a female finalist. 27-year old Emily Jones, from Melbourne, Australia, will become the first ever female driver to represent their nation at a regional final, but also their manufacturer in the World Final in December.

The game publishing world has just become a little smaller, as US-based Take-Two has agreed a deal worth almost $1bn to acquire Codemasters.

Forza Horizon 4 is the fourth title in the Forza Motorsport-spinoff Horizon series. Developed by UK studio, Playground Games, the Horizon games take inspiration from the Motorsport series but place the player into a large open-world map, driving from race to race and engaging in other challenges.

GTPlanet’s Guides, our new library of comprehensive resources about our biggest topics, have grown by one, as we’re launching our new Forza Horizon 4 Guide today.

A new official PlayStation 5 video has confirmed that Gran Turismo 7 is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2021.

We have another set of Daily Races to occupy us over the next week in GT Sport, and there’s something of a Japanese focus. Two of the combinations feature real-world Japanese circuits and cars, while the third takes us away to a fictional European location.

It looks like the advertising campaign for Gran Turismo 7 is starting in earnest, with the second sighting of a brand new promotional piece in under a week.

Although DIRT 5 has launched this week — indeed today for many of you — on current-gen consoles, the game is coming to next-gen consoles as they also launch over the next two weeks.