Super Formula will become the latest series to stage an online substitute for its real world events, with a grand prix planned for Sunday May 17.

May’s GT Sport Daily Races kick off with a duo of real-world circuits and a little more practice for upcoming FIA events.

After six weeks of exciting and intense competition, the IndyCar iRacing Challenge has ended in controversy. The 70-lap race involved one of the most controversial incidents yet, and a further collision on the finish line that changed the results.

There’s another thrilling weekend of racing action in the virtual world this Saturday and Sunday, as reality continues to disappoint. Incredibly, this is now the eighth weekend where the motorsports has been digital, and it’s proving an able substitute.

Professional drivers from various disciplines of motorsport will take to Gran Turismo Sport on Monday, May 4, for a live-streamed charity event.

While GT Academy produced a number of successful racing drivers over the years, they all focused on a single discipline: circuit racing. One thing it never produced was a rally champion, but that might be about to change.

Fans excited to see what games on the next generation consoles will look like won’t have to wait much longer. Microsoft has confirmed that a special episode of Inside Xbox will see the first ever gameplay footage from the Xbox Series X.

The return of Spring marks a fresh new season this week in Forza Horizon 4. Speeds and temperatures are rising as we enter the final week of Series 21, with the last batch of content for the month now up for grabs.

Codemasters has only just revealed F1 2020, and its launch date of July 10, but already it’s pushing out the content preview videos.

Microsoft is continuing to be kind to racers on Xbox One, with another racing title lined up for the “Games With Gold” program. April saw the juggernaut of Project CARS 2 join Games With Gold, but May’s title is a little more obscure.

It’s official. After 5,000 votes cast across the past month, GTPlanet’s users and social media followers have decided that the greatest ever TV car is a Pontiac.

The one-off events are coming thick and fast in GT Sport, with Audi revealing its second this month. This new Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo Challenge is part of the brand’s #RaceHome campaign, which it’s running both to keep its professional drivers and its fans busy while much of the world is cooped up at home.

It’s hard to believe, but Gran Turismo 3 turns 19 today. Initially launched on April 28 2001 for the Japanese market — arriving in July in both Europe and the USA — GT3 was the debut Gran Turismo title for the PlayStation 2 console, and an important milestone.

This coming week is one of Japan’s biggest annual holidays: Golden Week. To celebrate — and also to mark the hiatus in world affairs right now — GT Sport and Red Bull are running a competition in the game.

There’s three more GT Sport Daily Races to get your teeth into this week, with a rare appearance from one of the game’s original circuits.

Over the past few weeks, we have celebrated two years of GT Sport Livery Editor competitions with a very special round dedicated to the GTPlanet community itself.

The virtual world continues to fill in for the real world this week, as the motorsport action returns to small screens and static driving rigs to provide the racing entertainment that would otherwise be absent.

Update: On May 8, Polyphony Digital pushed out a new set of Terms and Conditions in the UK for the game’s FIA mode, which modified the “Prizes” section. Previous versions of the rules included laid out Live Event attendance as a prize — including flights, transfers, hotel, and meals — with a value of around $3,000, and trophies where applicable.

Free-to-play mobile F1 game F1 Mobile Racing is due to get an update in early May that adds all of the 2020 F1 season content.

In recent weeks we’ve seen a gradual increase in the number of otherwise idle F1 drivers getting into the world of sim-racing. McLaren’s Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen were already heavily involved, but almost half the grid is now racing online of a weekend.