The third annual Red Bull 5G competition was held in Tokyo, Japan last week, and the Gran Turismo 6 round of the country’s preeminent gaming contest offered the most excitement and drama at the event.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring two overtake challenges, a non-race car drift trial, and a 10-lap survival race at the 2014 layout for Suzuka Circuit.

In a bid to celebrate the holiday season in the best possible way, the newest Vision Gran Turismo project car has been revealed and is Mazda’s homage to its own success at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans; introducing the Mazda LM55.

Mazda may be close to unveiling their Vision Gran Turismo project in GT6, according to a mention of the car in the game itself. GTPlanet user @smasherguy1020 noticed the “Mazda LM55 Vision Gran Turismo” appeared in a list of eligible LMP-class cars in an online racing room and reported it in our forums.

The maintenance is somewhat unusual: it’s occurring on one of the major holidays of the year, it’s just an hour long (most are two hours), and it’s only been a week since GT6 update 1.15 was launched. This reduces the probability of another update or more new content, but announced maintenance does usually precede update releases, so it can’t be entirely ruled out.

GT Academy has another new champion: 21-year old Nicolas Hammann of Elkhart Lake, WI!

There’s one last episode of GT Academy 2014 to be aired on Spike TV at 11:30pm ET tonight, and it’s a big one, with the conclusion of the competition and the revelation of a new GT Academy champion from North America.

Update 1.15 has just been released as a 589MB update for Gran Turismo 6, and brings with it one of the most radical concept cars the series has seen since the Nike ONE 2022 was introduced in GT4: the Chaparral 2X.

Polyphony Digital has just announced a collection of new Seasonal Events will be coming to Gran Turismo 6 in the next game update, running throughout the remainder of the holiday season until New Year’s Day. As noted in the blog post, up to 10 million credits will be up for grabs, so now would be a good time to start maxing-out your daily login bonus.

Polyphony Digital has announced that the online services for GT6 will be closed for maintenance during the early hours of Wednesday, December 17th, starting at 04:00 GMT/UTC and lasting for approximately two hours (click here to convert this to your local time).

After 12 months of development we are proud to announce GTPlanet’s third officially sanctioned GT6 Racing Series, the GTPlanet Endurance Series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2mf85E_9cM

A new batch of races are now available in this week’s round of Gran Turismo 6 Seasonal Events, one of which features the ever-popular Laguna Seca Raceway. Here’s an overview of the new races; as always, stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for more discussion!

You might not give much thought to the pedals on your driving rig. Unlike steering wheels, there simply aren’t that many standalone pedal sets out there in the market, and most people assume those provided with wheels from Logitech or Thrustmaster are adequate for the job…right?

GTPlanet has reached a major milestone today, as we celebrate more than 10,000,000 messages posted in our forums! This incredible number comes thirteen years, six months, and eleven days since the GTPlanet Forums were officially opened on May 14, 2001, with this rather unceremonious post by yours truly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YCbBXRTno

A new batch of Time & Drift Trials are available in this week’s GT6 Seasonal Events. As always, stop by our Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion!