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There’s another massive weekend of motorsport coming up and once again Nissan and GT Academy are front and centre.

If it hasn’t been made apparent already, this is, unequivocally, the year of the racing game. With so many options spanning across just about every platform available there’s something for everyone, and just enough of them release in such close proximity that you’ll be driven mad just trying to decide what you want to play! Another problem arises from games already on the market that are continually updated; there’s just too much going on in the racing game scene this year – what a fantastic problem to have.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring American sports cars made before 1980, European sports cars, mid-engined rear wheel drive race cars, and the Renault Sport Megane Trophy. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.

Another week, another batch of cars announced for Forza Motorsport 6 en route to its September 15th release. This time, Turn 10 has focused on one of the standout marques in automotive history, with at least one car from each decade between 1940 and today. Before we get into those, though, let’s take a moment to focus on the new track reveal. Lime Rock is a new track to the series, a tight, rolling 1.5 mile ribbon in New England. It’s brutally narrow, with blind turns, downhill braking zones, and off-camber turns mixed in for good measure. It will be quite a handful for some of the quicker cars in the game.

The first track expansion for Project CARS is now available across all platforms and introduces Ruapuna Park International Raceway, premier racing facility in New Zealand. The expansion extends the game’s already impressive selection of tracks  and includes the following variations:

Silverstone watch out, the Australians are coming!

Update 1.20 is now available to download for Driveclub. Weighing in at 500 MB, the update introduces new “Elite” driver levels, new club leaderboards for every tour event, updates to club challenges, photo mode improvements and more based on the continuous feedback from the community.

If you were still hopeful for the Bertone Vision Gran Turismo car to come along to GT6 despite the company’s real world problems, you’re out of luck. Eagle-eyed GTPlanet members and F5 key enthusiasts caught a refresh of the Vision GT section of the official Gran Turismo website and Bertone no longer appears there as a participating manufacturer.

This has been a much calmer week, and graciously so with everything that’s been going on throughout the past several weeks; GTPlanet’s expansion is taking quite the toll on us all and for the strangest of reasons I find myself wishing, nay, craving that this week had been as hectic as those that have preceded. Make no mistake, there’s still plenty in the pipeline that you’ll all be privy to soon enough, but I suppose I’ve grown accustomed to the frantic, fast-paced deliverance of all things racing – down with the sickness I guess you could say.

Six Gran Turismo 6 gamers are now one giant step closer to becoming Nissan’s next professional race car driver. Following two intense days of competition at the U.S. 2015 Nissan GT Academy Finals in Nashville, the following competitors have earned the right to represent the United States during the International Race Camp at the legendary Silverstone Circuit in England, where the next GT Academy Champion will be crowned:

Hot on the heels of Wednesday’s FM6 Garage reveal, Turn 10 has announced a free two-car bonus pack for their current game. While the ten car Porsche pack from last month cost users money, this pack is free. The catch? You only have until next Friday, July 24th, to download it (through the One’s Forza Hub app). After that the pack won’t be available for download, but the cars will stay in your garage.

Kunos Simulazioni have revealed that the next major track addition to Assetto Corsa will be Brands Hatch, a venue called “the best circuit in the world” by former Formula One driver Gerhard Berger.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring beginner, intermediate, and expert level challenges featuring sports and race cars. The prizes are unlike those offered previously and are unique to Gran Turismo. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, and tips and tricks.

(Live stream begins at 10:00 in the above video.)

One great thing about the pervasion of real world circuits in racing games is the ability for the gaming community to compare how different companies approach the modelling of the tracks.

The online time trials may have finished a month ago, but qualification for GT Academy is still very much available if you can get yourself to a Live Event in your region.

To utter the phrase “What a week this has been!” as has become synonymous with the Spotlight in recent weeks would be a gross understatement. This has been one of the most active weeks for the GTPlanet community in recent memory, and with no end in sight and even more expansion in the works, GTPlanet is not only the de facto standard in bringing forth Gran Turismo news the second it’s available, it is also becoming the standard in delivering news relating to a number of other popular racing games that pique the community’s interest. The question now becomes, for those worried, what has happened to GTPlanet – isn’t this supposed to be a community that celebrates only Gran Turismo?