Polyphony Digital has announced online service maintenance for Gran Turismo 6 on Monday, March 10, at 04:00 GMT/UTC (click here to convert this to your local time). As always, you’ll be unable to use the game’s online features during the maintenance period.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two events exclusive to non-racing cars with no more than 450PP for this week’s time trial, and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds for all events.

For the third year in a row, Red Bull has selected a Gran Turismo game for use in their “5G Challenge” – a high-profile competition the company hosts in Japan to find the country’s best gamers among 5 different genres: first-person shooters, racing, sports, fighting, and puzzle.

Wolfgang Reip steps into the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time, in one of the most non-typical debuts yet seen for the world famous race – in the hybrid electric Nissan ZEOD RC. Nissan is entering the car in the “Garage 56” category, which is a special entry slot by Le Mans organizers reserved for experimental or innovative racing concepts. He’ll share driving duties with team mate and colleague Lucas Ordoñez, who will be contesting his fourth straight Le Mans.

Signups are open now for the first ever WRS Team Time Trial Challenge.  The event will feature member organized teams of 5 or 6 drivers, competing against one another in a series of time trial events, over 4 weeks.  Points for the event will be based on a formula that takes both final lap time and handicap into account, allowing drivers of all abilities to contribute to the success of their team.

Twelve days are all that stands between me and the beginning of the 2014 Formula One season, and I’ve kept myself oblivious to most of what has already been unveiled because, well, to be perfectly honest it’s rather confusing. For example, gone are the days of teams preserving their tires throughout the final qualifying session, because now the drivers that get through to Q3 will start the race on the tires used to set their fastest lap times in Q2, should they choose to not run Q3.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring three new time trial events exclusive to the Plymouth XNR Ghia Roadster, Lamborghini Diablo GT2, and the Lotus Elise Racing Car.

Nissan Australia has officially confirmed the GT Academy program is coming “Down Under”!

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to compact cars with a body length og 4200mm or less with no more than 400PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds or less.

SCEA has announced a special limited-time sale for Gran Turismo 6 at five major retailers in the United States, available today through March 4, 2014.

Jann Mardenborgough is set to get his first taste of racing in North America this March. He has joined the Nissan powered Muscle Milk Pickett Racing team for round two of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship (and Patrón North American Endurance Cup). The 2011 British GT Academy winner is teaming up with longtime Pickett drivers Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr who have pushed the squad to championship success over the past two years in the bygone American Le Mans Series.

Today at 8 pm GMT, WRS Online will host a 2.4 Hour Mixed Class Endurance Race at the Silverstone GP Circuit.  Qualifying and support races have already taken place, and the field of 16 drivers is locked in.  The race will feature 7 GT1 class drivers, and 9 GT3 class drivers, as detailed below.

GTP is host to the GT6 Nurburgring 24 Hours online endurance racing event organized by CORE. Running on its 3rd year for 2014 and on Gran Turismo 6 for the first time. Nine multi-driver teams from all over the world will challenge themselves with the grueling task of completing a 24 hour race in real time. As with real life endurance racing, this race will be all about strategy; it’s not all about speed, the teams that play their driver swaps, pitting, set up and adaptability to changing conditions the best will come out on top.

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As announced late last December, Polyphony Digital will be terminating the online services for Gran Turismo 5 on May 30, 2014. Now, the company has shared more information regarding how you can keep using downloadable content (DLC) you may have purchased in the game after this date has passed.

We’ve been down this road many times in the past and I’m sure many of you know, at least by now, that I’m a photomode junkie. The photomode efforts present in Gran Turismo, and by extension, the efforts present in our very own Photomode Forum for GT6 are quickly becoming a cornerstone of GTPlanet.

If you’ve been around Internet forums like ours over the past ten years, there is a good chance you have come across image hosting service ImageShack. It has grown to become one of the largest image hosting services on the web, and has long been a popular choice for users in our community here on GTPlanet.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to racing machines with no more than 700PP and no better than Racing/Hard compounds or less for this week’s time trial, and Comfort/Soft compounds for this week’s drift trial.

The Asian BMW Z4 Challenge is now available as a special GT6 Seasonal Event, available to players with Sony Entertainment Network accounts from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Jann Mardenborough is closing in on the ultimate target for most any aspiring racing driver, he now has a clear path under his feet that leads straight to an F1 racing seat for the first time.