The surprisingly early official 2026 Gran Turismo World Series season is almost upon us, and with the online qualifiers set to begin in under a week Polyphony Digital has revealed the all-important race details that will determine who’ll be heading to the four live events this year.

The 2026 Gran Turismo World Series will once again return home for its grand final, with the host city for the season-ending spectacular now confirmed as Tokyo.

The second set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges for 2026 are beginning to become available to players around the world as their local clocks tick over into midnight Friday morning.

One Toyota leaves and another one (sort of) arrives as the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenges rotate as usual every Thursday morning.

The first Monday of the new year sees many of us returning to work and education after a well-earned festive break, but also brings the first new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races of the year too.

24 hours after celebrating the coming of the New Year, gamers will be also be partying — perhaps with a little less vigor — at the latest new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, arriving at midnight Friday morning in your local time zone.

2026 gets off with a bang in the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial challenges, with a rare appearance of the hardcore Pagani Zonda R in the global hotlap competition.

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at what has been one of the most transformative and busy years for both Gran Turismo and the wider racing game industry.

At its traditional year-end party held at its Tokyo headquarters, the Polyphony Digital team has delivered a special message of thanks to Gran Turismo’s fans, in musical form.

The sim-racing hardware landscape has undergone a massive transformation in the last few years. What was once a niche market dominated by a few key players has exploded into a multi-million dollar industry, with brands like Fanatec, Logitech, Thrustmaster, Nacon, and Moza fighting for space on sim-racer’s rigs.

It’s the final week of 2025, and with it there’s a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races to see us out of the old year and into the new.

Although the situation has improved in recent iterations, for much of its history the Gran Turismo series has been heavily criticized for its engine sounds. During the PlayStation 2 and 3 eras, engine notes were often compared to “vacuum cleaners”; the result of synthesized loops that lacked the soul and mechanical violence of their real-world counterparts.

During the 2025 Gran Turismo World Series Finals in Japan last week, Polyphony Digital announced that for the first time in its history, the World Series is heading to Abu Dhabi.

Fresh off the back of a successful end to his 2025 Super Formula Championship season, former Gran Turismo champion Igor Fraga has already confirmed a busy racing calendar for 2026.

The relentless pace of Daily Races continues with a fresh set of three events this morning to tide players over during what we expect to be a high-participation Christmas week — and it’s a full set of racing cars and in fully ranked events too.

Just as he has done almost all season long, Spain’s Jose Serrano has overpowered his rivals with a clean sweep in Fukuoka to win the Gran Turismo World Series Nations Cup 2025.

Since the Gran Turismo 7 Power Pack DLC re-introduced endurance races to the franchise, speculation about the possible return of “B-Spec” mode has reached a fever pitch. We had a chance to ask Kazunori Yamauchi about it during a round-table interview at the Gran Turismo World Finals here in Fukuoka, Japan, and his answer turned out to be quite interesting.

The news from the Gran Turismo World Finals in Fukuoka continues to roll in. Alongside the major milestones and future venue announcements, Polyphony Digital and Hyundai have pulled back the curtain on the next confirmed addition to the Gran Turismo 7 car roster: the Hyundai Elantra N TCR.

With the Manufacturers Cup portion of the 2025 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals already concluded — and Team Porsche taking a landmark victory — it’s now the turn of the Nations Cup to round out the season.

During an interview at the Gran Turismo World Series 2025 World Finals here in Fukuoka, Japan, series producer Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that Gran Turismo 7 is currently maintaining an active user base of over two million monthly players—and perhaps more impressively, that number is still growing.