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The FIA World Motor Sport Council has approved the creation of a special Appendix to the International Sporting Code dedicated to the governance of esports.

The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body of world motorsport, is inviting motorsport and racing game fans to fill out a new survey on the topic of racing esports as it looks to help develop the future of motorsport.

Champions of motorsport from across the world will gather tonight at The Louvre in Paris in a celebration of the sport in all its forms. The Federation International de l’Automobile (FIA) will honor everyone who has won an FIA-certified event in any discipline, in its annual Prize-Giving ceremony.

GT Sport is set to be a part of a new international motorsports competition organized by the FIA and revealed this week.

As announced at the Geneva Motor Show‘s first press day, the FIA’s Digital Motor Sport Working Group has now held its first meeting.

The 2019 season of F1 continues to surprise with potential changes to the sport. Already confirmed is a fuel increase, allowing the cars to race harder. Simpler aero aimed at making overtaking easier and to encourage closer racing is another change making way next season.

The 2018 season of Formula One is almost here. As we’re all aware, this season brings several changes to the sport, the most significant being the halo cockpit protection device.

GT Sport is a radical departure from previous Gran Turismo titles. The focus on esports, although controversial, essentially dictates the form the game took.

It’s a little too early to say that the World Endurance Championship (WEC) is a series in crisis. The signs aren’t good though; only one manufacturer remains in the top LMP1 category as brands ditch the expensive hybrid category for the electric hum of Formula E.

If you were watching the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, you’ll probably have noticed that almost no-one started the race where they qualified. Nine of the 20 drivers earned grid place penalties, resulting in a rather shaken-up grid.

A meeting of the top teams in Formula 1, known as the F1 Strategy Group, has agreed on a proposal to ban the controversial shark fin and T-wing elements for the 2018 season.

One of the more curious announcements to come from Polyphony Digital’s partnership with the FIA is the “digital license” – a new type of racing license sanctioned by the FIA and local governing bodies of motorsport in countries around the world.

Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed in an interview with German outlet ‘Inside Playstation’ that Gran Turismo Sport will incorporate extended online support for servers in the much-anticipated ‘Sport’ mode of the game.

Despite being a no-show at yesterday’s Sony E3 Keynote conference, a massive amount of new screenshots from Gran Turismo Sport have emerged over the past 24 hours. The new screenshots feature the same venues we have become familiar with in the past few weeks, however in terms of cars we see our first glimpse of the Hyundai Genesis GR.3 caught in the Arcade mode capture below.

At this point, it’s been confirmed beyond doubt that the partnership between Polyphony Digital and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (view the original announcement) will greatly influence the gameplay structure of the incoming GT Sport. But by how much?

Does anyone remember the initial announcement regarding one of the largest collaborations between a motorsport organization and a video game developer: the agreement between Polyphony Digital and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile? The partnership was followed by the certification of four of the game’s real world circuits and an official FIA Online Championship, a mode destined to merge real life racing with the virtual world of Gran Turismo.

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A document hosted on the FIA’s official website appears to reveal GT Academy’s plans for global expansion over the next few years, bringing the competition to several important markets for both Nissan and the Gran Turismo brand.

The FIA Online Championship coming to Gran Turismo next year certainly will be pushing the world’s governing body of motorsport into the future, as the organization sanctions and stewards an entirely virtual racing event for the first time in its 110-year history.

Yesterday’s announcement of Gran Turismo’s partnership with the FIA has made shockwaves around the Internet and right here at home on GTPlanet, and now we have a few early details about the FIA Online Championship – the first virtual race event to be organized and sanctioned by the world’s governing body of motorsport.