Gran Turismo Sport

More than ever, I find it hard to concentrate. I blame a combination of social media’s instant gratification and access to anything in the world via my smartphone. Oh, and YouTube. Love YouTube and podcasts, both preferably on 1.5x speed. A few things that do get my focus are driving down the spectacular countryside roads…Continue reading “Why I keep coming back to GT Sport’s online FIA events”»

The Gran Turismo video game series loves a themed challenge for its single-player component. Be it Boxer Spirit in Gran Turismo 3, a Classic Muscle Car Championship in Gran Turismo 5 or the Midship Challenge in GT Sport. In each set of events, you need a specific type of car in order to compete. Midship…Continue reading “Midship Challenge returns in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races”»

The curious car manufacturer Subaru, a 68-year-old Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo, has always done things differently. Be it frameless doors on estate cars, symmetrical all-wheel drive on saloon cars and perhaps most famously, slapping a turbo onto a farmer’s car and winning multiple WRC manufacturer titles, turning the brand into an icon. It also…Continue reading “This week’s GT Sport Daily Races deliver a knock-out blow”»

Less than 40km outside of Stuttgart, Germany, resides a little-known industrial estate in Weissach. Most people would not think twice about the none-descript white buildings. But, those who know – and happen to have the Google Translate app – will notice the script ‘Porsche Entwicklungszentrum’ and how important that is. You see, it’s here that…Continue reading “Race Weissach’s finest in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races”»

Good news Gran Turismo fans, GT Sport has been updated. Bad news Gran Turismo fans, GT7 isn’t out until 2022. With GT Sport the confirmed platform for the upcoming FIA series of online events, today’s update – 1.63 – adds minor refinements. From a Balance of Performance perfective, the crazy rotatory-powered Mazda RX-VISION GT3 CONCEPT…Continue reading “New GT Sport update is a thing”»

The 80s and 90s were peak French hot hatchback. Peugeot had the 205 and 309 GTi of the 1980s, plus the 106 and 306 GTis of the 1990s. Renault went from the 5 GT Turbo to the Clio Williams, while Citroen created the super-lightweight AX GT and underappreciated ZX Volcane. None of these cars are…Continue reading “Vive la France – Hot hatchbacks lead this week’s GT Sport Daily Races”»

Hot on the heels of the region and timing changes for the 2021 FIA Exhibition Season within Gran Turismo Sport, the game’s website has now been updated with the event calendar to match. It’s worth noting that the in-game calendar has not yet updated to match, but if you visit the ‘Sport Mode’ section of…Continue reading “New GT Sport update imminent and FIA 2021 season schedule announced”»

It is a Monday, thus it’s time for new Daily Races within GT Sport. Happy days!  This week sees three events within the popular racing game that enable you to race against equally matched rivals online. Hopefully, some clean and fun racing, but for those unlucky enough to be lower down the ranks, lots of penalty-system raging.  In…Continue reading “Two Japanese giants duke it out in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races”»

Gran Turismo previously announced that the FIA-backed Gran Turismo Championships would be returning with the exhibitions starting on the 27th February. However, Polyphony Digital has now announced some additional details that affect how the series will be run in 2021. Region Changes There have been fairly substantial changes to the Manufacturer Series qualification. Instead of…Continue reading “Region and timing changes for 2021 FIA Gran Turismo Championship”»