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 Challenge requires you to own a mid-engine car (or a rear mid-engine). Similar to that established series, we arrive at this week’s online GT Sport Daily Races, as you can compete in each race with a vehicle that has its engine behind the front seats, but ahead of the rear wheels.
Starting today, 15th March and ending 21st March 2021, here’s what’s available to play.
Two very scary cars line up for Race A this week. Scary, not because of outright power or speed, but because of snap oversteer. There’s loads of grip until there is none. The bonkers Renault Clip V6 makes another appearance to the daily race events, a car jointly developed between Renault and TWR. In the early versions, it had a fierce reputation for visiting ditches.
So did the second-generation Toyota MR2 you can also select for this event – to the point where Toyota revised the suspension settings in 1992 and 1994 to try and improve its on-limit characteristics. Autodrome Lago Maggiore West is the venue for four laps of trying not to die.
Phew, if you survive Race A, then Race B is a much calmer affair. Any Gr.4 car from your garage is available, sticky Racing Medium tyres are available and the circuit is the formidable Red Bull Ring. Seeing as we are going with an ‘MR’ theme and running with it, we’ll go with the GT by Citroën just to be different, but any Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, Alfa Romeo or Honda will also provide that spiky mid-engine personality.
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