Daily Races

Some of the world’s best race circuits are in Gran Turismo Sport, and fittingly in this week’s Daily Races, you’ll be visiting three of the finest to duke it out for virtual supremacy. WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has a special place in the heart of many Gran Turismo fans, being the first officially licensed circuit…Continue reading “This week’s GT Sport Daily Races feature some of the greatest circuits”»

Since 1964, the Porsche 911 has been the high-water mark of 2+2 sports cars, even though its engine is arguably in the wrong place. Sub-optimal, in Ron Dennis speak. Yet, despite the obvious engineering challenges, the rear-mounted flat-six is the defining feature, something that makes the 911 unique and still the top of the class…Continue reading “Somebody call 911, this week’s GT Sport races are now live”»

Between 1910-1920, Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama and Meitaro Takuchi founded the Kwaishinsha Motor Car Works. Its first car was called the DAT, taking the first letter from each of the creator’s surnames. A few years later, it created a new smaller car called the Datson – quite literally meaning the ‘son of DAT’. Around the…Continue reading “Honour Nissan’s revival in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races”»

A clever advertising campaign, that’s all it was. Launched in 2002, it featured French footballer Thierry Henry proclaiming that the Renault Clio had ‘va va voom’. It encapsulated something subjective, a feeling. It was saying while other cars may have more space, be safer, quicker, more economical, a Clio had a charm that you couldn’t…Continue reading “This week’s GT Sport Daily Races feature va va voom”»

The word ‘Volkswagen’ literally translates from German into English as ‘people’s car’. Many of us already know that, but you don’t really need to translate it to see. All you need to understand is that in German a ‘v’ is pronounced as an ‘f’. You’re supposed to pronounce the brand as ‘folkswagen’, and now you’ve seen that written down, folks + wagon = people’s car. …Continue reading “The people’s car returns in the latest GT Sport Daily races”»

Cork is an often-under-used material made from bark tissue usually associated with securing wine within a bottle. But did you also know that it’s buoyant, Portugal harvests half of the world’s output and it’s used in the production of badminton shuttlecocks? You see, you came to Traxion for racing video game news, and you’ve ended…Continue reading “There are strong Mazda vibes in this week’s GT Sport Daily races”»

It may ‘only’ be a humble supermini, but really, underneath, it’s nothing of the sort. The Toyota GR Yaris is a special car. The sort that only comes along once in a lifetime. Maybe it will be the last of its kind. Born for the sole purpose of helping the Toyota World Rally Championship team,…Continue reading “Our current favourite car features in this week’s GT Sport Daily races”»

There’s a divisive type of sweet, or candy, available in the UK known as Liquorice Allsorts. In a bag, you get a mixture of shapes, sizes and colours, but all are based around liquorice, and that isn’t for everyone. I distinctly remember trying it for the first time as a child and hating it. Now…Continue reading “The latest GT Sport Daily Races are a mixed bag”»

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”»