Esports

Porsche is jumping onboard the latest esports competition as an official partner. The Porsche iRacing World Championship Series will get underway next month, with a $100,000 prize purse up for grabs.

The first ever winner of GT Academy, Lucas Ordonez, has announced on social media that he is to leave the Nissan family.

The annual FIA Prize Giving happened this past weekend in St. Petersburg, Russia. There, the very first GT Sport FIA-Certified champions received their trophies alongside the rest of motorsport’s elite.

UPDATE (12.10.2018): Over 1.1 million viewers watched the series since the initial news post, so numbers have been updated to reflect that

Have you ever wanted to race in a live, head-to-head autocross event from an exotic venue with the cream of the world’s motorsports talent? Well, now you can, and you need only be (really) good at sim racing to get involved.

Gran Turismo Sport will be the platform for another esport series in 2019. No, not the FIA-certified GT Championship, but Porsche’s own digital series in Japan.

Pfaff and WorldGaming are back with another Canadian esport initiative this year. And this time the grand prize isn’t a trip to a race weekend — you could be the one behind the wheel of a race car.

Even after a week, I have to convince myself that it all really did happen.

After all the confetti had dropped at the FIA-certified GT Championship Nations Cup World Final on Sunday night, we had a chance to speak with all the podium finishers about their races and their time in Monaco.

After months of comeptition, GT Sport’s flagship FIA-Certified online series came down to four races.

It’s all been building to this. After Friday’s semi-finals and repechage races, and Saturday’s hugely entertaining Manufacturer Series final, the top 16 GT Sport drivers are racing for the title of Nations Cup champion.

Hopefully you watched the FIA-certified GT Championship’s Manufacturer Series live stream yesterday: it was a real treat, with the podium decided in the final seconds of a one-hour race around the Nurburgring 24h circuit.

When we say the drivers look to this from the Nations Cup, that’s only partially true. While you’ll find plenty of familiar names below, there are also a fair amount of drivers here in the south of France for only the Manufacturer Series.

Today is day two of the first GT Sport World Final. We’ve seen the Nations Cup already, where 30 initial drivers has become 16 ahead of Sunday’s finals. But before that, it’s time for something a little different: the Manufacturer Series.

These are the 30 fastest drivers in the world for Nations Cup. From GT Academy champions and finalists — including GTPlanet’s own Adam Suswillo — they’re all potential winners at this level of ability. We’ve covered the regional winning trio, as well as a handful of the other drivers that could spoil their championship dreams.

Back in 2013, GT Academy was in full swing, and a promising young driver from the UK by the name of Adam Suswillo made it all the way to the final race of the competition. Despite an impressive performance, Suswillo came up just short of the crown, as the judges selected Portugal’s Miguel Faisca as that year’s European GT Academy champion.

We’re only a day away from the FIA-certified Gran Turismo Championship World Finals beginning, and the predictions are rolling in.

We’re on the ground in Monaco ahead of this weekend’s inaugural Gran Turismo Sport FIA-Certified World Final. Yesterday we looked back at the three regional Nations Cup winners, and today we’re spotlighting the folks that could give them an upset here in Southern France.

It’s nearly crunch time. GT Sport’s flagship feature, the FIA-Certified Online Championship, will reach its climax later this week in Monaco.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about McLaren’s multi-disciplinary Shadow Project. The next qualification stage is now open, and as per tradition, it’s on a different platform. This time around, it’s Forza Motorsport 7.