Esports

After almost a fortnight of hard-fought competition, British gamer James Baldwin has taken the crown of World’s Fastest Gamer.

PC gamers have another chance to qualify for the 2019 McLaren Shadow final over the next week, with an event in Assetto Corsa Competizione.

After the excitement of yesterday’s Manufacturer Series, today it’s every man for himself at the GT Sport World Tour event in Tokyo.

Tokyo provides one last chance for the three-man manufacturer teams to claim silverware before the grand final in Monaco next month.

This weekend sees the last of the GT Sport World Tour live events before November’s big final in Monaco. In just a couple of days, we’ll know who the final automatic qualifier is, as 24 drivers scrap for one last spot. There’s also the small matter of the Manufacturer Series, and the final of the GR Supra GT Cup, all packed into two days right in the middle of the Tokyo Motor Show.

It’s almost time for the last of the Gran Turismo FIA GT Championship World Tour events before the big final in Monaco. We seem to have rattled through them in recent weeks, with New York and Salzburg in quick succession, leading up to the last event this weekend in Tokyo.

We’re fast coming up on the last World Tour event before the grand final in Monaco, so it’s time to take another look at our driver rankings.

Starting today, ten gamers from around the world of virtual motorsport will be competing for the chance to win a year-long race contract.

Jann Mardenborough is a man who can claim to be the world’s fastest gamer. The Brit won the third GT Academy competition back in 2011, and since then has been plying his trade in some of the world’s top racing series. At 210mph down the Hunaudieres in the ill-fated Nissan GT-R LM NISMO, chances are he’s driven quicker than any gamer before — or since.

PC and mobile gamers have had their chances to qualify for McLaren’s multidisciplinary esports competition, and now it’s the turn of the console players.

It’s the sort of story we’ve heard before, yet we’ll never get tired of. An established sim racer will be moving up in the world of real motorsport this weekend. In this case, its Toro Rosso Esports F1 driver Cem Bolukbasi.

The world of motor racing esports has got one championship larger over the weekend, with a new national competition in Japan. It goes by the name of Japan Esports GT Grand Prix — or JeGT Grand Prix for short — and it aims to unify esports and motorsport, to “revitalize” both industries in the nation.

The FIA has announced 16 drivers who’ll be competing in the Digital Cup at the first FIA Motorsport Games at the beginning of November, and the list includes some rather familiar names.

Turkish-German driver Mikail Hizal has won the Nations Cup event at the World Tour in Salzburg, claiming his spot in the FIA Online Championship final in Monaco in November.

The action continues in Salzburg today with this, the fourth round of the 2019 FIA-certified Gran Turismo Championship Nations Cup.

Mercedes-Benz has become the first team to defend its Manufacturer Series win, following up New York’s crown with a second victory in Salzburg.

A year on from the last exhibition event on the GT Sport World Tour, Sony and the FIA are returning to Salzburg for more meaningful affairs.

Red Bull’s Hangar-7 is about to play host to the fourth round of the 2019 FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships this weekend.

It’s three down, three to go in the Gran Turismo World Tour. Paris, the Nurburgring, and New York are in the history books, while Salzburg, Tokyo, and the grand final in Monaco are yet to come.

Heading in to Gran Turismo’s New York World Tour event, Cody Nikola Latkovski was the talk of the town. After an incredibly strong performance at the Nurburgring — where he finished second in both the Manufacturers Series and Nations Cup — everyone expected this would finally be Cody’s time to shine.