Esports

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.

UK-based racing outfit Team BRIT is set to launch an esport team with a difference this weekend. The squad, going by the name of eTeam BRIT, will entirely consist of drivers with disabilities.

Codemasters has announced the latest sim racing esport championship. Using DiRT Rally 2.0, it features a $10,000 prize pool, and begins in earnest next week.

On its latest episode of Forza Monthly, Turn 10 officially revealed all the details for the fourth season of the Forza Racing Championship.

Millennial Esports, the company behind the World’s Fastest Gamer (WFG) competition, has revealed two new high-profile investors. Former Formula One drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello have invested in the company as part of a $5m round of fundraising.

Brazil’s Igor Fraga has taken his second successive World Tour Nations Cup victory, after a highly controversial final race in New York. Fraga won the race by just over five seconds from Germany’s Mikail Hizal, but that margin was rendered much smaller thanks to a post-race penalty for the world champion.

With a place on offer at November’s World Final at stake, the fastest Gran Turismo players from five continents are set to do battle in the Big Apple.

Team Mercedes-Benz — Anthony Felix (USA), Cody Latkovski (AUS), and Bernal Valverde (COS) — has won the Manufacturer Series title at the third World Tour event, in New York City.

After the light-hearted action of yesterday’s Pro-Am Race, it’s time to get down to serious business at the New York World Tour event.

Polyphony Digital has used this weekend’s NYC event to announce the final leg of the Gran Turismo FIA-Certified Championship. Once again, the esport series will head to Monaco to wrap up the season.

The action at the GT Sport World Tour New York event is nearly upon us. This coming weekend, 36 drivers working in teams will race for their chosen brands in the Manufacturer Series. Then on Sunday, 23 drivers will battle it out for an automatic place in November’s World Final alongside Nico Rubilar and Igor Fraga.

We are quickly approaching the next Gran Turismo FIA GT Championship World Tour event, happening this weekend in New York City.

If we were to start telling you how big esports is, we’d be preaching to the choir. Almost everyone is getting on-board with the message these days, right up to the governing body of motorsports itself, the Federation International de l’Automobile (FIA).

The second of two final qualification spots for the second season of World’s Fastest Gamer (WFG) goes up for grabs today.

The virtual world of motorsport is rapidly gaining a sense of parity with the physical world. Gamers become racing drivers — or just beat them in real cars — while racing drivers increasingly gravitate towards racing games, and beat the gamers too.

The ten F1 teams — yes, this year it’s all ten — have made their final choices for who’ll represent them in the 2019 F1 Esports Championship.

If you think you might be pretty handy on a driving simulator, but don’t have the equipment to participate, here’s your chance.

After crowning Rudy van Buren as the world’s fastest gamer, the competition of the same name is back for 2019 — and with quite a special prize.

There was a lot to digest from Gran Turismo’s most recent World Tour event at the Nurburgring. It had close, unpredictable racing, it revealed some tantalizing new content for GT Sport, and put the race stewards squarely in the spotlight of controversy. In the end, it wrote a memorable chapter in the 2019 season of the FIA-certified Gran Turismo Championship.

If you fancy following in Igor Fraga’s footsteps and becoming the Logitech G — and McLaren Shadow — champion, your opportunity starts here.