Gran Turismo Website Lists Goodwood Motor Circuit as GT Sport Track

[Auditore]

Presumably - but we don't know if it will be called "Sport 2" or "GT7" and it may not come for a long, long time.

We do know there won't be a sport 2 and the next one will focus more on single player.Plans could change but thats what we know right now

 

[SUPRASTAR0003]

Unfortunately, what I’ve heard from kie25 is that the circuit won’t be featured in any FIA events. Not sure about daily races.

 

[bduddy]

We do know there won't be a sport 2 and the next one will focus more on single player.Plans could change but thats what we know right now

We don't "know" anything. You're referencing a throwaway line at the end of a random interview. Even if that was intended to be 100% confirmation from Kaz, which it wasn't, things can always change.

 

[ScottPuss20]

I love this track because it's barely changed in 60 years, whereas many have changed dramatically... I've never driven on it in any video game and that alone makes it exciting.

 

[MisterWaffles]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

 

[05XR8]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

Depends who you're racing. As do any of the Sport Mode races. You can have a competitive race with two people or a pack of five players. Wouldn't matter what cars are used. This track, as seen in the videos, lends itself to some close racing and exchanging/swapping of places. Look at the professional and gentlemen/women racers in the video. See how they give room, how they have car control, how if someone goes off, they leave room or apply brakes, all kinds of good race craft players can observe.

Some drivers want to preserve their priceless rides, some just want to go all out.

 

[Lebowski]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

To me Tsukuba is a novelty track. I can't recall seeing a Gr3 daily race there (i could well be very wrong!) and it's shortness and tighness sensibly rules out Gr2 and 1. But i quite enjoy it for the smaller and slower cars and that's how i see Goodwood. Personally i'm looking forward to thrashing the little Renault Gordini around it!

 

[Stephan]

Now this is what I'm talking about. A track that I've never raced on in any video game.

Looking forward to racing in this track with my unicorns (XJ13, Cobra Daytona, and 330 P4).

 

[Tired Tyres]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

It's a proper full-sized 2.4 mile race track mate.

 

[Rizla]

Remember playing a mod of Goodwood on GT Legends years ago.



Not that one I hasten to add but very similar.

Kind of like Thruxton but not as terrifying. Old school circuit for sure.

 

[StuntmanRich]

Group C

It’s just a pity we’ll never be able to recreate something like that in game because the car groups are so nonsensical.

 

[RZQSPEED]

I can't recall seeing a Gr3 daily race there (i could well be very wrong!)

May Dailies says hi (I remember winning the race from starting in 3rd in my Z4 when the leaders in an AMG and an RSR had an argey bargey with each other!)

 

[Auditore]

To me Tsukuba is a novelty track and it's shortness and tighness sensibly rules out Gr2!

Uh correct me if im wrong isn't Tsukuba known for hosting Super GT races?

 

[Tired Tyres]

Uh correct me if im wrong isn't Tsukuba known for hosting Super GT races?

No it is not!

 

[Pedinhuh]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

To me Tsukuba is a novelty track. I can't recall seeing a Gr3 daily race there (i could well be very wrong!) and it's shortness and tighness sensibly rules out Gr2 and 1.

Conversely, Route X is also a novelty track, I don't remember the last time I raced a Gr3 or Gr4 car in there, it's too long and wide and it's high speed rules out slower cars like Gr4 and N-class cars unless you want to sleep behind the wheel due to boredom....

Nah, that argument is just dumb, sorry. No track is novelty once you realize that they all have a purpose, and they can't be at fault if PD is stupid enough to not use them in sport mode.

 

[VBR]

Another real track coming, & a British one at that. I'm chuffed to bits with this news.

 

[TeddyWestside]

I am absolutely stoked to find out about Goodwood's inclusion! Along with Knockhill, it's one of the 2 tracks I most wanted to be added. My girlfriend and I attended our first Revival last year and I was even a finalist in the Best Dressed competition (and appeared on ITV4's coverage as a result).

Its a fabulous track and suits pretty much any type of racing. As the infield has little in the way of barriers for much of the lap, I expect they'll implement automatic respawning to the track, otherwise you'll be doing a lot of lawn-mowing if you go off!

As well as the aforementioned American muscle cars, surely this announcement should bring an obvious car with it:

Ferrari Breadvan

• TeddyWestside
• Apr 27, 2019

Ferrari Breadvan, driven by Emmanuele Pirro

 

[Dylan]

As the infield has little in the way of barriers for much of the lap, I expect they'll implement automatic respawning to the track, otherwise you'll be doing a lot of lawn-mowing if you go off!

I'd expect it to be handled the same way the Willow Springs tracks are. Get to far from the surface and the game resets you on track.

 

[ARTAsean]

Uh correct me if im wrong isn't Tsukuba known for hosting Super GT races?

No it is not!

It hosts Time Attack cars, which despite being regulated to road legal tires, are way faster than yester-year SuperGT cars.

Saying it’s a novelty circuit or its relegated to silly Best Motoring challenges is just wrong. It’s a proper circuit in its own right and has its own place in motorsports.

 

[Tired Tyres]

It hosts Time Attack cars, which despite being regulated to road legal tires, are way faster than yester-year SuperGT cars.

Saying it’s a novelty circuit or its relegated to silly Best Motoring challenges is just wrong. It’s a proper circuit in its own right and has its own place in motorsports.

I haven't said it's a novelty track. It's a fun time attack track.

 

[TeddyWestside]

I'd expect it to be handled the same way the Willow Springs tracks are. Get to far from the surface and the game resets you on track.

Yes, that's exactly what I was alluding to. Then again, it would be fun to see some of the idiots who inhabit the world of GT Sport go way off into the infield and have no traction to make it back onto the track!

 

[ARTAsean]

I haven't said it's a novelty track. It's a fun time attack track.

Oops, that was @Lebowski

 

[ScottPuss20]

Looks interesting, but the last thing this game needs is novelty tracks. Is this place even going to be any good for competitive racing in Gr.3? (Not a rhetorical question here, someone please reply.)

A novelty circuit? That's what you've lowered Goodwood to? The track has proper events and proper races, with some being absolutely brilliant!

 

[TeddyWestside]

For the doubters, https://www.goodwood.com/motorsport/goodwood-revival/2018-revival-highlights/

It would be nice (and unexpected) for PD to make the crowd look the part, in period costume. And a flypast by Spitfires instead of jets at the beginning!

 

[Cerebral303]

GTS is getting to the point where I'm watching a video and realise we could be doing exactly this next month!

Theres even a hot lap with narration at 10:10!

 

[Magog]

PD's recent circuit choices combined with the Spa "issue" implies that the game isn't the success PD hoped it would be, ultimately guiding the licensing budget. In other words, the Spa fee would probably have been paid if GT Sport had brought in more cash. So instead PD is looking for low-demand alternatives. I may be wrong but I won't expect to see any more prolific tracks until GT7.

If that were really true they would only make original tracks that cost them nothing.

 

[Tired Tyres]

If that were really true they would only make original tracks that cost them nothing.

Not all tracks charge for the licence either.

I say it is down to choice though. You'll notice there are more new tracks to the series in GTS than in any previous game.

 

[Nielsen]

If that were really true they would only make original tracks that cost them nothing.

Based on what we've recently learned about Spa and GTS, there's clearly some decisive licensing fees out there. So other real world circuits might have taken its place, for now. Also, saving original tracks for GT7 would be a selling point for that title. Just speculation on my part of course.

 

[MatskiMonk]

If that were really true they would only make original tracks that cost them nothing.

Real world circuits are more of a marketable draw for players though. Put enough real tracks in to get people's attention, and add in original circuits to give more variety cost effectively. Realistically though, is PD/Sony going to make much more money now, from paying Spa for an agreement? Probably not... And that's why I doubt it's got much to do with the games initial success, I think it's just that at this stage Spa represents poor value for money.

 

[sirjim73]

Real world circuits are more of a marketable draw for players though. Put enough real tracks in to get people's attention, and add in original circuits to give more variety cost effectively. Realistically though, is PD/Sony going to make much more money now, from paying Spa for an agreement? Probably not... And that's why I doubt it's got much to do with the games initial success, I think it's just that at this stage Spa represents poor value for money.

It depends when the track was originally due to be added, if it was last summer then that suggests one thing, if it was March another. Whatever the original reason, there does not seem to be a lot of sense paying $1m for a track now in a game that is 18 months old. So I don't see it coming to GTS.

But personally I don't care, I'm much more excited about the fact I'll soon be driving on a circuit I've never driven before. In the same way that I'm still having fun whenever Autopolis comes up in a GT League event I'm doing, and even Tokyo South to some extent.