Gran Turismo World Series Showdown Preview: Dutch Courage

[platocplx]

16 seconds, well deserved win for Spain.

I voted for Subauwu and Brasil. Oh well, at least this was another entertainment race!

I did too lol.

 

[Talon16]

Honestly, I found that street car qualifying race around GV to be 10x better than the actual Nations race. That was awesome! So much action, side-by-sides, clean fighting, and passing.

 

[SM_Marti]

Loved the liveries of the Qualyfying Race
The Race itself has been more interesting than the Manufacturers one

 

[C_Raccoon23]

Thank you Team Spain for the million credits.

 

[NAXEHT]

Why France didn’t go for softs in the beginning after having taken pole is a mystery though. Shame but Congratulations to Spain. Really well done by all three.

 

[Dibs]

Today's viewing figures (missed quali and race start so only peaks for today):

• YT feeds combined peak 15 450 (Manufacturers 13 200, last year's World Finals (Nations Cup) 17 500)
• Main peak 5723 (Manufacturers 5 141, World Finals 5 800)
• All feeds over 700
• Main, Spanish, Portuguese and PlayStation feeds peaked during the final lap
• French feed dropped by 40-50 viewers after Kylian's crash
• Additional ~ 1200 viewers on Twitch (PlayStation, PlayStationES, PlayStationFR, GranTurismoOfficial)

 

[mastretta_mx]

Great race, and I won 1million credits thanks to Spain🙈🙈

 

[snc]

Glad I chose Spain ;d Tough was hard to pick with strong Japan, Brazil and France.

 

[Auditore]

Serrano the GOAT
Some good racing,definetly washed some of the comedy from yesterday.
But please more rain racing in these events. It was nice to finally see a rain race in Suzuka i always forget it has rain available in GT7

 

[DapperDan07]

Viva Espana

 

[ElevenSeven]

These events have taken a big step down. I hugely looked forward to the events in 2018 - 2020 and they were packed with racing. Now we fly everyone out for a weekend with a grand total of 3 races, and the Nations Cup is now functionally the same as the Manufacturer's with the same Red Bull machines 5 years running now. One positive is that we seems to have minimum stints on hard tires so that we lose the 1 lap hard stints finally. I love these events but I really wish they were more substantial.

Also baffled by France's choice to take a slower tire and get caught up in traffic instead of hotlapping to the win like Spain. Has starting on softs from the pole backfired yet? I've got to run 700pp Le Mans twice over now because of that so I'm saltier than I would be usually but it's hard to look at any point of the final without seeing France in some kind of bad position as a result of that choice.

 

[Arkseven]

Cool car selection.

I'm watching the qualy race now and indeed the car selection is so cool that is looking like an actual event you could find in any GT game

I'm really, really, really curious about the setup for each of those cars!

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Team Spain Wins 2023 Gran Turismo World Series Showdown Nations Cup​

Spain’s Coque Lopez, Jose Serrano, and Pol Urra took a dominant victory for their country in the first event for the new team-based Nations Cup...

 

[Auditore]

These events have taken a big step down. I hugely looked forward to the events in 2018 - 2020 and they were packed with racing. Now we fly everyone out for a weekend with a grand total of 3 races, and the Nations Cup is now functionally the same as the Manufacturer's with the same Red Bull machines 5 years running now. One positive is that we seems to have minimum stints on hard tires so that we lose the 1 lap hard stints finally. I love these events but I really wish they were more substantial.

Also baffled by France's choice to take a slower tire and get caught up in traffic instead of hotlapping to the win like Spain. Has starting on softs from the pole backfired yet? I've got to run 700pp Le Mans twice over now because of that so I'm saltier than I would be usually but it's hard to look at any point of the final without seeing France in some kind of bad position as a result of that choice.

People complained for years about the sprint format for races,i remember.
There is nothing wrong with the longer races,they just need to,in my opinion, be set on tracks that have a full day cycle.Maggiore is kinda boring for that.

 

[GTP_Dutchy]

i think we saw an awesome race thats whats most important and where the focus should be on. Yesterday we saw a experiment with weather. Which worked out well. time of day or the cycle will be the least important for making an event enjoyable to watch, imho.

 

[Ande3200]

Very good racing, will absolutly watch next event in december even if we dont get rewards from watching it

 

[05XR8]

Shoot! I should have picked the other Italy…

 

[IngRobNy]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Team Spain Wins 2023 Gran Turismo World Series Showdown Nations Cup​

Spain’s Coque Lopez, Jose Serrano, and Pol Urra took a dominant victory for their country in the first event for the new team-based Nations Cup...

🥳 Congratulations and thank you Spain, you guys earned me 1 mill credits. 🥳

 

[GTP_Dutchy]

Also look what i found on the stream..... a wild gtplanet founder perhaps @Jordan thats guerilla marketing 101 for you hahaha.

 

[Famine]

Also look what i found on the stream..... a wild gtplanet founder perhaps @Jordan thats guerilla marketing 101 for you hahaha.
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[Nathan88]

I'm watching the qualy race now and indeed the car selection is so cool that is looking like an actual event you could find in any GT game

I'm really, really, really curious about the setup for each of those cars!

This event & car selection should be part of Sport mode for the coming weeks. They could even make these specific car tunes available to purchase for those who want to do custom lobbies or use them in single-player. So much time, effort and money is being put into events only the top 1% of players can enjoy. The rest of us are saying "Yeah, those are some really cool cars. Why can't I use them in-game?"

The GTWS events themselves are fine. Professionally put together, good racing, entertaining. But those earlier events where extra special because PD debuted new content. Some of it was leaked beforehand, but at the very least PD should have something to show to the wider watching audience. Even if it's only a trailer.

I understand why the Red Bull is used for these finals. But again, could PD not shake it up a little bit? Every event is becoming a bit samey. PD must have so many generic prototype or single-seater designs they could use. Without any worry about licensing. Heck, they could even use a generic NASCAR built to G56 spec (the car that ran at Le Mans). How cool would that be for the watching audience and the GTWS finalists?

 

[GTP_Dutchy]

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I think we might be on to something here

 

[A_Higher_Place]

This event & car selection should be part of Sport mode for the coming weeks. They could even make these specific car tunes available to purchase for those who want to do custom lobbies or use them in single-player. So much time, effort and money is being put into events only the top 1% of players can enjoy. The rest of us are saying "Yeah, those are some really cool cars. Why can't I use them in-game?"

The GTWS events themselves are fine. Professionally put together, good racing, entertaining. But those earlier events where extra special because PD debuted new content. Some of it was leaked beforehand, but at the very least PD should have something to show to the wider watching audience. Even if it's only a trailer.

I understand why the Red Bull is used for these finals. But again, could PD not shake it up a little bit? Every event is becoming a bit samey. PD must have so many generic prototype or single-seater designs they could use. Without any worry about licensing. Heck, they could even use a generic NASCAR built to G56 spec (the car that ran at Le Mans). How cool would that be for the watching audience and the GTWS finalists?

Those cars are prime material for shuffle racing.

 

[CitroenCX]

Anybody know when the predictions winners will receive their Cr. reward in the garage?
I voted for Spain in Nations Cup and AMG in Manufacturers Cup so I got one them right.

 

[C_Raccoon23]

Anybody know when the predictions winners will receive their Cr. reward in the garage?
I voted for Spain in Nations Cup and AMG in Manufacturers Cup so I got one them right.

On Monday.

 

[dimassa19]

I didn't like the new format.

I've learned to see only one pilot on the top step of the podium in Formula 1, and I would like Gran Turismo to continue with this traditional pattern.

But I liked the Show itself, and of course congratulate Coque López, Jose Serrano and Paul Urra.

Congrats to our Galaxy Trio: Julia, Tom & Jimmy!

And congrats to GTPlanet for the great coverage!

 

[Fozzie]

It was great to be there in the room! They really put on a show with audio and visual effects that were no less than spectacular. Kaz being there, Jordan and the GT Planet members, Super GT, Rory, .... it felt like coming home. 😉

I did like the format. It made for a lot of cheering for your country. I do agree that they should ALSO keep the single driver championship.

 

[egl92]

I would like that the liveries used in the GTWS were available to everyone.
It's true that some people recreate and share them, but it would not cost anything to PD to add them in an update.

I remember that for the 25th anniversary some liveries could be downloaded.

 

[kirethk]

Awesome to speak with Coque Lopez!

 

[Auditore]

I didn't like the new format.

I've learned to see only one pilot on the top step of the podium in Formula 1, and I would like Gran Turismo to continue with this traditional pattern.

But I liked the Show itself, and of course congratulate Coque López, Jose Serrano and Paul Urra.

Congrats to our Galaxy Trio: Julia, Tom & Jimmy!

And congrats to GTPlanet for the great coverage!

It was nice to see Carraza and Fraga again but this time as teammates,they always felt like No1. No.2 drivers for the same country and they were there since the beginning.