Sorry for taking this long to update this, I was really tired when I posted this.
Whenever I think about Gran Turismo cars, I'm brought back to the GT/GT2 days because, well, I was just a kid back then, fascinated about cars and motorsports.
Trying to pick just one car wasn't really easy. I had lots of ideas about my favorites from those two games - the
Mitsubishi GTO from GT and the
TVR Cerbera from GT2, contemplated for the longest time the Viper Team Oreca as well - but in the end I went for the one that "shocked" me the most, the Toyota GT-one from Gran Turismo 2. The other shocking car was the Escudo, but since its motorsport discipline never had the same impact as sportscars and GT racing had for me, I had to go for the GT-one.
I always loved motorsports, but in a time when Internet wasn't as relevant as it became years after, the only type of racing I was exposed to was F1, the amazing CART series of that era and Brazilian StockCars. So I didn't know about prototypes, multiclass racing and had a vague idea that existed this placed called Le Mans where a race for 24 hours(?) was held.
So seeing my first prototype showing up on track among road cars and some "regular" race cars was a shock, it was so different, so alien, so curious looking. Add to that the agressive livery, the stance the GT-one always took on taking a corner on replays, its sound and I was dieing to learn more, but couldn't understand the English content about the car on the game!
As sportscars later became my favorite racing discipline, I had to go back to the origins and pay some small tribute to the first racing prototype I knew.
About the livery in itself, well, I had to go with a Toyota. I didn't chose the TS050 because it's a retired car now (if the game had the new Hypercar, I would use it instead of the GR3), I wanted something you could see today on track, so my options were only the Supra GR4 and the FT-1 (wish we had a Supra GR3, actually).
As I'm phisically incapable of just doing a replica of a livery, I tried to revive it with elements that reflect the original car, but bring it to a more modern setting. The sponsors all come from current Toyota Gazoo Racing cars, the Le Mans/WEC logos are there to make the car look like a tribute livery to be raced on Le Mans and, as always with every
style (livery) I do it is 100% Sport mode compatible: the regular GT number plate will just cover the WEC ones.
Available
here
