A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, with a focus on the various race car categories on offer in the game.
All three races use cars from the “Gr” classification system for race cars. Gr.4 vehicles are heavily based on road cars, stripped back and tuned up with some racing grade parts, and retain the drivetrain of their roadgoing counterparts (except hybrids).
Gr.3 machines are, like the GT3 class of the real world, more like ground-up race cars with few similarities to their road brethren other than body shape and engine layout; all are rear-wheel drive. That leaves Gr.2 which are effectively silhouette racers, although for GT7 this class has been bolstered by the Mercedes CLK-LM and (BMW) McLaren F1 GTR Longtail.
It’s the Gr.3 cars that you’ll run in Race A which, since the v1.15 update, has become an unranked race. You’ll neither gain nor lose Driver or Sportsmanship Rating points at this event, so it’s essentially an official open lobby race.
For this week that’s a six-lap blast around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. This FIA Grade I circuit hosts F1 twice each year, for a race and for winter testing, so the quick Gr.3 cars should be right at home even on Racing Hard tires.
Race B brings the Gr.4 cars to the Dragon Trail Seaside circuit, one of the most popular original tracks introduced for GT Sport. It’s only a five-lap sprint, and you’ll need to be very much on your toes through the Chicane of Death.
Finally there’s Race C at the returning, updated Deep Forest Raceway for the Gr.2 cars, and this one will have some strategy at play.
Although Racing Hard and Racing Soft tires are permitted for the 14-lap race, the Softs are required tires. That means you’ll need to use them during the race at some point or you’ll face a one-minute penalty at the end of the race.
A high tire wear multiplier of 7x — tires wear seven times faster — means you definitely won’t be able to do the whole race on one set of Softs, so you’ll need to pit. There’s a couple of possible strategies though: do you swap from Hard to Soft, Soft to Hard, or run two or even three stints on Softs?
All three Races use the Balance of Performance (BOP) system to equalize vehicle performance within a specific category, which also prevents players from tuning and tweaking their own cars. You can also rent a vehicle in standard livery for each race if you feel like trying something else out or keeping the miles off your own cars.
In order to access the Daily Races, you’ll need to unlock Sport Mode, by completing Menu Book 9 (“Championship: Tokyo Highway Parade”) in the GT Cafe single player hub.
With GT7’s Daily Races so far updating to the same weekly schedule as that of most of GT Sport’s life, we’d expect the next new set to arrive on Monday July 18.
Race A
- Track: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 6 laps
- Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP
- Tires: Racing Hard, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race B
- Track: Dragon Trail – Seaside, 5 laps
- Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP
- Tires: Racing Hard, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race C
- Track: Deep Forest Raceway, 12 laps
- Car: Gr.2 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP
- Tires: Racing Hard, Racing Soft*, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 7x
*denotes mandatory tire
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