The new Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races are now available, taking players through the next week of online action and across the start of the festive period.
Naturally, with a recent update, one of the newest cars in the game is the star of the show this week, with the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette C8 making its semi-competitive debut.
That comes in Race A which, like almost every such event since the end of May, is again a “No DR/SR” event. You won’t gain or lose Driver or Sportsmanship Rating points for this race, no matter how good — or bad — you drive.
You may be thankful of this, as we can see some SR-mangling race finishes with the Corvette heading to the Daytona Tri-Oval for the race.
Even with the balance of performance (BOP) set to its highest speed values, it should be an almost full-throttle race, with slipstreaming being the key to victory. The car is in standard form, with Sports Hard tires, so there’s little to do but jostle for position for almost all of the seven laps and try to get the run off the final banking while the guy in first tries to low-side you into the infield.
Race B is a standard GT7 race, albeit at a circuit rarely visited. Pick up your favorite Gr.4 car (which, if you want to win, will be all-wheel drive and probably an Alfa Romeo), strap on the Racing Hard tires, and head to the fictional venue of Circuit de Sainte-Croix.
This convoluted course, based around the real Lac de Sainte-Croix in Provence, is intended to mimic classic European road-racing circuits. That means it’s long, and with the relatively low speeds of the production-based Gr.4 cars there’s only two laps in the race — even though there’s time for three laps between races.
Finally Race C brings back the Gr.3 race cars and treks over to Suzuka for a race with some thinking required.
It’s a ten-lap race, and you’ll be required to use both Racing Medium and Racing Soft tires during the event. Failing to do so will result in a one-minute penalty applied to your race time at the checkered flag, and you can’t dive in at the end of lap ten (or before you reach the start line on lap 0, if you’re far enough back).
However there’s reasonably heavy tire wear involved here. The wear multiplier is up at 7x, meaning tires wear seven times faster than the standard rate, making it a 70-lap equivalent race for your rubber. You’ll need to carefully plan to get the most out of the softs before they get old enough to make new mediums faster.
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 updating every Monday across the game’s life to date, the next new set should arrive on Monday December 26.
Race A
- Track: Daytona Speedway – Tri-Oval, 7 laps
- Car: Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (H)
- Tires: Sports Hard
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race B
- Track: Circuit de Sainte-Croix – A, 2 laps
- Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Hard, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race C
- Track: Suzuka Circuit, 10 laps
- Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Medium*, Racing Soft*, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 2x
- Tire use: 7x
*denotes mandatory tire
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