Gran Turismo 7’s new Daily Races for the week are now available, featuring some iconic cars and tracks from the USA.
That begins in Daily Race A, which takes players to the Italian island of Sardinia and the Sardegna Road Track. It’s the short and punchy C layout this week, with its rollercoaster of a middle section best-suited to lithe cars majoring on handling.
However you’ll be using the 640hp Dodge Viper GTS for the five-lap race around the circuit, and it’s equipped with Sports Hard tires, so it’s going to be a bit of a challenge to tame.
You’ll also need to watch out at the race start, which features the False Start Check function. This requires you to keep the brakes (or handbrake) on once all five lights are on and until they go out to start the race, or you’ll end up having your power cut for a few seconds and probably get piled into by the grid behind you.
It’s probably for the best then that Race A remains as a “No DR/SR Updates” event. You’ll neither gain nor lose Driver Rating or Sportsmanship Rating no matter what happens in the race.
The other two races head to American race tracks on opposite sides of the nation, starting with Laguna Seca in Race B.
This is a six-lap race for Gr.4 cars — Gran Turismo’s equivalent to GT4, consisting mostly of stripped-back production cars with race-grade mechanicals — in a fairly standard Daily Race format.
One curious item of note in the race regulations is that the cars will be fitted with Racing Soft tires, making this more of an all-out blast than usual. Just pick your preferred Gr.4 car and have fun!
Race C takes you all the way across to the east coast, and the Watkins Glen circuit in New York state for a race in the Gr.3 cars.
You can pick any of the cars in this GT3-equivalent category for a ten-lap race around the full “Long Course” layout, but there are some tire regulations of which you’ll need to be aware.
Firstly, you’ll have a choice of two tire grades: Racing Hard and Racing Soft. Both are also mandatory, so you’ll need to use a full set of each type for at least one lap during the race.
That’s made more complicated by the tire wear multiplier, which sits at 6x this week — so your tires wear six times faster than the normal rate. With the large difference in tire grip, you’re going to want to keep hold of the Soft option for as long as possible without pushing it so far that they run out of useful life.
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 July 3.
Race A
- Track: Sardegna Road – C, 5 laps
- Car: Dodge Viper GTS ’13 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (L)
- Tires: Sports Hard
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Grid Start with False Start Check
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race B
- Track: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, 6 laps
- Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (L)
- Tires: Racing Soft
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 1x
Race C
- Track: Watkins Glen – Long Course, 10 laps
- Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Rental Car
- Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
- Tires: Racing Hard†, Racing Soft†, Racing Inter/Wet
- Settings: Fixed
- Start Type: Rolling Start
- Fuel use: 1x
- Tire use: 6x
†denotes mandatory tire
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