A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, running across the next seven days and focusing on reverse track variants.

However that doesn’t apply to Race A, which takes place on one of the few fictional tracks that doesn’t even have a reverse layout: Special Stage Route X.

This monster, 18.85-mile oval returns with what players have often referred to as a “meme race”. It’s a single-lap affair with a selection of vehicles provided to you in unique states of tune — ranging from a 763hp Honda NSX up to a Chiron with almost 1,300hp.

In fact there’s 15 cars you can choose from, including R32, R33, R34, and R35 generations of GT-R and the sibling Nissan Z, the Mk4 Supra, the RE Amemiya RX-7, Corvette ZR1 and Viper GTS, Mercedes-AMG GT Black, and the Huayra, F8, and Aventador supercars.

It’s not a particularly complicated event, as all you really need to do is drive full-throttle from lights to flag. However each car has slightly different top speeds in and out of the slipstream — and nitrous — so you’ll need to stay up with the lead pack and only make a break for the front right at the end.

As usual, it remains a “No DR/SR Updates” event — which is probably for the best given the extreme bump-drafting that will occur. No matter what happens, you’ll neither gain nor lose Driver Rating or Sportsmanship Rating.

Slightly more normally, there’s two races for Gr.3 and Gr.4 race cars this week, but both are on reverse circuits.

Gr.3, the Gran Turismo version of the GT3 class, features in the Race B sprint event, which is a four-lap run around Trial Mountain in the reverse direction. This places the new and rather tight final chicane as the first turn, so there’ll be quite the funnelling effect early on.

You can select any of the Gr.3 cars you have, or borrow one for the race, so long as it has Racing Medium tires fitted. Other than that, there’s no special considerations to bear in mind.

Race C hosts the Gr.4 cars this week, at the reverse layout of the Kyoto Driving Park Yamagiwa circuit. The longer of the two separate tracks at the Driving Park, Yamagiwa features some long corners and in this layout will be torture for your left tires.

Again, you’ll need to have Racing Mediums fitted to your choice of Gr.4 car and a mild re-jig of the Balance of Performance for this category brought in with the 1.35 update means it’ll be the first time in a while that the Nissan Silvia Touring Car won’t be the default choice.

While the 3x tire wear multiplier — so each lap generates three laps’ worth of wear — won’t be enough to force you into the pits on the ten-lap race, the regulations will; there is a mandatory pit stop in the regulations, so you will need to make one stop during the race. Failing to do so will earn you a one-minute penalty at the end of the race.

You can take this any time you wish, so it will be worth using it tactically — to get out from behind a car you can’t pass, for example — but you won’t need to take on fuel or swap tires.

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 10.

Race A

Track: Special Stage Route X, 1 lap
Car: Specified Car List – Rental Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: –
Tires: Sports Soft
Settings: Specified
Start Type: Rolling Start
Fuel use: 1x
Tire use: 1x

Race B

Track: Trial Mountain – Reverse, 4 laps
Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Rental Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
Tires: Racing Medium
Settings: Fixed
Start Type: Rolling Start
Fuel use: 1x
Tire use: 1x

Race C

Track: Kyoto Driving Park – Yamagiwa Reverse, 10 laps
Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Rental Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
Tires: Racing Medium, Racing Inter/Wet
Settings: Fixed
Start Type: Rolling Start
Fuel use: 1x
Tire use: 3x

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