Another new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges is either already with you or coming soon — depending on your time zone — with five more events to get through over the next seven days for some bonuses.
Weekly Challenges consist of five events, updating each week at midnight on Thursday evening. It’s now settled into a regular rhythm of four events from existing World Circuits events, and a fifth Special Event that’s created just for the week. Completing the races — by finishing third or better — during the seven-day window earns you bonus rewards, with higher prizes for the more events completed.
There’s not really a bargain basement race this week, with the lowest-paying two events awarding some 20,000cr apiece. They are pretty different challenges though.
Having been added in the most recent 1.55 update, the first race is the new Sunday Cup run at Kyoto Driving Park Miyabi. This only requires a road car to take part in a simple, short, four-lap blast around the slightly dented egg-shaped course.
You’ll need another road car (or a “professionally tuned” one, such as the NISMO 400R), but this time both all-wheel drive and from Japan for the next race. That’s because it’s in the Japanese 4WD Challenge 600 — that latter number being a suggested Performance Point (PP) value for a close race, but not mandatory — taking place over two laps of Mount Panorama.
The “Race of Turbo Sportscars” is the next step up, requiring anything with a turbocharger fitted as long as it doesn’t exceed the 700PP cap. It’s a four-lap race around the rarely used Circuit de Sainte-Croix B course, with 70,000cr on offer for victory.
Our Special Event is up next, and it takes in an item of newly added content in the form of the all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5N. It’s a five-lap race of the Nurburgring Sprint course — yes, the same combination as the new Time Trial — and although the AI look heavily modified it’s mainly cosmetic so there’s no need to go overboard on tuning. First place offers 80,000cr, which isn’t a bad return on your time if you can keep it clean.
That leaves the most lucrative event, which is the World Touring Car 900 race at Suzuka. This ten-lap affair can be a bit of a challenge with high tire wear and fuel consumption multipliers at 8x each, so you’re going to need something that doesn’t exceed the 900PP cap, is quick enough to overhaul the Gr.2 leaders, and not too thirsty. Take the win and you’ll get 170,000cr.
There’s a little change to the bonus rewards this week. Finishing any one event earns you a Special Parts-specific Six-Star Roulette ticket, saving you a few thousand credits on a random Ultimate tuning part. Clearing any three lands you with a redeemable 150,000cr ticket. Finally there’s a rare Six-Star (Car) Roulette ticket, which can land you any car from Brand Central worth more than 500,000cr.
You’ll need to have completed GT Cafe Menu Book 39 and watched the ending movie in order to have access to the Weekly Challenges. The events update at midnight local time on Thursday evenings/Friday mornings, so we’d expect the next set on the morning of Friday February 14.
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – February Week 2:
- Circuit de Sainte-Croix B – Race of Turbo Sportscars
- Number of Laps: 4
- Restrictions: Turbocharged, ≤700PP
- Win Reward: 70,000cr
- Kyoto Driving Park Miyabi – Sunday Cup
- Number of Laps: 4
- Restrictions: Road Car
- Win Reward: 20,000cr
- Mount Panorama – Japanese 4WD Challenge 600
- Number of Laps: 2
- Restrictions: 4WD, Road/Tuned Car, Japan
- Win Reward: 20,000cr
- Nurburgring Sprint – Special Event
- Number of Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Hyundai Ioniq 5N
- Win Reward: 80,000cr
- Suzuka Circuit – World Touring Car 900
- Number of Laps: 10
- Restrictions: ≤900PP
- Win Reward: 170,000cr
Rewards
- Complete 1 event: Six-Star (Parts) Ticket
- Complete 3 events: 150,000cr Ticket
- Complete 5 events: Six-Star (Car) Ticket
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