Watch Live: Gran Turismo World Finals 2024 – Nations Cup Final

The Gran Turismo World Series 2024 World Finals are coming to a close, with the Nations Cup final coming live from Amsterdam today.

We’ve already see two sets of champions crowned at the event, as Jose Serrano clinched the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup and Team Lexus scored a second Manufacturers Cup title through Kanata Kawakami, Coque Lopez, and super-sub Harald Walsen.

That just leaves the season-ending Nations Cup, with 12 drivers resuming their season-long battle to take home that unique trophy.

A qualifying session and three races stand between the dozen finalists and victory, and it’s set to be a bit spicy. The qualifying will, unusually, comprise an aggregate time over several GT7 licence tests.

After the qualifying session, the racers will head into a very “Gran Turismo” race which sees them driving tuned road cars — qualifying determining the grid and car selection order — at the Trial Mountain circuit. That race sets the grid for the next, which sees the debut of the new Gran Turismo F3500-A, a formula car based on 1990s machinery, before it arrives in the public Gran Turismo 7 build in January.

Each of those two races adheres to the standard GT finals points format, with 12 available for the winner, 10 for second, and so on, and leads into what looks like a terrifying, double-points grand final: seven laps of the Nurburgring 24h circuit in the Red Bull X2019 Competition, with the standard required tire changes.

Races

Qualifying – Licence Tests
Race 1 – Road Cars (TBA), Trial Mountain
Race 2 – Gran Turismo F3500-A, Monza
Grand Final – Red Bull X2019 Competition, Nurburgring 24h

With a total of 48pt available at the finals, 24 of which in the last race, it’s likely that whoever wins the grand final takes it all — although there’s myriad permutations where that may not be the case.

It’s also not the only points that count, as the drivers have been gaining World Series points across the three events at Montreal, Prague, and Tokyo this season. That’s left things pretty finely balanced, with the top four drivers covered by just one point as Kylian Drumont leads the way on 11pt from Takuma Miyazono, Jose Serrano, and Valerio Gallo on 10pt.

The field is pretty immense too, with five Nations Cup titles between them, as well as five Manufacturers Cup crowns and two Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cups. Most of those come from Coque Lopez, who extended his own record of four successive seasons with a title just yesterday, and Takuma Miyazono.

However there’s also Team Spain champion from 2023 Jose Serrano waiting close at hand for his first solo GTWS crown, Valerio Gallo aiming for his first live event title — having won during the online era — and local favorite Kaj de Bruin all gunning for victory.

Don’t count out those outside the top six at present either. Angel Inostroza almost won in 2022 but for some controversial stewarding decisions, Takuma Sasaki has been in form of late, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see one of the two USA representatives — Robert Heck and Calen Roach — in the upper reaches either.

Nations Cup Standings (After Three Rounds)

1. Kylian Drumont (France) – 11 points
2. Takuma Miyazono (Japan) – 10 points
3. Jose Serrano (Spain) – 10 points
4. Valerio Gallo (Italy) – 10 points
5. Coque Lopez (Spain) – 8 points
6. Kaj de Bruin (Netherlands) – 6 points

There’s rewards for watching along too, and for exercising your powers of prediction, through two special events inside Gran Turismo 7.

Watching any part of the stream through this in-game tile, at any time up to 0859 UTC on Monday December 16, will award you with a free example of the Hyundai Ioniq 5N when it arrives in January. Accurately predict who will win the Nations Cup title and you will also earn 1,000,000cr for your game balance.

The racing begins today, Sunday December 8, at 1500 UTC (convert to your time here) and we wish all of the competitors the best of luck!

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