2021 FIA GT Championship

Hot on the heels of June’s World Series 1 broadcast, the official FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championship is back with another show this month.

Form GT Sport driver Valerio Gallo and Chile’s Angel Inostroza were the first to walk away from the FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship World Series with maximum points.

The first finals event of the 2021 FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship is upon us, as the World Series Round 1 will broadcast today.

Famous wheel manufacturer BBS has taken up a role as an official partner of Gran Turismo’s official FIA Certified Online Championships.

After a hiatus of six months, the official FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship will return to our screens on June 6, with the first stage of the World Series.

With a week to go until the racing action gets underway, Polyphony Digital has announced the full schedule for the first round of this season’s FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship.

As well as announcing the new format for the 2021 season of the FIA Certified Gran Turismo Online Championship, Polyphony Digital has also revealed the largest expansion in eligible players since the esports series first started. Around a billion more people can now join in, as India and South Africa are both now officially part of the event.

Kazunori Yamauchi has taken to the PlayStation Blog to announce a new-look format for the upcoming 2021 FIA Certified Gran Turismo Online Championship, the fourth season of the flagship esports competition. As we were able to reveal last month, this year’s championship will remain online only, and with that in mind Polyphony Digital has delivered a shake-up to proceedings.

Information received by Gran Turismo Sport FIA Certified Online Championship World Tour drivers has indicated that the 2021 season will be an exclusively online series and not return to the live event format of 2018 and 2019.

Updated February 20: Since we posted the details below, all corresponding information has been removed from the official Gran Turismo website. We’ll update this article with more information as we get it.

Polyphony Digital has released more information on the scheduling for the 2021 season of the Gran Turismo FIA Online Championship. Although we don’t have a full race calendar yet — and we’ll bring you that when it’s available — there are nonetheless important changes to how players will participate in the races.

The flagship esports program of Gran Turismo Sport, the FIA Certified GT Online Championship, will get back underway this month, with races starting on February 27.

Polyphony Digital has already confirmed the 2021 FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship and, although we haven’t seen an official calendar yet, preparations are well underway. That includes new Balance of Performance (BOP) calculations for the various vehicles involved ahead of the first racing action of the season.

Polyphony Digital has announced that its flagship FIA Gran Turismo Championships series will return for another season in 2021.