FIA Online Championship

If you’ve been doing online races in Gran Turismo Sport recently, chances are you’ve noticed something new.

GT Sport players have been celebrating the start of the FIA Championships this week. The game’s signature esports feature pits drivers from around the world against each other in two events: the Nations Cup and the Manufacturer Series.

The inaugural GT Sport FIA Championships get underway today. If we had to guess, Nissan will be a particularly popular choice in the Manufacturers Series. That’s because four lucky (and quick) players will win a trip to Japan.

Make that plural: there will be two championships this year, in the shape of the Nations Cup and the Manufacturer Series. Both begin with their first seasons this month, with a second in July. Following on from that, a “Final Season” will stretch across August and September. This third series will narrow down the field in preparation for Live Events — much like the Nurburgring races last month — where the top players will face off. From there, the cream of the crop moves to the World Final in November to fight for the crown.

If you’ve been waiting for more details on the inaugural Gran Turismo Sport FIA Championship Series, the wait just got a little longer.

Update: Following on from yesterday’s entertainment, the Nations Cup is now also live:

The Gran Turismo Sport FIA Championship will begin in earnest this weekend at the Nürburgring. To celebrate, Polyphony Digital has invited 30 of the top European players to battle it out in front of a live audience.

Gamers waiting for GT Sport’s FIA series to get underway need wait no more. We have a starting date, and it kicks off with a rather special live event.

The third iteration of GT Sport’s pre-season FIA Championship test is now underway. Players can race in the trial tournaments November 19–25 with multiple race starts throughout each daily round.

The second pre-season test for GT Sport’s FIA Championship has now begun. Following on from the first test last week, the exhibition championship allows drivers to get a taste of the real FIA tournaments due to kick off in early 2018. Competition will run November 12–18.

GT Sport players will get their first taste of the game’s FIA championships later today.

Players serious about esports will want to start practicing: the FIA Gran Turismo Sport championship will begin pre-season races next month.

You’re probably already sold on yesterday’s Gran Turismo Sport trailer and launch window announcement. However, we now have a Sony-issued fact sheet from E3 that’s no less enthralling.

Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed in an interview with German outlet ‘Inside Playstation’ that Gran Turismo Sport will incorporate extended online support for servers in the much-anticipated ‘Sport’ mode of the game.

At this point, it’s been confirmed beyond doubt that the partnership between Polyphony Digital and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (view the original announcement) will greatly influence the gameplay structure of the incoming GT Sport. But by how much?

Does anyone remember the initial announcement regarding one of the largest collaborations between a motorsport organization and a video game developer: the agreement between Polyphony Digital and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile? The partnership was followed by the certification of four of the game’s real world circuits and an official FIA Online Championship, a mode destined to merge real life racing with the virtual world of Gran Turismo.

As you’ve probably heard by now, the next chapter in the GT series – Gran Turismo Sport – was officially unveiled at the Paris Games Show a few hours ago.

EuroGamer has published an extensive article covering this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, which had a strong Gran Turismo presence and was attended by Kazunori Yamauchi himself.

Yesterday’s announcement of Gran Turismo’s partnership with the FIA has made shockwaves around the Internet and right here at home on GTPlanet, and now we have a few early details about the FIA Online Championship – the first virtual race event to be organized and sanctioned by the world’s governing body of motorsport.

As confirmed in a major announcement from Polyphony Digital and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Gran Turismo 6 has become the first-ever video game to feature FIA-certified content, with four of the game’s real-world tracks receiving approval from the governing body of world motorsport.