Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races: Out of the Blue

Oct 30, 2023

The latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, with a second successive "tuning" race in the event line-up for the next seven days.

As with last week's events, you get the chance to tweak a car for Race A this week — and there's a fair bit more choice compared to the previous one-make event.

You’ll be allowed to use any front-wheel drive car (labelled as "FF", for "Front-engine, Front-wheel drive", in the game) so long as it's a Road Car and uses Comfort Soft tires. In addition, you’ll need to make sure it doesn't exceed 246hp (that's 250 PS/cv if you have your game set to use quasi-metric abomination units) or weigh less than 1100kg (2425lb).

Once within those parameters, you can tune the car however you like, and again both widebody mods and engine swaps are allowed here, opening the way for K20 turbo-powered Integras — although it looks like the Scirocco R is the car of choice this week.

The race itself is a six-lap run around the Blue Moon Bay Infield A circuit, in the reverse direction. You’ll also need to watch out for the start, which is a grid-type with false start check; keep the handbrake or brakes on until the lights go out, and turning traction control to one for the start only is a good plan.

Be prepared for some first-turn carnage as cars funnel from a high-speed, four-lane banking into a second gear right-hander. Fortunately neither Driver not Sportsmanship Rating will be affected by this race.

Race B and C are the usual single-class events with Balance of Performance (BOP) in place, with the new high/medium/low-speed track BOP active. You’ll be able to rent cars for both races, to keep miles and associated wear off your own vehicles, although they’ll be in standard liveries if you do.

For Race B you’ll be heading to Fuji International Speedway, in its full form including the Dunlop Chicane. That’ll be pretty tricky to navigate in the high-power Gr.2 machines — 2016 and 2008 Super GTs and the Mercedes CLK-LM and BMW/McLaren F1 GTR Long Tail — but the Racing Soft tires will help.

It's a straightforward six-lap blast, with no tire wear or fuel consumption to be concerned about.

There's a tactical edge to Race C however, which is a 15-lap race of the Lago Maggiore East circuit; that's the variant of the full GP track which skips out the bowl hairpin and the final sector.

You’ll be racing Gr.3 cars — Gran Turismo 7's GT3/GTE equivalent — and you will need to focus on tire use.

That's because not only is there a massive 10x tire wear multiplier, so that each lap generates 10 laps’ worth of wear, but there's two mandatory compounds. You will need to use both the Racing Hard and the Racing Medium tire for at least one lap during the race, or you’ll receive a post-race penalty of one minute.

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 thus far, the next new set should arrive on Monday August 22.

*denotes mandatory tire

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