The latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, with three brand new events for players to get to grips with — although one has a marked absence of grip — over the next seven days.
We’ve got a little bit of a jiggling of the established order this week, with the return of the Gr.2 class and no one-make road car race, while offroad makes a re-appearance and there’s a change in the regulations we’ve seen in recent week.
Daily Races are the main ranked multiplayer events in Gran Turismo 7. Your Driver Rating (DR) and Sportsmanship Rating (SR) are determined by your performances, updating at the end of each race, and these are used to set your ranking and league for the game’s flagship esports series each season.
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. A PlayStation Plus subscription is required to take part.
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Race A is a bit of a madcap one, heading to the only mixed-surface track in the game. That is the Rallycross layout at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, which features a long, asphalt staging area and a short portion around turns 12 and 11 in the reverse direction along with the dirt areas.
You can pick any car from the Gr.B class for this one, but note that the fictional “Gr.B” cars are far better suited for this one than most of the real-world rally cars that also find themselves in the class due to the Balance of Performance.
It’ll be a pretty chaotic seven-lap blast here, beginning right at the start in that staging area. The race features a grid start with the “False Start Check” feature enabled. This means you’ll need to hold the car on the brakes until the start light goes out, as any movement lands you an on-the-spot punishment.
That’s not a penalty per se, but you’ll face an automatic and instant torque cut that lasts as long after the start as the amount by which you jumped it. With 12 cars leaping off the line and crammed into a staggered double-file grid that’s likely to cause a big accident before the race even reaches lap one.
Luckily, or not depending on your point of view, neither Driver Rating nor Sportsmanship Rating updates are turned on for this week’s race. That makes it a bit of a free hit, or more likely several dozen hits. Every lap.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races January 26: Race A
Track: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Rallycross – 7 laps
Car: Gr.B – Garage/Specified Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (L)
Tires: Dirt
Settings: Specified
Start Type: Grid Start wiith False Start Check
Mandatory Pit Stop: –
Fuel Multiplier: –
Tire Multiplier: –
Race B is a bit of a pedestrian one by comparison to the others this week. It’s a regular sprint race for a racing category, but we’ve got the Gr.3 cars that usually sit in Race C up in this slot for a change.
This rarely takes much description, and so it proves again this week. You’re looking at a five-lap race around the Interlagos circuit — still the only track in South America in the whole history of the series — in your choice of Gr.3 car.
With no multiplier for the tire wear or fuel consumption and the durability-focused Racing Hard tires required, this is simply going to be a case of five qualifying laps and watching out for turn one divebombs.
The sibling Audi R8 and Lamborghini Huracan seem to be the cars of choice this week, but as we’re expecting a new Gr.3 car in an update later this week — for the second time in two updates, amazingly — there may be a BOP change or, more simply, a new contender by Thursday.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races January 26: Race B
Track: Autodromo de Interlagos – 5 laps
Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Specified Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
Tires: Racing Hard
Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
Start Type: Rolling Start
Mandatory Pit Stop: –
Fuel Multiplier: 1x
Tire Multiplier: 1x
Race C is a wild one this week too, as you’ll be heading to Suzuka in the Gr.2 cars. That’s not just any Gr.2 car either, as you’ll have the choice of just the three 2008 Super GT GT500 cars: the Honda NSX, Lexus SC, and Nissan GT-R.
It’s a ten-lap race at Suzuka, which would be fun enough if not for one little extra detail: dynamic weather. There’s not only the chance of rain here but the chance of rather a lot of it with the darkest possible colors on the weather radar.
For those unfamiliar with wet racing, the radar shows the quantity of rain coming — and you’ll need to keep an eye on it to see where it’s coming from and where it’s going too. Light blue usually corresponds to a drizzle for which you don’t need to make any special allowances, but any darker than that will need at least the Intermediate tires. If you see green, yellow, and red, full Wets are going to be required.
Also keep a watch on the surface water gauge on the lower-left. If it’s below the first marker, slick tires will usually still be fine, while anything between the two markers is Intermediate conditions and above the second is full Wets. Note that light blue is the average surface water, while dark blue shows spikes when you run through puddles.
There is a mandatory pit stop for this race too, for which you’ll score a one-minute penalty added to your race time if you fail to take. You should also take great care on your way in and out of the pits, as crossing the solid lines gifts you a three-second, on-track penalty too.
Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races January 26: Race C
Track: Suzuka Circuit – 10 laps
Car: Gr.2 Selection – Garage/Specified Car
Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)
Tires: Racing Medium, Racing Intermediate/Wet
Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
Start Type: Rolling Start
Mandatory Pit Stop: 1
Fuel Multiplier: 2x
Tire Multiplier: 6x
With GT7’s Daily Races updating every Monday across the game’s life to date, the next new set should arrive on Monday, February 2.
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