Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races: Unlimited Power

An unusual pick-and-mix event awaits us in this week’s Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, along with the regular race car events that form the core of the game’s competitive online multiplayer mode.

You’ll have free choice from a range of 12 pre-tuned and pre-liveried road cars, offering a combined 11,256hp, in Race A, where there’s a Wangan midnight racers-style event on the Tokyo Expressway. The very rapid East course, with its enormous — and not entirely straight — pit straight allowing for speeds of up to 250mph depending on your car choice. And a first-corner braking zone somewhere in Nagoya.

It’s a pretty heady mix of high-powered Japanese and European exotic cars across a range of styles and powertrain options, as well as quite the spread of Performance Point (PP) ratings. Don’t be tempted to go for the highest though…

You can choose from the Audi R8 V10, Ferrari F40, Honda NSX Type R, Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4, Mazda RX-7 Spirit R, Mercedes-AMG GT Black, NISMO 400R, Pagani Huayra, Toyota Supra RZ, and three GT-Rs: R32 Nismo, R34 V-Spec II Nur, and standard R35.

The leaderboard is dominated by the car with the lowest PP value but also the highest horsepower: the R32 Nismo. However there’s also plenty of Supras in there too, and this one is also available in purple so that would seem like an easy choice…

Whichever car you pick, it’s going to be a challenge threading it between the walls and avoiding overly optimistic lunges and/or cautious tiptoeing from other players. Not to mention getting your braking point right after slipstreaming up to turn one. It’s a four-lap race, and all the cars are equipped with Racing Hard tires.

As an additional note, Driver Rating (DR) updates are off again this week, in the latest change to this regulation. Sportsmanship Rating (SR) updates remain on as usual, so watch out for the walls, other cars, and pretty much everything.

This week’s other two races are more routine, especially in Race B which is a standard Gr.3 sprint at Deep Forest Raceway.

It’s the regular direction this week — making the first hairpin a little less fraught than the reverse course — and you can pick any Gr.3 car you like so long as it’s equipped with Racing Medium tires. Although this class is usually the best-balanced of the racing categories, there is something of a Viper supremacy this week.

As for the race, it’s a six-lap affair with no considerations of strategy and just a lights-to-flag sprint.

That’s not quite the case in Race C, where you’re heading to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in the Gr.4 cars. It’s the “No Chicane” layout of the GP circuit that’s hosting this week, skipping the final RACC Chicane in favor of a single, more gentle right-hander onto the start/finish straight.

With Gr.4 it’s fairly common to find one car (or one type) being the overwhelming favorite pretty quickly, and this week that looks like the Citroen GT by Citroen again. Of course you have free choice, so long as the car is on Racing Medium tires.

The tire wear multiplier this week is a bit awkward, running at 4x — so your tires wear four times faster than usual. This circuit is pretty punishing on front-lefts, so you might find that you don’t need fresh tires during the 11-lap race except for that one. Then again, the offset from taking new tires will probably wipe out the time lost from pushing worn tires to the end.

You’ll need to head into the pits anyway, as there’s a mandatory pit stop in effect. Failing to take the stop will grant you a one-minute penalty added to your race time — and do watch out for crossing the pit entry/exit lines, especially the long exit line, as doing so will earn you a three-second, on-track penalty for each offense.

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.

With GT7’s Daily Races updating every Monday across the game’s life to date, the next new set should arrive on Monday, November 24.

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 17: Race A

• Track: Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise – 4 laps

• Car: Car Selection – Specified Car

• Power/Weight/PP Limit: –

• Tires: Racing Hard

• Settings: Specified

• Start Type: Rolling Start

• Mandatory Pit Stop: 0

• Fuel use: Off

• Tire use: Off

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 17: Race B

• Track: Deep Forest Raceway – 6 laps

• Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Specified Car

• Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)

• Tires: Racing Medium

• Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance

• Start Type: Rolling Start

• Mandatory Pit Stop: 0

• Fuel use: 1x

• Tire use: 1x

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races November 17: Race C

• Track: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP No Chicane – 11 laps

• Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Specified Car

• Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOP (M)

• Tires: Racing Medium

• Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance

• Start Type: Rolling Start

• Mandatory Pit Stop: 1

• Fuel use: 1x

• Tire use: 4x