The Gran Turismo World Collection made its first cease in Southeast Asia on Saturday, with Spherical 3 taking on the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Subaru’s Daniel Solis gained the Producers Cup from pole, and Takuma Miyazono’s shock three-stop technique took the Nations Cup in a wild closing that ended with contact on the final nook.
The gang was noticeably much less rowdy than the one which chanted and sang its manner by way of the season opener in Milan, however Singapore nonetheless made for an unique and glamorous backdrop for the World Collection.
Let’s check out every little thing we realized from a busy weekend on the planet of Gran Turismo:
Spec IV Will get a Date
The massive information got here in the course of the Nations Cup broadcast. Spec IV Part 1 (replace 1.72) arrives on Thursday, October 15, and it brings Sportsland Sugo to GT7 alongside six new automobiles:
The Ferrari seems to switch the V10 BMW M5 from the unique Spec IV teaser, which now seems to be set for December’s Half 2.
Jules Hardy and Jimmy Broadbent additionally walked by way of a few of the options arriving with Half 1 on the printed. The Automobile Viewer helps you to stroll round your automobile and take images in a selection of settings, a brand new Experiences mode provides occasions contained in the Model Central dealerships, and the Automobile Concierge helps you to order uncommon automobiles you may’t presently purchase.
The viewers reacted out loud to every automobile within the trailer, although Broadbent was disenchanted by the dearth of 2CV fans within the room…
Xiaomi and Thrustmaster
The Producers Cup broadcast opened with recent in-game footage of the Xiaomi Imaginative and prescient Gran Turismo, which Kazunori Yamauchi and Jean-Arthur Madelaine, head of design at Xiaomi’s European R&D middle, mentioned on stage.
Yamauchi mentioned an electrical automobile’s capability to manage every wheel independently made its physics and dealing with an attention-grabbing problem to develop. Madelaine described seeing the automobile recreated within the sport as one thing like watching or not it’s born a second time.
Thrustmaster was additionally formally introduced as a World Collection companion, alongside the reveal of the T-GT III, a brand new licensed GT7 wheel that goes on sale December 3 for $749.99.
That makes Thrustmaster the seventh companion emblem on the printed graphics, and the third wheel maker alongside Fanatec and Moza.
Producers Cup: Solis Breaks Via
The Producers Cup ran for 20 laps in Gr.3 automobiles on the Full Course Reverse format of Autodrome Lago Maggiore, with all three tire compounds required.
Lexus’s Antonio Santos arrived the evening earlier than as a stand-in for Mateo Estevez (who said in his own announcement that he couldn’t get by way of customs) and topped the primary qualifying session.
Solis then took pole within the top-six shootout by 0.130 seconds over Ferrari’s Nicolás Arriagada, with Santos third. Porsche’s Angel Inostroza missed the highest six and began eighth, and Samuel Moreno, filling in for Calen Roach at BMW, had his solely lap deleted for observe limits and began final.
Solis and Arriagada ran away from the sector early, each beginning on mediums. Arriagada stored the strain on and survived an enormous slide over a curb, which appeared like it could finish in a spin. A track-limits penalty then price him greater than a second and dropped him out of Solis’s slipstream, undoing his early work.
The methods break up after that. Solis went to softs for the center stint and Arriagada to hards, then they swapped for the end. Solis ran medium, delicate, then exhausting, whereas Arriagada ran medium, exhausting, then delicate.
The hole between these two compounds ran about three seconds a lap, which is why Arriagada might chew right into a lead that had stretched to 9.8 seconds. On the final lap he went on the lookout for a well past on the within, and Solis briefly left the door open earlier than shutting it. Solis held off the problem to win by 0.123 seconds, taking pole, quickest lap, and the win.
It clearly meant loads to Solis, who dropped to his knees after the flag and was serenaded on stage the day after his birthday.
It was his first particular person World Collection win, and he advised Hardy it was the primary time in eight years of competing that he had carried out one thing noteworthy on his personal slightly than counting on others.
He additionally credited the revised physics for making his Subaru BRZ simpler to drive. This was the primary stay occasion since Update 1.71’s controversial physics changes, which have helped front-engine, rear-drive automobiles normally.
Samuel Cardinal took third for Mazda after beginning seventh. Inostroza had climbed from eighth to fourth, just for Simon Rosenberger to go him on the final lap with some contact. That gave Audi fourth and left Porsche with fifth and two factors, one fewer than fourth would have paid. Lucas Bonelli accomplished the factors in sixth for Mercedes-AMG.
Producers Cup Grand Last Outcomes
Producers Cup Level Rating
Porsche nonetheless leads the standings, however its margin over Ferrari is down to 2 factors (14 to 12). Mazda moved into third on 9, Audi is fourth on eight, and Subaru picked up its first factors of the season to sit down fifth on six.
Nations Cup: Miyazono Takes the Win
The Nations Cup was Sportsland Sugo’s first huge debut.
A one-lap qualifier and a 15-lap dash had been each run within the Dallara SF23 Tremendous System, earlier than a 24-lap Grand Last at Circuit de Sainte-Croix B Reverse within the Crimson Bull X2019 Competitors, once more with all three tire compounds required.
Kaj de Bruin took pole by 0.253 seconds over Kylian Drumont, with Pol Urra third. Defending champion Jose Serrano certified final, greater than six seconds off the tempo after a mistake on his lap.
Drumont gained the dash after buying and selling the lead with de Bruin early on, who set the quickest lap. Serrano recovered to eighth.
The Grand Last was a gas and tire puzzle. Drumont began from pole, however a two-second penalty for contact with Gallo and de Bruin across the pit stops ended his problem, and he completed sixth. Gallo set the quickest lap of the race and took fifth.
Miyazono began sixth and ran a three-stop technique, saving the exhausting tires for a tires-only cease on the finish of the penultimate lap.
He got here out within the lead with Urra and Serrano charging on softs. Urra went for the surface on the closing nook, the automobiles made contact, and Urra hit the barrier, which let Serrano by way of into second.
Miyazono gained by 0.400 seconds, with Urra third and Moreno fourth (up from tenth on the grid, having additionally contested the Producers Cup earlier).
It’s Miyazono’s first Nations Cup win since taking the 2024 World Finals in Amsterdam.
The stewards reviewed the contact and let the outcome stand. Miyazono was sad about all of it the identical, telling Hardy afterward that it mirrored a scarcity of talent on his half.
He additionally races actual automobiles (he took on the Nürburgring 24 Hours in Could), and he mentioned real-world racing had stored him busy because the opening spherical, although he didn’t wish to use it as an excuse.
Serrano was the opposite story. He certified final, recovered to eighth within the dash, then completed second within the Grand Last regardless of a spin on a hairpin exit after catching a bump.
Nations Cup Grand Last Outcomes
Nations Cup Level Rating
Serrano now leads the standings on 12 factors with out successful a Nations Cup spherical this season, with Urra on 11 and Miyazono and Drumont stage on 10.
Gallo and Moreno are tied on seven, Kokubun has 4, de Bruin two, and Bonelli, Carrazza, Barbara, and Cardinal are nonetheless pointless. Three rounds have produced three totally different winners (Urra, Drumont, and now Miyazono), and as many as six drivers can nonetheless take the title.
What’s Subsequent
The World Finals return to Tokyo on December 5-6, and the printed confirmed that Fan Fest returns alongside it. We anticipate to listen to extra about Spec IV’s December half there too.
Earlier than then, the 2 Stealth Mannequin automobiles (the Ford GT Race Automobile ’18 for the Producers Cup and the SF23 for the Nations Cup) could be claimed from the in-game Viewers Marketing campaign banner till Monday, October 19, as lined in our guide.
Predict the Winners rewards arrive within the Items tab on Monday, October 5. The viewers marketing campaign labored on the day this time, a welcome change after server problems in Tokyo.
With 4 drivers inside two factors of the lead, the Nations Cup is about as open as it may be heading into Tokyo!
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