May is now upon us, and with May Day itself being a Friday it brings a brand new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges — as well as a day off, depending on where you are in the world.
Weekly Challenges is, in effect, a bonus game mode. It’s available only to players who’ve completed the main GT Cafe career, and appears as a special green UI element in the World Map, World Circuits, and within individual track menus too. Each week it gives you five events to take on, with four drawn from existing World Circuits races — often including one from the most-recent update — and a fifth that’s created just for the week. Since Spec III, this may even be a mission-style event as it is this week.
Completing the events during the seven-day window, before they refresh again at midnight Friday morning in your own time zone, awards you bonus gifts to encourage participation. They usually add up to a cool 1.3m credits each week, in terms of both hard cash and savings on cars you no longer need to buy (or can sell if they’re surplus to requirements).
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – May Week 1 Events
European Sunday Cup 400
- Track: Kyoto Driving Park Yamagiwa
- Laps: 2
- Restrictions: Road Car, Europe
- Win Reward: 25,000cr
This week’s low-reward starter is in the European Sunday Cup 400 at Kyoto Driving Park’s Yamagiwa circuit, with a two-lap race for a field of relatively sedate road cars from Europe. While the 400PP (Performance Point) value noted by the title is advisory for a competitive race, it’s not compulsory so you can feel free to grab a qualifying Vision GT from a relevant brand and slap the field silly if you like. If you do stick to the theme, watch out for a quick-finishing Clio RS in the closing stages if you want the 25,000cr reward for the win.
Recommended Car: Abarth 500 ’09 (415PP)
American FR Challenge 550
- Track: Trial Mountain Reverse
- Laps: 3
- Restrictions: Road Car, USA, FR
- Win Reward: 56,000cr
Another event with an advisory Performance Point rating, the American FR Challenge 550 is a fun event. You’ll need a road car from a US brand, and as standard that 550PP figure sits right between classic and modern stuff. The races here at the reverse course at Trial Mountain are quite varied and entertaining, but again you’ll need to keep a close eye on the chasing pack as there’s a Viper that can make a late break and overhaul you on the third and final lap. Don’t sit on your laurels if you want the 56,000cr for victory.
Recommended Car: Ford Mustang GT ’15 (550PP)
Special Event – Time Trial
- Track: Alsace Village Reverse
- Laps: –
- Restrictions: Audi TT Coupe 3.2 Quattro ’03 (provided)
- Gold Reward: 60,000cr*
We’ve got a return of a Time Trial event in the Weekly Challenges, this week taking place over the first sector of the reverse course at Alsace Village. Using a first-generation Audi TT 3.2 provided to you there’s a 51-second target to beat if you want a gold time and the one-time award of 60,000cr — comprising 12,000cr for bronze, a further 18,000cr for silver, and the final 30,000cr on top for gold. It’s not a tremendously difficult one though, if you can manage the car’s initial understeer.
Recommended Car: Audi TT Coupe 3.2 Quattro ’03 (provided)
Hypercar Parade
- Track: Yas Marina
- Laps: 5
- Restrictions: Road Car
- Win Reward: 90,000cr
Another race added by the recent game update, this five-lap event at Yas Marina pits you against a field of some of the fastest road cars (and the Vulcan, which isn’t one) of the last 20 years. In reality though, your only opponent is the Aston Martin Valkyrie that starts second-last and is five seconds a lap faster than anyone once it gets free. 700PP is about the point where you can make your way past the field without dragging the Valkyrie with you, but you don’t have any limits other than the road car requirement. Hold off that screaming V12 to take a 90,000cr bump for victory.
Recommended Car: Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV ’15 (690PP)
World Touring Car 800
- Track: Fuji International Speedway
- Laps: 10
- Restrictions: ≤800PP, Racing Tyres
- Win Reward: 140,000cr
We regularly see these challenges end with a World Touring Car event, and after a week away we’re back with a WTC800 event. This one, a ten-lap run at Fuji Speedway, is one of the few races that has almost guaranteed wet weather conditions at some point so you’re going to need some Racing Intermediate tyres at the very least. Ostensibly an event for Gr.3 cars, the hard 800PP limit now allows in Gr.2 and even Gr.1 cars with sufficient hampering. Whatever your choice you’ll need to be aware of some relatively high tyre wear and fuel consumption multipliers as you chase down 140,000cr (or, as you can only lose the Clean Race Bonus for a yellow flag infraction, 210,000cr) for the win.
Recommended Car: Mazda RX-Vision GT3 Concept (750PP)
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – May Week 1 Overview
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – May Week 1 Rewards
- Complete 1 event: 100,000cr Ticket
- Complete 3 events: 200,000cr Ticket
- Complete 5 events: Six-Star Roulette Ticket
It seems that we’re stuck on the same rewards — 100,000cr and 200,000cr tickets — for the first two bonuses, awarded after completing any one and any three events respectively. The final reward, for completing all five events, is a Six-Star Roulette Ticket this week, offering any one prize from 500,000cr, 1,000,000cr, or any Brand Central car (including the Brand Invitation cars) worth 480,000cr or more.
Gran Turismo 7 Power Pack Challenges – May Week 1
The new “Challenges” in the paid DLC Power Pack added by the 1.69 update are in their second week, and give us more of a clue as to how they’ll behave going forward.
You only need to finish any three Power Pack races of your choice — position doesn’t appear to matter, and you can repeat a race if you like — to claim all three rewards. Like the Weekly Challenges the first two rewards are 100,000cr and 200,000cr tickets, while the third and final reward is a Six-Star (Car) Ticket this week which can award any Brand Central car worth 480,000cr or above (including Brand Invitation cars). That draws from the same potential reward pool as the final prize in Weekly Challenges, so we can assume this will continue to be the case.
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges update at midnight on Friday morning each week, by your console’s own clock, though we’d recommend against advancing your time-zone to get them early as this will trigger an anti-cheat mechanism and prevent you earning the rewards. The next set is due on Friday 8th May.