{"id":383220,"date":"2026-01-02T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383220\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:28:15","slug":"start-as-you-mean-to-go-on-gtplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383220\/","title":{"rendered":"Start as You Mean to Go On \u2013 GTPlanet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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24 hours after celebrating the coming of the New Year, gamers will be also be partying \u2014 perhaps with a little less vigor \u2014 at the latest new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, arriving at midnight Friday morning in your local time zone.<\/p>\n

Weekly Challenges have been with us for more than two years now, since being introduced in Spec II, and while there was a little change in the Spec III update<\/a>, the format remains roughly the same. Especially in a week like this where the \u201cSpecial Event\u201d is a regular race.<\/p>\n

It presents five challenges each week, comprising four standard race events from World Circuits and a fifth Special Event created just for the week which now may be a standard race or a time trial or mission event.<\/p>\n

A bonus game mode available to players who\u2019ve finished the main GT Cafe career mode, Weekly Challenges update each week at midnight on Friday morning and offers a quick way to get a little bump in your credits while checking off some races you might have missed from your Event Directory.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/p>\n

Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges \u2013 January Week 1 Events<\/p>\n

American Clubman Cup 700 \u2013 Daytona<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s lowest-reward event is the American Clubman Cup 700 at the Daytona Road Course. You\u2019ll need any road or tuned car from any US brand (SEMA winners fill out that secondary category) for this one, and you can run in any state of tune; don\u2019t worry about the \u201c700\u201d notation, as that only refers to a Performance Point value for a competitive race and not a limit. It\u2019s a four-lap race that\u2019s longer than you might think, so the low 30,000cr payout is barely worth the energy thinking up a non-smurf car.<\/p>\n

European Sunday Cup 400 \u2013 Grand Valley<\/p>\n

Slower, shorter, but better-paying is the European Sunday Cup 400 race at Grand Valley\u2019s South Reverse course. Racing the new layout of Grand Valley this way gets the nasty part out of the way first before returning to something more familiar from memory, and you\u2019ll need a road car from Europe for this one. Again, the \u201c400\u201d part of the name is just to get a relatively fair race against the AI, but with just 35,000cr on the table we won\u2019t blame you for whipping out a Vision GT and lapping them.<\/p>\n

Porsche Cup \u2013 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya<\/p>\n

The first of two marque-themed events this week takes you to the \u201cNo Chicane\u201d layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP \u2014 which misses out the final RACC chicane of the GP circuit. It\u2019s a round of the Porsche Cup which allows you to use any Porsche of any kind in any state of tune so long as it\u2019s within a 650PP limit. There\u2019s one AI who comes on a bit strong near the end when he escapes traffic, so don\u2019t get complacent on the final lap if you want your 81,000cr reward.<\/p>\n

Nissan GT-R Cup \u2013 Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve<\/p>\n

The Nissan GT-R Cup is back for the second time in three weeks, offering you a 700PP-limited race in any of the roadgoing Nissan Skyline GT-Rs and GT-Rs in the game at the new Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. You can even use the new GP-Tuned car from the Power Pack if you have it. It\u2019s a relatively quick, five-lap affair, with 88,000cr on the table for taking the win.<\/p>\n

Special Event \u2013 Yas Marina<\/p>\n

An anachronistic F1 fantasy mashup awaits in this week\u2019s final event, a Special Event featuring either of the two fictional Gran Turismo F3500 cars inspired by 1990s Formula One. The track is, of course, the new Yas Marina Circuit which \u2014 having been opened in 2009 \u2014 never featured the real thing in-era. Both the A and B are available with no tuning limit, and the AI uses both with a variety of body mods and engine swaps<\/a>, so this five-lap race is quite the treat even if the 90,000cr victory prize is on the low side.<\/p>\n

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Completing Weekly Challenges will score you some bonus rewards in addition to the prize values of the events, awarding higher-value bonuses as you finish more events. These are sent as tickets to your Garage\u2019s Gifts section, and you\u2019ll to need to redeem them to claim the prizes they contain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a set of three credit rewards this week, with the most common line-up of prizes of all. There\u2019s a 100,000cr ticket for finishing any one event, an additional 200,000cr ticket for completing any three, and the regular top-prize 500,000cr ticket when you clear the whole set.<\/p>\n

In order to have access to the Weekly Challenges<\/a> you\u2019ll need to have completed GT Cafe Menu Book 39 and watched the ending movie. The events update at midnight local time on Friday mornings, so we\u2019d expect the next set of the new-look events on the morning of Friday January 9.<\/p>\n

Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges \u2013 January Week 1 Overview<\/p>\n

Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya GP NC \u2013 Porsche Cup<\/p>\n

Number of Laps: 5<\/p>\n

Restrictions: Porsche, \u2264650PP<\/p>\n

Win Reward: 81,000cr<\/p>\n

Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve \u2013 Nissan GT-R Cup<\/p>\n

Number of Laps: 5<\/p>\n

Restrictions: Nissan GT-R (Selection), \u2264700PP<\/p>\n

Win Reward: 88,000cr<\/p>\n

Daytona Road Course \u2013 American Clubman Cup 700<\/p>\n

Number of Laps: 4<\/p>\n

Restrictions: Road\/Tuned Car, USA<\/p>\n

Win Reward: 30,000cr<\/p>\n

Grand Valley South Reverse \u2013 European Sunday Cup 400<\/p>\n

Number of Laps: 3<\/p>\n

Restrictions: Road Car, Europe<\/p>\n

Win Reward: 35,000cr<\/p>\n

Yas Marina \u2013 Special Event<\/p>\n

Number of Laps: 5<\/p>\n

Restrictions: Gran Turismo F3500-A\/B<\/p>\n

Win Reward: 90,000cr<\/p>\n

Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges \u2013 January Week 1 Rewards<\/p>\n

Complete 1 event: 100,000cr Ticket<\/p>\n

Complete 3 events: 200,000cr Ticket<\/p>\n

Complete 5 events: 500,000cr Ticket<\/p>\n

See more articles on Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"24 hours after celebrating the coming of the New Year, gamers will be also be partying \u2014 perhaps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-383220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}