Sport Mode (GT7)

The main menu of Sport Mode's Race Entry menu in GT7.

The Sport Mode (スポーツモード) is one of the multiplayer modes available in Gran Turismo 7, consisting of online races in predetermined stipulations. Unlike its previous appearance in Gran Turismo Sport, Sport Mode is less emphasized as the game's main mode.

Sport Mode unlocks when the player completes GT Café's Menu Book No. 9, "Tokyo Highway Parade". An active PlayStation Plus subscription and registration of the player's current email address and residence location with Sony Interactive Entertainment is also required for participation in online races, but are not required for time trials of any kind.

Daily Races

For a complete history of Daily Races in GT7, see Sport Mode (GT7)/Daily Races.

Daily Races are online race events that can be played at any time. The races are updated weekly each Monday (at 07:00 am UTC). There are three levels of Daily Races:

• Daily Race A: Intended for beginner level players, starts every 20 even (:00, :20, :40) minutes. Consists of short-distance races, usually using low-to-medium power road cars, as well as karts. Since May 30, 2022, races in this slot are unranked, in which SR are not affected by finishing (DR may also not count in certain races, such as early races during the decision were made, as well as oval races; ranked races in this slot has also been held on rare occasions, such as on the week of September 12-18, 2022). Variety races are often held in this slot.
• Daily Race B: Intended for intermediate level players, starts every 20 odd (:10, :30, :50) minutes. Consists of short-distance races, usually involving Gr.4/Gr.3 race cars.
• Daily Race C: Intended for advanced level players, starts every 30 minutes (can also start every hour instead when that week's race is especially long). Consists of longer races using race cars from the racing categories. Because the distance is longer, fuel and tire wear are often set to other than 1x; mandatory tire compound rules may also appear.

For the first two weeks of the game's life, only Races A and B were available; the inaugural Race C began on March 14, 2022.

Unlike in GT Sport, Livery Editor number boxes are no longer affixed if the player does not have one set. This also applied to championship races prior to the official 2023 season. From the 2023 official season onwards, championship races had number boxes automatically affixed to cars again, although some races in the 2025 pre-season exhibitions were held without them installed.

Starting from version 1.13, the player can loan cars provided for the event for both daily races and championship events, except for events allowing tuning. (Inversely, for events with pre-configured loanable cars, the player may not use their own cars).

Lap Time Challenges

For a complete history of Lap Time Challenges in GT7, see Sport Mode (GT7)/Lap Time Challenges.

Lap Time Challenges were added to the game in the 1.15 update. A rebranding of Time Trials from GT Sport's Sport Mode, these are (typically) two-week long events where the player aims to set the fastest lap time possible around a given track, either with a provided car or a car selected from a specified group, for example Gr.3. Update 1.17 added credit rewards for completing these events - normally 2,000,000 credits for coming within 3% of the world record time, 1,000,000 for coming within 5%, and 200,000 for coming within 10%. Additionally, update 1.32 increased the number of events active at a time to 2, offset so that one event finishes each week.

Special events hosted at the behest of third parties, such as online qualifiers for the Olympic Esports Series, Japan National Sports Week, Porsche USA Esports Challenge, and Honda Racing eMS Fastest Attack, as well as a special time trial commemorating the release of the Gran Turismo film, are also occasionally found in the Lap Time Challenge menu. Starting from the 2024 season, time trials tied in to GTWS live events also become a common fixture.

Championships

For a complete history of online Championships in GT7, see Sport Mode (GT7)/Championships.

Online championship events also make their appearance in GT7, with addition of league system that determines where the player will race against. There are three league divisions for championships that use the league system:

• GT1, if the player begins the season with DR A or higher
• GT2, if the player begins the season with DR B
• GT3, if the player begins the season with DR C or lower

These league classifications apply for the entirety of the season. Additionally, players will only race against, and scored with (in the championship standings) drivers from the same league as the player is currently in the beginning of the season. Only GT1 League drivers can qualify for live events. For 2023, an additional change was made where GT1 League races were set to have longer races and less time slots while lower leagues have shorter races and more time slots available to them. (Some races may have the same length for both GT1 and lower leagues.) The 2023/2024 Exhibition Season 1 also introduced heavy damage setting for those in GT1 League (with some exceptions, for instance that season's fourth round of Nations Cup, held at Special Stage Route X), as well as different car class settings for Manufacturers Cup, where GT1 League drivers will only use Gr.3 cars, while lower league players will use Gr.4 cars on alternating rounds (even-numbered in case of 2023/2024 Exhibition Season 1). Some later Manufacturers Cup exhibition seasons were held with Gr.3 cars exclusively regardless of the league. From 2025 pre-season Exhibition Season 2, the damage settings for GT1 League players were reverted back to light.

Gran Turismo World Series

Main article: Gran Turismo World Series

Gran Turismo World Series is the continuation of the former FIA Gran Turismo Championship, now entirely organized by Polyphony Digital. Three test seasons of the World Series were started starting on March 21 and the inaugural full season began on May 27-28, 2022. As with the GT Sport iteration, it is divided into two series: the Nations Cup where drivers compete for themselves representing a country, and the Manufacturers Cup (formerly the Manufacturers Series), where the player represent one of the participating manufacturers.

• For 2022, Nations and Manufacturers Cups were held back-to-back each Friday and Saturday and divided into two seasons, with the first season (May to June) determining the entry to the Showdown and the second season (August to September) determining the entry to the World Finals. (One pre-taped race were also held before the Showdown and two pre-taped races were held before the World Finals to determine points standings for the live events.) Players may switch leagues if their DR changes at the end of the season, but for Manufacturers Cup, drivers may not switch manufacturers between seasons.
• For 2023, Nations and Manufacturers Cups were no longer held back-to-back and in two seasons; instead, the Nations portion began first, from May 13 to June 3, followed by the Manufacturers portion on June 7 to July 1. Races are usually held every Wednesday and Saturday. While the Manufacturers format remained the same, the Nations Cup qualification format for the live events were changed so that it is no longer on per-player basis, but rather a team representing specific countries (consisting of top three drivers of each country's GT1 League standings), with the country selection process decided by the country's top driver position in the overall GT1 League standings.
• For 2024, the format remained the same as with 2023 (Nations Cup held first between April 17 to May 4, then Manufacturers Cup from May 8 to May 25), but the Nations Cup format reverted to individual drivers, in which specified top number of drivers from GT1 League (five in EMEA, two each in North America, Central/South Americas, and Asia, and one in Oceania) makes it to Nations Cup live events. The Manufacturers Cup format also changed where each live event serves as points races involving only one driver from each region. The format remained the same for 2025 (with Manufacturers Cup held first between April 2 to 19, then Nations Cup between April 23 to May 10), but the number of Nations Cup drivers from North America and Asia were reduced to one to make room for previous season's top 3 in live event standings.

Several caveats apply with regards to qualification criteria:

• Should an underage player reach a position that would result in them qualifying for World Series events (18 years old, except for drivers from South Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, or United Arab Emirates, which has higher minimum age of 19 for South Korea/21 for aforementioned Middle East countries), they will be replaced with the highest-placing driver of legal age. (Starting in 2024, players were supposed to reach minimum age before the first live event, although Antonio Santos was allowed to compete in the 2024 World Finals after turning 18 before that event; see below.) This has occurred to three drivers:
  • Pol Urra of Spain finished ahead of Nicholas Romero in the European GT1 League standings, as well as top BMW driver in the EMEA region entering the 2022 World Finals. Urra was substituted by Romero for Nations Cup and Jose Brea took over his Manufacturers Cup seat.
  • Calen Roach of the United States finished second in the American GT1 League standings in 2022, for which he was replaced by Robert Heck. The following year, he was the third highest-ranked US-based player and the top BMW driver in the Americas entering the 2023 Showdown, for which he was replaced by fourth-place Randall Haywood for the Nations Cup and Peruvian driver Rodrigo Regalado for the Manufacturers Cup.
  • Antonio Santos of France was the top scoring driver for Chevrolet in the EMEA region entering the 2024 GTWS live event season. Rayan Derrouiche took over his seat for 2024 Gran Turismo World Series Round 2, however Santos did participate in the World Finals, with both Santos' and Derrouiche' names being present on the car's roof rails.
• If a driver withdraws after they confirmed their participation, their slots usually will not be replaced. This occurred to Takuma Miyazono, Arnoldo Daetz, and Andrew Brooks after all three tested positive for COVID-19 prior to the 2022 Showdown (as well as Andrew Lee, who withdrawn with an unspecified health issue, although Manuel Rodriguez did serve as substitute for Nicolas Romero - both of which drove for Genesis - who had also withdrawn due to COVID-19), as well to Angel Inostroza entering the 2023 Showdown after he suffered a traffic accident a month before the event.
  • During the 2024 season, several drivers had their live event participation swapped due to visa-related issues, however. For instance, Honda's Americas driver Mateo Estevez and EMEA driver Valerio Gallo swapped rounds (Gallo did Round 1 at Montreal and Estevez raced at Round 2 in Prague) as Estevez was unable to obtain a Canadian visa. Inversely, two Brazilian Manufacturers Cup players competed in Round 3 at Tokyo instead of Montreal for possibly similar issues.

Nations Cup

In Nations Cup, the player races for their country (as registered on PlayStation Network ID). Like in GT Sport, all car classes are used, as well as uncategorized vehicles, whether as one-make event or as multi-car event. There are no restrictions on the country of origin of the car the player can drive; the player is also not obliged to use their current Manufacturers Cup "loan" car, if the player has any, for Gr.4 or Gr.3 races. As of version 1.13, the player can also rent a courtesy car (also applicable to Daily Races) instead of using a garage car.

The live event qualification format for Nations Cup has changed three times throughout the history of GT7:

• For 2022, players qualify and compete on "every player for themselves" basis much like in GT Sport. Each region is allocated a number of qualifying drivers, with a limit of two drivers per country, for a total of 16 players (Showdown)/18 players (World Finals) making it to each live events (plus "legacy" competitors - previous season's World Finals competitors in the Showdown, and the Showdown competitors in the World Finals).
• For 2023, players represent their country on a team basis, similar to Manufacturers Cup. Each region is allocated a specific number of countries that qualifies to the live events, decided by the country's top driver in the GT1 League standings; for instance, if Driver_A from Country A is placed first, Driver_B from Country B places third, and Driver_C from Country C is in fifth in the regional GT1 League standings, the overall placement of Driver_B and Driver_C will decide which country makes it to the live events (by rule, the driver from the country leading the table will have their country automatically qualify as well).
  The country's contingent for the live events is decided by top three drivers of that country's GT1 League standings, regardless of their placement in the regional standings. For instance, if Driver_A from Country A leads both regional and per-country table while Player_A and Racer_A is in fourth and sixth in the regional standings, but is in second and third in the per-country standings, these drivers will join Driver_A in the live events.
• For 2024, the rules reverted to the 2022 rules, but without a country cap or participation of "legacy" drivers from previous World Finals; a total of 12 drivers (with allotment of five drivers from EMEA, two each from North America, Central/South Americas, and Asia, plus one from Oceania) competing in Nations Cup live events. There is also no per-region driver nationality limit. These changes were noticeably met with negative reactions from GTWS veterans ahead of the season's announcement.
• For 2025, the format remained the same as in 2024, but with previous season's top three in live event points standings being guaranteed to participate in live events. To make room for this, the number of drivers per region were reduced to four for EMEA, and to one for North America and Asia (Central/South American and Oceania slots remain unchanged).

Manufacturers Cup

In the Manufacturers Cup, the player signs with a manufacturer that has at least one Gr.4 and Gr.3 car and compete with aim of bringing the chosen manufacturer as the season's champion. As such, competition is done with Gr.4 and Gr.3 cars only; however unlike in GT Sport, the player can use any of the race cars belonging to their signed manufacturer (for instance, a Nissan driver may elect to use their loaned Nissan GT-R Gr.4 or their own Nissan SILVIA spec-R AERO (S15) Touring Car for Gr.4 races). For 2025, only Gr.3 cars are used, with GT1 League races having competed with Gr.3 cars only in 2023 and 2024 (several exhibition seasons since 2023 were also held with Gr.3 cars only); however, the game still loans a Gr.4 car in this case.

A contract with a qualifying manufacturer is valid for one season. The player retains the car until a new contract is signed with the same or different manufacturer. Loaned cars can be used in any other mode, but cars belonging to an expired season cannot be used in a Manufacturer Cup race; a new contract must be signed and thus new instances of the cars. Because the cars are considered as loaned, if the player does not previously own the car, the "sponsored" cars (as the game calls it in the car selection screen), marked with green checkered flag on the car selection screen, will not appear in the Car Index, nor it will be considered as acquired. (For the 2022 season, Season 1 and Season 2 are considered the same season for Manufacturer Cup contract purposes; players are not allowed to switch manufacturers between seasons).

All drivers' points for each manufacturer will count towards the Global Manufacturer Ranking (for 2025, only five out of six points finishes count); the top 12 manufacturers will qualify to the live events, with the representative driver chosen by each manufacturer's top driver in the GT1 League for each three regions. Should a partner manufacturer (Toyota and/or Mazda, as well as Genesis between 2022 to 2024) fell out of top 12, they will replace the lowest performing non-partner manufacturer(s) that would have otherwise qualified. This has occurred twice so far: in the 2023 season; Genesis finished 13th in the standings behind Ferrari, who finished 12th; Genesis' partner status effectively bumped out Ferrari from the live events that year. The following year, Genesis finished 17th in the standings, bumping out 12th place finisher Lamborghini.

The following is a list of eligible manufacturers for Manufacturers Cup, along with cars that can be loaned from them (only the most recent car can be loaned; currently, three manufacturers, AMG, Nissan, and Subaru had their loan Gr.3 cars changed throughout the game's life, and no manufacturer had their loanable Gr.4 car changed, even with the addition of the Mazda3 Gr.4). The Bugatti Veyron Gr.4 is currently ineligible to compete due to Bugatti not having a Gr.3 car. Suzuki became eligible for participation starting from the season 2 of 2022 Manufacturers Cup with the addition of Suzuki Vision Gran Turismo (Gr.3 Version).

In the table below, (P) indicates a partner manufacturer, while (FP) indicates a former partner manufacturer.

Manufacturer	Loanable Gr.4 car(s)	Loanable Gr.3 car(s)
Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 4C Gr.4	Alfa Romeo 4C Gr.3
AMG	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gr.4	Mercedes-AMG GT3 '16 (2022) Mercedes-AMG GT3 '20 (2023-present)
Aston Martin	Aston Martin Vantage Gr.4	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 '12
Audi	Audi TT Cup '16	Audi R8 LMS Evo '19
BMW	BMW M4 Gr.4	BMW M6 GT3 Sprint Model '16
Citroën	GT by Citroën Gr.4	GT by Citroën Race Car Gr.3
Chevrolet	Chevrolet Corvette C7 Gr.4	Chevrolet Corvette C7 Gr.3
Dodge	Dodge Viper Gr.4	Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R '15
Ferrari	Ferrari 458 Italia Gr.4	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 '13
Ford	Ford Mustang Gr.4	Ford GT Race Car '18
Genesis (FP)	Genesis G70 GR4	Genesis X GR3
Honda	Honda NSX Gr.4	Honda NSX Gr.3
Hyundai	Hyundai Genesis Gr.4	Hyundai Genesis Gr.3
Jaguar	Jaguar F-type Gr.4	Jaguar F-type Gr.3
Lamborghini	Lamborghini Huracán Gr.4	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 '15
Lexus	Lexus RC F Gr.4	Lexus RC F GT3 '17
Mazda (P)	Mazda Atenza Gr.4	Mazda RX-Vision GT3 Concept
McLaren	McLaren 650S Gr.4	McLaren 650S GT3 '15
Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Edition Gr.4	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Edition Gr.3
Nissan	Nissan GT-R Gr.4	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 '13 (2022) Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 '18 (2022 World Finals Exhibition-present)
Peugeot	Peugeot RCZ Gr.4	Peugeot RCZ Gr.3
Porsche	Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport '16	Porsche 911 RSR (991) '17
Renault	Renault Sport Mégane Trophy '11	Renault Sport R.S.01 GT3 '16
Subaru	Subaru WRX Gr.4	Subaru WRX Gr.3 (2022) Subaru BRZ GT300 '21 (2022 World Finals Exhibition-present)
Suzuki	Suzuki Swift Sport KATANA Edition Gr.4	Suzuki Vision Gran Turismo (Gr.3 Version)
Toyota (P)	Toyota GR Supra Race Car '19	Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept '18
Volkswagen	Volkswagen Scirocco Gr.4	Volkswagen Beetle Gr.3

Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup

The Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup also returned to GT7. Initially held without the league system above, the league system was also extended to the TGR GT Cup starting in 2023. Several races also began to feature non-Toyota vehicles, usually in Gr.3/Gr.4 races, with the Honda version of the Dallara SF19 Super Formula '19 being allowed at the eleventh hour for the second SF19 races in the 2022 season. (For the 2024 season, the Gr.3 race featured Lexus RC F GT3 '17 instead of Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept '18; a similar race the previous season did not permit the use of the RC F GT3 despite Lexus being a Toyota-owned marque.)

Additionally, separate championships are also organized in Southeast Asia and Middle East by respective Toyota branches in order to provide additional chances to players from regions that would have reduced chance from qualifying to the live finals from the in-game event alone. Drivers who won their way into the World Finals this way are considered as part of the TGR Slot.

Unlike GTWS events, the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup also allows for underage players to compete in live events with parental consent, but only for Asian finalists except for South Korea. This occurred for the first time in the 2024 World Finals, which featured Ryunosuke Hayashi (17 at the time of competition) and Koki Ishino (14 at the time).

Ratings

Each player is rated by two ratings: Driver Rating (DR) and Sportsmanship Rating (SR), also referred as "safety rating". How it works is largely unchanged from how it was in GT Sport.

For players who played both GT Sport and GT7, these ratings are carried over during transition between both games, using ratings captured as of February 15-16, 2022.

Beginning from the 2025 pre-season Nations Cup Exhibition Series (held between January 25 to February 1, 2025), championship races reward (or deducts) higher DR points compared to championship races. Additionally, the update releasing that month increase maximum DR rating score from 100,000 points to 150,000.

Matchmaking

Matchmaking method is similar to how it was in GT Sport, with one additional piece of ordering logic. Unlike in GT Sport, players are now ordered by the letter of their DR before they are ordered by SR and DR values - this means that an A+ DR/A SR player in GT7 will be ranked behind all players with A+ DR/S SR, but still ahead of all players with A or lower DR no matter how good their SR is (in Sport, this player would drop below all players with S SR no matter how poor the other player's DR was). This change means that new players, who enter with E DR/B SR, no longer encounter strong players with poor sportsmanship, but at the cost of having lobbies at the boundaries of DR letter changes be of mixed SR rating.

Additionally, for Daily Races, players are also separated on per-console basis, where PlayStation 4 players will only race against other PS4-bound players, and the same for PlayStation 5 players. GTWS events pool both consoles together.

In 2025, there was one country that switched region matching (for Nations Cup purposes): Mexico switched from Central/South America region to North America.

Trivia

The segment from the Manufacturers Cup intro video; note the incorrectly colored liveries on the Huracan, AMG GT3, and the Viper.

• The Sport Mode's menu background is based on PlayStation 5's system menu.
• There is an error in Manufacturers Cup race intro where some cars (namely the Mercedes-AMG GT3 '16, Lamborghini Huracán GT3 '15, and Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R '15 appear with regular liveries, but with the base color of the variation counterparts. A similar bug previously appeared in the Daily Workout screen whenever a variation livery version of certain Gr.3 cars appeared in the screen (although it has been since been fixed), as well in the Racing Etiquette video (for the AMG GT3 only, in one of the scenes).
• The Racing Etiquette video also contains segments of various road cars racing against each other, despite in practice road car racing in Sport Mode tend to be one-make races.
• For the week of March 2 to 9, 2025, Sport Mode contained three races of the same combo (Dallara SF23 Super Formula '23 at Suzuka Circuit), to coincide with the start of the 2025 Super Formula season: as that week's Daily Race A, as Time Trial (beginning March 6 to 20) and as the finale for the GTWS Nations Cup Exhibition Season 2 (held March 8, 2025).
  • Several lap time challenges have also been held timed to coincide with real-life racing events.

External links

• Sport Mode on gran-turismo.com:
  • EMEA region
  • North America region
  • Central/South Americas region (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Asian region
  • Oceania region
• GTWS World Finals Beginners Guide (2023 season) on gran-turismo.com
• GTWS Live Event Viewer's Guide on gran-turismo.com