Toyota will field five Rally1 cars when the World Rally Championship begins in Finland next month, while team principal Jari-Matti Latvala will drive a Rally2 automobile.
Rally Finland has today released the list of 80 cars entered for the famous gravel rally, which might be the ninth round of the WRC season from 1-4 August.
There are 10 Rally1 cars on the entry list, half of that are Toyota GR Yaris Rally1s, a part of an expanded line-up from the Japanese marque whose rally team is predicated within the rally host city of Jyvaskyla.
Regulars Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta might be joined by part-time drivers Kalle Rovanpera and Sebastien Ogier, while it has already been announced that Sami Pajari will end his Rally2 profession and make his Rally1 debut at this round.
Confirmation of Ogier's participation comes after the team was yet to announce whether the Frenchman will give you the option to race in Latvia later this month, following his absence from last weekend's Rally Poland on account of a crash during reconnaissance.
The three-car Hyundai Rally1 line-up will feature Finn Esapekka Lappi, who joins regular drivers Thierry Neuville and title challenger Otto Tanaka. M-Sport will field two regular entries driven by Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster.
Also in Finland, 18-time WRC winner Latvala will return to competition on the wheel of the Rally2 version of the GR Yaris, which the Finn helped develop ahead of the automobile’s launch this 12 months.
Jari-Matti Latvala, Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Principal, Elfyn Evans, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
Latvala will join the Rally2 team, which also includes favourites Oliver Solberg, Teemu Suninen, Emil Lindholm, Gus Greensmith and Pierre-Louis Loubet.
This might be Latvala’s second consecutive season in Rally Finland, having finished fifth within the one-off race last 12 months in a GR Yaris Rally1.
“It’s great that we have 10 Rally1 cars in our entry, three of which are driven by Finns, which is a good story for us,” said Kai Tarkiainen, Rally Finland Director.
“Especially Sami Pajari, who was the Flying Finn Future Star in 2019, drove a Fiesta Rally4 here and really ended up within the bushes. But he showed his speed and made huge progress after that. Going from his first WRC event to a Rally1 automobile in five years is a Cinderella story.
“The undeniable fact that Toyota has shown such commitment by fielding five Rally1 cars is something special. The special stages will feature three world champions: Kalle Rovanpera, Sébastien Ogier and Ott Tanak, who may have to be very strong to beat the defending champion Elfyn Evans.
“Seeing Latvala jump into a Rally2 car and battle it out with all these hungry youngsters will be a real treat for all the spectators. It will also be fascinating to see how he compares with Oliver Solberg and all the others at the front who will be curious to see how they compare with Latvala.”
With Formula 1 racing confined to the lower tier of drivers, the conflict between drivers wanting flexibility and teams wanting long-term commitment involves the fore.
Carlos Sainz stays the blocker who blocks the complete market, with the choice between Sauber/Audi and Williams complicated by a last-minute attack by Alpine advisor Flavio Briatore. This prompted Sainz to ask for a delay, which didn’t go down particularly well with Williams.
The Spaniard is out there with fellow F1 race winners Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas competing for the vacant seats at Audi, Williams, Alpine and Haas. Bottas' team-mate Zhou Guanyu can also be hoping Sainz's decision could open up a spot for him, although for now he looks like certainly one of the drivers on the border.
Sainz’s hesitation stems from the indisputable fact that not one of the three options seem essentially the most attractive when considering victories at Ferrari, and he also desires to retain the pliability to alter teams once it becomes clear who has met the goal within the 2026 regulations – flexibility that the majority high-profile drivers have undoubtedly built into their contracts.
But Audi, Williams and Alpine are on the lookout for loyalty and long-term commitment to enhance their teams’ fortunes. Drivers who’re prepared to work long-term are beginning to look more attractive than Sainz.
For Audi, this long-term partnership is much more necessary because the corporate knows it could not give you the chance to right away implement its factory power units when the 2026 regulations come into force, so it needs a patient approach from whoever joins Nico Hulkenberg's team.
“If it had been easy for everyone, we would have closed the driver market in February,” said Sauber team spokesman Alessandro Alunni Bravi.
“In terms of drivers, everyone seems to be keen to see what happens in 2026, and the teams need to ensure long-term stability and never change drivers.
“We have at all times said that we would like to start out in 2025 with the identical driver line-up because the Audi factory team. We don’t want to alter after a yr, that’s necessary to us.
“We placed on the table who we’re, where we would like to be and what we’re doing to get there. Of course, there’s a journey to take together.
“We have to be happy to be on this journey, including the ups and downs, especially in the first period, but no one should underestimate the impact Audi will have on Formula 1 in 2026.”
For someone like Bottas, who desires to secure his long-term future as soon as possible, such an agreement could help him secure a seat at Audi or elsewhere, even when he shouldn’t be the primary name on the shortlist for the remaining positions.
“I hope so,” he said. “During the talks, I made sure that I wanted clear goals for the approaching years, a transparent project that I could take part in and work on together.
“I'm ready to commit and I have my priorities straight. I hope that puts me in a strong position.”
In his place, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano will drive the No. 15 AMR Ford Mustang.
In a press release, the team indicated it hopes to enhance the team’s competitiveness with Logano’s support. Deegan has competed in all 17 races this 12 months with AMR but has not finished higher than twelfth. She also has eight finishes outside the highest 30, a precipitous drop in results after 2023.
Last 12 months, Brett Moffitt drove the No. 15 AMR Ford to at least one top-five and nine top-10 finishes, ending the 12 months fifteenth within the points standings. Deegan is currently twenty seventh, dead last amongst full-time drivers.
Deegan, 22, is a NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie after spending three full seasons within the Truck Series. During that point, she has five top-10 finishes in 69 starts and finished seventeenth within the points standings.
“The level of competition in the Xfinity Series is as competitive as it has ever been,” AM Racing Team President Wade Moore said in a press release. “Our goal at AM Racing is to field a competitive race team through our technical alliance with Stewart-Haas Racing and to offer each of our drivers with the very best equipment and the chance to succeed on the track every weekend.
“That said, we didn’t have the on-track success we had hoped for in the first half of the season. When the opportunity arose for Joey to get behind the wheel of the car in Chicago, we felt we had to leverage the knowledge and insight that a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion could provide to help our teams grow.”
Moore added: “We intend to take the feedback and data from the Chicago race weekend and use it to build better race cars each week so AM Racing can have a stronger second half of the season.”
Logano has not competed in a NASCAR Xfinity race since 2019, but has 30 wins as an NXS driver. In the inaugural Cup race at Chicago Street Course in 2023, he began ninth and finished eighth.
Joey Logano, Team Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang on the Winners' Lane
“Racing in the rain on the Chicago Street Course last year was a challenge in itself,” said Logano. “Any extra time in the seat is always positive for a special track like this. Driving NASCAR Xfinity Series cars is a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the No. 15 AM Racing Ford Mustang with high hopes of taking it to the front.”
Logano can be probably the most recent Cup Series winner, earning his first points victory of the 2024 season at Nashville Superspeedway. Earlier this 12 months, he also won the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Red Bull has launched an updated version of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix because it looks to fend off the growing threat from rivals Mercedes and McLaren.
The Milton Keynes side began the season in dominant fashion but have seen their advantage shrink in recent weeks as their rivals have made improvements of their very own.
Ahead of this weekend's race at Silverstone, Red Bull has notified the FIA of two significant changes it has made to the automobile's floorpan to enhance its performance.
The team said it has reprofiled the ground area above and behind the downtube of the side structure.
The statement said the change was made “based on research and comparison with full-scale results to achieve more energy and therefore greater pressure at the wing floor edge.”
In addition to changes to the ground surface, Red Bull has also reprofiled the sting wing, introducing latest details.
Red Bull added: “Given the higher inlet side pressure, the wing edge details have been subtly changed to increase camber, which translates into higher loading while maintaining the need for flow stability.”
While Red Bull is hoping for an improvement in results, its major rivals will not be resting on their laurels. Mercedes and McLaren will bring improved wings to the British GP.
Mercedes has fitted a lower downforce rear spoiler which should improve aerodynamic efficiency during high-speed passes over the Silverstone circuit.
As such, the front wing flap has also been trimmed, with a smaller chord to assist reduce load. This will help be certain that if the brand new rear wing is used, the aerodynamic balance across the automobile remains to be within the optimum window.
McLaren has also introduced a lower-downforce rear wing to cut back drag. It can be experimenting with three different load-beam wings – targeting high, medium and low drag aerodynamic loads – to optimise downforce/drag levels on the rear of the automobile for optimum performance.
The Woking-based team also introduced latest bodywork, featuring a further cooling vent within the engine cover to extend airflow.
Justin Haley, who began last within the series’ inaugural street race last July, took the lead with 30 laps remaining, but with the race shortened by darkness, he finished with a big fuel reserve.
As it turned out, van Gisbergen, a three-time Supercars champion making his first Cup start, passed Haley for the lead after a late-race restart after which held on to his advantage in extra time to say victory on the two.2-mile, 12-turn course through Grant Park in downtown Chicago.
It was Haley’s only top-five results of the 2023 season, but when he finished one position higher, a win could transform his season.
A 12 months later, van Gisbergen is competing full-time within the Xfinity Series, where he has won two road races this season, while also competing part-time within the Cup Series as he prepares for a full-time move to the series in 2025.
In the off-season, Haley moved to Rick Ware Racing and helped turn the organization around to grow to be a team that was consistently performing well each week.
Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing, Enhance Health Chevrolet Camaro celebrates victory
Since a lot of the competitors in Sunday’s race in Chicago have already got street racing experience, Haley believes the dynamic of this 12 months’s event might be quite different.
“Of course SVG is going to be fast, but you know, I don’t think he was in shape all weekend (last year),” Haley said. “Denny (Hamlin) won last 12 months, and the teams have definitely improved.
“Now that we’ve all done it, it’s only a road route, with slightly bit more risk factor if there’s an issue.
“He'll be fast again. I mean, he's done it his whole life. But I believe, or like to think, that we could catch up with him a little bit.”
Justin Haley, Rick Ware Racing, Plus Parts Ford Mustang
Haley said two things worked in van Gisbergen’s favor last 12 months – a brand new venue for Cup drivers and difficult weather conditions that required the usage of wet-weather tires, which ultimately shortened the event.
“I’m more confident about the whole thing, right? I think in the first practice we were all a little nervous,” he said. “And, uh, yeah, the rain all weekend was definitely tough. But yeah, the boldness level is just going up.
“You know, we have new tracks like North Wilkesboro and Iowa, and that's (still) just what you've done your whole life. Then you go there, you add the term 'street track' and you have concrete barriers super close and everything is different.”
“I just think about the logistics, knowing where everything is and how the process works. I think it will be a lot smoother for everyone this year.”
Although the 25-year-old Winamac, Ind., native currently sits thirty first within the series standings, he has two top-10 finishes within the last six races and 4 Thirteenth-place finishes or higher.
Haley believes he can once more be a title contender on the street racing series.
“I hope (the weather) is better this year, but I'm excited. I'm excited about every week we get to race now,” he said.
“There are some places where you go to a racetrack and also you say, ‘Wow, this is, this is amazing,’ right? And I believe, you understand, after we all got there last 12 months, we were really excited as an industry.
“It's nice to be in the city center and be in the middle of all the action.”
Lando Norris has warned Formula 1 bosses they risk making racing “boring” if drivers proceed to be penalised for running wide after making mistakes within the battle for position.
In the warmth of the moment following Norris' collision with Max Verstappen in Austria last weekend, the indisputable fact that the McLaren driver was handed a five-second penalty for running wide after failing to pass his Red Bull rival a couple of laps earlier was almost completely lost.
Norris had already been penalised for 3 track limit breaches, and locking his wheels and running into the corner at Turn 3 was such as a five-second penalty.
Norris believes common sense must be exercised in this case if we are not looking for drivers to be discouraged from overtaking.
“It’s pretty stupid, to be honest,” Norris said of the track limit situation. “I attempted to pass, I blocked the automotive, I went off the track after which I attempted to avoid the sausage kerb.
“Then I immediately gave the position to Max, so I probably lost a second and a half on that. It's clearly not a penalty. I lost it by doing something like that.
“That kind of thing will keep people from racing. If you don't want us to race and you don't want me to try to overtake and have a boring race, then you can have those rules.”
With the problem of track restrictions prone to be discussed at team and driver meetings at Silverstone this weekend, Norris is hopeful that enough unanimity has been reached to alter the regulations.
“I’m sure this has been covered before, because there’s a difference between going off beam and gaining a bonus, and going off beam since you made a silly mistake and didn’t judge something perfectly.
“The fact that you get penalized for that, especially in a racing situation, especially when I put even more time into it, just doesn't make sense. So I hope they fix it quickly.”
Norris found allies within the view that receiving a track limits penalty for making a mistake while fighting for position was unfair.
RB's Yuki Tsunoda said he was stopped for the same offence on the Spanish Grand Prix, which left him very upset.
The Japanese said: “In Barcelona, I believe I went wide in Turn 1 and since I used to be fighting with one other automotive, I forced myself to go wide. Of course, I took the fitting [escape] strategy to rejoin the track next to the cone and I followed the principles but they treated it as exceeding the track restrictions [penalty].
“I mean I didn't gain anything. Of course I let the automotive pass and eventually I joined the automotive behind me. I had two possibilities [already and] considered these to be track limitations.
“I don't understand why we use this as a track limit. It's just ridiculous, this rule.”
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20, Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, battle for the lead
Norris's penalty in Austria wasn't the one controversy linked to trace restrictions. His team-mate Oscar Piastri continues to be unhappy about features of him losing his best lap in qualifying after it was deemed he made a poor exit at Turn 6.
While there isn’t a longer a basis to debate this particular incident with the FIA, the Australian believes there are issues that should be addressed in the longer term.
“I think for me there are two points,” he said. “I believe the primary one is that if there’s a spot for a automotive to depart, we monitor that in a good way.
“The evidence that led to my lap being removed was from a helicopter that was just on me during that lap, which is a little bit painful when there are other people who potentially flew off as well who didn't have the helicopter on them. So I think it's a very fine line.”
“Then we need to have some discussions” [about solutions]”But the easiest way to get rid of this problem is to widen the white line by 20 cm and we won't have to worry about it at all.”
Hocevar, 21, is currently competing in his rookie season as a Cup driver. During the Cup race at Nashville, Brad Keselowski crashed and received a caution on lap 244.
As the sector slowed down on the straight, Hocevar began to slip into the back of Harrison Burton, who was running in twenty fifth place. Hocevar eventually steered Burton to the correct, causing a multi-car pileup [Todd Gilliland and Austin Cindric] need to take evasive motion to avoid a bigger incident. John-Hunter Nemechek also narrowly escaped arrest.
The No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford of Burton sustained no significant damage in the course of the spin, and the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet of Hocevar continued without incident. Hocevar finished sixteenth and Burton twenty eighth.
NASCAR took no motion on the time, and nobody was called to the carrier to debate the incident. However, on Tuesday, NASCAR decided to tremendous Hocevar $50,000 and dock him 25 driver points. The penalty drops him from twenty second to twenty fourth within the championship standings.
NASCAR said Hocevar violated Section 4.4B of the NASCAR Members’ Code of Conduct, calling it a conduct penalty. This isn’t the primary time Hocevar has been penalized for intentional contact on the track. Last 12 months, he was stopped for 2 laps during a truck race at Martinsville after trying to select on Taylor Gray on the track.
The only other penalties from the weekend involved two NASCAR Truck Series teams with loose wheel lugs. Crew chiefs Jon Leonard (No. 42) and Jeriod Prince (No. 88) were each fined $2,500.
A yr ago, three-time Australian Supercar champion Shane van Gisbergen got into white and blue NASCAR Cup Series automobile on the streets of Chicago. It was the primary time the NASCAR Cup Series raced on a street track, and van Gisbergen raced for the primary time at NASCAR's highest level — in a one-off entry sponsored by part time road crewnothing less. Record rainfall flooded the track, and the TV commentators couldn't even pronounce his name.
(Then) 34 years old from New Zealand entered the 2023 Chicago Street Course within the Trackhouse Racing “Project91,” which is an “all-star car” for drivers from other series. The automobile is less of a NASCAR audition and more of a showcase — a fun solution to see what a talented outsider can do in NASCAR. Only two drivers have raced with Project91: van Gisbergen and retired Formula 1 champion Kimi Räikkönenwho drove well but never achieved a powerful end in the automobile. When a star driver tries a distinct type of racing, it’s more about show than performance.
Van Gisbergen’s debut victory prompted his decision to maneuver to America and pursue NASCAR full-time this yr, a choice he says he’s surprised looking back by how unexpected all of it was.
“Nobody thought we’d go out and win that race,” van Gisbergen tells me, recalling the race that modified his life. “That feeling when the radio opens and the engineer or the crew chief comes over shouting how exciting it was to win, and that brief surge of emotion you feel – it’s hard to explain, but it’s an incredible feeling.”
The race was treacherous, with drivers racing through the rain all day. Formula 1 champion Jenson Button he spun attempting to get to the pit lane. Pole position winner Denny Hamlin he hit the tire barrier on the second lap; Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick did the identical later, with water spraying from the barriers on impact. By the midway point of the race, greater than a dozen cars were piled up in the identical corner.
Shane van Gisbergen celebrates his victory in Chicago 2023
With 16 laps to go, van Gisbergen was running eighth. The drivers were using different pit stop strategies, with some teams opting to remain on old tyres to achieve track position and others choosing fresh tyres. Van Gisbergen pitted, giving him more speed but more cars to pass.
And he did. Van Gisbergen devoured every automobile, passing race leader Justin Haley with five laps to go. Shortly after, one in all the TV commentators began to comment, “Van Gi-vis-bu-bur…” They abandoned that thought.
Van Gisbergen cruised to victory, making NASCAR history and changing the trajectory of his life. Americans who didn’t know his name learned about him, and the victory landed him where he’s now: full-time in NASCAR.
“On the cool-down lap, everyone came up and hit the back of the car or the side of the car,” van Gisbergen said. “Everyone was giving thumbs up and stuff like that. It was overwhelming. Stopping on the straight, all the people – it was just so unexpected.”
It was the primary time a driver won on his debut within the Cup. in 60 years. But there may be a reason why van Gisbergen selected This race: He's a street racing ace, and the brand new Cup Series “Next Gen” race automobile looks more like a sports automobile (built to show left) than a standard NASCAR automobile (read: built to show a technique). AND (good). That makes ita friendlier machine for international racing stars identical to van Gisbergen, who led the race in Chicago next tocolleague one-time entry Button. Even if Cup drivers are higher on road courses than ever beforevan Gisbergen had the advantage.
Still, everyone raved about him winning the race while driving on the left side of the automobile (versus the suitable, like within the Australian supercar). But that wasn't as difficult for van Gisbergen as working with NASCAR's latest five-speed sequential gearbox and stick shift.
Shane Van Gisbergen is racing within the Xfinity Series this season
“I've driven a lot with the steering wheel on the left, so switching between the two doesn't bother me too much,” said van Gisbergen. “It was just a gear change [that was different]. I've never really changed sequential gears like that. In a rally car, there was a gear shifter — but it was a typical rally gearbox, so you didn't have to use the clutch to downshift or anything like that. The Cup car was a bit specific in that way.”
Van Gisbergen's victory in Chicago got here at a turning point in his profession. Australian Supercars has just introduced latest automobile own. As van Gisbergen told Dale Earnhardt Jr. in an interview last yr: “Racing sucks. It's so boring. You're driving at 30 percent, trying to keep the tires on, and everyone's just following each other.”
“I was quite happy with Supercars until last year when the new car came along,” van Gisbergen tells me. “The way the series was going, I just didn’t like it. Then you get a shiny new toy or opportunity and that just gets me going.”
“When we were in Chicago, I definitely had no plan or intention to come here or do more races,” van Gisbergen said. “It was pure chance. But when we got that result, everything snowballed. It all happened very quickly, in the way that [Trackhouse team owner] Justin Marks made it happen.”
Trackhouse is a young band, but because it was founded by Marks modified the landscape of NASCAR in 2020. Marks says Trackhouse is an entertainment brand, which is why he didn’t name the team after himself — like many other NASCAR team owners — and why he’s developed ventures like Project91. Trackhouse is concentrated on creating buzz in addition to on-track success, and van Gisbergen’s victory achieved each.
A yr after his victory, van Gisbergen is a full-time NASCAR competitor, signed a development cope with Trackhouse and moved to America within the off-season. He has already won two races within the second division NASCAR Xfinity Series—each on road courses—with Kaulig Racing. He also This yr I’m collaborating in several Cup raceswith the goal of getting used to NASCAR's busy oval track racing schedule before moving to Cup on a everlasting basis.
“I knew I needed a year to learn and adapt, to fit in here and settle in the country before I was in the Cup next year,” van Gisbergen said. “Jumping into the Cup after six months of preparation probably wouldn’t have been great. It would have been very, very difficult.”
Van Gisbergen doesn’t have any crazy ambitions in NASCAR. He just desires to get to the Cup Series and master the art of NASCAR’s biggest races.
“I want to be better on ovals,” said van Gisbergen. “It would definitely be great to win [an oval] race someday, but I do know I'm a great distance from that — winning it on merit. I do know I'll at all times be good on the road course. That'll come naturally. It's on the ovals that I actually have to maintain recuperating.”
As van Gisbergen settles into racing in America, he’s quick to thank a friend in Australia for the encouragement. Retired Supercars champion Marcos Ambrose, who moved to the States to race in NASCAR almost 20 years ago, has been in his ear the entire time.
“He just kept saying, ‘You’ve got to get it there. Make it work. Try to do everything you can to get it to the States,’” van Gisbergen said. “He was one of the first guys I called when I found out I was getting the drive, and he gave me a lot of advice on that.”
Van Gisbergen said his influence began even before the Chicago race that modified his life.
“He said something like, 'You have to try it and make sure you can work there full time. You'll never regret it.' And so far I haven't.”
Fresh set Gran Turismo 7 Weekly challenges change into available to players as midnight strikes around the globe and consoles change the date to July 5.
Weekly Challenges are a brief, fastidiously curated list of 5 events which can be mostly drawn from existing World Circuits races, but may — as this week — also include a one-off special event created only for that week.
This is a one-make for the Volvo V40 T5 added in update 1.48 in May 2024, and in contrast to its first appearance in Weekly Challenges, you’ll be racing on tarmac — specifically, the Autodrome Lago Maggiore East track. It’s a four-lap blast in a four-cylinder (yes, the Japanese T5s had a four-cylinder engine) Volvo in any state of tune, with a prize of 85,000cr for victory.
There are a few relatively low-value races this week, starting with the Japanese 4WD Challenge 600 at Trial Mountain. You’ll need any road automotive or “professionally tuned” automotive from Japan with four-wheel drive (GT doesn’t differentiate between four-wheel drive and all-wheel drive) for this two-lap race price just 20,000cr. Don’t worry in regards to the “600” within the name, as that’s only a suggested Performance Point (PP) rating.
This is accompanied by an identical race within the European Clubman Cup 600 – again with the 600PP because the suggestion. This time you’ll need any European road automotive (any form of drivetrain) for a three-lap race across the Sardegna Road Track A, with 25,000cr to be won.
The prize money increases barely within the Historic Sports Car Masters race at Goodwood, where five laps are price 55,000cr. There are various restrictions, nevertheless, including a tough 580 PP limit. Here too, you’ll need a road automotive, but crucially just one from 1960 to 1989 inclusive. Also do not forget that it’s essential to have began the suitable Bonus Menu Book, 46, to see this race.
Only the most important winner of all of them stays, within the World Touring Car 800. Again, there's a tough 800PP limit for this race, which takes place on the Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise, and also you'll also must have race tires fitted to qualify. It's a 10-lap race, and rain can play a component, so be certain that you’ve gotten not less than Intermediate tires available – and be careful for prime tire wear. Victory is price a cool 200,000cr.
There are credit rewards to be won when you complete one and three challenges this week, price 100,000 cr and 200,000 cr respectively. Don't forget that these aren't directly deposited: you'll must redeem the tickets from the Gifts section of your garage to receive the cash. Complete all five events inside a seven-day window and also you'll receive a Six-Star Roulette ticket.
You must complete GT Cafe Menu Book 39 and watch the ultimate cinematic to access the Weekly Challenges. Events update at midnight local time on Thursday evenings/Friday mornings, so we expect the following set to go up on Friday, July twelfth morning.
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges: Viva Volvo 18
Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges – 1st week of July:
Autodrome Lago Maggiore East – special event
Number of laps: 4
Restrictions: Volvo V40 T5 '13
Prize for winning: 85,000 cr
Goodwood Motor Circuit – The Champions of Historic Sports Cars
Number of laps: 5
Restrictions: Road automotive, ≤580PP, 1960-1989
Prize for winning: 55,000 cr
Sardegna Road Track A – European Cup Clubman 600
Number of laps: 3
Restrictions: Road automotive, Europe
Prize for winning: 25,000 cr
Tokyo Expressway East clockwise – World Touring Car 800
Denny Hamlin managed to pass Ross Chastain for the lead with six laps remaining within the Nashville race, however the race modified dramatically when a late caution threw the sphere into chaos.
Five overtimes followed, with Joey Logano taking the checkered flag for Team Penske, beating Zane Smith and Tyler Reddick to the finish line.
Kyle Larson leaves Nashville with a 20-point lead within the regular-season championship, just ahead of his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliot.
Shane van Gisbergen is the defending champion on the Chicago Street Course, having defeated Justin Haley to win in his debut for Trackhouse. The three-time Supercars champion will compete within the Xfinity and Cup races this weekend.
In the news this week, Josh Berry confirmed he’ll join Wood Brothers Racing in 2025, replacing Harrison Burton. Additionally, NASCAR penalized Carson Hocevar for crashing Burton throughout the Nashville Cup race. Additionally, Joey Logano will run within the Xfinity race at Chicago for AM Racing, replacing Hailie Deegan.
What is the NASCAR race schedule in Chicago?
(The schedule is preliminary and subject to vary)
Saturday, July 6
10:00 AM ET – NASCAR Xfinity Series Practice – USA NETWORK
11:00 AM ET – NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying – USA NETWORK
12:30 PM ET – NASCAR Cup Series Practice – USA NETWORK
1:30 PM ET – NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying – USA NETWORK
3:30 p.m. ET – NASCAR Xfinity Series Race (50 Laps) – NBC
Sunday, July seventh
4:30 p.m. ET – NASCAR Cup Series race (75 laps) – NBC
Joey Logano, Team Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang
Who is competing within the Grant Park 165 on the Chicago Street Course
There are 40 entries in Chicago with 4 open rounds. Shane van Gisbergen will drive the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, attempting to defend his 2023 victory. Kaulig will field the No. 13 automotive for AJ Allmendinger. Richard Childress Racing can even field a 3rd automotive, putting Austin Hill within the No. 33. RFK Racing will bring back its No. 60 Ford with sports automotive racing veteran Joey Hand because the team’s driver. Finally, MBM Motorsports has Josh Bilicki within the No. 66 entry.
