Toyota Gazoo Racing Launches the GR Supra GT Cup for Playstation® 4

15 March 2019

Toyota Gazoo Racing have already won world championship events on the track and the rally stage, now they are entering the world of e-Motorsports, launching the new GR Supra GT Cup for PlayStation®1 4.

As well as debuting Gran Turismo Sport’s first global one-make series on 14 April, Toyota Gazoo Racing will also become an official partner of the FIA2-certified Gran Turismo Championships, an online driving simulator competition series.

By making e-motorsports one of the pillars of their activities, Toyota Gazoo Racing are working to make competition and sports cars more accessible and enjoyable for people all around the world. They also plan to use experience and feedback from the initiative to support their mission to build ever-better cars in the future.

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GR Supra GT Cup overview

The GR Supra GT Cup will run from April to August 2019. Preliminary online rounds will be held worldwide leading to a finals event at the Tokyo Motor Show in October. Participants must be aged six years or older and own Gran Turismo Sport for PS4® and the necessary PS4® software.

Details of how to enter can be found at https://toyotagazooracing.com/jp/e-motorsports/.

A dedicated GR Supra GT Cup section will be added to the Toyota Gazoo Racing website, https://toyotagazooracing.com/e-motorsports/, providing detailed information about the circuits to be used for each round of the championship.

The opening event in the Gran Turismo Sport world series, the FIA Gran Turismo Championship World Tour 1, will take place tomorrow (16 March) in Paris. The GR Supra GT Cup will be announced at a panel session3 featuring Kazunori Yamauchi, President of Polyphony Digital Inc, and Tetsuya Tada, Chief Engineer of the Toyota GR Supra. The event will be broadcast live on Gran Turismo TV, the official Gran Turismo YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAPfIQ66W4.

1 ”PlayStation” is a registered trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. “PS4” is a trademark of the same company.

© 2019 Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Developed by Polyphony Digital Inc. ”Gran Turismo” logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

2 Fédération International de l’Automobile.

3 Start time 15:30 CET/14:30 GMT; event content and speakers may be subject to change without notice.

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