This week brings three new combinations in Gran Turismo 7 for Week 40 of 2026. We're heading to Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise, Autodrome Lago Maggiore Full Course Reverse, and the Red Bull Ring. It's two short sprints and a proper strategy race, with a garage full of tuned sports cars to open, a Gr.3 dash with a big credit bonus in the middle, and 12 laps of Gr.4 in Austria to finish.
Daily Race A: Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise in tuned sports cars
Tokyo Expressway East Clockwise in Japan spans just over 7 km with 13 corners and 32 m of elevation, with a longest straight of 2 km. It's a city circuit lined with walls the whole way round, long straights broken up by tight urban bends, and there's no run-off to save you when you get one wrong.
Race A runs on Racing Hards for 4 laps, with standard fuel and wear and no pit stops, and you pick your car from a set list of 12 tuned sports cars. It's the same line-up as when this race last ran in Week 47 of 2025, when we described them as custom-built cars that differ slightly from their original counterparts.
That last run gives us a useful starting point. The Nissan R32 GT-R NISMO '90 was the most-used car by some distance, picked by just under a third of the field, ahead of the Pagani Huayra '13 and the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series '20. But update 1.71 adjusted Performance Points and individual car parameters throughout the game, so the balance between these 12 may have moved since then. Try two or three of them in practice, and see what the quick drivers settle on once a few hundred entries are in.
Four laps at standard fuel and wear makes this a sprint, so qualifying and a clean first lap matter most. The long straights will keep the pack close in the slipstream, and the walls punish anyone who tries to force a move into a tight bend. Brake a touch early on lap one and let the others find the walls.
Daily Race B: Autodrome Lago Maggiore Full Course Reverse in Gr.3
Autodrome Lago Maggiore Full Course Reverse in Italy has 17 corners and a longest straight of 0.8 km. It's one of Polyphony's own circuits, technical and medium-speed, and it has become a Daily B regular. This is its fifth appearance of 2026, and every one has been 4 laps.
Gr.3 on Racing Mediums for 4 laps, standard fuel and wear, and no pit stops. With the World Series running this week, Race B also pays a 1000% bonus on credits after the race, as it usually does on World Series weeks. If you're short on credits, this is the race to run on repeat.
It's another sprint, so qualifying and lap one are everything. Running the layout backwards changes every braking point and the rhythm of the whole lap, so bin a few laps in practice learning where to brake before you worry about a quick one.
There's a genuine car choice in Gr.3, so check the current Gr.3 BoP before you settle on one. And if you're following the World Series itself, Nations Cup Round 3 heads to Sardegna on 10 October with a field of pre-war and 1950s classics.
Daily Race C: Red Bull Ring in Gr.4
The Red Bull Ring in Austria has 10 corners and a longest straight of 0.94 km. It's in Spielberg, Styria, and it's a lap of big stops and hard acceleration, so the time is in how well you brake and how early you get back on the power.
Gr.4 on Racing Mediums or Racing Softs for 12 laps, with ×2 fuel, ×5 tyre wear, and no mandatory pit stop. This is the strategy race of the week, and the big question is whether to stop at all.
The usual trade-off applies. The Softs are quicker over a lap but won't last as long, so at ×5 wear they point towards one stop for fresh rubber. The Mediums give you a better chance of going the distance, and a no-stop race saves you the whole pit-lane loss, but only if they hold their pace to the flag. Fuel at ×2 matters more than usual here, because a no-stop run has nowhere to top up, and you may need to lift and coast late on to make it.
The last time this combination ran was Week 1 of 2026, also 12 laps of Gr.4 on Mediums or Softs, but at ×6 wear and before update 1.71 revised tyre heating and wear values. So don't lean on old wear numbers. Run a few practice laps on each compound, work out how many laps the tyres keep their pace and what a lap costs in fuel, then choose between one stop and none.
Final Thoughts
A really nicely balanced week. The tuned sports cars at Tokyo will reward a smart car pick and a tidy lap between the walls, the Gr.3 sprint at Lago Maggiore will reward whoever learns the reverse layout, with a very generous payout on top, and the Gr.4 race at the Red Bull Ring will reward whoever gets the compound and the stop call right.
The Red Bull Ring is the one we'd circle. Twelve laps with two compounds, heavy wear and no forced stop leaves the whole strategy in your hands, and the drivers who do their homework in practice will have the edge.
Let us know what you think about this combination. It looks like it could be a very interesting one.
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