2024 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals

The 2024 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals was the championship finals event of the 2024 Gran Turismo World Series, which took place on December 7-8, 2024, in Theater Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to determine the champions of the both the Manufacturers Cup and Nations Cup, as well as for the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup.
The event was open to the general public, with ticket sales beginning on September 28 for Platinum tickets (a two-day ticket) and on October 4, 2024 for single-day tickets (attendees must purchase tickets for each day separately to watch all events without a Platinum ticket). 
==Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup==
The Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup portion of the event took place on December 7, 2024.
==Manufacturers Cup==
The Manufacturers Cup portion of the event took place on December 7, 2024.
==Nations Cup==
The Nations Cup portion of the event took place on December 8, 2024.
==Winners==
Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup	Jose Serrano 	Jose Serrano
Manufacturers Cup 	Lexus 	Harald WalsenHarald Walsen substituted for Igor Fraga, as Fraga had to compete in the Super GT Suzuka 350 km race taking place the same weekend as the GTWS World Finals, which was postponed from its original date in August due to Typhoon Shanshan. Coque López Kanata Kawakami Igor Fraga
Nations Cup 	Takuma Miyazono	Takuma Miyazono
Players who entered the Bonus Campaign with the correct predictions will receive a Cr. 1,000,000 Credit Ticket for each correct prediction, for a total of Cr. 3,000,000 for those who correctly predicted all three winners. The ticket(s) can be claimed starting December 10, 2024 and must be claimed before December 24, 2024.
Note that because Predict the Winners is for predicting the Grand Final race winner instead of championship winner,Receive up to 3,000,000 In-game Credits with the 'Gran Turismo World Series' 2024 World Finals - Amsterdam 'Predict the Winners' Campaign! - NEWS - gran-turismo.com. "Through this campaign, players can win In-game Credits (Cr.) by correctly predicting the winners of the 'TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GT Cup,' the 'Manufacturers Cup,' and the 'Nations Cup.' 1,000,000 Cr. will be delivered for each correct guess, with a total of 3,000,000 Cr. being delivered for correctly guessing the winners of all three Grand Final races." viewers who voted for BMW, whose team finished first in the Grand Final race, will receive the Manufacturers Cup Bonus Campaign ticket, instead of those who voted for Lexus, as the overall champion. Confusingly, the Predict the Winners page on the World Series live event overview section of the Gran Turismo official website instead mentions that the prize is for predicting "the winner of each tournament".Gran Turismo World Series 2024 "Predict the Winners" Campaign - gran-turismo.com. "Bonus Details: World Finals: World Finals One million credits will be distributed to those who correctly predict the winner of each tournament. A total of 3,000,000 credits will be distributed to those who correctly guess the winners of all three tournaments."
==Michelin Driver of the Day==
Manufacturers Cup	Lexus 	Coque López
Nations Cup 	Takuma Miyazono	Takuma Miyazono
==Viewer Campaign==
An in-game Viewer Campaign event was also held, by simply watching the stream through the game. Delivery of prizes for the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup and Manufacturers Cup streams, a six-star roulette ticket and the 2024 Champion Team car, respectively, will begin on December 10, 2024 for those who watched the broadcast in-game by December 9 at 14:59 UTC, while those who watched later (no later than December 16 at 8:59 UTC) will receive them on December 17. Delivery of the the prize for the Nations Cup stream, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N '24 (accidentally revealed on the in-game news on November 22, 2024),Nations Cup Viewers Gift: Hyundai Ioniq 5 N - /r/granturismo will begin after the release of a future game update in January 2025.Receive Three Rewards With the 'Gran Turismo World Series' 2024 World Finals – Amsterdam 'Viewers Gift' Campaign! - NEWS - gran-turismo.comThe Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Coming to Gran Turismo 7 With the January Update. See it in Action at the World Finals - Amsterdam! - NEWS - gran-turismo.com
During the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup portion of the event, the server backend handling Predict the Winners and Viewer Campaign reportedly suffered from issues preventing players from accessing both features. This issue was resolved roughly an hour following the start of the event, with roughly four laps remaining in that event's Grand Final.To all Participants of the "Predict the Winner Campaign" and "Viewers Gift Campaign" - gran-turismo.com
==Championship Standings==
;Nations Cup standings (Top 5)
No. 	Driver 	Points
1 ⬆️	Takuma Miyazono	50
2 ⬇️	Kylian Drumont 	47
3 ⬇️	Jose Serrano 	42
4 ➡️	Valerio Gallo 	41
5 ⬆️	Kaj de Bruin 	33
;Manufacturers Cup standings (Top 5)
No. 	Manufacturer	Points
1 ➡️	Lexus 	33
2 ⬆️	BMW 	32
3 ⬆️	Genesis 	19Genesis, Subaru, Mazda, and Porsche all finished with 19 points. As the tiebreaker is decided by the finishing position in the Grand Final, the third place went to Genesis.
4 ⬆️	Subaru 	19
5 ⬇️	Mazda 	19
==Trivia==
*As with all GTWS World Finals events (and the Olympics Esports Series event), a pair of replica races for the Manufacturers and Nations Cup grand finals are also available as special time-limited events starting from November 21, 2024 to December 9, 2024.
*On April 4, 2024, the Italian and Spanish versions of the Gran Turismo website's GTWS 2024 season overview page accidentally revealed that World Finals was to be hosted in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.Abu Dhabi Could Be Set to Host 2024 Gran Turismo World Series Finals - GTPlanetGran Turismo World Series 2024 Overview - gran-turismo.com (Italian, Wayback Machine as of April 4, 2024) After the original leak was removed few days later, at the GTWS Round 2 in Prague, the World Finals' final location, Theater Amsterdam in Netherlands, was revealed. It is possible that the accidental leak of the venue resulted in the World Finals being moved from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam.
*The Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup was originally intended to take place on December 6 before it was moved to the same day as the Manufacturers Cup finals due to unspecified reasons.‘World Series 2024 World Finals – Amsterdam’ Schedule Change Notice on gran-turismo.com
*The 2024 World Finals weekend marked the first World Finals since 2020 where there was no new Vision Gran Turismo car launched during the weekend; instead, the reveal of the Ioniq 5 N and the surprise reveal of the Gran Turismo F3500-A during Nations Cup's second race took its place.
*During the Nations Cup Grand Final race, some of the drivers' X2019s carry the logo of each player's respective esports teams on the engine cover, in addition to the standard country-representing livery. (Coque Lopez's car also carried the logo of a Lexus dealer in Mallorca, Spain.) The players were also allowed to wear logos representing their affiliated esports teams on their gloves for the first time.
*Due to the F3500-A being unavailable in the public version of the game at the time, Dynamic Viewing for the second Nations Cup race is not available. Additionally, Dynamic Viewing is not available for the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup races.
==Notes==
==References==
==External Links==
* GTWS World Finals on gran-turismo.com
* Drivers' Reaction - TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GT Cup Finals - gran-turismo.com
* Drivers' Reaction - Manufacturers Cup in Amsterdam - gran-turismo.com
* Drivers' Reaction - Nations Cup in Amsterdam - gran-turismo.com
* Race Report: The Spanish Drivers Show Their Dominance - gran-turismo.com
* Race Report: Speed, Strategy and Attrition Defined the 2024 Manufacturers Cup Championship - gran-turismo.com
* Race Report: The Final Races of 2024 Cap a Fitting, Dramatic End to an Unforgettable Series - gran-turismo.com
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