World Touring Car 900

The World Touring Car 900 is a 5 race event that appears in Gran Turismo 7. where it was added as part of Update 1.40, released on November 2, 2023. The races are located at the World Circuits menu and the tracks are unlocked by progressing through the GT Café.
== Races ==
Circuit 	Race Length	Credits (1st)	Credits (2nd)	Credits (3rd)	Update
Autopolis International Racing Course	10 laps 	Cr. 150,000 	Cr. 90,000 	Cr. 60,000 	v1.40
Nürburgring GP 	10 laps 	Cr. 135,000 	Cr. 81,000 	Cr. 54,000 	v1.40
Suzuka Circuit 	10 laps 	Cr. 170,000 	Cr. 102,000 	Cr. 68,000 	v1.40
Trial Mountain Circuit 	10 laps 	Cr. 160,000 	Cr. 96,000 	Cr. 64,000 	v1.40
Circuit de la Sarthe 	10 laps 	Cr. 400,000 	Cr. 240,000 	Cr. 160,000 	v1.44
==Opponent List==
These are the typical opponents of this event:
Note: Opponents highlight in bold are marked World Series drivers.
Driver 	Car 	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5
T. Labouteley	Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM '98 	 	 	 	 	
E. Lim 	Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM '98 	 	 	 	 	
J. Serrano 	Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM '19 	 	 	 	 	
A. Inostroza 	Honda NSX CONCEPT-GT '16 	 	 	 	 	
K. Pounder 	Honda NSX CONCEPT-GT '16 	 	 	 	 	
V. Gallo 	Honda NSX GT500 '08 	 	 	 	 	
M. Pinnell 	Honda NSX GT500 '08 	 	 	 	 	
Q. Jehoul 	Lexus RC F GT500 '16 	 	 	 	 	
L. Ordonez 	Lexus RC F GT500 '16 	 	 	 	 	
D. Heldt 	Lexus PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 '08 	 	 	 	 	
S. Seelan 	Lexus PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 '08 	 	 	 	 	
K. Drumont 	McLaren F1 GTR - BMW '95 	 	 	 	 	
J. Brea 	BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car '97	 	 	 	 	
I. Fraga 	Nissan GT-R GT500 '99 	 	 	 	 	
N. Moysov 	Nissan XANAVI NISMO GT-R '08 	 	 	 	 	
T. Yamanaka 	Nissan XANAVI NISMO GT-R '08 	 	 	 	 	
K. Kawakami 	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 '16 	 	 	 	 	
R. Sternberg 	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 '16 	 	 	 	 	
P. Urra 	Toyota GT-One (TS020) '99 	 	 	 	 	
T. Sasaki 	Toyota Supra GT500 '97 	 	 	 	 	
== Strategy ==
In this event, the player will be facing Gr.2 cars as opponents (and 90s Gr.3 cars as field fillers) and the sizable gap between 1st at the start of the race, especially at Nürburgring and Autopolis, can pose a challenge. Any of the 2016-spec GT500 cars should be a perfect match for these races, although any other race car with less than 900 PP, such as some Gr.1 cars (detuning may be required for others), Porsche 917 Living Legend, and open wheel cars (mainly the McLaren MP4/4 '88 and the F1500T-A) will also work. However, Gr.1 cars such as the Toyota GR010 HYBRID '21 (with careful acceleration), Nissan R92CP '92 and the Sauber Mercedes C9 '89 can make very easy work for both tracks.
Fuel consumption is heavy on most of these tracks ranging from 8x to 10x, with the exception of Circuit de la Sarthe having 4x. Although playing with the fuel map is not recommended, chances of finishing these races with a faster time without pitting is likely for cars that have good fuel efficiency and tire durability. Any car that can do around five laps while on Fuel Map 1 can also still post fast times in any of the races they enter. This is also why using a road car is not recommended for this event - although a racing engine swap might mitigate the fuel concern, the player is also at a potential aerodynamic disadvantage, and the excess power can also result in a car that is hard to control.
On top of high fuel wear, tire wear is also high; therefore, cars that don't have good tire durability will have to pit for fresh rubber rather than just go to the end, at cost of slower overall lap times.
Nürburgring and Autopolis are the only races where wet conditions can interfere at any point making wet tires important to buy before entering as well as using the weather radar before and during the race to know when to pit.
The top opponents are likely to not pit at all at the Nürburgring if it does not rain out, but they do in the other races. The only key opponent to watch out for at Circuit de la Sarthe is Pol Urra in the Toyota GT-One, who has the fastest car on the grid. Additionally, the race at La Sarthe has penalties enabled, so care must be taken to ensure track limits are not violated and that the player enters and exits the pit correctly.
==Trivia==
*Note that this event does not require players to only use Gr.2 cars, as some cars such as the Toyota GR010 HYBRID '21 can take part despite being a Gr.1 vehicle. In fact, Gr.1 cars are eligible to race, including some VGT cars that do not exceed 900 PP.
**Additionally, some 90s Gr.3 cars appear as field fillers, due to the limited amount of Gr.2 cars currently present.
*In an inverse of each respective drivers, Lucas Ordonez (who traditionally drives Nissan cars) drives the RC F GT500, while Igor Fraga (which in real life drives the Anest Iwata-sponsored RC F GT3 in Super GT) drives the GT-R GT500 '99.
*Despite being an event intended at race cars, unlike World Touring Cars 700 and 800, this event doesn't have tire restrictions where only Racing tires is allowed.
Category:GT7 Events