FIA will renew Gran Turismo 7 partnership when the online is fixed
metro.co.ukFIA isn’t using Gran Turismo 7 for its Motorsport Games tournament this year, but that doesn’t mean its involvement with the series is over.
Casual players probably never noticed, but the hardcore Gran Turismo 7 audience will have spotted a major omission from this year’s Gran Turismo World Series esports tournaments. Namely, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA).
From 2018 to 2021, the tournaments were officially sanctioned by FIA, who are to Formula One and other motorsports what FIFA is to football. However, it appears to have zero involvement with the 2022 series, with the FIA name and logo completely absent from the series’ official website.
The fact that FIA is also using a different racing sim, Assetto Corsa Competizione, for its own FIA Motorsport Games tournament suggests its relationship with Gran Turismo studio Polyphony Digital has ended. It turns out that that’s not entirely the case.
Instead, their partnership has been described as on hold due to Gran Turismo 7 currently not offering a suitable online experience for professional play.
While the game’s use of microtransactions is the most well-known problem, the online modes and lobbies are also beset with technical issues, making them unfit for the FIA Motorsport Games.
As such, FIA and Polyphony mutually agreed to temporarily suspend their partnership until improvements have been made.
When asked by Motorsport.com about it, FIA director of Formula E and Innovative Sport Activities Department Frederic Bertrand said ‘It’s not ended. For Motorsport Games, the difficulty we had at that moment is that they were not necessarily ready to support the live event as we wanted, because of GT7 and everything.
‘So we agreed with them that we will work with
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