Guides · Circuits · 4 min · updated Monday, Sep 7

The Best GT7 Tracks to Race, and What Makes Each One Hard

Guides to every Gran Turismo 7 circuit in our league season, from Dragon Trail to Spa: the corners that matter, race strategy, and what makes each track hard, in one place.

We race seventeen circuits across a season, real and fictional, tarmac, dirt, and snow. For each one we wrote a full guide: the history, the corners that decide the race, main-event strategy, and what to expect when sixteen cars hit turn one together. Start anywhere.

The real circuits

Suzuka (Japan). The figure-eight classic. The Esses reward rhythm, 130R rewards nerve, and the final chicane decides more races than any other corner. Our preseason opener.

Interlagos (Brazil). Short, counterclockwise, and relentless. The Senna S is the best overtaking spot in the game and the biggest lap-one risk.

Red Bull Ring (Austria). Ten corners, three braking zones, two long straights. Punchy, uphill, and unforgiving of a wide exit.

Watkins Glen Long (USA). Fast, flowing, American. The Esses go flat in Gr.3 if you dare, and the Boot is the soul of the lap.

Fuji Speedway (Japan). Nearly a mile of straight into a first corner that eats the unwary. A drafting track where slipstream decides everything.

Brands Hatch GP (UK). Paddock Hill Bend drops away like a trap door. Blind, downhill, and pure commitment.

Nürburgring GP (Germany). The modern circuit beside the legendary one. Technical, precise, and honest about your mistakes.

Laguna Seca (USA). Home of the Corkscrew, the blind left-right plunge every sim racer wants to nail and half of them don't.

Tsukuba (Japan). Tiny, flat, and brutally honest. The home of time attack, and our drift-trial venue.

Mount Panorama, Bathurst (Australia). A racetrack draped over a mountain. Skyline and the Dipper are where the videos come from. Our first playoff night.

Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). Eau Rouge, Raidillon, the Kemmel straight, and Ardennes weather that can flip a race in a lap. Our finale, in the Ferrari F40.

The Gran Turismo originals

Dragon Trail Seaside. A fictional Croatian coast with a chicane that wants your bumper.

Autodrome Lago Maggiore GP. Built to feel like a modern F1 venue, with a banked hairpin that rewards the brave.

Fisherman's Ranch. The longest dirt track in the series, set in the Arizona desert. Our dirt-opener venue.

Lake Louise Long. The series' snow circuit, floodlit and slippery. Our snow-opener venue.

Trial Mountain. A Gran Turismo staple since 1997, rebuilt for GT7 with a long tunnel straight.

Grand Valley Highway 1. The classic Grand Valley reimagined along a California coast road, narrow and walled.

Each circuit has a full guide with corner-by-corner notes and strategy: start at the GT7 track guides hub or The Circuits. The IFRL is a sixteen-driver GT7 league in Rochester, Minnesota; the whole 2026/27 season is on one page.

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