Rockstar announces Open Wheel Racing for GTA Online

Rockstar announces Open Wheel Racing for GTA Online

The IndyCar and F1 fan in me is thrilled.

7 New Tracks – street and race circuits

The future of competitive motorsport has arrived, and it’s in a hurry. Two brand new open-wheel ultra-performance vehicles. Seven high-speed tracks. Dozens of split-second decisions, from the tires you use, to whether you take that all-important pit stop. And above all: one seat, one driver, one grand prize.

SAN ANDREAS PRIX – 7 New Tracks

Height of Society
Forget the purpose-built track. For true open wheelers, it’s all about the historic street circuit. The narrow straights, the winding hairpins, the sun-drenched glamour of the French Riviera. Or in the case of the Vinewood Hills, the chubby insurance brokers doing yoga on their roof terraces.

In Due Course
Sure, Europe gave the world underage drinking and open-wheel racing. But America showed the world how to do them at the same time. And now, courtesy of City Hall, Los Santos has a city circuit custom-built to showcase the kind of visionary synthesis that makes this great nation what it is.

Lap it Up
In light of the recent spate of preventable drownings at the Port of Los Santos, the Port Authority’s audacious rebranding emphasises the stunning possibilities for exhilarating open wheel racing on a windy dockside with no safety barriers. It’s all a question of optics. Especially if you’re underwater.

Brace for Impact
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Los Santos International Airport. The runway is clear for departure. Please note, in the likely event the cockpit catches fire, the emergency team have been dismissed due to budget cuts. Turbulence is expected so fasten your seatbelt and familiarize yourself

More Haste More Speed
With the kinetic energy recovery system in your R88 propelling you with all the force and stability of black-market cluster munitions, you might wonder if there’s enough room for a conventional racetrack in Fort Zancudo. There’s not. Enjoy the S-bends.

Urban Renewal
Some say that Davis could never host an open wheel series. But a state-of-the-art pit stop is surely just the kind of public investment that an underprivileged neighborhood needs. So don’t think of the track as “poorly funded”. Those potholes and concrete blocks are the natural obstacles that separate the weekend racers from the real pros.

Urban Renewal
Some say that Davis could never host an open wheel series. But a state-of-the-art pit stop is surely just the kind of public investment that an underprivileged neighborhood needs. So don’t think of the track as “poorly funded”. Those potholes and concrete blocks are the natural obstacles that separate the weekend racers from the real pros.

THE OCELOT R88
BARELY STREET LEGAL
Available Now in Grand Theft Auto Online

Feline sleek and furious through the curves, no amount of automotive hyperbole can do the Ocelot R88 justice. Instead, simply look at it. Look. Look again. Did you look? Then what are you waiting for?

DON’T BLINK
THE PACE HAS BEEN SET
LEAVE THE PACK BEHIND

PROGEN PR4
THE FUTURE OF OPEN WHEEL RACING
Available Now in Grand Theft Auto Online

Okay, before you click off, we know what you’re thinking. The power, the handling, the aerodynamics, they’re all very well but what can you possibly do with as formidable an open wheel race car as the Progen PR4 on the city streets? You’re the one reckless enough to find out. You tell us.

SPEED IS JUST A WORD
But that’s hard to remember when you’re generating enough lateral g-force through the corners to turn your internal organs into a 16 oz smoothie.

A RACE IS WON OR LOST IN THE PITS. CHOOSE YOUR TIRES WISELY.

POLE POSITION
Performance anxiety is a thing of the past.

PERFECTION, PERFECTED

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