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GT7 Daily Races:

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Race A

• Track: Tokyo Expressway - Central Clockwise, 4 Laps
• Car: Daihatsu Copen Active Top '02 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Comfort Medium
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Specified
• Tire use: 1x
• Fuel use: 1x
• DR and SR changes enabled.

Race B

• Track: Willow Springs International Raceway - Big Willow, 7 Laps
• Car: Gr.4 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Racing Hard
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Brake Balance
• Fuel use: 1x
• Tire use: 1x

Race C

• Track: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, 14 Laps
• Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Racing Medium (1 mandatory stop)
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Brake Balance
• Fuel use: 3x
• Tire use: 6x

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Subreddit/game news:

• Known issues list
• General GT7 FAQ / UCD and LCD line-up / Engine swap list / Ticket drop rates / BoP Info
• Current game version as of this WDT is 1.69.
• GTWS Rome is in one week away on May 23! Check out the event info and don't miss out on the Predict the Winner and Viewer Campaigns! Plus, next week (May 20) also marks the 10th anniversary of FIAGTC/GT Sport demonstration run at Copper Box in 2016.

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Previous thread

Welcome to the weekly discussion thread! Ask questions, post your rants, brag about your in-game accomplishments (race wins, roulette drops, etc.), all here. Don't forget to join our Discord server if you haven't!

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GT7 Daily Races:

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Race A

• Track: Trial Mountain Circuit, 4 Laps
• Car: Wicked Fabrication GT 51 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Sports Hard
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Specified
• Tire use: 1x
• Fuel use: 1x
• DR and SR changes enabled.

Race B

• Track: Kyoto Driving Park - Yamagiwa, 5 Laps
• Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Racing Hard
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Brake Balance
• Fuel use: 1x
• Tire use: 1x

Race C

• Track: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, 11 Laps
• Car: Gr.1 – Garage/Provided Car
• Tires: Racing Medium (1 mandatory stop)
• BoP: On
• Tuning: Brake Balance
• Fuel use: 3x
• Tire use: 6x

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Subreddit/game news:

• Known issues list
• General GT7 FAQ / UCD and LCD line-up / Engine swap list / Ticket drop rates / BoP Info
• Current game version as of this WDT is 1.69.
• Our thoughts and prayers are with Alex Zanardi, who passed away on May 2, 2026.
• GTWS Rome is in two weeks away on May 23!

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Previous thread

Inspired by this comment on /r/japannews, which touches on the common topic on why Japan has never been fully apologetic for its World War II war crimes. (EDIT: Emphasis on fully - something I forgot to mention in the title here.) This is also in addition to the related issue of xenophobia/racism frequently brought up in foreigner-dominated Japan subs, to which their Tokugawa-era isolationism can be, honestly, be blamed for that (but that, as well as those subs' fixation with that issue, are whole side topics for this CMV).

Combine this with the frequently asked alternate history question/situation of "what if Hirohito was executed?" and one of the common answers being the rise of Japanese Communist Party (JCP) into power (which was a reason why the U.S. opted not only to keep the Imperial institution, but also to unpurge war criminals in order to build a Cold War-era anti-communist bulwark). Given JCP's consistent opposition to both the imperial family and the war, as well as the declining state of both economy and public faith towards the state in 1945 for losing the war, it makes sense that, for Japan to be apologetic towards WWII war crimes much like Germany today, the JCP would have needed to run Japan as a clean-state republic for at least the 1940s to 1950s.