A fresh set of Daily Races has rolled over in Gran Turismo 7, and the headline act this week is the Honda Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car taking on Suzuka.

That’s a pairing worth paying attention to. The EK Civic touring car is front-wheel drive, light, and low on outright power, which means Suzuka’s flowing first sector becomes a momentum exercise rather than a horsepower contest. Cars like this reward tidy inputs and punish overdriving — scrub speed in the Esses and you’ll spend the rest of the lap watching the gap grow. It’s also the kind of combo where slipstreaming and corner-exit discipline decide races, since nobody has the grunt to simply drive away from the pack.

The rest of the weekly lineup is live alongside it, covering the usual spread of Gr. machinery for drivers who’d rather race something with downforce. As always, the new combos run for the week before the next rotation, so there’s time to put in practice laps before committing to a ranked lobby.

Why it matters: Daily Races are still the backbone of GT7’s online scene, and the weekly reset is effectively the game’s matchmaking heartbeat. A spec touring car at a circuit as well-known as Suzuka tends to produce close, high-quality lobbies — everyone knows the track, the car is equal, and there’s nowhere to hide a weak sector. If your driver rating has plateaued in faster machinery, a week in a slow, honest front-driver is a genuinely useful reset for fundamentals. And if you just want tight racing without a big time investment, combos like this are usually where you find it.

Full details on the week’s races are up on GTPlanet.

Originally reported by GTPlanet.