The Gran Turismo World Series (also referred to as the GTWS ) is a series of professional Gran Turismo world championship esports tournaments, managed directly by Polyphony Digital . The championship contains two series that are held concurrently throughout the year: the Nations Cup (entrants from their respective countries will represent them) and the Manufacturers Cup (entrants will race for and represent their chosen manufacturer). The series uses Polyphony Digital's latest sim Gran Turismo 7 .
55-699: Through 2018 to 2021, the Gran Turismo World Series was previously sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . Polyphony Digital's partnership with the FIA is currently on hiatus. The Nations Cup and Manufacturers Cup trophies are laser-scanned reproductions of Italian sculptor Umberto Boccioni 's 1913 bronze futurist sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space , chosen by Polyphony Digital as it represents
110-663: A driver rating of C and lower. However, only those in the GT1 League are eligible for participation in the World Series and World Finals live events. World Series drivers including previous champions Igor Fraga, Mikail Hizal, Takuma Miyazono, Tomoaki Yamanaka, Valerio Gallo, Coque López, and Daniel Solis appear in Gran Turismo 7 as AI opponents and License Test coaches. The World Series races are usually streamed live from Dock10 studios on YouTube and Twitch under
165-843: A first-hand view of the civil unrest and governmental crackdowns. Returning to Italy in 1907, he briefly took drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice . He had first visited the Famiglia Artistica, a society for artists in Milan , in 1901. As he travelled from one city to the other, in parallel with his most ground-breaking artistic endeavours, he worked as a commercial illustrator. Between 1904 and 1909 he provided lithographs and gouache paintings to internationally renowned publishing houses, such as Berlin-based Stiefbold & Co . Boccioni's production in this field shows his awareness of contemporary European illustration, such as
220-517: A key figure in at least forty-five of his works, in various media. The writing of his Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista ( Technical manifesto of Futurist sculpture ), published on 11 April 1912, was Boccioni's intellectual and physical launch into sculpture; he had begun working in sculpture in the previous year. By the end of 1913 he had completed what is considered his masterpiece, Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio ( Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ), in wax. His goal for
275-458: A more realistic racing experience in virtual motorsport. It permitted the Japanese studio to feature content certified by the FIA and launch an online championship in Gran Turismo 6 for the following year in 2015. It would be the earliest example of an official online championship managed by Polyphony Digital and sanctioned by the FIA. The following year in 2016, Polyphony and the FIA announced
330-437: A number of young English artists, in particular C.R.W. Nevinson , who joined the movement. Others aligned themselves instead to its British equivalent, Vorticism , led by Wyndham Lewis . "Boccioni's gift was to bring a fresh eye to reality in ways that, we now recognise, defined the nature of the modern movement in the visual arts and literature, too." --Michael Glover (art critic, The Independent ) Italian involvement in
385-576: A rift between himself and some of his Futurist comrades. As a result, perhaps, he abandoned his exploration of Dynamism, and instead sought further decomposition of a subject by means of colour. With Horizontal Volumes in 1915 and the Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni in 1916, he completed a full return to figurative painting. Perhaps fittingly, this last painting was a portrait of the maestro who purchased his first Futurist work, The City Rises . Between 1906 and 1915 his mother Cecilia Forlani appeared as
440-404: A set of Sony Alpha photography equipment were given out that year, followed by a set of BBS wheels for 2021. Toyota , Genesis , Mazda , Michelin , Brembo , Sony Alpha , BBS , and Fanatec serve as the series partners of the World Series. The series is provided with clothing by Puma and peripherals by Fanatec. All virtual races in the tournament take place in specified locations all around
495-713: A woman on a balcony overlooking a busy street. Today the former also is owned by the Museum of Modern Art, and the latter by the Sprengel Museum in Hanover . Boccioni spent much of 1911 working on a trilogy of paintings titled " Stati d'animo " (" States of Mind "), which he said expressed departure and arrival at a railroad station – The Farewells , Those Who Go , and Those Who Stay . All three paintings were originally purchased by Marinetti, until Nelson Rockefeller acquired them from his widow and later donated them to
550-449: A year on La città sale or The City Rises , 1910, a huge (2m by 3m) painting, which is considered his turning point into Futurism. "I attempted a great synthesis of labor, light and movement" he wrote to a friend. Upon its exhibition in Milan in May 1911, the painting attracted numerous reviews, mostly admiring. By 1912 it had become a headline painting for the exhibition traveling Europe,
605-417: Is also the only participant to have won a championship in both the Gran Turismo World Series and real-world motorsport. Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni ( US : / b oʊ ˈ tʃ oʊ n i , b ɒ ˈ -, b ɔː ˈ -/ , Italian: [umˈbɛrto botˈtʃoːni] ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of
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715-542: Is divided into four stages, with each stage hosting ten rounds. By the end of each stage, another World Tour event is hosted, which includes the top players from that stage instead of the top drivers from the previous season. The top players who are selected after the series must sign an application form in order to be able to participate for the World Tour events, and they must also be over 18. The Online Series goes on for five to seven months. The "Live Events" begin after
770-566: Is known as 'Pro-Am', where competitors of the series would pair with various personalities, spanning from content creators to professional racing drivers, including former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya and seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton . Exhibition races have also been hosted by Sony 's artificial intelligence department, Sony AI, where select series drivers race against their agent known as 'Gran Turismo Sophy', developed in collaboration by Sony AI, Sony Interactive Entertainment , and Polyphony Digital . This race
825-646: The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art held an exhibition reconstructing several of the destroyed sculptures. Hangar-7 Hangar-7 is an events venue, gallery and museum space adjacent to Salzburg Airport. Designed to bring together arts, aviation and the culinary arts, the venue hosts the Michelin-starred restaurant Ikarus, two bars and a lounge alongside a collection of historical airplances, helicopters, Formula One racing cars, and more in rotating exhibitions. Hangar-7
880-624: The First World War began late in May 1915 with Italy's declaration of war on Austro-Hungary. The "Lombard Battalion Volunteers Cyclists and Motorists", which Boccioni was part of, set off in early June from Milan to Gallarate , then on to Peschiera del Garda , in the rear of the Trentino front. In July 1915, the volunteers were intended for a sector of the front around Ala and the Gardesana. On 24 October 1915, Boccioni participated in
935-681: The Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces. Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria . His father
990-525: The Italian 20-cent euro coin . Soon after Boccioni's death in 1916 (and after a memorial exhibition was held in Milan ), his family entrusted them for an impermanent time to a fellow sculptor, Piero da Verona ; da Verona then requested that his assistant place them in the local rubbish-dump. Marinetti's outraged account of the destruction of the sculptures was slightly different; in his memoirs, he stated that
1045-651: The Scuola Libera del Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma . He also studied under the Liberty style poster artist Giovanni Mataloni . The little known about his years in Rome is found in the autobiography of his friend Gino Severini (1883–1966), who recalled their meeting in 1901 and mutual interest in Nietzsche , rebellion, life experiences and socialism. Boccioni's writings at this time already express
1100-472: The aesthetics of the group: "While the impressionists paint a picture to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the picture to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus paint the picture." He exhibited in London, together with the group, in 1912 ( Sackville Gallery ) and 1914 (Doré Gallery): the two exhibitions made a deep impression on
1155-432: The "Online Series" is started, every season begins with a "World Tour" event, containing the top drivers from the season prior. The winner from the World Tour event gains direct access to the "World Final" event. A phase dubbed as the "Online Series", which is essentially a qualification phase to decide the participants that will race in the live events of the championship tournament, kicks off every season. The Online Series
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#17327903009761210-709: The 2020 Sydney World Tour event, with the Showdown round in Theater Amsterdam at Amsterdam , the Netherlands . Players can participate in the Online Series from within the Sport mode of Gran Turismo 7 . Players that register are separated in three leagues based on in-game driver rating ; 'GT1 League' with a driver rating of A and higher, 'GT2 League' with a driver rating of B, and 'GT3 League' with
1265-711: The Galerie Bernheim-Jeune , and the following year returned to show his sculptures at the Galerie La Boétie: all related to the elaboration of what Boccioni had seen in Paris, where he had visited the studios of Cubist sculptors , including those of Constantin Brâncuși , Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Alexander Archipenko to further his knowledge of avant-garde sculpture. In 1914 he published Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) explaining
1320-815: The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Beginning in 1912, with Elasticità or Elasticity , depicting the pure energy of a horse, captured with intense chromaticism, he completed a series of Dynamist paintings: Dinamismo di un corpo umano ( Human Body ), ciclista ( Cyclist ), Foot-baller , and by 1914 Dinamismo plastico: cavallo + caseggiato ( Plastic Dynamism: Horse + Houses ). While continuing this focus, he revived his previous interest in portraiture. Beginning with L'antigrazioso ( The antigraceful ) in 1912 and continuing with I selciatori ( The Street Pavers ) and Il bevitore ( The Drinker ) both in 1914. In 1914 Boccioni published his book, Pittura, scultura futuriste ( Futurist Painting and Sculpture ), which caused
1375-462: The Online Series. The Nations Cup category includes the top 90 players (30 per region) with the highest points across all four stages. Three different live events occur, with each live event carrying a specific world region. The top 10 players from those regions enter the "World Final" event, a championship stage to decide the number one player. The Manufacturer Series category includes the top 48 players (three players per region) and 16 manufacturers with
1430-511: The Showdown event in August and for the World Tour grand finals in December. For the new team-based Nations Cup format, entries were decided based on the highest finishing players affiliated with their country in the points standings. The top three competitors of each country would form the lineup for their respective team. Events with live audiences also returned in 2023 for the first time since
1485-573: The Sport mode of Gran Turismo 7 . Players that register are separated in three leagues based on in-game driver rating ; 'GT1 League' with a driver rating of A and higher, 'GT2 League' with a driver rating of B, and 'GT3 League' with a driver rating of C and lower. However, only those in the GT1 League are eligible for participation in the World Series and World Finals live events. Polyphony Digital announced its partnership with governing body Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile in June 2014 to provide
1540-604: The United States, hold the most individual Manufacturer Series titles with two each, Fraga and Yamanaka for Toyota , and Miyazono and Solis for Subaru . Fraga and Miyazono hold the most championship titles in total with four, each holding one Toyota GR GT Cup title, one Nations Cup title, and two individual Manufacturer Series titles. Miyazono scored a treble in 2020 by winning the Toyota GR GT Cup and both GT World Series championships. Coque López from Spain became
1595-482: The battle of Dosso Casina. On 1 December 1915, the battalion was dissolved as part of a general reorganization; the volunteers were laid off temporarily, then each was called up along with the class. In May 1916 Boccioni was drafted into the Italian Army , and was assigned to an artillery regiment at Sorte of Chievo, near Verona . On 16 August 1916, he was thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and
1650-677: The collaboration once Gran Turismo 7 becomes a sufficiently stable platform. As a result, the FIA name was dropped, and the tournament was renamed to the Gran Turismo World Series (GTWS). Two live events were reintroduced as part of the 2022 season, with the series returning to Hangar-7 in Salzburg , Austria for the Showdown and Monte-Carlo Sporting in Monte Carlo , Monaco for the World Finals. The tournament has also hosted exhibition races since 2019. One of these exhibition races
1705-410: The combination of outrage and irony that would become a lifelong characteristic. His critical and rebellious nature, and overall intellectual ability, would contribute substantially to the development of the Futurism movement. After building a foundation of skills, having studied the classics through Impressionism, both he and Severini became students of Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), a painter focusing on
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1760-425: The end of 1911 and saw what Braque and Picasso had been doing did the movement begin to take real shape." He also decided to be a sculptor after he visited various studios in Paris, in 1912, including those of Georges Braque , Alexander Archipenko , Constantin Brâncuși , Raymond Duchamp-Villon , August Agero and, probably, Medardo Rosso . In 1912 he exhibited some paintings together with other Italian futurists at
1815-509: The first Manufacturer Series event winners. Former FIA Formula 3 Championship driver Igor Fraga became the inaugural Nations Cup champion in 2018, and Kanata Kawakami, Vincent Rigaud, and Tyrell Meadows also became the inaugural Manufacturer Series champions that year. As part of the FIA's involvement as a sanctioning body for the series, the champions were also honoured at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony . The format for
1870-470: The first repeat Nations Cup champion after scoring a second consecutive Nations Cup championship title in 2023 alongside his compatriots José Serrano and Pol Urra, the latter of whom also won that year's Toyota GR GT Cup championship. Igor Fraga, Mikail Hizal, Takuma Miyazono, and Coque López are the only World Series champions to have won both the Nations Cup and Manufacturer Series championships. Fraga
1925-628: The formation of the FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships (FIA GTC). The FIA GTC was established in Gran Turismo Sport shortly after the game's release. Many test seasons ran from 2017 to 2018, and the first official season commenced that year. The first World Tour was also held at Nürburgring , which saw Giorgio Mangano from Italy as the first Nations Cup event winner, and Philippe Nicolay, Matthew Thomas, and Anthony Duval, representing BMW as
1980-459: The globe. In addition to the live studio audiences at the specified locations, the tournaments are streamed live in YouTube through several languages. The series has since made an impact in real-world motorsport , serving as a basis for virtual players in terms of possibly starting a career in esports before jumping into real-world motorsport.Players can participate in the Online Series from within
2035-538: The highest points across all four stages. The top players and manufacturers participate in the "World Final" event, to decide the top three players and the number one manufacturer. The winners of their respective series at the "World Final" are crowned either Nations Cup champion or Manufacturer Series champion. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it was announced that the 2020 World Finals would be held as an online-based event. Further format changes were made for 2021, where
2090-447: The influence of Giacomo Balla, and Divisionism techniques are evident in early paintings (although later largely abandoned). The Morning (1909) was noted for "the bold and youthful violence of hues" and as "a daring exercise in luminosity." His 1909–10 Three Women , which portrays his mother and sister, and longtime lover Ines at center, was cited as expressing great emotion – strength, melancholy and love. Boccioni worked for nearly
2145-519: The introduction to Futurism. It was sold to the great pianist, Ferruccio Busoni for 4,000 lire that year, and today is frequently on prominent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the entrance to the paintings department. La risata (1911, The Laugh ) is considered Boccioni's first truly Futurist work. He had fully parted with Divisionism, and now focused on the sensations derived from his observation of modern life. Its public reception
2200-427: The live weekly talk show, "Sport und Talk aus dem Hangar-7" for ServusTV at the venue. Hangar 7 was designed by Volkmar Burgstaller . The building is airfoil shaped, constructed of 1,200 tons of steel and 75,000 sqft of glass surface. The steel-and-glass dome-shaped structure was engineered and built by Austrian specialists Waagner-Biro and completed in 2003. The building was specifically designed to accommodate
2255-434: The modern Divisionist technique, painting with divided rather than mixed color and breaking the painted surface into a field of stippled dots and stripes. Severini wrote "It was a great stroke of luck for us to meet such a man, whose direction was decisive of all our careers." In 1906, he briefly moved to Paris, where he studied Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles, before visiting Russia for three months, getting
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2310-409: The official Gran Turismo and PlayStation channels, and are available to watch through several languages. There are seven different Nations Cup champions and fourteen different individual Manufacturers Series champions as of 2023, in addition to five different winners in the Toyota GR GT Cup. Igor Fraga from Brazil, along with Tomoaki Yamanaka and Takuma Miyazono from Japan, and Daniel Solis from
2365-446: The online season (named World Series) was divided into six online races (replacing the physical World Tours), four of them containing one race for Nations Cup and Manufacturer Series, plus the mid-season "Showdown" playoff races and the grand finals, which were aired as tape delayed streams. The first two World Series races featured top competitors from the previous season (16 Nations Cup drivers and 12 Manufacturer Series players that chose
2420-603: The previous year. On 11 February 1910 Boccioni, with Balla, Carlo Carrà , Luigi Russolo and Severini, signed the Manifesto dei pittori futuristi ("Manifesto of Futurist painters"), and on 8 March he read the manifesto at the Politeama Chiarella theatre in Turin. Boccioni became the main theorist of the artistic movement . "Only when Boccioni, Balla, Severini and a few other Futurists traveled to Paris toward
2475-409: The same manufacturer as with the previous season, with limit of one player per brand), after which they would race together against top players from the first half of the online qualifiers (the in-game races accessible to the general public) in the Showdown to determine who would advance to the next two stages. Players that advanced to the third and fourth round would then face opponents that qualified in
2530-465: The sculptures were destroyed by workmen to clear the room the "envious passèist narrow-minded sculptor" had placed them. Thus, much of his experimental work from late 1912 to 1913 was destroyed, including pieces relating to contemporaneous paintings, which are known only through photographs. One of the few surviving pieces is the Antigrazioso ( Anti-Graceful , also called The Mother ). In 2019,
2585-507: The second half of the online qualifiers through the same criteria in the grand finals. The Nations Cup format saw a switch from a single-driver series to a team-based event, a format previously used by Polyphony Digital in 2018 at the Hangar-7 World Tour. The online season was divided into fourteen online races (seven rounds per series), in which top players would race against each other to determine who would qualify for both
2640-407: The series changed in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . All previously planned live events were dropped, and the season would instead be held online. The series transferred over to Gran Turismo 7 for the 2022 season. Polyphony's partnership with the FIA was also put on hiatus that year, with FIA's Director of Innovative Sporting Projects, Frederic Bertrand, stating that they would resume
2695-476: The work of Cecil Aldin , Harry Eliott , Henri Cassiers and Albert Beerts , and attests to his information of contemporary trends in the visual arts more in general. Boccioni moved to Milan in 1907. There, early in 1908, he met the Divisionist painter Gaetano Previati . In early 1910 he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , who had already published his Manifesto del Futurismo ("Manifesto of Futurism") in
2750-399: The work was to depict a "synthetic continuity" of motion, instead of an "analytical discontinuity" that he saw in such artists as František Kupka and Marcel Duchamp . During his life, the work only existed as a plaster cast. It was first cast in bronze in 1931. This sculpture has been the subject of extensive commentary, and in 1998 it was selected as the image to be engraved on the back of
2805-569: The “surprise and fascination of machines first discovered by mankind”, and also shares values held by the Gran Turismo series. Players are given a plaque for their participation in the series during live events and by the end of the year. Players who finish in the Top 3 in any series receive a gold plaque and a trophy. Players were also formerly given a TAG Heuer watch, but no longer became a prize after their partnership with Polyphony ended in 2020;
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#17327903009762860-564: Was a minor government employee, originally from the Romagna region in the north, and his job included frequent reassignments throughout Italy. The family soon relocated further north, and Umberto and his older sister Amelia grew up in Forlì ( Emilia-Romagna ), Genoa and finally Padua . At the age of 15, in 1897, Umberto and his father moved to Catania, Sicily , where he would finish school. Some time after 1898, he moved to Rome and studied art at
2915-522: Was initially developed by Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz who was looking for more space for the Flying Bulls , a private aircraft collection and performance aviation fleet associated with Red Bull. The Flying Bulls continues to be based at Hangar-7, and regular mainteneance on the collection takes place at "Hangar 8". Hangar-7 hosts regular Red Bull affiliated events, including "Paper Wings", an event for folded paper airplanes, and films
2970-525: Was quite negative, compared unfavorably with Three Women , and it was defaced by a visitor, running his fingers through the still fresh paint. Subsequent criticism became more positive, with some considering the painting a response to Cubism. It was purchased by Albert Borchardt, a German collector who acquired 20 Futurist works exhibited in Berlin , including The Street Enters the House (1911) which depicts
3025-545: Was trampled. He died the following day, age thirty-three, at Verona Military Hospital, and he was buried in the Monumental Cemetery of that city. From 1902 to 1910, Boccioni focused initially on drawings, then sketched and painted portraits – with his mother as a frequent model. He also painted landscapes – often including the arrival of industrialization, trains and factories for example. During this period, he weaves between Pointillism and Impressionism , and
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