Forza Motorsport Introduces Highway Atlanta and Multi-Class Racing

Highway to Race, Forza Motorsport Replace 11, highlights extremely highly effective racing automobiles from a variety of classes and courses alongside the return of the world-class highway racing facility, Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta.

Host your personal collection at Highway Atlanta utilizing our highlight automobile, the 2011 Ferrari #62 Risi Competizione 458 Italia GTC, or compete with one in every of our different 2 reward automobiles created particularly to blur the road between highway and racecar: the 2018 Aston Martin #97 AMR Vantage GTE and 1998 Nissan #23 Pennzoil NISMO Skyline GT-R.

Extra motion, better talent, and new challenges await in Featured Multiplayer as Multi-Class Racing involves Forza Motorsport with the return of the Endurance Sequence! Take a look at your pace whereas reacting to altering circumstances, battle for place whereas encountering slower automobiles, and see how a lot time you may acquire in opposition to quicker courses. Because of fashionable participant demand, each the Endurance Sequence and Multi-Class Racing will stay in Forza Motorsport after Highway to Race Month. Moreover, because of participant suggestions, we have elevated the variety of Open Courses w/ Multi-Class and one further Open Class Sequence. Total, Featured MP is targeted on rising selection via Featured, Spec, and Open Occasions.

Sport Enhancements and Launch Notes

Forza Motorsport Replace 11 rolls out for obtain beginning Monday, August 12 on Xbox Sequence X|S and PC through the Microsoft Retailer and Steam. Highlight automobiles and new in-game occasions will start on Wednesday, August 14 beginning at 5:00 PM PT (12:00 AM UTC on Thursday, August 15). Beneath is a snapshot of the fixes and enhancements included with Replace 11. Head on over to Forza Help to view the total launch notes:

Official assist for Logitech TRUEFORCE has been added. This high-definition force-feedback performance is designed to imitate highway situations and improve immersion for gamers who’re utilizing a supported Logitech TRUEFORCE steering wheel.

Fastened a problem the place current liveries appeared matte after the discharge of the matte-glossiness slider in Replace 8.

Fastened a problem the place automobile liveries would render in low high quality on Xbox Sequence X|S consoles.

Resolved a problem the place Open Apply periods earlier than Profession mode races would finish abruptly.

Enhancements to the shader precompile course of on PC have been made when beginning up the sport on NVIDIA GPUs.

Fastened a problem the place Rivals Leaderboards don’t scroll previous 50 entries.

Resolved a problem the place the participant automobile would swerve unnaturally when exiting the pit lane.

Fastened a recreation crash that might typically happen on the Rewards assortment display.

Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta

Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta has attracted a few of the greatest North American race collection to roar round its course. Now again in Forza Motorsport, the observe’s elevation adjustments, and all kinds of nook varieties make it perfect for testing the acute efficiency of your favourite venture automobile or absolutely tuned racecar!

Based in 1969, this observe has held many championships and codecs that vary from endurance racing to novice challenges. Occasions presently hosted on this American traditional embody the Michelin Pilot Problem, IMSA SportsCar Championship, and System D. Its full structure contains 12 turns and distinctive sections just like the “esses” between turns 3 and 5, and the downhill flip 12.

Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta incorporates a 2.54-mile Full Circuit with 12 turns and a 1.77-mile Membership Circuit with 9 turns. Problem each layouts in Time Assault and use your favourite tuned automobiles to rise within the world leaderboards, or race on them in Profession and Featured Multiplayer, or host your personal occasions on Highway Atlanta in Free Play and Non-public Multiplayer.

Our subsequent observe launch is scheduled for Replace 13, which we anticipate to be out there in mid-October.

In Profession Mode, dive into the world of highway automobiles and their racecar variants. Expertise Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari 458 Italia, Lamborghini Huracán, and Porsche 911 GT3 within the Highway to Race Tour. See firsthand all of the variations between these unbelievable machines as you drive within the highway model of those automobiles adopted by their racing counterparts.

The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06’s racing DNA is as seen on its aerodynamic outdoors as it’s on its highly effective inside.

Powered by a 6.2-liter V8 engine, this automobile certain is aware of how you can depart its mark on the highway and on the observe.

Get pleasure from driving the Z06 for the primary Highway Sequence on the Highway to Race Tour!

It’s time to go away the highway behind and enter the observe on the following collection of the Highway to Race Tour, driving the racing model of the Z06: an endurance racing powerhouse constructed by the all-star staff up of Corvette and Pratt Miller.

The naturally aspirated 5.5-liter V8 fitted within the C7.R has propelled it to win multiple Groups’, Constructors’, and Drivers’ Championships and a powerful #1 place on the 2015 large race.

The 2009 Ferrari 458 Italia is a convergence of energy, aesthetics, and engineering.

Not solely designed to look stunning whilst you drive it on the highway or the observe, the 458’s exterior was additionally constructed to maximise aerodynamics and downforce.

Sitting in the midst of the automobile is what completes its superior core: a 4.8-Liter Ferrari V8 engine that permits the 458 to succeed in 325 km/h prime pace and go from 0-100 in 3.4 seconds.

One among Ferrari’s most profitable racing automobiles enters the highlight within the Highway to Race Tour.

With an total lighter physique and improved downforce, the 2011 Ferrari #62 Risi Competizione 458 Italia GTC scored 15 Crew Championships and over 100 race wins.

Mounted in the midst of the automobile, the GTC’s V8 engine produces 500 horsepower. Take it to the restrict on the Highway to Race Tour!

Placing the most effective of Lamborghini’s flashy fashion and the most effective racing engineering, the bull model got here up with a placing hypercar, the 2014 Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4.

From each angle, the LP-610 appears as you’d anticipate a Lambo to appear to be; to succeed in the actual substance of the automobile, it’s good to dig deeper into its hood to search out the mighty V10 engine that powers a four-wheel drive system.

600 horsepower to tame each roads and tracks are at your disposal on the Highway to Race Tour throughout its penultimate week.

To ramp up the antics on their already over-the-top Huracán LP610-4, Lamborghini gave the keys to their motorsport division, Squadra Corse, and created an endurance racer branded with the Raging Bull.

This additional highly effective Huracán comes with a 5.2-liter V10 engine able to placing out 612 bhp into the automobile’s rear-wheel drive system.

Complementing the historically flamboyant physique we’re used to seeing from the model, the Tremendous Trofeo features a rear wing and entrance bumpers that improve downforce and grip.

Put the racing twin brother of the Lamborghini Huracán to the observe take a look at within the Highway to Race Tour.

Given the rear wing and placing engine, it may be a shocking contender, however the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS is the ultimate highway automobile for the Highway to Race Tour.

The GT3 RS is a track-focused model of the 911 we will all acknowledge from a mile away. You may see proof of this design philosophy in its flat-six engine that places out 500 horsepower and the suspension that offers this automobile supreme grip.

Drive the automobile that blurs the road between highway and race with the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

Sequence 4: Race – 2018 Porsche #73 Park Place Motorsports 911 GT3 R

Though the 2018 Porsche 911 #73 Park Place Motorsports 911 GT3 RS produces as a lot energy as its road-focused model, this automobile’s physique and engine modifications give the additional kick the GT3 RS must be referred to as a correct racer.

A conqueror of a number of tracks, this automobile has competed in a number of GT races and earned large wins at lots of these occasions, together with Petit Le Mans – a sportscar endurance race hosted yearly at Highway Atlanta.

Shut out the Highway to Race Tour on a banger with the last word 911 racer.

Full the Highway to Race Tour earlier than September 25, 2024, to earn the 2018 Aston Martin #97 AMR Vantage GTE and race different Forza GT automobiles in an exhilarating Reward Showcase at Highway Atlanta. Additionally, you will earn the ‘Highway’ and ‘Race’ Driver Fits so you may characterize your favourite sort of automobiles each on and off the observe!

The 2018 Aston Martin #97 AMR Vantage GTE competed in 55 complete races from 2018 to 2023 within the LM GTE class, with its first race being the 6 hours of Spa in 2018. From there, this endurance race automobile racked up a powerful trophy cupboard by attaining 15 wins and 4 pole positions. It gained the Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships within the 2019-2020 season, in each GTE Professional and GTE Am, and the 2022 Groups’ and Drivers’ Championship in GTE Am in 2022.

Highlight automobiles are featured within the Showroom each week, out there so that you can purchase with a brief 30% low cost utilizing in-game credit. Replace 11 will showcase a number of Highlight automobiles every week, 10 throughout Highway to Race Month.

These Highlight automobiles can be utilized within the Highway to Race Tour, in addition to Highlight Sequence occasions in Featured Multiplayer and Highlight Rivals.

Highway to Race
Highlight Automotive
Low cost Begins
Low cost Ends

Highway Automotive
2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC

Race Automotive
2014 Chevrolet #3 Corvette Racing Corvette C7.R
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC

Highway Automotive
2009 Ferrari 458 Italia
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

Race Automotive
2011 Ferrari #62 Risi Competizione F458 Italia GTC
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

Highway Automotive
2014 Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC

Race Automotive
2015 Lamborghini #63 Squadra Corse Huracán LP620-2 Tremendous Trofeo
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC

Highway Automotive
2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

Race Automotive
2018 Porsche #73 Park Place Motorsports 911 GT3 R + 2015 Porsche #91 Porsche Crew Manthey 991 RSR + 2017 Porsche #92 Porsche GT Crew 911 RSR
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

Forza Motorsport VIP Members additionally profit from a 15% month-long low cost within the Showroom on the 2018 KTM X-Bow GT4. As well as, VIPs obtain an unique 15% low cost on a automobile each week within the Showroom – these automobiles will be entered into the Highway to Race Sequence in Featured Multiplayer.

Right here’s a have a look at the automobiles that will likely be happening sale over the following 4 weeks, that includes a number of automobiles that really embody the Highway to Race spirit:

VIP Automotive
Low cost Begins
Low cost Ends

2018 KTM X-Bow GT4
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

2020 Hyundai #98 Bryan Herta Autosport Veloster N
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC

2014 Dodge SRT Motorsports Viper GTS-R
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

2017 Ferrari #25 Corse Clienti 488 Problem
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC

2016 Ford #66 Ford Racing GT Le Mans
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

Unique VIP reductions and VIP Rivals occasions require VIP Membership, out there within the Premium Editionor Premium Add-Ons Bundle, offered individually.

When you’ve mastered the newest Featured Tour, try the Open Class Tour to proceed the story of those epic Highway to Race automobiles. Test it out beneath the Featured tab in Profession mode.

Open Class Tour is the place you may proceed the journey of your favourite automobiles, and every replace to Forza Motorsport refreshes the Open Class Tour with new occasions and a special reward automobile. Automobiles you’ve already upgraded in a special Builders Cup collection will be additional levelled up within the Open Class Tour.

The Open Class Tour options six collection, every with three races, that vary from D Class to R Class. Full all six collection within the Open Class Tour earlier than September 11, 2024, and you’ll obtain the 1998 Nissan #23 Pennzoil NISMO Skyline GT-R. With French racing champion Érik Gilbert Comas behind the wheel, this traditional racer gained the Drivers’ Japan GT Championship by securing two race victories within the 1998 season.

The Highway to Race journey continues in Featured Multiplayer.

Choose both a highway model of a automobile or the racing equal after which battle it out on the observe within the Highway to Race Sequence, that includes a special automobile pairing every week. Search for it beneath the brand new Featured tab, which is the place you’ll discover all presently energetic, limited-time Multiplayer Sequence going ahead.

In the meantime, try the Open Occasions tab to affix the Multi-Class Sequence and compete in races with a number of efficiency courses battling it out on the observe. The courses out there within the Multi-Class Sequence will change each week. As well as, we’ve elevated the variety of Open Class Sequence out there from 2 to three. We’ll proceed to watch gamers’ participation in these occasions and make adjustments as obligatory to make sure the variety of opponents in every race feels proper.

The Endurance Sequence can be returning to Featured Multiplayer, this time that includes a number of racecar divisions represented on the observe concurrently. New multi-class divisions will likely be rotated into the Endurance Sequence every week, opening new strategic prospects for each race you compete in.

As well as, the Forza GT4 Spec Sequence can be out there in Highway to Race Month. This collection will rotate with the Forza GT2 Spec Sequence and Forza GT3 Spec Sequence. And naturally, the System Mazda Spec Sequence is all the time open for brand new opponents!

Right here’s a have a look at the Featured Multiplayer calendar of upcoming occasions for Highway to Race Month:

Spec Sequence
Endurance Sequence
Open Sequence
Highlight Sequence
Begins
Ends

Highway to Race (Hyundai Veloster N), Forza GT4 Sequence, Forza Touring Automotive Sequence (Lengthy)
Forza GT2 + Forza P2 + Forza Proto-H
Multi-Class Sequence (A, B, C, S) + S Class Sequence + C Class Sequence + P Class Sequence
Chevrolet Corvette
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC

Highway to Race (Dodge Viper), Forza GT3 Sequence, Forza Touring Automotive Sequence (Brief)
GTP/C + GTX Sportscars
Multi-Class Sequence (E, D, C) + A Class Sequence + D Class Sequence + X Class Sequence
Ferrari 458 Italia
August 21 5pm PT / August 22 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

Highway to Race (Ferrari 488), Forza GT2 Sequence, Forza Touring Automotive Sequence (Medium)
Forza P2 + Forza Touring Automobiles
Multi-Class Sequence (C, A, R) + B Class Sequence + R Class Sequence + E Class Sequence
Lamborghini Huracán
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC

Highway to Race (Ford GT), Forza GT4 Sequence, Forza Touring Automotive Sequence (Brief)
Classic Le Mans Sportscars + Classic Le Mans Prototypes
Multi-Class Sequence (S, R, P) + S Class Sequence + C Class Sequence + P Class Sequence
Porsche 911
Sept. 4 5pm PT / Sept. 5 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

Have a good time the ingenuity and craftsmanship that has reworked a few of the best automotive machines from balanced day by day drivers into deadly observe weapons and vice versa. Which aspect will you select – Highway or Race?

Now that includes multi-class divisions: An exciting take a look at of stamina and pace, endurance races push the bounds of each machine and driver in grueling long-distance occasions that demand the best ranges of consistency, technique, and focus.

Sustaining lots of their authentic parts, GT4 automobiles provide a driving expertise that’s corresponding to their road-legal counterparts, whereas nonetheless offering ample alternatives for intense battles on the observe.

These fine-tuned Touring Automobiles from around the globe ship razor sharp dealing with for max pace on essentially the most technically difficult circuits.

A number of courses. A number of winners. 1 race. Decide an eligible automobile or construct your very personal inside one of many rotating courses to compete in opposition to different drivers throughout the identical group.

Highway to Race Month introduces a enjoyable new lineup of Rivals occasions so that you can grasp whilst you hustle your technique to the highest of the leaderboards.

Sort out the heart-pounding twists and turns of Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta on this month’s Featured Rivals. Get behind the wheel of a automobile that holds one of many quickest manufacturing lap occasions on the observe, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS, and listen to its roaring engine because it echoes via the luxurious Georgia hills in a symphony of pace and adrenaline.

Try the brand new Rivals for VIP Members that includes the 2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé Forza Version at Hockenheim.

This month’s Rivals calendar additionally introduces the eRacing Affiliation Alpha Cup I. Set your quickest time at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in a 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 for an opportunity to win $500 in money prizes! Enroll at eragaming.gg to be eligible for the principle occasion and prizes. The quickest 20 registered contributors will race in the principle occasion with the 2020 Chevrolet #3 Corvette Racing C8.R.

The second stage of the Logitech McLaren G Qualifier additionally begins this month. Goal to your greatest time on Laguna Seca – Full Circuit utilizing a 2018 McLaren 720S Coupe to your likelihood to win a visit to the McLaren Expertise Centre! Enroll on Discord to verify eligibility and qualify for prizes. The highest 16 drivers per area qualify for event races on Sep. 7-8. Gamers who full a lap in any Logitech G occasion will earn the Logitech G Problem Driver Swimsuit!

And lastly, Mobil 1 has a Legends vs Leaderboard Rivals occasion out there for a restricted time. Race professional driver Jamie Chadwick within the 1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 and attempt to set a quicker lap than 1:54.859 on Mobil 1 Presents Maple Valley – Full Circuit. Set a lap to obtain 50,000 in-game credit! Go to the Mobil 1 Gaming website to see Jamie set the lap and extra.

Rivals Occasion
Automotive
Monitor
Begins
Finish

Featured Monitor – Highway Atlanta
2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
Highway Atlanta – Full Circuit
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

VIP – Hockenheim Hustle
2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé Forza Version
Hockenheim – Full Circuit
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
Sept. 11 5pm PT / Sept. 12 12am UTC

eRacing Affiliation Alpha Cup I
2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

Logitech G Problem Qualifier #2
2018 McLaren 720S Coupe
Laguna Seca –Full Circuit
August 14 5pm PT / August 15 12am UTC
August 28 5pm PT / August 29 12am UTC

That’s Highway to Race in Forza Motorsport! We hope you benefit from the journey of discovering how highway automobiles are reworked into observe legends. Expertise your favourite highway automobiles and race automobiles throughout the Profession, Featured Multiplayer and Rivals over the following 4 weeks, and when the chance arises, set new data on the iconic Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta. We’ll see you on the observe!