Amsterdam, the Netherlands (7 December 2024) – The final event of this year’s ‘Gran Turismo World Series’ season, the World Finals were held in Amsterdam. After the concurrent TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GT Cup Grand Final event came the Manufacturers Cup where BMW took victory in the final race, but in the season rankings fell just short of champions team Lexus.

World Finals - Amsterdam Special Page
https://www.gran-turismo.com/world/gt7/events/gtws2024/worldfinals

World Finals - Amsterdam Results
https://www.gran-turismo.com/world/gt7/news/00_8723565.html

Below are the post-race reactions from each driver:

It's a great honour to be part of Team Lexus, and I am very happy that we managed to win for them. The car was great, my teammates did an amazing job and we didn't really make any mistake at all, I think this is what really put us in the first position in the in the standings overall, so I am very glad.

Wow... What a day, what a season. These past live events have been a rollercoaster, after personally getting no point in Round 1 my teammates pulled me up a bit. So many things went wrong this season that coming short of only one point from the top is sort of a miracle, but also devastating. I felt we had the pace to win, we dominated the whole race and I was contemplating about perhaps slowing down Lexus but in the end I decided to win the race.

Wow that was quite the race! I think we did pretty much everything we could. I would have loved to have gone for pole in Q3 and I believe we could have had we started from P1, but at the end of the day we still go home with a bronze medal, in a bronze car, which is quite fitting.

You can watch the post-race press conference 'THE EXTRA LAP' of the podium finishers by following the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rO5YjMeLg&t=9085

In the qualifiers, as a team we didn’t think we’d get through to Q3, but Angel and Kylian did an amazing job. I made some mistakes in Q3 which wasn’t great, but we ended in P6 which I think was great. The final race was set up so that it would start raining towards the end, and we were able to get into the pits before any of the other teams. That said, it didn’t actually work out that well and it affected us quite badly up until the end, where we came in an extremely disappointing 4th place. I think with a slightly better strategy, we would have had a chance to win, so it’s very frustrating. I’ve been representing Subaru for seven years now, and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to come back next year, so I’ve been racing like it’s my last and it’s quite frustrating for me personally that I wasn’t able to end on a high note. There might be some super fast drivers out there who can pull the team ahead, and while I have no idea what will happen, I’ll always be a Subaru fan, so I’d be overjoyed if they could win a 3rd championship title next year.

The race went pretty well, considering we started P12 and that didn't change until the rain came in. I was racing in the rain and managed to recover a few position, and then Ryota did the final stint to get P5. It's a shame we missed the podium because there was a 4-team tie, and Genesis got in. We'll do better next year.

We finished P6 in the race and 6th in the overall Points Ranking. What I wasn’t prepared for was how close the race was. There was no room for error, but I made one and we fell to the back, which I think is what lost us the race. The team race format is such great fun, and it’s fantastic to be able to form bonds while racing with each other, so I will be back again next year.

We were a bit unlucky in the first stint with so many incidents with Porsche and Genesis, but we got Pole with Valerio, who did a phenomenal lap. As I said we were quite unlucky, but this is racing so we'll do better next time.

The race today went went pretty well, the qualifier wasn't exactly what we wanted but at the start of the race I was able to make up three positions and pass over to my teammate Daniel Fenton in P7. He was astonishing in the wet, absolutely amazing as he got up a few positions and then Lucas managed to get to P4 after that straight out of the pits and he was lightning quick. I think as a team we did super well and if we stick together we will have a chance to win next year.

We made a mistake with the tyre strategy as we went with the Intermediate expecting chaos on the lines but that didn't happen so sadly we end up in P9. We didn't have many races favouring Ferrari this year so it was a surprise when we got P1 in Prague; we thought we had a chance in Tokyo but that didn't happen. We plan to stick together for next year, whether it will be with Ferrari or not will depend on the championship regulations for the Online Qualifiers.

We finished the race in P11, it was a very difficult race. The GR Supra is really bad in the rain, while we were trying to push ourselves just a little further up the board, we hit another car which made things very tough. Of course, I’m not satisfied with our result, but I was able to talk a lot with Jose and Adriano in preparation and I don’t have any regrets with what we’ve done this year, so in that sense I am quite satisfied.

Qualifier was a bit disappointing because we got a penalty in Q2, and we end up starting in P9. There was a very solid performance from my teammate Goto and my stint was almost perfect, I couldn't really do any better than, I just pushed the car to its limit and went from P6 to P3 before pitting. Unfortunately we had an accident that costed us seven positions but I'm quite happy with my performance.

The race was very difficult, because we didn't make it out of Q2 and Q3. So from there, we tried to make up some position on the first lap of the final race, but there were a lot of fights that held us back, coupled with some mistakes from the team, made it a horrible race. We had cars to do better, but in the end racing it's like this, anything can happen. You just have to appreciate being part of this and next time we'll do better.