Evolution of High Speed Ring in Gran Turismo (1997 - 2022 / GT1 - GT7)

Gran Turismo 7 has been released and it brings back several of the iconic original tracks from the previous GT games. One of these tracks is High Speed Ring. Here you can see a fast lap on High Speed Ring with the Toyota Castrol Supra in every major GT game that included the track, showing the evolution of the track and the car throughout the history of the franchise.

Timeline:
0:00 Gran Turismo 1
0:54 Gran Turismo 2
1:51 Gran Turismo 4
3:03 Gran Turismo 5
4:13 Gran Turismo 6
5:25 Gran Turismo 7

High Speed Ring has been included in every numbered Gran Turismo game with the exception of Gran Turismo 3.

In GT1 and GT2 the lap times were a lot faster, partly due to the Castrol Supra having a lot more HP in those games. GT3 featured several other tracks from GT1 but unfortunately it didn't feature High Speed Ring.

In GT4 the track got a redesign, which added the bridge after turn 2. In GT5 the bridge was rebuilt and got the design that it has today. In GT7 the track got a few minor updates like the green surfaces around turn 2 but the changes aren't nearly as big as they are for Trial Mountain and Deep Forest, which are the other two returning tracks from GT1.

In previous games the real world location of completely fictional tracks was not specified but in GT7 it is revealed that High Speed Ring is located on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

GT1 and GT2 have very similar graphics but the handling is quite different in those two games, which you can maybe tell from the video. GT5 and GT6 are very similar in both graphics and physics though.

In each game I am using the featured version of the Castrol Supra, which is the '96 version in GT1, the championship-winning '97 version in GT5-GT7, the '99 version in GT2 and the '00 version in GT4.

I am using the softest race tires that are available in each game, no further upgrades or setup changes, no assists besides the standard ABS and automatic transmission.

GT 1-4 were played on emulator, GT 5-6 on PS3 and GT7 on PS5. The units are set to miles in each game, since the NTSC versions of GT1-GT3 don't have a km setting and I want to keep the units consistent throughout the video.

I have spent a lot of time on the track in each game to record the fastest and cleanest laps possible for this video, as you can probably tell from some of the lap counters. Hopefully people will appreciate the effort that I put into this video to make it as good as possible. :)

I have also shared the replay of my fastest lap in GT7, so you can watch it ingame from different camera views if you can find it in the showcase area.

Feel free to share the video with friends or in GT-related Discord servers if you enjoy it. Other YouTubers will probably make similar videos but I think that my version should be one of the best, so let's see if we can get it trending. It has been 18 months since one of my new videos reached more than 20k views and I finally want this period to end.

What are your thoughts about High Speed Ring, the Castrol Supra and the different Gran Turismo games? Feel free to share your feelings in the comments.

I will be making the same type of video for Trial Mountain and Deep Forest as well, with the laps in GT1-GT6 already recorded, so you can look forward to seeing the evolution of those tracks as well. :)

Finally a shoutout to my friend RynoGT4, who already made a video like this in the past and partly inspired this video. Check out his version of the video here if you want to:    • Evolution of High Speed Ring (Gran Tu...