Gran Turismo World Series
Four seasons on the world championship broadcast for Gran Turismo: keeping a two-show day on time, and giving viewers a reason to care before every start.
Stories Team Producer
EVS Director (some shows)
World Series 2024A world championship that has to work as live TV
The Gran Turismo World Series is Gran Turismo’s official world championship. Each live event is two shows on one day, the Nations Cup and the Manufacturers Cup, streamed on YouTube, Twitch, the Gran Turismo website and inside Gran Turismo 7.
Sim racing is fast and technical, and easy to lose track of. The broadcast has to run on time for the people in the venue, and tell the audience at home who these drivers are.
I worked on the broadcasts from 2021 to 2024, including the 2024 round in Tokyo, which sold out Theater Milano-za in Kabukicho Tower.
With fully Japanese crews on set, I was the bilingual link between them, the broadcast team and the European events team, so nothing got lost between languages.
A race lasts minutes. The reason to care has to arrive before the start.
The run of show
As associate producer, I built the run of show: every segment, cue and handover on one timeline, so each department knew what was live and what came next.
What’s at stake, as it happens
As producer of the stories team, my job was to find what each driver had riding on the day and tell it while the show was still unfolding. I interviewed drivers before and between races, and turned those moments into the shoulder content that aired between them, so by the next start viewers knew who they were cheering for, and why it mattered.
Directing EVS
On some shows I was also EVS director. It was an asset-heavy broadcast, so I called which replay or package was coming next, and when, so the operators were always a step ahead.
Driver introductions
The trophy moment
World Series broadcasts I worked on, 2021 to 2024
Nations Cup and Manufacturers Cup, live on the same day
Tokyo 2024, Theater Milano-za, Kabukicho Tower
Production: Boombox Group ↗