The latest free update for Gran Turismo Sport

Gran Turismo Sport July Update 7 IMAGES

The new track is called Circuit de Sainte-Croix.

The Buy from the PlayStation Store option can be turned off and hidden in-game.

The fresh batch of vehicles is led by Lewis Hamilton’s championship-winning Mercedes-AMG F1 W08 EQ Power+ 2017 and also includes the legendary, Le Mans-winning Mazda 787B. The rest of the list features a commemorative Ford GT designed by Polyphony that first appeared in 2007’s GT5 Prologue, a Ferrari 250 GTO race car that was last available in GT6, plus a handful of Japanese kei cars from Daihatsu and Honda.The new track is set in the Provence region of France and is an original, 10-kilometre course with three layouts, all of which can be run in reverse. There are also a trio of new events available in GT League, GT Sport’s single-player mode: the Lightweight K Cup (which takes advantage of the newly-added kei cars), the Nostalgic Car Festival (for road cars built prior to 1979), and the Mercedes AMG Grand Prix (a one-make race restricted to Hamilton’s F1 car).As for those microtransactions, any car worth less than two million credits in-game can now be purchased directly via the PlayStation Store (the system is available now in Asia and the Americas now , and will arrive in Europe, Oceania, Africa, and the Middle East on August 2). Yamauchi stressed that no cars are only available for real cash and all cars can still be purchased for in-game credits as before.The decision is interesting in the wake of previous comments from Yamauchi that GT Sport would not feature microtransactions and confirmation just days ago from rival first-party racing studio Turn 10 that it is stepping away from its microtransaction-based secondary currency system , which will not be added to Forza Motorsport 7 or October’s Forza Horizon 4.The full list of patch notes for this update can be found of the official Gran Turismo site.

Luke is Games Editor at IGN's Sydney office and doesn't think any of these new tracks are a patch on Grand Valley Speedway. You can find him on Twitter every few days