Who are The Grip Masters?
The Grippers (nickname defined for TGM members) are a group of gamers / petrolheads enthusiastic about the Gran Turismo video game franchise.
Founded on August 6, 2018 by a group of friends who are motorsport fans, The Grip Masters aims to bring together an entire community for coexistence, fun, exchanges of ideas, races and championships for pure entertainment. We don't equate ourselves to an eSports league, actually we are a group of friends - a community.
Gran Turismo Sport - The game that founded TGM
World Map with the location of the Grippers' countries on January 2023
The founders, JPVSPAndrade1, Sldaniel and Zephyr0534, started the journey at TGM by inviting the first Grippers to the community and holding Season 1 in December 2018. Successively the community evolved, with many more championships, races and even extra events such as the award-giving galas - TGM Awards.
3 years after its foundation, at the end of 2021, TGM already had 28 Grippers from 6 different countries, 11 championships and 85 races held.
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DiRT Rally 2.0 - The game that marks the new era of TGM
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Gran Turismo 7 - The 3rd game on TGM to be used for official races
2022 is the year that marks the beginning of a new era. We leave the game that founded us behind - Gran Turismo Sport - to start taking our first steps in a new Gran Turismo and in the world of Rally and RallyCross, in DiRT Rally 2.0. The community is not just limited to the Gran Turismo and DiRT franchise, we also have Grippers in other racing games such as F1, Assetto Corsa, iRacing, among others, however, our entire base for championships and official races is now implemented in DiRT Rally 2.0 and in Gran Turismo 7.