GTA 6’s Extended Look Trailer Shows off the Game’s First Real Race Track [Updated]

[Update: Aug. 27, 2026, 4:30 p.m. EDT – Thursday’s “Extended Look” trailer confirmed what the community has long suspected: GTA is getting an actual race track. This story has been updated to reflect this development.]

It’s official! Grand Theft Auto is getting its first real race track. Friday’s “Extended Look” trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI included footage of a wheel-to-wheel race in progress at what we assume is Gellhorn International Raceway. Netflix subscribers can see it for themselves as of Thursday afternoon (check the 17:45 timestamp); others will have to wait for the trailer to appear elsewhere.

The track appears amid a montage of other in-game activities. In fact, the clip immediately preceding the track footage is from a strip club. There’s nothing to see (and come on, it’s a video game), but fair warning if you’re in mixed (or professional) company.

There’s enough footage here to suss out a few key details. First, this is an actual race, not just intra-mission shenanigans. There’s an actual lap counter, timer and position tracker on the right side of the screen, plus the competitors are visible on the mini-map to the left. Second, this appears to be confirmation that the in-game race track will not, in fact, be a 1:1 re-creation of Sebring International Raceway, as we previously had reason to suspect.

How’d we get there, exactly? First, we need to back up a bit. GTA 6 leaks seem to have becoming something of a quarterly event. This last round was even juicier than most, and if it weren’t for the rampant cease-and-desist orders being issued by Take-Two in response to the footage being shared, we’d suspect the whole thing was little more than a publicity stunt ahead of the game’s release later this year.

Among the items that surfaced in the recent gameplay footage release was a zoomed-out image of the game’s map. That’s a solid find for anybody who’s enthused about the upcoming installment in Rockstar’s iconic heist franchise, but it’s pure gold for a subset of that fanbase that has been working diligently since the earliest leaks to crowdsource a map of the game world.

This project originally caught our attention largely because of the possibility of Sebring being represented within the game world (as “Gellhorn”). If the new leaked map is to be believed, the in-game raceway abandons Sebring’s real-life configuration outside of the start/finish and front/back straightaways. Instead of Sebring’s awkward, improvised road course, we appear to be getting something that more closely resembles a modern, technical race track—one that even crosses bridges, based on the brief in-game footage we’ve now seen.

As you might imagine, the leaks and extended look trailer have both set off a new flurry of activity within the mapping community, with many looking to resolve the differences between their original layout and what has been revealed. That effort has been complicated by the fact that the leaked map is fairly zoomed out, and lacks the detail necessary to fill in many of the missing areas.

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