“British Lightweights” GT5 Seasonal Event Now Available
The latest round of Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring lightweight vehicles . Cars are limited to a maximum of 500PP and Comfort/Soft tires or less. The challenges are as follows:
- 500PP British Lightweights: Grand Valley East Section /5 Laps
Period of Availability: 2012/11/22 03:00
1st: Cr.206,500 2nd: Cr.113,575 3rd: Cr.82,600 - 500PP British Lightweights: Trial Mountain Circuit Reverse /5 Laps
Period of Availability: 2012/11/22 03:00
1st: Cr.229,000 2nd: Cr.125,950 3rd: Cr.91,600 - 500PP British Lightweights: Fuji Speedway F /5 Laps
Period of Availability: 2012/11/22 03:00
1st: Cr.242,200 2nd: Cr.133,210 3rd: Cr.96,880 - 500PP British Lightweights: Côte d’Azur /5 Laps
Period of Availability: 2012/11/22 03:00
1st: Cr.277,900 2nd: Cr.152,845 3rd: Cr.111,160 - 500PP British Lightweights: Toscana (Tarmac) 109A /5 Laps
Period of Availability: 2012/11/22 03:00
1st: Cr.283,400 2nd: Cr.155,870 3rd: Cr.113,360
Note the “Performance Difference Bonus” applies, so more credits will be awarded for using a slower car below the maximum allowed PP value.
The game’s Online Car Dealership has also been updated with new inventory. As always, stop by our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion!
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December 1st, 2012 at 9:07 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
Even if you get behind the wheel of an Evora, the best possible finish is only third. The lead cars are long gone by the time you get to like fifth place or so. I think we have some bull crap in these events. Slower cars should start up front, with the faster cars bringing up the rear. Then the faster cars cannot create these huge and often unclosable gaps. Who agrees with me?
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December 1st, 2012 at 9:11 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
Same goes for the London race in Japanese 80′s Festival. The lead car (usually a Skyline GT-S or Mazda Miata) can not be caught up to until the final seconds; not enough time to make a move. I tried everything there too. What car should I use for that race?
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December 2nd, 2012 at 4:20 am - #sammo85
R111 lotus. Try out my tune below to see if it works for you, if you make one single mistake then start again cause you won’t make the time up again. Turn all driver aids off except for ABS
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December 4th, 2012 at 8:45 am - #rambo793
It’s strange you say that because I’ve been using the Evora so far and it’s been a superb drive thus far. Managed to do Grand valley, Trial Mountain and Fuji with 470pp.
Cote’s done on 455pp. Havent done the toscana event yet. I fell in love with the evora after these events.
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December 1st, 2012 at 7:49 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
Best car for this series? I really want that Speed Eight!!
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December 1st, 2012 at 8:40 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
Can someone please offer a hand??
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December 1st, 2012 at 2:39 pm - #mpcp27
I would be interested in how low did you manage to lower the pp and still win?
For me it was
(a) 450 pp – for Trial Mountain and Cote
(b) 470 pp – for Grand Valley
Still have to do the other two races.-
December 1st, 2012 at 2:41 pm - #mpcp27
And also what aids were you using?
I was not using anything but abs=1.
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December 2nd, 2012 at 10:59 am - #mpcp27
Finished the others –
(a) Fuji – 470 pp
(b) Tascosa – 430 ppAnybody else tried to lower the pp to see how welll they did?
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December 4th, 2012 at 9:45 am - #rambo793
What car were you using? Used an Evora
470 pp for GV, Trial mountain and Fuji.
450 on Cote.
Gonna do TOscana soon on 450 for starters
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November 27th, 2012 at 2:25 pm - #sammo85
Wow your well off, if your that far out it sounds like you need to go back to basics a little bit. I had this ages ago, to sort it I just did karting, this gets you running a bit smoother again and teaches you how to carry your speed through the corners better.
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November 26th, 2012 at 6:12 pm - #sammo85
Another quick thing, leave all driver aids off if you can as these slow you right down, except for ABS set at 1.
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November 27th, 2012 at 5:49 am - #creampuff
Sorry sammo…..I couldn’t win anything….alousy 20 seconds behind leader.
That makes 2 weeks in a row I failed…..time to give up on GT5 i think!
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November 26th, 2012 at 6:08 pm - #sammo85
If it helps, this event was easy, bigape is right the Lotus 111R is the best car, fully tune the car, increase weight on settings to about 156kg and take it forward to balance out. Take all down force off, and have the bhp running at 301. That should make PP about 500. Run gearbox at about 156 MPH or close to. Suspension needs to be.fairly stiff with about 2.0 camer on the rear wheels. LSD should be set quite high,. I was overtaking the lead car on lap 3 to 4 out of 5. Hope this helps
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November 26th, 2012 at 6:19 pm - #creampuff
thanks, i will give this a go!
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November 24th, 2012 at 4:04 pm - #creampuff
Having trouble winning anything!! I think as you get to 50 your reflexes slow down.I was grat on all the other GT games.
I have only completed 94% of this game!! The F1′s are too fast for me….now.
Anyway, enough whinging….what set up of the cars are you using to win…this might help me….thanks-
November 24th, 2012 at 7:59 pm - #BlindZenDriver
Same issue here but you can’t use age as a excuse. The difference is hardly significant – studies show a healthy 50 year old is around 20ms slower to react than a 20 year old and that is less than 10% increase in reaction time.
I have been thinking about what to do and my plan is to accept being slow for a while ie. run lots of down force and maybe even hold back the engine a bit and then ease into going faster. I’m also considering trying to use a controller rather than the wheel as it’s faster to change direction that way (or at least I think it is).
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November 23rd, 2012 at 8:52 pm - #bigape1970
This event was a struggle until I switched to the Elise 111R ’04 with a RKM tune. Then it was a breeze… well, winnable anyway.
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November 24th, 2012 at 2:30 am - #warpkez
Cab you use RM’ed cars?
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November 24th, 2012 at 8:31 pm - #creampuff
sorry mate, the wheel will give you a couple of seconds quicker per lap….I use to have one
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November 24th, 2012 at 9:08 pm - #bigape1970
Nope, you can’t use RM cars. I’m using a controller too.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 5:46 pm - #swynder
Nice events, but PD could take some ideas for upcoming seasonals from previous GT games like GT3, it had lots of events like the Evo Meeting, Tourist Trophy or The Legend of the Silver Arrow, GT4 also had alot of manufactor events, so it would be preety nice if PD made some seasonals based on these.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 2:38 pm - #CrazyBrazilian
Used a Lotus Spirit V8. Confort tires really make you sick with FR cars. Must have some conectration and be carefull to not slip the car in high speeds. Loe the event. I think that PD could do some Car Truck Event.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 12:57 pm - #Lambob
would be nice if we can have the option to download the seasonals, as data to our PS3 harddrives, I say this to offer network relief for PD / Sony. Also, wishlist, to have a new car made available once per month, that comes with 3 tuning options, set by PD, as well as a detailed description stating why they chose these three settings, to give us more indication as to how to tune them ourselves with reduced guessing.
Take our money , PD. I would be willing to pay $10 monthly for this game, since half the gaming world can give $15 monthly for a mindless MMO.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 1:10 pm - #liQster
I like your idea. But $10 is too much imho. let´s say we could buy each car for $1, so everyone could decide if he likes the new car and take it or not.
i´d be very willing to buy several cars once in a while.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 11:14 am - #JeremiahTB
The Seasonals over the last few months have been superb. I was getting really sick of the A/B Spec every other week. Way more challenging too…it’s not an automatic win every Seasonal update. It’s not a lot different from other parts of the game, but at least it’s not 100% predictable and boring. However the haters are still out there. It’s not perfect, but it has improved much from a little while ago.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 10:29 am - #Blood*Specter
1. It might be fun to have a seasonal for Concept Cars only PD. 450, 500 and 550 PP
2. How about Ferrari, Lamborghini and RUF shootout at 500/550/600PP
Hey PD I know, how about the following seasonal for Racing Cars 550/600/680PP:
GT500 at Motegi 5 Laps
GT300 at Motegi 5 Laps
Group “C” Cars at 24hr Ring 5 Laps
LMP’s at Motegi 5 Laps
NASCAR at Motegi Ovoid 5 LapsI mean let the players play….you know? And introduce any new DLC courses using the seasonal.
That way it’s more of a challenge because we have to learn the course to beat the seasonal.a. Bring back the practice/qualifying mode for seasonal and A-Spec. Make it optional for on-line racing.
b. Please let us reset our individual lap timers so we don’t have to run a warm up lap if we don’t want to when hot lapping.-
December 1st, 2012 at 8:57 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
PD doesn’t read this; sadly… but I agree. They did it a few times before (kart space time trial, dream car championship seasonal race number three [takes place on spa]). Why they didn’t continue this is the big question.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 7:39 am - #Darkruler19
Why dont they just make a seasonal for the le mans type cars or somthing just over 600 pp or somthing and not just this cus when i first started gt 5 when it first camemout they had a fun seasonal where you had a realy slow car on trial mountain and you had to become first in 3 laps against other cars just as slow or slightly faster i realy liked that one
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December 1st, 2012 at 8:59 pm - #GTMikeyKuhn412
the Fiat 500 spec race? I remember that. I won easily by cutting the final corner. That’s beside the point however. Where are the “spec” races now? Lost in time…
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November 23rd, 2012 at 5:28 am - #VBR
WOW! The last race is on a Toscana track instead of an Eifel one, PD are getting really innovative now, their collective creative juices must be flowing like never before!
;)
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November 23rd, 2012 at 1:02 pm - #Lambob
if it’s on a typical narrow toscana track, with narrow poorly implemented blind curves that look like something out of a fisher price random generator calculator, then no thanks. Hate those tracks in this game with a passion. Except the Lamborghini special challenge, that was a good track that grew on you as you went for the gold.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 3:47 pm - #Both Barrels
This might be the best Toscana track yet.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 1:15 am - #Brunet Paquet
This event is just perfect for me. when the leader AI driver has got a few PP below the max,it gives out they’re beatable even with the double-prize earning PP. every Lotuses in the OCD,except for the super old ones gave me more than their Cr. worth.
British lightweight’s are the best to throw around cars IMO.
The only con here,is that i think newer events will only be out in GT6,or much later,as in right now,the events are Expert spec. version of the already presented seasonal event.
Once again,this event is perfect for me,but the upcoming seasonal event themes could use a little more “Seasoning”,as in slightly faster than usual PP limits,and new themes,instead of old ones,like many people say.
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November 22nd, 2012 at 6:43 pm - #Whodoyouthink
Explains the large amount of Lotus’s in the OCD
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November 22nd, 2012 at 6:13 pm - #warpkez
At first, I was intrigued by this seasonal. But after trying just Grand Valley, I experienced serious case of road rage toward the AI.
Why have a close race, when the AI cannot drive in a straight line. The AI would swerve into me when passing, forcing me to either brake or take a hit.
I ended up slamming the brakes on, turning around and began driving into the field just out of pure anger.
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November 22nd, 2012 at 2:07 pm - #Brunskill777
Well using my Evora that was a great seasonal, even with the comforts.
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U guys need to learn how to drive..go to online dealer buy the lotus espirt v8. 350! Everything stock dnt even do an oil change just go to chassi and take off the first weight just give u enough for 500pp..u cant go wrong and if u still cant win give up the game u sucl..