The Nürburgring vs Circuito de la Sierra
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- Riverside, Ca
- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
Nurb is easier at it has less of those sudden tight corners. Sierra is more challenging, and not only because you're sort of running it counter clockwise..
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SIERRA > NUR! Because Sierra is more distance 27km! 
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- Jake-Racer1221
Well I prefer Sierra
It has a similar feel to Course Maker, the choices of corners aren't as good as the GT5's one. But lately Nurb has been too repeative,
Overall it is hard to choose between the two. Sierra's scenery is just great for my SW20, it just fits it.
I'd say I like complexity courses that people make, such as the LoTS folk. So for now I can say I vote for either or.
It has a similar feel to Course Maker, the choices of corners aren't as good as the GT5's one. But lately Nurb has been too repeative,
Overall it is hard to choose between the two. Sierra's scenery is just great for my SW20, it just fits it.
I'd say I like complexity courses that people make, such as the LoTS folk. So for now I can say I vote for either or.
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- Vitória/ ES
Well, some clues leads to a CM generated track...
- Update Details (1.12) log:
In the first original long course “Circuit de La Sierra” modeled after the Ronda region of Spain...
- Main Menu of Sierra's Special Event:
Try your hand at this special event on our first ever custom-created long distance track!
Plus, the emphasis PD gave to the track (highlighted in red) on Sierra's landscape is a lil strange
just speculation, but i think Andalucia/ Zahara will be a CM theme and this 'Circuit de la Sierra' was the 'teaser' track
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- jimmyfoxhound
Well, some clues leads to a CM generated track...
- Update Details (1.12) log:
In the first original long course “Circuit de La Sierra” modeled after the Ronda region of Spain...
- Main Menu of Sierra's Special Event:
Try your hand at this special event on our first ever custom-created long distance track!
Plus, the emphasis PD gave to the track (highlighted in red) on Sierra's landscape is a lil strange
just speculation, but i think Andalucia/ Zahara will be a CM theme and this 'Circuit de la Sierra' was the 'teaser' track
Ah I see, thanks for the info fagnerpc!
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- GolimLongshanks
Well, some clues leads to a CM generated track...
- Update Details (1.12) log:
In the first original long course “Circuit de La Sierra” modeled after the Ronda region of Spain...
- Main Menu of Sierra's Special Event:
Try your hand at this special event on our first ever custom-created long distance track!
Plus, the emphasis PD gave to the track (highlighted in red) on Sierra's landscape is a lil strange
just speculation, but i think Andalucia/ Zahara will be a CM theme and this 'Circuit de la Sierra' was the 'teaser' track
That's a reeeaaaaalllllly big stretch!
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- CyKosis1973
QFT 👍I've run them sequentially now and realised that NBR is the racecourse and Zahara is the scenic route to get there!
{Cy}
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- TonyLomas
Well, some clues leads to a CM generated track...
- Update Details (1.12) log:
In the first original long course “Circuit de La Sierra” modeled after the Ronda region of Spain...
- Main Menu of Sierra's Special Event:
Try your hand at this special event on our first ever custom-created long distance track!
Plus, the emphasis PD gave to the track (highlighted in red) on Sierra's landscape is a lil strange
just speculation, but i think Andalucia/ Zahara will be a CM theme and this 'Circuit de la Sierra' was the 'teaser' track
Thanks @fagnerpc for your accurate evidence. I also remember, but can't prove, that PD were going to release a custom created track before releasing the track creator.
You might be right that Zahara is just a theme that they've used to create a track. With so much of it actually following real roads it made me wonder if they had used the upcoming GPS tool. They might have just got a good creator that allows you to place the track where you want it.
I still hope and believe that they are wanting to fully utilise the GPS tool to create tracks though. And I'm very pleased at that direction and idea.
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It doesn't need to be a finished GPS tool for them to use it, they could just import or modify their own GPS data however they wanted, and the in-game course maker wouldn't need to be finished for them to layout the course either, so I definitely think this could be a preview of what is coming. The track certainly looks like something an upgraded course maker might be capable of, especially in the long distance shots in the replays.
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- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
I'm not so sure, Leon. It's really hard for any of us to call it, though; we've been running the 'Ring in PD's games for nearly a decade now, so familiarity plays a big part in the Nurb's "easiness". Then again, I've found Sierra quite easy so far, with not a whole lot of standout corners, but that very well could be because of the special event PD set up. It doesn't encourage all-out, completely committed racing, so maybe in that respect - comparing both circuits on a 10/10th approach - Sierra could be as difficult, or more so, than the Nordschleife.
Then again, half the challenge of the 'Ring is that the tarmac isn't super-smooth. That certainly isn't a problem on Sierra...
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- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
Well, I found those tight 2nd gear corners right after high speed straightaways problematic as I haven't nailed down the braking points yet. Nurb has none of those..
NixxxoN
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- Barcelona
Its more than 50. I would say its 75% or a bit more. I dont think the course creator has anything to do with it, I dont get why people got this idea.
What would make sense about the course creator would be a flat, plain terrain, for more simplicity.
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- Parcells2
- Parcells2
Give it more than 3 days and I'm sure eventually you'll nail down these breaking points as well at which point they will no longer be problematic as is the Nurb to you today.
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- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
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- Vitória/ ES
Yep, Kaz said about some custom tracks to show what the course maker could do in past interviews
at this stage, i think the GPS tool will be simplified... probably they will hold this feature for a new GT on PS4 (could be an amazing selling point)
btw, i noticed others things about the Sierra's track:
- Length of the track: 27.000 km - only track with this precise length (odd to a 'real road' track);
- Duplicate buildings, houses (etc) along the track: various restaurants, hills with houses on a certain pattern (etc);
- Only track without preset angles on replay: just the 'free cam' is available;
- Green signs with numbers before the corners (sectors?).
and, finally, look at this post:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=130337954&postcount=7571
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- Croatia
Ascari is harder because sun dont work in Spain. I voted for ring it is better track, when novelty of Zahara goes away it will be played less then 75% tracks in gt6.
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- haroldinho41
I'd say they're both probably equally difficult, although having driven on the Nurburgring for three iterations of the series I now know where all of the danger zones are, to the extent that I don't even notice them anymore, whereas in a 550PP+ car on De La Sierra I'm likely to go off-track every few laps.
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- Halifax, NS
- Parcells2
- Parcells2
Clearly you're not the only one who thinks this way but I must remain with the group who thinks the Nurb is harder. It is tighter with a lot more bumps and from my personal experience it took me a very very long time to learn the Nurb track but I've been around the Sierra track three times now with very few offs for a new track I've never driven before with significantly more than your typical 12-14 turns (no racing line). Not even close to the frustrations I've had with the Nurb.
Good racing whereever it shall be.
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