GT Academy USA Round 2 Kicks off At Indy, Toscana
The second round of GT Academy USA kicked off Monday, this time with two car/course combos: the Indianapolis Road Course in a GT-R V-Spec II Nür (R34) and a Toscana Tarmac circuit in the XANAVI NISMO Z Super GT race car.
SCEA isn’t making things any easier on participants, forcing “Comfort Medium” tires on the GT-R at Indy – resulting in severe understeer around the flat circuit. Indy is a somewhat unexpected choice, considering it was already used in last year’s GT5 Time Trial Demo. As pointed out by user Dapper, it actually all seems to a bit backwards: participants are using a road car on a race track, and a race car on a road circuit.
Regardless, good luck to all participants and GTPlanet members! Round 2 ends at midnight EST on February 6th. Head on over to our GT Academy forum to chat with other competitors, or follow along with the action here on the official leaderboards.
GT5 Photomode image by RetroGiant.
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February 1st, 2011 at 5:03 pm - #Ferrariman11
Good luck to all of the participants(nice picture)
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February 1st, 2011 at 12:46 pm - #Jump_Ace
Only tried the second combo at Toscana for an hour last night and it was excellent, really enjoyed it :) Will attempt combo 1 later. And that picture really is good RetroGiant :tup:
Jerome
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February 1st, 2011 at 9:52 am - #Markus Vhane
WoW, I’m amazed! :D
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February 1st, 2011 at 8:59 am - #alucard0712
PD want to test real driving skills.That’s why they use such uncommon car/track combinations.
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February 1st, 2011 at 7:46 am - #dearlybeloved
Such a beautiful picture.
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February 1st, 2011 at 6:24 am - #Stune
Good luck to everyone taking part
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February 1st, 2011 at 4:47 am - #Spaghettimonster
regarding the photo. i never took any photo from gt to be real. they always look sterile and lack detail in some places. i bet in a competition i could spot real from gt generated photos. ;-)
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February 1st, 2011 at 3:58 am - #Robez
The picture looks so damn real. Looking at the background makes you notice, that it’s GT5 ….
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February 1st, 2011 at 3:39 am - #Reprogrammed
I know this is out of topic, but every what time or every week or month do the Seasonal Events change?
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February 1st, 2011 at 4:18 am - #Nigel Mansell
Every thursday at 3:00am GMT
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February 1st, 2011 at 3:20 am - #Nikez
I thought the pic was real…
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February 1st, 2011 at 2:41 am - #WTFnews
about the photo look at the background thats gt5 so it’s gt5 photo
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February 1st, 2011 at 1:37 am - #MoLieG
Pretty interesting track choice… wish I could participate :’( The pic looks awesome btw!!!! ;)
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February 1st, 2011 at 1:30 am - #terminator363
Well, this seems quite tricky, good luck participants!
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February 1st, 2011 at 12:31 am - #GTOne2Three
Damn, I didnt make it.. :(
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February 1st, 2011 at 12:20 am - #Hypergolem
Good luck guys… I wish I could be there…
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January 31st, 2011 at 11:00 pm - #Jamaicanbwoy
At comfort mediums light drifting might have an advantage on some corners :P
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February 1st, 2011 at 1:06 pm - #chandler325i
absolutely. It seems like not a great gauge for finding the best “driver” but the best drifter. To score high in the first round, it was all about drifting, too
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January 31st, 2011 at 10:24 pm - #oscartron
Wow, I’m glad I didn’t go through :D lol sounds like death!
Good luck to all!
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January 31st, 2011 at 9:54 pm - #Paul
The comfort medium on the xanavi seems downright stupid to me. I never heard of a gt500 car running on dunlop all season tires
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January 31st, 2011 at 10:41 pm - #Simon
It says comfort medium on the GT-R at Indy, not the Xanavi.
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January 31st, 2011 at 9:33 pm - #damaged_case
the road-on-race and race-on-road is a good call, i think. it’s easy to get a good time on a race track with a race car, and likewise a road car on a race track… it takes a little something extra though, i think, to get good times doing it “backwards”.
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January 31st, 2011 at 9:34 pm - #damaged_case
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“and likewise a road car on a race track” should be “road car on road track”. mucked that up.
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Thanks for the picture feature Jordan and thanks for all the great comments guys!