New Year’s Holiday Challenge GT5 Seasonal Event Now Live

Gran Turismo 5 December 19th, 2012 by Terronium-12

The latest Gran Turismo 5 Seasonal Events are a special bunch, featuring Expert-level challenges with high rewards.

Clearing all events with the highest results will award a special prize on top of the prizes associated with the highest results in the individual events. The challenges are as follows:

New Year’s Holiday Challenge

  • 600PP GT500: Suzuka Circuit / 10 Laps
    Period of Availability: 2012/12/20 03:00 – 2013/01/10 03:00
    1st: Cr.750,000  2nd: Cr.375,000  3rd: Cr.262,500
  • 600PP Tuned Cars: Nürburgring Nordschleife / 3 Laps
    Period of Availability: 2012/12/20 03:00 – 2013/01/10 03:00
    1st: Cr.880,000  2nd: Cr.440,000  3rd: Cr.308,000
  • 700PP Racing Cars: Spa Francorchamps / 10 Laps
    Period of Availability: 2012/12/20 03:00 – 2013/01/10 03:00
    1st: Cr.1,000,000  2nd: Cr.500,000  3rd: Cr.350,000/li>
  • Corvette C7 Test Prototype: Nürburgring Nordschleife Time Trial
    Period of Availability: 2012/12/20 03:00 – 2013/01/10 03:00
    Gold: Cr.550,000  Silver: Cr.300,000  Bronze: Cr.150,000

The game’s Online Car Dealership has also been updated with new inventory, with all cars being sold at half-price. As always, stop by our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion!

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  1. January 5th, 2013 at 8:13 pm - #
    soapy2011

    Sorry guys, just mixed up on my last post. I mean I won the Spa with Audi R8 and Nurburgring with GTR Black Edition.

  2. January 5th, 2013 at 8:11 pm - #
    soapy2011

    Suzuka is bitch to race, after many tries finally managed to win this with HSV. But like what I said this race is a BITCH! Just can’t believe that Nissmo Z can run away like this! Spa and Nurburgring are pretty good races! Lots of fun! I won the Spa with GTR Black edition and Nurburgring with Audi R8 race car, both with intermediate tires, pretty easy. Haven’t done the TT yet. But I know it is going to be a bitch again!

    • January 10th, 2013 at 1:54 pm - #
      Aaron2x

      Yeah it took me three tries. The key is to start out with racing soft tires and then pit when the wetness of the road gets up to about 20%. When you pit switch to intermediate (like I did) or rain tires. I won the race by almost a minute!

  3. December 30th, 2012 at 8:04 pm - #
    UKCoachCalipari

    Kinda ridiculous “Special Prize” . . . and I already have every care in the OCD garge 3, sometimes 4 times over, yet I bought every one of them again, I guess 0milers are somewhat satifiying to have, so now I have 3-5 of all the Pescarols, all the mirror iterations plus extras to race with.

    Seasonals are funbut not themed , and not especially challenging save the TT, not sure why SRF is locked on, almost seems like they forgot to remove the selection at the last moment, my hopeful guess is they reactivate the choice after the seasonal expires.

    PD needs to take a page outa the Old School EA TWoods book. EA used to come up with really cool Tiger Woods events that were triggered by the PS2, XBOX, and PC system clocks. Example, Oct 31, EA would create a nightime enviroment of a fantasy course, tricks out out with glowing pumpkins, scarecrows, wandering Jasons, mike Myers Zombies and pycho patients in medical gowns, glowing eyes in the bush, etc, then added a John Carpenter/Trent Reznorish style soundtrack and howling wolves, screams, and other disturbing sound effects. Now that is a seasonal!

    • December 31st, 2012 at 7:51 am - #
      Driving me mad

      What were the cars you won for the special prizes (lvl 23 & Gift car ticket 1000)

    • January 10th, 2013 at 1:56 pm - #
      Aaron2x

      It kinda sucks that they limit the amount of time you have to do the Holiday Challenge. Those were probably the best seasonal events yet.

  4. December 28th, 2012 at 11:31 am - #
    Driving me mad

    On the seasonal events I’ve done the 1st 3 races without a hitch but I’m going mad on the TT as can only get silver, does anyone know what the 2 cars you get if you get gold? 1 is a lvl 23 car and the other is a Gift car ticket 1000? Any ideas

  5. December 27th, 2012 at 6:46 pm - #
    Danny howlett

    Running 7:53 on time trial, any setup advice?

  6. December 27th, 2012 at 6:45 pm - #
    Danny howlett

    Running 7:53′s on tt, any setup advice?

  7. December 27th, 2012 at 2:29 am - #
    PEPER

    i wish PD make such beautiful seasonal events more often. I mean, a race with a dynamic weather change is awesome.

    • December 30th, 2012 at 10:32 am - #
      GT911

      I totally agree, this seasonal are really good, and finally take advantage of
      This features if the game.

  8. December 26th, 2012 at 4:42 pm - #
    TheEzekiel

    I improved (2 sec) my lap time on nurb but because of my PS3 “could not connect to ranking system” my record is just gone :-) thank you PD you are just masters !!!

  9. December 26th, 2012 at 11:10 am - #
    Smokeyhat

    Can’t wait to get started on this latest seasonal event.

  10. December 24th, 2012 at 5:10 pm - #
    sparkytooth

    Awww… won’t have GT5 till late January,so no seasonal for me yet.

  11. December 24th, 2012 at 3:35 am - #
    mef

    Love these Seasonals, great tracks and also not just a single lap or two

  12. December 24th, 2012 at 12:53 am - #
    jd42

    Spa and Nurburg were the best events once you figure out which car and tire combo to use. Suzuka : HSV with base settings Nurburg : gtr academy edition with base settings, Spa : jud with base settings. Completed all on intermediates. As for the TT, can’t manage better than bronze. Gonna keep at the latter two so I can rebuild my $ after buying a few mulit million dollar cars.

  13. December 22nd, 2012 at 6:04 pm - #
    Boosted_01_R

    Best seasonal to date…….. need more weather changing events, and high PP events…. nice to see they fixed the rain issues where Soft had more grip than inters and wets…. Spa was the best seasonal to date :D :D :D

  14. December 22nd, 2012 at 1:13 pm - #
    Mr Nerv

    Oh dear, the glitchy AI still remains! I’ve just raced Suzuka, and I was 1st by the 3rd/4th corner of…LAP 2!

    Similar kind of thing to the Spa Seasonal where my Level 0 Bob won the race. And yes, in both cases – I’M NOT KIDDING.

  15. December 22nd, 2012 at 1:06 pm - #
    binkie75

    Those stupid rules OMG, limitation in enginepower rules ?????
    WTF PD what a load of crap agian.

  16. December 21st, 2012 at 5:39 pm - #
    NoRo

    forced SRF !? WTF !? For what reason !!!!!?!!!?!?!??

  17. December 21st, 2012 at 3:54 am - #
    Musolini187

    just bought all the cars i was missing, only 1 more to go and ill have all the elite/rare expensive cars of gt5.

    • December 21st, 2012 at 8:07 am - #
      Tvensky

      The best part is that they all are very different, I still dont have time for all of them, since there are so many good cars, and some favorites I drive all the time…. I will try to buy every one of them and try later on :)

      I only wish gt5 would have more tracks and roads/offroads where I could use those cars….

  18. December 20th, 2012 at 8:20 pm - #
    euros only

    Gasp, no Nissan GTR as a prize? This is madness!

  19. December 20th, 2012 at 6:35 pm - #
    warpkez

    Chase the rabbit, my foot!!! At times I am flat out bronzing most of these events, but if I can get gold with between 30sec and a minute lead, then some people must suck more than me.

    The only one I cannot get done is the TT with the $DEITY awful C7. No idea why this is a requirement to get the car ticket, it should be its own event.

  20. December 20th, 2012 at 6:18 pm - #
    JeremiahTB

    I’ve never seen such mixed reviews over a Seasonal before. Some people hate them so much I’m surprised they still play the game. Others are so geeked that you would think GT6 just came out. Personally, I think they are good, not great, but good.

    • December 22nd, 2012 at 3:01 pm - #
      Both Barrels

      +1