The latest Seasonal Events are now available in GT5 in the form of new time and drift trial events, featuring the all-wheel drive Subaru Impreza. There are the no tuning restrictions in this week’s drift events.
The challenges are as follows:
Time Trial No. 63
- 880PP Formula Gran Turismo: Côte D’Azur Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2013/05/29 23:00 – 2013/06/12 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000 - 480PP Subaru Impreza: Twin Ring Motegi East Course Time Trial
Period of Availability: 2013/05/29 23:00 – 2013/06/12 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
Drift Trial No. 63
- Subaru Impreza: High Speed Ring Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2013/05/29 23:00 – 2013/06/12 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000 - Racing Cars: Cape Ring South Course Drift Trial
Period of Availability: 2013/05/29 23:00 – 2013/06/12 23:00
Gold: Cr.250,000 Silver: Cr.150,000 Bronze: Cr.100,000
As always, stop by our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion!
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Don’t you hate it when your peak isn’t good enough?
The TT of Azure was, as all TTs, was hard enough, but that TT at Motegi brings to focus at least two problem areas for me. First the track, is one that I’ve never been quick at and second being tuning.
Not being a “sedan man” I chose the ’98 22B as it is the Subie of choice when the manufacturer is required. After an hour long session, I managed a silver time. Almost certain I could do better with a newer chassis, I figured a fully tuned STi would bring a gold home. Wrong.
98% of my full tune cars have stage 3 engine upgrades and weight reductions, as well as the other permanent upgrades and oil change. Both cars chosen for this event had 200kgs added and balanced to as close to 50/50 as possible. Then engine output was retarded to meet the maximum 480pp limit. Gearing adjusted to use all six gears and the standard AWD, not default, suspension settings were set and ready. Though the ’10 fell more controllable it didn’t bring any notably better times, after 30 minutes of seat time. “LEONIS” was a whole 9 seconds faster. You go boy!!!
Please forgive this dry a.. commentary. Censorship ignorant of context?
Always be having gay tire selections.
I’m a Sunday driver, to get gold in the Subaru time trial I had to do quite a few attempts, but in the Côte D’azur time trial I did many attemps to get gold, maybe 40 or 50. I know that I’m a disastrous driver indeed. I must say I use joystick. but I never give up.
Good on ya mate :).
Oh great another AWD drift trials. PD sure is supporting the drift community to its finest.
Am I the only one who found the Motegi event near impossible?!
Not impossible, it’s just a little hard. The leaders are practically drifting every turn. I wish they would give us a stock car to use in the time trials again, no setups…just skill.
This Challenge sucked the big one i had to buy another Sti to do this challenge i finished 300 something for now but it’s sad that your downgrading from stock tires they just just make the cars completely stock of kill the pp an make it an tires unlimited so you have a skill challenge an or a tuning challenge. normally with these events it takes me 2 laps to gold this time i had to run 8 laps while tweaking the car between them. I’m not used to setting my car up to slide but not drift when i setup a track car i like having traction this challenge is an awkward one.
@KYD302 I am not that great at setups. I liked it when they gave us a sample car to use. Like a SLS on comfort tires, I find them more entertaining to play.
You don’t need to slide to get a good time as I got in the top 500 easily with a near stock 10′ Impreza Sedan WRX STI (oil change, carbon hood and LSD), then tuned it to get in the top 256, no sliding at all. Then topped it by tuning the ’07 WRX STI Hatch. The only car I found myself sliding is the 22B-STi and that’s just because I couldn’t get it to behave :lol:.
Just be smooth and enjoy the cars. You may not get in the top 10 but just keep pushing yourself to be faster than yourself and I’m sure you’ll be happy with the results. I do use a wheel so it allows me to be a bit more stable but it’s possible to get a good run without as well. Good luck Ewerby.
I do like the stock car TT’s better as well.
glad to see Impreza in latest time trial
would be nice if PD will offer Subaru Legacy B4 BM/BR 2.5GT/2.0GT DIT/3.6R and Forester 2.0XT for Gran Turismo 6
Tell me about it! every GT release I look up the car list hoping to see a forester.
Are you cats kidding? This GT… “Gran Turismo” we’re talking about! ;)
I would love these cars:
Ford Sierra 2,0 CLX 1990
Opel Kadett / Vauxhall Astra “Fun” 1990
Peugeot 405 SRi 1990
Volvo 740 GL 1990
Mitsubishi Colt/Mirage 1,4 1981
Renault Laguna 2,0 RXE 1996
Daewoo Matiz 1,0 2003
Mazda 323F 1990
Ford Escort RS 1996
Ford Escort Wagon 1994
Ford Focus 1,6 Ghia 2003
Only reason: It’s the ones I’ve owned
As a Subaru fan I like how there is some love for the impreza BUT i would love if they re-showed some Fozy love.
I have been waiting for it since GT2 and honestly it’s heart breaking.
did you notice that Formula GT event is also helt at Côte D’Azur… same track Formula 1 2013 held last weekend!!
Nice race btw!!!
Why do I get the feeling, that I have already done these before?
4WD drifting event? you bloody what?
Agreed Urie Husky, not pleased with this drift event
I think the standard GT300 Subaru Impreza is FR.
Unfortunately the GT300 Impreza does not meet the restrictions of the High Speed Ring Drift Trial.
The cars used in the drift trials should have been reversed imo.
I didn’t find it very hard, tuned my car with torque distributing differential and then put all the power on rear wheels.
I agree it was kinda odd though.
Did I here somewhere they put the 123 car in to rear wheel drive only to comply with event restrictions….can this be done in the real world ….think it was for the Norburge 24 recently…
Nurgburgring SP9 GT-3 class restrictions are rear wheel drive only. Nissan made a car to compete in the highest class. Last year they entered a nearly stock GT-R to prove their car is race ready out of the box
I’m not very pleased that they stopped doing the Sample Cars. There is now little driving skill involved now :(.
Agreed.
Agreed, was a much greater challenge
isnt tuning part of the challenge??
but I agree, if everyone have same cars you get some bonuses…
1st you can get straight into action and drive the event..
2nd all drivers have exactly same conditions!
and third is that you dont have to buy a car to participate and the leaderboards are showing closer results..
yeah.. making it more simple does improve the gameplay this time around..
@Tvensky, particularly 2nd reason is what I mean. Amazingly PD hasn’t yet figured out they can make a tune/non-tune version and have them run alongside each other..
I’m usually quicker when I tune the race cars. But I do worry about the HACK jobs. I still see some silly ones out there. So, the ‘samples’ aren’t too disconcerting (?)
I know, I hated it too. Just skill, nothing else.
Nurgburgring SP9 GT-3 class restrictions are rear wheel drive only. Nissan made a car to compete in the highest class. Last year they entered a nearly stock GT-R to prove their car is race ready out of the box.
I Think you replied to the wrong comment.
I’m willing to bet that you can’t even use that Cusco Dunlop Subaru in the seasonal.
A racing car?
Kaz, please fix this Impreza for GT6. It’s an awe-freaking some car but it has a broken HUD, the RPM counter doesn’t work yet it takes all the space in the steering wheel.
Thanks.
Which Impreza? All of the Premium Imprezas that I’ve tried have a working RPM counter.
Yeah which one? Haven’t spotted a failed dash on one so I’m curious.
It’s called a “tachometer.” “Tach”, for short, gentlemen ;) And the only ones that don’t, don’t have one (standards).
Looking forward to the FGT TT’s :)
:(
Almost thought this was gt6 news featuring a new impreza.
And 1 other thing..why are the pp levels soo little for most of the seasonals.
Could be because of the tyres, which would be fairly useless at the higher PP ranges these cars can attain – just s theory though.
not if you know how to drive. Seriously the only race cars that are hard to drive on sports hard are LMPs, McLaren F1 long tail race car, and Zonda R. Everything else is easy to manage, you just need practice. GT5p used to have time trials with Ford GT LM Race Car on comfort soft so I’m sure it’s not the tires. Plus they do some trials with racing hard like all the F1 events
I think you’re missing the point Tom – sure there were very challenging runs using powerful cars in GT5:P and GT5. I’ve been doing this since release, so know what I’m doing. Got the Motegi using a Prodrive in four laps, two before and two after tweaking the tune.
At higher PP levels, a car’s torque will make the transition of power to the road less even – hence the challenge of doing so on comfort soft tyres – but note that the PP was lower than the car can attain. That was why I said it.
Finally, I can score some 1st Ranks (of course below that primary 1st). :P