Twin Ring Motegi Now Available in GT Academy 2012, Final Round Begins!

GT Academy June 10th, 2012 by Jordan

The final rounds of competition are now available in the GT Academy 2012 mini-game, including the all-important, final time trial challenge, which takes place at Polyphony Digital’s newly-remodeled Twin Ring Motegi circuit!

As most of you know, Twin Ring Motegi was not included in Gran Turismo 5, and has not been seen in a Gran Turismo title since Gran Turismo PSP was released in 2009. Hints at the presence of the track’s inclusion in the GT Academy 2012 mini-game popped up shortly after the competition went live last month and were closely followed by more high-resolution screenshots.

If you can’t get to your PlayStation, watch a full lap of the East Short Course below:

Here’s a closer look at the new time trial challenges, which are available to all players around the world:

Round 7 – Nissan GT-R Black edition Tuned Car (GT Academy) ’12

  1. Nürburgring ‘Adenau – Forest’
  2. Blind Combined Corners on the London City Course
  3. Continuous Blind Corners on the ‘Côte d’Azur’ Course
  4. Sarthe Circuit ‘Porsche Curve’
  5. Nürburgring; Wet Conditions

Round 8 – 370Z Tuned Car (GT Academy) ’08

  1. Mid Speed Corner; Speed Control
  2. Blind Corners at Night
  3. Continuous Corners; Maintaining Stability
  4. Spa-Francorchamps ‘Eau Rouge’ – ‘Les Combes’
  5. Twin Ring Motegi East Short Course Time Trial

The fastest players in the final time trial challenge, Round 8-5, from each participating region, will be invited to their respective regional finals. Check your local gran-turismo.com website for the official rules and registration forms which apply to your country.

As previously announced, the in-game prizes acquired in the GT Academy 2012 mini-game will become available in Gran Turismo 5 on July 4th.

Be sure to stop by our GT Academy 2012 forum for more hints, tips, and discussions with your fellow competitors. Good luck to all GTPlanet members!

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  1. June 16th, 2012 at 11:25 pm - #
    JrDarknes

    I was wondering how i got so many views so fast on this video XD.

  2. June 16th, 2012 at 9:53 am - #
    wayne jacobs

    GT ACADEMY 2012 FAIL who was the idiot who fought putting cones on the racing line was a good idea.
    i’ve done a 1:32.001 but if i did not have to dodge the bloody stupid cones i could do a 1:31.000 or better
    GT ACADEMY 2012 PLEASE MOVE the stupid cones off the racing line

    • June 17th, 2012 at 2:37 pm - #
      DuskTrooper

      The traffic cones are fine where they are at. Besides, there is only a few days left. What would be the point in even bothering?

    • June 19th, 2012 at 6:38 am - #
      dalmaximus

      I have never read something so ridiculous in my life so far. Wayne, if the cones were moved, don’t you think the people who were already faster than you, would also take advantage of there not being cones, thus neutralising this so called disadvantage of yours?

  3. June 15th, 2012 at 10:35 am - #
    Josh848evo

    I found it hard the first time but I must admit practice makes perfect

  4. June 14th, 2012 at 1:15 pm - #
    Metallica81

    If I could just get the 1st sector and the final corner down i’d be golden. Those two areas is where I lose all my speed and time. I know I can do it,just gotta put more time into it

    • June 14th, 2012 at 3:09 pm - #
      Gt51994

      Yup is all about practice bro I thought it was impossible I finally did it so keep on trying tip ……: put tcs on 7 and manual don’t be like try hardes like soon people 8( and take ur turns slow

  5. June 14th, 2012 at 1:13 pm - #
    Metallica81

    If I could just get the 1st sector and the final corner down i’d be golden. Those two areas is where I lose all my speed and time.

  6. June 14th, 2012 at 9:46 am - #
    Pit Crew

    This has been a fun, gratifying, and rewarding driving experience which I would also like to thank Kaz and PolyphonyDigital for sharing with us.
    I hope in the future GTAcademy trials, should a community DLC Academy trial reappear, and for GTAcademy trials going forward that PD gets more nations like Canada and a few others (including all of Australia it seems) an oppurtunity to compete.
    I know I learned a few more things bout Technique I plan to apply. Its been a blast. TY PD & Kaz.

  7. June 14th, 2012 at 6:53 am - #
    Turbo-Kai

    Again I ask PD: Please add the opportunity to filter the ranking list by “wheel / pad”
    I’d love see my positon only under all pad drivers…

    • June 18th, 2012 at 9:28 am - #
      skyrunr10k

      this is available on mygranturismo.net

  8. June 14th, 2012 at 6:34 am - #
    dalmaximus

    fancy putting the final in the same week as the le mans and the us open :( I’m going to miss both, boo hoo. I’m 182nd at the moment, just need that perfect lap then I should make it to 181st.

  9. June 14th, 2012 at 2:37 am - #
    SP33DYO2011

    As good as it is think itd be a bit fairer if each person had a set number of tries that way its meks it fairer to the people who cant spend all day on it like some of them do

  10. June 13th, 2012 at 10:02 pm - #
    Metallica81

    Man My best so far 1:33.756. I know where im losing speed just having a hard time fixing it. I have 10 more days ( we all do ) and im gonna driver my A** off to get where I wanna be.

    • June 14th, 2012 at 3:23 am - #
      dalmaximus

      That’s the spirit, I’m 1.22.809 and it’s bloody hard but gonna keep trying

    • June 14th, 2012 at 6:31 pm - #
      GTP_geoff

      You lie. Surely 1.32.809?

    • June 14th, 2012 at 6:45 pm - #
      dalmaximus

      yeah, sorry.1.32.809, no 1.32.792, but it’s still way off, so tough to get the perfect lap but i’ll die trying

  11. June 13th, 2012 at 8:16 pm - #
    Pit Crew

    The 370Z tuned reinforces my desire for a GTAcademy Pro Drift School lol, because in all seriousness, if I didn’t use bits and pieces of my drift technique to counter the cars oversteer character I wouldn’t have done as well as I did. The Z must stand for Zwigaggle haha lol

  12. June 13th, 2012 at 6:46 pm - #
    Amac500

    Hey Jordan, if you were looking for things that were updated in the last update, or maybe it was the one before, they changed the engine noise on the Corvette ZR1 RM. I hadn’t used the car since before the updates and I don know if it was already reported, but it now has a deeper more throaty, monstrous noise. It sounds amazing.

    • June 13th, 2012 at 8:35 pm - #
      skyrunr10k

      I agree, I took the GTI ’76 out for a spin recently and it sounded really good. The last time I drove it was not memorable. Now I just HAVE to go checkout the RGT. The new 2.07 bug is when you get near another car both cars volume goes down 50%. I often find myself avoiding tuning the intake or exhaust because it ruins the originally decent sound of the vehicle.

  13. June 13th, 2012 at 4:45 pm - #
    Tomeggyilkos

    one thing to ya all 947k ppl played Academy how many ppl play Forza? :DDDDDD

    • June 13th, 2012 at 10:37 pm - #
      Quakebass

      Uhmmm… AT LEAST 2 million… The comparison is irrelevant, saying as GT Academy is a standalone MINI-game… also look at the gold medal averages; the US has over ONE MILLION users, yet only averages golding up to round 1 and event 2-1. Obviously some people have left GT Academy; the “947k ppl” you speak of are only the amount of people who have COMPETED, not the amount of people currently playing GT Academy. For some reason there isn’t data on Forza 4′s sales, but Forza 3 sold just under 3 million copies; I don’t know about the used games, but likely over 4-5 million people play Forza 4… GT5 hit around 7.5 million copies recently (and has been around for about a year longer than Forza 4), and people have left the game since. There’s likely about an equal amount of players on both games.

    • June 14th, 2012 at 1:38 am - #
      Tomeggyilkos

      2 mill? u jokin me? i mean daily… i bet u not even 100k or so… “equal amout of players on both games” hmmmmm

      oh and btw u can say iRacing or anythin to me i dont rly care anymore only Gran Turismo whatever u say the pshysic and the game is just perfect for me will be hard to beat it funny ppl cryin over a perfect game like this look around maaan ;)

      ( iknowisaid “played” and “play” ;)

    • June 14th, 2012 at 3:11 am - #
      GTAndy36

      Shame your spelling and grammar doesn’t reach Gran Turismo standards.

    • June 14th, 2012 at 12:53 pm - #
      Tomeggyilkos

      shame u only care my grammar and not what i say…want to continue hungarian?

    • June 15th, 2012 at 3:33 pm - #
      dalmaximus

      @gtAndy36, I think you’ve been challenged to write in Hungarian. Should have kept quiet.

  14. June 13th, 2012 at 3:04 pm - #
    Praggia

    Check out Project cars on youtube the next racing sim in development looks good.

    Also in the zonda clip that is what the Zonda R SHOULD sound like PD.

    • June 13th, 2012 at 6:49 pm - #
      Amac500

      Project cars looks nice, but I’ve kind of been turned on to simraceway. They are making an indycar game that will be out I think this summer but don’t quote me on it. That and all my favorite people are endorsing it, lol. Allan McNish, Dan Wheldon, Dario Franchitti, Leo from the Shakedown episodes of those Drive podcasts on YouTube. Guess advertising does work after all, haha.

  15. June 13th, 2012 at 11:42 am - #
    RobDoggy05

    I got 1:35 265 which is 5 seconds off the no.1 ranked guy with 1:31 165 or something and im ranked 465th? Has no1 done round 8-5 yet?

    • June 13th, 2012 at 12:01 pm - #
      kultclassic

      check which rankings your looking at..just managed a 1.32.9 no aids, got me to 211th uk but somewhere in the 2000ths world.

  16. June 13th, 2012 at 10:32 am - #
    SuperAguri

    How about SUGO, Autopolis and Okayama ?

    How about the updated 2011/2012 Super GT cars ? (3400cc V8 FR spec GT500 )

    • June 13th, 2012 at 10:33 am - #
      SuperAguri

      Don’t waste the precious official Super GT license ! Gran Turismo !!!

    • June 13th, 2012 at 11:41 am - #
      DuskTrooper

      I don’t mind some new tracks, but don’t we have enough JGTC & NASCAR cars already?

    • June 13th, 2012 at 10:45 pm - #
      Quakebass

      ^ I don’t think we have enough of either; we don’t have any non-Japanese Super GT, and there isn’t 16 NASCAR and Super GT liveries/vehicles; the maximum grid count on GT5.

      As for tracks, I’d like to look realistically; Silverstone is a MAJOR track that should be added, along with some classic GT tracks. Those would seem the most logical, considering all of the GT Academy events at Silverstone, and that we really only need an HD upgrade and weather/day-night cycles on classic GT tracks, not full re-builds.

      We’ll see what happens in the coming weeks/months.

  17. June 13th, 2012 at 7:43 am - #
    stiggygonzalez

    I’m still looking for people to compare GT academy times,send me an FR :stiggygonzalez

  18. June 13th, 2012 at 7:41 am - #
    stiggygonzalez

    I’m enjoying the challenge of GT academy and I’m looking forward to seeing motegi in GT5.
    Also I’m beginning to think that GT academy could be GT6 prologue in diguise,considering it’s a free demo for anyone who’s got a PS3 and a great advert for people who are new to Gran Turismo.

  19. June 12th, 2012 at 10:53 pm - #
    PIGBOY

    4th of july for prizes,nice date

    • June 12th, 2012 at 10:54 pm - #
      PIGBOY

      we need a bong head scoreboard…

  20. June 12th, 2012 at 10:29 pm - #
    PIGBOY

    4 Aussie’s in the top 10…WELL DONE BOYS,im tryin to get up there too,external forces saying no…grr

    • June 12th, 2012 at 10:31 pm - #
      PIGBOY

      jezza,wazza,timothy and adam……wooooohooooo

    • June 12th, 2012 at 10:34 pm - #
      PIGBOY

      haha,,,thats what u get when only selecting your area….:(

    • June 13th, 2012 at 9:04 pm - #
      tpark103

      Just wrapped up round 6 and started these last night before had to go to bed. Anyone have any tips?