500PP FR Non-Racing Car Super Lap: Apricot Hill Raceway

nowcontrol · Sep 10, 2015

500PP FR Non-Racing Car Super Lap: Apricot Hill Raceway

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dave2319 · Sep 10, 2015

Used Toyota 86 Concept and was 6th for a minute, then tried the Shelby car and got back to 11th with a 1:32 something. That lap felt sloppy, I suspect people will be under 1:30 here shortly.

ALB123 · Sep 10, 2015

Used the Toyota 86 Concept as well... No aids except ABS=1. Gold time of 1:34.217 after 2 laps. I could turn off camber and probably knock a bit of time off, but Gold is Gold, to me...

Good luck everyone!

Polsixe · Sep 10, 2015

What, only two TT? Wasn't there to be four? Oh well, Shelby Supercharged Series One was good for gold. Good rule to restrict MR cars. M3s should do well here too.

coryclifford · Sep 10, 2015

Flat floored Miata at 1:32. Hehe.

bluelightning · Sep 10, 2015

I tried the Scion FR-S and got bronze, then the Shelby series one (with little modifications) and got silver.

A little more work should see me get the gold (although I already have an F1).

Personally, I quite like the change where you get prizes for 2nd and 3rd as well. I already have most of the cars, but not these paint chips. Not quite sure what car to paint chrome pink, though...

PopPunkPoser · Sep 10, 2015

coryclifford
Flat floored Miata at 1:32. Hehe.

Which Miata? What's your tune?

PopPunkPoser · Sep 10, 2015

I don't have many FR cars, but the One-77'11 handles great tuned down to 500pp. 1:38s is my best so far so I'll play around with the tuning.

coryclifford · Sep 10, 2015

Roadster RS (NC) '07 Miata. Very simple tune but effective. 284 hp/920 kg weight

85/85
4.50/4.00
3/3
3/3
4/3
0/0
0/0
Race brake 5/5

112 mph 2.900 final

8/8/5

Stage 3 engine, high rpm turbo 97.7%

Full weight reduced and a flat floor

Lotta people don't seem to like the flat floor but it is very effective at making crap tires have more grip.

PopPunkPoser · Sep 10, 2015

coryclifford
Roadster RS (NC) '07 Miata. Very simple tune but effective. 284 hp/920 kg weight

85/85
4.50/4.00
3/3
3/3
4/3
0/0
0/0
Race brake 5/5

112 mph 2.900 final

8/8/5

Stage 3 engine, high rpm turbo 97.7%

Full weight reduced and a flat floor

Lotta people don't seem to like the flat floor but it is very effective at making crap tires have more grip.

Thanks man! I'll give this a try tomorrow. I agree with you on the flat floor, great for added grip on lower cars.

ALB123 · Sep 10, 2015

Adding a flat floor to your car is one of the better things you can do to increase mid to high speed handling. The only problem with adding the flat floor, in my opinion, is GT6 increases the Performance Points of your vehicle too much once you've added the flat floor. You're going to lose top end speed & a little acceleration with the flat floor and I don't think that's taken into account when adjusting the PP value of the car.

dave2319 · Sep 10, 2015

I think pp should remain close to the same when adding flat floors, because you really seem to lose a significant amount of speed and acceleration even with the highly increased pp not turned down yet. Doesn't make much sense to me, but neither is the fantastic handling lightweight cars being allowed to have a significantly better power to weight ratio than the heavyweight cars that handle like freight trains compared to lightweights.

shaunm80 · Sep 10, 2015

This car worked like a charm around this track

Shelby Series One Super Charged '03

Just add CS tyres and you are good to go.

Link here

eran0004 · Sep 10, 2015

dave2319
I think pp should remain close to the same when adding flat floors, because you really seem to lose a significant amount of speed and acceleration even with the highly increased pp not turned down yet. Doesn't make much sense to me, but neither is the fantastic handling lightweight cars being allowed to have a significantly better power to weight ratio than the heavyweight cars that handle like freight trains compared to lightweights.

The power-to-weight ratio is mainly important at low speeds. At high speeds it's power that counts, and a heavier car can usually have more power than a lighter car at the same PP. Lightweight cars are usually better at cornering, while the heavier car have their advantage on the straights.

Ryk · Sep 10, 2015

Stock TVR Tamora...
well almost had to take the tyres off the Jetty I moor my yacht to. Once I had knocked the barnacles off them and put them on the old TVR I took to the track and edged it down to 1m34.991 - after two laps.

HUGE rewards, but no repeat value.

Woodski_427 · Sep 10, 2015

Ryk
Stock TVR Tamora...
well almost had to take the tyres off the Jetty I moor my yacht to. Once I had knocked the barnacles off them and put them on the old TVR I took to the track and edged it down to 1m34.991 - after two laps.

HUGE rewards, but no repeat value.

Maybe leave the barnacles on next time, might give you a bit more grip :lol:

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svenhjs666 · Sep 10, 2015

shaunm80
This car worked like a charm around this track

Shelby Series One Super Charged '03

Just add CS tyres and you are good to go.

Link here

i really think i need to buy this car.
i see a lot of recommendations

shaunm80 · Sep 10, 2015

svenhjs666
i really think i need to buy this car.
i see a lot of recommendations

It is a great car and it has won me many a seasonal easily whilst setting great lap times in the process. A must have in your garage in my opinion.

svenhjs666 · Sep 10, 2015

shaunm80
It is a great car and it has won me many a seasonal easily whilst setting great lap times in the process. A must have in your garage in my opinion.

will purchase it soon

dave2319 · Sep 10, 2015

svenhjs666
will purchase it soon

It's an excellent car, I almost never used it though because when the game first came out everyone was running with it online because it was so fast.

I tried the Shelby cobra here, it's fast but just doesn't have enough traction. It's weird, at real tracks the grip is exceptional, but at fake tracks it seems to have much less grip, especially under power.

shoenboggie · Sep 10, 2015

Polsixe
What, only two TT? Wasn't there to be four? Oh well, Shelby Supercharged Series One was good for gold. Good rule to restrict MR cars. M3s should do well here too.

Used a M3 CSL with an old tune for an early 1:31.135. More time to gain for sure.

numbnuts70 · Sep 10, 2015

I started off using an 8C Alfa and was soon lapping in the low 31s.

Then I noticed that one of my friends (@Zolon32 ) was using the 365GTB/4 '71.

I swapped over to that and found a whole second for a 30.006 for a top 100 and top 365 atm.

Will have to swap to the default Shelby if I want to go any faster methinks. :boggled:

coryclifford · Sep 11, 2015

1:31 lap in the Miata.

'06 S2000 was alright but there's something about this Miata that makes me smile.

RedTailBoa · Sep 11, 2015

If I remember correctly, weren't we given a McLaren F1 in a previous seasonal as a prize?

RobertM525 · Sep 11, 2015

I tried my 500 PP '07 M3 Coupe and I'm a second off the gold time (and 2.004 seconds behind @ALB123, IIRC). I'm not sure if that car will work for me to get gold with, but I'm also pretty sure the tune is one I did myself, so it probably sucks. (I don't know anything about setting up suspension.)

Just for the hell of it, I tried the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. Definitely not better, but I'm going to try to dig around for a tune for it. Maybe I can pull off gold in it.

It's too bad the Aston Martin DB9 seems like such a pig at 500 PP—I'd just as soon be using that as the 599.

funkydunk · Sep 11, 2015

RedTailBoa
If I remember correctly, weren't we given a McLaren F1 in a previous seasonal as a prize?

The Stealth version of the F1 was a prize for the seasonal races at some point.

RobertM525 · Sep 11, 2015

Tried using the suspension from shaunm80's tune of the 599. It was a lot better but it still wasn't as fast as the M3. I'll try the DB9 tomorrow and then maybe I'll break down and use the Shelby if that doesn't work.

Thomas2012 · Sep 11, 2015

I did a 1:34.4 in a stock TVR Tamora, good to play GT after a week or two.

lunatick · Sep 11, 2015

RX7 for easy gold :cheers:

numbnuts70 · Sep 11, 2015

Another swap, to follow a friend, to an M3 GTR this time and after a few laps got into the low 29.361s for a top 36 atm.

Enjoying finding out the speed class of these FR 500pp cars, without those hideous wings, I hasten to add. :yuck:

Swapped again to an M3 CSL and 29.303s, can't believe how closely these 2 are matched.
The GTR has it in the corners and slightly better brakes but the CSL has the speed on the straights.