Did DC cheat in the SLS @ Top Gear?

[Bludragon]

I have been trying the DC Merc challange, best i could get was silver @ 1:19. I decided to watch his video and see how he did it. Then I noticed two spots on the track where he drove where we could not.

I pulled the images below from a different site ( tho I'm hosting these images on my photobucket) after I googled "official david coulthard top gear lap", I'm sure you will find it if you look. But these show exactly what I'm talking about, the green line is the one we must follow, and the red line is the one DC drove

This one is an image taken directly from the video in case no one believes me.

How do you all feel about this? I don't feel it's exactly fair that we cannot follow his line

 

[bigburt82]

Have to agree mate, DC had a big advantage with these lines. I also find it hard to believe that his car was fitted with economy/comfort tyres. The least he had equipped were sports hards.

 

[Bludragon]

I would have to agree, did not think about that point. I bet the SLS comes stock with something equivilant to Sports Hards or better. When I watched the Top Gear with the SLS, Jeremy Clarkson thrashed it and ruined the tires just doing the review lol.

*edit* I did a search and Edmunds.com listed this tire as the standard "P295/30R20 101Y tires". Now doing a search on Tirerack.com using those tire dimensions returns 4 tires, Continental Tire's ContiSportContact 5P, Goodyear's Eagle F1 Asymmetric, and 2 listings of Pirelli's P Zero tires. Both of the Pirelli tires look exactly the same to me, even have the same ratings on both, only difference I see is price so I'm not sure what the difference is really. But like the poster above states, these are obviously not GT5 equivilant "Comfort Soft" tires, why is the competition stacked against us versus DC?

 

[250 GTO]

Isn't it the normal consensus on here that comfort tires is the equivalent of sports tires IRL, and sports tires is the equivalent of race tires IRL... and race tires are just ridiculous

However, the lines do seems to grant DC an unfair advantage...

 

[Bludragon]

I don't know about that, could be the case. I would think Comfort tires would be something along the lines of a tire with a sidewall height greater than a 50 series. As in something that would absorb quite a bit of a bump before transmitting that on to the springs/shocks or whatever suspension the car might use. Where a sport tire would be any tire with a sidewall height of a 50 series or lower, where when you hit bumps the tire gives very little, if at all and transmits everything to the suspension, but since it would have a stiffer sidewall turn in response would be vastly sharper over a taller sidewall tire. Then racing tires would just be a slick tires in my opinion, not really sure how those translate into GT5 actually compared to real life or the concensus here on these forums.

 

[Energizerrr]

He cut wilson and follow-through too.

 

[Famine]

Discussed to death both in the thread for the Seasonal and the thread covering the actual event.

No, DC did not "cheat". He drove the track that he was given and we drove the track we were given - the two tracks were not identical, as the PD version of the Top Gear Track is more restrictive with cone placement meaning we cannot take the same lines.