, the infamous cone slaloms, Skyline at Fuji 90's, Saleen at SSR5, many of the tests at Citta di Aria, and many of the offroad tests (but once you get used to the drifts they become much easier).
Now onto some of the other ones......FINALLY.
I think the main reason you couldn't gold it until then was because back when you used the NTSC version, you hadn't yet learned about staying in a higher gear to prevent wheelspin and ultimately go faster. That actually hurts in this test because, if you do it reasonably well, launching in first gear is a lot faster than starting in second. Also, slight short-shifting is better, too. But more to the point, that's a great moment of innovation, and it's amazing that you stopped both within the box and near the front. I believe I've heard that the fastest registered times on GTRP use a similar but less dramatic method to set the fastest time possible in this license, so you must be on to something! About the time, though, you don't quite have the record for eking out a gold: in this thread, post 40 actually matches the gold time.
I recently started the PAL version of GT4, done all the license's and driving missions in about 8 hours or so, only got stuck on 1 license test and it's weird because I did it 1st time on the NTSC version.
Domestic License B-7, I had about 10 previous attempts at this one and had reset the PS2 in fury many times, always came up short by .001 or something stupid. Put PS2 back on & decided to give it 1 last attempt before it went out the window. On the attempt in this video I recorded I was behind my ghost I had saved all the way until i did something a bit different.
Now obviously that was all pure skill, driving genius, or was it?
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One of those one in a million kinda things I guess.
