Everyone Gold your S-License

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This will give you the GT Academy GTR which will most likely be next weeks car for round 2. Some of us will be messing around on different tracks on open servers, should be fun.
 
I need to work on going gold. I upped one of my silvers yesterday after about 10 minutes. Got 2 or 3 golds now. I hate how you barely rub someone and you get disqualified.

Anyone want to save me some trouble and get me a parts list and the specs for the GT Academy GTR??
 
I need to work on going gold. I upped one of my silvers yesterday after about 10 minutes. Got 2 or 3 golds now. I hate how you barely rub someone and you get disqualified.

Anyone want to save me some trouble and get me a parts list and the specs for the GT Academy GTR??

I can do that for you, but I wouldn't trust it. This game is wacky sometimes and sometimes special cars drive a special way. I will get the list right now.
 
I can do that for you, but I wouldn't trust it. This game is wacky sometimes and sometimes special cars drive a special way. I will get the list right now.

That would be great if you could. It may not behave exactly the same but it should be somewhat close. Still wont know what track anyway either.

After you give me the list if you could, i will make 2 cars and send you one so you can tell me if it drives the same or not.
 
478hp

1680kg

Brake Balance Controller is the only mod I see on the car.

I think it is just a stock GTR Spec-V haha I never paid attention to it before. If thats the case no need to get the GT Academy edition unless you want to cool livery. 👍
 
478hp

1680kg

Brake Balance Controller is the only mod I see on the car.

I think it is just a stock GTR Spec-V haha I never paid attention to it before. If thats the case no need to get the GT Academy edition unless you want to cool livery. 👍

Wow kinda of suprised. Not many mods like the 370Z had. I will get it in the morning since its 1am here on the east coast. I will gift you one with that setup. If you could just let me know if it drives the same that would be cool. Thanks for the info. 👍
 
Wow kinda of suprised. Not many mods like the 370Z had. I will get it in the morning since its 1am here on the east coast. I will gift you one with that setup. If you could just let me know if it drives the same that would be cool. Thanks for the info. 👍

Haha I am sure it will drive the same, but sure. The big thing is practicing on the right tires, I wonder what tires they will have us run. The 370z tuned car that I own had different tires than the ones in GTA.
 
Haha I am sure it will drive the same, but sure. The big thing is practicing on the right tires, I wonder what tires they will have us run. The 370z tuned car that I own had different tires than the ones in GTA.

I will probably just run it on stock tires so if they do use more grippy tired then it should be an easier transition. I just sent the car. Let me know how it compares to the GT Academy version. You can keep the car for helping me out. Thanks.
 
All the street GT-Rs come with Sports Hard. However, the 370z comes with Sports Hard tires, but the GT Academy ran it with Comfort Softs. It's probably safe to assume Sports Mediums will be the tire of choice for tuned cars, since that's what PD has chosen for Round 1 tuned 370z as well as the bonus time trials.

I did a few laps with the GT Academy with sports hard and comfort soft tires at Top Gear Test Track. The good news is that the comfort softs are relatively easy to control because the GT-R's AWD is like a driving aid you can't turn off.

Side note - the bad news is that I realized how much easier GT5 is than real life. In less than 10 minutes I put up 1:15's with the GT-R and comfort soft tires...for those following at home, that's about 2 seconds faster than the Stig's fastest time with ANY Top Gear test, and almost 4 seconds faster than his run with the GT-R...
 
All the street GT-Rs come with Sports Hard. However, the 370z comes with Sports Hard tires, but the GT Academy ran it with Comfort Softs. It's probably safe to assume Sports Mediums will be the tire of choice for tuned cars, since that's what PD has chosen for Round 1 tuned 370z as well as the bonus time trials.

I did a few laps with the GT Academy with sports hard and comfort soft tires at Top Gear Test Track. The good news is that the comfort softs are relatively easy to control because the GT-R's AWD is like a driving aid you can't turn off.

Side note - the bad news is that I realized how much easier GT5 is than real life. In less than 10 minutes I put up 1:15's with the GT-R and comfort soft tires...for those following at home, that's about 2 seconds faster than the Stig's fastest time with ANY Top Gear test, and almost 4 seconds faster than his run with the GT-R...

The 370z was on Sport Softs I believe.

Top Gear test tend to me more entertaining than fast, he does a lot of drifting sometimes, and only does one lap (on the show anyways).
 
The 370z was on Sport Softs I believe.

Top Gear test tend to me more entertaining than fast, he does a lot of drifting sometimes, and only does one lap (on the show anyways).

370z tires - sports softs for which, from the dealership or for the time trials? Round 1 was definitely comfort soft for Tsukuba/Rome and sport mediums for Cape. I don't think any new street cars come with sport softs, Nissans included. They are almost always comfort soft (comfort mediums for econo-boxes) or sports hard, with race cars fitted with race hards.

Top Gear test - I suppose that's true, it really can be for show. Even so, the GT-R's time of 1:19 can be smoked first try with comfort softs not pushing very hard. The same is true about the GT-R 'ring challenge. The record of 7:29 can be beaten by 10s+ in GT5.
 
370z tires - sports softs for which, from the dealership or for the time trials? Round 1 was definitely comfort soft for Tsukuba/Rome and sport mediums for Cape. I don't think any new street cars come with sport softs, Nissans included. They are almost always comfort soft (comfort mediums for econo-boxes) or sports hard, with race cars fitted with race hards.

Top Gear test - I suppose that's true, it really can be for show. Even so, the GT-R's time of 1:19 can be smoked first try with comfort softs not pushing very hard. The same is true about the GT-R 'ring challenge. The record of 7:29 can be beaten by 10s+ in GT5.

Sport mediums your right, I was referring to cape not tsukuba.

The game I am sure does not replicate all the cars speeds properly. The same thing happened in iRacing, people were running 2-3 seconds faster in the Star Mazda than the pro's were in real life. It all gets chalked up to things like the tire model, no dust/dirt on the racing surface in a game, comfort level in a game, no fear in a game etc. I am sure in the real life ring test the GTR driver would not push as hard as people do in the game because they would die most likely if they crash, so I would take that into account for the slower lap time, along with tire models in games not being up to par with real life.
 
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Sport mediums your right, I was referring to cape not tsukuba.

Ah, gotcha. Ya, the sport softs actually make the most sense, IMO. The sports mediums feel like a Hoosier R6 or Kuhmo v710, while the sports softs are true time attack rubber like an A6 or Hankook c214 c91 that just melt away in each turn.
 
I drove both GTR's and can't notice a difference really, just practice in a Spec V and you should be fine.

Thanks!! I will definetely run some laps with the Spec V instead of wasting time going gold on the S license.
 
Still getting all gold on all 60 licenses still I think will help drivers with some of the techniques that you learn that might not of picked up already. At least it helped a little for me as well as competing in WRS as well.
 
Still getting all gold on all 60 licenses still I think will help drivers with some of the techniques that you learn that might not of picked up already. At least it helped a little for me as well as competing in WRS as well.

Thats ok for competeing with other cars on the track but the Academy is on an empty track so I dont see how it can help much. I think i even ended up in a better overall position in round 1 than some of the people that have all 60 golds on the licenses.
 
@GT Motion - I just looked up the video of the Stig running the GT-R. He's not effing around - he uses every millimeter of that track and then some. Seriously hard run. He managed a 1:19x. Even if that was lap 1, I don't think he's getting more than another second or two max out of that car. Really, I think the issue here is how smooth the drive is in GT5. Only in racing Gran Turismo are all braking zones perfectly flat without the "waves" that build up over time at pretty much any real track. And as far as that airfield goes, I'm sure the pavement is tired - just look at the Stig bouncing around in the cockpit of the 2 ton car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUgQHEmOms

I don't know exactly what tires they were running, but in the US the GT-R comes with Bridgestone high-performance run flats. I have a set of Bridgestone Potenzas (probably similar enough, if not faster) that I use as "warm up" tires when learning a new track and for driving to/from the track, and they feel somewhere between comfort softs and sports hards. I would say a run in comfort softs is pretty similar, and my run wasn't as clean as the Stig's (obviously...).

Thoughts?
 

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