Good tuning track

[parksideu14]

Whats a good track for working out tunes?

 

[praiano63]

I like Suzuka, because here you can find everything ,all the kind of corners fast ,medium,slow, hairpin, hard braking sections, light brake during turn, Acceleration quick change of direction playing with the weight displacement of the car.....
Everything less bumps. For this, i go to trial mountain for example.
If your car work there and on trial mountain, it work everywhere.
You can ,check your gost constantly and compare your settings......
The only bad thing is that you spend 90% of your time on it, stay very poor of credits or points. But when you have all the cars you need after a certain time of gt5, why money....

 

[Mudd]

Another great tuning track is Deep Forest, it's got similar features to Trial Mountain

 

[Basilea]

There is no perfect track! Suzuka has all but bumps... so to have a good balanced tune you should take the car at least to 2 tracks and the more the better...

I tune on Fuji (because of the long straight), which has, just like Suzuka, all but bumps and then I take the cars to something like Trail Mountain, Deep Forrest or Autumn Ring for a final suspension tweak...

 

[parksideu14]

Cool thanks

 

[dr_slump]

Don't forget Grand Valley Speedway! (My favorite track for tuning)

 

[budious]

All the courses are different, and different courses need different setups. I think every car needs a minimum of at least three tunes to come close to maximizing lap times across every course in the game. Trial Mountain is nothing like Deep Forest Raceway; Trial Mountain has much flatter corners absent of banking and though technical, the flat corners make it more similar to Suzuka Circuit or Grand Valley Speedway.

The three basic tune types by my categorization would be 1. flat corners, 2. hybrid corners, and 3. cambered corners.

If you just want to set something up quickly though, I don't go much further than Autumn Ring Mini.

 

[Mudd]

Absolutely correct about Trial Mountain/Deep Forest, I should not have compared the two in that way. I was just trying to point out that the Forest was a very good tuning track. I usually only tune cars for myself, I have shared a few, but don't really consider myself a 'tuner'. That said, when I do make my tunes, I spend majority of time at the Forest. After I'm satisfied there, I'll take the car to a flat track and make some adjustments, but my tunes stay pretty close to the Forest setup. If I were to start posting tunes specifically to share, I would defiantly spread out the testing and probably have 3 different tunes as Budious suggested. The method I use seems to work very well for my needs, though.

 

[watermelon punch]

I'm no tuning expert. I just kind of grope around in the dark tinkering.

That said, I use Trial Mountain a lot, just because it seems like, at least to me, that Trial Mountain has a way of exposing handling weaknesses in cars very quickly. If there's something hinky with a car, it'll show up for me there.

But I usually then also go to Deep Forest. Because Trial Mountain is more about braking & turning, Deep Forest is more about steering & throttle. At least that's what it seems like to me.

Though 2 big reasons I also use these tracks is because they're not long, & I know them well, and so for me there there's no tricky bit that can mess me up & make things inconsistent. For me, it's not helpful to try to judge a car on tracks where, for me, driver error, has a bigger chance of coming into play in a bigger way.

 

[Sm0k3:D]

Suzuka and Autumn Ring are my favorites for tuning test. And Nürburgring is always my "final-test".
I'm talking about a "general-pourpose" setup.
Then you can use this setup as baseline in order to find a nice setup for a specific track or for a specific tyre compound.
Gears setup must be specific in each track.

 

[Highlandor]

I use 3 different types of tracks, but owing to boredom, I don't always use the same tracks.

I'll test on a bumpy track, short / tight / twisty track and a fast high speed track.

This can vary though, depending on how much I'm using or racing a particular track at any given time.

I quite like Cape Ring for tuning, apart from the lack of bumps though, it really gives a car a workout and is good for looking at tyre wear and stability. It has many different types of corners and there's minor elevation changes that can unsettle a car, and the Ring in it can really test rear stability.

Other favourites include Trial Mountain, Nurburgring GP, Grand Valley (full), Suzuka, Rome and Autumn Ring.

If I had to limit these then it'd just be Cape Ring and Trial Mountain.

 

[watermelon punch]

I quite like Cape Ring for tuning, apart from the lack of bumps though, it really gives a car a workout and is good for looking at tyre wear and stability.

Very true about Cape ring and tire wear. Very indicative.
My bf always says "Cape Ring eats tires whole". hahaha.
It heats them up fast if you're not careful. So even with tire wear off, hard tires can go to the dogs there.

 

[sp00ln]

I use Cape Ring, Autum Ring, and Sarthe because it reminds me of the Ring. Atleast the high speed sections of the Ring anyways. Real easy to test a car's high speed stability on Sarthe, very fast and bumpy track with out the 7 to 8 minute lap times.

 

[Lost-on-drugz]

Hey mate i find that tsukuba is the best track for tuning

1: its small and quick to see improvements and if u make error dont drive around for ages

2: has tight low speed hairpin corners

3: has fast sweetping corners

4: good change of direction on the car

5: had camber angles

6: has bumps on the road

 

[iamjajo]

I usually try to tune on the seasonal race tracks because I can make some money at the same time I'm setting up my car.

I run on a couple of tracks to get different aspects of the car worked out. But, nothing works as good as setting it up on the course you will race.

As simple as NASCAR seems, some of the real race teams used to run about 26 cars for the 36 races. Yet, when they got to a track (where all they had to do was turn left) they'd spend as much time as possible with the final settings.

So, a general tune will iron out the issues with the car, but a specific tune for the race is much better.