Gran Turismo All Stars?

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I did it in the Vertigo and the C5R, as well as a few others. The Vertigo has poise and ballance, just make sure to use TCS at about 3. It is incredibly fast once you get into about 3rd gear and the tires start to get ripe.👍 The C5R had a brash element to it: all speed, some handling, moderate accelleration. :indiff:
The trick is using good throttle control, tire preservation, and good distance judgment for braking. The R390 GT1 gets rather sloppy around lap 9, especially in the Championchip Openner @ Laguna. Just some tips.
 
i used the zzii. when i won that car that was it 4 me, fully tuned that car is god. any one who has got this car and tuned it up will know exactly what i mean. 👍
 
The Pagani Zonda race car I mentioned above is a great car for this series. Getting your gearing and suspension just right is key to this car. When properly tuned, this is a very fun ride. By tuned I don't mean horsepower. With hp tuning it would be a landslide. This car is incredible. It is comparably powered to the 390 and 787. Although the last two races were very difficult, Tokyo imparticular. With the lost hp from old oil, the 390 and the 787 were all overy me through 85% of the race, with the 787 passing me at the end of the straight and taking it back within the short straight before the chicane. I had him in acceleration. The GT one was primarily the biggest competition in most of the races, considering it had nearly a 100 HP advantage, but the Zonda's gear ratio and power/torque ratio was a big help. Just as I would catch up to him he would pit, I wished he ran T2's to really see how my Zonda competed with it. I would try the track with Mediums, but I'm not sure if I could retake the leaders, pitting and the 390 adn 787 not.

The first time I run this series, I used the Denso Sard Supra, This was extremely difficult, although thinking back I think I may have overpowered the car. More power isn't always a good thing. I also used medium tires, requiring a pit. I was able to get enough of a lead by lap five to only loose a few seconds coming out of pit lane, but with the increased grip definately had the handling advantage over the two big boys to get it back.

DA, since you mentioned it, I am currently running the PD cup myself and am using the RUF 3200S. My only regret is not purchasing a selection of tires. I saw the 20 lap races and only bought t2's. I'm running against the 350Z, Mustang SVT, Skyline R32, and a couple of Evo's; none of which are running a single pit (T2) strategy. The racing is good, It generally takes me around 5 laps to work through the pack, and begin running with the 350Z. EVO's on 4 lap pit, Skyline (very strong) and SVT 5 lap pit, and to my dismay 350Z, 7 lap pit. After completing I'll probably try again with T3 or T4's, since I typically win with a spread from 30 seconds to a full minute. The SVT and Skyline are very stong, but the AI driving these cars are dump as rocks, blowing some of the easiest turns.
 
Interesting to see this thread resurface just when I'm going through this series again myself :).

I'm shocked to see that so many of you were suggesting Sure Fire Win rides on this one - surely the point is to make this as challenging as you can? That's where the fun lies after all. DA's suggestion of the Zonda is a good one. That's is a fine handling car, if you fettle it right and has the virtue of not being one of the Big Three or an F1 (shame on you people for suggesting such a thing :D).

I'm nearing the end of a 100%/100% run through the game and I'm trying this series this time with the Jaguar XJ220 Race Car and have made it through Race 6 (Rome) to date.

Apart from the Test Track (Yeuk) and Midfield Reverse (where the AI are unfeasibly fast) at which I ran her fully Stage 4 Turbo'd, I running a Stage 2 Turbo and having a gloriously competative time of it.

The field I'm in only has the 787B to really worry about, which is lucky (I have seen all three of the Fast Slabs in here before :eek:!) but the MOV is shrinking as the AI get higher and higher power upgrades and my HP trails downwards.

The first few races I ran a T3/T5 tyre mix so that I had to pit and make it more difficult but now I'm finding I have to go the T2 route and just drive as cleanly and consistently as I can to take the flag.

It's getting quite hard now - my MOV at Rome was only six seconds :scared:. I'm hoping I won't have to go for the Turbo 4 on the later races but we shall see ...

Anyhow, the basic point I'm rambling towards is that the series is much more fun if you're not simply using a 'game superior' (not to be confused with 'Real Life' superior) car to take victory. If it's your first time, then the GT-ONE or the R390 are okay but racing in the GT3 environment can be so much more with supposedly inferior hardware if you take the risk.
 
Haven't done this race myself yet, but I'm definitely gonna use the 787B. IMO it's by far the best Le-Mans car in the game (sounds sooo cool to) 👍

I've just completed the Monte Carlo 78 laps Enduro with it, and I beat another 787B with 3 laps, and the R390 Race Car with 6. There was no GT-One Race car there, but it would have come 3rd behind the AI 787B if it was in the race.
 
Use the GT-ONE Race Car, equipe it with medium hard tires or hard tires, get some good settings and it's ease 👍
The R390 pits at around lap 8 but in Grand Valley it pits 2 times.You can do 8 or 9 laps each race before pitting.

I drove them all on a lap every race except Test Course :yuck: .Don't be frightend by the R390, it is not as fast as it looks.
 
I've just come a cropper with the last race on this series.

My Jag, even fully beefed up and fettled to perfection is simply not fast enough to keep up with the 787B at R246.

The AI power boost must be pretty high at the end I suppose. Having said that, I did lap everyone on the previous race (Grand Valley Reverse), so the AI drivers don't get any better it would seem.

Just to make sure it wasn't my own driving skills that weren't up to scratch, I dropped out of the series, climbed into an R390, slapped a Stage 2 Turbo on it to get 870HP and took it our for a test. Et voila, seven seconds faster than the Jag. :sulky:.
 
OK, who's gotten ahold of Sukerkin's password?

Tokyo R246 and a Jag, and you can't do it. I suspect impersonation is highly evident here.

:D

AO
 

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