GTP Le Mans Prototype Series : Season 4 Complete

[freshseth83]

I'd rather Tokyo than Laguna to be honest. GT5 exaggerates the off track lack of gripwhen coming back on track. Even one tire. I can see 3 tires off, but one tire and you're ready to drive head on to the wall. That's the only reason I don't like Laguna IN THIS GAME. I've never driven Laguna in real life, but I've seen plenty of races to know you can put a tire off track and still be ok. Not so with GT5. I just feel it exaggerates the lack of grip when coming back on track. And ROME to me is awesome. Two areas you have to be perfect or you're in the wall.

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Why don't we keep the race at a city course but call a new official poll for which city track we want to use.

Why would we ever go ahead and race at Tokyo with the amount of displeasure already expressed towards it from the drivers?

Just make a nee city track poll and include Rome (normal and reverse), Tokyo, and Special Stage Route 5.

 

[xX_F Alonso_Xx]

^^ This 👍

 

[GT5_X2010]

No one gave a damn about Rome or Madrid when we were discussing a city track ages ago. I love them two.

SSR5 is brilliant. High tyre wear. High fuel consumption. High speed. Very technical. A true test of errr driver skill (Why am I fast there then) I dont know but it is brilliant and hard.

Tokyo is great for hot laps. About 2 of them. Then it gets boring. And we had a draft battle at Fuji so no need for this.

Madrid. Another technical circuit but I know from the tyre challenge that it is very hard. Lapping is a nightmare there and overtaking is impossible. With cars of this speed, there is only two places where you would be able to pass. One of them is the hairpin at the start BUT polphony put a chicane at high speed before it and caused overtaking to be impossible. Same with the second hairpin with the track being too tight until your braking meaning crashes are more likely than overtakes. The final chicane is epic and allows overtaking if you bump wheel to wheel with the person you pass. In short, a great track, but with lack of overtaking and narrow track, it is bad.


Rome is a short track with a difficult to find pit lane (I was unaware it even had a pit lane until a few months ago) but it has high speed flat out corners making for great overtakes. Take turn 1 in reverse and the turn after the back straight. Both of them are straights where you go from extreme high speed to low speed in a single braking zone leading to good overtaking oppurtunity.

Monaco is the same issues as Madrid.

London has no pit lane.

 

[mike46and2]

Laguna +1

 

[Peter.]

U must be lagging like a pro to be rocking 1:44:8

Nah, I just finally found the optimal way through sector 3. I was losing time at the chichanes by not going quick enough through, or out of them. Sorted that problem out and took 2 tenths out of my previous best 1:45.0. IT was in mikes online lobby, like right after he left

 

[bermudakid]

laguna is awesome, ssr5 is not. you cant overtake at ss5, to get by you guys are just going to ram people into the wall

 

[Peter.]

laguna is awesome, ssr5 is not. you cant overtake at ss5, to get by you guys are just going to ram people into the wall

I agree. Laguna over any city track, with the exception of Monaco. I just love it at Monaco

 

[amf7]

I think we have to do a city track personally. I prefer tokyo though

 

[GT5_X2010]

laguna is awesome, ssr5 is not. you cant overtake at ss5

I have overtaken people at SSR5. Jamman has. Most of the people I have raced with there have overtaken there. Overtaking is difficult. Far from impossible. How little driving have you done with other cars there to think that you can't overtake. There is such a big draft down the straight that you make the pass before the braking point for the turn. You can also pass into the hairpin after the down/up section. And if someone gets it wrong, you can also pass there.

Also, the high tyre wear means we will have lots of cars close together with various levels of tyre life meaning you get even more passing. Alot of the circuits we race at, battles only occur because it is easy to pass into the braking points and then the passed car just pass the other car again. Here, you would have cars chasing each other around the circuit, trying to force each other into running deep and allowing the other to pass. It would be brilliant.


And if you have excuded that track becuase passing is hard, why have you offered Laguna Seca as an alternative? Its no easier, if harder to pass, becuase the tyre wear is less. If you want easy passing, go to Rome reverse.

Trust me, over a 5 lap race, yes, SSR5 is difficult. But our 1 hour races are held over more than 5 laps. Take that into consideration.

 

[bombe32]

My city track vote was with Monaco in mind... I don't like Laguna Seca, but it's better than Tokyo and MUCH better than SSR5...
Rome... .... you can't be serious, Hockey...
Madrid ... the worst of the tracks...

Who is going to suggest Eiger? LOL
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I'd rather vote for an oval track than any of the above-mentioned, lol
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Nice avatar, BK 👍

 

[freshseth83]

SSR5 is a sick track, technical and fast. And its at night so the pictures will be awesome. I think that'd be the best Street Course. Tokyo no one seems to like. Laguna isn't a street track, at all. Rome is fun, but too easy. Madrid is too narrow. SSR5 gets my vote all day, besides we can add Laguna on top of the street track.

 

[amf7]

i like tokyo its great o ver 1 lap and i'm quick their...


And the audi is a beast. I 100% need it next season


HAHAHAH LAUGH IN YOUR FACE AQUA

 

[GT5_X2010]

Good testing today with Bermuda and a few others. Monaco is dreadfulf or racing (unless you have Zonda R's), Madrid is silly, Rome I wasn't able to test at, SSR5 was great but Razor was ambitious on the overtakes meaning I couldn't keep up with Mav even though he was just running about a tenth faster than my usual best. Tokyo was excellant but I still prefer the challenge of SSR5. Plus the photo's would be stunning.

 

[bombe32]

Golfer & Jamman... time for you to show off your RallyX skills in the new time trial I'm expecting to see you dominate the leaderboard.

 

[GT5_X2010]

Golfer & Jamman... time for you to show off your RallyX skills in the new time trial I'm expecting to see you dominate the leaderboard.

Well I always wanted to know where I compare against the world. Man its even the track that I tested loads at.

This is a message to the rest of the GT5 community that are entering that seasonal: Be ready....

EDIT: The world is very fast. Iam 98th and testing gear ratios to get to the top 50 (i hope)

 

[Drum404]

If you ain't first, you're last

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Overtaking is difficult. Far from impossible. How little driving have you done with other cars there to think that you can't overtake.

Hey mister, reign in that sass :tsk:

 

[Razor70]

lets all put a smile on our faces and pick monaco for city track

 

[freshseth83]

Monaco is like a one way street. It's sweet to get a lap right but there's no 'racing' involved there without consequences. SSR5 is still my favorite.

 

[amf7]

Monaco is terrible on this game and is way to wide some of the corners are wrong too

 

[GT5_X2010]

lets all have a vote

 

[Peter.]

Monaco is terrible on this game and is way to wide some of the corners are wrong too

Thing is, the Monaco we know in this game isn't actually the real thing.

My theory is that the real track, to have it in a racing game, you'd have to have the entire F1 license, I don't know why, maybe because Monaco is only used for F1. Why this theory? Because the track has, as far as I know, never been in any racing games apart from actual F1 games. PD were only able to put the track in by altering the characteristics(widening and barriers where they aren't irl) and by not calling it Monaco.

Its actually pretty fine that they widened it in my opinion. It really helps to make it a track useful for online racing.

 

[amf7]

Maybe peter


And I vote Tokyo golfer

 

[SebVettelFan]

Here's my evaluation of the street tracks (not counting Laguna Seca):

Rome - Boring and too short

Madrid - Tight, narrow, no real overtaking and bad for these cars

Tokyo - Not bad but a bit bland when it comes to racing it

Monaco - Awesome. It would be hard to overtake yes, but very easy to make mistakes, leading to overtaking. It would be very unique as well. I agree with pj and bombe on this one.

SSR5 - Another one that isn't bad. I would prefer Monaco but this is runner up. Close walls, some great corners and overtaking is a lot better than it seems

 

[bermudakid]

Here's my evaluation of the street tracks (not counting Laguna Seca):

Rome - Boring and too short

Madrid - Tight, narrow, no real overtaking and bad for these cars

Tokyo - Not bad but a bit bland when it comes to racing it

Monaco - Awesome. It would be hard to overtake yes, but very easy to make mistakes, leading to overtaking. It would be very unique as well. I agree with pj and bombe on this one.

SSR5 - Another one that isn't bad. I would prefer Monaco but this is runner up. Close walls, some great corners and overtaking is a lot better than it seems

what is wrong with you people

 

[bombe32]

lets all put a smile on our faces and pick monaco for city track

Oh yes...
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BK, it's a mad world. I have never tried racing online on Monaco (sorry, Côte'd Azur), bit it's the most "streetish" you can get.

As a one-off I think it should be with heavy damage too

 

[GT5_X2010]

So bombe recommends Moncao without even trying it. Hmmmmm. Nice to know that the racers in this series are still giving out brilliant peices of advice.

Now, I like every street circuit in the game and just find it annoying that London has no pit lane. I don't mind what street track we race at, its just I prefer SSR5 over the others. I really like Tokyo but we have a calender full of daytime tracks and would really like to see a night time race.


EDIT: I'm doing a photoshoot right now. The theme is:
Fernando Alonso: Gymkhana 1

No idea how it will turn out but hey hoy

 

[bombe32]

SSR5 is too short... Monaco is too narrow... Tokyo is too straight... Laguna is too short... Madrid is too short... Rome is too short AND too straight... Grand Valley was a failure?..

No matter what anyone say it's not good enough... I just don't think SSR5 is anywhere near a LMP track, simply because it's so friggin' simple and so short. The big drama on that track would be backmarkers, which is the worst kind of drama.
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I don't care which track it is going to be though... just choose one from drawing a straw if that's what it takes... I want to be able to practice before the raceday.

 

[amf7]

I think Tokyo is so much better than ssr5