How long did it take you to learn the Nordschleife?

[Florian Kolle]

I saw, this week's Daily Race C is the Nordschleife. I usually try to finish the Circuit Experience of the specific track all gold, before I participate in Daily Races. For Suzuka this took me a whole afternoon and the track has 18 corners. The Nordschleife has about 4 times as many corners and the margin for error rises exponentially, the longer the track is.
So I'm just wondering, how long did it take you to know all the 73 corners by heart, where to break, how to hit the apex, etc.

 

[KAlex122]

Oh, well, just about 3 years. Maybe you are ready for the next time it gets to be a daily race.

 

[watto79]

7 years so far and I still don't have the confidence to race with others on it.

 

[Florian Kolle]

Oh, well, just about 3 years. Maybe you are ready for the next time it gets to be a daily race.

7 years so far and I still don't have the confidence to race with others on it.

That's comforting. Thought it's just me

 

[Lomic]

Still learning. But love the track !

My goto when I don't want to TT or want to try a car or a tune

 

[skydragon49]

I've been running there (almost) every weekend since last November. It kind of became my main GT7 activity besides online time trial.

And I'm still learning the track. For me personally, there are parts I can push and there are parts I just navigate and try to survive.

The latter of course applies to 95% of the track. 😅

 

[05XR8]

Can only remember first driving around in GT4. Can't think off the top of my head any previous games I have driven before that. So, that'll make it twenty plus years? I still don't know all the names of the turns.

 

[Lomic]

I still don't know all the names of the turns.

 

[skydragon49]

@Florian Kolle on the serious note of the matter, I'd higly recommend this 5 videos series:

Spoiler

Also recommend watching Misha Charoudin channel.

These videos helped me a lot.

 

[Florian Kolle]

@Florian Kolle on the serious note of the matter, I'd higly recommend this 5 videos series:

Spoiler

Also recommend watching Misha Charoudin channel.

These videos helped me a lot.

Thanks man. In under 1 hour seems optimistic, but I'll try

 

[LANDO]

And I'm still learning the track. For me personally, there are parts I can push and there are parts I just navigate and try to survive.

Exactly, I can push until the Carrousel, after that my vision becomes blurrier and missed the gear I am in until the second Carrousel

 

[skydragon49]

Exactly, I can push until the Carrousel, after that my vision becomes blurrier and missed the gear I am in until the second Carrousel

I know what you mean! From the little carrousel up to exiting the youtube corners I "just" drive.

Still learning how to push in that sector.

 

[TheCracker]

Been running on it since GT4, still not confident that i know it.

There's much of it i know well, but some sections which have similar combinations of corners within the same sectors, i often get thrown by.

 

[CommandrCyclops]

About 15 years, GT4 to Sport.

 

[AshenGraey]

Been learning it since GT6. I tend to be good enough at it that I'm able to beat the gold target in CEs without too much hassle but nowhere near good enough to actually race on it with other people. I find that when it comes to this track, particularly for me anyway, been able to beat the gold time in CE gives me a false sense of confidence and then I go race against other people there and I'm absolutely nowhere. No pace whatsoever, making lots of mistakes etc...heck you'd think I haven't spent countless hours and years driving and learning it.

I'll admit it too...even though I don't know the name of any of the corners 😂 I really love the track. It's on my bucket list to drive on one day IRL. That said, I don't even think about racing competitively against other people there, it's now become my go to chill track to just take random mostly stock cars (with sport soft tires and upgraded brakes) and go drive.

 

[StealthVel]

 

[notarjy]

I've been driving it in games for nearly 20 years now since I was young, I feel like only in the last few years do I now anticipate specific turns and sectors on the circuit. Part of it is due to youtube rather than just practice. The power of reviewing film.

 

[Famine]

However long it took to gold Mission 23.

It took a lot less time to learn that I hated it.

 

[Wilsonson]

My first exposure was the AMG driving school in GT5. I think this was the first version of a circuit experience in the series. This definitely helped a lot.

I'm feeling quite confident on it ever since. At least in so far that I know what to expect after every corner, not necessarily that I have every breaking point down to a T all the time.

So I would say try the CE and see how it goes. But yeah it might take more than an afternoon to gold it if you're completely unfamiliar with track.

 

[Boxster]

They say it takes a 1000 laps to learn the Ring. I have done more than that, so it might be true. And even with that, when I drive on the Ring irl, I get confused. It's a very hard track, but I love it.

 

[jrbabbitt]

However long it took to gold Mission 23.

It took a lot less time to learn that I hated it.

I never "golded" mission 34, i busted three PS2 controllers trying, but i did get the experience i have today on the ring that I can hold my head up and honestly say i can get CRB on a regular basis. If I ever have the ability to drive it in real time i believe i can without showing my bum.

 

[stpatty]

However long it took to gold Mission 23.

It took a lot less time to learn that I hated it.

I never "golded" mission 23, i busted three PS2 controllers trying, but i did get the experience i have today on the ring that I can hold my head up and honestly say i can get CRB on a regular basis. If I ever have the ability to drive it in real time i believe i can without showing my bum.

You boys mean Mission 34, don't you?

 

[jrbabbitt]

You boys mean Mission 34, don't you?

corrected my error, thanks. (23 was the Toyota 2000gt in NY i believe)

 

[daan]

corrected my error, thanks. (23 was the Toyota 2000gt in NY i believe)

23 was Skyline's at the test course IIRC.

First game that had an "accurate" nordshleife in it was Grand Prix Legends from 1998. Been driving it since then, so I know it pretty well but would never say I've learned it.

 

[lbpomg95]

Used to spend a lot of time on it on GT5 track day lobbies, same again with GT6. Almost had to re-learn it all over again for GT7 since the kerbs and bumps make so much more difference. I've got a series on Youtube where I basically fully upgrade all the cars with engine swaps and try to tame them, and the lack of downforce coupled with raw straight line speed means all the braking points are totally different, forcing me to re-learn it yet again. As a random anecdote, there's a section called the foxhole, fast downhill followed by sweeping left-hander, uphill and then heavy braking into a sharper left-right S-bend. Most of the engine swapped cars necessitate braking at the bottom of the hill before you turn left which is something I was never used to in all the laps I did on GT4, 5 and 6.

When it comes to the Circuit Experience, I found the time a lot more lenient than with other tracks, so you may find the entire track lap time isn't as hard as you might expect.

 

[Buckethead75]

I learnt it 17 years ago when the track first appeared on the fabulous Grand Prix Legend game, and it was much harder to learn with a 1967 F1 car that is trying to kill you than with a modern GT car

 

[Famine]

You boys mean Mission 34, don't you?

I thought I'd typed that but the eyedrops for the retinal screening made my phone screen too bright and too blurry.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Exactly, I can push until the Carrousel, after that my vision becomes blurrier and missed the gear I am in until the second Carrousel

That's wild how different drivers can be. My best sections are the Carrousel onwards. The prior sections always feel like missed apexes and 'could have beens'.