laguna Seca Lovers

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Alright, all you laguna sega lovers, tell me, what do you love about this course. I love the course so much cause it has no corner which you can find anywhere else. Before I get it wrong again, my fastest time is 62.183 seconds. Eventhough it only has nine turns, it is definitly the hardest course of the game. (Exept for the complex string, I hate that course) Tell me, what corner do you find the hardest, what car do you use to compleet the fastest lap. And not to forget, what do you think about the incredible down stream corner ? You got to love the course !! 😈
 
It has to be the good old corkscrew. If you fluff the braking point, or misjudge the attitude in a big bruiser like the Viper, or one of the Brutish Brits (Vantage/Griffith) its very unforgiving.

Course thats exactly why its so satisfying to get it right, anyone managed half decent times in the Shelby Cobra?

I can barely get the thing (shouldnt have modded it) to go in a straight line, and get a bad case of RSI even trying.
 
I liked it alot more before the enduro race :)

My best time is 1:15.??? i got it with the blue skyline LM car, maxed out. I just got some new LM cars so I should be posting a better time then 1:15 soon
 
The hardest corners IMO are the first and the last corners, I don't mind the corkscrew corner. When I did the S-6 lisense test with the Viper on Laguna Seca I was always spinning off on that first corner and didn't really have a problem with the rest of the course.

Oh and BTW I think Seattle is a harder course than Laguna Seca, man I hate that course.........
 
I gotta say I love the corkscrew too, best part of the course :) IMO, that cote de' azure, (Monaco?), is harder tho. On the cobra, I think that thing rocks, especially fully mod'd, I'll have to go try it out at Laguna and see what she nets :) Oh, and before you change the exhaust, that thing sounds sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!
 
I like the corkscrew, who doesnt? The turn that usually screws up my laps is the Andretti Hairbin. my personal best is a 58.9XX but some people have gotten into the 56s :eek:
 
Yep sorry, I like this circuit and it's certainly not the hardest. I eventually managed to master the corkscrew in GT2, so by the time I started GT3 I already new exactly how to line it up, break, steer and accelerate through it.

If I do loose time, it's through the first two corners, after that I'm away. :D
 
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Axl-where'd you get your avatar? I like it. :D /QUOTE]
I created it this afternoon. It's the 'badger in the MR2' pic I did for the 'Ugliest car...' thread. The badger won the 'Who would win the fight, A Badger or a Fox' thread I posted on GTF. It's a little celebration - look at the poll DP did on his thread here... :D
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also when i try using f1 cars on that track the car will go flying over that corkscrew and is a little hard to drive since your car flys over that turn even with braking.
 
Originally posted by secretghost007
also when i try using f1 cars on that track the car will go flying over that corkscrew and is a little hard to drive since your car flys over that turn even with braking.
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I love that course in th f1's also. Especially the last turn befroe the corkscrew, lined up right I take it around 165. As far as the corkscrew, hit the brakes right at the peak of that little hill, you should stop in time (using manual tranny, at least, not sure about Auto)
 
Sega's making a game based on Laguna Seca? Cool! :) ;) :p

Back to the original question, My favorite part is the corkscrew of death :) nothing cooler that round the corner as fast as you can go and launching yourself over the corkscrew, but if you mess up, then your car goes from 100 to 0 in .01 seconds :D
 
I love that turn, though I may have set a new suicidal speed record for it. It was an ugly pass through, and even uglier escape from it, but 160, into the damn turn. What happened is I got bumped coming up the ridge, sent towards the right wall, over corrected in the sand, and went flying over the dip at just barelt the correct angle to fly through it, and bounced off the wall on the left on the other side of the turn. Almost spun it clockwise in the sand, fouhgt it back, only to be rear ended again, and driven hard into the wall on the next turn. All in all, one ugly, and rough experience. Though, my Audi can manage through there at 80.... It clings to the roadway like you wouldn't believe. I love AWD at times. 😈
 
I'm glad that all of you love the course too. My qeustion is though, which one is the Micheal Andretti hairpin ? The thing I love about the course, is that it is not hard but there is also one corner in the whole lap that you do not complete perfectly, so you keep going for the best. With Monaco, Cote d'azur there are so many corners you can screw up ! :Ouch: :drool:
 
Laguna Seca isn't that hard at all... just master the corners and you'll love that course! About the Corkscrew, man! I love it... brake, steer and GO! Not to mention the last left turn where you must slow down to "almost stop" then accelarate... WOW!

I just wonder if you can win 1st place in LAGUNA SECA endurance using a MIRA TRX... Hehehehe! :D :D :D
 
The fact that it's a real circuit always fascinates me as well.
 
Originally posted by GTmaster
I just wonder if you can win 1st place in LAGUNA SECA endurance using a MIRA TRX... Hehehehe! :D :D :D
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Sure you can... if you use it as a bonnet/hood mascot on an Escudo! :D hehe
 
If you could ever drive this course in reality, which car would you want to drive it in. I always try to get a better time on this course, and I came at a friends house and his time was a half a second lower. I loaded his ghost and the guy drives over the sand in the first corner, Wat a loser way to make your time faster. I never drive over the sand in the first corner, do you guys ? 😈 😈
 
Originally posted by kasperkrijger
If you could ever drive this course in reality, which car would you want to drive it in. I always try to get a better time on this course, and I came at a friends house and his time was a half a second lower. I loaded his ghost and the guy drives over the sand in the first corner, Wat a loser way to make your time faster. I never drive over the sand in the first corner, do you guys ? 😈 😈
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Never! /cough/ ;)
 
Originally posted by kasperkrijger
I'm glad that all of you love the course too. My qeustion is though, which one is the Micheal Andretti hairpin ? The thing I love about the course, is that it is not hard but there is also one corner in the whole lap that you do not complete perfectly, so you keep going for the best. With Monaco, Cote d'azur there are so many corners you can screw up ! :Ouch: :drool:
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its not called the Micheal Andretti hairpin, just Andretti hairbin, its the first turn the double apex left hander after turn 1a (turn 1a is the little kink after the pit exit)
 
Originally posted by kasperkrijger
You cheater, Try that with a real car, 2 laps and you can return to the garage
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Yeah right, you've never accidentally gone into the sand and then re-joined a race to win it. :rolleyes: Anyway, going into the sand there doesn't tend to gain you time like cutting across grass, as your momentum is lost. :(

;)
 
Laguna Seca.... the first hard u-turn, the famous corkscrew, and then the final harsh 90 degree left turn.

I occasionally slide into the sand midway through the u-turn :nervous: but i manage to straighten it back up. The corkscrew, I used this as a point to either catch up some, or extend my lead. I use the little number 3 sign to show me the braking point. As for the last hard left, I have been known to completely stop just to make it without diving through kitty litter and into the wall. I used to despise racing this course in GT2, but I have come to love it.

That is my :2cents: about Laguna Seca.
 

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