While playing GT4 I always felt that some tracks have to be raced mor often than others. Of course, on tracks with endurance races it is obvious. But in the other events I thought it is not balanced.
In GT3 I often raced in Midfield, Trial Mountain, Special Stage 5. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes I hated it because it was too often. Or what about Test Course: whenever I was having fun the next race to do was on that track which was not fun.
So I counted the number of laps you have to do on all tracks to complete the game. I did not include Rally Courses and it was not possible to count laps of 4h, 8h, 9h and 24h races in endurance mode.
SO here it is then:
Track Laps
Motegi - West Course 10
Test Course 10
Apricot Hill Reverse 11
Clubman Stage Route 5 11
Seattle Circuit Reverse 11
Autumn Ring Mini 12
Clubman Stage Route 5 Reverse 12
Autumn Ring 14
Deep Forest 14
Midfield Raceway 14
Opera Paris Reverse 14
Deep Forest Reverse 15
Midfield Raceway Reverse 15
Motorland 15
Trial Mountain Reverse 15
Hong Kong Reverse 17
Special Stage Route 5 Reverse 17
Autumn Ring Mini Reverse 18
Special Stage Route 5 18
Trial Mountain 18
Apricot Hill 19
Fuji Speedway 2005 GT 19
Tokyo Route 246 Reverse 19
Infineon - Stockcar 20
Highspeed Ring Reverse 21
New York Reverse 23
Fuji Speedway '80 25
Seattle Circuit 26
Motegi - East Course 27
Autumn Ring Reverse 30
El Capitan Reverse 30
Seoul Central Reverse 32
Grand Valley Speedway Reverse 37
La Sarthe II 37
La Sarthe I 39
Beginner Course 43
Hong Kong 45
Motorland Reverse 49
Nurburgring 55
Suzuka East Course 55
Fuji Speedway 2005 80
Highspeed Ring 82
Motegi Road Course 113
Infineon - Sportscar 126
Tsukuba Circuit 131
Seoul Central 140
Grand Valley Speedway 142
Tokyo Route 246 145
Opera Paris 167
El Capitan 175
New York 182
Côte d'Azur 207
Laguna Seca 243
Motegi Super Speedway 263
Fuji Speedway '90 278
Suzuka Circuit 286
I find it especially interesting how some tracks and their reverse version are equally balanced and some are not. Like e.g. Opera Paris and Tokyo R246 (although 99 laps come from the 1000 miles event).
I did smething similar, but I ranked them by miles and included the timed enduros. The way you can do this is to base each one by the most laps completed by the best performing AI car of the entire list of possible AI cars for each of those races.
Here is the list I made:
Miles Laps Races(reg_rev_end) end = 150 mile race or longer
3,967 470 _3 (_1__0__2) World Circuits___ Circuit de la Sarthe II
3,765 444 _9 (_7__0__2) World Circuits___ Circuit de la Sarthe I
3,597 278 15 (11__0__4) World Circuits___ Nürburgring Nordschleife
1,047 290 23 (21__0__2) World Circuits___ Suzuka Circuit
1,031 812 33 (31__0__2) World Circuits___ Tsukuba Circuit
__963 323 12 (10__0__2) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi - Road Course
__764 280 19 (18__0__1) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 90's
__610 242 16 (14__0__2) World Circuits___ Infineon Raceway - Sports Car Course
__609 205 24 (12_10__2) Original Circuits El Capitan
__544 243 22 (20__0__2) World Circuits___ Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
__531 205 15 (_6__7__2) City Courses_____ New York
__522 164 17 (_9__6__2) City Courses_____ Tokyo Route 246
__497 162 13 (_5__6__2) Original Circuits Grand Valley Speedway
__431 207 11 (_9__0__2) City Courses_____ Côte d'Azur
__395 263 _5 (_3__0__2) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi Super Speedway
__324 181 21 (14__6__1) City Courses_____ Opera Paris
__291 172 10 (_5__4__1) City Courses_____ Seoul Central
__256 103 _8 (_2__5__1) Original Circuits High-Speed Ring
__227 _80 _5 (_4__0__1) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 2005
__112 _62 13 (_7__6__0) City Courses_____ Hong Kong
___92 _39 13 (10__3__0) City Courses_____ Seattle Circuit
___82 _35 14 (_8__6__0) City Courses_____ Special Stage Route 5
___82 _33 12 (_7__5__0) Original Circuits Trial Mountain Circuit
___77 _32 12 (_7__5__0) Original Circuits Apricot Hill Raceway
___76 _55 13 (13__0__0) World Circuits___ Suzuka Circuit East Course
___73 _40 13 (_6__7__0) Original Circuits Autumn Ring
___67 _25 _8 (_8__0__0) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 80's
___65 _29 11 (_4__7__0) Original Circuits Deep Forest Raceway
___64 _10 _3 (_3__0__0) Driving Park_____ Test Course
___64 _29 _9 (_4__5__0) Original Circuits Mid-Field Raceway
___58 _27 11 (11__0__0) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi - East Short Course
___53 _19 _3 (_3__0__0) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 2005 GT
___43 _52 _8 (_4__4__0) Driving Park_____ Motor Sports Land II
___40 _20 _3 (_3__0__0) World Circuits___ Infineon Raceway - Stock Car Course
___35 _23 _7 (_3__4__0) City Courses_____ Clubman Stage Route 5
___30 _16 _6 (_3__3__0) Original Circuits Grand Valley East
___27 _34 10 (_5__5__0) Original Circuits Autumn Ring Mini
EDITED THE POST ABOVE: Added a list on how the tracks rank by number of races.
Looking over these figures there are some interesting observations.
Of the 522 races, or 459 if you don't count the special condition races, all but 35 are less than 40 miles long. The total number of miles for those 424 races is only 3,594 miles. Thus, the average of those races is only 8 miles in length.
The longest race in that group is the 6th leg of the Professional Gran Turismo World Championship series held on the New York City course, and is 39 miles long.
The shortest race is a tie between the first race of the Beginner Sunday Cup series and the third race of the Citroen 2HP - 2CV Classics series, which are both held on the Autumn Ring Mini course, and are only 1.6 miles long.
The remaining 35 races total a whopping 17,958 miles. Thus, the average length of those races is 513 miles!
The longest of those races is the Circuit de la Sarthe 24hr II (Group C classic Le Mans), which the best AI car, Sauber Mercedes C 9, will complete 433 laps, or 3,655 miles.
The shortest race is the Super Speedway 150 Miles, which is held at the Twin Ring Motegi Super Speedway.
Considering how much those 35 races effect the mileage ranking, I thought it might be interesting to see how these tracks might rank differently if I did not include the 150+ mile races:
Miles Races (average length)
235 21 (11) World Circuits___ Suzuka Circuit
223 22 (10) Original Circuits El Capitan
194 11 (18) World Circuits___ Nürburgring Nordschleife
166 31 ( 5) World Circuits___ Tsukuba Circuit
154 20 ( 8) City Courses_____ Opera Paris
152 20 ( 8) World Circuits___ Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
146 10 (15) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi - Road Course
142 18 ( 8) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 90's
142 13 (11) City Courses_____ New York
140 15 ( 9) City Courses_____ Tokyo Route 246
136 _7 (19) World Circuits___ Circuit de la Sarthe I
126 14 ( 9) World Circuits___ Infineon Raceway - Sports Car Course
123 11 (11) Original Circuits Grand Valley Speedway
112 13 ( 9) City Courses_____ Hong Kong
100 _9 (11) City Courses_____ Seoul Central
_92 13 ( 7) City Courses_____ Seattle Circuit
_82 14 ( 6) City Courses_____ Special Stage Route 5
_82 12 ( 7) Original Circuits Trial Mountain Circuit
_77 12 ( 6) Original Circuits Apricot Hill Raceway
_76 13 ( 6) World Circuits___ Suzuka Circuit East Course
_73 13 ( 6) Original Circuits Autumn Ring
_67 _8 ( 8) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 80's
_65 _7 ( 9) Original Circuits High-Speed Ring
_65 11 ( 6) Original Circuits Deep Forest Raceway
_64 _3 (21) Driving Park_____ Test Course
_64 _9 ( 7) Original Circuits Mid-Field Raceway
_62 _9 ( 7) City Courses_____ Côte d'Azur
_58 11 ( 5) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi - East Short Course
_54 _3 (18) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi Super Speedway
_53 _3 (18) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 2005 GT
_43 _8 ( 5) Driving Park_____ Motor Sports Land II
_40 _3 (13) World Circuits___ Infineon Raceway - Stock Car Course
_37 _4 ( 9) World Circuits___ Fuji Speedway 2005
_35 _7 ( 5) City Courses_____ Clubman Stage Route 5
_30 _6 ( 5) Original Circuits Grand Valley East
_27 10 ( 3) Original Circuits Autumn Ring Mini
_21 _4 ( 5) Driving Park_____ Beginner Course
_17 _1 (17) World Circuits___ Circuit de la Sarthe II
_10 _2 ( 5) Driving Park_____ Motorland
__9 _3 ( 3) World Circuits___ Twin Ring Motegi - West Short Course
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