Name a track you need practice at!

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:) I thought this would be fun. :D

Name a track you've done some recent racing at (or just laps or whatever), and found you really SUCKED at! :crazy:

Circuit de la Sarthe. That's it for me! :mad: I'm doing the Dream Car Championship for the first time. Racing a Viper GTS (will post pics later). Now, I've raced Sarthe before, but for some reason, I was really sucking tonite. I mean, kept blowing braking points, screwing up turning-in points, etc.

I don't know many of the track corner names, but the final sharp right at the end of the long straight. Great example. Kept losing it into the sand there! :banghead: But I also screwed up some of the slower chicanes and stuff. And let's not even go into the Porsche curves! :mad::banghead:

Anyways, I'll open the floor now. Share your experiences if you like!
 
Suzuka Circuit.:ouch:

The first U-Turn keeps me barreling towards the gravel.
The Spoon Corner is unbearable and I won't even talk about the Casio Triangle.👎
 
I would probably say most of the special conditions. I was unable to do most of them clean when going max hunting. Come to think of it, most of the time I race on them I almost, always clout a wall.
 
I would need to practice at Apricot Hill, Ice Arena, Costa di Amalfi, and almost all of the reversed Special Conditions courses. I'm quite comfortable at most other tracks.
 
Still not perfect at Nurburing. Only ever time I've never made a mistake on that track was when I completed my Special Liscence.
 
I hate the 'Ring when I'm in an FGT.
 
Austin343
I'm quite comfortable at most other tracks.
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This kinda sounds like where my head was at last nite. :mad: I'm comfortable at a lot of tracks. So I get to Sarthe with a big head, thinking I'll have it done in an hour, meanwhile it was lap after lap of qualifying/practice! :grumpy: Dumps into the sand. Excessive slides saved by lots of footwork, but now I'm crawling thru a turn where I should be carrying more speed! :mad: Sigh. One should never assume...:indiff:

Eventually, I finally "got" it. I started doing a high speed brake/flick/pivot thing into the Porsche curves, for instance, letting the Viper get ever-so-slightly sideways at times. This is murder on tires....thank goodness the Dream Car race at Sarthe is only 2 laps. 💡
 
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Autumn Ring is a toughy for me. I like it, but is has some very subtle qualities to it...
I believe it's called turn 5; that's one I've never fully wrapped my head around or been able to fully tune for.

Apricot Hill is likewise a tricky one.
 
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Need practice on all of the reverse tracks, with the honorable exception of Costa Di Amalfi, since I race there everytime I need credits. Tracks that I can barely drive in are the snow tracks, and Grand Canyon.
 
The list (lol)

Citta di Aria
Costa di Amalfi
George V Paris (probably because I haven't driven it that much, just enough to get it out of the way)

All of the special condition courses.


The Porsche curves gave me some problems for quite a while, until I quit trying to overdrive them, which is a lot of my problem on a lot of courses, like Cote d'Azure between Massanet and Casino (the long left at the top of the hill). The little right (originally called it the kink, if you brake at the Mulsanne kink, according to the map, you'll never get to the corner, oops :)) just before the Mulsanne corner, gets me quite a bit as well, I kind of let off going into the righthander, then the brake hard to get slowed down for the chicane. Took me a while to get that one, too.

What am I thinking? I'm probably just an average GT4 player, not even that good.
 
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My most hated track - Fuji 2005 (GT/notGT), specifically in an FGT.

Could probably use more practice at Grand Canyon and the Ice/Snow events too, but I'm more likely to A-Spec the FGT@Fuji than I am to even consider bothering with Special Conditions hall ever again. And I'm not sure it's that likely I'll ever bother A-Spec'ing that FGT race.

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Pitracer100
The Spoon Corner is unbearable
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Blasphemy! :P
 
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I probably need the most practise at La Sarthe, the newer Fuji's, and Suzuka. I tend to avoid them because in my perspective, they're awful... that'd also apply to the dirt and snow tracks. If they were featured more frequently in the game, I'd probably make the effort to drive more on them, but in the meantime...

Start race: 1 A-spec point ;)
 
mcsqueegy
I probably need the most practise at La Sarthe, the newer Fuji's, and Suzuka. I tend to avoid them because in my perspective, they're awful... that'd also apply to the dirt and snow tracks. If they were featured more frequently in the game, I'd probably make the effort to drive more on them, but in the meantime...

Start race: 1 A-spec point ;)
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If your times at Twin Ring are any indication, your version of "needs practice" is my version of damn good driving! :dopey:
 
Cote D'Azur. All those hairpins...some day I'll have to go round and round that thing 'till I get it figured out.
 
For me it has to be Laguna seca raceway. I seriously can not be any worse at it, another track would have to be Infineon Raceway the corners on that track are impossible for me to drive on i'am way to impatient.
 
DaProfessor
For me it has to be Laguna seca raceway. I seriously can not be any worse at it, another track would have to be Infineon Raceway the corners on that track are impossible for me to drive on i'am way to impatient.
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The funny thing about Infineon is that it doesn't take a lot of braking. The Ai brakes additional times that we don't have to, however if we screw up our brakes by 25 meters or so, that's it. We're toast! :dunce: Ha ha, look at the dunce with the stocking cap on it!
 
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I'm thinking really hard... But there isn't any. I always need a few laps to adjust with different cars, but i can honestly say i know each and every circuit and can lap consistently on each. Maybe not quite as fast as some of you guys (i'll always be a few seconds off the pace, particularly on the longer circuits), but i never get that feeling of "What is coming up next? should i start braking here or leave it a bit?". The rally stages used to be a problem, but i think i have the hang of them all now.

Even the Nurburgring, gotten so used to it thanks to doing the 4 hour endurance around 5-6 times in the past couple of months. And hotlapping in LMP cars. Still can't break 5'10 though... on GT mode at least. With quicktune and R5 tyres i reckon i could quite easily.
 
Pretty much all of them as ive been away from the game for what seems an age.

I did just get a nice new HDTV, (yes i have component cables) so i think its time to fire things up and go do some laps. :D

Ive been on 36% complete for atleast a year :ouch:

AngloAmerican
 
The Dirt/Ice tracks. The others I am pretty good at. Slow but good. The online races have seen to that. Repetition. The Dirt/Ice aren't used much in the races. Due to the fact that wallriding could be used to an advantage, I guess.
 
Probably Fuji 2005. I'm getting better at it, but seemingly due to elevation changes it's nearly impossible to see turn-in points towards the beginning part of the lap, and then towards the end those decreasing radius turns get me, even if I am concentrating on it! I feel amazing whenever I perform a good, clean lap. -kevin
 
I'm soooo gunna get flammed for this :dopey:

imtheleprechaun
My most hated track - Fuji 2005 (GT/notGT), specifically in an FGT.
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All 4754 reincarnations of Fuji, the 3 Suzukas and the Ring.

Probably because I suck though...
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mcsqueegy
I probably need the most practise at La Sarthe, the newer Fuji's, and Suzuka. I tend to avoid them because in my perspective, they're awful... that'd also apply to the dirt and snow tracks. If they were featured more frequently in the game, I'd probably make the effort to drive more on them, but in the meantime...

Start race: 1 A-spec point ;)
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kevinm
Probably Fuji 2005. I'm getting better at it, but seemingly due to elevation changes it's nearly impossible to see turn-in points towards the beginning part of the lap, and then towards the end those decreasing radius turns get me, even if I am concentrating on it! I feel amazing whenever I perform a good, clean lap. -kevin
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I quite like all 4754 reincarnations of Fuji, and i'm pretty good at the 2005 tracks... the Celica One Lap Magic is so easy, got it on first try :sly:.

BUT, i'm not too, too god a Tsukuba Wet, and it's dry counterpart, i hate 'em 'cause their too short, they pop up too much and Tsukuba Wet is too hard for me to control in :indiff:.
 
kevinm
Probably Fuji 2005. I'm getting better at it, but seemingly due to elevation changes it's nearly impossible to see turn-in points towards the beginning part of the lap, and then towards the end those decreasing radius turns get me, even if I am concentrating on it! I feel amazing whenever I perform a good, clean lap. -kevin
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There's Fuji 2005, and then there's Fuji 2005 GT; the difference is literally the angle of one of the turns, an L-bend on the far side of the track.

The other day I was doing some Extreme level, totally expecting this particular turn to be a sharp one, but it was the GT track, which means the turn is actually milder and I could take it faster. But I was in the habit of slowing way down, and kept doing so by habit. :ouch: Lost the race due to this!
 
Hong Kong, even though I hate this track. The Hairpin in either direction always catches me off guard
 

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