Nascar road course times

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I'm branching out from racing at Daytona and starting to hit the road courses. I'm looking for help on this from the more skilled and knowledgeable road course drivers. And before anyone says it, I know the fastest hot lap doesn't always win the race. I'm just looking for good solo online lap times to compare myself to while tuning and tweaking. I drive on racing softs with no assists except ABS on 1. I'm lookin for online solo times, with a NASCAR car perferably or similar car, for the following tracks.
High Speed Ring
Trial Mountain
Grand Valley
Laguna Seca
Sarth (chicanes)
Suzuka
Deep Forest
Daytona Road
Indy Road
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Offhand, I don't have any for the tracks you listed, but they are quick around pretty much any track.

The biggest issue is the gearing, you only get 4 as you know. Luckily, stock cars can manage extremely long first gears despite GT5's wacky gearing options. As long as you don't have to deal with a corner below 35 mph, you can probably extend first gear to 80-90 mph. Then, figure out about how fast you're going to be going and spread the remaining gears roughly equally between 1st and your top speed. You might need to make small adjustments after that (raising 2nd because it's causing you to shift up mid turn somewhere) but you should be pretty close to ideal.

An example time, I messed around with the 2011 Ford on Spa a while ago:
Spa, 2011 Fusion, RH tires - ~2:22
 
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Offhand, I don't have any for the tracks you listed, but they are quick around pretty much any track.

The biggest issue is the gearing, you only get 4 as you know. Luckily, stock cars can manage extremely long first gears despite GT5's wacky gearing options. As long as you don't have to deal with a corner below 35 mph, you can probably extend first gear to 80-90 mph. Then, figure out about how fast you're going to be going and spread the remaining gears roughly equally between 1st and your top speed. You might need to make small adjustments after that (raising 2nd because it's causing you to shift up mid turn somewhere) but you should be pretty close to ideal.

An example time, I messed around with the 2011 Ford on Spa a while ago:
Spa, 2011 Fusion, RH tires - ~2:22
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Cool. Thanks for the info and will definitely take this into consideration when tuning. Much appreciated.
 
Just a quick update on my testing at Spa. Best online solo lap so far is 2:14.933. Just mainly working on my LSD settings. Not sure how good (or bad) that time is, but I'm sure I can improve on it. This is in my 2011 Kyle Bush car btw with no assists.
 
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Just a quick update on my testing at Spa. Best online solo lap so far is 2:14.933. Just mainly working on my LSD settings. Not sure how good (or bad) that time is, but I'm sure I can improve on it. This is in my 2011 Kyle Bush car btw with no assists.
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Are you using Steering Wheel or DS3 ?
 
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Are you using Steering Wheel or DS3 ?
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I'm using a Logitech G27 Driving Force Pro. I am not a road coarse racer. I have just recently started trying out the road coarses after running at Daytona for the past 10 months therefor my lap times are probably going to be slow until I get more time in at the tracks.
 
KB18FAN
I'm using a Logitech G27 Driving Force Pro. I am not a road coarse racer. I have just recently started trying out the road coarses after running at Daytona for the past 10 months therefor my lap times are probably going to be slow until I get more time in at the tracks.
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Ah I'm just using ds3 since can't afford steering wheel at the moment. :tdown:I had the HKS controller but it had short life span with the steering wheel part so I returned it back. I end up using the ds3 again and got used to it at least I'm still playing GT5.
 

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