Opel Speedster Challenge

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to beat this?! I took an Opel Speedster, suped it up to the max, the best tires, etc. The still murdered me. Its not like I'm not a good driver, cause all my friends tried (even with different setups and stuff) and still got killed. Whys the AI so fast in this competition?
 
Howdy, Mouser. Try a search for "speedster", and limit it to thread titles only in the GT4 forum. You'll probably find several answers.
 
You might want to try adding a wing and setting it to max downforce (when you buy a wing the downforce is set to 0 initially). Also, the non-turbo version of the speedster is a better car. I beat it last time without even adding a turbo, just NA tune 3.
 
I had the worst trouble with those races as well, but I finally finished them the other day. I had it fully tuned with NOS and a wing set to full downforce. I also used soft tires and adjusted my shocks and gearing. These were the only races I've used NOS in but I needed it. With a few tries and a whole lotta luck you'll eventually get it. I sat down the other day and golded four of the five races one right after the other. I was having a great day. Good luck to ya.
 
An easy way is to cheat and put racing tires on the car. I won all of the races with NA Stage 2 and Super Softs. Most fun I ever had in a while.
 
Buy a VX220 turbo, or Speedster turbo and tune it as much as you have to. Give it the right tyres and give it a rear wing, the downforce is a big thumbs up in this series. You don't need to fully tune the car, but if you're struggling than that will get you an easy win.
 
Why do the AI Opels have an edge? Because they far more HP than your modded Speedster to begin with. Still they are relatively easy to beat using either standard or Turbo Speedster. Gearing is important (close ratios lacking a high top speed), the right tires and of course a wing. I've found medium race tires to be better than softs since they make the handling less twitchy. You also have the option of using Nitro to put a little distance between you and the field if you need that edge. All the AI Speedsters are not the same. I'd been in races where they weren't that fast and been in races where one AI car was really quick. You can mod your Opel and get some fresh oil. That will give you more HP. Break the car in with practice and get some fresh oil. That will add a little more HP.

I've never had a problem beating them with even a newly modded car with added weight to get max points. In my opinion the Infineon course is the only course that takes any effort at all. I don't even see them in my mirror on any other course.

Just practice a bit more and you should beat them easily.
 
Once you have all the mods, It will come down to two things.
First you will have to drive with almost no mistakes.
Secondly, you will have to tweak the transmission for best acceleration and top end.
Good luck.
 
I did all of that, suprisngly (except the VX220 thing) and they still killed me. I'm just going to tweak it more later tonight, and then try again tomorrow, cause I'm too tired to race tonight.
 
Use Racing Softs. they start to wear out just at the end of the race. and i used a fully tuned Speedster (non turbo) and had a moderately Comfy lead at times. you need to drive perfectly as they can catch up VERY quickly
 
I didn't quite have to tune it to the absolute max to win it, but there were some key points which I believe made my Speedster a winner:

1) it was not a turbo. The NA one is 150kg lighter when stock, and a turbo can be added, though I used a max N/A tuning.

2) I added a wing. Left downforce at 0 for the front and 5 for the rear. This cured a tendency for the car to feel loose in high speed turns.

3) I used racing softs, but had to treat them fairly gently otherwise I would wear them out before the end of the race and have a spin, and lose a place.

4) I had to tune the racing suspension to cure low speed understeer and make the car easier for me to drive. I just tweaked it slightly, made no radical changes.

My car with the biggest turbo was good for 186 a-spec points. With max N/A I got 200 a-spec points and avoided wheelspin. It was not easy, but it was not too difficult.

P.S. I may have used a squirt of NOS or two :lol:
 
I had no probs at all with this, once I had maxxed out the NA Speedster (tried it stock first, but man...), fitted it with RM tires and stage 2 weightreduction. I was actually surprised that I got 200 A-spec points for these races. I do think that racetires make all the difference.
 
I'm about to try this race tonight, and I had no idea it was going to be so difficult. Sounds like it will be harder than I thought.

Good advice here though, so that should make things a bit smoother.

I'll give it a crack and let you know how I got on... :)
 
I golded them all on my first try with a fully modded NA speedster. No wing, and I think I used S3 tires. Whatever it was I got 200a-spec points, and even won with running off the track a few times. I had nitrous on the car, but I don't think I used it too often. Maybe on a few straights. The real key is to use a manual transmission and run the car way past redline. I can't stress how important that is, because it makes a LOT of power PAST redline. It'd be really hard to win with an auto, fortunately I'd switched to manual before I tried the races :) If you can't win it...practice with the car on the tracks, I didn't have any trouble, go figure *shrug*

By the way, this has been discussed a few dozen times ;)
 
Speaking of "going off course..." :lol:
And yes, I am in the black car. :indiff:
The NA speedster is definitley the way to go. Whilst the turbo speedster had more horsepower stock, you can tune the NA to a higher horsepower.
 
I did this race series last night and didnt have too many problems with it.
Fully modded turbo with close ratio box.
 
I've heard about lots of problems with this race. So I went in armed with a 360hp VX220 (Speedster) Turbo. I didn't bother with a wing, though I DID take R3 tyres.

Wish I hadn't bothered. I was miles ahead, with Infineon being the clearest victory.

So I'm afraid I can't advise anyone having troubles with it, because my races weren't even close. And they weren't "Haha, I'm a better driver than you" close - my car was far superior to theirs, so I could have won driving one sector in reverse.
 
First time I played the game, it was really hard. Max upgrades and carefull setup. Racing tires, gearbox settings, etc

2nd time ? Max upgrades plus a wing. Easy as pie... 196points

3rd time I think I'll try the NA... 💡, why wait, I'll have a go at it tonigh ! :)
 
Yeah, Famine, I did the same thing as you, except I didn't put racing tires on the car and I used an NA Speedster. I'd heard it was hard, but ended up winning them all by a comfortable margin. If I'd used racing tires I can't imagine how far ahead I would've been.
 
i used max upgrades, with R3's no wing and easily won. Could probably win on R2's with less hp.

the easiest settings to win are max upgrades, R4's and a wing. that should be easy for you.
 
I think the main reason some people struggle with this set of races is they enter races with vastly superior cars with the attitude it does not matter what i do my cars so fast i can't lose. Then they get to the Speedster races and the cars are on a fairly level plain and you have to drive properly to win. Although they might have won lots of previous races they never had to "race" to win them.
At the end of the day if raced correctly these races are not that hard at all.
 
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I'll have a go at it tonigh ! :)
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Well, the NA Speedster with max upgrades, racing tires plus a wing only earns 168 points a race. But it's very easy and different from the Turbo. I would however like to clear up a few points...

The NA CAN'T be upgraded to more power than the turbo. Only 260cv with NA tunning and 323 with turbo. The Turbo has a max 367.

And the NA is not just all simply a better car than the Turbo. What happens is that the NA is 111kg lighter (after all weight upgrades on both). This means it has a better power/weight ratio.



I ran a few tests and in shorter slower tracks, the NA is about a second faster than the turbo. In a track with long straights (Midfield) the turbo is 2,5 seconds FASTER than the NA.

I ran both with exactly the same settings in Midfield and the NA is faster around corners, but slower in the straights. You can use the data logger to viewe this.

So, since the tracks in the challenges are mostly short curvy ones, the NA will be best.

To finalize, I prefer driving the NA because the weight difference changes the handling.

Cheers,
S.
 

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