Proffessional League Help

[sarahope77]

I am trying to complete the professional league, and am having difficulties with the Vitz, Tuscan, Elise and Clio races. I guess my tuning must be terrible cause it seems regardless of what I do my car just can't keep up. I have raced the tracks so many times I amnot sure my time can improve much, I can practically handle the courses in my sleep. What should I do to win these races without using a cheat, I don't do that. I know there is one, cause my friends keep saying use the one lap win cheat from Action Replay. Any advice to winning this the way it was meant to would be wonderful.

 

[frenzal]

Hi and welcome sara...i'm still on my first run through GT3 myself. I havent actually completed the series you mention you're having trouble with. If you go to the section in this forum titled GT# Race reports, you'll see a thread there by a bloke called 'Uncle Harry'. He has a full run down on the entire game he completed. The thread is called "GT3 by Uncle Harry...0 - 100%".

I have found some pretty helpful stuff there. He covers the whole game.

With regard to your tuning problems, there is a site which has tune ups for just about every car in the game. You'll find some pretty good set ups in there, start by looking for those done by a fella called 'Fumes'. I have found that you won't go too far wrong with his settings. I've added the link to the site if that helps.

It's great to see that i'm not the only person out there who is only on their first run through the game, having picked it up at Christmas when we got the kids a PS2. The game was included in the package. I'm currently halfway through the Professional Leagues, have completed Beginner and Amateur, got 3 of the endurance races out of the way, and just picked up my rally license. Still to get my Super License.

Good luck with the series you mentioned.

Cheers

http://www.gtvault.com/gt3/index/

Just click on the GT Car List in the navigation box on the left, it will take you to the full listing. There are also tuning guides in the site as well.

 

[Der Alta]

This thread might help on the Vitz.

The Tuscan series, is all about driving that car. When you overpower the Tuscan it gets very tail happy. Especially so on hard tires. Work on throttle control. Try Here.

I couldn't find a thread on the Elise, but here is Uncle Harry's thread.

The Clio race can be found here.

 

[supert10]

There is an important factor in setting up your cars for these races that
can't be overlooked. (if you want to win in cars that are closely matched.)
You must set the transmision gear ratios so that you are at max RPMs at
the end of the longest straight. Use the qualifying round to check this.
If you can't qualify first odds are you won't win the race. Next use the qual
to select the tires you can use to run for the best pit stratagy. Example-
be able to run the entire 10 laps of the Rome course without pitting and you
save 21 seconds. (enough to win the first race.) In the seond race the
bot cars don't pit so you will need to be used to how the car handles on
harder tires anyway. On cars that only have rear adjustable aerodynamics
only set the downforce halfway. (this will reduce understeer to a managable
amount.) If the other cars Ram you touch the brakes slightly if you are going
into a corner to reduce the extra enegry that the hit imparts to your car.
Resist the temptation to get into a slam fest. (It hardly ever works) The
the brakes are variable just like the throttle. Braking a little earlier and with
less force can save your front tires from wearing out to soon. It helps to
start in the pole position. Hope these hints help.

 

[jdwk]

It's been a long time since I played GT3, but I remember the Elise race being one of the hardest series.
I tuned my stock Elise as much as possible and eventually won the series barely after several tries. I thought for sure I would win the Motorsport Elise, since it was the car I had so much trouble beating. However, after I won it awarded me another stock Elise and I was pissed.
But then I went to the dealership and realized I could have simply bought a Motorsport Elise from the start.
So if you are makind the same mistake I did, just go and buy an MS Elise.

I went back and raced the courses that I didn't place first in the series with the MS car, and it wasn't even a race.