Red Bull X1 Challenge help

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Ive tried all day yesterday and today and ive only got bronze on the second race. Any tips?
 
Any paticular parts that are giving you trouble?

Also make sure ASM is off.
 
Having trouble with Suzuka, my first lap is about 1:10 maybe 1:9 at best. Is that enough for bronze? I always spun out in 2nd lap :lol:
 
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Having trouble with Suzuka, my first lap is about 1:10 maybe 1:9 at best. Is that enough for bronze? I always spun out in 2nd lap :lol:

You want to get around 1:085 - 1:095 for the first lap. First sector time should be 30.5 seconds max and around 55-56s for sector three (cumulative).

Don't use the brake on the bends after the first hairpin. Instead, use throttle control - you can do it no problem if you lift on the first bend and on the third. Coming up to the first 90 degree right hander you only need a smidge of brakes if you're on the outside. Get early on the throttle on the next right-hander.

The hairpin at the start of sector 2 was where I was losing most time - you can actually brake in quite late for it, just make sure you're straight-line braking with full lock for the hairpin. The next hairpin before the long back straight is perhaps where I lost the most time. Practice it a lot. Get used to braking in late and being late on the throttle - it's easy to botch it early and go into the sand.

You don't actually gain much time from late braking on the chicane at the end of the course, so don't risk super late braking, rather take the first curb sharp and get on the throttle early.

Sector 1 - Not much time to be gained from taking the bends flat out vs lifting, so don't be too worried if you're not pushing it to the absolute edge. As long as your first sector time is below 30.5s (first lap) then you'll be okay.

Sector 2 - This is where all the time is to be gained. Late brake on the first hairpin. Late brake on the second hairpin - remembering not to get on the throttle too early.

Hope this helps,
Naz
 
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2:16.500 I think

A first lap of 1'10 is still possible to get bronze as long as your second lap is a fair improvement. If your second lap is done much the same way (little faster due to not having to start from the pits) then you wont make it.
 
Golded all yesterday, so I have a bit of advise, for everyone. The most important thing driving x1 is to have fun with it, you must feel the car, even if you got wrong turn just keep going, after a while you will be able to find perfect breaking spots and faster lines. Also helps if you are focusing on chasing ghost, your focus will be much higher if you can have ghost in your view, try to chase this mother****. Hope that helps just a bit.

PS All of above is probably not applicable if playing on sixaxis.
 
You want to get around 1:085 - 1:095 for the first lap. First sector time should be 30.5 seconds max and around 55-56s for sector three (cumulative).

Don't use the brake on the bends after the first hairpin. Instead, use throttle control - you can do it no problem if you lift on the first bend and on the third. Coming up to the first 90 degree right hander you only need a smidge of brakes if you're on the outside. Get early on the throttle on the next right-hander.

The hairpin at the start of sector 2 was where I was losing most time - you can actually brake in quite late for it, just make sure you're straight-line braking with full lock for the hairpin. The next hairpin before the long back straight is perhaps where I lost the most time. Practice it a lot. Get used to braking in late and being late on the throttle - it's easy to botch it early and go into the sand.

You don't actually gain much time from late braking on the chicane at the end of the course, so don't risk super late braking, rather take the first curb sharp and get on the throttle early.

Sector 1 - Not much time to be gained from taking the bends flat out vs lifting, so don't be too worried if you're not pushing it to the absolute edge. As long as your first sector time is below 30.5s (first lap) then you'll be okay.

Sector 2 - This is where all the time is to be gained. Late brake on the first hairpin. Late brake on the second hairpin - remembering not to get on the throttle too early.

Hope this helps,
Naz

Thanks, man. You definitely helped me out. Only took me 3 tries to bronze it.
I'm exhausted now. I think I'm gonna leave the Silver and Gold alone until I finished the game. I'm just not that good yet.
 
i find my 2nd lap time to be 2s quicker. so i set a goal of 1:09 for the first lap then 1:07 for the second.


any tips for Nurburgring? i'm 3.5s off from the bronze time. the first sector tech section is giving me the headache.
 
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i find my 2nd lap time to be 2s quicker. so i set a goal of 1:09 for the first lap then 1:07 for the second.


any tips for Nurburgring? i'm 3.5s off from the bronze time. the first sector tech section is giving me the headache.

don't worry too much on first turn, just reduce to first gear. You can take next turn extra wide and I mean wide, full gas and go out of track after that you have plenty of space and time to take nice line, reduce to 2 gear, after that also wide. Magical advice... most important thing is speed out of a turn.
 
Guys im having trouble with the X1 too, the following image depicts my problem;

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Does anybody have any idea how to remedy this?
 
Keep it off Cape ring. 💡
 
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You want to get around 1:085 - 1:095 for the first lap. First sector time should be 30.5 seconds max and around 55-56s for sector three (cumulative).

Oh boy, I'm having a lot of trouble on this one. On the first lap I'm easily hitting 23 on the first sector. Then I hit about 58 cumulative for 2-3, and finish first lap at 1:16.

So I am really doing horrible on sector 2 and 3. I'm trying to brake less, but I end up off the track in the corners. I guess I just need a lot more practice.

Any suggestions on settings to make this as easy as possible? I usually like to go hard core with everything off and manual, but with this car I'm going for easy until I win it (bronze)...then will go practice with it elsewhere. Currently I'm running with 5 for traction, auto, and active steering mild I think.
 
Oh boy, I'm having a lot of trouble on this one. On the first lap I'm easily hitting 23 on the first sector. Then I hit about 58 cumulative for 2-3, and finish first lap at 1:16.

So I am really doing horrible on sector 2 and 3. I'm trying to brake less, but I end up off the track in the corners. I guess I just need a lot more practice.

Any suggestions on settings to make this as easy as possible? I usually like to go hard core with everything off and manual, but with this car I'm going for easy until I win it (bronze)...then will go practice with it elsewhere. Currently I'm running with 5 for traction, auto, and active steering mild I think.

Every thing off, ABS 1 and Skid Recovery if you want to make it easier on your self. With SR, don't be afraid to throw the car around, it can handle it.
For bronze, fist lap I got 29 in the first sector and 54 in the second. I did a little better in the second lap but if your time is more than 55 in the second sector, just restart.
 
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Oh boy, I'm having a lot of trouble on this one. On the first lap I'm easily hitting 23 on the first sector. Then I hit about 58 cumulative for 2-3, and finish first lap at 1:16.

So I am really doing horrible on sector 2 and 3. I'm trying to brake less, but I end up off the track in the corners. I guess I just need a lot more practice.

Any suggestions on settings to make this as easy as possible? I usually like to go hard core with everything off and manual, but with this car I'm going for easy until I win it (bronze)...then will go practice with it elsewhere. Currently I'm running with 5 for traction, auto, and active steering mild I think.

23s is super fast for sector 1.

anyway, the parts where i shaved the most in sector 2 and 3 are 1.) turn11 hairpin (U-turn after the degner curve); 2.) Spoon Curve; and 3.) casio triangle.

Hairpin - brake neatly and hard so you can get to the throttle early.
Spoon - practice getting the driving line. your line going down the 2nd part of the spoon curve is very important in improving exit speed and time.
Casio Triangle - Brake hard (before the overhead signage/banner), then go flat out on the next turn (cutting it a bit) until the finish line.
 
Thanks everyone for this great thread. I picked up a DF-GT wheel, and that helped a lot (been using controller all these years since GT1). Also I finally figured out I could go flat out through the "spoon"...I just wasn't getting that (doh!). Now I'm beating 55 in sector 2/3. Just have to figure out how to not crash in the final turns of the lap and I should get this done :-)

I'm regularly pulling 22.x in section 1 now, sometimes less than 22...but it's the rest of the course that's killing me.
 
I couldn't go flat out through spoon and I golded it.

I entered spoon in high 5th gear, dab of brakes and dropped to 4th, held it flat to the secod half of spoon and dab brakes again into 3rd, a little bit of feeding on the power so it doesn't understeer out into the sandtrap then flat on the throttle all the car to Casio (even through 130R).
 
Once you get past Spoon, it's flat out till Casio. The X1 have a lot of stopping power so brake late (I wait and only brake for about 1 sec), let the car glide through the chicane and get ready to be on the throttle as soon as possible.
I'm so close to silver time now, only half a second off. So frustrating. Have to make myself get up and do something else otherwise I'll brake something :lol:
 
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So frustrating. Have to make myself get up and do something else otherwise I'll brake something :lol:

I can SO relate to that. GT5 is definitely one of those games you have to take a break from. I notice when I come back I do better for sure. It's like my B-Spec Bob. My meter is sometimes all the way red ;-)

I decided to go do the second and third tracks first and then come back to the first. I seem to be having better luck with them.
 
@mk500

man, how do you 22s in sector1? any tips? the best i could manage was around 29.xxx (1st lap) and ~27/28.xxx on the 2nd lap.
 
@mk500

man, how do you 22s in sector1? any tips? the best i could manage was around 29.xxx (1st lap) and ~27/28.xxx on the 2nd lap.

I call bs on that 22s on first sector, unless the sectors are different in different regions or something. Watch the gold runs on youtube, even on second lap they get ~27s on first sector.
 
I was, mk500 mentioned you could go flat around spoon which you can't unless Nurburgring has a "spoon" also but I don't think so.
 
The only one I can't do is Nurburgring GP and I'm starting to get pissed off at this game. Like I've tried for 3 hours and can't do it
 
I found Nurburgring to be my quickest bronze, then again, my slowest was Monza, and a lot of time was spent learning the car/forgetting what I knew about physics. For all tracks, it really just came down to trial and error as far as how hard you could push the car. I had a lot of 'Eureka' moments when I learned I could go flat through a corner that required braking with the FGT. Generally, I found that I was never light on the brake. I was either lifting briefly, or braking HARD.If you can't quite go flat out through a corner, try lifting. If you can get that to work, you'll eventually start to memorize how long to lift for each corner. After a couple tries, you'll be running it smoothly.

Most of what Nasty posted is true for me. I was good through sector 1, but those hairpins killed me.
 
@mk500

man, how do you 22s in sector1? any tips? the best i could manage was around 29.xxx (1st lap) and ~27/28.xxx on the 2nd lap.

Think you guys are talking about different tracks or something.

I'm so sorry everyone; I was indeed talking about Nurburgring when everyone else was talking about Suzuka. I finally gave up on Nurburgring and went after Monza. I was able to get a bronze there after like 80 attempts.

I need to learn the terms for the tracks better so I don't confuse things. The advice here really helped; even though I was on the wrong track :-)
 
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