Share Your First Experience Driving The X2010

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The first time I tried the challenge at Monza I got DQ'd from hitting the pit wall, so that was a bit of a shock, that and having to master each corner one by one.

Seriously though, my greatest achievement in this game is getting all bronze in the Vettell challenge and getting an X2010 the real way. The palms of my hands were crazy sweaty from gripping the DFGT so hard. After Monza I had to reduce the FFB on the wheel in fear of ripping it to pieces from making steering changes so fast.

I refuse to dupe this car as well, nor trade for another one. I don't want to take away the sense of achievement that car has given me! Getting silver in the 3 events will be next :)
 
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The x2010 was just a psychotic mess when I first drove it. It's like a fast car in 2x fast forward mode, minus the laws of physics.

I messed around with it for 20 mins or so after I hit level 30 and said "f it," was just too much. Today I figured if it can be done, I'll do it so I did. 15 mins on monza, 30 on nur, an hour or so at Suzuka for all bronze.

My tips: watch the demos. You don't drive this like a normal car at all so you gotta know what to actually do. Breathe deep and don't get too tense or fidgity lol. It's tuff but very possible, everything just happens fast. Brake super late, always push the car til the tires are red. I used tc off, srf on, abs 10, driving line on: this helped keep me from becoming disoriented.

I don't think I'll shoot for silver or gold, though I def have the sectors nailed individually but linking 2 laps clean would take a lot of time.
 
For those who have the DFGT wheel, don't forget to set an extreme front brake bias to the vehicle, eg 9-1 or 10-0, you can brake last minute, steer hard (I mean really hard) and watch your X2010 rotate nicely pointing to the exit of the corner.
 
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The first time I tried the challenge at Monza I got DQ'd from hitting the pit wall
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This is exactly what I did :D

I'm probably as fast as the best GT5 player in the world in this car, up until the first corner of each track. I genuinely struggled to get a single lap done to begin with but I'm getting better now by driving within myself. I still haven't attained bronze on any track yet, but I'm confident that I will eventually.
 
My first experience was at the Topgear test track that car was crazy fast then I took it to the like the wind event.

For a whole week I couldn't drive another car properly they all felt soooooooooo slow
 
I just earned a bronze trophy in the Vettel Challenge! Its the bronze trophy for rolling over a car, in this case, the X1.
 
My first experience with the 2010 was a nightmare. There was no way I could react to the turns in time, using the bumper cam, so I switched to hood view, which makes it seem slower.

Then it nearly tore my wheel apart (logitech MOMO), until I turned the active steering off. After an hour, I was still a good second off the bronze pace on the first track. I gave up, and haven't gone back to it since. I've hit level 35 b-spec, and so got an X2010 anyway, but I still feel I should go back to the Vettel challenge to at least say I completed it.

Not looking forward to it, though.
 
I think the Vettel challenge will be the lifespan of this game for me. I attempted the nurb around 10 times, only once I made it to the second lap and luckily finished that lap too at 7 seconds off bronze. After that I gave up for now, pushing on to level 35 in Bspec to unlock the car to practice in some other events and get used to the car.

I think the learning curve required to drive the X1 helps to show you that you cant just drive a car and expect it to handle the way you want. All cars requiring some time to get used to and learn the limits. Prior to the X1 I would just drive a car how I wanted, after the X1 I drive cars how they want.
 
My experience with the X1 is that it has to be a pure luck to finish a clean perfect lap. First time when I finished clean lap at the Nurburgring GP1 in the Red Bull Challenge, it was 2min 30secs something. So in order to get gold, I had to push the car to the limit even further and further, meaning it gets riskier to fail. After thousands of tries, I could get 2min 15secs and then bronze many times, and then silver a few times, and finally when all things go right which is almost impossible, a gold.

After finishing the whole challenge one question came up to me. What the heck is the point of this stupid challenge? To give you a spiderman like reaction time? Or a superb driving skill for the car that doesn't exist in real life? No none of them. It's just that PD was all out of ideas about how to refresh the game. So they brought this cartoonish theme car which is theoretically possible only on paper, and telling us it's cool. And it isn't.
 
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my first time with the x1 was like the first time i had sex fuking awesome i was able to get it in a deal and the moment i hit the gas i went crazy got it to ssr7 stage and opened her up like a 12 pack 285mph nice as hell
 
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my first time with the x1 was like the first time i had sex fuking awesome i was able to get it in a deal and the moment i hit the gas i went crazy got it to ssr7 stage and opened her up like a 12 pack 285mph nice as hell
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Hopefully you lasted longer than most people that posted here.. Driving the X1 that is. hehehe 👍 +1 mate!
 
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I think the Vettel challenge will be the lifespan of this game for me.
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Just to use a little bit of your quite, i disagree atleast for me personally the challenges wern't that hard (gold 3/3, monza 3 tries, nurburg 20 mins, suzuka 1 hour) and they were just awfull as some people have said its a mix of driving skill but mainly reactions. Hate the car, hate the challenges and imo this is one of the worst things put into a GT game.

P.S i only did it for the xp.
 
I decided to go back and retry this challenge. I went to Monza, because I figured it was the easiest of the bunch. After 1/2 of retries, I managed to get my time from 2:24 to 2:15. Just enough for bronze. But it definitely took a lot of concentration, cutting some corners, and most assists off (ABS was 1, TC was 3). In the future, I may try the other tracks, but I'm not holding my breath on achieving anything...

I have to agree: this challenge is pretty pointless. It really is like asking for perfection from an arcade racer.

Luckily there is much more to the game than just the Vettel challenge.
 
My first drive with the X1 was a stupid one ... I didn't realise in the challenges that you have to drive yourself out of the pit lane, so my firs few seconds of driving the X1 consisted of me accelerating straight into the wall and being disqualified whilst still being in the pit lane :)
 
So firstly I tried the Nurbrugring... After 5 minutes I got back to the main menu because I couldn't get past the first few corners.
Tried Monza next... Felt much, much easier. Got Silver on my sixth try :)
Suzuka is extremely smooth and flowing, but requires so much precision... Got bronze after like an hour.
Went back to Nurburgring and got bronze after about 2 hours. Too bumpy :yuck:

But the weirdest thing was getting into my Golf after the challenge...
'Turn... TURN you piece of 🤬'
 
First time I unlocked it, I tried the N-ring event and it was odd. My mind is just telling me this is not a car and I can't physically keep up how fast it can go around bends. Being 12 am after a day of GT5 doesn't help, probably strung 2-3 tries together in the span of maybe an hour, and was no closer than 6-7 sec off Bronze. But I left the ring and tried Monza, and the chicanes are much simpler to deal with than the bumps and high curbs and I saw that I could maybe bronze this, and maybe 4-5 tries in I did. At that point I left the challenge alone for like a week until sometimes I was out of seasonal to do and wanted more cr and experience pts to unlock N-ring 4 hours, so I went back and tried it again. This time I decided to try Suzuka and surprisingly, it went better when you are more sober. Did a full 2 lap maybe on my 3rd try, and Bronzed it by 6th. Went back to the ring and bronzed that after maybe the 3rd or 4th try. Got the credit I needed, and unlocked the race.

The car itself pretty much remain parked aside from Bob use. I still don't like the car, I still feel its more Wipeout than GT, but it looks cool...and hooking up the esses at Suzuka like doing it with any other car, is a sublime experience...
 
I hit the pit wall...

Then I did it again...

And again...

Then I made it to the first turn....

And slid off into the grass.
 
Using a DS3...At Monza

first time out, hit the pit wall. Second time, crashed out at the first chicane. I've only completed 1 full lap of Monza so far and I was 4 seconds off bronze...

I borrow a DFGT off my friend at work...Hopefully I can find some speed. :)
 
Using a DFGT, my first experience was at Monza.


*Throttle* *Shift up quickly* *Shift down quickly* *Turn Right* *Smack*

...

"Oh Right, this thing REALLY turns"

I had smacked straight into the narrow edge (head first, parallel) of the chicane wall.

And I thought it was ridiculous like that going through the last chicane at Monza at 200 with minimum effort. However, after getting the Vettel and raising the Aerodynamics to 150/200... oh lordy was that first section of Suzuka insane.
 
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Using a DS3...At Monza

first time out, hit the pit wall. Second time, crashed out at the first chicane. I've only completed 1 full lap of Monza so far and I was 4 seconds off bronze...

I borrow a DFGT off my friend at work...Hopefully I can find some speed. :)
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Make sure to lower the Force Feedback if it gets too much, it will get too much on an X1.
 
First experience: I had a 10 min grin on my face when I realized how savage that car is.
First try I overshoot the first corner on Suzuka.
Second, spun on the S turns.
Third, I did a whole lap and realized that actually it's a very easy car to drive. You just have to trust it. It has surreal grip and is absolutely perfectly balanced (impossibly so). Just have to lean on the car. Actually, it does exactly what you require from it and does it on the splitsecond. Once you get that, it's easy to nail it.

Oh, the next day my arms were aching from the sharp turning of the strong G25.
 
This is how it went for me:

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

Accelerate... Crash.

It is a stupid car in all honesty. The Vettel challenge is, as proven by the endless stream of folk (like me) who can't do it, unnecessarily difficult. PD seemed to just assume everyone will be using a steering wheel.

The problem is, after I've tried (yet again) about 100 times over, I have to turn off GT5 because every other car just feels weird.

Sorry for going off on a bit of a rant there :D
 
Only thing its good for is leaving bspec to run itself.

I got one off a trade and it might be a decent car if the force feedback wasn't trying to destroy my wheel (and i have it set to 1).
 
I tried driving the X1 with the G27 on Suzuka in the rain in the cockpit view. I kinda got sick after a few laps. So now, I watch tv while using the X1 for B-Spec.
 
Traded for mine, so yea I had it early. I wanted to practice for the challenges lol. As usual for a new car I took it to Monza to get a feel for it. I accelerated to the first corner and took my time and actually made it through, I then got excited and went into the big sweeper and turned the wheel too hard and smacked into the wall. After that I did a few laps at basically half throttle to get used to it. Then as someone mentioned before I began to trust the car and starting flying around the track. The car is a blast.
 

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