Slalom license test. Too much fun?

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Last night a few friends were over and we ended up doing some time trial competitions on GT5. Afterward, I suggested to one of my friends (who plans to switch from his ST Focus to a BS RX8 in Autocross this season) to run through some of the license tests and get a feel for the wheel and game before trying to work on his RWD car control with it.

After a while, it turned in to working on gold trophys in the tests I hadn't yet mastered. We soon came to the slalom test in the Cooper S in the A license tests.

Myself and 2 friends drove this single license test for about 2.5 hours straight attempting to get another 0.001 off of the fast time over and over and over. Someone would best the fast time and we'd switch till it was beaten again. 19.95 ... 19.93 ... 19.87 ... 19.76 ... all the way down to 19.57X.

Maybe this is only a load of fun for a group of autocrossers ... but it was a blast for us. the minute movements of the wheel ... barely breathing the throttle for rotation ... being within mm of the cones and a DNF.

It makes me wonder if PD ever considered autocross as a feature in GT5. Currently, only LFS offers it, but it doesn't offer real street cars to drive.
 
Haha, my buddy and I used to do this with GT4, the Minolta Race Car and the Nürburgring. 3 months straight, almost every day, and in the end our lap times were around 5:30something with a difference of a few hundreds. Those were the days.
 
I hate the slalom license tests. The gold times are just too difficult to achieve.

It's only yesterday that I finally golded the IB slalom after two hours of frustration. To gold you need 18.500 ...once I got 18.526 then later I got an 18.502.

The skills you learn from the slalom don't help you in racing at all. So, I don't think they should make it as hard as it is.

I really wanted to kick the guy who set the gold time for this challenge in the .... :)

(sorry...venting....must have retried 100 times last night from 12:30 to 2:00am)
 
I started a thread a few weeks ago about auto-x. I'd love to be able to use the course creator to set up cones on the TGTT which is pretty damn close to the airfields where the local clubs host events. it would be loads of fun to set up the course the next day and try to beat your own time.
 
fun?? you thought that license test was FUN? i was on the verge of throwing my ps3 out of the window due to frustration. the last adjective to describe that license test would be fun.


edit: oh nevermind, u arent referring to IB-3
 
i hate the last slalom test so much i cant get gold on it:ouch: i was just 0.02 of the time. But i will try i again when i am calm down ahha:)
 
I hate both slalom tests. In B, that is the only one I need to complete gold. Managed silver and tried for hours. In IB, I only managed a bronze. As MowTin said, if this teaches me some useful skills to improve my play, I can understand. But this one is just useless.
 
It teaches you smooth steering/throttle input. It's not very easy with the controller but if you are using a steering wheel it will teach real-world skills that everyone who drives an SUV should know. If you whip the wheel from side to side you will loose control and make everyone behind you late for work.
 
I think it teaches a lot. I think I currently have silver on the I-B test ... haven't tried for gold yet. Being an autocrosser I love slaloms. It really does help teach you the fine control needed to drive through transitions on the ragged edge of traction.
 
It develops throthle and steering control. While there isn't as many adjacent corners in any of the tracks, the concepts learned in slalom still apply in many corner combinations with some adjustments. Hatzenbach and Wipperman in Nordschleife comes to mind as corners that most directly resemble slaloms.
 
Slalom experience will help you navigate most any chicane more cleanly ... Nurburgring GP, Monza, Monaco, etc. Many tracks have low speed chicanes.

Basically, any time to have to change direction quickly.
 

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