Stock Seasonal Time Trial #49 (480PP FR, 500PP 4WD Rally – 02/25 to 04/21)

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This is a thread series for the seasonal time trials that focuses on completing the challenges (i.e. beating the gold target times) with stock versions of the cars. This means that instead of maximizing your PP with upgrades and focusing on getting the fastest laps on the in-game leaderboard, you are attempting to complete the challenges with the bare minimum amount of 'car' and money-spent as is possible.

With the new more open ended format means that part of the challenge will be finding a stock car that has the lowest PP or lowest price depending on your view. It is also difficult to predict which types of tires a car will come with before purchasing.

Warning: Some of these challenges are getting to be extreme and should be approached with caution! :banghead:


In order to participate your car must be stock.

1) A stock car is essentially any car as it is when purchased from the dealership or won as a prize: it will have had no modifications, added parts, or adjustments done that affect how the car performs.
2) No oil changes are permitted: if you have had an oil change you must wait until the effects of the HP boost have been removed by driving over 300 km.
3) You must use the original tire type that came with the car, unless dirt or snow tires are required.
4) No changes to any “Car Settings” are permitted: they must ALL be left at their default values. [Note: cars that come with Fully Customizable Suspension that were purchased or won prior to patch 1.11 must have the suspension settings restored to default in order to be updated with the new stock suspension settings.]
5) No SRF or ASM is permitted: other “Driver Assists” are permitted.


Basically, the ONLY changes you may make to a car include: painting the car and changing a car’s racing number. Any other changes means your car is not stock.


Stock Seasonal Time Trials #49:

FR Non-Race Car Super Lap: 1:30.000 - Death Valley CM - 450-480PP - CS

4WD Rally Car Super Lap: 1:15.000 - Eiger Nordwand Short Track - 500PP - SH*

*As far as I am aware all Rally Cars come with RH tires, so put on some SH tires.



The Stock Seasonal Spreadsheet:
A few members have begun a leaderboard of sorts where individuals will be able to input their info into a public document. This is not so much a competition as a way to compare all sorts of data. At this point the data that is recorded for entries is as follows:

PP - Lap Time - Car (try to include manufacturer) - Tires - Drive - Power - Weight

Link to the GTP Stock Seasonal Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...hotiLFp3i88kP4fjOAJzbxl_w/edit#gid=2030933764

Notes about the Spreadsheet:
Tabs will generally be ordered with the newest seasonal events at the left.
Gold times are ordered based first on PP (lowest PP at the top), and then lap time.
Bronze and Silver times are ordered based solely on lap time (fastest time at the top): these entries will be grayed out.
If you are comfortable with entering your info please do so.
Only create one entry per car for your best lap time for that car.
To add an empty line: right click (PC) on a gray row number box and select add a row above or below.
If you make a mistake or change something you did not mean to change hit undo once or a few times.
 
My results so far with a wheel and an automatic transmission:

480PP FR at Death Valley CM:
456PP - 1:36.524 - Nismo GT-R LM Road Going Version '95 - CS - FR - 300hp - 1580kg
454PP - 1:35.278 - Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta '61 - CS - FR - 295hp - 960kg

There are not many cars with CS tires that will come close here. I am a good 6 seconds behind. I eventually had to use a detuned Shelby Series One with CS tires to just make gold. Then I saw in the other thread that this is a go to car for many people in this event. I suspect they really wanted people to tune cars here. I'm not sure why they bothered to set a lower PP limit for this event.


500PP 4WD Rally at Eiger Nordwand Short Track:
469PP - 1:15.896 - Lancia DELTA HF Integrale Rally Car '92 - SH - 4WD - 295hp - 1120kg
471PP - 1:15.431 - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV Rally Car '97 - SH - 4WD - 284hp - 1230kg
473PP - 1:14.930 - Ford Escort Rally Car '98 - SH - 4WD - 299hp - 1230kg

My guess is that the lowest PP car will be the Lancia once someone else gets their hands on it and makes it turn better than I can with the right manual gears.
 
The lower PP thing is a pain. I'm sure some of the RX-7s and S2000s would be capable. I was closest in the 250GT too and with a similar time. For gold I went for a detuned 365 GTB4 which I have to say was rather fun.
Are we allowed CS in the Eiger one? Apparently they work better than SH. I got gold on CS but haven't tried SH.
 
500PP 4WD Rally at Eiger Nordwand Short Track:
469PP
- 1:14.864 - Lancia DELTA HF Integrale Rally Car '92 - SH - 4WD - 295hp - 1120kg

The tyres don't seem to make a huge difference, it's maybe a bit harder on SH. The next one down is the Pajero truck and I was over two seconds off gold in that. I don't think any amount of good driving will make up for the lack of speed up the hill, but I've been wrong before.

Edit - Had a quick go in the Lancer too
471PP - 1:14.949 - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV Rally Car '97 - SH - 4WD - 284hp - 1230kg
 
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Puhhh going to need a lot of kilometers to get gold with the BMW 135i.

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I don't see a 1:29 at the moment, but i'll keep going. :crazy:
Sometimes you just need a lucky shot. :boggled:

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:lol:
 
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