Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[SnakeOfBacon]

I love that pun.

 

[Lomic]

I love that pun.
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I don't get the joke with the Undertaker (done by Famine also in the title of GTP article), can someone explain to me ?

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

I don't get the joke with the Undertaker (done by Famine also in the title of GTP article), can someone explain to me ?

There's no deep meaning, it's just a pun from a near-homophone; Honda-taker sounds a bit like Undertaker, and it's Hallowe'en so the article title needs to be something macabre.

 

[Lomic]

There's no deep meaning, it's just a pun from a near-homophone; Honda-taker sounds a bit like Undertaker, and it's Hallowe'en so the article title needs to be something macabre.

I get the homophone, but why "Honda-taker" why "taker" is added there ?

 

[Carpocalypse]

1. I built this Nurburgring Polo GTI last year, and kind of forgot it up until yesterday, so I gave it a spin. Very fun on Nordwand.
2. I used this mitsubishi evo I also forgot I built. It's about 25 PP above the recommended, so it was fairly easy.
3. I brought the 917 Living Legend a few days ago, and decided to give it a try. I followed this video to detune it to 650PP. The car's a bit of a handfull, but not awful.
4. The one make event was very fun. I put on a livery like the Lotus 33. I read that apparently the AI uses comfort tyres rather than the stock racing tyres, is this true?
5. Finally, of course, I used the Mazda 787B for the WTC800 race. It's kind of like a cheat code for this series.

 

[danimac]

These special events often play out well for me like the racing is fun with the AI. I generally wish they were added permanently. Maybe Spec 3 or GT8.

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

I get the homophone, but why "Honda-taker" why "taker" is added there ?

For the undertaker pun, right? If you take "taker" off "Hondataker", you are left with just "Honda".
"Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges: The Honda" has no pun.
An undertaker arranges embalming and burials, The Undertaker chokeslammed Mankind through the roof of Hell in a Cell on 28/6/1998, and a Hondataker takes a Honda to Spa-Francorchamps. This joke is now dead, dissected for science, and will require a closed casket.

 

[Famine]

This joke is now dead, dissected for science, and will require a closed casket.

And buried six feet Honda.

 

[Sir Crashalot]

The Undertaker chokeslammed Mankind through the roof of Hell in a Cell on 28/6/1998

“Will somebody stop the damn match?! Enough’s enough!”

scnr

 

[snowman_pr]

Porsche Cup

Porsche 959 - 649PP on Sports Softs tires, Hard difficulty


The Hunt

The Pass

The Win

The Victor

 

[smoothbore12]

Any decent tune for the RA ?
Mine had one from praiano when he show up but now after so many updates is near doom
Everything is so stretchy in high values that is impossible to stay on track.

You can send me via pm in case you won't like to reveal your secret 😁

 

[jrbabbitt]

When I first heard about the possibility of the Honda RA272 one make race (via a posting in the thread about the Hagerty lot) I was quite excited as I love this old car (and wishing there were more like it in game) and was looking forward to this race. Finding out it was true and will be at Spa-Francorchamps made it better.
I took my RA272 to Spa and found out my tuning setup especially the suspension was wonky and after three previous starts I finally figured out that if I removed the turbocharger my handling improved and on the fourth start I had my car set up smooth and completed the race.

This photo reminds me of the 1966 film Grand Prix with James Garner.

Here I am passing my Honda Factory teammate, Ginther won in that car at the Mexico Gran Prix, the only win the Honda factory team had.

another view...
(Shame that PD only had the one legitimate livery in the field)

Ford GT Racecar at Daytona.

VW Sambabus (with Porsche flat six) at Eiger.

My Subaru passing the 22B at the Nurburgring GP circuit.

Porsche 959 on the stretch at Nordschleife.

Enjoy...

 

[Draggon]

Any decent tune for the RA ?
Mine had one from praiano when he show up but now after so many updates is near doom
Everything is so stretchy in high values that is impossible to stay on track.

After 3 failures, I added the mid range turbo, racing trans, set the camber to 0.8/1.8, the diff at 10/60/20 which was a lot better, but I still fell short. I gave up and changed the difficulty to easy. At least I got the CLB! I'm kinda lost tuning these older cars without aero.

 

[Turbokoo]

I cannot describe how gorgeous Daytona is at the end of the race on open wheeler. I did it on MP4/4

 

[CTRL Garage]

Really enjoying the RA special event!
If only they permanently added this with the AI.

Here’s the WIP tune but it has small amounts of understeer when releasing the brakes. Haven’t got the time to tune it out now.

Spoiler: WIP tune

 

[RACECAR]

European Sunday Cup 500: Abarth 500. Unsurprisingly, small and nimble enough to make this work.
Japanese 4WD Challenge 600: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final. Basically my Lancer Meeting Build and it does not dissapoint.
Porsche Cup: Porsche 911 GT3. My Nurburgring special, doing what it does best.
World Touring Car 800: BMW Mclaren F1 GTR. A car that needs NO adjustment to use for this race, even when fuel saving.
Honda RA272 One Make: Absolutely tricky, required multiple attempts but finally nailed it.

 

[snowman_pr]

So here are the rest of the challenges, and YES all of them were FUN!! Well, the WTC was easier than expected but still was fun to do! So here are my designated hitters:


1) Euro Sunday Cup 500 - Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce ‘67: 499PP on Sports Hard tires; close quarter combat race the whole time!! Got PIT’ed by the AI at the end of lap 2 but was able to recover and pass the M3 near the train station for the win!

2) Japanese 4WD Challenge 600 - Toyota RAV4 Adventure ‘20: 599PP on Sports Medium tires; YES I drove an SUV. YES it smokes most cars. YES it sounds wonderfully amazing with the Semi-Racing exhaust! YES I LOVE IT!! Never will get tired of that sound!!!

3) Porsche Cup - Already done 😎😎🔥🔥


4) Specia Event Honda RA272 - Honda RA272 ‘65: 699PP on Racing Soft tires; another close quarter combat race specially with the front pack, exciting racing and battling both the AI and sudden lifting oversteer never gets old! Paint was definitely traded a couple of times 😁😁

5) WTC 800 - Porsche 911 GT3 RS ‘16: 799PP on Racing Medium tires and M97 engine swapped; This is the one to beat, handles like hyper focused Dr. Lecter getting his dinner, this car is pure handle perfection on wheels. First 6 laps on FM6 then the remaining laps on FM1 full power ahead. Got 1P while pitting and won by over 30 seconds with 3% gas left 😅🔥😎 I love Porsche

 

[A1an]

What I used, the 918 was new for me as it had only done a couple of miles before, the Impreza and 208 were also new for me.

 

[jad_morffier]

For the Eiger Nordwand Sunday Cup stock challenge I went with the Polo GTI '14. This track is always stunning in VR.