Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[sejtur]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges: Xiaomi the Money​

We’re just about at the end of January now, and right on cue the final set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges for the month, starring some of the new game content in the 1.67 update, are now available to players as their console clocks roll past midnight and into Friday morning...

Great pun!

 

[RCKakashi14]

So basically, I can drive this like I did that event in the Ferrari 296 GT3: Max push, no conservation.

Yep. And get anything lightweight. You can do a no-stop on Mediums. A Gr.2 car on Mediums would make this a walk in the park.

But if all else fails, the base LM55 will more than happily do the task.

 

[kjb]

Sainte-Croix C and Mount Panarama twice in a row. Someone really has no imagination.

This is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to set-up the weekly challenges 🤣🤣

 

[Snake55wildcat]

My weekly choices were as follows, and as always I followed the rules of each event and matched the tyres to whatnthe ai use, on Hard Ai while using PSVR2;

1. 380pp Comfort medium tyres BMW i3 - really fun car despite its middling speed, it's propensity to want to slip makes it a lot of fun, and at least the power is more than manageable unlike some of the cars like the SU7.
2. 600pp tuned Sport hard tyres Polestar 5 - again another shockingly nice and well planted machine! I much prefer driving this over the SU7 despite the SU7's immense power and top end advantage, though I did have to cut the track the first two laps to keep up with the stupid overpowered Alfa Giulia
3. Fully tuned Xaiomi SU7 ultra on Sport Softs - this thing was a bloody handful, it's complete lack of any meaningful noise made it hard to gauge my speed, at least the other EVs I chose actually has some auditory experience to them that wasn't the begging of my tyres for mercy
4. Skoda VGT on Sport Softs - usually this car is on rsicng mediums - butnthe ai only go as far as racing hards (due to the Vulcan) but I thought to match the Valkyrie's sport softs instead - turned out to be a great decision as it made this car feel so much more alive and fun to pilot, did get the lead pretty quickly though haha... Oh well
5. Audi VGT with Racing Hard tyres - do take note this is the EV version and this thing has the 2nd best Ev range...a distant second compared to the Hyundai VGT, but I wanted to challenge myself and went with the Audi...did pit on lap 6 and might have stayed too long recharging the battery, which made the final stretch UNBELIEVABLY CLOSE as the leading Ferrari 296 GT3 ran out of fuel on the final corner, and I just had enough acceleration to get past them before the finish line, giving me the win!

 

[smoothbore12]

Another La Croissant. ?!!!

 

[RCKakashi14]

Another La Croissant. ?!!!
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Now if you excuse me, I will treat myself with Pain Au Chocolat.

 

[jesse100190]

800 pp easy no pitter for me accidently spun over a lap car during the 8th lap after a turn lol, the hypercar was too close to my liking with Beavouis going super sayain at the end of 2nd and 3rd lap, not a fan of the electric car at all drove like someone put butter on the wheels, euro race simple, so was the sunday cup with a good handling car.

 

[Lomic]

This is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to set-up the weekly challenges 🤣🤣

I think even ChatGPT would do better 😅

 

[Fuzzi0n]

Surprised with a few challenging races this week. Sunday Cup is harder than you'd think, used a stock '15 MX-5 and only won by a few seconds, they also changed the UI so we don't get the weird squished font now. Clubman Cup has the nuclear Alfa and if he gets in the lead before you do and your car isn't insanely fast it's game over. Feel like this race is harder than it used to be, had to run 2:14 or faster to even have a chance of winning. One-make was quite easy given you can use unlimited overtake, even without it's not that hard, would be interesting to see if it's possible on SH instead. Hyper Car Parade is also quite difficult because the Valkyrie is so much faster, again if it gets in the lead before you do it's very hard to win as it'll happily lap under 3:25. Just about got there with the Corvette CX Concept on SH, although I had to use a bunch of overtake to get a gap for the last sector. WTC 800 is easy enough, all the fast AI are on RS and pit and the rest are slow enough it's easy to win with tuned road cars. Shame it's not at a more interesting time of day but that track is always fun.

Cars for this week:

 

[sirjim73]

Another La Croissant. ?!!!
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I knew you'd be excited about that

 

[Carpocalypse]

I've been trying to focus on trying new cars, so four of them, I haven't driven before.

1. The Levin 1600GT (Middle) is the first car this week, nothing much to say, it's basically the same as any other AE86 based car.
2. Next up was the Alfa Romero Giulia GTAm, this car is a bit of a handful, understeers out of the hairpin's next corner, and likes to drift too much.
3. The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is pretty quick, but understeers at speed, like most EV's. It's especially bad coming out of T18, where it's pretty frequent to have to slow down to avoid bashing the wall.
4. I recently brought an Enzo, so I thought I would use it in hypercar parade. The first attempt didn't go great, as I quit after lap 1, as it was very understeery IMO, I put softer tyres on, which made it way easier, but I couldn't quite outrun the Aston Martin Valkyrie, so I had to settle for second.
5. Finally, the only car I actually do drive fairly frequently, the Mclaren 650S GT3. It makes me wish that they'd put in the 720S GT3. I thought I would hate this race, as it's on Mount Panorama, which is a race track I dislike, but because there's no damage enabled, all I really did was just outlast the other drivers by sticking it on map 3.