Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[RCKakashi14]

Interesting as i find the stock gearbox pretty ok, as far as i remember.

For the Alpine's case, yes. It was built to be a quasi-GT lightweight car.


Fun fact, I was supposed to run it on FM3, but forgot to toggle it (I was still getting used to the 488 GT3 Wheel add on) so I just ran with it and did short shifting + lift and coast on FM1. Can last 4 laps but it rained on Lap 3 and everyone pit.

The rain made me continue my LiCo routine still on FM1. The car lasted till the end while the rest had to pit in at Lap 6 or 7.

 

[05XR8]

I did good with the Supra GT4. Ran to end of Lap 6. Added fuel and changed for fresh RH. Cruised to a win.

The field pitted Lap 4 "when dee rain has come". So weird, the Huracan and Lancer spun a lap apart at Campus. I was wondering what happened to the Lancer when I passed. Then, since the Huracan was dispatching cars quickly, I passed it and a while later it vanished.
Supra was fine in the wet patches.

Couldn't catch P1 at Eiger. Had fun moving up the field. The P2 Beat edge me out at the line.

Love the sound of the EF with racing exhaust. A screamer.

I'll do the other two races later.

 

[Fuzzi0n]

Really fun week with a good mix of races. Sunday Cup Classic needed a faster car than I expected, Tsukuba is a good circuit for those cars too. Lightweight K-Cup is actually quite hard given the two fastest cars seem to start at the front, needs under 1:23 every lap to get close. WRC was the opposite because it's so easy I could've probably won with a Kei car if it let me use it, AI is incredibly slow here. One-make was really fun, N24h with TCR cars will always be good and it was nice to have the sun come up throughout the lap. Not really much of a challenge but I've driven the Elantra a bunch since it was released. WTC 700 is one of my absolute favourite races in the game, fun track and you can use a ton of different cars. Weather always makes it interesting too as it often will rain and gets very gloomy as the race finishes late. I went with a TCR spec FK8 Civic and had a lot of fun, AI messed up with some not switching to IM but the Viper still kept chase for a few laps.

Cars for this week:

 

[Blade_Rudder]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges: Easy TC​

Come Friday morning, come another new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges, with the special bonus mode for players who’ve completed the core career offering up some new events to tackle...

I think the weather at Spa is random. I had rain starting at the end of lap 4. By the time I got to raidillon it had entered a lingering dark blue splodge on the weather radar and by Les Combes it was halfway up the water metre and inters were necessary. After spinning out twice I quit rather than crawl back to pits.

Edit: 2nd attempt - a heavy bank of rain starts half way round lap 2 and water metre is half full after 2 corners. I quit again.
3rd attempt - weather radar looks same as attempt 2 so I pitted for inters at the end of lap 1. All the AI are caught out by the rain and I take the lead whilst they pit for wets. The heavy rain lasts 2 laps, then it was light rain until the last lap. I needed fuel after lap 6 so took fresh inters too and won comfortably against the AI who had pitted again for inters.

 

[evldave333]

Elantra TC was a really fun drive however, needs saying rallying and kei cars need to be to put to rest they get far more attention than they deserve, it's disproportional/tedious.

 

[benjoi84]

Elantra TC was a really fun drive however, needs saying rallying and kei cars need to be to put to rest they get far more attention than they deserve, it's disproportional/tedious.

I don't understand why we don't get any Red Bull car races AT ALL...

Also, the Jimny Cup (and to a lesser extent Porsche and Ferrari events) and Hypercar events hardly ever come up.

I don't remember ever seeing the Clubman Plus series ever making an appearance, either.

 

[RCKakashi14]

Done and done.


Trolling around with Alonso's Valkyrie.

A tough chase to P1 ensued in Switzerland.

Red Bull PR wanting Audi to eat dust... literally.

Elantra TCR one make race was by far disappointing.

And time for another experimentation in the WTC 700.

6-star ticket reward. Perhaps my new lab rat for the Spa race.

 

[evldave333]

I don't understand why we don't get any Red Bull car races AT ALL...

Also, the Jimny Cup (and to a lesser extent Porsche and Ferrari events) and Hypercar events hardly ever come up.

I don't remember ever seeing the Clubman Plus series ever making an appearance, either.

The Red Bulls might have a time limited tie in with crew motorfest (there's been a playlist on there all about the brand). Variety at this late stage keeps engagement better, I dont mind rinsing things that are genuinely fun, and everyone is different in that regard. Kei cars are niche as is Rally nothing wrong with that, but being niche why should they be so frequent...

 

[RCKakashi14]

"Hadjar" treated this race as a mere Sunday drive.

Now, I feel generous today, so here's the tune.

But here's the catch. Figure out how to make this car last 4 laps on FUEL MAP 1 AND gap the entire field during the showers.

Yep, because that's how I ran it.

 

[GlamFM]

The Elantra N feels very weird to me. At least on my wheel.

Do not enjoy this car at all.

 

[RCKakashi14]

"Räikkönen" remained unfazed in the rain.

5 laps on Fuel Map 1.

And look at that torque curve.