What’s the most balanced track for power vs handling cars at around the same PP?

[AtomicMclaren]

What’s the most balanced track for handling vs power?

 

[OJBrit]

I use Kyoto Yamagiwa+Miyabi for testing. It probably does favour power, but there's 3 different radius high speed corners, two kinks of vary speed, a number of switchbacks with turns 8 and 14 penalising twitchy cars quite a lot, and the uphill esses. It's a bit like a longer Suzuka.
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This is a good choice as I think it's design (especially in GTS) was that of a testing facility. I believe the cone tests on GTS were supposed to be in a car park overlooking the track until it was changed.

I haven't really tested much in GT7 as I don't necessarily have the time, but in GTS I used Brands as it is one of my better tracks and had lots of differing types of corner with 2 decent straights.

 

[MatskiMonk]

haven't really tested much in GT7 as I don't necessarily have the time, but in GTS I used Brands as it is one of my better tracks and had lots of differing types of corner with 2 decent straights.

The problem I find with somewhere like Brands is that it can be hard to hit repeatable laps because of corners like Paddock Hill... you can gain or lose a second if your turn in point or position is slightly different, similar story with Hawthorns, Westfield and Dingle Dell... you know when you get it right, but it's hard to get right lap after lap I find, it's more of a test of the drivers ability than the car's.

In my testing my worksheet I count how many times I run each sector outside of a certain % of the best time for that sector. So, say a 5 lap test at Kyoto combined is 35 sectors, in recent testing of the VGT's, in the VW Supersport VGT I was only outside of 105% of all my best sector times once (so, it gets 97.1% repeatability). In the Exeneo it was only 71.4%. Both cars are on the same tyre by default, and the Exeneo has much higher PP - both cars did about the same optimum lap, but it's clear that I find the Exeneo harder to drive and my lap times will likely be worse over a number of laps. Throwing a corner like Paddock Hill into the mix will likely cause my sector 1 times at Brands to fluctuate more - but that's likely on me, not the car - hence I tend to lean towards tracks that offer repeatability in my testing - because I'm a rubbish driver

 

[Revengel]

Back in the GT5 days there was a saying in a driving group I was lucky enough to be a part of.

Any setup that worked well on High Speed Ring in reverse was good pretty much anywhere.