What do you do to test a car's performance in GT6?

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When you're experimenting with some of the lower spec non-race cars, and you want to see how they compare to the performance of others in general, and how quick they get (relatively) when you tune them.

Since there is no 0-400m test, and the slow AI gives very little challenge to even quite slow unmodified cars in many races. The career mode in general is just too easy and slow to test a car through the stages from being completely stock through to lightly modified and tuned to the max.

I often do time trials of a smallish track eg Tsukuba to compare lap times.

Lately I've been finding if I can get a car to be competitive in the supercar race, its showing fairly good performance.

A bigger challenge is the 10 lap one at Ascari in the special licence races - which includes tyre wear aswell to add to the comparison. If I can win that with the car I'm testing, its doing well.

I'm curious what methods any of you guys tend to use.


As soon as the course maker comes out, I think I'll just make a 400m test track.
 
I do a few tests
I do a dry lap of Twin Ring Motegi Road Course
I do a 100% wet lap of Nurburgring GP/D
I do a lap of Toscana
I do a lap of Chamonix

All on time trial. Here are the results from an 8C and a Scirroco R

Motegi

8C: 2:01.8
Scirroco R: 2:09.3

Nur (W)

8C: 2:04.4
Scirroco R: 2:05.7

Toscana:

8C: 2:04.3
Scirocco R: 2:03.8

Chamonix:

8C: 3:01.1
Scirocco R: 3:01.7

I test road cars on sports soft and race cars on race soft with TCS at 0, all else off except ABS which is at 1
 
I do all of my testing with my "butt dyno".


I don't really enjoy using the fastest 500pp car (or whatever range) to dominate races so I dont test to find them. I'm only testing for the "fun factor".
 
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Nurburgring.
 
Nurburgring.
 
When I want to test a car I will usually go to Monza as it is one of the easier tracks as far as 'technical' driving goes. You've got very long straights, so you can get a good grasp on how quick the car accelerates, what its top end is (approximately), how well it brakes from very high speed and you get a little insight into the handling of the car because you've got 3 different sized chicanes to deal with and a couple of sweeping corners to battle. So, overall I think that track gives an excellent starting point in determining how well my tuning adjustments are working for me.

Next, I've been using Brands Hatch because I think that's a course where you can really push a car to its limits, but the lap times are still fairly short, so you can tweak, bust a few laps, tweak, bust a few laps, repeat, repeat without taking up a lot of time. I used to use Twin Ring Motegi instead of Brands Hatch and I still will, occasionally, for my testing purposes. But I will usually only use that course to test race cars now.

Last, but certainly not least, Nurburgring is the ultimate test, in my opinion. Unfortunately, I'm not the greatest driver and nothing will piss me off more than messing up that one curve or breaking zone and flying off the course resulting in a disqualified lap time. If I could tell you how many times I screwed up like that, right near the end of the course, after the long straight and then the slight left hand turn, you'd laugh...
 
I use silverstone because its got every type of corner and Special Stage Route X for top speed
 
Deep Forest. It has tight twisty bits, drastic elevation change, long sweeping corners, a decently long front straight with a hard downhill breaking zone into the hairpin, and it doesn't take 7 to 8 mins to go all the way around once.
 
When B spec finally arrives I will use it to test changes to cars
 
I use the datalogger to compare laps on the same track with differing cars of the same or similar PP. I use Mount Panorama, I can then look at the climb and decent for torque and speed. The corners are well varied for looking at ride height and rebound etc.
 
12 laps of Nurburgring 24hrs in private online lobby , normal depletion, 11.30 am
 
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