What is your least favorite track?

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With BoP and RH I can manage a 8:15ish time on the 24h layout, so if you‘re really lucky and fast a 5:xx should be possible? :D I‘ll try it out later
I can manage more or less the same time (give or take by 5 seconds)
Would try out as well :D
 
Each to their own I suppose but I don't get the hate for Alsace - it's my first port of call for any new road cars (race cars get their shakedown at the Hatch). It'll tell you a lot about the handling characteristics of a car. Best experienced IMO with N500 to N700 classes with sports hard tires and with as many assists turned off as you can handle.

True, it's more of a driving/test track than a race track, which I guess is where the dislike comes from.
 
I hate Alsace, how can a country side road/track be seven cars wide? Unrealistic while driving on it, unrealistic while watching replays. If it was narrower (like a real road or mountain pass) and more interesting that would be another thing. I don't like Nothern Isle either but Alsace comes first.

True, it's more of a driving/test track than a race track, which I guess is where the dislike comes from.

In my opinion I would have prefered something like a touge track like this for testing cars handling and an oval like SSX from GT5 to test top speed.

 
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Voted for Willow, because I just can't get to grips with it, seem to "overdrive" it there.

I do like the lay out of the track and the flow it has. Tokyo was a very close second due to the carnage racing. Northern Isle is third for me because I don't like short ovals, always makes me dizzy and a bit nauseous:boggled:.
 
One thing that I think is lacking for a track is something like the old test track or, as a few of you have pointed out, SS Route X. I love testing top speeds of cars - I think Tokyo is probably the closest to that now.
 
I personally enjoy all of the real world courses. The fact that you can research real world hot laps and incorporate what you learn into your driving is always fun. The history is also amazing, discovering that the troubled turn that you had issues with has killed several people over the years.

The fake PD courses always feel like they flow unrealistically, more like a roller coaster than a race track. The extreme height changes are fun but much of that is spent in these huge wide sweeping turns. The track boundaries on the fake courses are also weird, acting more like a suggestion than a rule as these courses see the most dramatic legal boundary abuse out of all of the courses. They also have an unused sheen that's bizarre, with overly smooth streets, and a sense of otherworldliness like you'd have to be magically teleported to actually reach the course. They have their moments but I'd like to see more real tracks.
 
Voted broad bean, just because.

I love big Willow, surprised its voted so high
Broad Bean is one of my best circuits :lol: always overperform there for some reason... even won an FIA race there (As per my avatar :))


Can't get the hang of Willow circuits... and too dangerous. Leave the track = game over.
 
Broad Bean is one of my best circuits :lol: always overperform there for some reason... even won an FIA race there (As per my avatar :))


Can't get the hang of Willow circuits... and too dangerous. Leave the track = game over.
Horse thief and streets I could do without, but big Willow is so fun! So many unique corners w lots of passing opportunity on a wide track. It does suck if you go off though.
 
I prefer Brands to Willow, but probably because I've practised it more... I just get fed up when trying to learn the track, bumping off into the desert and taking ages to get back again :lol:
 
I voted for interlagos. Brutally Shows my technical limitations. And always reminds me how average i am:indiff: Willow is basically the same but i had some clean though slow races and was able to overtake loads of aggressive but unfortunate drivers
 
Really surprized to see that much hate towards Willow Springs, especially since you have three very different layouts. I particularly love Streets, because it reminds me of some roads around here.
I actually don’t mind the layout of the track - in fact it’s nice in my opinion. But no curbing, nothing at the edge. If you make a mistake, you’re done. It’s not so much the track layout; it’s the severe punishment for one half of a tire touching dirt. It’s like giving a death penalty to the kid who stole a chocolate bar:lol:
 
I love the streets of Willow Springs, but I absolutely hate Big Willow -- the corners just seem endless over there, so it's quite hard to play on controllers (no wheel setup for me unfortunately).

Alsace is fine except for that stupid massive banked turn that would not exist in real life.

Nurburgring is my favorite. Open a lobby, set the limits to <400hp + sports soft tires, and just enjoy the race. Last time I did a 6-way race, only 10 seconds elapsed between the winner and the last guy (me) who crossed the finish line. Bonus points for the people who showed up in JDM cars with Initial D liveries. It was the best race I've had so far.

Still, my vote goes to Willow.
 
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Really surprized to see that much hate towards Willow Springs, especially since you have three very different layouts. I particularly love Streets, because it reminds me of some roads around here.

I can see why most people hate those other layouts. They look sparse and minimal, which is actually probably what most American road courses look like. I've come to enjoy them though, simply because the racing line is never immediately obvious with the track typically feeding some element of misdirection until you get acclimated to the course.
 
They look sparse and minimal, which is actually probably what most American road courses look like.

Yup. Sure they do..

Virginia International Speedway
Road America
Circuit of the Americas
Barber Motorsports Park
Laguna Seca
Road Atlanta
Lime Rock Park
Watkins Glen
Mid Ohio
Rockingham
Sonoma Raceway

There's more.
 
I can manage more or less the same time (give or take by 5 seconds)
Would try out as well :D
Well maybe I was talking a bit big with my sub 6 statement, I tried the Z4 with BoP and stock setup and managed a 6:39.257 including a 0.4 second penalty to scrub off.

Here‘s a video of it:

Aliens will laugh at my driving, I‘m not 100% happy with this lap either but I binned my lap twice prior to stringing one together :ouch:

Maybe with a setup, on RSS tires and with max power/min weight a sub 6 would be possible but I didn‘t bother trying it out. I‘ll try the AMG and M6 some day :D
 
Really surprised to see all this hate for Tokyo honestly. When you learn how to attack the apexes properly instead of running into the outer walls it turns into a very rewarding track that earns you some quick bucks in Campaign Mode. It's also where I won one of my closest victories during the first couple of days I owned the game back in DR D on the outer layout with the long straight. Whereas everyone else predictably smashed their Skyline into the guard rails, it was a closely fought victory between me and a second driver way out in front, who wiped out at that last hairpin allowing me to take the chequered flag.

As for my own opinion, it's a close one between the two one-size-fits-all tracks but out of Maggiore and Kyoto, I'd have to say the latter on account of having no defining features whatsoever. If you asked me to remember the track, I wouldn't be able to give you a layout or anything of the sort, other than tricky corners that have led to many a ruined clean race in the Campaign, trees, kerbs and grass. At least Maggiore has that ridiculous "rollercoaster" as someone else put it which is insanely satisfying to hit after half a lap of twists and turns, but what does Kyoto have? A lame backwards oval that tightens during the middle and is insanely frustrating to get the degree of cut on that last chicane right, leading you to either a penalty or a wipe out depending on how you hit it? Along with the aforementioned Italian track, it's overused to all hell in the campaign. And said oval is a guaranteed ramfest in Sport mode unless you break away early on, which is easy enough until the one lap you inevitably lapse over your usual braking point tailing some guy in front.
 
Streets of Willow Springs, or Horse Thief Mile. I can live with Big Willow, but the other two, not really my cup of tea (streets above all). Expressway is a close second though.

@syntex123 BB Raceway. Almost forgot about it, hate that track...probably more than Expressway.
 
I must be a strange person, but I love Tokyo too ... Going fast and touching the walls is super exciting and full of adrenaline, also the brutal lighting of the game. Making a perfect lap is the best.
 
I must be a strange person, but I love Tokyo too ... Going fast and touching the walls is super exciting and full of adrenaline, also the brutal lighting of the game. Making a perfect lap is the best.
I love the Eastern Outer Loop of that circuit. The Central Outer Loop though (the forwards one) I'm not even gonna try
 
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I love the Tokyo track. Driving a LMP1 at night time is just beautiful plus its highspeed which adds excitement.
 
From the majority of votes, I can understand the sentiments shared with Alsace (really wide for a pseudo-complex road course) and Willow Springs, but I think the Tokyo votes are attributed to Central Outer Loop course. It's designed to be very blind to tackle and it wasn't even faithful to the C1 loop the course is inspired by. However I think the Inner Loop is far better and it's too bad it doesn't get much love in the event selections. I'm not much of a fan of the Outer Loop.

However I voted for Suzuka. It really isn't a course with overtaking opportunities, and I can only think the course's chicanes are designed to kill drivers instead of slowing drivers from long straights. Spa's bus stop is far better in taste.
 
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