What is your "test track"?

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I test and set up cars for each track. Call me fussy but setting up a car to run well on one track then running another is silly.

Which do I use as a baseline? Well when comparing one car to another it's Laguna Seca. If I need to test aerodynamic balance in high speed corners I'll just run it on the track in question and tune it to the track.
 
I use a track of mine that I whipped up with the Course maker. It's called Crimson Sky Drive, it's got some good twisty sections with a variety of corner types as well as a long, high-speed section.

SSR7 for top speed though.
 
I personally don't use a test track, I usually just get in a car for an event event if I have never used the car and blast around and if I lose I lose, no big deal.
 
I havn't got gt5 yet.. but in GT4 it was always Trial Mountain for tuning my car and stuff... I'm sure it'll continue when I get GT5
 
If a car works in Suzuka, it will work fine in almost tracks... But Nürburgring. The green hell needs a softer setup in suspensions.
 
Hi, New here but can you add a pole to this topic to see, it seems like the most chosen tracks are Nurburgring, Grand Valley, Trial mountain, Suzuka, Laguna Seca, add these with an 'Other' Option. It would be good to see the results.

Grand Valley for me btw
 
Mostly I use the Nurburgring, Suzuka (especially for my JGTC cars) and the Top Gear Test Track.:)
 
Cape Ring South and Grand Valley because they have booth really fast and really slow turns. In an online championship is better setup the car track by track.
 
+1 Trial Mountain

Been using it as the test track since GT1. Can drive it in my sleep and know exactly how a car should take each of the corners.

IMO Nurburgring is too long to get consistent lap times (ie within .1 of a second) to judge tuning performance.
 
I use the top gear test track, after all it is a test track :D i also have my own power lap board... In game of course
 
It varies, but I seem to be partial to Daytona Infield. It has high speed straights, tight corners, sweeping corners, and hard braking points, as well as a decreasing radius braking point and quick esses. Everything I need to test a car.
 
I used Tsukuba and Nurburgring... until today.

Gaming with the track editor, i spent some time creating a track, as similar as possible to what you can find in car magazines. You know, small circuits that specialists use to evaluate cars for a car publication.

Lap time is around 1 minute 15 seconds for power or racing cars.

It has three sectors, all very narrow. First is the speed sector, with two straights and two wide turns. Second with intermediate style and third with a level 9 complexity, with tricky points (not level 10, too slow, breaking rythm).

It seemed very real and consistent. I tried and i found a little gem! with 4 fabulous turns.
 
I use and have used since GT1 High Speed Ring. Yes its simple to navigate but as I know it as well as I do, Its very easy to push a car to its limit whilst driving on there. Plus it has a mix of everything. Decent straights, camber on corners etc.
 
For every new car I change into, I drive down at the Nürburgring Nordschleife track or the Suzuka Circuit. I love both tracks for driving new stock cars, no mod, just me, the car and the track.

If the car handles great in those two tracks with no mods on, except for the tires then I know what to do with it in A-spec races or B-spec.
 
Not a lot of people are saying this, but i like Autumn ring for suspension testing. You'll get nowhere close for top speed testing, but it has essentially every type of corner(on-off camber, switch backs, decreasing-increasing radius, ect) in a compact 1:00 minute lap.

I don't get you guys testing the nuburgring. 6ish minute test lap? that's like climbing Mt. Everest to test out a new hat ;)

For high speed cornering/kinda top speed testing i've been doing good ol' deep forest since 1997 :)
 
I normally use the top gear test track for cars I'm not familiar with because I can test many things on the track, with cars I'm more familiar with I use Eiger Norwand, it tests stability, braking, tight turns and fast turns.
 
Nordschleife if I just want to get a feel for the car, but for any serious testing I tend to use shorter tracks depending on what i try to achieve.
 
Trial mountain, one of my all time gt favourites.

Now I usually go online if I can to the top gear test track.
 
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I normally use the top gear test track for cars I'm not familiar with because I can test many things on the track, with cars I'm more familiar with I use Eiger Norwand, it tests stability, braking, tight turns and fast turns.
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I like Eiger as well. It is a real test of stability that's why the California is my fastest Ferrari around there.
 

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