What's your test track?

Cape Ring. It has just about every turn you'll encounter in a given track. 👍
 
For me, Trial Mountain. Nordy is far to long for testing, because my mind will wander, and ill be in the grass.
 
Gotta be Nurburging Nordshleife. Track has slow/high speed sections and its fair share of bumps. If a car can lap fast at Nordy, it can lap fast anywhere.

@ elbowz_11 Ya, another Ben Spies fan woooo GO SPIES!!!
 
Nurburgring 24 hour course. If the car feels right on that course, it usually works well on most other tracks. Just a gearbox tune to match the respective track and I'm good to go.
 
Nurburgring 24hr for racing, Toscana for drifting. ;)

Lately I've been doing a lot of testing amd tuning on customs.
 
Drift: tsukuba and deep forest

Racing: nordschleife, deep forest, eiger nordwand, top gear test track. Daytona road course few times too.

In GT4 both Infineon configs were my test tracks most of the time.
 
Depends what car I'm trying to test, but usually Tsukuba. I know it like the back of my hand (who doesn't?), so I can tell when it's me or the car that's interfering with a good lap time. The Nürburgring is too long for me, one mistake in a lap and I have to spend another 8 minutes to do another, and I make at least 1,000,000 mistakes in a single lap.

If I'm testing a Group C or something really, really fast, Tsukuba isn't much good, though. Suzuka is a good test course, it has a fairly long straight, some high and some low speed corners, and plenty of undulation.
 
Benchmark is Suzuka.

By then end of sector 1, you will pretty much know how the car is. Then theres 130r, the fast left hand sweeper which is satisfying when you pull it off carrying high speed, good test of your downforce changes.

Trial mountain/deep forest are good high downforce tracks, also require a slightly softer ride (suspension). Monza is the opposite, good low downforce high speed test track.
 
Nurburgring or Trial Mt. Both are highly technical and offer a serious challenge. If the car can run on either or both it's a very, very good car!
 
every track.. depends what track im tuning for.... i tune a cars to a track then color code that car..... black= nurburg, yellow=seca, red= SSR7....ect. i dont use the same tune on differant tracks. each have a certain top speed and gear ration for straights and turns. also suspention toee and camber for the curves...
 
Autumn Ring. Has an uncanny ability to bring out understeer in a car, and really tests how well a car can put the power down efficiently.
 
Nurb GP for initial tunning followed by a run on the actual ring. You can find out very quickly how good a car is on the GP track.
 
First test: manage stock gear at Daytona SS (except for AT geared cars).

After that, handling test directly hotlapping the car on many tracks: the very first one is Montecarlo.
 
Surprised that Cape Ring isn't that popular here. I use the full course as a test track because it really tests every aspect of the car; handling in curves that go on forever, stability through quick corners in succession, performance in hairpin bends, how the car reacts to jumping, and plenty of nice long straights. I used Grand Valley until I realised how perfect Cape Ring was for this purpose.
 

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