Will these tracks give me a good insight

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Ok I've just started tuning literally today (I have next to no idea what I'm doing but everyone has a learning curve ay).

I'm sorry if the are many threads similar I did do a search but none the same as what I'm asking.

Here's the actually question : would using trial mountain and special stage route 5 give me a good overview of my cars and be good for tuning in general? (again I'm on very basic levels at the moment)?

With my lack of knowledge I imagine it would be good as they are fairly short in length meaning ease of changing setting and see effects quickly.

I use a ds3 and would mainly be driving 50-600 odd pp cars and I would say I'm average skill level in the whole gt5 spectrum.
 
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Any track will do. Before you tune, master your technique. Its easy to ruin a good car with a tune, and a lot of problems can be solved without a tune.

I rarely tune at all, yet remain competitive.
 
I was thinking to get the cars balanced as ssr5 has straight line speed and trial mountain a mixed of different speed corners
 
To check your tunes, you need to be able to run consistent laps. Pick a track where you can run laps within .10 second.

I prefer Tsukuba to begin tuning. I use it to improve acceleration, braking and turning. The tight corners let you check both under and over steer.

Then, I like the lumps, bumps, and jumps at Trial Mountain.

I use a track with banking to make sure the car can get around banked turns. Cape Ring is good.

I finish on Nurburgring so I can check the car under extreme loads that you just won't find on any other track.
 
At trial mountain in one of my cars about 7 out of 10 laps were between 1:25.4-1:25.550 with one being a tenth to two tenths quicker and the other two in the early 26's , and I'm getting quicker
 
As McClarenDesign said, before you tune, master your technique. You will fine more time nailing your racing line than tweaking your car. And I'm talking putting in a lot of time, hundreds of laps of a track, and when you think you're good, do another hundred and find some more time.

As for tracks to tune on. I find Nurburgring GP/F to be one of the best. If you have a good tune around there, you should have a good tune for many of the tracks in GT5. Has a good mix of tight technical sections, medium speed turns, fast corners, switchbacks and high speed sections.

What your looking for in a test track is a good mixture of corners and fast sections, as well as not being too long. The problem with Nurburgring Nordschleife is, although a great test bed for everything you can throw at a car, comparing lap times and nailing down sectors can vary a lot giving inconsistent results.

Grand Valley is another favorite of mine, similar to Nurburgring GP/F. Although does favor a more high downforce approach.

Tsukuba is a good track, being short enough, great technical sections, fast corners, tight hairpins test all areas of a car. The shorter length means high speed testing is limited but is a great track for testing balance and corner performance quickly. The bumpy nature of the circuit gives the suspension settings a good workout and expose flaws in your setup. Certainly a tricky track as I have found out testing for this weekends endurance race I'm competing in.
 
start by using other peps tunes and see and feel how they effect your car compared to stock on these tracks which are fine. I prefer Autumn Ring for testing tunes. Than slightly change these tunes ex. make suspension stiffer (thats if running on high traction tires) just slight mods and see the effect than you will start to see what result each one makes to your car. Trick is having a common knowledge of racing, the parts your tunning and how the funtion on the car.
 
using a multitude of tracks is the best thing to do. Each track can reveal a different weakness of a car tune. Grand Valley and Trial Mountain are good places to start. Usually the ingame tracks that PD made are good for tuning. Like iamjajo said, I use the nurburgring nordschleife for fine tuning a car since the track is too long for testing, but it has a little bit of everything.
 

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