GT5 The Gran Turismo 5 Hot Lap Challenge

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The Gran Turismo 5 Hot Lap Challenge

Welcome to the RaceDepartment Gran Turismo 5 Hot Lap Challenge. All you need to take part is a Playstation 3, a copy of Gran Turismo 5 and the desire to test your skills each week against your fellow RaceDepartment members.​

The format is simple, each week a car and track will be chosen to run hot laps. Starting Saturday 12pm GMT and finishing the following Saturday 12pm GMT you will be invited to submit your lap times for that challenge. Once the challenge deadline is met the the next track and car is chosen, this choice will alternate each week between the fastest driver and slowest driver, if no choice is made before 12PM GMT on Sunday the challenge organiser will make the choice.

To take part start up GT5 and select 'Arcade Mode' and then select 'Time Trial'. You will then select the track chosen for that weeks challenge and then the car. The car and track selection for each week will be listed below. Once you have done that you will be prompted to set the driving options. We will used a fixed format for each week which will be:​

Transmission - Manual
Front Tyres - Racing: Soft (Unless otherwise specified)
Rear Tyres - Racing: Soft (Unless otherwise specified)
Driving Line - OFF
Traction Control - OFF
Skid Recovery Force - OFF
Active Steering - OFF
Active Stability Management (ASM) - OFF
ABS - 1
Grip Reduction On Wet Track/Track Edge - REAL​

Once you've selected that you can then start hot lapping. There are no tuning options so everyone runs the same setup.​

GT5 will invalidate laps where the track is cut to gain an advantage, times shown in red in GT5 are invalid and will not count in this competition. To make it fair and competitive please don't cut the track or abuse the run off area's to gain an advantage, at least half the car should be on the track at all times and on street tracks don't use the barriers to give you an unfair advantage, the idea of the hot lap challenges is to run clean laps in the fastest time possible.​

Good luck and above all have fun!​
 
IMO auto gears give an advantage, because they always shift in the right time.
No, not true. They shift when the needle of the rpm meter gets ion the red part. But that may be way outside the power band already. Like if the red start @ 7000rpm, it wil shift at 7000rpm. Even when the engine starts losing power after 5000 rpm.
So if you'd drive the car you'd shift @ 5000rpm, while the automatics have a huge disadvantage.Also in corners they lose a lot and sometimes the cpu shifts one gear back, while for a fast lap time that shouldn't be the case.
 
OK Challenge 1 is complete. Congratulations to Cristian Haba/HTrio for posting the fastest time and winning our first Gran Turismo 5 hot lap challenge. Thanks to everyone that took part, hope to see you all posting times for the next challenges. As per the rules of this competition the slowest driver will pick the next car and track so its Rudra Chattopadhyay's choice.
 
I'd like to propose a change to the rules. Everytime we post a time we should always post our wish for the next week's combo. This would speed up things and we could immediatelly start hotlapping the next combo.
 
Congrats Cristian!

BTW Johan, the redline isn't the actualy rev limit, with some cars you have 500 rpm or more left ;) When the red dot comes up it is the optimal shift ;)
No. Especially not in diesel cars. You should upshift within the powerband. And in especially cars with a turbo the powerband doesn't go until redline/red dot. They end usually a little bit earlier.
 
Guys try to keep this thread on topic, Calsonic Impul '08 on Laguna Seca dry is now the subject. Please start a seperate thread to discuss the autogears issue (space enough on the forum :))
 
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Probably losing time in the last 2 corners. Using 2nd gear in corkscrew.

Too bad there is no way to save the telemetry. Would really like to compare my laps later on.
 
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