GT5 The GT5 Prologue Hot Lap Challenge

[Kevin Watts]

The GT5 Prologue Hot Lap Challenge​

Gentlemen start your engines! 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 slowest placed driver gets to pick the car and track for the following week (this is usually me!)​

Taking part is simple, fire up GT5 Prologue and select the car for the challenge, click on 'Arcade' in the menu then choose the track and then select 'Time Trial' from the menu and then select the settings shown below:​

Transmission - Manual
Active Steering - Off
Driving Physics - Professional
Active Stability Management (ASM) - Off
Traction Control - Off
Driving Line - Off
Front Tyres - Sports S2
Rear Tyres - Sports S2​

Once you've selected that you can then start hot lapping, look at the online leaderboards or load a ghost lap. There are no tuning options so everyone runs the same setup.​

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!​

 

[Cristian Haba]

57.107

 

[Kevin Watts]

58.942

I'm not going to be online tomorrow until late evening possibly as I'm travelling to meet family so if I'm the slowest I'll post my choice as soon as I get back otherwise carry on should it be someone else's choice.

 

[Neil Robinson]

**alex 12 noon saturday is the cut-off

 

[Neil Robinson]

right chaps in the absence of kevin it looks like you're the slowest Adam so could you pick the track/car for this week, well done to christian again with a very quick time:wink:

 

[Kevin Watts]

Thanks Neil, Congratulations to Christian - we're going to have to confiscate his rocket boosters Thanks to everyone who took part this week, over to you Alex for this weeks car and track choice!

 

[Neil Robinson]

nee probs

 

[Alex Townsend]

ok

How about BMW M3 Coupe '07 at Fuji Speedway

 

[Kevin Watts]

Nice choice, hate the track but up for a challenge

 

[Kevin Watts]

PLEASE READ THIS THREAD BEFORE USING YOUR PS3 TODAY - IMPORTANT YOU MAY LOSE DATA BECAUSE OF A BUG

 

[Alex Townsend]

Yeah I know what you mean. I never feel like I quite, 'get it', with this circuit.

I did a few laps with the pad last night but forgot to post my time. I'll hook the wheel up tomorrow night and give it another bash as I feel it would probably feel a little more real using FFB with the wheel as opposed to the DS3.
I know I was off the pace for the online times by about 6 seconds though...
Does anyone know if those records include cars that have been set up? It would be good to know that I'm not chasing impossible times.
Also, I'm hoping it will be a little more obvious in the rankings online with GT5 full game as Forza has whether set ups were used or not right? Been a while since I played it...

Really trying to rack up the wedge in my account now so I can finally get around to using the Ferrari F2007 in the next TT.
Oh, and if it's as great as people say it is, we could see the next few TTs using that car! lol

 

[Raf Nix]

Still don't know which Fuji, the GT or F layout?

Concerning the Ferrari F2007 it's my less used car in the game as I one can say hate those very fast kind of cars. My whole online experience in any PC Sim was the most boring, most unfair races and most bad manner was shown which ruins my personal attitude towards these kind of cars persistently.

 

[Alex Townsend]

Sorry, the first one you can select... It's the F right?

And another sorry about my newbie F2007 comments as well it seems...
(I'll probably play this car on my own then...)

Then again, we're not 'racing' with these cars. We're simply time trialing so what's the problem?

 

[Raf Nix]

Oh no, sorry Alex, you're fine and most welcome, it was just my very personal opinion towards the faster cars.

 

[Alex Townsend]

Ok, no probs. We'll just leave those to the Sim Racers on PC then as there aren't any decent online F1 racing games on the PS3 to take online anyway.

And yes, I know GT5P can go online but it's shocking to actually play with the great unwashed and the online coding needs some serious work too...

 

[Neil Robinson]

stuck a few laps in tonight, best of 1'55.102 with more time i could take 1-1.5sec off, might get a few more laps in later

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

1'56.484 for me.. again a question of putting it all together that didn't quite work out..

 

[Alex Townsend]

May be able to have a quick blast later on this afternoon but time has been a real issue this last week.

How long do we have to post a time before the new track and car are chosen?

 

[Kevin Watts]

Nice lap Neil, back on top this week, Rudra its you choice for next week mate.

 

[Neil Robinson]

cheers kevin, pretty sure christian could have topped the time tbh

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

Alright, following the clues from the previous posts, let's have the Ferrari F2007 at Daytona Road Course.