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!​

 

[Kevin Watts]

Cool!

 

[Neil Robinson]

your fav track eh kev :wink: pressure is on for a good lap fella!! :biggrin:

 

[Alex Townsend]

Wow!

Gonna give this a proper go! Nice one Rudra!

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

All the best with your times buddies I'll find it difficult to find time this week as our CEO Mr Carl Forster (joined after leaving GM) will give a visit & I'm preparing a presentation for our boss..

 

[Alex Townsend]

No worries mate, if you set a time you won't be last... That appears to be my slot! lol

 

[Alex Townsend]

Managed a 1:25.367 - Well off the record... Does anyone know if the record set with a particular car and track includes setups?

I can only imagine it does as I'm 8 seconds off the pace! lol

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

Last time around in the F2007 I was 6 seconds off the time set by others here So considering that you've done pretty well Alex

 

[Neil Robinson]

alex, the "hot laps" are for standard cars - no tuning, but i am quite cynical that there is a way around this to allow tuning when running in time trial mode, quite frankly some of the times are ridiculously fast

rudra, good choice this week - lots of fun, but it's pretty hard with the joypad and the f1 car, i'll post my time up later

 

[Alex Townsend]

Oh right, nice one Rudra, I thought I was going mental as I'm only bettering my time by 10ths not full seconds... lol

F2007 with a pad? I haven't tried it but it's pretty difficult with a wheel. Thing shaking all over the place!

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

Had a go today & must admit it's very hard to maintain consistency with the pad.. 1'29.04x & I can't expect much from the wheel either as it's sorta defective.. . So there you have it guys, the F1 season is starting & I haven't begun mine on a good note . So many F1 options coming up now, with the MMG mod, Codies F1 2010 in Sept etc..

 

[Neil Robinson]

1'23.882 up to now

 

[Kevin Watts]

I'll try and have a crack at it tomorrow

 

[Alex Townsend]

1'23.882 - I'll try and get closer to that time but it's gonna be tough...

 

[Kevin Watts]

Well this was my one and only shot, I'm travelling to London tomorrow so my time is:

1'22.645

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

Well done Kevin :thumbup: I might as well announce next week's thingies on the platter: Blitz Dunlop @ Eiger Nordwand Fwd..

 

[Kevin Watts]

Still a few hours to go yet Rudra

 

[Rudra Chattopadhyay]

lol who'll want to take a backseat at the end of it all?

 

[Kevin Watts]

OK congratulations to me fastest this week. Thanks for the choice Rudra the next challenge is on!

 

[Neil Robinson]

well done Kev good time their, i run out of time to put any more laps in.

 

[Alex Townsend]

I'll try and post a time tomorrow night