New seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6. Unlike previous week’s where the featured events were very formulaic in nature, this week’s events are a mix of challenge events, drift trials, and a special single-lap time trial featuring stock and tuned cars on the Nürburgring Nordschleife – with weather and time changes enabled.
This week’s prizes are unlike those offered previously as well as all reward vehicles are delivered to the victor’s garage with parts installed. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, tips and tricks, and much more.
All events will be available through January 13th, 2015 at 0300 GMT/UTC.
European Race Car Expert Challenge
- Circuit de la Sierra, 10 Laps
- Racing cars, 600PP Max, Racing/Hard, Racing/Soft compounds or higher
- Gold: 900,000cr; Silver: 450,000cr, Bronze: 360,000cr
- Gift: Gold: Courage C60 – Peugeot ’03 (Parts Installed)
- Silver: Matte Black
- Bronze: GT MILITARY 010-C
Non-Race Car and Tuned Car Single-Lap Time Trial
- Nürburgring Nordschleife
- Normal and tuned cars, 550PP Max, Sports/Hard compounds or less
- Gold: 1,500,000cr; Silver: 1,100,000cr, Bronze: 700,000cr
- Gift: Gold: Vertigo Race Car ’04 (Parts Installed)
- Silver: GT GUNMETAL 001-C
- Bronze: Matte Light Red
Death Valley Special Drift Trial
- Death Valley
- Gold: 1,500,000cr; Silver: 1,000,000cr, Bronze: 700,000cr
- Gift: Gold: Viper GTS-R Concept ’00 (Parts Installed)
- GT CHROME 002-W
- GT PASTELTONE 006-W
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PD always penalizes the GT fans making us start on the last grid position.
For the Sierra European race I used the Pescarolo Courage C60 ’03 and easily won by about 30 seconds. It probably doesn’t even need 600PP to win. 590PP should be enough. I wasn’t trying to cheat, but I happened to use it because I’d had it set up for some other races I did at 600PP and it seemed like a good candidate. I did the whole race on (wet) intermediate tires with a pit stop at the end of the 5th lap only because the fuel wouldn’t last the whole race. I think the tires might have lasted but they automatically get changed. It was a really weird race because when the rain got heavy most of the AI cars would move at a crawl around the turns. I set the suspension with plenty of travel and not much damping to deal with some bumpy spots.
I was able to catch the lead Jaguar when it pitted as he pitted a few seconds before me and I left the pits a few seconds after him. I passed him before the end of that lap. I’ve run the race about three times and nothing much changed. Some AI cars spun out more than others but none of those cars were in the class of the Pescarolo C60. I really just coasted around not making any mistakes and those other cars simply couldn’t catch me although I bumped a couple of them to get them out of my way. I’m going to try to find some car to see if it can go the whole way without any stops and it’s possible some Lotus might be able to do it.
I think the Pescarolo C60 is the best car for the race but that’s just IMHO because it’s the only car I’ve tried and was so easy to win with.
BTW guys… PD’s quick races menu is offering 2races while using you own tuning solutions. My friends will find me there having some real fun!
Ugh. Serious question here. I don’t care about being called a cheat by anyone, it is of absolute no consequence to me, what someone else thinks of my gaming habits, but….looking at what we still have to grind out to win money on this game, over 2 years in, please could anyone PM me regarding where to get hold of a save crack. Don’t worry, earnest GT competition players, i have literally NO interest in playing online or ruining ANYone’s online experience with hybrids ( that is of no interest to me either), all i want is all the millions of credits i can get so i can buy every car in the game and just have a run about in any one of them in single player mode, when i feel the urge to do so. All i am begging you for, is a safe link to a crack program that allows me to import my gamesave onto PC, hack it so i have 999,999,999,999,999 credits or whatever and then resave it onto my PS3, so i can have a good old jolly time with cars that i cannot bare to grind for any longer. Sooooooo bored of doing that. Damn car collection simulator… They REALLY need to make an actual worthwhile career mode next time. Seriously…
So what’s the problem. Ran the Pike’s Peak Audi max downforce on racing soft. Pitted once at lap 6 or 7 for another set of racing soft tires and a little fuel. It got a little slick for laps 8 & 9 but dried up on the last lap. I didn’t try the intermediate tires but it might have helped for the last few rainy laps.
No Bugatti or Hyundai VGT for Christmas. :-/
Gonna try this with my alfa romeo 4wd dtm touring car. See how this goes.
These races are getting more & more ridiculous!!! My car run out of fuel on the last lap– I have pitted on lap 5. PD sucks
10 laps of Sierra, thats over an hour of racing ! bring it on !!!
Sierra custom track*
About 22 mins.
Thanks, sigh of relief
Get your waterwings together. You’re gonna need them at the Andalucia 46mile race.
Fifty percent wet, down to zero from start to about 10mins into the race. Then up to 100% wet before heading back down to dry conditions by the end of the race.
Gonna try the XJ220 GT and Nomad Diablo first because they’re found at 590ppo in my garage… all dusty and s….
You’ll probably need to stop at least once for fuel unless you’re an alien pilot like the one l encountered earlier today. I’ll need to stop twice for tyres. Which means no gold for me.
I really do appreciate the difficult challenges. Wish they’d done the same in career mode. Full 16car field too!
Ok… so the weather forecast may not be the same when you enter. It changed on me after shutting down for a break from constant failure to bring the Jag home in one piece.
Decided to try again with a fully tuned and turbo charged ’94 Calibra. The closest l could get, with AWD, from europe to 600ppo. Rated at 573ppo, l was braced for more bruising disappointment. But, alas!… l found myself in first place at round half way through the race.
The strategy changed with the new weather so intermediates were used during both stints. My last lap ran with worn out tyres in dry conditions. Way off pace before l realised… l may have finished stronger if i had started the 2nd stint with RS tyres.
Next up… the ’01 GT-R and ’03 Nuvolari AWD concepts(?) are being shipped to a wet Nurburg time trial(?) Wish me luck
The GT-R concept and Audi’s Nuvolari where chosen in the normal manner.
They’re already pre-tuned, sans any engine modifications other than ECU, intake, catalytic converters and step1 exhaust… no weight is removed (normal rule for standard models) only added to equal it’s rival… then engine hp is adjusted to make equal PP ratings. Racing parts (no ‘stock’ canceling rear deck wings) are installed and tuned to taste. STEALTH is the idea for these standard cars.
Weighing in over 1.5tons, these boulevard brusiers where too heavy for my meager skills to achieve sub 7:30 times. The Audi required more extreme suspension tuning solutions to manage it’s equally extreme tendency to four wheel drift (understeer) into whatever’s waiting for it off course.
The late Colin Chaplin suggested weight is the enemy so… I returned with some fresher tuner cars from the US, Canada and Japan.
Already extremely tuned… the creations of Highend, HPE and Amuse where chosen because they are about 600lbs lighter. Being ‘Premium’ models the G37, TT and 350Z are subjected to the full wack of additional upgrades offered by PD.
De-tuned to 550, these whips are easy to keep on course while negotiating miles and miles of German landscape. But to no availe… maybe it was the required tyre down grade from SMs. More likely it is my skilless thumbs that keeped me from improving upon the 7:37 time set by the Nissan concept car.
Weight is the enemy… right? Sooo… Japanese cars from 2002 are next up.
Care to guess?
idn’t rain enough to warrent any sweat but l’ll need to return with
Well Phil I used an Alpine VGT for this challenge. A lot of fun in the wet at 599pp. Pitted on lap 6 for intermediate tires which actually lasted until the end. Kinda tricky though since the opponents have more speed and a bit dirty at times, but managed a 1st place run with a 9-second lead at the end. I wish PD would make actual endurance races in the same format but with normal tire wear.
Ok, for the Nurburging challenge I went against the grain and used my 543pp Evoque. Pretty stable except for at Flugplatz, but managed a solid 7:28.xxx.
Hey Progress! Flugplatz to the Nurburgring is like Flachbau is to Porsche… my favorite parts of 2 German giants.
After 2mins and 7kms into the TT, I find myself restarting between Adenauer and Metsgez for about a halfanhour before calming down. Anywho…
The next 3 Japanese cars l had planned using turned out to be LM cars. So while not wanting to spend any more time here, l found an old favorite to just jump into and drive. Hellooo GTS! The ’99, not the new one. Eight dot 0 liters of controlled explosions exhausted out of the rear with one of GT’s most recognizable notes. The Mopar Monsta and ’00 Vette Zo6 are paired at 548pp with the Dodge making 600hp while the supercharged V8 is making about 1hp per pp.
No improvement over the Nissan’s time from the fat tyred Viper, but the bowtied american did surprise! Though still no gold PD’s programming of this Corvette did best the concept car’s time by 0.3sec.
Nurburgring?… my nemesis
I did the Nurburgring event in a Subaru Impreza on a stock suspension.
It was the opposite of fun in every sense of the word.
10 laps on Sierra!?!?
Custom track…I didn’t get to do it because it’s so late over here.
First to comment and wow thats a lot of money on the line, got to get that money!!!