Grand Tour - Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione

I thought after beating the Red Bull X2010 Challenge, nothing in the game could beat me. Boy, was I wrong!!

I've hit another wall. The last wall there is in GT5 off-line, for me. The frustrating wall of driving the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione at Eiger.

My set up right now is:

TCS: Off
Skid Recovery: Off (Can't be used)
Active steering: Mid
ASM: Off
ABS: 1
Sensibility: 7

And I have 1:17.088. Yes, 0.088 of doom. I don't really know how I pulled that off, so I can't really repeat it. I guess it just takes a different set of skills than driving the Red Bull. However, this was, ironically, the first event in GT5 which I did not gold in one go (this doesn't mean one try, and I found more difficult stuff I did not do in the first go, but this was the first), and apparently, it'll be the last one I beat, and still suffering, of course.

Does anyone have any advice for me? So far, the only thing that has worked for me is being REALLY patient and trying to be REALLY smooth with the racing line, not drifting at all. And no, I just can't "WRC" those hairpins; I just can't. Oh yes, I'm using DS3 because the wheel is much worse, for me, here.

EDIT: Hell yeah, I beat it. Enough spamming from me...!

That test is fairly easy to be honest. I beat it for like one and a half seconds.

Very nice lap explanation here. https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=136208&page=2

i beat this a couple of days ago after not trying it for months. I had these settings (off the top of my head)

TCS: 1
Skid Recovery: Off (Can't be used)
Active steering: Off
ASM: Off
ABS: 10
Sensibility: 5

I'm an old school DS3 player with D-Pad, X & []

I got it after about 10-15 attempts (must have had about 50+ attempts when I last tried it before christmas) I was constantly getting 1.17.3's. Then it all came together and i got a 1.16.5. It is possible, you just need to try and keep the car as straight as possible coming out of corners, drifting looks cool, but costs time.

Stay real tight on the first series of hairpins hugging each corner, stay high on the last hairpin to straighten up early before you go over the bridge before the first split. Then out on the left slightly on the large hairpin before the tunnel to get the car as straight as possible for early acceleration up the hill. Through the tunnel and a slight lift off with perhaps a dab of brake to balance the car into a small slide around the right hander before gently turning left to avoid unbalancing the car for the left hander.
Brake nice and late for the last hairpin going quite high up the track with a sharp turn in to straighten the car early for the last corner.

Good luck

ha, just spotted you've done it, what a waste of typing!