300k Endurance at Grand Valley :: Times, Cars, and Experience

yeah, but that one takes a little while longer. i may try again with a more competitive car some time. i just wanted to get it overwith. 90 laps is a lot. i may try with a new camaro or if i don't wanna buy one, i could just use my srt8. that should be good

Yeah I had my SRT8 shortlisted for this race. Will do a sound test on the SRT8 vs Camaro SS '10 to determine which will be my weapon of choice.
 
Did it in a mildly tuned High End Performance G35. Wasn't too tough for the actual racing, but getting the tires to last more than 10 laps was my main problem. I need to make a few more tweaks to the setup as the back steps out and I cant help but drift the corner after that :sly:
Although, saying that, I did nearly write the thing off a couple of times on the sharp left-hand corner by the first tunnel. Overall time was in the region of 2:10:xxx going to give this another go but in something a little less tail happy.
Caterham perhaps :dunce:
 
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I did an '06 S2000, full exhaust and race filter, 2 hours 12 min, 3 laps ahead.

Best laps were i the 2:04's.

Pretty fun, might try a stock S2000 next time.
 
Are you racing with sports or racing slicks? Im just about to do the 300km and I will choose between corvette z06 (c5) and Amuse/opera GRAN TURISMO 350Z RS

EDIT: I will have a good battle so if any suggestion about them beeing too fast for the AI's I would be glad for any recomendents or comments.

I will race stock cars, I guess.

Edit: it must be a Premuim car though :)
 
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The AI uses Sports slicks. I used Sports slicks on almost a stock Fairlady Z33 and won by about 1 min.

If your a decent driver then the Vette(286 BHP/1000 kg) is too powerful in my opinion. I'm not sure what the specs on the 350Z are but from my experience I would try to pick a car with about 200-220 BHP/1000 kg.

Enjoy it!

These are the 200-220 BHP/1000 kg cars I found:
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Chevrolet	Camaro Z28 '69				204,2
Honda		NSX Type R '02				217,3
Lotus		Elise 111R '04				219,8
Mazda		RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02		217,3
Mitsubishi	Lancer Evolution IV GSR '96		204,4
Mitsubishi	Lancer Evolution VI GSR T.M. SCP '99	202,9
Nissan		Fairlady Z (Z34) '08			216,3
Nissan		Fairlady Z Version S (Z33) '07		208,1
Subaru		Impreza Sedan WRX STi '10		203,4
Subaru		Impreza WRX STi '07			206,1
Tesla		Roadster '08				200,3
Toyota		FT-86 Concept '09			220,0
 
BMW 1 tii. Tuned up to be similar to the upcoming BMW 1 series M coupe (340hp, ~1520lbs). But I had racing softs rather than sports softs.

2:33min. I found my concentration starting to crumble at lap 20 or so and I got in a lot more accidents after that.

next time Im running an endurance race in automatic transmission.
 
If your a decent driver then the Vette(286 BHP/1000 kg) is too powerful in my opinion. I'm not sure what the specs on the 350Z are but from my experience I would try to pick a car with about 200-220 BHP/1000 kg.

Provided you race against NSXs or RX-7s, this power range would be a good choice, but if neither of those are there, 200-220 BHP/1000kg would be a little too much I believe, as your best opposition will likely be WRXs / Evos, and these seem to be running 2:15s at best (for example, I was running 2:13s as my best laps in a Ford Focus ST, which is around 160 BHP/1000kg, but I was running Racing Hards, so my choice of car would be pretty close to not being able to win there)

With a car that's a little underpowered vs the competition, you need to be driving consistently and efficiently, have a rather good strategy and some measure of luck, just like in real racing 👍
 
The AI uses Sports slicks. I used Sports slicks on almost a stock Fairlady Z33 and won by about 1 min.

If your a decent driver then the Vette(286 BHP/1000 kg) is too powerful in my opinion. I'm not sure what the specs on the 350Z are but from my experience I would try to pick a car with about 200-220 BHP/1000 kg.

Enjoy it!

These are the 200-220 BHP/1000 kg cars I found:
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Chevrolet	Camaro Z28 '69				204,2
Honda		[COLOR="Red"]NSX Type R '02				217,3[/COLOR]
Lotus		Elise 111R '04				219,8
Mazda		RX-7 Spirit R Type A (FD) '02		217,3
Mitsubishi	Lancer Evolution IV GSR '96		204,4
Mitsubishi	Lancer Evolution VI GSR T.M. SCP '99	202,9
Nissan		Fairlady Z (Z34) '08			216,3
Nissan		Fairlady Z Version S (Z33) '07		208,1
Subaru		Impreza Sedan WRX STi '10		203,4
Subaru		Impreza WRX STi '07			206,1
Tesla		Roadster '08				200,3
Toyota		FT-86 Concept '09			220,0

How's that possible to have an NSX Type R less powerfull than a normal NSX that have 280hp? :odd:
 
If you read carefully, the values are BHP/1000kg, so the NSX he's talking about would be 1289kg for 280hp, that makes 217,3 hp/1000kg

What he said 👍

And yes I agree with you elrousso provided you are running against NSX or an RX-7 then 200-220 BHP/1000 kg should be your aim. Without those cars 180-200 on Sports Tires(slicks, potato/tomato) or even go down to 160 and use Racing tires...
 
What do you guys reckon the slowest best lap you can have is? Because in my race I only managed a 2:15 and I came second, but that was against the RX-7. I was thinking about trying it in a fully upgraded Fiat 500F (yes the one from the 60's) and I've got my laptimes down to around 2:18 and that is with a full tank of petrol. It would be interesting to see how high I could finish with it, a podium would be nice.
 
This was my first ever GT enduro in all my gt years!

I wanted to use one of my LeMans cars - even though they vastly outpower the competition - just to get a taste of what it's like to do lap after lap after lap with one of those. I figure they were designed to do exactly that, so I took the Audi R10 TDI.

I expected it to be an extremely tedious race. However, I must say that strangely enjoyed doing it. There's something about grinding laps that was surprisingly addictive.

My observations:
- using a DS3 = munch tires like a madman (had to pit 4 times, no real difference between soft, medium, hard in terms of tire wear)
- the TDI really seems to be economic with its diesel usage
- 163000cr. for a 2-hour race? WTF?
- getting a lame Honda concept you can't sell? WTF??
- I had a lot fun!

Anyway.. I definitely see myself doing this one over a few times, with some more challenging cars!
 
I used the Amuse 350Z on Racing Normal
Did it in 2:10:someting and made two pitstops

the race was not realy challenging but it was a very good way to practice Heel-toe down shifting.
And it was the first race I did with intirior view completly:drool:

I didn't use the Amuze before that, a very nice car to drive.👍

next time what would be next week try it with an less powerfull car :)
 
I just completed my first ever endurance race with GT5. It was amazing!

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I invite you to share what car and time you posted. And please share what your experience was with the 60 laps at Grand Valley.

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1st :: TIME :: 2:22:35
Mini Cooper S '05
210HP 1004kg

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I decided to use the Mini Cooper S because it is my personal favorite car, mostly because it is actually reasonable that I will own it someday. For tuning, I just brought the power/weight ratio up to about 1/5, which is about in line with the other cars. But obviously, though I'm underpowered, due to the low weight I was flying through the corners.

I started the race with racing(hard) tires. These took me 26 laps, but started to lose about a second per lap. Up to this point I had second place trailing me by about 2 seconds and passing me a couple times on the straight. He pitted on lap 24.

So my thoughts were that if I could stretch the tires just a little further then I would be able to use racing(medium) tires for the last 10 laps.

I then pitted on lap 51 and put on my racing(medium) tires. By the way, I did not refuel at all during the race and still ended with a 1/4 tank. Coming out of the pits I was about 12 seconds back. It only took five laps to make these back, while making my way through a good deal of lapped traffic.

I finished the race with a best lap time of 2:08, while finishing about 8 seconds in front of the runner up.

Hi pal! In the same race I used RX7 FD Bathurst R '01 with Medium Sports and lightly tuned to 340PS from 290PS default. Best lap was about 2.08,9 and second car finished after about 40-50 seconds was Impreza STi Spec C '04. First stop for tire change in lap 20 (bad condition), second in 35, third in 48. Very nice experience, especially with the tire degradation which had the correct effect in losing traction and time. Took 2h10m overall.
 
Did it with ISF Racing concept in 2:01:00.xxx

I got bored being 6 laps ahead so decided to shread my tires lol. I would try and floor it out of a corner but it wouldn't produce smoke like my C30 R :(
 
Stock Ford GT '06 with racing medium tires.
Time: 2:00:14
Pitted every 15 laps.

It was a lot of fun. Started the race with 571HP, had 577HP at the end.
 
I used a stock Mercedes CLK55 AMG '00 with racing mediums and pitted every 12 laps (tried 15 but by lap 14 it was steering worse then Jay Leno's tank car... and a real tank for that fact!:yuck:). I finished the race in roughly 2 hours and 10 mins (forget the exact time).

It was a good race though - me and this NSX were trading back and forth the whole race - some good driving and a superior pit strategy carried me to the top - I only had 20 seconds on 2nd place when the dust settled after 60 laps. The rest of the field was at least one lap down, but I was happy that I was able to pick a competitive car that actually made the race a challenge with 2nd place...
 
I just completed my first ever endurance race with GT5. It was amazing!

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I invite you to share what car and time you posted. And please share what your experience was with the 60 laps at Grand Valley.

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1st :: TIME :: 2:22:35
Mini Cooper S '05
210HP 1004kg

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I decided to use the Mini Cooper S because it is my personal favorite car, mostly because it is actually reasonable that I will own it someday. For tuning, I just brought the power/weight ratio up to about 1/5, which is about in line with the other cars. But obviously, though I'm underpowered, due to the low weight I was flying through the corners.

I started the race with racing(hard) tires. These took me 26 laps, but started to lose about a second per lap. Up to this point I had second place trailing me by about 2 seconds and passing me a couple times on the straight. He pitted on lap 24.

So my thoughts were that if I could stretch the tires just a little further then I would be able to use racing(medium) tires for the last 10 laps.

I then pitted on lap 51 and put on my racing(medium) tires. By the way, I did not refuel at all during the race and still ended with a 1/4 tank. Coming out of the pits I was about 12 seconds back. It only took five laps to make these back, while making my way through a good deal of lapped traffic.

I finished the race with a best lap time of 2:08, while finishing about 8 seconds in front of the runner up.

My experience has been......was leadng in lap 48 when my little girl wanted help with something. So I paused, helped her, went back to the race---and restarted. Started again a few days later, did 20 laps, paused to get a glass and ice for a freind that was over, and-- yes, started again. They really need to aks 'are you sure?' before popping you out of a face.
 
I did this for the first time last night. I used the premium RX-7 Spirit. It had 399 bhp at first, but I tuned it down to 340ish before the race started. It didn't matter; the race was a sham. I had lapped everyone by lap 20. Even the NSX looked slow compared to my car. I used Racing Hard and pitted twice on laps 30 and 57 respectively. I could have made it to the end with only the one pit stop, but I started to get tired with 30 mins left and just started pushing the car harder through the turns, tires be damned.

Interestingly enough my fastest lap was my final one at 2 mins 3.3 seconds. My overall time was 2 hours 10 mins, with the runner-up 2 laps down. I definitely plan to go at least 100 hp below my opponents in my next endurance race so I actually see some cars throughout the race.
 
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