, won on 1st try with Lexus IS350 GT300 replica, relaxed pace driving 
Finish in less than 5 minutes, got into 2nd on 2nd lap, some good ol' touring car contact racing Most of the AI used rally cars, bad in corners.
This is way too easy
You mentioned that the AI was bad in corners - I have a question for you - did you have SRF turned on or off?
Hi, Orido! Having fun, I see.
Not picking on you, Dragonbeard - just looking for info, and since you mentioned it - can you please point me to where PD stated these were 'A-Spec' events? Not got to my console yet, and not sure from where where that info came.
Like you, I don't see them as 'A-spec' events, either (though some might stretch a point and call them 'A-Spec-type' events - because rabbits are involved - as opposed to TTs (no traffic) the latter even mistaken by some to be 'B-Spec' events because of such misdirection), and want to make sure PD has given this term to these events.
no assists 
The AI line up were mixed, Art Morrison Vette was right in front of me at the start, then Calibra Touring, Alfa 155 Ti, then some rally cars ( Group B cars too ), Camaro Z28 Race Car '69, Elise Race Car, Pozzi Camaro then the leader was Quattro S1, which is freaking fast only in straight.
Hi, Orido! Having fun, I see.
Not picking on you, Dragonbeard - just looking for info, and since you mentioned it - can you please point me to where PD stated these were 'A-Spec' events? Not got to my console yet, and not sure from where where that info came.
Like you, I don't see them as 'A-spec' events, either (though some might stretch a point and call them 'A-Spec-type' events - because rabbits are involved - as opposed to TTs (no traffic) the latter even mistaken by some to be 'B-Spec' events because of such misdirection), and want to make sure PD has given this term to these events.
These seasonals resemble the GT5 A-Spec seasonals, so they have been refered to as such here.Hi, Orido! Having fun, I see.
Not picking on you, Dragonbeard - just looking for info, and since you mentioned it - can you please point me to where PD stated these were 'A-Spec' events? Not got to my console yet, and not sure from where where that info came.
Like you, I don't see them as 'A-spec' events, either (though some might stretch a point and call them 'A-Spec-type' events - because rabbits are involved - as opposed to TTs (no traffic) the latter even mistaken by some to be 'B-Spec' events because of such misdirection), and want to make sure PD has given this term to these events.
The 'Renault Sport Clio V6 Trophy 24V '00' did the job on first go for me against the Delta S4 and GT-R N24, even with a few bumps into barriers slowing me down.
Of course not
Aim for less than 1:30s lap, and less than 5 minutes total time, easy 1st. I did 4:48 if not mistaken on my 1st run. A good 1st sector ( after 1st hairpin ) will be 23s.
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I may have even been defending those who have been misdirected. 👍
Thank you. 👍
You lost me there, Cargo - which picture tab are you talking about? I just booted up the game and there is no mention of 'A-Spec'' in any of the blurbs that are used as preamble to the Events. Please point me towards it - much appreciated.
Also - In GT4 B-Spec we could also drive in the race - so B-Spec doesn't generally mean bot drivers only.
Please don't flatter yourself - I'd already forgotten about you - too many members to keep track of for a guy awarded 'Friendlist Member' two years in a row.
I 'll try to keep you in mind . . . positively, hopefully
Yeah, there's THAT, too!
) why I was curious about this.
) were not cornering well at all - in fact significantly bad enough for you to mention this.
Well done!
@Ridox2JZGTE - I'm sorry, I had to tear off there in a hurry and couldn't explain why I asked you if you had any Driver Aids on.
You mentioned that you noticed that the AI (we won't talk 'rabbits' in here 'AI' sounds more professional tech-talk, right?
In my present round of tests, which show more and more that the AI react to our settings, I needed to confirm with you that your AI was behaving a lot less speedily - and behaving a lot less speedily because you had all assists off - which you then confirmed.
Have you tried running (as blasphemous as it may sound) with all possible options that will make you drive faster (never mind you can't smell the leather) and will your AI still drive around like they did when you had assists off? How much faster will your AI competition be?
I also notice, sometimes the AI cars hesitate to WOT when I was close behind them or beside them, this is often happen on the straight after the 1st hairpin, right when you are on a decline ( the road widens ), also other parts of the track where you are next to them. The lap times were similar but the Lancia Delta S4 is a bit quicker, I need at least 4:47-48s total time to win. If I used ABS 1, then it would be a lot easier for me to win as I can mash the brake and lose all the fun See how it goes.Content-free, verbose, poorly punctuated, and absolutely irrelevant to this thread. Save this for your "friends," and spare the rest of us who are here to talk about the intermediate A-Spec.Thanks, I missed that while responding to Orido.
I also needed to have confirmation that it appears only on that particular visual - AFAIK - it appears nowhere else; not in the introduction or description of the Event, nor at the official site (if there is, again I would like to see it.) It appears so far as part of the 'art' in the 'label' that promotes the event - much like the pretty bow.
If there is mention of it anywhere else, I would most appreciate someone hunting that clue out and laying it on the table for all to see.
I asked this question several weeks ago, because while we continued to consider them 'A-Spec' events, there is no other mention anywhere else, not even in Career Mode that this game has 'A-Spec' Events. In fact, as we can all see now, there is only the mention of it in that illustrated header - whether mis-communication between the different people involved setting up the Events, or a very subliminal way of getting us to think of them as 'A-Spec' events while branding them everywhere else they are mentioned - in text - as 'Race-type' events.
Let me explain (for all curious as to my intentions; second-guessing me always end up in nowhere-land
To have a B-Spec, we must first have an 'A-Spec'. They did away with 'A-Spec' when we got GT6. They promised us - 'B-Spec' - but of course at the time we had no other label for it. We might have even referred to it as 'Director's' mode as in GT4, but that would have complicated matters further.
So how can they present 'B-Spec' to us?
Obviously, it's just a game. Not a lot of players will care (unless they call it C-Spec - then there might be some head-scratching.) Those who are paying a little more attention to the game might wonder.
Let's consider something else - with this same 'A-Spec' conundrum in mind.
In GT4 we could train a driver, get him (or her) to race alone, or in fact join them as partners in Enduros.
In GT5 we could train up to six drivers - but they raced alone against their opponents - even online - but we could not join them.
In GT6, we have nothing of this sort. Yet.
As a developer of a game, one would think that the next level would be to amalgamate these features - in fact have a 'Director's' or 'B-Spec' mode that will permit us to train drivers, race them against opponents, race with them against opponents, and race them against other players' B-Spec (there's that term again) drivers. This should (given the technology possible) be the next level, unless Marketing decides to hold back features - or even more likely - wait for the next platform as more of a solid 'brain' or as a more profitable venture. (This means all this could come in GT7 on PS4.)
So while the term 'A-Spec' is so freely used to describe these events, I, myself - like Dragonbeard, whom I originally questioned (and in reading that post will find I agree with -) cannot truly regard them as A-Spec (versus B-spec) but as they are touted elsewhere (and pretty much everywhere else these events are mentioned) as 'race-type' events.
In which case that can be accepted as the truth - 'race-type' events - but race type-events that are handicap races.
What would be the alternative to handicap races? Standing start grid-type based on qualifying.
These would both be 'race-type' events and would fall under the description of 'racing' (as opposed to hot-lapping.) Whether we want to call them A-Spec events indiscriminately is where the problem begins to rear its head and can cause confusion for both old hands at the game as well as newcomers - since we're still in the twilight zone of not knowing when B-Spec will arrive, and when and if it does, whether it would be called 'B-Spec' at all.
I have to mention here that nowhere on my 15th anniversary edition box-art is there any mention of A-Spec, or B-Spec, or any promised content apart from Online accessibility and VGTs - both these promises now fulfilled.
Not a real big deal - apart from my curiosity.
@Ridox2JZGTE - I'm sorry, I had to tear off there in a hurry and couldn't explain why I asked you if you had any Driver Aids on.
You mentioned that you noticed that the AI (we won't talk 'rabbits' in here 'AI' sounds more professional tech-talk, right?
In my present round of tests, which show more and more that the AI react to our settings, I needed to confirm with you that your AI was behaving a lot less speedily - and behaving a lot less speedily because you had all assists off - which you then confirmed.
Have you tried running (as blasphemous as it may sound) with all possible options that will make you drive faster (never mind you can't smell the leather) and will your AI still drive around like they did when you had assists off? How much faster will your AI competition be?
Yet another personal attack? Read more. You may be reading me.
I just prefer to paint and take pretty, pretty pictures, Jbaffoh - you don't mind do you?
Wowsers.
That's quite amusing considering this:
. . . and where and when it came from.
As for the 'friendly member' bit: Two things - One: having so many friends it's hard to give attention all the time it is begged for - and, Two: if I don't get along with you . . . I'm willing to bet that you both don't get along too well with many others, either. I don't feel singled out.
Thanks, I missed that while responding to Orido.
I also needed to have confirmation that it appears only on that particular visual - AFAIK - it appears nowhere else; not in the introduction or description of the Event, nor at the official site (if there is, again I would like to see it.) It appears so far as part of the 'art' in the 'label' that promotes the event - much like the pretty bow.
If there is mention of it anywhere else, I would most appreciate someone hunting that clue out and laying it on the table for all to see.
I asked this question several weeks ago, because while we continued to consider them 'A-Spec' events, there is no other mention anywhere else, not even in Career Mode that this game has 'A-Spec' Events. In fact, as we can all see now, there is only the mention of it in that illustrated header - whether mis-communication between the different people involved setting up the Events, or a very subliminal way of getting us to think of them as 'A-Spec' events while branding them everywhere else they are mentioned - in text - as 'Race-type' events.
Let me explain (for all curious as to my intentions; second-guessing me always end up in nowhere-land
To have a B-Spec, we must first have an 'A-Spec'. They did away with 'A-Spec' when we got GT6. They promised us - 'B-Spec' - but of course at the time we had no other label for it. We might have even referred to it as 'Director's' mode as in GT4, but that would have complicated matters further.
So how can they present 'B-Spec' to us?
Obviously, it's just a game. Not a lot of players will care (unless they call it C-Spec - then there might be some head-scratching.) Those who are paying a little more attention to the game might wonder.
Let's consider something else - with this same 'A-Spec' conundrum in mind.
In GT4 we could train a driver, get him (or her) to race alone, or in fact join them as partners in Enduros.
In GT5 we could train up to six drivers - but they raced alone against their opponents - even online - but we could not join them.
In GT6, we have nothing of this sort. Yet.
As a developer of a game, one would think that the next level would be to amalgamate these features - in fact have a 'Director's' or 'B-Spec' mode that will permit us to train drivers, race them against opponents, race with them against opponents, and race them against other players' B-Spec (there's that term again) drivers. This should (given the technology possible) be the next level, unless Marketing decides to hold back features - or even more likely - wait for the next platform as more of a solid 'brain' or as a more profitable venture. (This means all this could come in GT7 on PS4.)
So while the term 'A-Spec' is so freely used to describe these events, I, myself - like Dragonbeard, whom I originally questioned (and in reading that post will find I agree with -) cannot truly regard them as A-Spec (versus B-spec) but as they are touted elsewhere (and pretty much everywhere else these events are mentioned) as 'race-type' events.
In which case that can be accepted as the truth - 'race-type' events - but race type-events that are handicap races.
What would be the alternative to handicap races? Standing start grid-type based on qualifying.
These would both be 'race-type' events and would fall under the description of 'racing' (as opposed to hot-lapping.) Whether we want to call them A-Spec events indiscriminately is where the problem begins to rear its head and can cause confusion for both old hands at the game as well as newcomers - since we're still in the twilight zone of not knowing when B-Spec will arrive, and when and if it does, whether it would be called 'B-Spec' at all.
I have to mention here that nowhere on my 15th anniversary edition box-art is there any mention of A-Spec, or B-Spec, or any promised content apart from Online accessibility and VGTs - both these promises now fulfilled.
Not a real big deal - apart from my curiosity.
@Ridox2JZGTE - I'm sorry, I had to tear off there in a hurry and couldn't explain why I asked you if you had any Driver Aids on.
You mentioned that you noticed that the AI (we won't talk 'rabbits' in here 'AI' sounds more professional tech-talk, right?
In my present round of tests, which show more and more that the AI react to our settings, I needed to confirm with you that your AI was behaving a lot less speedily - and behaving a lot less speedily because you had all assists off - which you then confirmed.
Have you tried running (as blasphemous as it may sound) with all possible options that will make you drive faster (never mind you can't smell the leather) and will your AI still drive around like they did when you had assists off? How much faster will your AI competition be?
Yet another personal attack? Read more. You may be reading me.
I just prefer to paint and take pretty, pretty pictures, Jbaffoh - you don't mind do you?
Wowsers.
That's quite amusing considering this:
. . . and where and when it came from.
As for the 'friendly member' bit: Two things - One: having so many friends it's hard to give attention all the time it is begged for - and, Two: if I don't get along with you . . . I'm willing to bet that you both don't get along too well with many others, either. I don't feel singled out.
As for the A-spec bit, even though it was pointed out to you in plain text, you still refuse to believe it. 
You can't compare a "pretty bow" that is an obvious image to text that is written. It says A-spec, so I'm pretty sure that's what PD intended on it being. Just because we don't have B-spec doesn't mean we can't have an A-spec mode. You seem to think, or at least that's how you come across, that you are some official authority on all things GT and its quite irritating sometimes. I can appreciate your work in the "rabbit" thread and others, but that still doesn't make you right all the time. I'm not saying I'm right either, I'm just going by what's written on the little picture tab plus it coincides with how these events were labeled/classified in GT5. Anyways, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree because I'm not buying what you're selling. 
