benchmarking cars on a certain track (TT)

[breyzipp]

I want to pick a short or medium size track and compare how I drive there in all sorts of different cars in TT mode, is there a way the game can keep track of this? Or should I create an XLS sheet and do it myself? Also, what would be a good track for this? Preferably something that has a bit of it all, lengthy straights, both sharp and wide corners, maybe a hairpin as well or some elevation difference.

I personally like the Red Bull ring circuit a lot for this, it's just the perfect size and it's also wide open with a good overview. But on some corners you can go really wide over the curbs which doesn't seem to count as going off-track.

Or is there another track that is really suited in doing a fair overall comparison between how fast different cars are?

I tried to do this via arcade mode > single player > time trial > ... and it seems the game keeps track of my previous races there under the ranking board. But I noticed it keeps the 2 best times of each car, why is that? (see screenshot in the spoiler) I did save my best lap replay for both cars, would that be the reason perhaps?

Also, when I do this with a lot of cars, will I still see the times for all of them? Or is that ranking board cut off at the top 20 or something?

In the end what I want to achieve is comparable to all the different cars that get tested by the Stig on the Top Gear track and see how they all fair compared to each other. I'd even want 2 different rankings, one for cars in bone stock version, others that are tuned but I guess I'll just have to use 2 different TT tracks to achieve that.

Spoiler: ranking board screenshot

 

[watermelon punch]

Google docs spreadsheet is really the most reliable way to go.

A method could be this...
You make a club in Community online. Then you make a time trial. Make sure all the settings are what you want it to be, because you can't change it in the room.

Then the event time trial in Community will automatically post your best times that you run the time trial.
You can access this on the WEB... and look at it by signing into GT6 online on the web (on a computer rather than your PS3)
From there it's easy to look for the results, and copy/paste the times into a spreadsheet.

I like this method because I don't have to be writing things down or typing in numbers while doing the testing.

 

[CraigHyphenO]

I use the Nurburgring GP circuit. It has a really good mix of corners. If your car works well there, it would generally work well everywhere. Give yourself say ten laps on a run to set a good time and there is your benchmark. I agree with what Watermelon Punch says above also.

 

[breyzipp]

Google docs spreadsheet is really the most reliable way to go.

A method could be this...
You make a club in Community online. Then you make a time trial. Make sure all the settings are what you want it to be, because you can't change it in the room.

Then the event time trial in Community will automatically post your best times that you run the time trial.
You can access this on the WEB... and look at it by signing into GT6 online on the web (on a computer rather than your PS3)
From there it's easy to look for the results, and copy/paste the times into a spreadsheet.

I like this method because I don't have to be writing things down or typing in numbers while doing the testing.

Hmm that is indeed an excellent suggestion, thanks a lot. Will give that a try tomorrow when I have some more time to race.

What do you think about Red Bull ring as a test track? Another one I might consider is Mid-Field Raceway but I think that one is a lot more technical and since I'm not the best driver maybe I better stick to an easier track to not have too much driver error influences in it. Although whichever track I pick I assume eventually I'll get used to it anyway.

 

[breyzipp]

I use the Nurburgring GP circuit. It has a really good mix of corners. If your car works well there, it would generally work well everywhere. Give yourself say ten laps on a run to set a good time and there is your benchmark. I agree with what Watermelon Punch says above also.

Nurburg GP is indeed a nice track as well although I don't like turn 1 much there.

 

[GBO Possum]

I'd recommend you record the results in your own spreadsheet. Then you can filter these results by PP, tire type, and whatever you choose to record. Also, it's much more open ended, and you can share your results with others should you choose.

As for which track, well that's a matter of personal taste. I'd go for Mt Panorama as a great all rounder.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I want to pick a short or medium size track and compare how I drive there in all sorts of different cars in TT mode, is there a way the game can keep track of this? Or should I create an XLS sheet and do it myself? Also, what would be a good track for this? Preferably something that has a bit of it all, lengthy straights, both sharp and wide corners, maybe a hairpin as well or some elevation difference.

I personally like the Red Bull ring circuit a lot for this, it's just the perfect size and it's also wide open with a good overview. But on some corners you can go really wide over the curbs which doesn't seem to count as going off-track.

Or is there another track that is really suited in doing a fair overall comparison between how fast different cars are?

I tried to do this via arcade mode > single player > time trial > ... and it seems the game keeps track of my previous races there under the ranking board. But I noticed it keeps the 2 best times of each car, why is that? (see screenshot in the spoiler) I did save my best lap replay for both cars, would that be the reason perhaps?

Also, when I do this with a lot of cars, will I still see the times for all of them? Or is that ranking board cut off at the top 20 or something?

In the end what I want to achieve is comparable to all the different cars that get tested by the Stig on the Top Gear track and see how they all fair compared to each other. I'd even want 2 different rankings, one for cars in bone stock version, others that are tuned but I guess I'll just have to use 2 different TT tracks to achieve that.

I'd contact @sparkytooth for suggestions. He's the reigning king of GTP as far as keeping huge databases of laptimes for tracks is concerned. @mike_gt3 also kept a huge database of Nurburging lap times for GT5 so you might contact him for some advise as well. 👍👍

 

[sparkytooth]

I haven't kept my records for a long time on the Nordschleife, and most of the machines I did were done before the last major physics change (1.09).

What I did was test stock machines on a full lap of the nordschleife, all of them on Sports Hard tyres.

 

[Both Barrels]

Nurburg GP is indeed a nice track as well although I don't like turn 1 much there.

The good thing about that is you'll know right away if your brake bias is any good or not.

 

[mike_gt3]

Thats what i did for the nordschleife leaderboard using Google docs:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yYWDrHTKM-fB4bKpGHF3LYy44Lsuac3kAQHfIFmkOZg/edit#gid=4

The cars were per categories (productions, race, tuned per pp etc...) and theres an alphabetic order as well to easily find a car.


This one is not finished, i decided to stop updating since they always change the physic wich screw all the results.
May be not the best example but might give you ideas


That was the thread: (you can see i added the list on the thread using the ''code'' thingy...
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...sed-look-for-new-thread-to-be-started.294583/


Id like if they could add a filters for the ingame free run leaderboard where you would only see the fastest time per car (i mean not seeing for example your 3 best laps using the same car) and allow unlimited car list to see all your cars in that list...