Biggest "I'm an idiot" thing you've done in GT5

[tpark103]

Let me guess. You deleted the wrong save?

Yessir oops!!!

 

[Chrunch Houston]

I start in the rear of an online race that I am hosting. The room is pretty full but I see some ass knocking cars out of his way and off the track.
He’s ruining everyone’s race so I jump off the track and kick him.
I don’t watch the remainder of the race, but just as it is about to end the guy I kicked sends me an email with the subject “why kick???”.
Well I’m about to reply and give this joker a piece of my mind when the messages (I don’t allow mics) start scrolling in - I’d kicked the wrong guy.

 

[honeymonster505]

I bought another tank car so that i could have one that was tuned, and one that was standard, i then realised that the only upgrade you can do is have racing soft tyres, so i wasted about 3mil on a worthless car, was rather annoyed :L

 

[gamerdog6482]

I bought another tank car so that i could have one that was tuned, and one that was standard, i then realised that the only upgrade you can do is have racing soft tyres, so i wasted about 3mil on a worthless car, was rather annoyed :L

You can tune the brakes. Do you know how long it took me to find the proper brake balance? Almost two hours.

 

[kieran177]

Try to drift the diahatsu midget

 

[Ross]

Try to drift the diahatsu midget

Good little car that for drifting.

 

[A7X_GT5]

Buying the game
On a serious take,when I bought the Audi R10 '06
worst 3 and a half million credits I've ever spent

 

[S2]

On my first ever online race (organized here) I had the car set to comfort soft tires because I was practicing in the rain. When I joined the room for qualifying, I had to change to the sports tires. However, I left the room for a moment and came back before the race, and it reset back to comfort soft. I somehow managed to get it around the first turn, but I came out of that corner too fast, running into the gravel trap on the next turn.

I stayed in that race which lasted over an hour. I never really recovered, but I spent some time in not-last-place thanks to some pit strategy.

Luckily the group kept racing in short races afterwards and I was able to redeem myself a little.

 

[mlssvi]

i thought i was on a last lap i and gussed it would be fun to finish backwards and when i did it i realised it wasnt last lap and i lost the lead. has happend few times

 

[Jamie661]

Using the Red Bull X1 for the 24hr Le Mans.

 

[nawfal]

On Madrid, in the GT World Championship.

Squeezed past the Falken GT-R on the first - then triggered the hit detection on the yellow/black barrier at the end of the pit lane, spinning me out with engine damage.

Had to redo, even a LMP car wasn't good enough.

They have engine damage in A-Spec? I just did that series and I didnt notice any mechanical damage

And that's strange, I completed the whole series with a M3 GTR Race Car without too much of a challenge...

The dumbest thing I did in the game so far was turn the PS3 off while it was in the loading screen, corrupted my save
I did a backup so I was saved, only just though

 

[gamerdog6482]

No, there isn't, hit detection isn't a thing either. Something is fishy.

 

[CarNut11]

I forked out 15,000,000cr. on a car with a really long name, the Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2 Carrozzata Da Zagato CN.AR750106 '65. Couple of days later, I won the same bastard car in a B-Spec event. 15 Million, gone. I can't even sell the bloody thing.

Oh yeah, and I accidentally retired my Level 32 Bob which, incidentally, was the only one of my Bobs with at least half a brain cell.

 

[fbccars924]

what b spec race was that by chance? I want that car.

 

[Theace37]

i thought i was on a last lap i and gussed it would be fun to finish backwards and when i did it i realised it wasnt last lap and i lost the lead. has happend few times

I happen do this sooooooooooo many times, so don't worry your not the only one

 

[Downhill Dino]

I forked out 15,000,000cr. on a car with a really long name, the Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2 Carrozzata Da Zagato CN.AR750106 '65. Couple of days later, I won the same bastard car in a B-Spec event. 15 Million, gone. I can't even sell the bloody thing.

Oh yeah, and I accidentally retired my Level 32 Bob which, incidentally, was the only one of my Bobs with at least half a brain cell.

Don't worry, you can sell it, just not for money.

what b spec race was that by chance? I want that car.

Historic Car Cup I believe. 👍

 

[Theace37]

Although the stupidist thing I've done is drag race a fiat 500 (classic one) against an X1... backwards


OR... launching the x1 at 300mph over the bump in the wings of the red dragon track

 

[xEquinox]

OR... launching the x1 at 300mph over the bump in the wings of the red dragon track

That's one of my favorite things to do in this game now.. Try it with a Mercedes SLR McLaren or a Lamborghini Gallardo. Something about the way they take off makes landing backflips possible.. I've spent hours trying to perfect a technique to hit backflips on command.

 

[carfanatic45]

I wasn't paying attention to the laps and I had to take a leak so I thought I finished the race in FIRST so I ran to the bathroom right as I crossed he line, only to come back to find out I have been lapped.

 

[heingericke]

I wasn't paying attention to the laps and I had to take a leak so I thought I finished the race in FIRST so I ran to the bathroom right as I crossed he line, only to come back to find out I have been lapped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwnnE12HCM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[carfanatic45]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwnne12hcm&feature=youtube_gdata_player

lol!!!

 

[CarNut11]

Don't worry, you can sell it, just not for money.



Historic Car Cup I believe. 👍

Thank you, for adding insult to poverty.

And yes, it is the Historic Cup.

 

[gamerdog6482]

Thinking my Chevelle could beat the 2J.

 

[PureHeavyMetal]

Thinking my Chevelle could beat the 2J.

Same here. Except I was using the Buick Special.

 

[StirlingMoose]

Spending 20 million on the Ferrari 330 P4, then, while grinding seasonals to get money back, the 2J shows up in my UCD. I was over 5 million dollars short. It'll probably never come back...

You know they say the 2J only appears when you haven't got enough money?
It appeared in the UCD two days ago. I had 13M credits so I nipped over to the 4WD seasonal where I knew I could get some quick money, came back with my £14.5M twenty minutes later. It had gone.

 

[gamerdog6482]

1970 Ticket. How I got mine.

 

[careface]

You know they say the 2J only appears when you haven't got enough money?
It appeared in the UCD two days ago. I had 13M credits so I nipped over to the 4WD seasonal where I knew I could get some quick money, came back with my £14.5M twenty minutes later. It had gone.

user error.....the ucd refreshes 3 lines every time a loading bar appears.

 

[StirlingMoose]

user error.....the ucd refreshes 3 lines every time a loading bar appears.

Hey, the title of the thread is "I'm an idiot"

So does doing the same race three times in a row count as one load or three?

 

[gamerdog6482]

3.

 

[obsessive rules]

Bought an FTO road car thinking the STC was obtained through racing mods...