View attachment 88550 deal all, my first post here, im a 5 month-old noob, started playing gt5 back in august this year but im a studious novice - after about 20 laps im on early 2:10 - not bad for an old man
gt6 seems wanting to start out easy for first timers so golding the event is very achievable. not boasting anything here but first warm up lap often good enough to get gold. if you competed hard in gt5 tt to get in top 500th you will be like that. after golded, watched top players' replays to study the lap before id waste my precious energy to improve my timestudied the braking points and how much a corner you are allowed to cut.
corner 1. nearly at the end of straight, pavement colour changes and when you pass that line you start braking hard. what i cant understand is when Amo braked his tail slid nicely for the corner, without any steering input (from what i saw from cockpit view) as if rear slid by itself. i tried setting the brake bias 8/10 but as soon as you enter the event it defaults back to 5/5. hmmm...
corner 4. you can cut quite a bit, but cant go out too wide on exit, no more than a car width.
corner 6. before the corner there are 3 cones on your right, when youre about along side of middle one start braking. downshift slightly earlier than braking seems to bring the tail around nicely. also noticed he didnt braked fully - partially, for both corner 6 & 7.
corner 8. there is a concrete patch on your left comes up before the corner, start braking right on end edge or slightly after.
Schumaker S. beyond me. use all the curves - entry, apex and exit - on 3rd gear hitting rev limiter, ideally. i never managed to pull it off.
corner 11. i usually start braking when i go under the bridge there is a shadow on the road, after about half a sec i crossed over that shadow i start braking.
corner 14. from a distance you can see rubber on the road where it starts to get darker, when i just started to enter that zone i apply brakes. there is actually a horizontal line or some sort right on braking point so when i see it and if i hadnt applied brakes yet then im braking too late.
corner 15 S's. ride over curves little bit, otherwise you'll red lap it. when riding over them the car gets airborne and when it is ease off throttle to avoid wheelspins when tyres land on pavement.
apart from available intake and exhaust upgrades, back ballast weight seems the only option to improve your handling balance to improve your time. i did 60kg at the very back (50/50) to improve by 2 secs. 80kg (49/51) seems to be too much my lap time deteriorated.
lastly, thanks to all you experts for your valuable information otherwise i wouldnt have had improved as much. i wish i knew this site much earlier.
now, i was always, consistenly, without-fail 4 secs slower than the leader on GT5 TT events so by looking at my gap from the leader, i know i wont improve my time any further on this. if i was 20 years younger im pretty sure id be running for your money
Yep, good post. I would add that corner #5 can be dangerous as you will red lap it just by looking at the r/h edge of it.
Time for you to stop bragging about being ahead of me there old boy. See what happens when you poke sticks at snakes. 
From now on, if you have anymore smartass comments to make that aren't directly related to this thread, please feel free to pm me and I will be more than happy to engage in your conversations there as I know that the others don't care to read your dribble as it pertains to me. Good luck to you.
2:14 +- 1 second 
We gotta have like 4-5 inches so far, with a forecast of up to 7 inches. Man, I hate Michigan winters. 
