Endurance races on the same tracks?

[Zoom!Zoom!]

Tsukuba 4 hours is the worst endurance race I've had so far. (Indy the second as either I blow the AI away or have no chance of keeping up) I really thought I had a tough race ahead as I was in second for the first 30 minutes. I really push hard to catch the leader using up my tires. After getting the lead I had two on my tail until at an hour and 20 minutes I pitted as I plan to make two pit stops. Well this totally end the challenge as the AI didn't pit until 2:20 in the race. With my fresh tires vs their more worn tires I lap them just after 2 hours.

The best endurance race I've had was the Suzuka 1000km. (6 hour race) I was racing the Nissan GTR '08 against the Honda NSX'06 which was faster than me down the straight. I end up winning with the NSX behind me less than a second. The last few laps was a real battle to keep ahead of the NSX.

 

[MSZ]

24 hours of Macau! That would be a race of destruction...

I say bring it on, as a Chinese guy I would love to see Macau in GT or the return of HK.

 

[kweiss]

I'm not moaning, it is what it is and you just have to get on with it or ignore them, but what on earth were PD thinking with the endurance race tracks? I just unlocked them and there are nine endurance races. Just nine. Could it really have been so difficult to make it on nine different tracks from the 20 odd we have? Instead we have a 4 hour race on Tskuba in MX-5s, then another 9 Hour race on the same track, but in different cars. WHY? It's not even a good track for endurance racing because it's too short, you'll do about 4 million laps and be bored out of your mind. There is a reason real endurance races are generally done on long tracks.

Then you have two races on the Nurburgring. I've not unlocked them yet so I'm not sure, but i think they're on different configurations? But even still, it's the same track again.

I mean really, it's these sort of decisions that utterly baffle me. Why did they do it?

To make it worse, these are the exact same endurance races, on the same tracks, as GT4.

 

[Firminator]

God I hate Tsukuba !!!!! Why the 4 hr one was bad enough . 209 laps.....

Now 9!!!!! Hours oh god.

Sometimes I really set pissed at PD being so Patriotic.

9000000000000000000 GT-Rs and MX-5s

 

[lmanion]

I dont understand how with Monaco and Monza in the series how they cant have been used for an endurance race, especially Monza i mean they already have changing weather but the longest race we have there is 20 laps in the FGT championship.

We need the Monza 1000km race for Le Mans cars and also the Nurburgring 1000km which was a classic race on the Nordschliefe before the GP track was opened.
I would also like to see the return of an endurance race on Trial Mountain.

 

[cohetedor]

I think the most obvious race missing is the Daytona 500. They did Indy even though they don't have the proper cars in the game for it, so why not Daytona for which they do? It easily would have been the most competitive endurance race if they made it stock cars only, and way better than 9 hours at Tsukuba. I just hit level 32 and seriously am not looking forward to doing that race in a-spec.

The lack of the Daytona is also strange since that one trailer showed a nice cinema of the start of a race there with the jets flying over and all the teams in the pits, maybe a licensing issue?

 

[CodeRedR51]

I'm not moaning...

Actually yes, yes you are.

 

[Gejabo]

I don't get why people are moaning about Tsubuka endurance races and hoping for more endurace races on ovals.. they have even less corners.

 

[ikarys]

I'd love to see the Isle of Man as an endurance event. That would be super awesome!

 

[Vautwin]

The damnn miata race was hell!!!!!! And the other one on tsukuba is only doable if you practice the pit manoeuvre lol

 

[Mynock005]

24 Hours of Nurburgring is a real event, I was excited to see it (although I figured it would be in there). The real Nurburgring 24 has over 200 cars on track at once and uses like 3 different pit lanes to accomodate them all, it's quite an amazing race, but with the GT5 limit on how many cars you can have on track at once, it makes it a little less exciting and more of a grind.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

WHY? It's not even a good track for endurance racing because it's too short, you'll do about 4 million laps and be bored out of your mind. There is a reason real endurance races are generally done on long tracks.

The Roadster 4 Hour endurance race is actually a real race. I remember an Australian motoring magazine (MOTOR Magazine, for those interested) doing an article about their go at the race with Kazunori Yamauchi. As for the 9 hour endurance at Tsukuba, I'm not sure if it's a real event but I'm going to assume so because 9 hours seems pretty specific.

But I do agree, since it appears PD wanted to keep to 9 events per "series", I could do without one of the Tsukuba and Nürburgring events. They could've perhaps added a Monza 1000km (based on the real race) and a 250 mile race of the Daytona road course (also a real event). Or better yet, they could've kept all the current races and added more to go with them.

 

[gambleboyen]

It doesn't affect me as I will most likely never race even the shortest endurance race.

 

[SavageWhiteDude]

I won't be doing an endurance races longer than 4 hours till we have the option of saving mid-race.

 

[Samus]

It's the same question as 'why are there so many Skylines?'. It's a big deal in Japan; Super GT and D1GP events are held there, as are Time Attacks. Look up videos of time attacks, I found some by accident back during GT4 and now I'm obsessed with tuning various cars to get round there as fast as possible. In GT4, admittedly with nitrous oxide, I could get an Evo VIII MR GSR to lap it in 46 seconds, after hours of tuning.

That said, 9 hours of it in the same car with other cars getting in the way of hot laps would get boring, even for me.

True but like I say this isn't the only game to feature the track, it's been in every Forza Motorsport game as well. Also I haven't got anything against Japanese tracks, there are lots I like and some I'd rather have over Tsukuba like Okayama, Motegi, SUGO.

I'm just sick and tired of this little track I guess, as far as a racing track goes it has nothing going for it. No real speed, no challenging corners apart from maybe the last and it's sooooo short.

 

[JJ72]

how I miss Sugo, it was to have some presence but can't see it on any racing sim now. That track is mega with street cars.