Estimated Prize Money e.g.

[RobKMX]

Ok, this morning racing the campaign mode, gt league, la festa cavallino races just ferrari. 1st place 120,000, 2nd 70,000, 3rd 50,000 or so you'd think!

Race 1 - I was in a maxed out 458 italia gt3 13. 1st place just beating a 512 bb 76 by 1.5 seconds. Actual prize money 90,000 including 60% bonus for a clean race.

Race 2 - I was in a maxed out 458 italia gr4. 2nd place by 11 seconds to a 458 italia 09. Actual prize money 45,000.

Race 3 - remember the 512 bb 76 I only just beat in race 1. Well I'm in a maxed out version. Came in 7th 4.5 seconds behind a 512 bb 76 and 55 seconds behind the 330 that won. Actual prize money 20,000.

No consistency what so ever gtsport. Sort it out will ya!

 

[Woodybobs]

You have to use the suggested class to get the exact payout. It's written beside the prize estimate. I think it's n600 for those races, i.e. the stock 458 production car. More power nets smaller payouts, less power nets more.

 

[RobKMX]

Just raced around the last race. Lowered the 458 09 to the max of n600. Fully lightened. Best I got was 13th 46 seconds behind the leader.
Collecting 9,000.
So I either max out a car to get minimum winnings, or standardise it and get less.

 

[Woodybobs]

Those Ferrari races are difficult to win in the recommended class. Most of the other races are much easier, some even in ridiculously underpowered cars.

 

[daan]

I just tried the Nurburgring and Monza races in an N600 LaFerrari. Won them both and got the 120,000 so everything is working as it should.

 

[cudwieser]

Two cheap tricks to use are soft sports (or super soft slicks if they're available) and to knock the weight down. For some reason the lack of weight doesn't affect the category rating so dump as much weight as possible. After that knock the power back a bit to get it down a category (otherwise up the power just enough to stay in category) and make sure the balances are to your liking. After that race your heart out. Certain cars seem to have an inherent edge regardless (check which ones are winning the races and either match the car for output or use the same car). In any case it is a Poly trait to have the odd race with mismatched AI or machinary (GT 2 and the 300hp GT40 in a sub 300hp race come to mind). Some times you need to exit and re-enter a race a few times to get more favorable opponents.

P.S Daan makes a good point. See if you can downrate a higher specced Ferarri to match the suggested conditions. Usually downrated cars tend to be a bit quicker than uprated ones.

 

[daan]

GT will try to give you a race. It adjusts the power of the AI drivers during the race and on the fly. If you try and overpower the Ferrari races with a fully powered GT4/GT3/Enzo/LaFerrari/330, it will retaliate. Sometimes that means you'll get hilarious crashes, but sometimes it will beat you in an unlikely car.

At Monza last night, in my N600 (fully lightened, but with untouched suspension and diff) LaFerrari, I got up to 2nd behind the 330. It sensed me there and got a power boost, missed its braking point for the 1st chicane on lap 5, sailed right through, got reset, and carried on with an increased gap. I got past at the 2nd chicane at the start of lap 6 and pulled away to the finish.

 

[cudwieser]

Done the first race in an F40 with 1012kg and 532hp. Still an N500 car. Won the first race with a bit of fight.

 

[Jmac279]

Did a Sunday Cup race on Alsace w/ an unmodified BMW i3 on sports hard tires just for fun, won easily to my surprise despite giving up 176 hp to the Genesis. Won 1500 Cr (30% of the 5000 Cr for the suggested N400 class). I guess it really handicaps Gr.X cars regardless if they're actually fast or not. Meanwhile, an Alfa Romeo 4C, which would absolutely dominate the field despite being an N200 car, would net you a huge bonus.

Seems odd they categorized N-class cars by only power (N100 = < 150 ps, N200 = 150-249 ps, N300 = 250-349 ps, etc.) and not P:W Ratio or something that incorporates P:W ratio, traction, and downforce.

I don't have every car yet, but as you can see, there are definitely some outliers when it comes to P:W Ratio (The N300 KTM X-Bow, which has a P:W Ratio similar to N600 cars, and the Alfa Romeo 4C, which has a P:W Ratio similar to higher-end N300/lower-end N400 cars) that should dominate their classes for sure and a class or two above, depending on the track.

GT Sport - Outliers

• Jmac279
• Jul 8, 2018