Events/races in Gran Turismo 6

[GTracer98]

Imagine doing Germany vs Italy.

 

[Mulan]

I liked some of the licensetest challenge theese can be fun with online scores. Id like challenges like reach finnishline before your competitor (ala Shift), even be able to download ghostcars from online.

 

[Smokey Nismo]

Mistral 78 Laps

Event information: Ever wondered how far the Formula 1 car has come in 60 years? Win this event & your car becomes one of the very few immortals.

Licence needed: S

Cars allowed:
Brawn BGP 001 '09
Ferrari F10 '10
Red Bull RB7 '11
McLaren MP4-23 '08
Matra MS80 '69
Williams FW18 '96
Ferrari F2003-GA '03
McLaren M23 '76
Ferrari 312T '76
Renault R26 '06
McLaren Honda MP4-4 '88
Lotus 97T '85
Toleman TG184 '84
Benetton B195 '95
Williams FW15C '93
McLaren Honda MP4-14 '99
BMW Williams FW25 '03
Lotus E20 '12
Ferrari F2007 '07
McLaren MP4-27 '12

Price money: 15,000,000

 

[Mahnegold]

Is it rally-cross where the starting positions take different paths on two similar "tracks" of the same length? I find that it could be really fun and it might be possible to have a Course Maker Generator for it like the rally Special Events.

No, it isn't. Rally Cross is 5 - 10 cars at the same time on the same track doing several laps. Like road racing.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

The classic GT Format:

Example:
FF Challenge

License: None
Regulations/Rules: FF Cars Only

1st - 1,500cr
2nd - 1,000cr
3rd - 900cr
4th - 800cr
5th - 700cr
6th - 600cr
Under - 400cr

Courses & Laps
Tahiti Road - 2 Laps
Autumn Ring Mini - 3 Laps
Midfield Raceway - 2 Laps
Seattle Short - 2 Laps
Deep Forest Raceway - 2 Laps

Possible Prize Car - Honda Civic Coupe Si (EM1, US) '99

I hope that there's no level up system and PD goes back to the license restrictions. I mean, the license tests were very pointless in GT5 otherwise unless you wanted some A-Spec points for level ups and the prize cars.

Oh yeah, here's example 2:

US Old School Muscle Car Cup

License Required: A License
Restrictions: USA Cars only, made in 1979 or below

Courses:
Seattle Circuit - 2 Laps
Mazda Raceway: Laguna Seca - 3 Laps
Daytona: Road Course - 2 Laps
Indy: Road Course - 2 Laps
Infineon Raceway: Stock Car Course - 3 Laps

Prize Money:
1st - 16,000cr
2nd - 14,000cr
3rd - 12,000cr
4th - 10,000cr
5th - 8,000cr
6th - 6,000cr
Under - 4,000cr

Possible Prize Car(s): Ford Mustang Mach I '71, Shelby Cobra 427 S/C '67, Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 427 (C2) '67, & Plymouth Cuda AAR '71

 

[05XR8]

Mini Challenge with Cooper Works race cars

NR-A Roadster Cup: any RM/TC/tuned MX-5

Japanese 80's Festival: AE86 race cars

Classic Muscle Car Championship Trans Am race cars from 1966-1972
Classic Muscle Car Championship STOCK CAR race cars from 1963-1969

R Emblem
Z Emblem

Vette vs Viper road car(tuned)
Ferrari vs Lamborghini
BMW vs Mercedes

V8 Engine Cup
6-cylinder Cup
Forced Induction Cup 300/MAXhp Class
Supercar Festival I(pre-2000)
Supercar Festival II(2001-current)

GRANTURISMO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP(use GT ACADEMY NISMO GT3 GT-R rwd)

Dream Car Championship: choose GT3 or GT1 class car( must come first in class or first overall)

CLUBMAN CUP 200/300/400/500/600/MAXhp Class

BOXER CUP

GRANTURISMO ALL STARS(TC/RM cars only)

ENDURANCE SERIES:
Bathurst 12/24 hour
Bathurst 1000
Dubai 24hour
Spa 24hour
Daytona 500
Daytona 24hour
Silverstone 24hour
Grand Valley 300km FIA GT4 style race cars
Super GT Suzuka 1000
Le Mans 24
24hour Nurburgring
25hours at Thunderhill

 

[Earth]

Some endurance Races

Beginner Endurance Hall
Needed to Race: IB License + 5% complete

• Road cars only
• 24 car grids
• Limited to Sports Tires
• No B-Spec drivers allowed in A-Spec

1. Grand Valley 300km
   - 500 pp
2. Laguna Seca 200 miles
   - AI uses American cars
   - 520 pp
3. Trial Mountain 2 hours
   - !!No Tuning Parts Allowed!! (restrictors and sports tires are OK)
   - 525 pp
4. Tsukuba 2 hours
   - AI uses Japanese Kei cars
   - 400 pp
5. Autumn Ring Classic Car 2 hours
   - '59 and earlier only
   - 475 pp
6. Super Speedway 150 miles
   - AI uses American & Honda cars
   - 525 pp
7. Nürburgring 2 Hours (North Loop)
   - AI uses German cars
   - 525 pp
   - Prize Car: Nissan GTR '13

Advanced Endurance Hall
Needed to Race: IA License + 15% complete

• 24 car grids
• Limited to Racing Tires
• 1 B-Spec driver allowed (Except Daytona 500 & Indianapolis 500)

1. Daytona 500
   - NASCAR only
2. Indianapolis 500
   - Formula GT only
3. Apricot Hill 3 Hours
   - Modified Racing Road cars only
   - 500pp
4. Monaco 3 hours
   - Modified Racing Road cars only
   - 600pp
5. Monza 3 hours
   - AI uses high end Italian sports cars
   - 600pp
6. SSR11 4 Hours All Night
   - AI uses GT cars
   - 625pp max
7. Nürburgring 4 hours (typeV course)
   - AI uses high end and highly modified sports cars
   - Road cars only
   - 600 pp

Extreme Endurance Hall
Needed to Race: + 25% complete

• 24 car grids
• Limited to Racing Tires
• 2 B-Spec drivers allowed

1. Fuji 6 hours
   - AI uses High end or heavily modified Japanese sports cars
   - 600pp
2. 1000km Suzuka
   - Super GT only
3. 1000km Bathurst
   - V8 Supercar only
4. 24 hours of Spa
   - AI uses GT1 and GT2 cars
   - Available as multi-class race. Same prize money for winning either class
   - 650pp
5. 24 Hours of Daytona
   - AI uses Daytona Prototypes or LMPs depending on your car's pp
   - Available as multi-class race. Same prize money for winning either class
   - 725pp
6. 24 hours of Le Mans
   - Available as multi-class race. Same prize money for winning either class
   - 725pp
7. 24 hours of Nürburgring (24hr course)
   - Available as multi-class race. Same prize money for winning either class
   - 620pp

 

[Warbeast101]

-convertibles
-diesel
-old vs new
-drag
-fia gt3
-fia gt1
-f1

 

[ShiftingGears]

One thing I haven't warmed to is categorising the races into Beginner, Amateur, Expert etc after Gran Turismo 2. Instead I would split races into;

Manufacturer Races - events for a specific manufacturer only. Would make it much easier to find than currently trying to guess which difficulty the event falls into.
Nationals - country exclusive races, such as Schwarzwald Leagues, Japanese Classics, etc.
Special Events - for the more general events, like drivetrain-specific challenges, world historics, and Licensed Events like NASCAR.
Endurance - so long as they fix endurance up, I find it as on GT5 pretty tedious.
GT League - Events like karting, Sunday Cup (which would have cars restricted by a nominal minimum weight, and a naturally aspirated 2 Litre Engine or less. Similar restrictions for Clubman Cup, and so on. GT3, GT2 Categories can exist with special tunes for vehicles which would qualify them to race in a specific class of sportscar racing, but that is another issue. Basically a sub-section of the racing events that could resemble a career ladder of a professional sportscar driver.

Rally - pretty self explanatory. Whether they make rally worthwhile in GT6 will remain to be seen. Drag Racing seems to be all the rage in this forum, so another subcategory for that, as well.

 

[Exorcet]

One thing I haven't warmed to is categorising the races into Beginner, Amateur, Expert etc

I can agree with that. There is no reason why a Vitz race for example would be less "expert" than F1 racing. It depends on the caliber of drivers in the series.

That said though, a free mode allowing you to create races takes care of everything, barring any silly pointless detraction like needing to unlock opponent chips to be able to select specific cars to race against.

 

[the_racer100]

Yesterday, I was playing in GT1 and I saw this:

- Normal Car Cup.

And then, I thought: "How cool would it be to have this feature on GT6?". No modifications allowed, races on the most difficult tracks of the game, with 5 laps each (oh, God, Nordschleife will take forever), and the AI had cars that would always match your performance. And the reward for doing this was an Impreza WRX STi.

I used a Viper RT\10 for that championship, but, heck, I could have even used a Primera, the AI was competitive. Felt like the most difficult championship in my life.

So... It would be cool to do a championship like this, to make things spicier.

Or they could return with the Professional Vitz Race from GT3.

 

[Fugitivo]

I would love to see these championships cars and tracks
DTM
LMS
BTCC
WTCC
V8SUPERCAR
F1
WRC

However I know due to licensing we cannot have some of them or all of them.
But there is a solution. Give the users Livery editors and a track creation system that actually works. That way we could have
GTC - German Touring Cars - A5, M3, C63 (all RM) - Let the users design the livery and tracks
LMS - I think GT already has license for this
BTCC & WTCC - All the cars with RM and design our own livery and tracks.
Formula GT - Let us buy Formula GT cars design our livery, create a team with a BOB or with a friend and we both run on a Formula GT championship of 19/20 tracks online or offline. Don't make us have to run the 19/20 races straight... let us finish one race... do whatever events we want to do and when we want we go and run another Formula GT race for that championship.
WRC - If we can't have the cars from 2013 or 2014 let us have classic cars... as many as you can. and let us run against the clock on has many races as the official WRC has.

 

[Yukon]

*Endurance Races*

Brilliant post, Earth. 👍

GT5 lacked so much in the Endurance Racing events. There were so many possibilities for events with how many tracks we had available. The idea of starting out at Beginner and working your way through sounds good. After all, some people may never want to even attempt the massive 24 hour events, but would still like to complete a section of lower classed, long distance races.

Multi-class racing is a must, in my eyes. Especially if the amount of cars on track goes up. It offers variety and makes for more interesting racing and fun.

More restrictions are also needed when it comes to entering these events. GT5 was poorly constructed for allowing, in most races, absolutely anything. The beginner events should definitely be restricted, but when it comes to the more prestigious and longer duration, there should be more allowance.

I hope in the next GT, we'll see a huge variety of Endurance Races. Such as some of the ones you metioned, plus many more. With the addition of new tracks, too, there should be no shortage of such events.

 

[ShiftingGears]

GT5 lacked so much in the Endurance Racing events. There were so many possibilities for events with how many tracks we had available. The idea of starting out at Beginner and working your way through sounds good. After all, some people may never want to even attempt the massive 24 hour events, but would still like to complete a section of lower classed, long distance races.

I was thinking an Eiger Nordwand 100 or 150km with low HP/PP classic cars would be a good idea. Anything except 9 Hours of Tsukuba or 4 hours of MX-5 Racing.

 

[the_racer100]

I would love to see these championships cars and tracks
DTM
LMS
BTCC
WTCC
V8SUPERCAR
F1
WRC

However I know due to licensing we cannot have some of them or all of them.
But there is a solution. Give the users Livery editors and a track creation system that actually works. That way we could have
GTC - German Touring Cars - A5, M3, C63 (all RM) - Let the users design the livery and tracks
LMS - I think GT already has license for this
BTCC & WTCC - All the cars with RM and design our own livery and tracks.
Formula GT - Let us buy Formula GT cars design our livery, create a team with a BOB or with a friend and we both run on a Formula GT championship of 19/20 tracks online or offline. Don't make us have to run the 19/20 races straight... let us finish one race... do whatever events we want to do and when we want we go and run another Formula GT race for that championship.
WRC - If we can't have the cars from 2013 or 2014 let us have classic cars... as many as you can. and let us run against the clock on has many races as the official WRC has.

I don't think so... My memory might be failing me, but I think the license is Turn 10's (not really sure tho, only 56,987% sure).

As for the Formula GT issue, you can always exit to GT Life (as you people call it), in the middle of a championship, after a race, but you can't do anything. It's like, if you want a break from the championship, you exit it (you don't QUIT, you EXIT it), and you can continue it on another day. I think that they don't let us do other events while participating in FGT because F1 drivers don't do so.

 

[eran0004]

As for the Formula GT issue, you can always exit to GT Life (as you people call it), in the middle of a championship, after a race, but you can't do anything. It's like, if you want a break from the championship, you exit it (you don't QUIT, you EXIT it), and you can continue it on another day. I think that they don't let us do other events while participating in FGT because F1 drivers don't do so.

I don't think it's a realism issue, I think it's a design flaw. Might have something to do with how the data is saved and that it doesn't allow you to switch to another event until the one in progress is finished. So this may have been the best they could do without having to dig too deep into the code and reconstruct everything from ground up. Just a guess...

 

[proud aussie]

3 wheeled car race

hahahahahahahaha yes

bathurst 24h
bathurst 1000(v8 supercars)

also bigger starting grids

 

[Tenacious D]

I would love to see these championships cars and tracks
DTM
LMS
BTCC
WTCC
V8SUPERCAR
F1
WRC

This was my notion too. Not quite as detailed as Earth's marvelous posts, but very similar. I'd also like some FIA GT Classes added in there too.

If I recall, GT2 or 3 had some series which repeated the theme, but with increasingly difficult A.I. and more powerful vehicles at higher levels. Likewise better cash rewards and cars. So I'd love to see DTM races for instance at Beginner Level, Semi-Pro Level and Professional Level, each with more laps, more competitive bots, bigger credit and car prizes. They should run on tracks that are either German/European, or have that environment flavor such as Deep Forest. The Nordschleife would make a great final event to cap it off. Unlike Fugitivo, I'd prefer that PD produce a wealth of tracks appropriate for any racing series, though according to Lucas Ordonez, we're going to be very happy with the track list in GT6 so here's hoping.

One thing that will be crucial for a concept like this is for PD to produce a whole gob of cars for these scenarios. The good thing is that most of these cars can be duplicates with different liveries, such as what we have now in GT5 with the numerous Super GT Supras, NSXs and Skylines. License as many team liveries as you can, and to add to the potential competitor count, I'd be fine with some fantasy teams and liveries to flesh all that out. But along with that, select bot competitor names that reflect the racing series that you're in, such as mostly Japanese names for Super GT events, European names for DTM and GT Class racing, mostly Americans for ALMS and NASCAR, etc.

However, how about something including his user content idea?

Hot Hatch Championship

Buy a race car from the list or Race Mod it with your own livery (and yeah, I forgot the race cars, meh)

Acura RSX Type-S '04-08
Citroën C4 Coupe 2.0VTS '05
Ford Escort '97
Ford Focus ST '06
Honda ACCORD Euro-R '02
Honda CIVIC TYPE R (EK) '98
Honda CIVIC TYPE R '08
Hyundai Tiburon GT '01
Lancia DELTA HF Integrale Evoluzione '91
Mazda DEMIO SPORT '03
Mazda Mazda 3
Mini Cooper S '07
Nissan 350Z (Z33, EU) '03
Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 '85
Peugeot 206 CC '01
Scion FR-S '12
Scion TC '12
Toyota ALTEZZA RS200 '98
Toyota SPRINTER TRUENO GT-APEX (AE86 Shuichi Shigeno Version) '00
Volkswagen Bora V6 4MOTION '01
Volkswagen Golf V GTI '05
Volkswagen Golf VI R '10
Volkswagen Scirocco R '10
(or whatever, I'm beat and the PS3 is in the livingroom currently)

Homologation to 500PP (and not sure if this is anywhere near right, this is just off the top of my head)

Maximum 299 bhp
Minimum weight 1900 lbs, at least Stage 1 weight reduction
Racing suspension, clutch, brakes, wheels, transmission
Sports Soft tires
Aero kits allowed
Custom livery for your car, use supplied number plate, choose unique number no higher than 499

Points awarded per position

1st - 10
2nd - 9
3rd - 8
4th - 7
5th - 6
6th - 5
7th - 4
8th - 3
9th - 2
10th to last - 1 (or whatever system rocks)

Tracks (Semi-Pro Level)

Deep Forest - 5 laps
Mondello Park - 7 laps
George-V Paris - 5 laps
Hockenheim - 5 laps
Lausitzring - 5 laps
Oschersleben - 7 laps
Sachsenring - 7 miles
Mugello - 4 laps
Nurburgring Nordschleife GP Circuit - 2 laps for the grand finale

Prize credits and cars, yadda yadda, it's getting late. One thing I like in Forza is this bonus system for credits:

Racing guideline off: +5%
Damage on: +10%
Manual transmission: +10%
Clutch: +10%
Driving aids off: +15%

By the way, among some of the sites on the web which list race courses in some detail is this little gem which include maps:

The Racing Line

 

[Youngun]

I think they should introduce a difficulty scheme like any other game, yes it can make you be one a better driver and equal the playing field but for some, it could seam hard and off putting (even without the bad AI). It would effect the points/Experience/Credits gained from any race/event/sponsorship(and a new idea). Some thing like 0.5x beginner, 0.8x intermediate, 1.0x Hard, 1.2x Expert, 1.5x Legend. With AI being a bit tamer low level and aggressive higher.

 

[Duphman]

Trans-America race
-Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca
-Willow Springs Raceway
-Daytona Road Course

Chevrolet Camaro Z28 RM '69
Dodge Challenger R/T RM '70

Rallycross
-Smoky Mountain
Featuring all Group A and Group B WRC
12 cars racing against each other at one time, standing start.

du Mans Classic
-Circuit de la Sarthe
Featuring all LeMans cars from before 1980

Total 24 Hours of Spa
-Spa Francourchamps
Featuring all FIA GT3 cars in Gran Turismo

Audi R8 LMS Typ 42
Abt Sportsline R8 LMS Typ 42 (Team PlayStation) '09
Fischer Racing Ford GT
Young Driver AMR V12 Vantage GT3 (reportedly scanned by PD at Fischer Racing)
Nissan GT-R GT3 (the car Kaz Yamauchi will be using at this years 24h Nurburgring)

24 Heures du Mans
-Circuit de La Sarthe 2009
Will feature a 24 car grid split into two classes
LMPs and FIA GT2


Lotus Superlights
-London
-Silverstone Circuit

Lotus Elise '96
Lotus Elise RM '96
Lotus Elise 111R '04
Lotus Elise 111R RM '04
RE Amemiya Lotus Europa 20B (winner of Gran Turismo's Best in Show Award at the 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon)

Rotary Club
-Tsukuba Circuit
-Suzuka Circuit
All cars with rotaries

Wangan Midnight
-You know where
All JDM (I didn't say Japanese only, just JDM, yes there is a difference) cars from before the year 2000

Silver State Classic
-a long straight course modeled after the Silver State Classic portion of State Route 318
All competitors cars will be prepped for 200mph plus runs, the pro-touring cars already in Gran Turismo (Mark Steilow's and Mary Pozzi's Camaros) will be your competitors.


Also they should bring back qualifying

 

[C_Monster]

I'd like to see a calendar format that allows you to compete in multiple race series at once, over the course of a season. Instead of doing events and having like 5 races or just doing one race at a time, I'd like to see them incorporate a calendar and you can sign up and race in a few different series at once. Start with beginner and grow into advanced. Bring the licenses and make them required again. Make it mandatory to register one car for that specific series, forcing you to race in that car for the duration of the series. That way we could have an actual points race that spans 20-30 races for a series, forcing you to consistently perform against (ideally) much improved AI. I feel like this would be a much more engrossing experience.