Evo vs GT4

[8400RPM]

Thanks for the scans Scaff! Great article, I'll be looking for it soon.

 

[Gabkicks]

It reminds me of the guy that was the best in some rally video game. Subaru put him in one of their real cars on a real track and he flipped the car.

that guy has beaten some pro WRC rally drivers. in real life also

Your talking about the guy who played Colin mcrae rally 3 on his ps2 with the old Logitech DF? Anyone know how his rally carreer is currently going?

 

[Nitroboy24]

His new record is 5 minutes, 26.547 seconds if you read the text under the bottom picture in this link:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=51122

 

[Hyundai Racer]

My eyes cant read that small letters, help me.

You guys need glasses. Although the text is small I can read it fine.

 

[Fiorentina 1]

Hi, I've driven the Nordschleife a few times. The first time I drove it was during a racing school. I did 25 laps in a Mini One (the best car I could rent at the airport in Belgium). Unlike during tourist times, the racing school was like the game, offering continuous lapping. Therefore, you have a legit lap time. In the Mini-One my best lap was a 10:40. I did 6 laps within 5 seconds of that time, and had 2 in the 10:40. In the game I drove the Mini-One in arcade mode and did a 10:39.7.... I haven't done more then 4 laps in that car (why drive a Mini-One when you have access to Japanese GT Supra?). The other times I drove at the Nordschleife was in proper racing cars, which are not in GT4. Slow touring cars like Renault Clios or Opel Astras, nothing gnarly like the Japanese GT cars or Porsche Cup Cars...Anyways, I found the game quite accurate. The one thing that I found different was the Pflanzgarten 1 & Pflanzgarten 2 sections (Kilometer 17 out of 20), in real life this is a gnarly section where you get air and the car becomes very unstable. Next to the Fuchsrohre section it is the scariest section on the track in my opinion. In the game, the first section is non-existent (i.e. flat, not much of a blind downhill section) and second is pretty easy. Way too easy. There is much more of an elevation change in real life; surprisingly considering the elevation sections in the rest of the game were pretty good. The Pflanzgarten sections have caused many crashes in real life, it is the section were Stefan Bellof flipped in 1983 while doing some ballisticly fast laps during the last Group-C race. All in all this is a great game and I’m so glad they added the Nordschleife! 👍

 

[hellnback]

The 'Phil Bennett' post...

The Radical SR3 Turbo lap time in real life was 7:19 with street tyres and not slicks - as the driver of that car I should know.

In the meantime GT4 is mega - although the cars you can use on the 'Ring mean lap times become a little crazy! I've done 5min 23sec in the Formula car!!!!

From this... https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=49455&page=4&pp=20&highlight=database

Post: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=1477501&postcount=61

 

[SSJChar]

I cant seem to access your gallery. i push the gallery button and it just puts me to the main page of myphotoalbum.com. i dont think my cookie saves for that site or something.

 

[newbielives]

Good read 👍

Hi, I've driven the Nordschleife a few times. The first time I drove it was during a racing school. I did 25 laps in a Mini One (the best car I could rent at the airport in Belgium). Unlike during tourist times, the racing school was like the game, offering continuous lapping. Therefore, you have a legit lap time. In the Mini-One my best lap was a 10:40. I did 6 laps within 5 seconds of that time, and had 2 in the 10:40. In the game I drove the Mini-One in arcade mode and did a 10:39.7.... I haven't done more then 4 laps in that car (why drive a Mini-One when you have access to Japanese GT Supra?). The other times I drove at the Nordschleife was in proper racing cars, which are not in GT4. Slow touring cars like Renault Clios or Opel Astras, nothing gnarly like the Japanese GT cars or Porsche Cup Cars...Anyways, I found the game quite accurate. The one thing that I found different was the Pflanzgarten 1 & Pflanzgarten 2 sections (Kilometer 17 out of 20), in real life this is a gnarly section where you get air and the car becomes very unstable. Next to the Fuchsrohre section it is the scariest section on the track in my opinion. In the game, the first section is non-existent (i.e. flat, not much of a blind downhill section) and second is pretty easy. Way too easy. There is much more of an elevation change in real life; surprisingly considering the elevation sections in the rest of the game were pretty good. The Pflanzgarten sections have caused many crashes in real life, it is the section were Stefan Bellof flipped in 1983 while doing some ballisticly fast laps during the last Group-C race. All in all this is a great game and I’m so glad they added the Nordschleife! 👍

 

[Small_Fryz]

yeah i cant access gallery either

 

[Scaff]

yeah i cant access gallery either

The gallery terminated my account as it had magazine scans in it, I will be putting them up on my own webspace at the weekend.

 

[SSJChar]

aww harsh. guess ill have to wait till the weekend. so how does the nordschief, or however you spell it, work? do you pay a fee for a lap or something? do you have to time yourself, or do they time you(which i doubt)?

 

[Small_Fryz]

well let us know when you put the scans up on the net, id love to see/read em

 

[Scaff]

aww harsh. guess ill have to wait till the weekend. so how does the nordschief, or however you spell it, work? do you pay a fee for a lap or something? do you have to time yourself, or do they time you(which i doubt)?

The Nurburgring Nordschliefe is officially a public toll road, you pay a fee to use it and is derestricted as far as speed goes.

It is one way only (thank god) and German traffic law does apply. Public access is only available on a limited number of days per year, as it still hosts the occasional race and is often closed for manufacturer testing days.

Generally lap timing is not encouraged (and they will not do it for you) on public days, however if you want to time yourself its hard for them to check every car. I would however not recomend this (I have driven the 'ring), the track is hard enough without trying to beat a time; its a good way to kill yourself.

Last year the use of in-car cameras was also banned at the 'ring, with strict penalties (upto a full ban) in place.

For more info try these sites

Official Site

Lap times

Ben Lovejoy's excellent fan site

8200rpm - 'ring videos

 

[Small_Fryz]

why were camera's banned??

 

[Acid X]

Just upload them via Imageshack.us ... You could even do it while replying to the thread.

 

[Scaff]

why were camera's banned??

No exact reason has been given, but you can read some of the theories here

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/videoban.html

 

[Pironi]

Yeah, agree with ppith. If there's no real danger, why not push it to the max?

Damn, I wish they sell Evo stateside...

Check http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/?evo to subscribe, but remember that overseas comes with a price. Personally I think EVO Mag is for the carmagazines what Topgear is for the TV-carshows:Simply the best!

 

[evolutionmb]

Yeah, agree with ppith. If there's no real danger, why not push it to the max?

Damn, I wish they sell Evo stateside...

Yea! I had to import the magazine to Ohio for $100 a subscription
but it is the best car magazine out there.

 

[SSJChar]

His new record is 5 minutes, 26.547 seconds if you read the text under the bottom picture in this link:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=51122

thats gt4 time right?

 

[Gabkicks]

of course man of course

 

[McLaren]

why were camera's banned??

I'm sure I'm wrong, but one of the reasons I heard they were banned was b/c people were making free clips of the 'Ring and either putting them up for people to view or sell these videos to people.

Just 1 reason I heard about something close to that. I guess it also could have been people illegally doing things and using the camera to capture it.

I don't know exactly, but what I heard is somewhere around that.^

 

[_mk4002]

Links should be fine now, give them a go.

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

You really should try using Image Shack. If you register, (Free) you can add/remove your images whenever you want.

 

[Scaff]

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

You really should try using Image Shack. If you register, (Free) you can add/remove your images whenever you want.

Yes and then they closed my account for uploading Magazine scans.

What would be ideal, would be if Jordan could host the scans here at GTP.

 

[Pebb]

I was going to buy this months Evo mag about this but I passed on it.

 

[nttdemented]

Just use ImageShack or PhotoBucket.

I already forced my eyes to read that blury text though. A+ article. Very nice indeed. 👍

 

[dei]

I only got to read the two first pages before the homepage said that the limit for downloading was reached, bad! What laptime did Meaden manage?

I must say that Evo is by far and away the best car mag I´ve ever read. For all you americans that want to subscribe, try this page:
www.evo.co.uk