575PP
After 15 laps each:
DigitalBaka - Nismo Fairlady Z Z-tune (Z33) '03
1:04.126
Back-end kept stepping out on exit, when it didn't there was understeer. Braking was difficult, longer braking allowed sharper entry, but if I tried to brake a bit later and trail brake, the car just understeered off track.
DC - 5
Dr_Slump - Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base '06
1:03.414
Unstable under braking, and some understeer on exit. But otherwise was okay.
DC - 7
iainoflo85 - High End Performance G37
1:04.314
Just not that fast. But at least it's not a BNR34.
krenkme - Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base '06
1:03.212
A smidgen of understeer away from being absolutely perfect.
DC - 9.5
Motor City Hamilton - Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base '06
1:03.278
Nearly perfect, but the braking was a bit unstable sometimes, and there was a smidgen of understeer.
DC - 8.5
Onboy123 - Nismo GT-R R Tune '99
1:03.588
Understeer is a major bummer on this car (and the brakes, but the understeer is worse) - it could be really good, but the understeer really makes it poor. The gearbox hasn't been fully utilised either and the two together could be holding the car back.
DC - 6.5
Praiano63 - Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base '06
1:03.034
Absolutely spot-on. Just perfect. Nothing bad to say about it at all. And the only one that I could get .02 with, but it was a red-lap sadly.
DC - 10
robrabbitman - Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 base '06
1:03.553
Handling was spot-on, I cannot fault that, but the gearbox wasn't used to it's full potential and I felt that it could've needed more power. Exit acceleration felt good and fast, but overall speed was lacking.
DC - 9
trackripper123 - RUF CTR2 '96
1:03.772
Off-throttle instability in almost every situation and to top it off some understeer as well. If the brakes were better, and the car was more stable it could easily be the fastest car here.
DC - 4
VTiRoj - Blitz ER34 D1 Spec '04
1:04.735
Throttle sensitivity is too high for me, so exiting corners was really slow. Otherwise rather neutral, good under braking and off-throttle, but was just too hard to keep it under control in 1st-3rd gears.
DC - 5
xande1959 - HPA Motorsports FT565 twin turbo Audi TT
1:03.968
Turn-in was sluggish, on-throttle understeer specifically on the exit of corners slowed me down a bit and the gears felt strange, but otherwise handling was good. It just didn't feel fast enough.
DC - 7.5
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490PP
After 12 laps each:
biffa3 - Mine's Lancer Evolution VI '00
1:11.208
A really great tune, it just felt really comfortable for me, I cannot fault it. Nothing negative about this except the time, it's just not as fast as the S2000's.
DC - 10
DigitalBaka - Gran Turismo 350Z RS
1:10.920
A very nice car to drive, smooth and consistent, until you find the momentum oversteer coming out of the tunnel - it hits hard and you lose control pretty quickly. I think this tune would be a ten were it not for this. It could be power oversteer, or it could be the kerb after the tunnel or a bit of both, but it stopped the car from being brilliant.
DC - 9
Dr_Slump - Trial Celica SS-II (ZZT231) '03
1:11.515
Could've been a lovely car except for braking. It's just extremely unstable under braking into the first corner, I think I went off into the sand 8 out of the 12 laps that I did. And when I did manage to brake properly into the first corner the other parts proved difficult because of the understeer on exit.
DC - 3
HaoleHatingWRX - Mine's Lancer Evolution VI '00
1:11.441
Really nice car to drive, with a good tune, just held back by understeer. And the acceleration felt a bit sluggish, but this could have been the gearing - I wasn't hitting the redline before braking into the first corner.
DC - 6
iainoflo85 - Nismo Fairlady Z S-tune (Z33) '02
1:11.183
krenkme - RUF 3400S '00
1:11.469
This car was good, except the massive understeer. It really held it back from getting into the 1:10's. Otherwise it felt pretty good. It didn't feel fast, but the speedometer said otherwise.
DC - 8
Motor City Hamilton - Mugen S2000 '00
1:10.882
The time could've been better, I think, but the mid-corner understeer when on the throttle really bugged me. It pushed me off track so many times that the only way I could deal with it was to just coast to the apex and then throttle out.
DC - 7
NEWDRIVER2 - Trial Celica SS-II (ZZT231) '03
1:10.736
Not much to say about this one, it did better than I had expected for an FF, there was no understeer that I could find, the handling was pretty loose, but I liked it, it wasn't too much.
DC - 9.5
robrabbitman - Opera Performance S2000 '04
1:09.801
Ding, ding, ding! I think we have a winner! This car was just the cats pyjamas - there was a reason why I loved it before the shootout, it's awesome. The only thing stopping this tune getting a 12 was the brake-release oversteer, but I found a way of dealing with that pretty quickly, I just used a bit of throttle when I was lifting off the brakes. The handling was spot-on otherwise, no understeer and not too much oversteer, the turn-in was really great. Overall the best one in the whole shootout.
DC - 10
trackripper123 - RUF RGT '00
1:10.298
A very pleasant surprise after driving the CTR2 where the handling was on a knife edge all the time. The handling was much smoother with this one, but just enough wildness to go really fast. No understeer in this one, and the oversteer was just right for me.
DC - 9.5
VTiRoj - Nismo 270R '94
1:14.085
I gave up after 5 laps because I couldn't get to grips with the car at all. If it wasn't understeering badly it was oversteering even worse on exit. The other weird thing was the fact that one rear wheel would spin on exit and not the other. This slowed the car down and sometimes just spun it out.
DC - 2
xande1959 - RUF 3400S '00
1:11.602
Pretty good handling car, except for the understeer on certain corners - namely the corner at the start of sector 2 and the first part of the double-right-hander near the end. I think it also just lacked the speed of the other better cars.
DC - 6.5