Gran Turismo 7 Custom Race thread

[Sir Crashalot]

if at the Ring 24 hr circuit, it would be only 62 laps in stock condition... it took me 23.5 minutes for one lap... and i can say i had fun with it, having to go manual shift (and i had to learn this the hard way) just so i can drop to lower gears faster when struggling to go up hills...

Tbh I did a single lap at Nordschleife, 19:38, and while it was somehow fun I don't feel like doing another one. I'm afraid for me this is a "get it and forget it" car.

 

[05XR8]

Really need a Commodore and Falcon to have these battles.

 

[Meltac]

OMG i did a custom 2 lap race at Nurburgring 24 hr with a STOCK Unimog, and if you choose to do this it will turn into a one-make race, any modifications to your Unimog and opponents will be random (if set that way). As i was saying, a STOCK Unimog in the 2 lap race was over 47 minutes long!!! the beast struggles going uphill and the gearing on standard gearbox will overspeed at 65Mph.

Hmm, is this (limitation to one make) the case only for stock unimogs, or is this vehicle generally restricted to one make races?

EDIT: Never mind - has been sorted. It's just the "random" option making it like a one make races because the unimog is so slow

 

[BlazeTheCat05]

⭐️Special Event: Like The Wind
Daytona International Raceway Tri-Oval
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"A white-knuckle slipstream battle from start to finish in the fastest road cars"
Laps - 50
PP - 700
Car Type - Road Car, Concept Car, Vision Gran Turismo, Electric Car, Hybrid Car, Professionally Tuned
Tires - (RH)
Tire Wear - Off
Fuel Consumption - Off
Nitrous/Overtake - Prohibited

 

[Mick Tee]

Hi all, been keeping tabs on this thread for a while and just wanted some baseline information.

I have compiled my list of Muscle cars and wanted to know if there are any other suggestions or obvious cars I have missed.


From what I have seen settings wise:

Boost: weak

Tyres: Racing Hard

Counter steering assistance: enabled

Make ——————— HP ——-Weight——

Dodge Charger R/T- 425 1805kg

Dodge Challenger - 425 1724kg

Dodge Superbee - 335 1533kg SC-450

Corvette Stingray C3 - 300 1236kg SC-464

Corvette C2 63 - 359 1360kg SC-552

Camaro SS - 289 1415kg SC-455

Chevelle - 449 1762kg

Mustang Boss - 374 1614kg

Mustang Mach 1 - 302 1615kg

Shelby Mustang 350 - ??

Plymouth superbird - 425 1755kg

Tomaso Pantera - 325 1420kg nA tune

Mangusta - 300 1185kg nA tune

Firebird Trans-am - 219 1649kg SC-328

Shelby Cobra 427 -

Shelby Cobra Daytona ‘64

Cheverolet Corvette C1 '58

CHC Chevy Nova ‘67

Pontiac GTO ‘The Judge’ ‘69

I assume that to match the HP it would be ideal having Superchargers on the lowest HP cars.

Any help is much appreciated as I am in no rush to complete it, just taking my time to balance the pack.

 

[pritchyTim]

Hi all, been keeping tabs on this thread for a while and just wanted some baseline information.

I have compiled my list of Muscle cars and wanted to know if there are any other suggestions or obvious cars I have missed.


From what I have seen settings wise:

Boost: weak

Tyres: Racing Hard

Counter steering assistance: enabled

Make ——————— HP ——-Weight——

Dodge Charger R/T- 425 1805kg

Dodge Challenger - 425 1724kg

Dodge Superbee - 335 1533kg SC-450

Corvette Stingray C3 - 300 1236kg SC-464

Corvette C2 63 - 359 1360kg SC-552

Camaro SS - 289 1415kg SC-455

Chevelle - 449 1762kg

Mustang Boss - 374 1614kg

Mustang Mach 1 - 302 1615kg

Shelby Mustang 350 - ??

Plymouth superbird - 425 1755kg

Tomaso Pantera - 325 1420kg nA tune

Mangusta - 300 1185kg nA tune

Firebird Trans-am - 219 1649kg SC-328

Shelby Cobra 427 -

Shelby Cobra Daytona ‘64

Cheverolet Corvette C1 '58

CHC Chevy Nova ‘67

Pontiac GTO ‘The Judge’ ‘69

I assume that to match the HP it would be ideal having Superchargers on the lowest HP cars.

Any help is much appreciated as I am in no rush to complete it, just taking my time to balance the pack.

Made this a long time ago, so physics updates may have thrown them out of balance, but I found this to be a really fun, challenging grid!

Muscle Car Grid Spreadsheet

I used them mostly stock, so it may not be very useful if you’re running racing tires and/or superchargers!

 

[Mick Tee]

Made this a long time ago, so physics updates may have thrown them out of balance, but I found this to be a really fun, challenging grid!

Muscle Car Grid Spreadsheet

I used them mostly stock, so it may not be very useful if you’re running racing tires and/or superchargers!

This is brilliant! More info than I thought I would get back, so it’s very helpful indeed. I’ll take some time looking it over in detail and adapt to fit in more cars. Thanks again

 

[05XR8]

Doing the spectating thing.


I miss all the old cars we had in past games. Bluebird, Lotus, Isuzu, Honda 1300, Silvia, Colt, Celica, etc.

 

[05XR8]

AI got me good on this one. I was like where in the heckyl did he come from. Might have left the door slightly open. Then, again at Turn 1 with being cautious not to get hit on the following laps.

 

[05XR8]

 

[TPGRacing75]

I miss all the old cars we had in past games. Bluebird, Lotus, Isuzu, Honda 1300, Silvia, Colt, Celica, etc.

I agree with this wholeheartedly, even expanding the scope outside of classic Japanese cars. GT7 does a good enough job of hitting on the "highlights" more often then not, but as of now misses many of the more "niche" options and field filling cars. And then there are such underrepresented "classes" as the aforementioned 70's Japanese classics, 80's/90's Non-corvette/Viper American cars, 90's Saloons(BTCC style) and Kei-class vehicles.

Yes many of these vehicles may have seemed a bit "irrelevent" in the past games, but custom race and the improved tuning/livery editor systems do so much to give purpose to even the mildest vehicles(only limited by ones imagination and of course, your in-game bank account)

Hopefully, if the trend of every even numbered GT heavily expanding the car selection of the previous title holds up(GT2 to GT1, GT4 to GT3, GT6 to GT5) GT8 should fill those holes. And we still have atleast a year or two atleast of GT7 updates to look forward too as well, so there is still hope.

 

[05XR8]

The Civic EF(and EG) and 205 have certainly helped with expanding that in between mix of cars from the 1980s. I think the E36 is the only representative of the 1990s. The R32s, Lancer Evos and WRX are there, but as you pointed out, aren’t global representations of the era. Maybe PD will give us a taste before the next game.

 

[TPGRacing75]

The Civic EF(and EG) and 205 have certainly helped with expanding that in between mix of cars from the 1980s. I think the E36 is the only representative of the 1990s. The R32s, Lancer Evos and WRX are there, but as you pointed out, aren’t global representations of the era. Maybe PD will give us a taste before the next game.

I hope so too. Hopefully with visual fidelity hitting the point of diminishing returns, and the focus seemingly being on 4k textures and raytraced lighting instead of outright model fidelity means PD won't have to totally start from the ground up the car list again, and the current models are future proofed to last for more than 2 games. Because it would suck if for "GT9" we were back to 100-200-something cars and going through the whole process again.

To me, with the custom race feature being as robust as it is (with potential for even more features in the future if PD so chooses) more car variety will only further open up the possibilities to use with it, and more options is never a bad thing. I can only imagine what I'd be able to do with GT2 or GT4's car lists with what current GT provides, and that's not even counting the millions of other vehicles over motoring history past and present that could come to the game as well.

But as always, we'll just have to wait and see....