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- Trial Mountain
- joehazell
- hazellnut134
Bump I need help too!
Grand Tour, Eiger Norwand, Help?
- Thread starter dabest2500
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- Wellington
Sorry for the restruction, but...
...I finally got this! Been working on it for days.
I decided to try it tonight as I had some free time. Didn't go so well. Off the pace on practically every try.
After a while, I decided to watch my 0.019 off lap. Tried it again, got it first time!
This thread helped me a lot, especially Dennisch's video he posted. So happy.
...I finally got this! Been working on it for days.
I decided to try it tonight as I had some free time. Didn't go so well. Off the pace on practically every try.
After a while, I decided to watch my 0.019 off lap. Tried it again, got it first time!
This thread helped me a lot, especially Dennisch's video he posted. So happy.
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I am glad I am not the only one who found this to be a bitch to pass. I was about to give up at 1:18.1XX. I was using dpad / face buttons, no assists (abs 1, sensitivity 7). The hairpins is everything in my opinion. Get all your speed in the straights, to carry you through the corner, so you don't have to use the throttle. As soon as you hit the throttle in the corner you'll spin and the run is shot. I braked late before the tunnel. Zero tire spin is crutial. I ended up with 1:16.7XX =)
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- HaylRayzor
Just one key to the Nord. Aim for the apex early. I had no idea how much time I was losing in the hairpins until I learned this secret.
I picked this up when I was doing license test B5 (without the glitch). I had tried several times and was way off gold. So I watched the demo. I couldn't believe how early he was apexing. But I tried it and it worked.
I picked this up when I was doing license test B5 (without the glitch). I had tried several times and was way off gold. So I watched the demo. I couldn't believe how early he was apexing. But I tried it and it worked.
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- South West
- KAYTEAM73
I finally did it... 1:16.964
Thanks man!!👍
Inspiration indeed! After 2 years I've finally got gold on this one - using a DS3.
Used the RA function to adjust the brake balance to 7/5 to help the nose turn in. Also used the handbrake on the second hairpin to point the Alfa in the right direction without losing too much speed.
I was sat at 1.17.098 for nearly 2 hours this afternoon
On the winning run the first sector time was blue and I as I passed the 2nd sector I caught the blue flash but refused to look at it in order to get the braking and turning right for the fast right-left section. What a totally annoying place for a sector line! Don't know how many runs were ruined by looking at my sector times!!
On the 1st and 3rd hairpins I took them fairly wide, tucking the car in to take a very late apex - this allowed the nose to be pointing towards the next hairpin.
Thanks to everyone in this thread for all the advice.
(forgot to look at my time - too busy jumping round the livingroom much the bemusement of my son!
Edit: my time was 1.16.941
And I've finally golded Toscana too - just a few licences left!! Yay!
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- Aubrey, Texas
I have owned GT5 ever since it came out. I would like to join the Platinum Club. To do that I needed to get Gold on the Grand Tour Eiger. I have made several serious attempts to accomplish that at about 6 months intervals. I came back to it four days ago an finally got Gold this evening with a run of 1:16.917.
Here is what I did to accomplish it. I had settled on a setup TC1 and ABS1 that I liked and I knew from others could get gold. I also decided on gearing, using 2nd gear through the tight turns at the start rather than down shifting to 1st. I knew this also could be successful from video runs of others. I liked fewer gear shifts to minimize mistakes. Once settling on a setup and gear strategy, the only thing left was to put in place a practice strategy to improve my performance.
I did this by making ten run sets and recording each run. I then averaged the time from the set. My objective was to focus on driving my ten run average down by improving my driving through each of the segments. On 12/23 my first run average was 77.767sec. I improved to 77.745 on a second run that day. On the 24th I drove 5 ten run sets; my best average time was 77.658. My belief was that if I could get my average under 77.500 that my best times would begin to approach the magic 77.000 needed for gold. On the 26th my best average time was 77.460 and my best single lap was 77.112. Today my times continued to drop and my consistency improved. On my fourth lap of my fourth set I finally got gold. The set average was 77.303.
For those who have tried and failed to get gold I suggest this focused approach to practice. If you can continue to improve your average time until you can run laps averaging about 77.500 it will be inevitable that sooner or later your best laps will drop under 77.000. No magic just lots of practice. In the last four days I recorded 204 laps. This doesn't count the warm up laps I utilized before starting a recorded session or the crashes (which I didn't record).
All that remains now is Gold on the Vettel Challenge.....
Here is what I did to accomplish it. I had settled on a setup TC1 and ABS1 that I liked and I knew from others could get gold. I also decided on gearing, using 2nd gear through the tight turns at the start rather than down shifting to 1st. I knew this also could be successful from video runs of others. I liked fewer gear shifts to minimize mistakes. Once settling on a setup and gear strategy, the only thing left was to put in place a practice strategy to improve my performance.
I did this by making ten run sets and recording each run. I then averaged the time from the set. My objective was to focus on driving my ten run average down by improving my driving through each of the segments. On 12/23 my first run average was 77.767sec. I improved to 77.745 on a second run that day. On the 24th I drove 5 ten run sets; my best average time was 77.658. My belief was that if I could get my average under 77.500 that my best times would begin to approach the magic 77.000 needed for gold. On the 26th my best average time was 77.460 and my best single lap was 77.112. Today my times continued to drop and my consistency improved. On my fourth lap of my fourth set I finally got gold. The set average was 77.303.
For those who have tried and failed to get gold I suggest this focused approach to practice. If you can continue to improve your average time until you can run laps averaging about 77.500 it will be inevitable that sooner or later your best laps will drop under 77.000. No magic just lots of practice. In the last four days I recorded 204 laps. This doesn't count the warm up laps I utilized before starting a recorded session or the crashes (which I didn't record).
All that remains now is Gold on the Vettel Challenge.....
Apologies if it's wrong to resurrect this thread, but I just figured I'd toss my 2 cents in here since I recently golded this event myself and others might still be struggling with it.
The absolutely best thing I did for myself was to play the same car on the same track, but in practice mode. Bought the 8C and without fiddling anything with the setup just took it straight from the dealership and out on the track.
Seeing as you'll be driving rolling laps the checkpoint times and lap times won't be comparable to that of the Grand Tour event of course, but it is still good training. The biggest advantage for me was that when doing it this way you actually get to chase a ghost. Meaning you can try many different approaches to each turn, and get the visual feedback of exactly how much the very tiny differences can make. In addition, you get to drive continuously without being interrupted in between each lap (or even halfway through it if you hit an edge too hard).
I spent 3 small sessions of about 20 minutes each doing that, with a little break in between each sitting. After that I went back to the event. In a matter of minutes I had shaved of aprox 0.9 seconds of my previous best lap time, which was sufficient to gold it. In other words, well worth the hour of practice imho.
The absolutely best thing I did for myself was to play the same car on the same track, but in practice mode. Bought the 8C and without fiddling anything with the setup just took it straight from the dealership and out on the track.
Seeing as you'll be driving rolling laps the checkpoint times and lap times won't be comparable to that of the Grand Tour event of course, but it is still good training. The biggest advantage for me was that when doing it this way you actually get to chase a ghost. Meaning you can try many different approaches to each turn, and get the visual feedback of exactly how much the very tiny differences can make. In addition, you get to drive continuously without being interrupted in between each lap (or even halfway through it if you hit an edge too hard).
I spent 3 small sessions of about 20 minutes each doing that, with a little break in between each sitting. After that I went back to the event. In a matter of minutes I had shaved of aprox 0.9 seconds of my previous best lap time, which was sufficient to gold it. In other words, well worth the hour of practice imho.
