GT Academy 2011 - General Discussion

[Rutter200_VR46]

Everyday I log into PSN after work i get strange messages from people. Anybody else get these?

 

[Tidgney]

Everyday I log into PSN after work i get strange messages from people. Anybody else get these?

Nope I get the odd random friend request thats about it lol :S. Don't suppose you can enlighten us on some of this random messages of course if there a laugh that is .

 

[NS2112]

Everyday I log into PSN after work i get strange messages from people. Anybody else get these?

lol What rank are you to get strange messages?

Sign in, drive a 30min laptime and you will see

it doesn't tell me rank though as it only tells me when I beat my best time

I did a 3:40 lap with another account and it placed 8500th in UK/IRE
So, Im guessing there has been about 50,000 people tried it in Europe.
Probably about 9 or 10 thousand in UK/IRE

If you can get in top 500 in europe you are doing pretty well thats the top 1%

Ok cool. Cheers

 

[Rutter200_VR46]

Just blew a 16.7! Got rubbish drive through that right hander leading onto back straight 16.8 in the end.

To be honest some off messages don't even make sense lol.

 

[PR1VATEJ0KER]

lol What rank are you to get strange messages?

Ok cool. Cheers

rutter is second in UK/IRE 9th in Europe. Hes seriously fast

I have had a few random friend adds, but no strange mail

 

[markyboy92]

Just blew a 16.7! Got rubbish drive through that right hander leading onto back straight 16.8 in the end.

To be honest some off messages don't even make sense lol.

Would you say uve got better since last year? or last year you weren't giving your all?

 

[Rutter200_VR46]

Would you say uve got better since last year? or last year you weren't giving your all?

I gave it my all last year.

Going to give this a break for couple days and see how the leaderboard has progressed then.

 

[markyboy92]

Maybe this track suits you better? or uve improved by a fair amount? what would you say? last year you were about 11th in UK? and this year its probably tougher competition. Nice times...

Earlier i got a .319, quite remarkable considering i had a mid 3 T3 and a average last bend. Puting less time into it at the mo.

 

[NS2112]

rutter is second in UK/IRE 9th in Europe. Hes seriously fast

I have had a few random friend adds, but no strange mail

Joker I just realised that it's your ghost I've been chasing!

Learnt a lot from you, thanks! Keep up with you easy for first half lap but still need to master the second half.

I'm currently sitting at 116th in UK but knocking off 3/4 tenths a day

 

[Rutter200_VR46]

Was 9th last year then after the deadline I improved to a time which would've put me 2nd. I'd say I have improved but I also really enjoy this combo. Last year it got tedious after a while as Indy isnt a great track but the current academy track is great fun!

I still think there is some people sandbagging a bit and few names i know are yet to hit the board.

 

[Tidgney]

Pretty sure any sub 17 will qualify . Although im slightly worried now you have said that rutter, I know I can get sub 17 obviously requires more of a perfect lap, but once I'm back from driving test no matter my time I'm switching to the wheel so hope that a 17.1 will be up there still unless I improve while I'm at home or tomorrow (Although the leaderboards are hardly moving at the moment? Even in EU been 18 all day :S?)

 

[PR1VATEJ0KER]

Whats your best drink driving lap guys? I got a 2:40 while pretty smashed

And in the spirit of saint patricks day ill prob do a few more over the next few days

27.011
49.319
18.977
42.109

These are the splits from my best lap, where am I losing most time?

 

[zocker_16]

it doesn't tell me rank though as it only tells me when I beat my best time

Sry i wasn´t precise enough.
You have to sing up with a new account and do your first round realy slow so you will be last on the leaderboard and see how many people are in front of you.

 

[Tidgney]

Whats your best drink driving lap guys? I got a 2:40 while pretty smashed

And in the spirit of saint patricks day ill prob do a few more over the next few days

27.011
49.319
18.977
42.109

These are the splits from my best lap, where am I losing most time?

From the first 2 sectors I can see your losing 0.050 - 0.1 First sector, 0.2-0.3 Second sector. But there against my very best times, for the last 2 i'll double check mine in a bit been quite busy today with uni work so will double check.

edit: (All different laps)
My very best first sector split is a 26.876 (Proper line and perfect exit)
My very best second sector split is a 1:15.980
My very best third sector split is a 1:35.0

My fastest Lap so far 17.119:

26.990
49.231
19.037
41.861

So in comparison to my fastest lap it was the last sector :S but that was the best last sector of my life I still remember doing that .


I work of times that way but will check the last sectors for you. Of course im on a pad so my lines might be slightly different.

 

[nMd_pRo]

Today i manage a 2:17:852, i hope i can get 1 second of my time, but i still don't know how you guys are so fast, i lose too much time in the second sector, right after the 1st split time and right before the corckscrew

 

[Herbok9]

Hello, Planet GT drivers! considering that your team is one of the most important team of Gran Turismo over the world and in the various editions of GT Academy, I have prepared this HTML widget filtering your drivers.

http://creator.zoho.com/turbodeif/gran-turismo/view-perma/HTML_GTAcademy?edicion=2011&equipo=GTP

It also can filter the drivers of two other major English teams: GTLeague and GTDrivers by changing the url string query parameter equipo

It is updated every 30 minutes. Hope you like it.

(Works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Not in IE...)

Hi Turbo cool little app. After seeing this I thought it would be great if you could create a table where we can filter out wheel and pad times.

It would be good to know where I rank between the Pad users.

 

[Dessy182]

Whats your best drink driving lap guys? I got a 2:40 while pretty smashed

And in the spirit of saint patricks day ill prob do a few more over the next few days

27.011
49.319
18.977
42.109

These are the splits from my best lap, where am I losing most time?

I'm not even going to try today haha... need a break anyway. Few bets on Cheltenham and off to the pub with my housemates for the rest of the day. Happy St. Patricks Day everyone! (that cares)

 

[Tidgney]

Aww well gutted I got proper nervous was on for that sub 17 lap, got my 1:34.9 after straight and then messed up last bend . I will get it! I will! I will! I will! .

 

[TECHNIKRS4]

Im confused when does the comp end?

 

[Tidgney]

Im confused when does the comp end?

April 17th I think, April anyhow. .

 

[TECHNIKRS4]

Ahhh i see i thought it was today! LOL.

 

[Molydood]

There is also rumour of a second stage in another car track combo but no idea how factual the rumours are...

 

[Tidgney]

There is also rumour of a second stage in another car track combo but no idea how factual the rumours are...

I think we'll find out tomorrow , I personally think there probably might be a second round, mainly from when we randomly turned American for a day I just think they were reusing code or something. But I don't know. I know GTP_Dessy also brought up some excellent pointers that could lead to it but you never know we could all be wrong .

 

[Rutter200_VR46]

Tuned 370z me thinks.

 

[Synwraith]

Hey guys,

Updating the Racing Line post in the news thread with this:

- (17/03/11) [FACEBOOK] GT Academy Time Trial - First Impressions


All the best
Maz

 

[Molydood]

When I load up gt and presented wih the main menu, in the background there is a black gtr with loads of mechanics working on it. I don't know if that's just the free one you get or if it's a hint? I notice it was a red rx7 the other day too. Probably means nothing :-)

 

[nMd_pRo]

I don't know why you would think another round will be uplouaded, i think that if they said that it will only be one TT round they shouldn't make any changes without telling us first witch positions will go trough the 1st round so lets see what are they going to do but i don't wexpect any changes on the gt acad until 17 april

 

[GTP_CICO]

Just made top10 in Holland. Should be some more time left .

 

[emmepower]

I'm from Italy.
On 4th italians cannot enter the competition, a message appear saying "start on 18th".
Now Italy is not listed any more in the list of country.
facepalm

 

[spyrrari]

Just made top10 in Holland. Should be some more time left .

👍 well done 👍




spy.