GT Academy National Finals - Venues, Dates, Drivers & Discussion Thread
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- markyboyuk
Quick question for any of the guys that participated in the 2nd round of the competition, did the GT5 game engine display any signs of frame rate stutter or was there any screen tearing at all during the 4 player races? I ask because I noticed when I was playing the time trial, on the odd occasion when my best lap ghost car appeared on the screen it would sometimes cause the FPS to drop slightly - just wondered how the game engine held up with 3 other cars on screen? - I realise you guys were not really looking for such things at the time
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- rmk700/GTP_rmk700
What should of the guy in the black car done when you came down toward the apex? I see he had nowhere to go because of the barrier and you had him pinned. I'm sure if you knew or could of seen him you would of allowed room rather than moving down close to apex. It is hard to tell really what happened from the incar rear view though.
Lap 1 on first turn...what a sad tragedy. They should of took an average of all the races rather than the last one.
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- malc_an_ting
I didn't notice any problems with it, all seemed to run fine
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- New Zealand
- TIZZLAA
ohhhhh!!!! ok after watching that video my opinion has changed.
Regardless of what happened earlier MAY'S second crash was his own fault. end of story.
Could have caught the leader otherwise but hey, thats racing.
edit - hey i just noticed you guys had the driving line on!! ours was turned off and i had no idea where my braking points were
Regardless of what happened earlier MAY'S second crash was his own fault. end of story.
Could have caught the leader otherwise but hey, thats racing.
edit - hey i just noticed you guys had the driving line on!! ours was turned off and i had no idea where my braking points were
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- GT5rs_vidor
Today that was France final : http://translate.google.com/transla...&u=http://www.gt5rs.com/post66464.html#p66464
Video coming soon
Video coming soon
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- BTH_Greenscape
The guy with the red car wasn't too clever. If he wanted to win he rather should have let MAY to catch up instead of fighting with him. MAY was faster than him and with MAY's draft he could have gone back the business to fight for the ticket to Silverstone.
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- Gaviao; GTP_Gaviao; Gaviao_GTPT
ohhhhh!!!! ok after watching that video my opinion has changed.
Regardless of what happened earlier MAY'S second crash was his own fault. end of story.
Could have caught the leader otherwise but hey, thats racing.
edit - hey i just noticed you guys had the driving line on!! ours was turned off and i had no idea where my braking points were
You're right Tizzla, but regarding the 2nd crash MAY also said that himself before
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3746768&postcount=335
And yes they let us use whatever view we wanted. It really came in handy for the tracks we didn't know. Well actually I only had it off for Indy
IMO it was a good idea (although less realistic, I know...) because some people knew some tracks better than other people. I for instance had never run Tokyo
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- New Zealand
- TIZZLAA
You're right Tizzla, but regarding the 2nd crash MAY also said that himself before
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3746768&postcount=335
And yes they let us use whatever view we wanted. It really came in handy for the tracks we didn't know. Well actually I only had it off for Indy
IMO it was a good idea (although less realistic, I know...) because some people knew some tracks better than other people. I for instance had never run Tokyo
Oh ok, far out the organisation stories just get worse and worse... 👎
Hey the french winner has had alot of experience in karting?
I thought we had to all be rookies?? 👎👎👎
MarkWebber
(Banned)
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- GTP_DHolland
Bad luck Bruno
I told you to always block down the inside If your in pole position, I moved over immediately during the final to avoid what you encountered, lunatics who brake late and crash into you, better luck next time mate
I told you to always block down the inside If your in pole position, I moved over immediately during the final to avoid what you encountered, lunatics who brake late and crash into you, better luck next time mate
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Gaviao_pt
What tires did they use on the normal car?
What tires did they use on the normal car?
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- Cuenca, Spain
- GTro_danilc1007
Gaviao, what were the tires for Nurburgring?
PS: LOL, at the same time (didn't F5
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PS: LOL, at the same time (didn't F5
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- Cuenca, Spain
- GTro_danilc1007
N3?... wow, sure it was not easy to keep the car on track.
- 10,575
- United Kingdom
Great vid and makes me all the more hungry for online with that track 
I gotta say though if that race was run on N3 tyres then either those guys had some serious recovery skills or the tyres are all ass over tit in GT5! I'm sure the demo was not as forgiving on the N3's 
Thanks for the upload anyway 👍
I gotta say though if that race was run on N3 tyres then either those guys had some serious recovery skills or the tyres are all ass over tit in GT5! I'm sure the demo was not as forgiving on the N3's Thanks for the upload anyway 👍
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- meagainstyou GTP_MeAgainstYou PureGT_MAY
ohhhhh!!!! ok after watching that video my opinion has changed.
Regardless of what happened earlier MAY'S second crash was his own fault. end of story.
Could have caught the leader otherwise but hey, thats racing.
edit - hey i just noticed you guys had the driving line on!! ours was turned off and i had no idea where my braking points were
yes.. i said it was my fault.. i just lost my head after the 1st corner and i made an awful race... what would you do in my case!?
Bad luck Bruno
yes Dan... i made that move all the races but in the finals, dont know why, i left room for the 1st corner... i guess i was too much confident on my opponents skills...
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- California
Random question for the GTP competitors that raced at Indy in the finals, did any of you see a noticible improvement in the quality of the track vs how it was in the TT?
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- Oslo, Norway
- KaAre_kaNin
Looks like the same slipstream from gt5p, wich I dont think should be in a contest like this.. Congrats to the winners
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- New Zealand
Looks like the same slipstream from gt5p, wich I dont think should be in a contest like this.. Congrats to the winners
Cars in 2nd-4th place should have used the bs slipstream to their advantage to catch up to hunter_4_6 (yellow). Drafting partners hint hint
But hindsight is a wonderful thing...
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- New Zealand
- TIZZLAA
yes.. i said it was my fault.. i just lost my head after the 1st corner and i made an awful race... what would you do in my case!?
yes Dan... i made that move all the races but in the finals, dont know why, i left room for the 1st corner... i guess i was too much confident on my opponents skills...
I was in a similar position in one of my semi final races, i was dead last after the first corner. I had to be very patient and execute my passes perfectly and i ended up winning.
However in your case you thought it was the last lap so you had to go for it.
The main thing that messed up you catching up was the slipstream, the unrealistic slip stream meant that the other guy could re-pass you. Otherwise you could have started hunting down p1
Hi all,
First of all I'd like to say I had a great time in the Portuguese finals and had some really good and close races. In respect to the organization I agree with MAY (https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3746768&postcount=335) and although we didn't get a goodies bag like NZ we were told we will get a free copy of GT5 when it comes out (no voucher though...maybe they'll mail it to us...). I thought the warm-up area was a really good idea (we had 4 extra pods so the group that was on next would be practicing before going on to race for real).
The bad points: DFGT... having never tried one and having set my time on a G25 it was a bit hard to get used to the different wheel, but specially the cheap plastic pedals. The driving position in the pod was AWFUL (2 choices: right distance from wheel and knees on your chest or right distance from pedals and arms fully stretched). I'm pretty sure the TV's in the pods weren't running in full HD so didn't look as good as we're all used to either. Last but definitely not least PD has GOT TO do something about that drafting, it is just ridiculous... I mean anyone who has ever seen NASCAR knows those guys are doing 200+MPH in shoeboxes and can hardly make a pass by just drafting, and here we are on stock 370Z's doing 100MPH and we're making up close to 1s on the Indy straight...
In respect to the tracks there were no surprises for me, they looked like I expected them to look like and they felt like I expected them to feel like (similar to the demo). The thing that I most noticed was that you couldn't cut the big curbs in Tokyo like I used to do in GT4 (turn 2 and a fast right hander near the end specially), if you do the car goes light and you lose a lot of grip so thumbs up there.
In the competition I was Pole position for group 3. First race (indy) I got a good start and the guys had some trouble behind me so I just got away nicely and won with a 12s lead. Race 2 (Tokyo) had a decent start but outbraked myself for the 1st corner so lost a place, got it back in turn 3 (fast long right hander) and then closed the door on the guy following me on the fast right left chicane up the hill which unfortunately caused him to crash (sorry...), won it by 4s. 3rd race (Fuji) was like the 1st and won by about 5s.
On the semis I was in May's group and his report of those races is pretty accurate so I'm not going to make this post any longer by telling the same story again, the link is at the start of the post if you want.
I was sorry not to make the final but I lost out in the semis to the fastest Portuguese in the world (MAY, and by some margin) and to the guy who eventually won it (hunter_4_6 or Felipe Barreto in the real world) who were both not just very quick but really nice people as well so I enjoyed watching the final and I was sorry for MAY to be so unlucky and can only wish hunter_4_6 all the best for Silverstone! Best of luck for all those still to compete in the finals and well done to the ones with the golden tickets to silverstone in their hand, I'll be trying again next time...
First of all I'd like to say I had a great time in the Portuguese finals and had some really good and close races. In respect to the organization I agree with MAY (https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3746768&postcount=335) and although we didn't get a goodies bag like NZ we were told we will get a free copy of GT5 when it comes out (no voucher though...maybe they'll mail it to us...). I thought the warm-up area was a really good idea (we had 4 extra pods so the group that was on next would be practicing before going on to race for real).
The bad points: DFGT... having never tried one and having set my time on a G25 it was a bit hard to get used to the different wheel, but specially the cheap plastic pedals. The driving position in the pod was AWFUL (2 choices: right distance from wheel and knees on your chest or right distance from pedals and arms fully stretched). I'm pretty sure the TV's in the pods weren't running in full HD so didn't look as good as we're all used to either. Last but definitely not least PD has GOT TO do something about that drafting, it is just ridiculous... I mean anyone who has ever seen NASCAR knows those guys are doing 200+MPH in shoeboxes and can hardly make a pass by just drafting, and here we are on stock 370Z's doing 100MPH and we're making up close to 1s on the Indy straight...
In respect to the tracks there were no surprises for me, they looked like I expected them to look like and they felt like I expected them to feel like (similar to the demo). The thing that I most noticed was that you couldn't cut the big curbs in Tokyo like I used to do in GT4 (turn 2 and a fast right hander near the end specially), if you do the car goes light and you lose a lot of grip so thumbs up there.
In the competition I was Pole position for group 3. First race (indy) I got a good start and the guys had some trouble behind me so I just got away nicely and won with a 12s lead. Race 2 (Tokyo) had a decent start but outbraked myself for the 1st corner so lost a place, got it back in turn 3 (fast long right hander) and then closed the door on the guy following me on the fast right left chicane up the hill which unfortunately caused him to crash (sorry...), won it by 4s. 3rd race (Fuji) was like the 1st and won by about 5s.
On the semis I was in May's group and his report of those races is pretty accurate so I'm not going to make this post any longer by telling the same story again, the link is at the start of the post if you want.
I was sorry not to make the final but I lost out in the semis to the fastest Portuguese in the world (MAY, and by some margin) and to the guy who eventually won it (hunter_4_6 or Felipe Barreto in the real world) who were both not just very quick but really nice people as well so I enjoyed watching the final and I was sorry for MAY to be so unlucky and can only wish hunter_4_6 all the best for Silverstone! Best of luck for all those still to compete in the finals and well done to the ones with the golden tickets to silverstone in their hand, I'll be trying again next time...
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