GT300 Suzuka times?

[zonzous]

What's a good time for a GT300 around Suzuka?

My Impreza Base Model does it in 1:58ish with stage 3 engine tuning (sorry for butchering it but I couldnt beat the GT300 championship and bought the upgrade, just to notice later that I had SH tyres on ) but its my first tune and im terrible driver

Love the car, absolutely destroys all the GT-R kids online

Any tips for gear ratios?

 

[86Debris86]

I thought i'd get all the GT300 Base models and see which was fastest around Suzuka (my favourite track after the Nurburgring). Then i thought i'd see if anyone had done a comparison on here and found your post. Since it's about the very track i just did my test on i thought i'd share my results;

Lexus IS350 '08 - 2:11.539
Autobacs Garaiya '08 - 2:09.425
Subaru Impreza '08 - 2:09.362
Subaru BRZ '12 - 2:10.369
RE Amemiya RX7 '06 - 2:06.034

I drove each car for 5 laps with Traction Control on 1 and ABS on 1, no other aids, using a DS3 controller. No tuning or modifying, each car on Racing Hard tyres and gear ratio's as standard. Times could easily be improved upon but i was aiming for consistancy, often getting my fastest time on lap 3 or 4, and pushing harder on my 5th lap (usually having brief encounters of the grassy kind as a result).

The RX7 is my favourite for somewhat obvious reasons. It handles very well as standard and only gave me the slightest bit of trouble on one corner (the exit of the hairpin) but that was probably my over zealous throttle application. The Impreza is probably the pick of the bunch though, seeing as it's 4WD you can get the power down very early coming out of a corner. If you're a novice driver and using a DS3 this may be the car to choose. The Garaiya was a bit of a suprise for me. Being MR i expected it to be a monster (this is only the 2nd time i've played GT6 since 1.03) but it wasn't. It's surprisingly stable and i'm sure can go quicker than i could make it go. I struggled with its balance, it wanting to oversteer in 2nd gear and sometimes into 3rd, and its general mid-engined traits, but a quick play with the LSD would solve alot of that. The BRZ was fine. Not much more to say really. Handles well, almost to the point of being boring. The Lexus was a little dissapointing for me. It won't be pushed or hurried. If you do it'll suddenly oversteer on the slower and mid-speed corners. It felt kind of numb but was stable enough most of the time.

 

[RampageRacing]

I find this an interesting topic because the GT300 cars, both old and new, are my favorite race cars in the game. I cannot answer the OP's question but I may do some laps on Suzuka to see where I stand. I have been doing testing with ALL the GT300 cars on Fuji with both myself and my much faster sons driving. I adjusted all the cars to 518PP using the BRZ as a benchmark to see how performance compares. With the cars adjusted in this manner, we have found them all to be within 1.4 seconds of one another at Fuji-F with the exception of the Nissan Silvia which is just not competitive so far. My sons are both fastest in the RX7 at 1:43.583 (my time 1:47.103) while I am fastest in the MR-S, a car that I have tuned the suspension to my liking, at 1:45.685 (my son's time 1:45.000). The second fastest car for both me and my sons was the Wedsport Celica (1:44.316 for them and 1:46.889 for me). I find the BRZ to be the easiest to drive but it is the second slowest for us ahead of the 2WD Impreza. The Garaiya is just behind the Celica as third fastest. Lap times were established after 5 laps per car. I have much more wheel time with the MR-S than any of the others. My sons both only did 5 laps per car and neither of them had played GT6 prior to that day. They both had played GT5 extensively.

I will do some laps on Suzuka in the next few days and post here but I am relatively new to GT so my times are not what they should be. Unfortunately, neither of my sons are currently available to drive. I use a G27 with inverted pedals in a cockpit I built. I race online with all aids on off except ABS at 1.

 

[RampageRacing]

I went online and set up a room with Suzuka, 518PP, 364HP max, 1050min weight, no aids except ABS, no boost real traction etc. I used my Superautobac Apex MR-S set up to 518PP, 327HP, 1125KG, RH tires. I ran 7 laps. My best time was 2:11.423. I am not real familiar with Suzuka. I think I can knock at least 2 seconds off that time pretty easily with a little practice. My fast time was on lap three and lap four, five and six were all over a second faster when I threw them away by going off. On lap seven, I was too cautious and ran a 2:11.569.