Guffaluff's GT5 Lap Chart: Trial Mountain [NEW Update, June 18th]

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[June 11, 2011]

In Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, I raced all the cars on Eiger and made a lap chart. I'm going for a similar chart for Gran Turismo 5.

I plan on racing as many cars as I can around Trial Mountain, my all-time favorite GT track. All cars will be raced stock, as they are aquired, expept when it comes to tires. I'll use Sports-Hard for production/road cars, and racing hard for racing/rally cars. Laps are made in practice mode and all cars will have a fresh oil change, rebuilt engine and restored rigidity (if possible) to keep things fair.

Cars are chosen using Jump_Ace's GT5 Randomizer (Thanks!). As I don't have all the cars, I simply randomize until a car that I have in my garage shows up.

This chart might be a long time in the making, possibly neverending :D. Reasons are that I don't have very much time to play, and of course also because of the huge amount of cars in the game. Also, some of the time I have to play will be used to keep on with A-Spec/B-Spec races, but I'll try to squeeze in some hot-lapping time in between and I'll update this thread as the chart grows.

I'll say it straight out, I'm not a top-class driver, but I do "OK", and this chart is mainly made for fun :). But I thought I'd share it here if anyone's interested and maybe have some comments :).

I drive using the Logitech G25 with all aids off (except ABS on 1) and grip reduction on "Real".

I've only raced three cars so far:

Volkswagen New Beetle Rsi '00
Toyota FT-86 G SPORTS Concept '10
Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 Turbo (J) '98


The Toyota was by far the most fun of these three, light and nifty car.

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[June 18, 2011]

I got some hot-lapping time today :). I drove the following cars:

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 '09
Audi TT Coupe 3.2 quattro '07
Chevrolet Camaro LM Race Car


Three very different cars I must say. The Veyron, was quite enjoyable...on the straights. Horrible understeer and 1000+ horsepower is not a good combination in the corners.

The Audi was very comfortable to drive, your basic 4WD car.

The first Race Car to hit the chart. The Camaro was awesome, definitely the must fun car of the three. Being a race car, it had Racing Hard tires, and also has quite a bit of downforce. So it stuck like glue to the ground. Love this car!

Here is the chart as of June 18, 2011:

https://spreadsheets0.google.com/sp...J6dDF3V0RpTHZnbTlpeDFTQjhMcDliNGc&output=html
 
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Im not having a go at the person who created this thread as it isn't there fault. However threads like this make me weep. Reason being is writing down laptimes is something I did around 10-15yrs ago and shouldn't be necessary in this day and age of video gaming.

If ever there was an example of how outdated GT5 is then this thread is a good example.
 
I say, thank you for doing the research so that the data is available. Every person has a different GT5 experience. if this is what makes GT5 work for you, then ignore the negative comments and enjoy yourself.

Are there any cars you need that you don't yet have? If it's tradable then someone might gift it.
 
This has nothing to do with GT5, I have always enjoyed statistics :).

Milldrum, I don't have any particular cars that I plan on racing, I'm just randomly picking cars from my slowly, yet steadily growing garage ;).
 
Do you prefer certain drivetrains, aspirations or even countries?

No not really. If I had to pick it'd have to be mid-range FR cars or Group-C/LMS/Formula cars :P.

Although I've always been a sucker for the classic American muscle cars, I'm not always as fond of how they drive :indiff:
 
I do exactly the same thing, even down to which tyres I use, although I started on 2 tracks - Autumn Ring and Monza (no chicane) as they had different characteristics that led to some cars stronger on a certain track... I have since expanded to also doing Le Sarthe 2009 and the Nordeschliefe, both in time and weather variants.

I keep all mine in a massive hyperlinked excel spreedsheet, but also add the times to a public run database here on GTPlanet, its linked in my sig... check it out and feel free to add your stats, the more the merrier! :)
 
I do exactly the same thing, even down to which tyres I use, although I started on 2 tracks - Autumn Ring and Monza (no chicane) as they had different characteristics that led to some cars stronger on a certain track... I have since expanded to also doing Le Sarthe 2009 and the Nordeschliefe, both in time and weather variants.

I keep all mine in a massive hyperlinked excel spreedsheet, but also add the times to a public run database here on GTPlanet, its linked in my sig... check it out and feel free to add your stats, the more the merrier! :)

Cool! :). I plan on doing two tracks as well. As Trial Mountain is a pretty fast track, I wanna do Eiger as well, as it's much slower and requires different strengths of the cars :).
 
I'm not doing race-laps :). I race in practice mode ;)

Yes, I understand that you can race in practice mode... I have GT5 too. I'm saying that rather than racing you might be better simply hot-lapping in Practice > Time Trial.

Unless by "racing" you mean "not racing", in which case I feel that's more your mistake than mine.
 
Yes, I understand that you can race in practice mode... I have GT5 too. I'm saying that rather than racing you might be better simply hot-lapping in Practice > Time Trial.

Unless by "racing" you mean "not racing", in which case I feel that's more your mistake than mine.

Sorry, "racing" is maybe the wrong word to use here. I go from the GT Life menu to "Practice" and do hot-laps from there, only me on the track. Maybe this wasn't all too clear from my half :)

I often use the word "Racing" for "driving fast" :D. Not necessarily with other cars :)
 
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