The WTC 600 in Tokyo done without exploits is genuinely one of the hardest races in single player in gt7 - share your setups, tips, and cars

[Clinton Ducks]

Has anyone had a go at this using Racing Hard tires?
Thought I'd try it as a challenge, tuned a Crown Athlete to 380 bhp/1476kg and kept it NA.
Did a one-stop and just barely managed to scrape 5th with about 2 laps of fuel left.

I thought you were only allowed to use sports tyres on this event?

I could be mistaken I’ve not done it in a while.

 

[rheinaoi]

I thought you were only allowed to use sports tyres on this event?

I could be mistaken I’ve not done it in a while.

Racing Tires have always been allowed.

But physics updates made the first half of the race nearly nearly impossible to drive on them - a wheel into the very wet patches sucked you into the shadow realm. Meanwhile, Intermediates and Heavy Wets burned up in 2 laps, so most didn't bother with a Racing Tire strategy.

 

[Tommy_D]

JaK has a good challenge for all of us with his NA Miata build. The car is fantastic but because it is so light and you are on racing hard tires you end up being a ping pong against the AI. Any small touch and you went flying off in to the shadow realm.

Do a search in this thread for NA Miata and it should bring up JaK’s build post.

 

[Tommy_D]

Ran the Lamborghini Countach LP400 ‘74 on a no stop setup. Ran FM1 on the straight and dropped to FM5-FM6 when you crest the hill past the tunnel. Not bad handling with the sport hard tires but the brakes on this car are awful. Even with Racing pads and Slotted Racing brakes it still takes a country mile to stop this car.

Anyway, with the no stop strategy it’s an easy race. Ran a 26:31.628. Fastest lap was a 2:10.991 but most were in the 2:11’s once I got out of traffic.

 

[Tommy_D]

Gave the engine swapped Miata another try. Unfortunately with the PP changes, you have to drop down to SH tires. This slows down your lap times by 2-3 seconds. The tires can go the whole race without being changed, but the car gets a bit twitchy on the last couple laps. As if it weren’t twitchy enough…

Something must have happened in one or multiple updates, but for some reason the transmission in this car pretends to drop in to neutral if you go in to first gear at to fast of a speed. So, for the hairpin turn you may want to use engine braking to help you slow down. But you have to be careful. Even with the final drive gear as long as possible and first gear set to be as long as possible, if you go in to first at any speed faster than ~60mph the transmission will go in to neutral and wait about 4 or 5 seconds before going in to the gear you want. It’s a recipe for a spin out. It happened to me once in the race and cost me 9 seconds on that lap. I also had a spin out on lap 11 (never changed the tires) and that also cost me ~8-9 seconds.

That said the car is still insanely fast for this race. Ran a 25:35.712 with a fastest lap of 2:02.683. With out those spin outs I probably would have been sub-25:20 which is pretty close to what I ran when this car was on Medium tires. So slower lap times, but less time in the pits makes the race time just about equal.

 

[Meythia]

Still seems okay fast, I am absolutely out of practice.

 

[mynameis66]

Gave the engine swapped Miata another try. Unfortunately with the PP changes, you have to drop down to SH tires. This slows down your lap times by 2-3 seconds. The tires can go the whole race without being changed, but the car gets a bit twitchy on the last couple laps. As if it weren’t twitchy enough…

Something must have happened in one or multiple updates, but for some reason the transmission in this car pretends to drop in to neutral if you go in to first gear at to fast of a speed. So, for the hairpin turn you may want to use engine braking to help you slow down. But you have to be careful. Even with the final drive gear as long as possible and first gear set to be as long as possible, if you go in to first at any speed faster than ~60mph the transmission will go in to neutral and wait about 4 or 5 seconds before going in to the gear you want. It’s a recipe for a spin out. It happened to me once in the race and cost me 9 seconds on that lap. I also had a spin out on lap 11 (never changed the tires) and that also cost me ~8-9 seconds.

That said the car is still insanely fast for this race. Ran a 25:35.712 with a fastest lap of 2:02.683. With out those spin outs I probably would have been sub-25:20 which is pretty close to what I ran when this car was on Medium tires. So slower lap times, but less time in the pits makes the race time just about equal.

Is this bug only on a wheel setup? Ive never noticed it on the controller,agree with your comments about it being sketchy.