Tips for Mastering Nurburgring Nordschleife

[foofiemoon]

This is the last track to finish in Circuit Experience. I find this track to be quite difficult for several reasons:
1. Laps are far longer than other tracks
2. Easy to spin out going off track, no walls and track is narrow
3. Not a lot of distinguishing features off track to keep track of braking points, etc

I get the impression that serious racing gamers like this track due to the challenge, is this true? Kind of like Dark Souls, fun due the very high challenge level and associated sense of accomplishment when you win.

Anyway, I am not shooting for gold on the full lap, a bronze would be an acceptable goal.

 

[GTP_MacGyver]

Just keep going and train the track and each sequence before going for the full track. Drive smooth and clean, rather than pushing too hard. Keep an eye on your exit speeds and bronze shouldnt be toi hard. Once you get a feeling for the track you will love it. At least i hope you do. Its legendary

 

[Method36]

Have you completed each sector challenge? If so, take the first full lap slow and careful. It may take several subsequent laps, but each time try to push a little harder than your ghost. You'll be surprised how many corners you can take flat out and some that you can brake very late into. If bronze is your goal, there's plenty of time to spare and doable even with some significant errors.

 

[Tekku]

I've always loved it. When you get the corners and speed right it feels lika proper roller coaster. But some general tips:

1. Do the individual section tutorials repeatedly until you feel confident enough to progress.
2. Use cones as brake distance markers. This helps a lot in compensating for your loss of memory.
3. Try to keep in the middle of the track and move more to the sides when you gain more confidence.
4. There are some flat out parts where you instinctively would want to brake or slow down; but it is key to really go full speed here in order to get a good time.

 

[freedom1104]

tips to master nordschleife?
one word

Time~spend more time and you will love the track.

 

[Mistah_MCA]

I use the Cone Markers to help determine where I should start braking. On most of the turns, I make sure I am aware of how much throttle I am putting down. I try to put down enough to where I can exit a turn as fast as possible but not too much to where I'd start losing control/TCS would activate (if turned on). I am especially aware of this in the last 30% of the track, where it becomes easier to lose control due to the turns, change of elevation, and the road being rough.

That, and practice the sector challenges. It'll help you know what to expect and then once you weave the sections together, you'll be able to get a medal for the 1-lap challenge.

 

[GTCam]

As all have suggested, allocate some time to do the sectors and then head for the full lap.

Practice the easier sectors for gold also.

With 3 gold sectors, 1 silver and the rest bronze, I managed to bronze the full lap on first attempt by 2 seconds.

Cheers

 

[PorscheHD]

Keep driving it drive it and you will master it for years my favourite track on any game so for me the easyist track there is in the game haha

 

[zzz_pt]

Study a few replays from someone who's really fast at that track and watch some onboard footage of real life racing.

You'll immediately find time just by doing this and then applying it yourself to your driving style.

1000 practice laps are pointless if you're doing it wrong.

 

[PzR Slim]

Lap after lap, after lap, after lap. It's the only way. And build yourself into it, don't try and take every corner as fast as possible to start with. Learn the track first and then learn to go fast. I've driven thousands of laps around the Ring in various games over the years and I'm still learning.

 

[rono_thomas]

Mastering the Nurb.

Plenty of miles, then some more, and then some more again...

Until you can trace it with your eyes closed, including what happens when I touch this kerb here, what run off can I use where.

The biggest laptime gain apart from learning the corners is always maximising your exit speeds from corners that lead on to fast, not necessarily straight, flat out sections.

 

[CBH]

This is the last track to finish in Circuit Experience. I find this track to be quite difficult for several reasons:
1. Laps are far longer than other tracks
2. Easy to spin out going off track, no walls and track is narrow
3. Not a lot of distinguishing features off track to keep track of braking points, etc

I get the impression that serious racing gamers like this track due to the challenge, is this true? Kind of like Dark Souls, fun due the very high challenge level and associated sense of accomplishment when you win.

Anyway, I am not shooting for gold on the full lap, a bronze would be an acceptable goal.

Just practice, and the more you practice the better you will be at that curcuit, and that goes with any other circuit in the game.

 

[stevenhiggster]

Tips to master Nordschleife, watch some YouTube vids of fast laps. Helped me.
During the closed beta I was about 15 seconds of the top guys and I just couldn't get that much faster.
Watched a vid some dude who was nearer the top times had uploaded and it opened my eyes quite a bit to what I was doing wrong. I was braking in loads of places I didn't need to be and taking a lot of wrong lines.
Just watching that one vid, and practicing helped me knock over ten seconds off my lap time pretty quickly.

 

[Skygrasper550]

Use the rumble strips/kerbs as brake markers. Aside from that, I can't give any other useful tip aside from driving around the track over and over and over and over and over and over until you get it. I have been driving around the Nordschleife since the GT4 days, and so the track layout is pretty much etched in my head.

 

[Earth]

Use a very stable 4WD car like the Huracan GR.4. You should be focusing on learning the track, not worrying about the drivability of the car

 

[crdcz03]

I'm sure I speak for a lot of people that have played GT for a while, I learned it b/c of Mission 34 haha. Like any video game, the more you play it the better you get. Sometimes the tracks are easy to learn so it takes barely any time to learn, sometimes they are difficult and take a while. In GT5 I used to buy a car and then go do a lap or two on that track and that was pretty much all I did after I beat the game. After 1-2 laps I would go buy another car.

I will say that the first time I tried the circuit experience with the M6 I got like 8:37. It was literally one of the first things I did when I got the game. Took me 3 more times for it all to come flooding back (never played GT6 so it had been a while) and get gold

 

[zocker_16]

I got the whole lap in about 20 seconds under the gold time.
This is not what you´re aiming for at the beginning. But it helps to see the line and what braking points and cornering speeds are possible.
Watch this video, watch your own replay and look where the major differences in both laps are. Work on this points and you will get faster and faster.

 

[ToyGTone]

This is actually one of the first ones I ever done, I basically started with a one lap attack then went to do the sectors. I find it more easier than the 3 rally courses and that Alsace course that tend to piss me off for various reasons.

Maybe the hours of redoing Mission 34 from GT4, various challenges from GT5 and online track days from GT6 helped me get better at this circuit.

 

[Tekku]

To add to my previous post I think it’s fine if you wait with Nordschleife until you have gained more experience and confidence. It is concidered one of the most difficult tracks in the world and it challenges even the best of drivers. It is for some the peak of the racing mountain, and you do not reach it without hard climbing first.

You know when you are ready when you go for a first lap and most things come naturally; braking points, throttle control, smooth gear changes etc. Nordschleife asks for harmony and you do not get there without lots of pre-experience.

 

[Matvex]

For me when I slowed down and relaxed while doing the lap I seemed to get faster. lol, also I decided to stop rage restarting as I was getting clean on the first third of the track and wasn't as familiar with the rest. so even if I crashed or stuffed up the lap I just run through to the end anyway. I ended up golding the lap by about 4-second I'm by no means fast.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

a lot of corners on the course have to be attacked in non typical ways. some are easier with a late brake late apex approach, some have to be eaten up riding the curb the whole way around, some can be done flat out at full speed despite looking scary as hell.

if you're doing sections, try hitting every corner 1 gear higher than the brake warning. see where that gets you. if the brake warning shows you a gear that matches the gear you're in, that usually means that you can do the turn flat out at full speed. watch live videos on youtube and experiment.

oh, and every car is different on this course. some hook onto curbs like guide rails and some go flying when they hit the curbs... so figure out which car you have.

 

[KrazyKrogen]

Looks like everyone will be getting practice... nurburgring 24h gr3 daily race

 

[JulesDennis]

This is the last track to finish in Circuit Experience. I find this track to be quite difficult for several reasons:
1. Laps are far longer than other tracks
2. Easy to spin out going off track, no walls and track is narrow
3. Not a lot of distinguishing features off track to keep track of braking points, etc

I get the impression that serious racing gamers like this track due to the challenge, is this true? Kind of like Dark Souls, fun due the very high challenge level and associated sense of accomplishment when you win.

Anyway, I am not shooting for gold on the full lap, a bronze would be an acceptable goal.

Its not easy to master Green Hell.In RL is even more difficult.
I,for example,after going into that track again and again,know every single part of it.But that does not mean its easy to pick a car and go there.Every lap is as difficult as the previous "clean and fast" one.
In GTS is more forgiving compared to other titles (or RL).
The only thing I can say isractice.And if something is not working well,check RL or Virtual racing videos to see thats wrong.But the main thing is practice.

 

[PrinceMG]

Watch this video, watch your own replay and look where the major differences in both laps are. Work on this points and you will get faster and faster.

This is a very good tips and almost exactly what made me get as far as I did in GT Academy a few years back. I don't have time to drive 4-5 hours a day to be a better driver (usually I get maximum 4-5 hours a week in a "good" week), so I had to follow the ghosts of the quickest drivers to learn the quickest way around a track. You learn so much faster by learning from the guys that are already quick. As long as loading ghosts are not possible in GTS, videos like this is as good as it gets.

 

[cleanLX]

as others have noted, so many corners require lines that are unique and nontraditional in approach... and so many are blind...
Only way to get faster is lots of practice and watch that video above a million times... zocker is hauling the mail, takes all the lines I do (makes me feel good)... admittedly at a much faster pace... how's he do that?