What race series would you like to see in GT5?

[TheCracker]

I've decided to start this thread after seeing discussions of a similar nature in other threads.

A lot of the races have PD dished up for us in previous Gran Turismos follow well trodden paths - one make series, single nation series, ultimate road car series, ultimate race car series etc etc. Although these series manage to cover races for almost all the available cars, there still seems to be many cars that are either too competitive or not competitive enough for any of the available series.

My question is - What series would you like to see PD implement for GT5?

This obviously depends on what cars PD models for GT5, so i guess this will be a bit of a car wishlist too.

These are some of my suggestions:

• DRM/DTM (including silhouette types)
• Super Touring 2000
• LMP
• Group C
• Classic Sportsprototypes
• Classic Sportscars
• Classic Touring Cars
• Super GT

You could also include multiple class systems with a race series - GT300 & GT500 for Super GT and LMP1 and LMP2 for example.

 

[Jim Prower]

All-Japan Group A Touring Cars '93
BTCC '89-'07
JTCC - Entire Series Run
NASCAR Nextel Cup '07, Grand National '49-'71
V8 Supercars Australia '07
Australian Touring Car Championship '92
Super Taikyu '07
SPEED World Challenge GT and TC
WTCC '07
NATCC - entire series run
D1 Professional Drifting Grand Prix

 

[Raitziger]

Classic Sportscars.
Vintage sportscars are so raw and pure from all "hitech". Nothing will beat high tuned 60s car with carburettors in terms of sound.

 

[Mt. Lynx]

FIA GT (GT1 and 2) '97-'07
LMP1 and 2, possibly with FIA GT, like ALMS/LMS/JLMC '95-'07
WTCC '07
DTM '91-'07
Group C '82-'93
Super GT (GT500 and 300)
NASCAR/Nextel cup
Group 5 '81
IMSA GTP '88-'92

 

[Michael88]

* Can-Am world champoinship.
Regelement:
- Race cars only
- Cars only from 1968 -1975
- Cars must be stock, additional tuning parts are not allowed
- Each race should be at least 50-70 laps long.
- Circuits/circuit versions from 1968-1975 may be used
- Qualifying: Yes
_________________________________________________________

* Group-C Endurance Championship
Reglement:
- Group-C race cars only
- Cars from 1983 - 1990
- No additional tuning parts are allowed, cars must be stock
- Each race should be at least 80-100 laps long
- Qualifying: Yes
___________________________________________________________
* 1000 km of Nürburgring (Nordschleife) event
Reglement:
- Race cars only
- No additional tuning parts are allowed, cars must be stock
- Group 6, 7 and Group-C cars till 1984 are allowed
- Qualifying: Yes + pre qualifying
__________________________________________________________

* Camel GT Challenge Series
Reglement:
- Group-C cars and IMSA-cars from 1983 - 1993 are allowed
- Group-C cars may use additional turbo parts but only 1 level higher as the stock one.
- Qualifying: Yes
____________________________________________________________

Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM), Group 5 events.
(Zakspeed capri)

Of course my idea requires a lot new cars of group-c and can-ams .

 

[JohnBM01]

In my thread asking what PD could learn from the ToCA Race Driver series, someone suggested that PD stop thinking the Super GT series is the only racing series in the world. This has really been one of the few racing games to feature the Super GT series. Othere series can still be raced. There's even a makeshift DTM series. If anything, I think there should be at least one racing series from the three different sectors of the world. I'd like to see something like the ALMS or Trans-Am (or American GT. Those cars have NEVER been featured and would look great in GT5). PD can come up with all kinds of ideas for racing in Europe and Africa. Even though a lot of its native Asia-Pacific is featured, I think they DEFINITELY need to give Australia some love. My short list would be Bathurst, Surfer's Paradise, Sandown, maybe even Pukekohe(?) and perhaps Albert Park.

My general view about this is that Gran Turismo is not a pure racing simulation like GTR and the ToCA Race Driver. The series hasn't made its money on showcasing actual racing series, so that's why I don't think we'll ever see more real championships and real seasons. It's been a long debate on GTPlanet. If any such series are featured, they have to be within the general context of GT/sportscar/endurance racing and rallying. I do think some more purpose-built cars would add some spice. This includes the general presumption of "if I could race an F1 car around, why not something like Formula 3 or something?" I actually thought about Formula 3 in GT5. I'd even be interested if they took up on the SCCA's Sports Racer classes (C Sports Racer, D Sports Racer, Sports 2000, and Spec Racer Ford (the name I'm accustomed to)). While general series may not be featured, I'd at least be interested in customer race cars for us to paint up and take to racing.

A little of everything for you. That's how I roll. Can you dig it?

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> I'd like to see a Best Motoring type events on production-based/street cars, like the reverse pole setup, the cheaper car in front and the most expensive at back ($1,000 = backup by 10 feet), touge races, etc. (:

 

[sbursi]

Definitely more Sports prototypes and grand tourers from the modern and classic eras. There have been some great prototypes lately-Audi, Panoz, Peugeot, Pescarolo, Bentley, Porsche, Acura, Lola...
Not to mention the Aston-Corvette battle, and the renewal of the Ferrari-Porsche rivalry.

Le Mans/LMS/ALMS
-LMP1/LMP900-1999-2007
-LMP2/LMP675-2002-2007
-GT1/GTS- 2000-2007
-GT2/GT- 200


World Sportscar Championship-1955,1966-1973(most tracks and cars)
DTM-2006
FIA GT-2005

These guys were legends, from the Silver Arrows of the thirties and their return in the fifties, to Ferrari, Brabham, Lotus, Matra. These men professionally risked their lives for a living:
-Formula 1/Grand Prix-1937,1955,1967,1969,1994,2004 (most tracks and cars)

 

[Aquendwato]

GT300, LMP2, GT1, GT2, all getting separated from GT500/LMP1

Maybe Dakar. You could split it up so each section is one race.

And a return of Pikes Peak.

 

[Michael88]

GT5 MUST have Pikes Peak hill climb! (downhill and uphill)

 

[prisonermonkeys]

If PD can get F1 cars in, I'd love to see some old-school races. I know GT3 had them, but I'm thinking an entire championship purely for 1980s/1990s Forumla One cars.

 

[greenlightning]

The following is an example of a race series that I would like to be able to make for the online mode. It is just a sample did not spend that much time on it.

 

[TheCracker]

Are those your Quartzo Gr5 BMW 320's?

 

[Stevisiov]

The following is an example of a race series that I would like to be able to make for the online mode. It is just a sample did not spend that much time on it.

There are some very good ideas in there, that is exactly the sort of online competition i would like to see set up. The larger the competition the better, i would like to see how i rank in the world.

 

[Serge.D]

 

[Jay]

All-Japan Group A Touring Cars '93

Aswell as the All-Japan Group A touring cars I would like to see the Australian touring car race series in the Group A period (early 90's) with the Skyline GTR's, Commodores, Sierra's etc.

Especially at Bathurst!

 

[Jetboy.]

Excellent Topic! 👍

At most I'm prolly going to echo a many of you, and many yet to come.



Group C LeMans
Group B Rallye Machines
BTCC
IMSA GTO (Mm...Audi 90 and the Toyota Celica from 1990)
Can-Am
International Race Of Champions (Or, IROC)
Classic NASCAR (Pre-'70)
SCCA Trans-Am
USAC
Formula 5000 (What series was the Tyrell-Ford 6 Wheel Car in??)
LeMans (Especially classic cars.)
Formula Ford
WTCC
Australia V8 Supercars

I'll add more perhaps when I think of it.


Cheers,
Jetboy

 

[Jim Prower]

Aswell as the All-Japan Group A touring cars I would like to see the Australian touring car race series in the Group A period (early 90's) with the Skyline GTR's, Commodores, Sierra's etc.

Especially at Bathurst!

Ahem...

Australian Touring Car Championship '92

Me too!!!!

To divide up one of my earlier series....

STOCK CAR CLASSIC
racing modified/tuned production/race version American automobiles, '49-'57
Daytona Beach and road course, Darlington, Martinsville, Springfeild state fairgrounds 1-mi oval, and Riverside International Raceway.

STOCK CAR LEGENDS
Racing modified/Race version Intermediate automobiles, '65-'71
Daytona Int'l Speedway, Darlington, Motegi Super Speedway, Martinsville, Riverside Int'l Raceway, Watkins Glen

NEXTEL CUP
modern stock cars only.
Daytona Int'l Speedway, Darlington, Watkins Glen, Martinsville, Infineon Raceway, Motegi Super Speedway, Test Track

RESTRICTOR PLATE CUP
Modern Stock Cars only. All cars restricted to 550 HP
Daytona Int'l Speedway, Brooklands, Test Track

 

[Jay]

Ahem...



Me too!!!!

Haha oops, somehow didn't see that

 

[Jim Prower]

And, thought of one more series....The Vanishing Boy oughta like this one...

HOT VERSION AE86 N2 CUP
racing modified/tuned production/tuner/race version Toyota AE86 only, N2 specs
Tsukuba Circuit, 10 laps, Standing start

 

[TuneRVisioN]

I want more races that the LM Race Cars and other cars can join. (Mitsubishi FTO LM, MM-R Cup car, etc.) I would love to have a FF race car race. Also the LM Race cars only have 1 tournament. They should have more than just one.

 

[Rob192005]

I hate to be a downer but I think this thread is going to go the same way as the car wish list, So why not just say all of them. Good to get some ideas though.

 

[greenlightning]

I hate to be a downer but I think this thread is going to go the same way as the car wish list, So why not just say all of them. Good to get some ideas though.

If that's the way you think, then was there really any need to post a message. If ya do not like the thread then do not read it simple as that.

The Fact of the matter is GT4 has over 700 cars, however the race events was poorly put together. Most cars only have a few races that you could enter. I think that the members of GTPlanet could come up with a lot of race series or events that would make better use of the cars and be a lot more fun. I would encourage people to post specific details about the race events that they would like to see. You never know who may be reading this info. Better organized race events would of easily made GT4 twice as good as it is. I would of even settled for the ability to change the number of laps for the family cup races in order to have unlimited places to race your car. 2 laps in family cup is a joke and would be entirely useless in GT5 with maybe 20 car fields.

What would be even better is if a group of people could maybe collect their ideals and maybe even develope some sort of structure to all of the race events that should be included in GT5 or what could of been done to GT4.

 

[Fireball27]

I was thinking that i'd be nice if there was a sort of custom "Make your own Championship" type thing in the game. Where you could pick your parameters: Number of races, laps, where the races are, prize money. That sort of thing... they could even let you title it what you want (they do this in tons of sports games, so why not right?). Course you'd get to pick the series limitations: Type of cars (racing or stock), tire type, weight limit, size limit, age, horsepower (i miss this from the previous games ), engine displacement (theres a novel idea), and anything else that the game can sort the cars by. So then once you're done setting it up you could enter it with your car and then the game would go ahead and fill the grid out with other cars that fit the criteria you've selected.

I would prefer that Waay more than any set series, and i would think it might even be simpler for PD to do anyway.

 

[Stevisiov]

It had a post similar to that for the 'Arcade Mode' thread, it highlights a few of the things mentioned there, but i think it should be one just for arcade mode, I mean having prize money would be a difficult thing to validate.

 

[Fireball27]

It had a post similar to that for the 'Arcade Mode' thread, it highlights a few of the things mentioned there, but i think it should be one just for arcade mode, I mean having prize money would be a difficult thing to validate.

Sure, fair enough. Just so long as they let you use your sim mode cars in arcade mode it wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Stevisiov]

Sure, fair enough. Just so long as they let you use your sim mode cars in arcade mode it wouldn't be a problem.

Yeh you should be able to use your own garage in arcade mode, it seems pretty pointless not including it.

 

[ChadSpeed]

I would love the return( from GT2 I think) of the stock only races. It was fun trying to find a car to beat the others and really challenging, even with weal A.I.

 

[Tulok]

Pikes Peak Street version,
Touge cup- Classic touge cars with limited mods
and one more for the D1GP driftin professional

 

[Dave A]

There is no such thing as a touge car. Touge is a mountain road, any cars can drive on mountain roads. I wouldn't mind a few point to point based road and rally stages myself though.