What's your favourite corner?

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Well I searched (honest) and nothing popped up.
So anywayz I was playing this little ol' game of GT3 and was racing in the Gran Turismo Championship (Pro League) in the Chevrolet Race Car. I was racing on special route stage 5 reverseand I reached the sweeping S bends half way round the track just after the harpin (under the fly over) and just hit them spot on with braking, turn in and acceleration out whilst drifting through them. And it hit me this S band/corner/s has to be my favourite in the game. It may sound stupid but every time I go through ther, for some reason I just get it spot on and it just feels so good when you get it perfect. In fact in the 10 lap race I came first 20 seconds ahead of the next car which was a R390 along with a Toyota GT1 and 787B in close company.
So my point is my does anyone out there have a corner on a particualr track, which you just love doing? You just can't wait to get wait to get round there the next time round. So come on then let's hear it...:)
 
I like the fast right-left on the backstraight on tokyor246. Especially with a car that you at least has to release the throttle with, so the line choise gets important.
 
Yeah, I like that corner, although I find it hard to get it spot on every time really. Although it's a good place to make up lost time if you do get it right.
 
Yeah, I like that on Tokyo as well. It's great in cars which let you keep the throttle 100%, and it's nice on cars you have to let up on as well. It gets sketchy when there's traffic, which makes it fun, but if you're all alone and pushing the engine and tires to their max it's blazing fun. You should try it with your volume in the 8.5/10 range. The squeel of the tires lighting up and rumbling across both sets of rumble strips is great (:
 
This spot on Grandvalley has always been fun for me. Again, it's more fun in traffic - dodging in and out of cars on different lines at full throttle.
 

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I'm finding Deep Forest to be one of my more favorite courses. Maybe because it's nice and short.

The blue areas are my favorite, the yellows I really do not enjoy, and the rest I tollerate.
 

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Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
cork-screw
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You call that a cork screw? Because I thought cork screws were more dramatic and required technique ... like the dipping left to right on Laguna Seca. These two areas I would just call sweeping curves.
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
You call that a cork screw? Because I thought cork screws were more dramatic and required technique ... like the dipping left to right on Laguna Seca. These two areas I would just call sweeping curves.
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How do you know I wasnt talking about the beginning of Complex String?
 
Because you didn't specify, where-as it's commonly assumed that someone is continuing conversation on the same topic unless otherwise specified.
 
I'm with you on Grand Valley Loud Music and I like the hairpins at the beggining and end of those sections as well.
Though the areas which you highlighted on Deep Forest which you don't like I tend to actually like. Apart form the first corner the other two are real challneges I find and I enjoy them (depending on the car). Though I do like the areas you highlighted that you like. I think that Deepforest is a great place to drift around especially the corners that you like, and they have to be IMO the most vital corners of the circuit. If you ddon't get them right with good exit speed it really destroys your lap.
Also I think Monaco is a pleasure to drive when you get the corners right. It's one of those circuits where you have to give a little to get a lot back. What I mean is instead of charging round and leaping on and off the throttle like the AI, if just linger and be paitient and smoothly control the throttle you can get some seriously quick lap times out of it.
And going on what azndrifter318 said, I really enojoy the first turn of SSR11, especially when you come from the straight at some rediculous speed and need to slam on the breaks and can just really drift through the corner. And if you get it right it gives you a great buzz and line for the next couple of corners. You can really carry the speed.
 
You know what happens when we assume dont ya? ;) :lol:

Oh jes,.. you got me,.. I just wanted to say cork-screw cause no one else had said it yet and I knew it was inevidable,...

You want the truth? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH. j/k,... my favorite corner is impossible to determine,.. everytime I hit a perfect apex, the thought crosses my mind that-that was my favorite corner. Hows that sound?
 
The first corner at midfield and the huge turn at tokyo..The most famous is the big turn after the downhill portion of Trial mountain...loved that one in GT1;)
 
You want the truth? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH.

You know your not Jack Nicholson, don't you?
Anyway the Corkscrew is probably the best especially if you get it just right but as he said before any corner you get just right gives you a good feeling of satisfaction.
 
The ultra fast left hander leading onto pit straight at Deep Forest - in ill-handling powerful cars it's great fun.

I've had some monumental accidents there - usually trying to pull some Stefan Bellof type pass.

Other notables:
- the left hander up the hill at Laguna Seca (the one before the bridge, not the under just after the bridge where the apex is blind)
- the right hander just after the crest of the hill at Monaco, in front of the Casino. Always loved that corner, even in countless F1 games
- the last left hander at Tokyo, under the expressway. Just squeeze the barriers on the left and shoot through.
- the whole complex of corners from the right hander at the top of the hill until the left leading onto the back 'straight' at Seattle. Rewards bravery, punishes mistakes....
 
There are so many wonderful corners in the game... But no one has mentioned ss11 yet (i belive, i only skimmed the thread)... i love the first two sequential 90 degree turns... the sequential hairs and that box u turn right before the last u turn on the course...
 
Uh...that last hairpin on Tokyo R246 before the straight...it's so nice to take.
 
Originally posted by vat_man

- the whole complex of corners from the right hander at the top of the hill until the left leading onto the back 'straight' at Seattle. Rewards bravery, punishes mistakes....
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they messed up the scale of the seattle course, it seemed much better in gt2. I don't kno but to obsessed with ssr11
 
they messed up the scale of the seattle course
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Yeah...it gets a little close in that place before the sharp left turn onto the back straight.
 
Yeah, that section in Seattle does seem much harder to nail in GT3 than in GT2. I think my favorite corner would have to be the carousel in Midfield. It is vitally important to get a quick run through there and on to the chicane and hairpin. I also enjoy the left heading into the tunnel at Trial Mountain. If you hit it right, you come screaming out of the tunnel and crest that hill down into the 90 degree right.......for a video game, that's a rush!
 
Turn #1 and the left-hander into the first tunnel at Grand Valley Speedway, the chicane before the last left-hander at Apricot Hill.

But the best corner in the history of GT is the gap in the gardrail after the longwinded left-hander going into sector 2 at SS11 in Gran Turismo 1 & 2. Quick right - quick prayer - eyes closed - quick left, vroom.
 
I kind of like the turn on Trial Mountain, just before that back straight... cut to the inside and ride on the yellow stripes, then tear down the straight... the turn at the end of the straight there is fun too, almost 180. Fun for drifting (or trying to, in my case)
 

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