GT5 Gameplay Video: Karting at Monza

Jordan Greer · · 126 Comments

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  1. darklycanthropy

    i wonder if you can mod the motors on these? i also like to try racing a go kart vs a honda civic on laguna seca and seeing if i can beat it lol XD

  3. Zuel

    Even though the video was a good addition to allow us to see what we’re getting. One it should have been a little longer and had a better driver at the wheel.

  4. arvin

    I’ve worked events at Daytona during Kart Week and it looked like a LOT of fun in real life.

    That said, I’m not sold about it on a videogame…

  6. ZOOSO

    “100CC centrifugal clutch karts (20hp maximum) are really not meant for full-size car tracks” .. EXACTLY !! top speed wouldnt be more than 120 kph, as an ex karter (KALI CRG) IMO its simply stupid to bring (GT5) a kart to a ‘normal race circuit’

    Karts are for kart tracks !!!!! .. end of story, well almost; lets hope there are super karts and/or water cooled rotax engined models to choose from .. they would suit a normal circuit.

    The power to weight ratio of a 250cc super kart is mind-numbing ! (it would wipe a V8 touring car)

    Kart racing is the most pure form of motorsport and introducing a 100cc kart to Monza or a similar circuit is simply wrong !

  8. MGS2

    This might be a bit off-topic,
    but will Go-carts have premium damage?
    Just imagine a roll-over…
    If you can get to a high enough speed! LOL

  10. Bob

    Karting without cartoon characters and powerups? What’s the point, seriously? I’m not sure who their target audience is with this little addition.

  11. Daniel Holland

    Why would one think that, turning side to side, crashing deliberately into the barrier, and allowing for the entire pack of drivers to streak ahead into the distance leaving you dead last, would make for entertaining viewing?

  13. S13DRIFTSPEC

    I hope PD includes slippery bananas, red homing turtle shells and, mushrooms that give you speed boosts. Oh and a yellow star that makes you glow different colors makes you invincible and makes you go faster.

  14. Liger

    I really hope that they put in shifter karts. 100CC centrifugal clutch karts are really not meant for full-size car tracks. A Shifter Kart can usually go around a full-size car track faster than the street driven cars can. Now, if they put in Super Karts, that’d be even better.

  15. AGNT009

    In the future, you will be required to be a card carrying Silver or gold license holder from the previous GT game before you are allowed behind the wheel of a pre release GT demo. Drivers like this make the game look bad IMO, lol. You show up to a demo session anywhere in the world, and bouncer-san cards you, and if your credentials prove unworthy, you are only allowed to watch, and not given the opportunity to embarrass yourself or the game all over the internet.

    Im happy that Karts arent limited to that tiny track with all the controversy. Karts at the Nurb are exactly what I was thinking too. Whats that lap going to be, nearly 30 minutes? lol

  16. Patrocles

    Posted by HugoStiglitz_420:
    the lap time? well once the driver finishes the lap I’m sure jordan will let us know

    Mr. HugoStiglitz420,
    Thanks for the post!! LMAO You made my day!

    1. Bernd

      Some people are actually unbelievably bad at driving, just look at YouTube “Yes, it’s a woman”, and watch her trying to change direction on a road (which takes about 12secs for other drivers in the vid) – video-length is 4:47 muhahaha

  17. Bughuth

    I’m part of the staff and I have the NASCAR copy of Gran Turismo 5 and I can answer most of your questions. The press conference I was at released that they are rethinking of putting Indy Cars in the game. If you have any questions please ask me.

  18. gamer28

    at the beginning of the video when the camera guy zooms out, you can clearly see the VW van’s interior on the left screen :)

    1. Yaycandy69

      yeah i just played it last week. i play Ferrari Italia at tokyo and nascar at indy. The handling is really realistic. i rolled the nascar when i cliped the front of another car but the damage wasnt that great for the nascar. but the ferrari i was able to destroy. just go to bestbuy and play it for yourself. alot better in person. i didnt want to put the controller down when i was there playing it. amazing game. but the controller was barely workable because of the wear on it.

    4. Yaycandy69

      yeah i rolled it i guess from being spun from right angle. the roof flap went up and i rolled it twice and front back and back on wheels. only the roof had a ding and the hood was open. went backwards too and like wtf dented front from 160mph collision head on. reserved the game cant wait till 11/2. i really want to max out the nascar damage

  22. Blake

    Well guys if you notice that he’s in some Asian country because look at the scribbly “letters” or characters in their crazy language. Well that guy driving is most likely asian, even if he might look not Asian. So guys stop critiscizing, because what’s the one thing Asian people can’t do? DRIVE. So don’t be haters.

    Ciao!

  25. Craigles

    I hope there is a couple more kart tracks hopfully inside ones. I go karting nearly every saturday and the track i go to is fantastic. It has many hairpins and full throttle corners and it is inside so you can hear the motor and the skreaching tyres ehoing really well. It would be perfect for gt5. It would be way way way better than that repetitive ovel track we saw a while ago.

    If anyone else lives in northern ireland the track is in the eddie ervine centre in bangor.

    1. GoldenGate

      Hey, I’m from N.I too! Bit of a coincidence that your post is just below mine.

      Haven’t been to the one in Bangor, but I’ve been to Formula Karting in Newry. Is the one in Bangor any good?

  26. GoldenGate

    Wow, by the looks of some of the comments there are quite a few bridges out there missing their trolls!

    The video didn’t interest me that much, I don’t have much desire to run karts on real world tracks, but I am looking forward to racing them on proper kart tracks. I think it could be good fun and a break from endurance races round the ‘Ring

    1. MrDave079

      And what do you think about create karting tracks with the Course Maker?? Althought, I’ve a doubt about that… The courses you make with it, will be availaible only to race online? Or also be availaible offline?

    2. GoldenGate

      @MrDave079 . If we could create a track in the Course Maker specifically for karts I’d be all for that. By the looks of it though we will only be getting full sized courses in the Course Maker, but that doesn’t mean PD couldn’t surprise us!

      I re-read my first comment again, what I meant to say was I had no desire to run karts on full size tracks, apologies.

    2. viejaloca

      OOOHHH!!! ok thanks (I never checked!), because when I reach a certain speed, my R8 loses control and it’s too strong to compensate

  32. unoc

    I for one really like the idea of karting on a massive track.. Sure Monza may be a bad example, canada’s villneuve another bad one, but monaco would be awesomely brilliant, aswell as say spa could be interesting, indy would definately be fun (the actual track, not the circle),, there would be alot of great tracks.

    Thanks PD for doing this.. really wanted it as soon as I saw karts in the game.

    I’d like to race Karts against slower cars, like fiat 500’s (old ones) or maybe even slower alfa 147’s or something. THe kart has way better acceleration and can go through corners faster and is easier to drive (less weight movement and roll and such), while the car has a better top speed.

  36. Berlino Bear

    Hey everyone, wasn’t I great in Berlin? I should the the GT mascot as well. I would only run into the armco a few times while carrying a world class athlete.

  39. iLex

    Haha, the music in the background and the driver not driving that well (ffb fail?) give the whole thing a Mariokart feeling.

    Look forward to karting in GT5!!

  40. Dan

    I think the video is interesting as it shows karts won’t be restricted to ‘kart courses’. I appreciate the upload, even if the driving is bad.

  41. Skralle

    I think he’s driving sucks.. But i guess its because of the force feedback. Looks like the wheel doesnt want to be hold steady..

  43. Gt5anticip8r

    At no point in my post did I say that this guy was a good player, in fact I personally agree that he’s not that good. But I use the word ‘player’ and not ‘driver’, because it is just a game. Yet every damn time there’s a video, a bunch of oh-so-macho fanboys jump in and criticize the players skills. If you don’t like the way somebody drives, why not take the initiative to get out of mums basement and go to the expo/promo or whatever yourself? Else shut up about it.

  45. AleXcr86

    Definitely the part of the game I’m least enthused about! Your average two-stroke race engine would expire long before the end of a lap of Monza!!

    2. Gt5anticip8r

      @BoBo Why the unnecessary name-calling? What he’s saying makes sense. Okay, maybe he didn’t realise that it was a slow kart on a big track. But the sense of speed has always been GT’s weakest point, aside from sound.

    3. iLex

      Sense of speed is something that is tricked in most games, mostly by letting cars drive faster than they do on the speedometer or by blurring the images of everything that comes past.

      In real life a lot of your sense of speed doesn’t come from the visuals (being low to the ground helps a bit), but from the feeling you get when your in a car/kart. Generally the tougher the suspension, the more you get the feeling of speed.

      I never thought sense of speed was something that needed fixing in GT (contrary to sound, which needs/needed fixing in a lot of areas). When you drive real fast, it looks fast, when you drive 120kmh it looks like you’re driving 120kmh.

  47. general of the army

    :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
    1 LAP BATTLE AT FUJI SPEEDWAY :
    1: PD cart car
    2: FIAT 500
    3: MAZDA 6
    4: EVO 10
    5: Audi R8 V10
    6: BUGATTI VEYRON
    :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
    This should be fun !!

    2. Maxiboy

      Well no it wouldnt be like racing an f1 against a swift at all. The r8 would kill the kart on a track with any sort of straight, but if it was around a karting track not even an elise would come within 10seconds of a kart. Also why are all the Bobos negative and annoying?

    4. Jakemania

      If you were driving against the guy in the video, you might be able to beat him in the R8 while driving backwards =p. Not that I could do much better… I guess I’ll find out in a little over a month!

  50. NBH

    Really didn’t think you would be able to race karts on the ‘full size’ tracks. I was hoping that the karting competition would have its own series of smaller kart tracks that were shorter and narrower, racing round a wide 5km track with long straights isn’t really what karting is about.

  51. Mr Latte

    Wow, i have to say, apart from the rather poor driving the karting on Monza looked hella’fun. I can’t wait to get this game running on my triple screen setup with ass bashers.

  52. Missed_the_Apex

    Either he isn’t very familiar with the wheel or the dreaded GT FFB shudder still hasn’t been fixed, which is what I’m betting. GT4 was really bad with higher speed nimble handling cars like the Formula GT, GT5P got a little better but its still there. Any time you got a good measure of speed going the wheel would shake back and forth no matter what you tried to do about it. The first time I used a wheel with GT4 I thought my wheel was broken because of it, but I used other sims and the wheel was flawless.
    Hopefully this is fixed by release time, otherwise I will be very much disappointed as this has been a known issue for quite some time.

    2. TommySalami

      I don’t understand why PD can’t increase the dead zone for the wheel to stop this from happening. In prologue with the F2007, I had to always be slightly turning the car either left or right to keep the wheel from jittering around

    3. TofuStoreDrift

      It only happens when you apply to much downforce to the front of the car. Don’t believe me than try it yourself, reduce the front DF, go to a high speed track, and you’ll noticed the ffb rumble will go away.

    4. neem'

      TofuStoreDrift, you might be right but I can’t see many people reducing their downforce all the time to negate the effect. I always just applied very slight pressure in either direction, or just gripped the wheel very tight when going in a straight line. It does suck because I like to have the FF all the way up, but that just makes the effect worse… Then again, given how old my DFP is I’d be surprised if it would last long with full FF. I think there should be a custom dead zone setting, but personally I was ok with gentle pressure to either side. It did make me laugh the first time it happened, I was using the Toyota Minolta 88C-V on Fuji and suddenly it was driving itself… I went to make cup of tea on the last lap with a book on the accelerator. Turned out that was a mistake because it spun itself.

  53. Hentis

    I hate to say it but nothing new in this video to
    Be honest. It’s rather lame and to be honest no he can’t drive from the evidencenofnthe video. Most people don’t go side to side down a
    Straight unless your warming your tyres, and as current the demo does not show show tyre temperatature stats.
    I would like to and will probaly do a lap of the ring in a kart. Why because I can simple as that.

  54. Sasek

    Every time I see Carting I think it’s stupid to put them on gran turismo. Waste of time to work on them. Better built more premium cars or more tracks.
    And yes. FF is set too strong on this vid. He can’t drive straight.

  55. d.h.

    @Gt5anticip8r. That bloke driving was useless and I agree with the comments saying that.

    Surely if you are driving and the steering wheel is shaking you hold it tight, and also taking your foot off the throttle also helps!

  57. Gt5anticip8r

    This is hilarious. To all you kids saying ‘He can’t drive!’, I’d like to put you in a proper race car (without a wingback armchair and the option of stopping for a cooldrink) and see how well you cope. Hell, I’ll bet most of you can’t even control a clutch as yet. So please stop using the word ‘drive’ as if it’s real life – you should be grateful that guys like this are even bothering getting footage and letting us know. And no, even the most sophisticated Tv and FFB wheel does not even get close to reality.

    2. - SZRT Ice -

      To be completly honest, you are more likely to lose control of a car in GT than in real life… The reason is simply because the sense of inertia is removed in gaming. If you power through a corner in a ZO6 or Viper, you can “feel” traction loss and make the minute (miniscule/small) changes in acceleration on the fly where in gaming you have to rely solely on your eyes… However in the case of this video, it seemed to me he was re-adjusting too drastically and would have fared better if he turned slightly and took each turn in long sweeps instead of “turn-bursts” wich is what one has to do in the case of using a d-pad.

    3. - SZRT Ice -

      ::Re-evaluation::

      He was over-correcting the car in his attempt to keep it steady… This is a good lesson in:

      How to Lose Control of A Vehicle 101.
      If it was an SUV he would have possibly flipped it. Would’ve been cool to see if the “roll-over” physics were accurate, he’d be the perfect tester for that!

  59. madaz75

    Can you imagine taking a kart on Nordschleife?
    Or am I the only nutter who’s curious enough about taking a kart through The Carousel to want to do it?

    1. Colin

      Don’t worry, Your not the only one who’s curious enough to try that >:D

      I hope it can atleast make it up the first hilly bit unlike the Daimler carriage :p

    2. viejaloca

      Hahaha, I would do that! But only online with friends on a private game with my kart havinggears so it’s not too boring.

    4. Pescara for gt5

      There is a thread somewhere in the GT4 section of someone who actually got the Diamler Motor Carriage around the Nordschliefe, not sure what the thread was called though.

    5. GDII

      I drove the Ford Model T in GT4. Took just over 15mins to get around. On some of the downhill parts I let it roll with the clutch in as it would go faster. Got twitchy at 120kph.

  60. DaveTheStalker

    Maybe he’s suffering from “noob wheel sway syndrome”. You know, the time it takes for new wheel user to overcome and get used to the wheel playing tug-of-war with you.

    6. Calcifer

      Seems that many people are under estimating carts. Not all carts are like indoor karts. Some series use karts that deliver 440 Bhp per tone and a speed of up to 250 Kmh. Using anything other than full circuits would be madness

  64. Bankai123

    How come we REAL GT players don’t get a chance to play the game before it comes out while pathetic non GT fans have been playing this game for months? It’s just not fair.

    1. xPhenx

      palleraa i think its the latter because of the fact that all the wheels are made the same if I’m not mistaken unless u can change the sensitivity but from experience in driving racing karts they are pretty hard to control so it could be either due to they guy being a wimp or the sensitivity of a 3/4 turns lock to lock wheel on the kart vs. a 2 and a half lock to lock on the racing wheel

    3. IVKillerVI

      I don’t think its either. Looked like he was over correcting for slight turns. I did the same thing when I first started using a wheel in GT5p. No one is going to be good within 30seconds of starting, especially since he probably wasn’t used to the karts.

    3. Zuel

      @ ICEMAN

      Karting is the stepping stone to understanding car control under extreme conditions. It’s a excellent addition to Gran Turismo 5. I think once you try it you’ll fall madly in LOVE with it. You may even be driving the karts more than the cars.

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