The international qualification round of GT Academy 2013 concluded over the weekend, involving over 1.3 million total participants.
Ti-tech85 held the overall fastest lap in the world with a blistering 2:16.334. The top qualifiers from all regions in Europe and the United States are now congregating in our GT Academy forum, organizing special online race events to prepare for the head-to-head races coming up in the next round of the competition. If you made the cut – congratulations!
For the rest of us, a new bonus event is now available in the Gran Turismo 6 demo, featuring the GT-R NISMO GT3 N24 Schulze Motorsport ’13 – the same car Kazunori Yamauchi drove in this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours.
See more articles on GT Academy 2013 and Schulze Motorsport.
Where is the gtr in the demo? I can’t see it
Where is the shulze in the demo? I can’t see it
you have to finish all the events to unlock the 15th anniversary event, then you will find the GTR in the 3rd of those events.
Again understeer!!!! I don’t use aids or abs!
Is there any news on if they are going to add all the gran turismo games from ps1 and 2 onto the psn network anytime soon I really hope they do
No news but there is the hope that they could be available via Gaikai on PS4.
The funny thing about this competition is that the fastest way around the track would be ridiculous in real life.The lines are not clean and inducing oversteer to create a bit of opposite lock is no way fast in real life. I think the way the competition should be run in a 3 hour window. That way you get the person who can find a fast/efficient and realistic line. That way you are finding the fatstest driver not the person with the most time to practise.
Credit where credit is due, the winners of the comp earned their prize but there are others are out there with not enough time to commit but may have the same or more talent.
You give IMMORTAL PILOT 10 minutes he’d still be that fast. Same guys in their respective regions at the top in GTAcademy are the same TT warriors that dominate the GT5 bi-weekly TTs. These players know their craft, have great rigs and would be that fast in their first hour.
Plus the real test of their skill is at GTAcademy camp. and limiting player participation in a community event, just because you feel the best times wouldn’t be achievable if people didn’t get extra time to practice is unfair. If the rules were to be that stringent, why make it a community event at all? Heck I was running 2.06s in this event within the first 20 minutes, and im nowhere near being a contender.
@pit crew, is that a typo or are you really saying that you got a 2.06 in this event in the first 20 mins?????? With the fastest time being 2.16 and you taking 10 seconds off of that, i find that very hard to believe.
Population of our brothers & sisters in Hong Kong 7.07M
Population of Australia 23.01M and New Zealand 4.47M
Participation in a GT Academy event for AUS/NZ…is coming soon PD/ Nissan “Global” Motorsport?
I participated in the GT6 demo/trials. I played it last night however did not see the GT-R trail event? How do you find it? Or did I miss it already? All i see is Suncay cup and prius and nismo 370 drives?
i think you need at least bronze on all events to unlock it.
Under the 15th anniversary tab
Odd…I have GOLD wins through out all the challenges. Where is the GT-R? Does anyone know how to drive the Schultz or unlock the event? I dont get the confusion here? I looked everywhere in GT6 demo!
Please help
Also its not under the 15th Anniversary tab. At least I dont see it. I moved my mouse every icon to seek it out. Even ones I know were obvious that wernt the Skyline
^ It should be under the “gift box” tab. Same place as the GT-R Academy Nismos.
It would be cool if you can drive the cars supplied on any of the tracks supplied just for a bit of change in the demo.
While im here im gonna suggest something that popped into mind. You know on forza how the times on tracks are set to classes like 4wd, rwd and fwd. I think it would be better like that on gt. So you can see your top 10 4wd etc. Popped into my head doing a time trial on gt5 and thought it would make the times more exciting. Having an all round top would be cool to view too.
Maybe we should give Mr.Kazunori Yamauchi some credit and even thank him. Wasn’t this the car he drove at Nürburgring where they collected the data and fed it all into Granturismo upon his return to Japan? Can we blame him if he wants to share this experience with us? If this is as close as we going to get to the real thing,then I want it.Thank you Mr. Yamauchi.
I got a 3.94 second lap, it congratulated me but still doesn’t show my gold trophy. Anyone else have this problem?
Same. I did a 5.***.
The people of PD and who run GT have lost their minds.. They think adding yet another gtr is something special. I have all the other gtrs from last year and i never use them. This one is no different.
Well Kaz drives the Nissan GT-R in real races so its pretty much manditory that he puts GT-Rs in the game. He likes to show us what he uses in real life so we can experience that. PD and Nissan have a major partnership so it’s going to be very Nissany(<- made up word). Hence why there are so many more Nissans in GT5 than any other manufacturer.
I’m not saying that I agree with that but that’s probably what I’m guessing the reason. I personally would rather have more jaguars or ferraris or even more F1 race cars. But I heard somewhere that PD doesn’t have the rights to make F1 races. But who knows.
I’m not sure who’s lost their minds. Maybe its me but I thought this was a wholly different beast and welcome addition to the game.
PD is adding GT3 race cars and this GT-R is one of them. Not seeing what’s there to complain about.
Who ever said it was the last update!!!
So you don’t like driving it, fair enough but I like the succession of the three versions he’s driven and having all of them.
I actually enjoy the race modded GT-Rs. The GT3 being my favorite. It doesn’t seem all that hard to drive. Just have to get used to it. It seems to have a lot of grip and I had to try to make it lose it.
OMG this car is just so incredible, it demands your attentiveness to throttle, braking and carrying speed through corners. The more you find it’s limits and use it’s balance the better you will drive. I thought the car was understeering but it was my inattentiveness to how I was actually going, right at the beginning of your time trial, you reach 100mph within the braking zone(that’s absurd acceleration). I only noticed corner exit understeer because I was too hasty with getting back on throttle but this car is definitely different from driving a regular street car big time. Took me 3 laps to land a 2:09:1 using a DS3, use the force, the down force that is, I will tackle it with my wheel soon DS3 just feels inadequate to control this car and get the most out of it.
This car sounds are very nice, but it’s still dominated by that annoying transmission whine…come on guys we know that whine doesn’t drown out the exhaust note nor the engine sounds once it gets up to temperature. It’s definitely a V8 GT3 engine, but it needs to be louder by default, much louder and a bit more visceral.
I don’t know about the V8 claim, 3.8L V6 is the engine in the YouTube GT-R GT3. Why would the Schulze engine be different?
GT1 car in FIA GT was the V8. The car in GT3 trim is the Turbo 6…
MY mistake, then that is the wrong engine sound for that Shulze GT-R. Aren’t the GT3 spec cars supposed to be running V8’s? I also dislike that turbo, power comes on suddenly as hell in low gears.
It does handle spectacularly. It took a while to get used to but once you found it’s limits you could hit a 2,03.000 mark lap after lap. It’s also very consistent, great car and spot on.
Oh and I think it’s the teams choice. Cause the gallardo gt3 runs a V10 and the SLS Gt3 runs a V8, while the GTR runs a V6, Porsche, well you should know and so on.
It’s not coming up on my menu. All i see are the 370Z Time Trials
You need at least Bronze in all 370Z trials :)
It’s with the 15th anniversary time trials. Like pit crew said u need atleast bronze in all the time trials to unlock the 15th anniversary section.
I’ve gotten Gold several times now and it’s still not giving me the trophy in the menu. Grrrrr. Oh well. It’s just a demo. :)
A lot of people having the same problem.
I haven’t got mine either.0
Odd, it’s showing fine for me in both places, where you enter the new event and within, where it shows the times.
Got a 2:04.903, and 47th in region. Quite pleased.
Got a 2:05.512, and 82nd in region. Quite pleased.
Just noticed that the sun strip is quite bare in this pic. On the demo it has a Facebook symbol.
I noticed that too maybe they forgot to add it to the car when that photo was released
Quite possibly. This must be a pic taking from the first looks at gt6/demo
That picture is actually from GT5. I remember seeing it in the Realistic Photo forum on GTPlanet. That car is the GT-R N24 from 2012. Not the GT3.
Oh wait disregard that. I just looked at the GT5 pic and its very similar but not the same car. The one pictures above is GT6. Whoops.
The picture overall isn’t refined/finalized, the steering angle doesn’t match the corner angle, there’s barely any motion/panning, and for some weird reason the right headlights are darkened a lot. When you watch it in original size you also see the lighting/sky reflection on the GT-R logo in the grill don’t fit the picture, it looks like it’s floating/inserted into that place because neither the lighting on it nor the placing over the racing stripes is correct.
Seems like it’s taken with an early photomode version, or maybe it was composed and rendered straight on their dev PS3s, using dev menus.
*doesn’t
Quite ironic how PD are so obsessed with their graphics and Premium car modelling but released weird pictures like the one above.
Ah I see. I did notice the light being darker too. I still need to sit down and have some decent laps with the gt r. I tried rolling the car ladt night but not sure if they are allowing that just yet.
So they finally re-opened the event I (with the help I received from a few other forum members) successfully closed down early which I exposed the glitch first to the world on the forums.
It doesn’t feel “right” why do you have to slow to a crawl to turn, why does it feel like driving on sandpaper?
Is the only way to drive the “jerk and slide”?
Chronic understeer and oversteer feels like it’s a rear biased AWD. It’s the weirdest car I have driven in a GT game so far.
Although it is nice to drive a car on slicks with the new physics, it is odd.
The corner exit understeer feels kinda odd. It feels like it has a really slow rack or something, i need to dial more steering and it doesn’t track out properly unless I kept the steering cranked…Maybe a downforce imbalance thing, most of the time for these time trials the car setup always feels funny…
Downforce really works on this thing though, if you commit the car will turn in and stick. Turn in too slow and you actually pushes more…
The car feels really odd indeed. Not terrible, but as if it has a really weird setting. The ballast feels like it’s been pushed all the way to the front of the car.
Everyone’s having fun playing the GT6 Demo…
…And I’m sitting here staring at a red light…
Don’t feel bad. I have yet to try this myself as well…
Tell me about it I’ve been so busy the past few weeks. I haven’t had a chance to clock any minutes on GT.
Well, tpark, at least you’ve got a working PS3 for whenever you DO get the time. Mine’s dead, and I’ll need to get a 16or 32 GB SD card and move some games just in order to use it. I couldn’t update the OS last time because my hard drive was too full, and I’m sure there’s more to update now.
Awful handling car :/, shame that to get a really good time everyone is using hand brake
I didn’t use the handbrake and I did manage to get gold, though I suppose you are talking about the top times…
Yep, except for immortalpilot and a couple others. I manage a 2:02.800, but i really got bored after 30 min driving that understeery nightmare
yea that’s what i’ve kinda hated about the academy trials is that they are drifting to get best times. This is to be an actual driver in real life, I use lines that are quick but save tire wear and what not.
I did this today, and honestly I’m really impressed. The GT-R race car handled like a dream, and it sounded like a monster (meaning it sounded really good). :) As I raced in the trial, I was slowly improving my driving skills by each minute, and got a 2:07:xxx. I seriously can’t wait for GT6 even more so I can improve my driving skills in that one too, especially at Goodwood.
2:07 is quite slow…
It’s fast enough for gold which was probably good enough for TokoTurismo. Don’t think he was bragging, and why try and throw him under a bus just because his time doesn’t meet your obviously high standards?
Well said Pit Crew – too many are far too keen to slap in the facehee rather than on the back. I think Toko’s time is good considering the gist of most comments so far.
*Face* (palm)
@BURIAL Oh how dare you…
@Pit Crew @MeanElf Thank you guys. :) It was really tough for me but I menaged to making through earning that recored. I feel proud about it and don’t what “the elitist” saids. :sly:
I have feeling I have to bump up my TCS to 2-3 because the car just wants to keep peeling out of every exit.
I just got gold on this event but the gold emblem wont show up anyone having this problem?
I am, which I find infuriating since I spent a long time cutting seconds to see how fast I could go.
Me too,I had to gold it twice to make sure I wasnt tripping and red time my last gold.
Glad to hear it was not just me that had this issue. Did it twice (gold) to be certain and no check for any of the them, G S or B which to me is BS G!
Not again! That happened in last year’s GT Academy too.
So, from my brief experience with the car, it’s got to be said that it feels sort of down-tuned. I don’t know if anyone would agree, but that’s just my opinion.
It’s interesting to see the lap time difference between this and real life. The demo has 2:09 as a Gold time, yet the qualifying time for this car was a 2:02.8 in real life in BES this year. I wonder whether it’s mainly down to tyres and un-optimised setup?
Considering Pole times are often done by cars with the stickiest compounds and the lightest fuel loads possible, its definitely could be.
I golded the last time trial.the gtr is not as bad as the nissan 370z but when you going around the corners.you need a slow,smooth steering and have to use a light pressure with the gas when you going around it,and use all of its power at the end of the corner.this my only way to get rid of the understeer
OK so Swagger has been overcome by the awesomeness that is GT6. That would explain the reading lapse.
On June 13th right here on GTP, we were all told that the demo was going to be all Nissan vehicals. On the 25th we were all told that the “demo” was the 2013 installation of GT Academy. What is the miscommunication?
The only thing I can think of is what is necessary to process what you read or listen to…. a brain, thats where the miscommunication is at.
So it’s seems to be lost through my eyes… But when do we drive the other 20 cars in the demo? I just see this as a GT academy 2013 when its clearly labeled as gt6 demo. Hodgepodgeing around to find answers is becoming quite tiresome so does anyone here actually know!
We’ll get to drive them when GT6 is out.
Speaks for itself really. When you downloaded it, it was titled “GT Academy 2013”, right!? When you played it, it was titled “GT Academy 2013”, right!? It was not “clearly labelled as GT6 demo” at all…
When you read ALL the other articles on the ‘demo’, you would have noticed we were told it was only going to be GT Academy but with GT6 handling. Even in the GT Academy it says “Powered by GT6”! Operative word – POWERED!!
Read the articles, don’t just skim over the headlines and think you know the whole story, it can have an adverse effect on how others perceive you and your intellect!
You kidding? This was never a GT6 demo, it has always been GT Academy using an early build of GT6. It’s Academy first, GT6 demo second.
Swagger, you truly haven’t been paying attention. The Demo and GTAcademy were a package deal, and was clearly explained on this news blog by Jordan, as he himself got more intel prior to and while attending E3 this summer. The news of what cars and track we would use and the Demo the journalist and E3 attendees would use was also told to us and was quite clear that, though disappointing, the general GT community would only have access to 4 Nissans and Silverstone circuit.
You see “skierPs3” that’s exactly what I along with everyone else were told, that after July 28 at 12:00 am the “second half to the gt6 demo was to be released…clearly in the first days that the download was out, it was called “Gran Tourismo 6 Demo”
Look it up in the store, that’s what you will find. My understanding was that after July 28, until some date in August, players would be able to play this “second half” to the demo….
That is what I read from this weblog, and that’s all I have to say to that.
I’m kind of thinking the same as you swagger not that I’m complaining :) I’m happy to play anything new from PD, just went back to reading this post from Jordan to check i dad’nt got confused somewhere down the line –
”Cars featured on the GT6 Silverstone demo (* denotes new to Gran Turismo):
Acura NSX ’91, *Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale ’11, *Alpine A110 1600S ’68, *Audi Sport quattro S1 Rally Car ’86, Ferrari 458 Italia ’09, *Ferrari Dino 246 GT ’71, Ford GT ’06, *KTM X-BOW R ’12, Lamborghini Countach LP400 ’74, *Light Car Company Rocket ’07, McLaren MP4-12C ’10, *Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 ’11, Nissan 370Z (Z34) (GT Academy Version) ’08, Nissan 370Z Tuned Car (GT Academy , Version) ’08, Nissan GT-R Black edition (GT Academy Version) ’12, *Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 N24 Schulze Motorsport, Nissan Leaf G (GT Academy Version), *Tesla Motors Model S Signature Performance ’12, Toyota 86 GT ‘12”
Maybe another silverstone demo is coming out …. Who knows
That’s exactly what I was thinking… (And no complaining here, just sheer curiosity of what part was missing)
Swagger, go look on gran-turismo.com, there’s an article dated 15th may. Kaz told everyone over 2months ago pretty much exactly what the gt6 demo/gta was going to be. Which is pretty much exactly what we got. People decided the E3 demo was what we’d get for no reason
That’s pretty much it – people’s assumptions are their own worst enemy. I’m curious myself as to where it said GT6 demo. On PSN it was directly refered to at GT Academy and there has been az boat load of discussion here on the news forum and the threads.
What are you guys talking about? I use a d-pad with all assists off, and I was able to do a 2:07,948. Managing the throttle correctly it worked just fine during the turns, now imagine this car with Racing Soft tires and a good setup. Seems good enough to me.
Exactly the same here. Managed a 2:06.8XX when i changed the clock a couple of weeks ago, its been reset and I did a very tired 2:07.8XX last night.
Nice car to drive, looking forward to driving non Nissans.
Pre-ordering so I can drive that!
Pro
– IT’S A GT-R!!!!!
Con
– It’s an FR instead of a AWD (the last two were AWD and they won in their respective classes)
The last two weren’t GT3 spec. race cars!
If this is the same model that was for the bonus event in gt5 then im not going to have much fun lol. I kept getting oversteer into the corners. Cant wait to try it later. Not played the demo since the 3rd day it was released.
If this is the same model that was used in the bonus event in gt5 then Im not going to have much fun. In gt5 I got nothing but oversteer. Cant wait to test it out later. Not played the demo since the 3rd day it come out.
The one for GT5 wasnt a GT3 Race spec model. This car is…
It definitely feels different from the previous Schulze GT-Rs available in GT5. I like it though for my own driving style, I will be happier when I can tune it.
The one we got in the seasonal event that lasted a week pung into the corners like a rwd car. Im not talking about the one you can drive freely on any track. I find its driving style hasnt changed from that event.
more nissan joy to the world PD sings
Just wanted to log in to express my disappointment with this car. It handled like crap in GT5 and feels like it handles even worse in the demo. And yet, it is suppose to be very similar to the car in real life? Feels like an understeering death wish.
This isn’t the same car. The one in GT5 was the 2012 race car, which was just a regular GT-R that was race-prepped. The one in the demo is a 2013 GT3 class purpose-built race car.
racing hard tyres…
no car would handle nice with racing tyres, it should be at least sports hard.
^ Why would a Race Spec car be fitted with Sports tires? Race Car, Race tires. Makes perfectly good sense.
It’s just my opinion but i think race tyres are an arcade feature. Sports and comfort tyres feel more realistic to me.
Errr, how are slick tires arcade. Unles you have driven on them, how would you know if they are less realistic?
In what world are Race tires an arcade feature, when in every Real world motorsport event Race cars use Race tires? Yeah it’s your opinion, but the logic isn’t…logical.
You are right guys, that’s just my opinion. In fact i’ve never drived a race car, only my personal car and others i had before. My car is only 70hp. But based on my 7 years driving I can assure you that comfort tyres are very close to real life on a street car.
I think racing tyres on GT have too much grip, and I can’t imagine such grip on a real car, even video comparisons between GT and real life on youtube are made with comfort/sports tyres. Personaly I think race tyres on GT are an arcade feature made for new players get used to the game handling before get into serious simulation with less grippy tyres.
As I said that’s just what I think, I respect your opinion and please don’t get mad because of it, we all love GT and there’s no need for discussing our differences here.
The key word you said was “Street” car. Are you familiar with racing at all because this GT-R is not a street car, its a race car. GT3 classification. It’s not unusual to find Race compounds on a Race car, and Competition tires tend to have more grip then a street tire.
It’s clear that you have confused the difference and are unfairly making judgements about something you don’t understand, and have no experience in. You can’t measure your everyday driving experience in a basic car to that of a Race car, if you have never taken one around a track.
Yes mate, but if you can read well, i already said i never drived a race car, i just said i dont think race tires on GT are = race tires on real life, they just share the same name. May be i can draw it for a better explanation to you, or are you purposely just distorting my words?
But i’m sorry mate, i didn’t know i was talking to such experienced real race driver. Who am I to share my opinion on the same forum as such pro driver? You are propbably tired of the last 24 hour race you did in real life so I better let you rest.
I actually did a real 24hr race, on GT5, in a race car using race tires. You just don’t know what you’re talking about, period.
I hear ya Rafael. And just like you I have the same impression even though my racing experience is zero. However, there are quite a lot of respectable gt5 drivers online who avoid using racing tires cause somehow they don’t find it realistic or at least not so challenging.
I guess we should wait for an expert opinion on this one and, whatever the outcome, at least a more respectfull answer.
Thank you Tatsuo, that’s true.
Does it have 2 tyre compounds again? :/
This GT-R isn’t as exciting to drive as I had hoped for.
Mmhmm
oh yeah
:rolls eyes:
Yay! I got a response from jakhole. I always enjoy reading jakhole’s well thought out responses.
LOL.. “oh yeah :rolls eyes:” is such an intelligent and well thought out response. It makes me wish I had stayed in school so I could be as cool as him.
Better still…, you got TWO responses! One right after the other too!
Any news on the “bonus content” mentioned for those who qualified?
…This is the “bonus content”.
@Jared93 I would have to disagree. As I believe this is more of an “extra” rather than “bonus”. According to the GTP article
“Anyone who registers and submits a qualifying time will receive free “bonus content” (it’s not specified if this bonus content will be available in GT5 or GT6).” -GT Academy 2013 Dates, Regions, & Details Announced.
That gave me the impression that the bonus content is something else outside the GT Academy demo.
I would appreciate someone could make this subject clear for me. Thanks.
Maybe its suits again but for gt6 when it comes out. Had to wait ages to get the prize cars and suits in gt5.
We got suits “again” from the GT5 GT Academy demo? I’m pretty damn sure it was the GT Academy decal/liveried cars that we got.
We got a suit also. Black, white trim, open face helmet.
I’m waiting for GT6 – not expecting any in GT5 or GT Academy…
Im not expecting much either. If they give you a bonus that comes out when gt6 is out, that would be pretty cool. I just want to drive the s1 quattro.
I almost forgot to golden the last event (full lap). Did an awesome 2:24:4 something. Close enuff. :lol:
It would’ve been better if Kaz gave us the no.35 Youtube livery GT-R GT3 instead :)
I think he will to be honest.
THAT may be the “bonus” we get! Having it (the #35) in GT6 would be cool…
2:18.6xx was my best time… I think that the best drivers cheated a little with not the best GT6 physics, when sliding in the corners is faster than driving without slides.
Yep!
In some cases sliding is in fact faster. In F1 sliding is never faster, in Rally sliding is often faster. Somewhere in between you find some car/track combination where sliding is actually faster… Not sure if this is the case here though.
If they slide round corners when they get in a real car they will definitely get told off for wasting tires! I hated the fact that they was sliding round some bends tbh.
Guess what…. there sliding in the GT-R now as well…… so sad and unrealistic!! I’m severely annoyed in all honesty. This is not how it should be done.
Mirando?
Anyone?
I don’t think this is for Australia yet or do I still need to finish number 5 of GT Academy.
IS this GT-R still 4WD? I thin if it’s GT3 it should be rear wheel drive.
It feels like it could be 4WD because there’s a bit of understeer. Really impressed how you can easily feel the downforce. I like that
I’m sure that it’s a RWD since most of the circuit-based racing cars have to be RWD.
Yeah, i felt a strong downforce on the GTR too, while the racing hard tyres feels a bit less grippy.
It says in the game that it’s RWD. :)
That is RWD in real life too…
In the GT6 demo/GT Academy 2013 when you do the race with this Nissan, READ the details of the car before you enter the race – it tells you that this is a RWD (FR) car!
im sure this is one gtr people shouldn’t complain about.
A new model that’s been introduced to the series can’t be put in the same category?
Can’t wait for the game. Surely hope that this demos flaws are perfectly eradicated..
2:16? Oh my god lol