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| Audi: Tourist Trophy; A one model championship for the Audi TT's | |
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| Mustang Mystic | Aug 17 2015, 03:30 AM Post #1 |
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Audi Showroom: Tourist Trophy Championship Race Format, 3 Races: El Capitan Normal Tokyo Route 246 Reverse Deep Forest Raceway Reverse Audi TT only TT Coupe 1.8T quattro TT Coupe 3.2 quattro TT-R Touring Car Tires: No restriction. Winning Prize: 20,000 Cr. Prize Car: Audi Le Mans quattro 2003 1st Place Prize Money: 5,000 Cr per race ![]() Due to the relatively low power from either model of the street car and the Quattro AWD you can often push a bit harder and brake a little later with this car. Initially it looks like you can win this series with the 4 cylinder but in race 2 the field was a little closer so you may want to test this before committing yourself. I suspect a TT 1.8T with a turbo upgrade or racing tires would get the job done. I don't expect to use this car much, if at all after the challenge so for me the big difference is in the colours of the cars. I think you can bring a TT 1.8 up to the level of the TT 3.2 for about the same as the difference in price so I'm inclined to say choose the car according to which colour you like best. Generally the TT 3.2 has way cooler colour choices but green is the exception, the TT 1.8 has a much nicer green. Why so much talk about colour? Because there isn't much else to discuss here, this is a truly empty event. The races are so short it isn't even good for killing some time unless you run the entire event in one sitting in which case I hope you are only trying to pass enough time for your friend to finish a hot drink. Race 1: El Capitan Normal Although there were only two 4 cyl cars I qualified on pole with a lead of 11.8 seconds in the first 2 laps I ever drove in my car. Most corners are about 50 & 60 mph, most bends are flat or quickly tap the brake going in. In the race the start was typical Gran Turismo, I was challenged for the lead up to the first corner where I left everyone behind. This being a 2 lap race I really didn't have much time to explore it, I don't think I had time to warm my tires up. Yes. I'm rolling my eyes as I write that line. Drive as you did to qualify maybe braking just a fraction sooner for the right hander at the foot of the mountain pass. I comfortably won by 11.283 seconds without waking up properly or trying very hard. ![]() Race 2: Tokyo Route 246 Reverse Not much to say here, on most of the corners use normal braking points, on the final turn before the main straight on your warm up lap you can brake when you are half a car length into the curbing but do not try this on the second lap. As usual you have less grip with your warm tires and should brake just before the curbing starts. In the race, wait, what... it's only one lap? Okay so my advice for the race is, you are on pole, don't give up the lead. Drive the same as your qualifying lap and do not blink. Seriously, a drag race could take longer. "The real driving simulator," rotflmfao. ![]() Race 3: Deep Forest Raceway Reverse Warm up: brake hard at the bottom of the hill after the first tunnel, you will want to be doing about 65 m.p.h. for the first corner. Accelerate through then lift briefly for the next corner. Brake to 50-55 m.p.h. in the tunnel then brake to 55 m.p.h. for the final tunnel; flat out from there to the hairpin before the main straight, 50-55 m.p.h. is the norm here. Repeat for your qualifying lap and that's pole. Easy peasy. Since you did not encounter it on your warm up lap, you cannot take the first corner flat out, brake to about 85-92 m.p.h. if you collect the curb at the apex.The speed for the corner leading into the first tunnel will be 70-78 M.P.H. In the race, follow the same format and the win will be easier to claim than pole position was. I seemed to find more grip in the race. There you have it kids, 3 races, 5 laps, 9 minutes and change, have fun. Oh wait, there isn't enough time for that, is there? Audi TT 1.8T My first attempt with the TT 1.8T was to add a semi racing exhaust, this brings the horsepower up to 242 or 239 depending on which set of numbers you believe but it is very close to the output of the TT 3.2. In spite my car having almost as much power & less weight the other cars are (of course, this is GT) much faster off the line. The TT 1.8T isn't as grippy but if you adjust your approach to the corner slightly by braking then getting onto the power earlier the cornering speeds seem very much the same to my shakey recollection. Throwing the car around the corners helps as well. Despite this I was only able to out-qualify P2 by 6.9 seconds this time and my margin of victory only 1.9 seconds. GT 4 ignores the fact that the cars are almost equal in power and raise the BS quotient slightly as well. I was passed on the standing start by 3 cars but soon had the lead back & never gave it up. Much closer racing, much more fun. Race 2 I was on pole but with a standing start on a long straight I again lost 3 places, being able to effectively block only the fourth car who passed me after the first corner. By using that car as a cornering aid I soon had that position back but between the short, high power course, a one lap race & GT4 changing the laws of physics on me I did not have the opportunity to catch anyone else. I may have been able to move up a place or two with practice but I wanted to do the races in a three race sweep. Race 3 played into the little cars strengths. Pole by over 4 seconds, a rolling start and a real circuit with real corners put victory within my grasp. GT again played with physics as I found myself approaching turn 1 on the second lap with 10 M.P.H. more than I ever had on that straight and no time to scrub it. Two cars caught me and one passed me while I was busy mowing the grass but I was able to keep the second car behind me and pass the other car by creatively interpreting the limits of the course. Thus I was able to claim the win for the race and the series with 2 victories and a third place for 23 points while second in the series had 20 points. If you do not mind losing a race, this is the cheapest way to win the series. For my second attempt I added a stage 1 Turbo upgrade nwhich should give the TT 1.8T the same horsepower as the TT 3.2 while keeping it's weight advantage. Again I started on pole and lost a place at the start but with more power I was able to prevent two other cars from passing me and soon had first place again. A fairly good race but since TT 1.8T's are not supposed to win, GT played with the physics a little. We'll see what happens at R246 which is this cars greatest challenge in this series. What happened was pretty much what I expected. I qualified on pole, fought hard to hold onto it but got passed by several cars. It's hard to believe I have equal power and less weight, you would almost think it was me at the disadvantage. I ran in third place so at the final corner I tried braking early to see if I could move up to second by drafting on the straight but GT still altered the physics of my car and I came out of the corner 7 M.P.H. slower than usual. Nothing less than a win will do for the next race so I cannot say finishing third was an improvement. A bit of luck tho, because I held back the car in P2, a slower car won the race leaving me in P1 for the championship by 2 points. I again qualified easily for pole at Deep Forest and built a good lead over the first lap. GT did everything it could to mess with my car on the second lap but I still held onto the lead for the entire race. A word of advice to polyphoney, as much as I love racing, even racing sucks when it is buried in bullshit. Finally, the test I have been looking forward to, we mount racing tires on our car. I was holding off the other cars at the start when it all went wrong and I found myself in the snow without my M&S tires. Although I fell back to last, it did not take me much longer than usual to get the lead back. GT may have a horsepower addiction but I have always preferred cars that can corner. It is a wonderful feeling when you can put your car exactly where you want it and you can drive at the limit without questioning your ability to stay on the road but now we shall see what happens when we go to a street circuit where power reigns supreme. Having more grip to work with I tried something different this time, I reduced my stability controls another notch. I had more grip on a circuit that does not challenge your cornering ability much and 2 qualifying laps to find out if was worth trying for some extra speed. I took pole as usual and while the car needed to be handled a little more carefully it did not seem to be a problem. I do not know if it helped my launch but I was able to stay in front of the other cars and hold the lead this time. Due to the long straights that make up this street circuit I was never able to hold my advantage from the few challenging corners and was challenged the whole lap but I was able to hold the lead to the end and take the win. I took pole and an easy win at Deep Forest. While I could have used the looser settings, I reverted to my usual settings for the car for this road course. ![]() Summary: So which car should you use? Ultimately the cars are equally matched at six of one and a half dozen of the other so simply pick out the car you like. The V6 is the simplest way to go, you will win straight out of the box but the turbo 4 will give you decisions to make and more challenging races. I got the best results with racing tires which brought the cost of the TT 1.8T almost up to the cost of the TT 3.2 so saving credits is not an issue. An interesting quirk of GT4 is that no matter what I did, the TT 1.8T got fewer points than the TT 3.4 which had a huge advantage here. Even the setup with the semi-racing exhaust where the TT 1.8T was at a disadvantage in power and cornering it got fewer points for a win. The racing isn't much fun but the winning is easy so buy the car you like, prepare it the way you like and have fun with it. Insiders Note:Since I raised the question of the TT 1.8T in the race report, I included it here as a bonus. I cannot include every variation possible so if you are thinking of a four banger, consider running some tests yourself. For example, what if you split the difference and put a semi-racing exhaust and a set of soft sports tires on a TT 1.8T? You would have near the same power of a TT 3.2, less weight and better grip than the standard tire. I used the super hard racing tire in my test and polyphoney says the soft sports tire has almost the same grip. The races are very short so tire life is not important, the softs warm up fast, very important in a one lap sprint or a cold climate race, both of which are included in this series. Or maybe since the little car can hold it's own on the road circuits, why not just toss a nitro bottle in the boot? I've said it before and I'll say it again, the racing sucks in GT4, the fun is in trying new things and testing your cars. |
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