Pretty easy. You just have to take care of the car and don't go ramming anybody and you should get a gold almost every time. I think its just to teach you to race cleanly so you can save money in the future.

Yeah, but I found that the Lap Battles in the International Licenses do the same job, albeit a bit frustrating some times, since even if you do the cleanest race you can, if an A.I rams you from behind, you get disqualified all the same >_>.

Rome in the 512b was a true nightmare getting gold, especially since the Countach in the first place has 50 BHP more and weighs almost the same >_<

I'd be interested. Very, very interested.

Yeh, that's easily the hardest lap battle. That Countach kept getting away from me on the long straight, then you have to take the next few corners near-perfectly to get gold!

When I did the gold, I was lucky enough to get behind his slipstream on the long straight, so he didn't get that far away from me, so in the next corner I reduced to 2nd and exited it at 140 km/h and it was enough to pass it in that next straight. 

All my previous attempts failed because I had given him way too much space in both straights, so even when I got close to him in the last few corners, his exit speed in the last corner was enough to keep in front of me. 

That Lap Battle and the first event in the Grand Tour, the Alfa Romeo C8 in Eiger, were the hardest ones for me to get Gold.

True, but i never said the international licenses were easy, just the super license :) Its all about not damaging the car. I mean you can make contact with other cars. So long as it wouldn't damage the car too serioulsly, you aren't disqualified. Well thats the impression i got anyway. I think it makes sense. Damage limitation and clean racing is as valid a skill as breaking or cornering. If you get rammed from behind you're probably trying a risky move (speaking from my experience).

In real racing you couldn't go out there and destroy the car every race. So I won't complain too much, and GT is trying to be "the real driving simulator". Just my opinion.

Actually most of the times I get contacted from behind isn't any kind of risky manouver, at least not one that would endanger any car nor would provoke a serious crash. It's about using one of the most used passing techniques, braking late into the inside of the corner.

Problem is that most of the times, the A.I follows the same rigid path (I've seen this only on the licenses, on A-Spec they're much more flexible), so if I brake late to get the inside, they'll contact me because that's where they were going, even if the contact is produced at low speeds such as 60 km/h. 

I hate contacts and bumps, and I try to avoid them all the time, but there are some techniques that are invaluable in any kind of race, be it virtual or real life.

True enough the A.I is pants in the licenses. I think I took my impression because i'm probably not that clean a racer XD.

Yes breaking is obvioulsy the main technique, but there is more than one line through corners, and you don't always have to take the inside.

Anyway I'd say you're a better driver than me by the sounds of things :)

Yeah, I had to improvise a lot in the Rome Lap Battle license test, especially in the first right long corner at the start of the race, I had to brake a lot late, close to the right wall so I would go wide and exit it much faster than if I followed the usual line. That allowed me enough speed to get in front of the Miura/Jaguar pack right before the 90º short corner before the long straight.

I'm a decent driver, though I don't know if i'm good or not, but thanks to using a wheel, I have improved quite a bit. I didn't know that it would make such a difference for a game like GT5, especially since every GT before I used only the pad.

Id be interested if there were any spots left.