VGChartz Official Gran Turismo 5 Thread!

[lestatdark]

ithis said:

lestatdark said:

Nope,  I don't think Slippery reduction is available for GT Life mode, I've only seen it for Arcade mode. 

Neither do I use Skid Recovery Force, the only assist I use is ABS = 1, mainly because of a bug that's present in almost all wheels, except the Fanatec GTS, where with ABS = 0, even a slight touch to the brakes locks them up.

Most of the times I spun out were either on the Mulsanne chicanes or on the porsche curves, so I had a lot of track and sand exits to avoid clipping the barriers.  My car got damaged, mostly due to the initial bumps in the rain and from trying to take corners too hot while going over the kerbs, which ruined my suspension. 

Plus, over 5000km really takes a toll in your engine power. After finishing the race, going back to GT Auto and doing an oil change, the maximum power was of 762 BHP, where at the start of the race was 831 BHP. 

I saved the progress after finishing the race.

... How come you managed the best times at the end of the race then? Was it just a state of mind? I do understand that on rain the laps were slower ofcourse, but then you had 10 hours of good weather, and with the suspension and engine degrading constantly one would think that you would hit the car's lap potential shortly after sunreise, when the trask wormed a little but the air not soo much? (Or does the car have an intercooler and is not afected by air temperature.) Either way, you said the care became less stable and less powerfull yet you ran faster and faster times. Sounds wierd a bit.

My fast lap was set on lap 238, right after the 15th hour mark, not on the 21st hour mark

I forgot to add it to the 18th hour mark report, but I specified in which lap I had done it. By the 18th hour mark, when the first signs of (edit - Engine) degradation were showing, I was already at lap 288. 

Also, the conditions for that lap were optimal, mainly because I had some very good drafting points. In each of the three main straights of the Mulsanne, right after the Mulsanne corner and after Arnage. It was a sequence of drafts that I couldn't match in any other lap of the race. Added to that, I also managed to take the Porsche corners and the Ford chicanes in the fastest way possible as well.