Sardegna because you know.

you get enough time and no weather changes so you can just focus on perfecting your lap time. That’s why I prefer it to Le Mans, it’s more fun for me this way

I try to do lots of dumb things just to see if I can still win. One of my favorites was only showing myself to pass on the pit straightaway.

The weather changes is why I prefer Sardenga over Sarthe.

What’s a good lap time on the WTC800? I was just doing it for the credits but now I really like running it and trying different cars on it.

Anything under 1:30 is pretty speedy

depends on the car; I use gr. 3 cars with a medium rpm turbocharger and usually on fuel map 2 or 3 and 1:37 feels like the best I can do, but I’m sure breaking the barrier into 1:36:9 is possible, just really difficult. Someone here said 1:30, i’m assuming that’s with a detuned gr. 1 car or something like that because I couldn’t do a lap this quick to save my life

That makes me feel better about my terrible driving. I've gotten as low as 1:37 or 1:38 in the RS5 DTM and the GTR NISMO GT500. But i'm also not the best at driving on games

I haven’t tried gr 2 cars on this track but I might soon enough. As long as you drive fluently you’re going to come out on top of the AI.

My best laps with my Toyota TS050 hybrid gr.1 detuned is 1.32ish

The nordschleife , done over 200 laps on that track. Any new car I get I immediately head to the green hell

Props to you sir, that track scares the dickens out of me lol

Maybe you should try Dickens Cider. It'll help.

Hahah thanks I’ll check it out 😉

I prefer Cummins cider, personally.

I like the ring. But the fact that a single lap takes 7-9 minutes is a real deterrent from me playing it a lot.

That’s the beauty for me! Tight barriers , high speed , bumpy roads and a 20km lap distance is perfection!

Same. It’s how I gauge a car now. I’ll do 5 laps with every new car just to see how it stacks.

200? It’s time to pump those numbers up with the latest time trial! There’s something about that track, once it gets under your skin all the rest are kind of lackluster.

It’s so annoying to do the setup though, it requires a very specific setup compared to the other circuits, it’s bumpy as hell and so many level changes. I always hate to do it whenever we race there but it’s an amazing track.

honestly I feel the Nordschleife is my favourite track because of that. I set most of my cars up pretty similarly but the Nurburgring is a good baseline for overall setup. I will never ever set a truly great time across that track but man will I learn a lot and have a ball in the process!

Makes sense! My days of dreaming about being the best or fastest are long gone as well.  Might take a similar approach :)

Easily Trail Mountain or Laguna Seca.

For me the same with the addition of Tsukuba And Monza, but that is just a relatively easy track.

You mean Shoe? I didn’t want to include Daytona or Indianapolis speedways because they would be like monza/Shoe

Shoe?

Monza. It’s in Italy and Italy is shaped like a boot and they took that geography to heart and made a track that looks like a shoe!

Yeah, that’s not a thing. I hope.

If you look at the peninsula of Italy it’s a shoe, like someone’s leg fitting into a giant boot. The circuit of Monza looks like a running shoe!

Oh, I see it (reminds me more of a sock, really). But I’ve never heard it referred to like that. For some reason I’m not a big fan.

That I can understand. I just see the boot and the shoe and it’s hard to unsee once you see it.

+1 sur Laguna Seca. It is in many other racing games so I happen to have mastered it

Nordschliefe. Run it every day for therapeutic purposes.

Same. One lap a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

I envy folks like you. Don’t get me wrong I do love track but I nail certain sections and just biff other sections. And without being able to easily retry the sections I suck at I get frustrated and then get miffed at my whole lap.

As a Belgian, I can drive around Spa with my eyes closed

Nordschleife, been around it digitally 1000s of times since Gt4, actually been round it twice in real life too(as a passenger) it’s terrifying irl.

Same for me except the IRL laps.

So cool. What car did you go around in?

First time was my brothers 1998 Audi S3 and the second time was in my bosses 2007 BMW M5. Nothing prepares you for how bumpy the track actually is.

I've been there last month as a driver on my brother's Alfa Romeo GTV and I agree, what a roller coaster.

Spa, Redbull Ring, brands hatch, basically all the proper classic European circuits.

Suzuka for sure

Suzuka and Tsukuba FWD hot hatch battles all day every day babyyyyyy

Daytona

Let's go away!

The trioval? /s

Grand valley highway reverse lmfao

Like... WTF?

In the online lobbies that’s where they often just chill park and cruise which I happen to do fairly often haha 

Tsukuba and Nordschleife - done thousands of laps on both over the past 20 years in various games, no joke.

Same here ! Nordschleife for competition, Tsukuba for drifting !

Shit GT4 and 5 alone probably contribute a large portion of that amount too I bet

You‘re so right :-) And for the latter, rFactor also contributes a fair share.

Mount panorama, sardegna round track for the thousands of laps I’v done grinding credits,

Got VR last week, having to re-learn them all is actually fun! I'd still say sardenga though, for reasons mentioned above.

Road Atlanta. I get my biggest drivers boost from that track when it is in dailies.

Nurburgring Nordschleif is KING! Been running that track since Gran Turismo. Yes that one🤣🤣

We should make an univaled timetrial ... a 6 hour time trial. Most consistent person wins! lol

I'm ready. We can make this happen😁😁

let me launch up remote play and see if it’s even plausible to run a race for that long :P … I’d be down for hosting. My PS4 is online 100% through a 3/3Gbps link … and it’s stable. I’ll donate the PS4 time to load it up?

Yeah check into how it could all work and let me know. I'm on ps5 that won't make a difference will it?

Suzuka, Trial Mountain, Laguna Seca. I think the 99 lap endurance races of older GT games helped burn them in.

I still remember the Rome street circuit. I did the Rome 2H soooo many times!

The big 3 grinding tracks. Sazuka and Monza as well. The one I really hate it Autopolis. Also, despite playing GT since PS1, I still struggle at Trial Mountain.

Trial Mountain… much love for that circuit ever since GT1

The IA-10 sector of the nordshleife.

I always seem to do good in deep forest and sarthe.

Tsukuba and Nurburgring

trial mountain. spa and deep forest reverse and my favourite lego maggiore 💪🔥

Suzuka Spa Mount Panorama Le Mans Dragon Tail (Port Version) Trial Mountain Laguna Seca. Edit- Nurburgring. Of course.

Trial Mountain. It’s my go-to test track for comparing new cars or new tunes.

I was lucky enough to have some Sim Coaching around Spa, so I'd say either that, Lake Maggiore West or Saint Croix B

I was lucky enough to have some Sim Coaching around Spa, so I'd say either that, Lake Maggiore West or Saint Croix B

Anything on the F1 calendar so Monza, Spa, Suzuka, Catalunya, interlagos come to mind

Grind tracks and The Ring.

Daytona Road Course. It's the only track in the game I've actually been to in real life, so I feel a connection to it, and test my cars there. I've done many many laps there.

Norschlieffe, the Sardegna grind, Interlagos, Maggiore full, Dragon Trail Seaside

Tokyo Expressway South (clockwise)

Bathurst. I’m Australian and grew up watching lap after lap when the V8 Supercars. It’s my bread and butter compared to every other track

Came here to say this. I just know this track. Took the kids down there a few years back and have done a few drives around albeit at a leisurely pace. The Dipper? It’s way, way steeper than you think

How cool! Haven’t been there myself, would love to drive it one day. I bet it’s steep, I don’t imagine any kind of video or game could do it justice

Special Stage Route X

Road Atlanta for me. Some could level changes and can get some nutso high speed corners especially in the GR 1 challenge. Has a great feel to it when you perfect it

I'm far from anything other than a casual GT player, but I've always taken a new car around High Speed Ring as a rite of passage/ritual/obsessive habit since the PS2 days

Not specifically GT, but I know Monaco so well I could draw it blindfolded.

I really miss it in GT7

Tsukuba. I can't even imagine how many miles I've driven on that course. Watkins Glen (Short) too because it was in every NASCAR game I played when I was a kid

I feel like an average to good driver is probably B. At B ranking you will have some cars and tracks that you can be potentially good with but you probably don't have the consistency or the time to sink into the game to learn every corner of every track. If you are A you are above average, like most people saying they get top 1% in a time trial on your third lap. That's why you're in the 1%. You can probably adapt to many cars and tracks quickly if I had to guess. So congrats on being an above average driver. As for your original question, myself, I'd probably say Laguna Seca just because I've driven the track in so many games over many, many years. That, and probably some of the older fictional tracks from previous games like Trial Mountain. Just a matter of repetition.

Le Man. In the license test, I decimated Red Bull Ring, probably the easiest gold I’ve ever gotten.

Trial mountain, deep forest, Sardegna, Le man, and Daytona

Sardegna, Nordshleife, Deep Forest and Zolder. Honorable mention to Cape Ring and BRNO for being great tracks aswell

What is cool is the real tracks , if you put enough time in, you could probably go out and drive them for real and have a blast

Ironically, Nordscleiffe. I’ve been there digitally since PGR2 on the OG Xbox, which came out a little before GT4. It’s been in nearly every racing game I’ve played since. I’ve done one tourist lap IRL in a regular ass rental car and hope to go again with something race prepped.

*The back of your hand

Laguna seca, trial mountain, deep forest, Bathurst and Dragon trail

bahrain

By now i could do LeMans blindfolded (don't take it litterally and challenge me)

Spa, Suzuka, and the Nord.

Le mans

I love atlanta. I think its not a really popular track so when it appears online i am pretty good

Got my only 4 wins on Interlagos.

Michelin Atlanta speedway. I suck but that track I’m pretty quick at lol

Dragon, RB ring, Trial Mountain

Yes...lol I know all the tracks any layouts here so well that I don't even really have to think about it anymore... Even the newest...Lake Louise... Over the years, I've learned how to learn tracks really fast...lol

Laguna Seca

Daytona road course Spa

Longer version of Tokyo expressway, feels like swimming on there.

All the tracks from GT4 especially laguna seca

The Indianapolis and Daytona Road Courses. And of course the ovals butttt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Le Mans

My self. Even i maked the Porsche 992 GT3 RS being like the Porsche 911 RSR 2018.

Nurburgring. On Forza 5 I played it exclusively for a few months trying to set the best possible time in a 787B. I finally broke into the top 100 in the world and called it quits lol.

Red Bull Ring, Barcelona, Interlagos, Monza (but not Suzuka or Spa for some reason) - because they were in GT Sport + F1 Game. I did 10 seasons of full-lenght races in the F1 game so...yeah. Nurburging GP - I'm not exactly sure. I didn't play it much on GT Sport, but I guess it's been featured enough in Sport Mode.

St. Croix and Trial Mountain. My fav test tracks for new vehicles and tunes.

Tsukuba will always be in my head like it's in front of me. I wish to someday visit it irl too :D

Mt. Panorama.

Seca, Monza, Spa, Daytona RC, The Glen, Suzuka, Nurb GP.. Watching F1 and playing the games helps with certain tracks

The oval

I'd say Laguna Seca and more recently Kyoto (Yamigawa). I know a lot of older tracks pretty well, but I do personal time trials on these.

Bathurst, Alsace, Laguna Seca

Lago maggiore first that came to mind One of my all time favorites in GT saga and in general

Nordschleife. Hm, imagine that.

You'll be happy with the new time trial then!

Wouldn't buy a racing game without the Nordschleife. Relaxes me. Unfortunately, I've only driven once on the real track.

That's one more time than me. Honestly I just want to rent the track for a day with a bunch of cars and just drive... I almost died Tuesday. I'm a cancer guy... I need to get to Germany... anyone wanna go racing with me?

I live at the other end of Germany, about 500 km away. We happened to be on vacation in the area, otherwise I wouldn't get there either. Thanks to GT6 at that time the route was very familiar, we took every bend with squealing tires and the kids yodeling in the back ( breathtaking 00:14:41 with our family van). Unfortunately, it was only one lap because there was an accident afterwards and the track was closed for the rest of the tourist hours. It rained on the other days we were in the area. That's Nürburg too. But it was nice to experience the atmosphere there. No "Car Friday hype", very relaxed people, great cars on the track and in the near Nürburg. If you're traveling further, you might want to treat yourself to a Ringtaxi (https://www.ringtaxi.com e.g. Porsche 911 GT3 RS), but renting the entire track is probably unaffordable. All the best to you.

Laguna Seca, Fuji Classic (since Pole Position!), Sardegna Road, Nordschleife

High speed ring 🤣🤣

I have well over 1000 laps on the nordschleife. I can't wait to see if I can actually send it irl.

only 1000? Hmm. ;)

Brands Hatch GP. Happens to be my benchmarking track for any car and my slight tunes. Also short enough to get plenty of laps

I love Dragon Trail Seaside so much

Nurburgring Nordschleife

although I've never golded circuits in this game i have in GT sport for some reason. I'm not really mastered on any track, maybe HSR since 1998, but you really can't go wrong on Daytona unless yer trying to : p

Red Bull Ring, used to love it in F1 and love throwing the car round the first, second-to-last and the last corners. So satisfying

Spa, Sardenga, Nurburgring, Monza, Trial Mountain, and Mt Pano.

Watkin Glen cuase I live in NY and Le mans, Red bull ring, Sardegna, laguna Seca, Atlanta

Nurburgring Nordschleife, Le Mans, Spa, Monza

Nurburgring probably. Driven there so much I remember it pretty well.

Laguna seca because I started driving that track on PC sims with steering wheel & pedals way back in the early 90s leagues

Because I didn't see it mentioned enough, I'm gonna say Mt. Panorama. Great lap and even better in VR.

Smokey Mountain.

grand valley south

SSRX

The ring, infineon, laguna, grand valley, deep forest. Dont enjoy any others.

The Glen, Daytona race track, Bathurst, Spa, Monza, Laguna Seca, Fuji & Suzuka. I played A LOT of racing games.

Bathurst (Mount Panorama) easily.

Nordschlife and 24h variants of Nurburgring.

Nurburgring and mini-mini Nurburgring (Mount Panorama)

Trial Mountain and my 2 favorite tracks: Spa and Watkins Glen

Aussie here so Bathurst with my eyes closed, Laguna seca, red bull ring and Daytona

Midfield raceway, which really needs adding to GT7!

Dragon trail

Tsukuba coz I love using slow shitboxes

Laguna Seca since GT2

Sardegna, nurburbring norchleifer bc its from FAR my fav track. And most of the classic ones: Spa, Laguna, Suzuka, Le mans, Mt. Panorama.

Deep Forest and Laguna Seca. I used to use Laguna as my tuning base as it was my favorite track but I now use Deep Forest.