Just tested this, I changed my rear downforce to 1000 and my ecu to 87% and got the exact same numbers as you, this is super easy to fix. From the main menu head to ‘GT Auto’ to the right of ‘Tuning Shop’ click on the middle icon which is ‘car customisation’, scroll across to ‘custom parts’. Once in here the only option thats highlighted should be ‘Wing’, click on that and install ‘Type A’ this will unlock the rear downforce to 1100. Putting this setting at 1075 and increasing the ecu back to 90% should give you an identical car setup to mine. Hope this helps 👍. If you’re having anymore trouble or hav3 any more questions let me know.

I’ve also updated the description, apologies for not mentioning this.

Im glad the guide helped give you a base line and then its great to see you made your own changes from there. Everyone's driving style is different so not all setups will be perfect. These Silvia Sisters races are kinda weird and potentially bugged. Some of the AI cars have really high top speeds for 500PP (Performance Points). The top few AI cars reach speeds of around 270kph which is crazy high for 500PP. Even tho 500PP is only a suggestion I tried to keep the Performance Points are close to it as possible but in the end these races are way harder than they need to be so in my opinion you're better off just giving yourself a better car and get them done and move on to other world circuit races. Thanks for the subscribing! I really appreciate the support.

Every time you do the race the AI will have different results. Sometimes they will be faster and sometimes they will be slower. It varies because the AI isn't perfect and will make mistakes so it might take you a few attempts to win the race but use it as extra practice time to get faster and get a better understanding of how to drive the car, these cars can be very tricky to drive and slowly improve.

@ ok thanks for your help 👍

No worries! Happy New Year.

All of these races are within the Performance Points rules except for the Silvia Sisters race at Deep Forest Raceway. I have tried many setups at 500PP for those races with no luck beating the AI on hard difficulty. To this day, there is a lot of talk about the performance of the AI cars in the Silvia Sisters races. We believe the AI are over tuned/ bugged and the fastest few AI cars have around 600PP due to there top speeds being around 270-300kph. At the end of the day those races have a suggested PP range not an enforceable rule telling you cant go over 500PP. In this video even with 550PP and nitrous I was struggling to keep up with the first car so a car with 500PP would have no chance. I appreciate the feedback tho and will continue to try and find a setup below the suggested PP limit.

@@ProdigyRacing Das Silvia Rennen kann ich verstehen, nicht aber beispielsweise Gruppe3 Rennen wie auf Mount Panorama, wo die KI sichtbar deutlich weniger Leistung hat als du. Die Info gibt ja eine gute Orientierung und zeigt den Audi R8 LMS Evo mit 741PP an, was sich auf die harten Rennreifen bezieht. Im Rennen fährt die KI größtenteils Rennen Mittel und damit liegen sie um 770PP. Ich fahre 800er Rennen mit 725PP und bekomme dadurch spannende Rennen. Ich meine, in der Art wäre es auch für deine Community spannender zuzusehen oder zu versuchen mit dir mitzuhalten. Fahren kannst du ja. Gehe mal ans Limit ;)) Best regards and good start for 2025 :)

@@swinc_GTfriends I completely understand what you're saying and to some extent I agree with you. However, my guides are meant to show the easiest way to beat these races. If I can provide you information that makes it really easy to win even on the hardest difficulty why wouldn't I do that? The last race is a World Touring Car 800 event, it doesn't specify it needs to be a Group 3 car. I could use an upgraded Group 4 car and probably still win but for the purpose of a guide I will always show you the easiest solution to winning these race. The Group 2 car I used was just under 800PP obviously and the AI were faster on the straights in comparison to me, I however have a lot of practice around Mount Panorama and for the most part probably make it look easier than it actually is. Not everyone has the time to invest into car setups & strategies but they still want to play and enjoy the game, this is primarily who I make my guides for. If I wanted to make it more interesting, harder and entertaining then I would make videos of 'Using a 500PP car to beat an 800PP race'. Or I would just play online and record races. My number 1 goal will always be to help people win World Circuit races and continue making guides for them, my videos aren't necessarily entertainment technically. I have built a community that can help each other beat these race, countless times I have seen people commenting with different car setups & strategies to me and working together. I will do my best to always stay within the rules but make sure that these races are still reasonably easy to win. I spend countless hours testing cars and setups to make it simple an easy to follow and replicate. As mentioned in my last comment, I honestly do appreciate you voicing your opinion to me and giving me constructive criticism. Hope you had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too!

The AI change a little bit every time you play the race, they won’t do the exact same things every time you restart the race. They might even make mistakes so if they’re super quick and you can’t win restart and give it another go.

I don’t use TCS

Please check the pinned comment, I have added some extra setup changes since I made this guide.

This weeks races are a little boring in my opinion. The lightweight kcup race definitely spices things up a little but the rest of the races were kinda meh. These special event races still don’t require strategy and even tho it’s a group c championship you aren’t limited to that category only, you can pretty much use any car you want which doesn’t make any sense. Anyway, rant over 😂 I hope you have a wonderful Christmas! 👍

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@@KBurke-u3h Agreed, the races are great. All special event races have been good, the MX5 category is another good one In my opinion. The only criticism I have with the current DTM races is they don’t require any strategy, no fuel/ tyre management and no pit stops. If they make them into a proper World Circuit category in a future update I hope that’s something they change. I also think that every Weekly Challenge race should be a special event, it would make things interesting and a lot more difficult but also rewarding. I know a lot of people don’t have the time to smash out all 5 of these races at once and might take a few attempts/days but they should make an extra reward tier for coming first in all 5 races not just 3rd or better. Maybe double the rewards if you win all 5? Weekly Challenges should take about 3-5 days to complete, not 3-5 hours. That’s my opinion tho, maybe it’s a little bit too much of a commitment for casual players. You’re welcome 👍. If my plans don’t change I should be able to do the last 2 weeks of challenges over the Christmas break without any delays to the release of the guides which means I would’ve made a guide for every week this year which was a goal of mine when I started doing them at the start of 2024. No plan to stop making them either. I am currently trying to brainstorm ideas on how I can improve them.

@ProdigyRacing I agree more stragety would be great! It would be nice if they made at least one of the weekly races longer, and the race required a tire change and fuel.

All cars are very well matched through the BoP. The AI are very fast in this race and to win this race you need to be able to do consistent 1.58 - 1.59 lap times every lap. My speed is in km/h (kilometres per hour) not mph (miles per hour) and so you're seeing higher numbers because of the conversion difference. My top speed is around 160-170 mph and you should be seeing similar numbers. Unfortunately this race takes a lot of practice, even tho you haven't found a car you are 100% happy with, find one that you feel the most comfortable with, stick with it and start learning the track, where to brake, where to position the car for corners, and once you're comfortable with the track you can start pushing limits, brake a little bit later into corners, get on the power a little bit earlier out of corners. It will take time, between learning the track, learn how to drive the car, managing fuel and tyres and trying keep up and pass AI its a very difficult race. Practice, practice, practice. Don't get discouraged, if you're getting frustrated take frequent breaks and do something else then come back and try again.

I have tested a bunch of cars including Gr.3 cars. You’re right, for the World Touring Car 800 races Gr.3 cars don’t have the best tyre wear, fuel consumption and overall pace. The game kinda baits you into using Gr.3 cars because that’s what the AI are using. I can beat these races with a Gr.3 car on hard difficulty but it’s incredibly challenging and even harder to do on controller and the most important thing with any guide I make is it has to be somewhat easy to beat on controller and steering wheel. Using power restricted Gr.2 cars is the sweet spot for the World Touring Car 800 races. Easier to drive, more downforce, better tyre wear and fuel consumption while also being more consistent.

@@ProdigyRacing True! thanks for the reply.

Yes use the same setup. As for the strategy its been about 6 weeks since I last tested this race and my notes might be a little bit outdated but follow this: Strategy: Start the race on Racing Hard Tyres, change the fuel to level 6 and keep it there the entire race. Pit at the end of lap 12 and only add 3 laps of fuel, do not change tyres. If you follow this strategy and you're still having issues let me know and I will do my best to help you.

Thanks buddy, finally I won the race using your setting….🎉🎉🎉

Hi, do you have the set up for tokyo speedway 600? I found many in youtube, but almost their set up is difficult in turning…thanks

​@@rayyisadzafirashadiqoh5969 Im happy to help but my notes are very outdated for this race but I will give you what I have for now and if I have some time over the next couple of days I will test and update here. Here are my notes. Car Choice: Lamborghini Huracan Gr.4 Buy these items: Power Restrictor Sports Medium Tyres Make this setup changes: ECU Output Adjustment: 90 Power Restrictor: 94 Front Downforce: 200 Rear Downforce: 300 I have my Brake Balance set to -2 but this is personal preference. Again, this setup will get you under the 600PP (Performance Points) requirement but I haven't tested this out as of recently in terms of strategy. From memory this race has a chance of rain so make sure you have also purchased Intermediate and Heavy Wet Tyres. Since you're using Auto gears you might need to increase the fuel setting to 2-3, im not quite sure. The last time I tested this race I was able to complete the entire race on Sports Hard Tyres without making a pit stop because the rain was very light but this is variable so keep an eye on the weather radar. Use all of this info as a baseline and make strategy changes if necessary depending on weather. I will do my best to make time and test this race over the next couple of days but if you give it a go and you're still struggling after using this info reply here with what you're struggling with and I will do my best to help you.

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You're welcome mate! I really appreciate the continued support, especially for the weekly challenge guides. It keeps me motivated to continue making them.

And thank you Prodigy for this series, your strats got me through most races, and for the ones that didn’t quite click with my racing style, it at least served as a great forum for other players to comment with tactics that did work.

Cheers mate! I appreciate it. My Number 1 goal will always be to try and help players in Gran Turismo. Views, Subscribers and all other boring stuff doesn't matter to me. Something I've never mentioned is even tho I am a KZbin Partner with this channel I have all monetisation turned off. Something that I will most likely never turn on for this channel. This channel isn't for monetary gain, fame or views, its about helping people and bringing people together so they can work together to win these race. Seeing comments like this really motivates me to continue making videos. Thank You. Im glad that even tho the strategy wasn't perfect for you you used my guide as a baseline and made your own adjustments to suit you. It always makes me happy to see people helping each other in my comments, when I first started making these videos I never thought that would happen to be honest.

Update: won on my second try by a full lap following the advice of another commenter about adding a custom wing and maxing downforce. It took me from 2.28 laps to 2.26. Other notes: I don’t think there’s a benefit to hard difficulty on this track, set to easy. Braking hard and early won’t do you any favors on most corners, partial brake all the way to the apex with small corrections. Finally, I think with the added downforce you end up using a little more fuel. I’d fill to at least 90% when you make your 20min pit.

Not sure if you were using them or not but for this setup I recommend turning on Traction Control and Active Stability Management, I normally don’t use either of these settings but with this race a lot of the cars slide around so using these assists helps with keeping the car stable which gives us more consistency. Using a custom wing and altering downforce is an option but when I was doing some setup testing for this video I found that adding more downforce with a custom wing meant lowering power output even more and the straight line performance was terrible. In testing I was mostly using a controller. Using my setup with the above assists mentioned the compromise of less downforce for straight line speed still worked really well. Everyones’s driving style is different so I understand that the extra downforce may just be better for you and it makes you feel more comfortable driving it so I am glad you tried other options and found something that works for you.

Today patch 1.54 i won with ferrari 305 Just get ballast and power restriction. Got win by 15 sec. 2 stops made only for fuel. Power on 1, traction control on 2. Was fun race and no pressure :)

The varying weather conditions always changes the strategy, my guide is more of a baseline to follow and then alter it as you see fit depending on the varying conditions.

You gotta start somewhere, my number.1 priority when learning a new track and car combination is too always do slower exploratory laps, slowly build up to it and find the right braking spots for your driving style, once you have those consistency is next. Aim to be as consistent as you can, it doesn't matter if its 1.47. If you're doing 1.47 every lap then thats a good starting point. Once you're comfortable and doing consistent laps the speed will come the more you practice, keep at it!

@@ProdigyRacingthanks man 🙂 my new best is 1.45.455