The Hardest Gran Turismo 7 Challenge Yet

My quest to place as highly on a Gran Turismo 7 time trial. I believe that placing highly on the time trial leaderboards is one of the hardest and most frustrating challenges you can set for yourself. In this one, I try to get as close as I can to the very top of the leaderboard for this time trial.
Track: Dragon Trail Gardens
Class: Gr.3
Car used: Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 13'
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[@hnielsen123]

For what it's worth, your time trial videos are some of my favorite on your channel. The IA10 license and the Lewis Hamilton dlc are easily top 5 all-time super gt videos. I know you've said time trialing isn't "your thing" but the videos are fantastic and I wouldn't complain one bit if you did them more often haha

[@Super_GT]

Thank you very much for the kind words. I think the beauty of time trialling is really perfecting a given track/section. The more attempts and time you put into it, the more you realise what is truly possible.

[@croissant29]

@@Super_GT a philosopher 😩

[@danielraymond7196]

@@Super_GT i really enjoy watching you progress though your time trials can't wait until you enter that elite class of player you talk about in the vid. Keep it up!!

[@damarfadlan9251]

@@Super_GT Super GT, have u heard news that Tomori Kusunoki gonna retire her role as the legendary Setsuna Yuki? Everyone hearing it gonna cried hard.

[@blackkimchi5111]

Man, time trials will never get old. It's what got me sucked into hours of GT1-4. Endless pursuit of perfection, or if not perfection then just the best you're possibly capable of is very cathartic (albeit annoying at times).

[@Wagonman5900]

It's like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. It's so frustrating when mess it up, but when you get all the corners on the track right, and launch out of that last one toward the strip, and you know it's going to be a great time when you get there, that's a good feeling.

[@Greydawg]

I absolutely *crave* more time trails stuff like this from Super GT! Brilliant stuff, & sincerely, we enjoy it. Fascinating work &, in all sincerity, inspirational.

[@au1317]

Editing in this video is spot on Steve

[@VQS_Ntinoskonsta]

You’ve always had this pace in you, it was just a matter of putting in the effort to extract it 👏

[@Super_GT]

Thank you. I definitely don't put in enough time to really fulfil my potential on GT but I still have quite a way to go to be world tour level - that's still quite a way off.

[@bvonl90]

The level of dedication is just mindblowing 1000 laps to get that 1 perfect lap To me you are 1 of the geatest sim players

[@FlashDaggerStudios]

Steve I noticed you are back to hood cam again after experimenting with bumper cam. I think a lot of people myself included would be interested in your thoughts on pros / cons of each etc. great video 👍

[@dt1607]

I've just been wondering the same thing, I love cockpit view and have for years, would changing views improve my driving? I'm only a casual gamer so should I just stick with cockpit view? 🤔 I love watching your videos but I'm too old to have any aspirations of getting anywhere near as good as you, or anyone for that matter, so from an old rookie thankyou for sharing your expertise, 👏👏👏👏👍

[@tvd-theremedy2515]

@@dt1607 A lot of it just depends on personal preference, but I do think you’d ultimately do better with a different camera view (once you got adjusted to it). The cockpit view does look awesome, but I never do as well using that camera as I do using others (primarily bumper cam view). The view from inside the car tends to block a significant amount of your “peripheral” vision. That’s just my opinion though, that you’d do better with a different camera view. Go with whichever one you enjoy using the most.

[@aminenko91]

as an amateur time attack driver i love this kind of stuff. it really does get nutty when you're pushing for the last second of what the car can do before you fly into a real wall. I hope you do more content like this

[@The_BenboBaggins]

Really good point about following the wrong ghost, I think much more than 0.5s faster is too much to try and keep up with over a full lap - top tip for that: If you go to the showcase and search for fastest lap replays at the same circuit/car etc. (The lap time is shown in the top-right corner of the thumbnail), you can add that replay to your collection (the button for this is on the replay preview screen) - once added, the ghost for that lap will appear as an option to load from the ghost settings next time you time-trial/qualify.

[@JakeLoeppky]

That 'Great Banter' meme fit SO well. Cracked up man. Steve's sarcasm and meme usage is unmatched.

[@sleepyKazuto]

really enjoying the grand turismo races and content thanks for the great lessons and fun vids!

[@Vortexx_IOS]

I hope to meet you one day Steve, you’ve really inspired me and motivated me to do what I love. Whenever im down, I click on your videos and honestly they give me a laugh. I appreciate you mate, keep the great content coming for as long as you dare ♥️

[@brandoncheatham5510]

Been watching your videos for awhile now but recently I’ve noticed how you better the track every time you go around! The self analysis is what I do in my head as I’m racing around every track!! Truly an inspiration for me and the reason I keep playing GT series. Keep driving and striving for the top! I’m sure you’ll get there sooner than later! ❤❤😊

[@laszlomiskei9138]

You provide really good entertainment, Steve. Makes my days better.

[@carspn1]

These videos make me appreciate your other videos even more. The practice you put in is insane and a good reminder that being good doesn't just come naturally. I'm trying to get into sim racing and it's incredibly frustrating, especially with GT3 cars. These videos remind me it just takes practice. Thanks for putting these out

[@Drnken229]

Just be fast and dont die of death

[@IronSaiyan7]

Man, i am happy if i’m within 2-3 seconds of the top times! I just don’t get how people are so fast and I do get equally frustrated when I can’t shave off anything from my time but more frustrated that I can’t even compete with you guys!

[@porterbatzdorfer8787]

I commend your commitment and more importantly your patience. You’re stronger than most in that sense

[@theflyingtoast5178]

Good content as always Steve, wish you the best of luck in your upcoming race, and I've certainly found your time trial videos to be the more memorable ones content wise. I think the best video I've seen of yours recently was the video where you spent all that time improving your time on Willow Springs then managed that amazingly consistent set of times in the race.

[@mauro398]

Keep your head up man, ive been watching you since some of the early days of Forza, and its good to see you really out here competing with some of the best. you got this man keep it up

[@RaulVicenteJ]

I only wish I'd found your channel earlier. So much fun and educational to watch. Keep up the good work!

[@hussy210786]

That was probably the most enjoyable video I've watched of yours. Plenty to take away to further improve my mindset and my driving. Thank you & keep going!

[@Dyslexic_Mudkip]

This made me wanna improve my times at Spain and monza. Did 5 mediocre laps and left feeling like it was just fine full knowing there’s more time to be gained. Love your videos man

[@davebuilds7261]

This is such an interesting channel. Be proud that you’ve gotten so good at breaking down your gameplay. I feel like I’m watching f1 & you’re the commentator. A damn good one!!

[@Elebanitez]

Absolutely amazing. Super GT just keeps on reaching new levels (of speed and content quality). I'm looking forward to watching you become one of the world's top GT racers.

[@2Syndras1Cup]

2:42 I didn't even know the cars in GT could sound like that, I always thought of the games sound as boring and quiet but here you are using a different cam and treating me to some ear candy. Nice.

[@noduj]

I love your time trial video's, it shows the beauty of racing games - it is so rewarding and fair.

[@pudds]

Love what I'm seeing. The fact that you've been at the top level of this game for so long and still have the motivation to improve even further is inspiring to see.

[@Drew_2308]

your dedication and passion is really fun to watch, keep at it mate!

[@doubleRprodutions]

Great video, love watching you grind it out and with your elite level attitude, you'll get to that elite level of GTSport driving.

[@RetroDillon]

Watching you constantly improve in just a single video with a brand new car with 0 miles on the clock, inspires me so much. I am addicted to Time Attack and this brings back a few memories, what we see in the video makes it look so easy, but as a content creator, I know this would have taken several attempts to perfect. Keep up the great work, you do exceptionally well hiding that inner anger when spinning out or meeting the infamous Barry R

[@tasshuffler8905]

Love, love, love TT grinds. Could watch this stuff genuinely all day. Dope content my man

[@Sanjinator1]

Incredible scenes. Fully relatable too as a buddy of mine share exchanging blows in those per 2 week qualifying time trial challenges (Managed a top time too at the Interlagos one with the GT-R). Have to say though that I've been struggling lately, as you well know in those races we shared at Monza yesterday. A 2 week hiatus plus physics change will do that lol. Feel like I'm having to relearn the whole game again but these are just typ. excuses of a sore loser haha so gotta git gud like a Dark Souls veteran would tell ya. This vid has encouraged ruthless practise. Thanks for another one Steve.

[@mattshreve9096]

You never fail to crack me up. "...and the crowd goes ballistic." That's why I keep watching. Good stuff!

[@CSJR]

Fantastic effort. Fantastic editing. Time trial isn't my favorite of your content but it is encouraging to see you improve.

[@logans3313]

Awesome video as always, Steve. Your most recent time trial vids have been really entertaining and well put together. When SuperGT posts a vid, nothing else matters for the rest of the day. Keep it up, man! Howdy from Texas.

[@user-ww1rv7hb7v]

Dude you are literally my favourite KZbinr for Gran Turismo content 🎉😊. Thanks to your advices I always improving on lap times 🔥👌. Greetings from Greece

[@WhiteHatH4x0r]

Great video Steve, really enjoyed it. You’ve gotten very good at putting together & commentating your episodes. Keep up the good work. Good luck at Gumball

[@Midas_kek]

Love your TT content. I think a lot of us enjoy this side of GT.

[@ClutchF1]

I played GT7 the other day on my mates account 1st time I ever played it. Knocked 20 seconds of his best lap time and placed him 3726 in the world on that track and now he's bragging that he did it. You reckon the sofa helped me? 🐐

[@diplomatofthesosbrigade931]

20 seconds? Is he driving with his eyes closed?

[@emmabuerstad4114]

@@diplomatofthesosbrigade931 Maybe a long lap like Nordschleife. Totally possible to shave of 20 seconds there.

[@chorizojoe8282]

@@emmabuerstad4114 100%. The Nordschleife really adds up time for better or worse. It’s such a dirtbag move of his friend to take credit like that.

[@ClutchF1]

It was Sao Paulo btw

[@ClutchF1]

I did do the nurburgring by like 15 seconds though

[@parriehunter_rc]

Thanks for this video it is awesome to watch. Even though I am a lot lot slower than you I am having the same frustrations. Watching all you really fast guys and girls I felt that it was effortless for you but this show that it isn't. Doing the nurberg gp time trial for the last couple of weeks my optimal was about 1 second better than i could string together. I see that I am up and either overdrive the rest of the lap or under drive it and lose heaps of time. Just spending more time behind the wheel is helping as well. Thanks for the tip of not having a too fast a ghost to try and chase and just general of chipping away at it.

[@lachlanhempell]

Love watching these, reminds me of when I used to play a push bike racing gaming called free rider. I would spend hours and hours improving on tracks to try and get featured ghosts (featured ghosts were like the highest achievement you could get on a track, but they had to be perfect, and be deemed virtually impossible to improve upon). I eventually was regarded as one of the best players at the category of track I was good at. Would love to get into sim racing to scratch that same itch of trying to get the perfect time.

[@PlutoMatrix1]

U cold af creepin up the ladder! Much kudos!! I have been analyzing your time trials and the ghosts, one thing i noticed, was the way the ghosts "rode the sausages" (lol) but i noticed the ghost didnt actually ride them, the cars split the sausages with the under carriage, rode em out without losing speed or weight distribution exiting corners. Jus a minor detail i noticed

[@siyethembamazibuko1571]

FINALLY, YOUR BACK!!! I've been wondering what happened to you. Great to see you BACK.

[@gtp_vexd3507]

Really interesting video sir. Thankyou for documenting all your efforts towards catching a Frenchman. Top work. Very insightful for us mere humans. 👍🏽

[@Rob-sp4rx]

Absolutely flying m8. Good stuff as always. That no1 lap is mental.

[@grrlpurpleable]

A lot of dedication and patience there... amazing stuff!

[@Misanthrop92]

What a grind. Good job, Steve!

[@elainya_]

I noticed u took the outside corners first then taking the inside on the second attempt, an interesting new thing I learned about how to learn how to race

[@jtaggtheone4430]

Love seeing it brother I 100% agree you use the same method I do to improve my top in the world times. Your are the man man

[@pierrevdk]

It’s great to see your struggles and your victories! Make me realize that I’m not the one to have bad sessions 😅

[@pistonfury]

12:45 WELL DONE MY MAN!!!!!!

[@silverfox8598]

Hot lapping for me is the best way to get fast at any given track online racing is the only way to improve race craft and race pace Great Video

[@namugriff]

Dragon Trail Gardens is one of my favourite tracks in GT Sport and GT 7. Getting the complex and the never ending corner is really satisfying when you get it right.

[@Kenyim1994]

9:18 exact same time for the first 2 laps there is just WOW

[@actng]

this was actually quite entertaining seeing you improve

[@InterFectorem06]

Great content lately, been enjoying every vid! Keep it up bro

[@lucasz8892]

Really enjoyed the vid! TT is so frustrating but also exciting when you hook the corners correctly. One question, have you though about taking a wide line through the final corner, so it sets up the straight line speed for the next corner since you have a better line. I do this in iRacing and can normally get 0.05-0.1s

[@YT_timekiller001]

Great video! This is also my weekly struggle, as my race pace is usually quite a lot better than my time trial pace. I managed a 29.0 on Monday or Tuesday, then couldn't get close again on Wednesday. On Thursday I got my new load cell pedals so I needed to get used to them, causing me to do this time trial again quite a lot. But I never managed to get close again. In theory, yes, but getting all sectors together can be so difficult, especially on a track like this. But still, it is quite fun. Especially when you see yourself improving over the time, as you've shown here

[@heisenberg1940]

Watching super gt is what got me into time attack runs in Forza Motorsport awhile back!

[@faridhamzayev8082]

So happy to see you in top-top tier list!

[@aaronaaronsen3360]

Racing is usually more funny. This video was pretty serious but it was so *fascinating*. Awesome job.

[@davidnglam3053]

The crashes in frustration is all too familiar for me 😂 such a relatable video. It's a love hate thing time trialing.

[@jouhajohnny]

Haha same

[@shadowwarrior241]

I actually love doing time trials there is no greater opponents than you and the track.

[@leastresistance1062]

Nice one Steve; right into the nitty-gritty there 😀 Time trialing like that is one of my favourite things to do, but my efforts are... shall we say less sustained. I'm happy with the top 500 usually. Great vid

[@jevans84]

This video gave me so much clarity on why I’m struggling to find a few seconds against the top people. I simply do not have the time to do 100 runs for 0.05s of improvement

[@quim-ninja-6919]

Unbelievable amount of hours to make this video, much appreciated.

[@McPhilen]

Great video! Very insightful as always.

[@TonyC2328]

Really enjoyed this pursuit for a faster time!

[@itspxg9117]

Actually enjoyed a lot that video, even without multi people racing. Please make a video trying to top 1 on time trial, would be a hella sick video!

[@PR2047]

Steve's sarcasm is SO FUNNY haha, keep it up!

[@ShotgunRocket]

It's amazing seeing how you're confident enough to try to challenge the elites compared to the Forza videos years ago where you were showing your skill and potential but not the confidence.

[@kevhavard]

~Went back through and watched that milometer go from 0 to pretty much 300. Mad x

[@othman0077]

great commitment as always from super GT

[@timothyoswald8618]

I've been time trialling like mad, trying to get to that next level. Felt pretty good to finally get a gold online TT time!

[@briangschaefer7048]

Great video. It is wonderful watching you hone your skills.

[@trollbardelli5608]

I love your videos, keep up the good work!!

[@wiimanic1]

When Steve mentions waiting for the rotation in a couple of tighter/longer turns, is he referencing slowing the car down waiting for a tighter turn? I can't really get a good gauge for how the "rotation" is done in my own driving without bleeding too much time. Great video, really fun and insightful.

[@niko690]

Im into the last license challenge for gold. And man that’s some difficult shit 😂 But I recently got a wheel and it’s a whole different world to a controller Keep up the good content bro

[@ferryfernandus1423]

i can compile it to this.. for 1st sector, i think the Mehdi guy in P1 is the best reference, giving you 28.1 from using the P1 reference sheds almost a tenth. but for the 2nd sector the other is better because they aren't as fast.. which kinda implies that maybe 2nd sector he had much more advantage than most people by either going to the limit of the track to gain a miniscule advantage or the way he does angle of attack when going to specific turn

[@thanasisprofilis5169]

"Eternal spinning circle of doom came and killed the console", man that was so good! 😂

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

Watching Super GT time trial videos on 2X speed as he is crashing into a barrier is an indescribable feeling. I can only imagine what this will be like in VR.

[@calmyourselfmeditate4821]

I love these Time Trial videos

[@mikeschleibert8132]

Got the Istanbul Park Turn 8 vibes from that quadruple right hander.

[@Not_A_Cat]

That last lap of the penultimate day would have pissed me off so much more. Leaving 0.25 sec in the 1st sector on the table.

[@Bes1997_]

I came back to gt after two years on ACC and five months of inactivity due to uni. And I saw this race on this track. I managed to do a 1:29.405 with the 911, which put me into 220-something position on Sunday night. I was really happy with the result but seeing the oversteer on corner exit it had, for my driving style maybe I was better off with the GT-R.

[@danielparra3274]

really loved this one!

[@damarfadlan9251]

The Lewis Hamilton DLC challenge and IA-10 undoubtedly are still the top 5 hardest ones on your Super GT videos.

[@N0N0111]

The over maximizing of curbs in couple corners are really key as i can see. Just kissing the curbs in some corners to have that extra turning momentum friction is another one.

[@brendabrough7725]

I noticed the throttle being timed perfectly over the sausages with a quick lift to prevent wheel spin by the top times.

[@bryan34wable]

I really wish some of these curbs would cause car damage like in real life. They are heavily abused on some tracks.

[@Captain_Klown]

I did the same yesterday for thr Barcelona GR.3 race. After about 3 hours i got up into the top 150 (with a controller) and felt very happy about that. Now just to figure out how to run this race without running out of fuel ugh... So tricky, run hard or run lean. Either way i seem to not do well. Good video though!

[@thisusernamewasnttakensomehow]

0:14 *_RALLYCROSS MOMENTO_*

[@ethanstiles948]

This channel finally did it, I bought Gran Turismo 7 😆 hopefully Sony/Polyphony sees this comment and gives SuperGT the credit for selling me on this entry. Love your videos and your commentary is very inspiring!

[@PlutoMatrix1]

U r a cold driver tho! Mos definitely! I couldn't do it myself lol, your skill top notch. I enjoy analyzing data!

[@Braindead24]

Get in there!!!

[@DDeyro]

Reduce impact of sasuges by slowing reaction speed of suspension. Slower push from mcpersons indicates smaller jumps on error sasuage.

[@caphowdy666]

The biggest problem with this Dragon trail course, and same with Monza this week, is those chicanes are so minimal on whether you are in or out and whether you will get a penalty or not. You think you are taking them the same way nearly every time, and when you think you are due a penalty, you don't get it and when you think you are safe, that is when you get a penalty. Its maddening. That said, I had some good runs on Dragon trail last week, and even got one win. Quite often started well back in 10th or 12th etc, and finished either top 3 or top 5. Monza this week I started the week with a win as well, but been a few top 5 finishes as well, mostly due to everyone killing each other at the two chicanes of death.

[@Super_GT]

Yup, the ideal line through the chicane (especially the 3rd apex) is about 10cm away from being out of track limits. It's so difficult to get it exactly right.

[@jamesring3734]

Hey 👋 you got the entry speed but the saying goes "Easy in equals fast out." And I'm sure someone said "The perfect entry gives you the perfect apex, a perfect apex leads to a perfect exit. A perfect exit means you're going as fast as physically possible in that moment."❤

[@Coordinator010]

The psychological aspect of time attack is so difficult. Once you start reaching into the top times and you realize how much work you're going to have to put in for a non-guaranteed improvement... and then you start thinking about how much easier it is for the really good players...