Deep Forest : 1:01:302

So a while back we decided to see how fast we could get around Deep Forest raceway with any car, any setting.

The only rule was no open wheel or fantasy cars (F1 and X10/X11 essentially).

This came about from a distant memory of GT4 and scratching a Zonda LM around the track in under a minute. Surely it's possible in GT5 right?

Well, it probably is, but we ended up using a Toyota Minolta with a turbo, that gives us 739pp, pretty handy.

It's pretty much the fastest car you can get without going to F1 etc. And we tried a few cars...

Lap times fell, starting around 1:05 it became clear that getting under a minute would be stupendous, why so hard? Well, I remembered that in GT4 you could have Qualifying Tyres and Nitro (giving around another 50% BHP), so not happening. Still, what's possible?

Many, many nights of this track, a lot of tuning, a $500k engine and chassis overhaul later and the result was 1:01:302. And here it is:

This the same lap from several different angles.

Enjoy.