i manage to golded the Top Gear Test Track Lotus Challenge just now...dunno how many times i tried b4 succeed..best part is i wheelie my car in the process before overtaking the red car in front in the very last corner (langgar cone tgh jalan punya pasal)..if not because of the wheelie i think i can manage to overtake him on hammerhead on 2nd lap..anyway luck play major part here..just memorize every car's movement and don't give up..in the end you will handle the car like second nature.

Tips:
1. Turn every aids ON since the major requirement is to use Comfort:Hard tyres. That's the main purpose of the challenge: to survive on using that tyre. (In reality, that Lotus Elise use Sports tyres so it should't handle like that). My setup in general is ABS 4, TC 1, Skid Recovery Force ON, Active Steering MILD. There are many setup out there, its all depend on your liking.
2. Watch the AI and memorize what they do. Seems like they're programmed to run a certain line and brake at certain points. Use this to your advantage.
3. Easy up on the throttle when cornering. Don't floor it when you are on low speed corner. Only floor it when going straight.
4. Use just a little bit of drifting into the first corner. 'Potong' the 1st car on the outside and if can second car on the inside.
5. Use 'power slides' going into Follow-through corner. (that corner into the big road/runway there with many cones on your right)
6. If can use side of opponent's car when cornering at the low speed corner.
7. You can hit the orange/white cone @ right side going into chicago corner (you can overtake some car here after langgar the cone). Also use this to your advantage. Just make sure don't hit the solid orange colour cone wherever in the track.
8. If you manage to get 3rd position when passing the finish line into 2nd lap..you have high chance of passing the 1st car through Hammerhead or through the very last corner. If 4th place slim chance but very possible (depends on luck).
9. Watch Youtube video to get some idea.

Hope that helps. Btw im using steering and that help too..alot. And to sum up here's a momento of that finish. GOOD LUCK!

creating new PSN ID with birthday date today and diff year. Each year will give diff cars. Then u can send the car as a gift to ur main account and the circle continue!

uu...i'm so gonna try this.. wanna get classic car to use at classic race.. and the ferrari and lambo as well..

haha i wheelied the lotus on the con in the same challenge as well. i might need to switch on TC & ABS for this challenge. so far now, with the ds3 i still go full throttle even before exiting the corner but need alot of countersteering and sometimes when u catch the slide wrongly, all hell breaks lose. but noticed 2nd last corner AI slow down damn a lot. probably can catch most of them there.

is it just me, or does anyone here facing problems to connect to GT5 network? im able to connect to PSN though, and the GT5 will just 'hang' for few minutes before the error "cannot connect bla bla bla" appear. i googled this matter, and seems like there are many people out there experiencing the same problems. pffft.

I'm looking for it. Called Kinokuniya but they said they don't have it, even on order. Seems weird to me seems they have every other Prima guide.

If you know where to get it, lemme know.

BTW, it's not a walkthrough guide. Just a guide for tracks, racing lines for each corner, etc.

Give Kino one of this number, see if you can order from them.

# ISBN-10: 0307889890
# ISBN-13: 978-0307889898

Cool, thanks!

Have any of you ordered from Play-Asia before? How long does it take for the stuff to get here?

1 week for most of my PS3 games...

BAD NEWS TO THOSE WHO PRE-ORDER GT5 R3 COLLECTOR PACK WITH SONY MALAYSIA
The stock of the Collector Pack will not in store as scaduled 3rd December 2010. On that day Sony Malaysia will only have 1st print GT5 and GT5 Racing Pack PS3 on sale. The collector pack with SLS car figure will delay until Malaysia Government approve the license of the car Model (WTH is Malaysia Gov do, only a car model figure also need to get license ah, aiyo)

So the Collector Pack with car model will delay for launching until the license is approve by Malaysia Govtment

BAD NEWS TO THOSE WHO PRE-ORDER GT5 R3 COLLECTOR PACK WITH SONY MALAYSIA
The stock of the Collector Pack will not in store as scaduled 3rd December 2010. On that day Sony Malaysia will only have 1st print GT5 and GT5 Racing Pack PS3 on sale. The collector pack with SLS car figure will delay until Malaysia Government approve the license of the car Model (WTH is Malaysia Gov do, only a car model figure also need to get license ah, aiyo)

So the Collector Pack with car model will delay for launching until the license is approve by Malaysia Govtment

LOL...wat a funny reason.

the worst case told by Sony, the worst in worst maybe it will take as long as 2 months to get the license to be done maybe.

BAD NEWS TO THOSE WHO PRE-ORDER GT5 R3 COLLECTOR PACK WITH SONY MALAYSIA
The stock of the Collector Pack will not in store as scaduled 3rd December 2010. On that day Sony Malaysia will only have 1st print GT5 and GT5 Racing Pack PS3 on sale. The collector pack with SLS car figure will delay until Malaysia Government approve the license of the car Model (WTH is Malaysia Gov do, only a car model figure also need to get license ah, aiyo)

So the Collector Pack with car model will delay for launching until the license is approve by Malaysia Govtment

the worst case told by Sony, the worst in worst maybe it will take as long as 2 months to get the license to be done maybe.