No la. I'm newbie n00b here. Can't fight with many aliens here.

Online racing, I sweep dust at the bottom only.

I got 39 gold so far. 1 silver

8-4 You don't need to overtake all cars. I'm in 3rd and also Gold it.
My tips: Traction Off, ABS=1, Steering=7, the rest default.
From start, max all the way, overtake white car, and try keep as right as possible to the pit-lane backwall.
Brake when in middle of red line, turn sharp right, straight accelerate. Bear in mind, the car will slide easily, throttle control to get the launch effect without red-tyres.
The car will easily go uphill, then immediate turn left smoothly also. Don't drift. Sometimes can get good line, and right after the uphill before the right corner, should be following very close to the blue car (draft it).
Turn right and immediate overtake blue car, then draft red car partially (may not need to do this also) and overtake on the long straight.
Immediate brake on straight line (follow driving aid).
Turn smoothly and should be following directly behind yellow car. Sometimes you may able to overtake it.
Just drive smoothly on the S-corner, power out from the last curve, and Gold.

8-5 I'm using same setup as above.
Initial bronze at 1:38+
After 20+ tries (including out of track and hit cone), manage to silver at 1:36.5
For a moment, I'm at #9 of the online ranking saw alien JYLee at #4 with 1:35+
I still need to squeeze half a second to gold it. Gonna try again later tonight.
I think as stated by GTA, need to control throttle power, and I'm using DS3. Drift (red tyres) will slow down the car considerably, especially when powering out from corner.

I also silver only. Not yet check top scorer ghost replay.
Some can do it with TC=7. Some TC=Off.

8-4 = I guess the important point is not to skid/drift (red-tyres).
(ii) Turn left smoothly. And align straight with red-line driving aid. It's just a split second thing.
(iii) Turn right max and release to align straight go uphill. Press accelerator 100% and don't ever release. Before reach uphill, start turn left. The car will drift (without red-tyres) to the right (on this left turn) due to momentum, and you will get a smooth left turn at top-hill.
(iv) I manage to overtake blue car on the right-corner itself, even before the exit apex. Once straight up, already start to overtake red car. Base on my latest fastest test (on other account).
(v) I hit brakes as per driving aid braking line on the long straight, as I want to turn early (with momentum) and smoothly into the S corner. Tap on accelerator, brake again for the middle turn. Then accelerate again, this time I manage to overtake the yellow car (2nd).
(vi) Brake again and smoothly (control throttle). Once reach apex, fully throttle out 100%, use the left kerb maximum.

Gold does not need 1st. For 8-4, just need err... forgot time, under 38 seconds ?

Gold 8-5 yesterday using DS3 Finally 40-golds.

This time I leave everything default. TC=7
ABS=1
DS3 Steering=7
I'm the old-school kind, using X and square. Not L2/R2.

My non-alien tips, just sharing:
- Use driving aid : driving line = on
- Power down the straight. Brake accordingly in straight line only and once release, turn right sharply. Release turning. Throttle control (tap and release, then tap longer and release, then press and hold). You need to practise on different corners whether to do 1-3x tap-and-release). Remember, no skid/drift with red-tyres.
- 2nd corner, turn right, I brake slightly earlier, then turn and the car will slide (without red-tyres) and you can throttle.
- On that S-corner. Release throttle/tap brake then power again.
- Last 2-corner on S, I brake early, again turn right and full throttle control and turn left back to the straight.
- Follow braking line again for the sharp ^ turn. Throttle control again to get out from corner apex. Find your own apex, I didn't really use the driving line apex.
- Accelerate full on the right turn, until the short-straight.
- This one I do late brake. Then release brake, sharp turn left. Tyre skid (no red), Throttle control left and I'm on left side. Just nice...
- For the next right-corner, tap brake. Again, throttle full out from apex, towards the left side, use kerb slightly, don't hit cone.
- Power down the short straight, keep right. This time also late brake, but slightly only. Brake in straight line, it stop faster.
- Release brake, sharp turn left, no throttle.
- Once line in sight, full throttle control again to get out from corner. I did not use the inner kerb / apex.
- 2nd last straight, I also late brake very slightly into the corner. Skid a bit (no red).
- Power out from last corner, again, throttle control. No red. This is important, as I manage to cut 0.5 seconds if power out correctly without the car swing left/right.

If throttle control done well, every corner can cut 0.1-0.3 seconds. I manage to do it in 1:35.3x in my other account. This account is 1:35.9x
Gold need 1:36.000

JYLee really alien Last night his record improved to 1:32.x
2nd is 1.34.x
I'm 1.35.9

Yeah. Saw your name in SG PSN 1.35.x
Agree, throttle control without skid/drift or red-tyres is very important.

Non-alien tips for latest TT
- Sarthe 700pp
- Grand Valley 600pp

For n00b, use Chaparral 2J, tune down to 600pp (trans at 300km/h) and my max at 684pp (trans at 380km/h)
TC=1 (put higher if can't control car slide)

Can win by 20-30 seconds.

LOL ... wear helmet & suit like The Stig, carry an LED board, and walk around KL

New OCD - Audi perhaps due to recent LeMans 24 hours.
I go bankrupt to replace all R8 with zero mileage

New seasonal A-spec 530pp 4WD. It's not that difficult if use 530pp.
So far tried lowest 440pp on Sarthe and still win by 10+ seconds. Tonight going to lower it to 420-425pp
Tips: Cut all corners for n00b newbie Need to build up my CR again.

Ini ... ni ... apa nama ... Alien !

Congratz

The latest online special A-spec F1 2007/2010 cars , too fast for me to handle at Nurb-ring
So far manage non-alien n00b #7 only

Any tips ?

BTW, OCD is updated as well. Audi gone.
Now is Italian Pagani & Lancia + Isuzu

Ok, finally gold all 5 for F1 2007/2010 cars.

I used F2007.
n00b tuning:
All default 350km/h
aero downforce set maximum 150/200 for both nurb and last kart track. The rest of track downforce I set lower between F:100-130 / R:130-180 range.
LSD I think default 7/35/15
engine detune down until PP=871 (or lower for performance bonus)
suspension default.

TC=1
Skid=On
the rest all Off
ABS=1

With the setting above, will hit top speed limitation at nurb long straight. But easier to control on all the corners. Won by 0.5 seconds only. But you still need to be slightly familiar with the nurb ring and don't follow all driving line aids. Find your own, for early/late braking. Otherwise, sure slide out somewhere.

For Indy course, the lowest I tried is 410PP Won with 2.2M+ CR and 300k+ XP

aiya, sorry boss. Missed your tips

Quite hard to race super-fast-like-cartoon at Nurb ring. Imagine if use FGT/X-2010
Old already, response is slow.

But I think this is easier than the previous (few weeks ago) using Nissan GT-R ? (forgot) which don't allow make mistake of going out of track or bang wall.

Correct. Yesterday I saw the 2nd car (Nissan Silvia ?) in my Community -> Gift

So far I not yet collect my Leaf, I got 2x in gift box now.
I assume it will be in our gift "inbox" until we receive/download it into a car ticket.

Tips for the latest TT: 350PP for K-cars. Make sure use Turbo-3, tune down engine.

I encounter this few times already with GT5. Hang / No response for >2 minutes, and no HDD activity (the orange blinking light on fat-PS3).

What I do is, press the PS button, quit the game.
Then start the game again.

I've also straight press PS button, and scroll to shutdown without quitting the game.
No problem also.

Never force shutdown before by flipping the switch.

Also, I have USB sticks to backup once I've passed certain difficult levels/stages, and do it at least once a week.
Once every 1-2 months, I will do system backup into another USB HDD.

Replaying it with a new account (2nd time) seems much easier.
Gold all license test took 1/2 or 1/3 the total time only.
But I still not yet gold both the slalom not my cup of coffee.

I give up on slalom already.

I notice, for those online challenge, as long as exit from racing, and it sync-ed online, no need go back GT5 menu (quit / shutdown), the rewards are given out the next time you enter into the same online menu again.

I also scare HDD/OS crashed, that's why practise constant backup regularly. Imagine the time spend on all those races and endurance. Also b-spec grinding. Left the last 24-hours Nurb to do only. Need to spread out to 3 days, perhaps this coming Raya holiday.

GTA ticket not transferable. I tried on the first 3 tickets already: leaf, silvia '94 and '02.

I played on 2 accounts

What I do is share car online using one of the account, hence keep the other ticket in mint 0/0/0 condition

The seasonal Japanese 80's first track Tsukuba is difficult. Try to win without the city turbo '83 starting 1st.

My best using tuned down Honda Civic Mugen Motul '87 to 420pp (with Miata as first) is 0.48x seconds behind in 2nd place Make few mistakes around corners. I guess can win, if drive perfect 5 laps. Will keep retry, quite challenging.
The MX-5 (NA) Special '89 from NCD, is slower than the Mugen Motul.

But if first car is City Turbo II '83, gold already by >3 seconds (non-alien)