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-All Tracks and Cars

Code: CRAIGSAID 



-Ending bonuses 

Successfully complete all challenges for Jack and Zoe and 

finish in first place in all championship races to unlock 

all cars and reverse mode.





-Some hints from Virgin:

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-Driving aids

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Driving aids are for the complete novice who isn’t as practiced in 

the art of driving a raw sports car efficiently around the track. 

They take away a lot of the responsibility so that when all the 

Driving Aids are on, you only need to worry about left,right and 

go!



Despite it’s accessibility, you won’t be holding any competitive 

lap records if you keep using them. Driving Aids tend to over 

compensate. They do help you keep the car in control, but the cars 

can go a lot quicker around the track if you switch everything off. 

Well, if you race just as fast with driving aids on or off, you’d 

leave them on all the time won’t you. And you’ll never get to 

experience the joy of beating a lap record with your own fantastic 

driving and not the CPU’s.



-ABS:

With ABS on you don’t have to worry about locking up the

wheels of your car. ABS isn’t designed to make your car stop

sooner, it’s designed so that drivers still have control whilst 

braking. It pulses the brake so that you can still steer the car. 

Because, the wheels are still rotating, they will still have an 

effect when you steer. When the wheels lock, steering has a lesser 

effect, as your wheels effectively become four rubber feet on which 

the car sits. 



If you do want steering control whilst braking and ABS is off. 

You can either pulse the braking (cadence braking) or just apply 

less braking force. You’ll find that the car still slows down but 

without the loss in control.



-Traction Control:

This completely takes away the responsibility of throttle

control. Without it, any heavy handedness with the throttle

can cause your drive wheels to lose traction and start

spinning and smoking. If left spinning for long enough, 

the cars can start to donut (spinning on the spot), throwing you

in a random direction, sometimes in the opposite direction to your 

competitors! This problem is worse if you’re wheel spinning whilst 

going around a corner. Because there’s more yaw momentum (turning 

force) your car could flip out even more.



Traction control also helps out if you come off at a corner.

Invariably, you end up in grass or gravel, which gives you less 

tyre grip. Again Traction control will help you out by providing 

just enough power to get back onto the road. 





-Auto-braking:

If you’re a complete driving simulator novice, or you’re

brought up on a diet of Mario Kart or Ridge Racer, the chances are 

your braking distance judgment is non-existent.If you’re a GT vet, 

you should be OK. AB takes braking away from the game. When you 

approach a corner, the car will slow down for you at the same rate 

as the other cars in the race. If you’re racing at a harder 

Opponent AI level, the brakes will come on later. 



The braking is optimized for the racing line, so if you’re going 

wide into a corner, it won’t compensate for you. You can over-ride 

AB if you want and just brake for yourself if you find that it 

doesn’t use enough. Also AB doesn’t necessarily use the most 

efficient braking points. You can out-brake you opponents without 

it, so it’s worth learning not to rely on it too much. It just 

eases you into the game by taking away the responsibility of 

braking.





-Assisted-Steering:

Without it, the car can spinout, losing you lots of time as

you have to get the car back on the road. AS is there to help out 

in the event that you lose the back end of your car. What it does 

is it calms the effect of your steering input by limiting it to 

what you need to keep the car in control so you don’t steer into 

a slide, making it worse. By limiting the steering, the car simply 

slows rather than spin out.



Because it lets you steer to the limits whilst it’s still on, 

use it to learn how much you can throw the car into each corner 

before AS has to engage. 





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-Steering Control Methods

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-Combined Steering:

Imagine the analogue stick movement as the face of a clock.

Combined steering uses 9:00 via 12:00 to 3:00. It also has

the conventional left/right, 9:00 via neutral to 3:00. This

system is there to encourage you to try the circular

steering method. The combined nature of this system means

that whilst you’re learning the Circular method, you can

always jump back to the conventional method in emergencies

such as catching a slide. With practice, you will

eventually get used to holding the stick forward for when

you drive in a straight line. Some people say this is

uncomfortable, but it’s no different to raising your hand

to hold the wheel in a real car. The benefits of circular

steering will be described in the next section.





-Circular Steering:

This is THE way of playing Lotus Challenge. If you’re not 

a dinosaur and are willing to try out new techniques and

control methods, then you won’t regret learning Circular

Steering. Circular does cover more of the stick’s movement

than the Combined Steering system. Using the same clock face

system, it goes from 7:30 via 12:00 to 4:30. This gives you

about two and a quarter times the amount of control, which

makes it more forgiving for the clumsy thumbed player. 

There are several benefits when using Circular Steering. 



First of all, it gives you a finer degree of control of the

car. This leads to more subtlety when you’re driving. On the

fast tracks, when you’re flying along at speed, the fine level of 

control really comes into it. It allows you to smoothly thread your 

way through traffic, as heavy steering movements are not the order 

of the day.



Second, it allows you to hold long bends much easier than

tapping the D-pad or Analog stick. On tracks such as Arizona

or Florida, where there are long sweeping bends, this really

helps, as you can still change lanes subtly on the bends.



Third, if you’re hardcore and you’re playing the game with

full damage, sometimes you damage your car and it starts to

‘pull’ to one side. You can subtly adjust the cars ‘neutral’

position and make it go straight by holding the stick slightly 

to the side, depending on which direction it’s pulling in. 

Bit like driving a second-hand MK11 Fiesta!