GRID

Any tips? My best time is 1.45 :/

yeah, any tips? This one is exponentially harder than S1 and S3.

im always around 1:42 so dont know how i could drop 1.5 sec

Updated the solution. Hope it helps now

Are you using any car tunings ?

Yes, posted the picture (my game is set to german). Just compare them to your settings.

This one is definitely the hardest out of all lol.. My best was 1.41.1xx something.

I just did it. First try, second lap. 1.38.440
Gt: Hiypher
Settings were: No tuning, Abs 5, Tcr 0, and Stc 0
Racing line corners only
Either I'm a god or this isnt as hard as people think it is.

Proof? But GG anyway. I try it later again and maybe I'm lucky lmao. Thanks for the setup tips.

Edit. I did 1:40.1 like a breeze with abs 5 and the rest on 1 with just one increase on the transmission bar. Maybe that helps some people.

Nothing here helps with this bullshit achievement. I hope this virus wipes billions of codemanters stocks and the low life money grabbing gutless programmes lose there job they deserve it.

Credit to Jemjar on Reddit for this:
What I will say, having spent an hour trying various setups and approaches until I saw this post: turning off TCS and SBC is really important.
I'd been using 2/2/2 for driver aids and struggling to beat the 1:41 mark, as soon as I switched to 3/1/1 I went faster and when I switched to 2/0/0 I unlocked the achievement like you, on my second lap. So much of the lap is spent toying with the limits of traction while cornering at speed that the driver aids really slow the car down.

The problem with turning TCS and sbc is the car is a load of crap around corners all it does is spin out.

Gotta turn off the nannies and just finesse it the old school way. Git gud

Is 200+ laps enough practice?
Either way I can't shave off that last half a second. I'm probably going to call it a day on this one now. The only consolation is that I won't have to spend another 75 hours driving laps around an oval for the "Around the Globe" achievement to get my completion.

Edit: So I decided to stick with it and give it another go today. I used the settings that Racer 6981 listed in the post above mine and that worked for me. 1:40.300 was my final time.

JFC this ach reminded me hard how not as good at racing games I am lol finally got it but boy was it a PITA

ABS: 5 TCR: 0 STC: 0
Gear Ratio: Long

My Video: FearOfTomorrow playing GRID

Easily my most difficult racing achievement. I tried all the recommended settings from the racers above. What worked for me was ABS: 2, TRC: 0, STC: 1 finally got it at 1:40.57 Now I can actually enjoy the rest of the game. By the way, Gear ratio; standard.

I did it with the tuning from the picture above and ABS 5 /TC 1/SC 1

Jk the rewind option is pointless every time I use it to correct a mistake or beat a section it makes it worse especially the section 2 bloody stupid having it on a bend.

The car is really easy to control around corners once you realize it's all about finesse with braking/accelerating. You have to be gentle with the triggers. Completely pressing them down will always lead to spin outs, but when you find the right pressure it's very smooth. Due to this, I get the feeling the time was set with a wheel setup in mind, not a controller.

Curbing should be used to your advantage as well.

what worked for me: ABS 5 / TC 0 / SM 2 and Long gears +2
the rest doesn't really matter

Wow so I was around 3 seconds off the pace on this one. Turned TCS and SM to 0 and got it within a few laps. All about getting as much of the kerbs as possible.

This achievement is doing my head in. Done about 100 laps of this track with several different set ups and can't get it. 1:41 is my best time. I give up

I swear I’m going crazy I can’t seem to get ANYWHERE near the right time 💔

Envigorate that not worked for me tried 10 laps my best lap is 1.41.969. Theses stupid achievements should not have been added.

The tip from @envigorate works fine.

I'm glad I can 100% this game without doing this shitty achievement....

Finally did this with ClassyWings settings and by trying to replicate the line taken in the video as much as I could. You really have to keep it 4th gear for a lot of the "slow" corners, never touch the brakes except for the obvious heavy braking zones, and really cut the curbs as much as you can as well as finding the timing for turning into a corner.

Also, and this might not be for everyone but using the hood cam helped me steer into corners easier. Still took lots of practice.

1:40.601... Lol. I ended up getting it a few laps later. I used the following:
The only tuning I did was one tick to the right for transmission.
ABS: 0
TC: 3
SC: 3

@kriegir fax

The word is “facts”.

Thanks genius I didn't know that 👍

no chance, always around 1:45...

Thank you @maka91

After more than 10 hours of trying this, I finally reached the time, with A LOT of different setups, in the end, what worked for me was the Maka91 comment, thank you very much!

@maka91, great specs! thanks

Maka91 specs worked for me

Maka's specs and lots of perseverance worked for me. On the plus side, did manage to get closer to the Around The Globe achievement going for this lo

I set the springs a little softer, so the box is more stable and doesn't drift as quickly.

I set all driving aids to 1 and was able to achieve a time of 1:39:530

I forgot what the time was and felt happy with a 1:45 lmao

impossible

I finally got it, use rewinds that helped me a lot

Not impossible, just gotta practice.

Impossible + 1

you need to turn off all assists and practice, just got this after hours and hours

Thanks for the tips, beat my own time with 3 seconds +1. Still a second off though... Gotta keep practicing

Edit: Got it now!! Some tweaks though which worked for me: Gears: one notch further. ABS at 5 Traction 2 and Stability at 1

Having the assists on or off doesn't make a blind bit of difference, I'm about a second too slow each lap either way.

Everyone that has difficulty just needs to practice and keep practicing.

Edit: UNLOCKED at 1:40.598 - how lucky!!

Decided to change the settings a bit. Settings used: ABS 5 Traction 1 Stability 1

Automatic gears.

One increase to the right on the gear ratio bar, I kept everything else the same on the tuning screen.

Spent at least 12 hours trying for this one, and safe to say I had a wheely bad time in the process lol.

Stick at it and good luck!

One tip that might help - keep an eye on your split times, and spam/stack the rewind functions once you get a good split on a sector (make sure you set Flashbacks to Infinite in the Difficulty settings). You should aim for 0:24.600 or less at the first split, 1:02.3 or less at the second.

If you get a good time on sector 1 but are down at split 2, rewind - once the rewind is done you can wait a second or two and rewind again to go even further back. I was able to rewind from the start/finish line all the way back to split one. It also helped me to turn off the "Racecraft Notifications" setting in the OSD section so all that popped up was the split times.

My difficulty settings were 3/0/0, and my tuning was: Gear all the way right, Springs 1 to the right, Dampers middle, Antiroll bars 1 to the left, and Brake Bias middle. I managed a 1:40.54 and I know I left at least 2 or 3 tenths on the table in the last sector.

Good luck!

Thank you JKSullivan for your comment on this solution. Knowing the times I needed at the splits really helped!

Managed to grab this with a final time of 1:39.900. Took about 80 minutes. Was all over the place and struggled to be under 1:43.500 at the beginning of my runs. Here are the settings I got it with:
ABS: 0
Traction: 0
Stability: 0
Transmission: Semi-Automatic

Car Tuning:
Gear: +1
Springs: -2
Dampers: -2
Anti-Roll: +1
Brake Bias: 0

Tried to grab 24.200 and 1:02.500 as my split times and heavily relied on Rewind in a few corners. Car takes some getting used to, and this achievement seemed impossible but remembered how Codemasters tends to do things. You go WAY faster with certain settings. Not NEARLY as hard as the Yas Marina achievement in Dirt Rally 2, but still very satisfying.