This post has been edited to replace flagrant profanity with minor profanity.
 
Holy crap. I mean, holy freaking crap.
 
Courtesy of this week's Bonus Races, I finally hit 30 and unlocked the X2010 Challenge. I only have a DS3, no wheel, but I decided to give it a shot, despite hearing from everyone that it is near-impossible. Thinking that the 1.06 time changes would help, I began my quest.
 
Monza was alright, Bronze with a 2:16 after about 10 tries.
 
Right now, I am on the Nurburgring and shooting. I am at a 2:25 right now and need to shave off 3 seconds.
 
Wish me luck, GB community, and please offer some tips if you can. I will edit this blog to reflect how I'm doing. 
 
EDIT: Just did Suzuka, got dumped on. What the frick?! The car is so tail-happy in the Suzuka East section and the racing line is pretty much always wrong!
 
I am running:
Automatic (can't shift manually fast enough)
Driving Line (brake timing)
TCS 1
Skid Recovery Force (self explanatory)
ABS 1
Steering sensitivity -2
All other assists off

 This post has been edited to replace flagrant profanity with minor profanity.
 
Holy crap. I mean, holy freaking crap.
 
Courtesy of this week's Bonus Races, I finally hit 30 and unlocked the X2010 Challenge. I only have a DS3, no wheel, but I decided to give it a shot, despite hearing from everyone that it is near-impossible. Thinking that the 1.06 time changes would help, I began my quest.
 
Monza was alright, Bronze with a 2:16 after about 10 tries.
 
Right now, I am on the Nurburgring and shooting. I am at a 2:25 right now and need to shave off 3 seconds.
 
Wish me luck, GB community, and please offer some tips if you can. I will edit this blog to reflect how I'm doing. 
 
EDIT: Just did Suzuka, got dumped on. What the frick?! The car is so tail-happy in the Suzuka East section and the racing line is pretty much always wrong!
 
I am running:
Automatic (can't shift manually fast enough)
Driving Line (brake timing)
TCS 1
Skid Recovery Force (self explanatory)
ABS 1
Steering sensitivity -2
All other assists off

Impossible...

I finished doing it. It was tough, but I won by a few seconds once I sharpened my reflexes and set steering sensitivity to "as high as possible".
 
My X2010 now has over 3000 miles on it....

I think they recently set the bronze time limit with an extra ten seconds, presumably to cater for the majority of the game's audience who would be playing this on a controller. Even with a wheel, I found it very tough to beat the bronze times when I did it.

" @Aus_azn: Still impressive. Only track I dare race the X1 on with a DS3 is the Indy oval! "