Whenever you race an endurance race in the hopes of winning a specific car, there is a 3 in 4 chance you won't get what you want. It's very frustrating to attempt these races multiple times only to keep winning cars you don't want or need. I've come across what may be a record in consecutive SS Endurance wins with no F090/S in the garage... 23. Wity over at the granturismobynumbers.com forums has won that race 23 times and still has no F090/S to show for it.

Anyone else had a similar experience with the SS Endurance or other endurance races?

i got lucky; did the seattle endurance and won the F687/S, then did the GVS endurance and got the F090/S! Just good karma, i guess.

I got really lucky on the speedway endurance i won the F090/S played it again and got any other one I am still trying to get the corvette C5R I really want it. It is just luck after while you will get the car you want.

.... a Polly 001appear in my Garage.

Actually Kerr I will be there foreve trying to get a F090/S as you have now sussed I am a PAL user.
Obviously having tried 23 times I tried all the so called foolproof methods to no avail. It's random for sure, that is unless your luck is as bad as mine.

In the past on tournament races, I've saved and restarted to get the car I wanted. This technique obviously doesn't work on the enduros, so I'll try it later if I get the time to actually race one.

Done it about 10-15 times, no F090/S yet. I haven't lucked out with winning another F1 since i won the F688/s on the first enduro race i ever did, Roadster Enduro at A.H. Was first try too, won it and no F1 since. And any other enduro i tried no luck with winning an F1, even the Laguna Seca one with 2 F1's as prizes.

I have won 3 enduro races so far, and completed beginners league, also completed quite a number of races in ameteur and proffesional league. I still have not got a F1 car, do you think the US version of the game is configured differently to the uk version, fed up with sore left thumb !!!!!

Maybe I'm doing it incorrectly, but I've tried the X button trick a number of times on the NTSC version of GT3 with no results.

Your friend definitely had better luck than most.

I'm not sure what algorithm the game has been programmed with to decide what car you win, however it goes to say that an algorithm by nature can never be totally random. This is evidenced by the fact that I reset and loaded a game 7 times consecutively at the end of a long tournament and received the very same car the first six tries. Anyone care to get hold of a dev unit, decompile the game and find out?

Development units are PS2 units sent from Sony to game developers so they have the tools necessary to program games. I was half joking with my earlier comment, but I assume anyone outside of the gaming industry would be hard pressed to procure one. I'm not sure how mk wrote his replay swapper as I've never seen it in action. Sounds like it worked more on the memory card storage level rather than actually getting into the programming code of the game though. I remember seeing a thread on this subject awhile back, does mk not want to pursue the replay swapper this time around?

Morlock,

One thing I've noticed is the speed with which the "cursor" rotates around the cars is very fast at first and then slows down as the clock ticks down. How long do you wait before tapping X?

You also get a C5R when you attain 50% completion in sim mode.