A few things to note about this challenge: - There is no neutral gear. - Gear choice on downhills didn't seem to change fuel consumption or speed attained. - You can cut corners if you want but that's only really worth doing on the final chicane. - Weaving doesn't add to the distance travelled. 1 lap is 3.33 miles always. - The boys and girls back at the gravity factory have done an amazing job this year with their physics package.

Very realistic game, seems like they got the petrol prices right ingame

Fun thing about this, if you use cockpit view during this challenge on a fuel map of 6, the Ford's dashboard screen says you're driving in fuel economy mode.

6.97 miles here. Two things that people should keep in mind: -sometimes when going in final gear the engine will stall thus engaging the auto clutch and revving up a bit and wasting valuable fuel. it's important to detect and avoid that (especially true in the nurburgring challenge with the veyron later) -don't rev up at the beginning, it wastes 0.1/0.2% of your total fuel. It could make a difference :P

I would love to see a TAS run of this

This as a race would be pretty funny, see who can last the longest on one tank of fuel. Would test everyone’s resolve and be hilarious to watch 😂

The simulation of gas usage is...actually very realistic. A 2011 Ford F150 Raptor pickup driving on a highway does 18 MPG (miles per gallon). With 1% of its 36 gallon gas tank filled, it could drive a total of 6.48 miles...

Some would call this boring but the skill involved to hyper mile like that is high, awesome video man.

7.33 miles with a couple of mistakes, got to admit I had your 7.27 to aim at and it took me a dozen attempts. Kinda like this one for variety. Excellent vid of yours, thank you. (Will be putting mine up once I’ve edited it down from the 19mins it took)

As an owner of a V8 truck irl myself, I can absolutely attest that yes, flooring the truck will make all the gas go away

I had to do this in real life once! Was riding motorcycles cross country with friends and when we got to Yosemite national park there is a gas station that is the last gas you’ll get for 125 miles. But our bikes were slightly upgraded and powerful so we only get around 110 miles per tank, so we would ride up the mountains and then turn off the bikes and coast neutral in the downhill areas and we juuuust made it to the next gas station doing it hahahaha

This mission is actually fun in a weird way, I really enjoyed it. Put on hazard lights (to make the game more authentic and simulate a real life car breakdown etc.), hold the trigger very gentle and roll on 20km/h speed, use fuel map 6. I stared at the graphics, watched my car in and out, stared at the details and focused on going as far as possible. I went for ~7kms, my time was around half an hour if not more. The Bugatti fuel eco mission is fun, too. I basically barely drove the car, just steered it and sometimes pressed the throttle, I released the handbrake at the mission start, and the car rolled by itself.

Hey Steve, I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the sign at 4:26 says no stopping. That’s at least a 10 second penalty.

I got 398456 m. Needed 2 months to push the car over the hills. Now I'm sick and in the hospital. Worth it!

I do that in real life all the time lol. One day I started a 200 mile trip with 130 miles of range. Made it with 5 miles to spare, just had to work that pedal, take advantage of accelerating downhill, and easy on the throttle going uphill. I hate stopping during trips 😂

There are definatly ways to improve on this final time. Specificly on the hill that was the big problem. The key is to pass over that hill with as little speed as possable before gravity starts to increase your speed again. On the first lap u got down to 9mph so u were going 8mph faster then needed and on the 2nd lap 14mph = 13mph faster then needed. while it would be very hard to get that accurate but the closer to that 1 mph u get over that hill the more fuel u have to push at the end.

Clearly, this needs to be a daily race

"The Real Driving Simulator" indeed. We're all going to be driving like this IRL pretty soon. Lift and coast bois. Stretch that fuel.

I think the point of this mission is to train your foot or finger at controlling the throttle while at the same time rewarding you for having patience.

I absolutely knew you would knock this challenge out of the park! Great job!

EZ strats, just remove the people ahead from the friends list and boom, #1 baby. Alternatively use my strategy, don't have friends in the first place and you're always #1.

Perfect video to watch at 2x speed cheers Stevie 👍

Almost had you, managed to do 7 miles😭😂 Considering the times we're living in, this mission will be very useful in real life

This is a testament to your patience. I have a competitive nature too, but for things like this, I'd be happy with gold and would choose to ignore the leaderboard lol. Well done!

What an utterly ridiculous yet entertaining challenge haha. Great video m8

GT7 really does have something for everyone. Hyper-milers are throwing their hands up in joy over this challenge 😆

Great job man, I enjoyed watching the entire video. You did great

Gday mate. always a pleasure to watch listen and learn from you.. How much faster do you think a wheel is to the controller? im saving up for a wheel see if i can get closer to your times haha

I love the “NO STOPPING” sign to taunt fuel starved drivers. - Surely the most exciting video ever.

Every track should have this, does give you a different feel to every track to know where the hills are in certain ones

Steve love your videos. You as great at explaining what you are doing, picked up lots of improvements on Sport from watching you. Just beat your distance on this today after enjoying your video and learning how to do it.

You know what that is actually a brilliant challenge I can see that Challans taking of big time now. I would love to give that a go. Credit to the Devs for putting that in the game.

I drive a Cummins and with today's prices I perfected this method: combining the downhills and the weight of the truck to add momentum is your friend. Roughly 40 mph is your best mpg and the slow crawl uphills isn't helping anyone

Going slow has never been this exciting! On the edge of my seat, I was on that last attempt!

This reminds me so much of speed running, optional play styles and time management, yet it’s almost the exact opposite of a speed run to see how slow you can go. Amazing.

Great challenge. More weird ones like this are needed. GT5's moon challenge was the best for me

I could feel the adrenaline of the crowd. Can confirm my heart beat was exponentially higher than it was during Abu Dhabi 2021

I just did the mission 2 hours ago. Felt like going for a chill drive. Made it out of the tunnel and rolled for a bit further. I think around 6900m

I got it first go! A lot of playing with fuel map and rolling in 3rd and 4th. Sometimes tapped hand break which actually makes the car go in neutral. Hope this helps

Anybody who puts this much effort into something deserves a like on the video for sure.

I am writing this down before seeing what you achieve so that I can still feel proud of what I managed, this was my third attempt 7.01miles. It would have been further I am certain but I hit the wall after taking the penultimate corner before the start/finish straight. Now let me prepare myself for the digestion of humble pie. Well done for working out that the last corner could be cut👏👏. Come tomorrow I will be Knocking at the door of your distance. I love this, it is so different. I saw you do it on your stream and unlocked the missions to specifically try it, thank you 🙏 Like deployed 👍 😎🎙🏎✅

i can see this being hyper-competitive like some speed running kinda shit

Your upload had me hooked after a 10 second watch ! Great challenge ! Great upload ! Great time ! Keep up with more of these uploads of records for you too beat, great watch

It would be cool to do be able to do this challenge in any car including upgrades like seeing how much weight reduction makes a difference. You can also watch the fuel gauge go down in Forza 7 and run out if you don't pit to refuel.

I tuned into the stream when you were doing this mission and I was so hoping you'd make a video on it!

They've really nailed the sense of speed in GT7

Great challenge and well done. If we had train travel where the main distance is covered at the lowest possible altitude and the stations are at similar but higher altitude (say tops of urban hills and high rises), travel would be halla fast and the energy costs minimal. Effectively, you'd only be spending energy to be dragged up the finish hill for the amount of kinetic energy lost in the coast off the departure station. You'd want super slick aero like Japanese maglev trains, and, shocker: lots of ballast, I think. A light train would slow down from air drag a lot fast. Up to 5x faster conservatively. Longer distance, deeper tunnel, higher top speed.\ Imagine going between metropoles and only getting the motors to be engaged when you're already on the final approach of the destination, say a could dozen or a hundred vertical meters to climb only. Yes, on a heavier trains that's more energy draining per vertical meters, but a light train might not even make it to that hill without drive power to the wheels or maglev system. A theoretical evacuated train tube would be a game changer but also super difficult to accomplish. LIght trains would be back in play then, top speed would be the same between light and heavy trains and decelleration minimum.

If you can start/stop the engine manually & also shift into neutral (shift to neutral and stop the engine when going down hill), I think you can push this out pretty far.

"Let me know YOUR best time" Okay, 20 seconds.

What flipping Top Gear challenge insanity has been put in Gran Turismo? lmao. This is mint

A good tip for this is to drive on higher gears whenever possible. The less work the engine does, the less fuel is spent. Coasting is a good idea too, especially in downhill segments. There is another mission like this, this time in a Bugatti Veyron, which iirc has even worse gas mileage. In that case, stick to 7th gear no matter what, and coast much more often, keeping the speed up to around 60-70 mph (or about 100 km/h).

Not owning the game but enjoying your content. Is it possible for you to up the air pressure of the tires in this mission or is it like every game where you can't do that?

Would accelerating through the pitlane on the 2nd lap allow you to get more speed considering it's a straight through and by then you have nearly 0 fuel. Meaning you will roll further along the last part of the track. You seem to lose about 5-10kms going through the final corners before the finish line.

Finally more content, please don't stop uploading, this game is amazing

I do this irl (I coast about 8+ miles of a 22 mile round trip commute to work) and what I found is that taking a racing line like you do is actually not the best way to do it. It might be faster time wise but the name of this game is exit velocity coming out of a corner. The less you turn the steering wheel the better. Even though a racing line is more of a straight line, the turn in towards the apex costs speed. The exception to this is probably a shicane where you can cut the corners almost entirely but those don't exist irl.

What a masterclass. Was a pleasure to watch!

Damn just like an actual raptor so realistic

This mission seems pretty similar to some events ran by @viperconcept on his channel, where they run with the goal of maximize the distance instead speed, with a maximum fuel consumption and no pit stops. Really fun.

This challenge is such an American thing to do. In the US woody area, Ford Truck, no fuel. Trying to get home.

Should have hammered the gas pedal on the last hill…hypermiling usually take advantage of downhills to add free low cost acceleration for coasting up the next hill. Love the persistence though…can’t wait for the game to finally download to try this

Thrilling video. This one convinced me to buy GT7 right away. Can't wait to practice these driving skills on the road and infuriate everyone.

Downhill fuel use adds speed but drag increases dramatically with speed, so you get more efficient use by using the fuel when you must to keep rolling (up hill).

This is one of the most fun and unique missions in the whole game, I got over 4 miles (us) and the trophy

I really wish they leaned into the hybrid cars more, like the Prius, and given us a MPG gauge like they had in GT4.

I wonder if you go in the pits on the second lap when you’re almost out of fuel if you can get that speed boost to get a little more distance at the end

the trick is to throttle at the bottom of the valley, and use that momentum to carry yourself up see: oberth effect

I did slightly over two laps by: Putting the fuel on 6 and started on 2nd and then got into 6th as soon as I could. Then all the time in 6th at full throttle for the flat and uphill and coasting on the rest. Only going down to second when I got under 30kmh on uphills and then to sixth as soon as I could And then at the end just before the fuel ends hold the clutch so it keeps rolling

This is like trying to get the highest score while golfing. Both take tremendous amounts of time compared to the right way lol.

I enjoyed watching this on your stream quite much lol

Can you put it in manual shifting and hold the clutch for neutral on hills?

idk if this will pan out in a road context (since earth has air resistance) but orbital mechanics would suggest to try timing your burns whenever the force gravity is accelerating the hardest. its called the Oberth effect and if im understanding it correctly, it might- MIGHT- mean you could do the most efficient work converting fuel into kinetic energy pressing the gas pedal whenever track dives more steeply downhill.

Am I the only one who said "HE'S DONE IT" to themselves at the end??? lmao

game is getting us used to gasoline shortages. i'm going to be awesome at this mission, I already have to drive like this IRL in my Chevy Silverado. can't afford to go any faster

Hi, just a question: Are "London" and "Eiger Nordwand" in GT7? As I used to hot lap the hell out of them in GT6. I was there in the top 10 with different cars but then learned: the top 5 used some kind of a clutch glitch on fanatec (I just used Logitech) to get that 1/100ms faster.

I have done this challenge there is a neutral gear you just can't find it on a regular controller if you would use the thrustmaster gear shift and steering wheel and pedal setup for this game you will be able to have a neutral and it is a lot easier to get up and over the hills with a neutral because neutral helps you Coast better

Steve's pace finally starting to come into it's own!

I somehow did over an extra km over the gold on my first attempt. I had already done the fuel-saving license test but still. I guess it helped I wasn't bouncing off the limiter like a madman during the start countdown 😂

Theoretically the lowest pumping losses would be at wide open throttle and in the highest gear so as not to use an excessive amount of torque to accelerate. Only use as much power as absolutely necessary to go over hills, ideally you'd be shifting into neutral at the top and just barely inch over and allow the vehicle to coast. The racing line is still valid at least if there is potential for tire slip, it will scrub momentum. One could even go as far as to align the vehicle with zero toe, maximum camber, lowest caster, and of course maximum tire pressure for the lowest rolling resistance.

it would be interesting to see the same sort of challenge but with a friend ahead of you with a full tank that you’re able to draft behind.

I found the eco challenge in the first or second tab of challenges very difficult too

ah, the James May of motoring challenges

I think that going towards ithe inside of the curve at the bottom of the hill made you loose a lot of energy before climbing the hill, If you stay to the outside you are on more of a level with the hill and would use less energy to climb back up. Using the very bottom of each gear, with just enough throttle to accelerate will save a lot of fuel. Use the highest gear possible when going down the hill since there is no neutral.

8:49 😂 shout out to all the Gran Turismo Marshalls who patrol the tracks that I race day after day

I love spending 20 minutes to go less than 5 miles

I remember a similar mission in GT6, really hard

I actually have this truck and this is very helpful for me to use in real life when running out of fuel.

Does the distance counter only increment while travelling "forwards" on the track?? What about reaching the hill and simply pulling a rolling 180?

man Gran Turismo 7 looks absolutely beautiful.

increase tire pressure, tape all the body seams shut, get out and push up the hills!

That was fun to watch. Great job.

What I find hilarious about this is I did this same challenge but there one where you do it in the Bugatti veyron on Nürburgring. And this game mode shows you just how badly some of these vehicles just sip guzzle gas. My mom's 94 GMC Sierra was bad but the raptor is so much worse. I took that Sierra 6 miles on a quarter of a tank. And no going off track does not give you a penalty going off the road has helped me get further but I turned traction control off at the line to just roll.

Congrats Super GT! You managed to get 20.2 mpg (11.6 L/100km) in a truck that averages 12 mpg (19.6 L/100km).

This was one of the easiest challenges for me, but to be fair I wasnt trying to be on top of any leaderboard I was just trying to get gold

On GT's model, if you're in a gear that is too high for the speed you're going, the car will spend additional fuel, which is why you see that blip of throttle at low speeds in higher gears. At any given speed, you should be in the highest gear possible that doesn't trigger that idle fuel usage because it doesn't translate into forward motion. On downhills, gear choice absolutely does matter. Higher gears will allow you to gain more speed, but too high and you'll trigger this idle fuel usage.

That's awesome. Is it possible as you run out of petrol to turn around and go back down that bit of hill to add a few extra miles to it? Or doesn't it count up if you go back?

Drachenlord!

just started gran 7 . extremely long intro lol first time gran player:) personally I like the fuel challenge. I bought the game because of that lol. but overall I like challenges. and I want to be a better racer.

I like that you make the video the same length as the last run to make the viewer feel the same

Very hard work 💪 to get the record Steve good job 👏 mate 🙏❤ looks like gt7 has new and great ideas

Hopefully they'll add this mode to multi so we can see a full pack "racing" at 20mph