GT4 WRS Week 149 : When The Going Gets Tough...

Stopped at the casino first thing this morning, re-opened the bar tab and valet parking is available for all who run this week. I left a big tip last time we were here and they promised me you'd all get first class service! Just mention my name and you'll get a good seat.

Sick, really Sick.👍👍

I remember watching the F1 race and racing the gt4 track at the same time on the TV with the split screen. It was pretty cool doing laps with the big guys of F1, at least in my mind. I'm sure I wasn't all that fast, but I seem to remember not being off the pace too much. The race is not untill May 22-25. When it comes around I will run some laps again with the big guys. Hmm, thats a good idea for all the tracks that gt4 has. I am very pleased with the power reduction. That is suppose to be a reduction, correct. Seems to even out the TCS exclusion.
Are we trying a test for the F1 officials to see how it works without the TCS? Now I really know where the worlds elite drivers are. Here at the WRS.

Looks challenging and fun. See you at the bar gtbadboy, first round on me.

Anyone know if you can use the black beauty's in arcade mode?

Sphinx

Week 149 Race Specifics:
No driving aids are allowed this week.

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Formula Gran Turismo, Cote d'Azur, and NO aids... Auch

Have to check if the Formula GT is available in standard arcade mode, as I haven't owned it yet in my current GT-mode game...

Kinda funny, SuperGT is at Monaco this week too. Good support race for us.

Sounds interesting... and tough! I never learned to drive this car properly, maybe it'll be this week 👍

Guys, remember the power is -20, not +20. Let's avoid useless mistakes

The light jumps to green and the qualification has begun. The orange Spyker comes out of the box right away and enters the track to ensure some tv broadcasting time to please the sponsors.
He manages to stay out of the walls on the opening lap, but is far off pace on his cold tyres. On his second lap he's 1.5 secs faster at T1, but he brushes the wall coming out of Mirabeau. Although a bit of bargeboard falls off due to this manoeuvre, he can continue his stint.
After a few more laps we can write down 19.294 secs for sector one and 55.448 at split number 2 when he returns into the box, awaiting the first movement of the competition.
According to his mechanic he was running 320 gearing.

I'm going to be super busy this week, as always. But having a few sessions of this is definitely a must for me now.

See you guys at the bar..

20.944
59.002

George, I just had a case of Woodford shipped over!

21.130
58.667

She's a handful that's for sure. I'll be anxious to see what Hekke can do with this beast. Hugo has already thrown down the gauntlet so to speak. It'll be an interesting week for us mere mortals just keeping this thing off the walls eh?

First laps to get used to this:
19.000
54.098
Top speed 300
A lot to get in every sector.

19.559
57.601

@ 340 and sloppy

This was the first track I really drove the F1 on when I got tired of B-Spec'ing for a loss in the Formula GT. Looking forward to this week. I think it's really gonna come down to the gearing.



19.705
56.850

@ 300

Not my cup of tea this week ...
Never mind! I'll be happy to do the Luxy-churn and meanwhile build my private gamesave.
Have a fun week all! 👍 👍 👍

OOOOOOOhhhhhhh, testing the new F1 rules for this year are we? Sweet.

Ive never used these cars in GT4 before.

Im put off by the lack of reality.

Plus im a bit

That is all.

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First impressions are; Weeee!, then the rear steps out, oh 🤬 With the -20 power it's not to hard to handle, should be a fun week. If I'm not mistaken the tyres are always r3/r3 with this car no mater what you choose.

19.5 / 55.2 I'll be back soon with some proper (and hopefully faster) splits.

First splits:

T1: 19.501
T2: 54.733

The potential in this car is enormous!

VEXD

Ive never used these cars in GT4 before.

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That doesn't hold me back this week

I'm terrible with this thing too, but there's a suitable moment for everything

Does anyone else have trouble with downshifting in this car? I missed a gear going into the left after the chicane and ended up taking it in 5th which sucks, oh well the week as just started.

19.163 / 54.676

Yeah you definately have to start your downshift earlier, there's 7 gears! I've always been confused with that. Sometimes you can downshift fast, sometimes the gear your in gets "grayed out" or disengages so you can't downshift or accelerate. It's hard to describe but I've missed many a shift through no fault of my own.

So I've been using a DS2 for the past 10 or so weeks due to myself thinking the motors for feedback were junk in my ancient DF. Well come to find out I grabbed the wrong AC adapter from my pile'o cables! Bam! What a crazy and huge difference. Yeah I know call me stupid but this is the week to have that throttle control. I noticed when going through the corkscrew right after t1 that it seems I am hitting the rumble from the feel of the vibration in the wheel, but when I watch the replay it seems I'm almost 1.5-2 feet off the rumbles. Anyone else getting that? Is it just the loading and scrubbing of the tires as you start to accelerate out of or maintain speed through the middle of the corner?

After one session (and what felt like monstrous feedback) I have some splits.

340
t1-20.048
t2-55.864

When I watched my replay I noticed that the tire selection is set to RM/RM which I definitely had on RSS's. I think there must be come kind of cross glitch from GT mode to Arcade mode in thinking there was only one tire selection. At least I know in GT3 you could only run RM's in GT mode. Just a heads up (although I am probably the last to know as I never drive this car.)

Also I definitely agree with the horsepower drop. I could go for a little tcs but it only gets a little out of control when it hits the powerband in 3rd. I just have to let off a little or shift a little early. This will get interesting trying to click off those tenths.

ok here are my splits

26.142/ 1'10.063

Ren-Tec

ok here are my splits

26.142/ 1'10.063

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Smokin times there Mike, but what excactly are you smoking

arora

Smokin times there Mike, but what excactly are you smoking

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Rubber, its quite nice you know but for god sake don't touch it afterwards ouch!!!!

ok guys done a couple laps so far not a big fan on the car without TCS on a DS2

(1) 20.3 (2) 57.4 not great but hey what can you do lol

"GT4 WRS Week 149 : When The Going Gets Tough... "
"... the though get going"... I'm afraid I'm gonna give this week a miss. Tried the combo last night. I'm using a DS, and with no aids and a DS throttle is nearly impossible to control. Wheels keep spinning through second into third even with gearing to the max.

So I'm sitting this one out. Have fun you guys, and see you in week 150!

Ren-Tec

ok here are my splits - 26.142/ 1'10.063

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Michael, WTF my mate? Did you take it in reverse or drive sideways? Better correct that T2 or you'll be at my Luxy spot for the first time in your life

OnlyMe

I'm afraid I'm gonna give this week a miss. Tried the combo last night. I'm using a DS, and with no aids and a DS throttle is nearly impossible to control. Wheels keep spinning through second into third even with gearing to the max.

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Same here, Bart.

Quiksilver_GT

ok guys done a couple laps so far not a big fan on the car without TCS on a DS2 (1) 20.3 (2) 57.4 not great but hey what can you do lol

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Welcome to WRS, Stephen! If you want to be included in the Luxy leaderboard please post your full T-times so we know where you stand. Thanks! 👍

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Ive had a 19.1 and a 55.7 (which doesnt make sense in itself )

And i dont like this kind of GT.

I am curious as to how it would work in a live LAN, but racing hotlaps; there are so many places i tap walls, or turn in too late, time after time, that it just gets annoying very quickly.

One thing i observed, trying Hugo's gearing, then trying Cmir's then trying Hugo's again, before going back to Cmir's, is that when the gears are taller (320+) the car slides more at the front, giving you a difficult arc to deal with on some turns due to the tight angles.
On a shorter gearing pattern (300) the car slides a little more at the rear, but that can be anticipated, and shifted out of, and therefore, it worx best for me, meaning i can get the nose in and get round the hairpins and chicanes faster.

This is not a statement that anything in actual fact "worx" well for me though, as the car is too much, and the margin for error; too great to be a fun thing to do this week.

I may have a go later on, when im not quite so , but i'd be suprised.

Good luck to all on the track, and watch out for those walls.

Oh and Mike, sort your T's out.
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