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2021 FIA Series Race Discussion
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- AMS_Windfire
GR Cup Round 1 North America.
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Karts always give me one of the best results of a season, and I managed to actually set a Top 10 FP time for only the 2nd time ever, so I was really looking forward to this race. When the room loaded, in addition to some familiar names like @Roman_GT23, I was surprised to actually see it was a "proper" top-split race. I was expecting a low turnout, like kart races usually are, but a ton of people I hadn't seen on the leaderboards were in it.
I knew if I could stay in the slipstream, I'd have a chance to grab over 300 points, and qualifying 5th gave me a good shot at doing just that. Unfortunately, I immediately lost the slipstream at T1 due to understeering on cold tires, but it was going to be almost impossible to stay in it when the game started me roughly 0.7s behind 4th already. Anyway, fortunately the first 4 didn't get organized, and 6th was able to push me back into their slipstream after a few laps. I spent a large part of the race in 5th, then 6th, hanging on to the back of the lead train. Someone in the pack went off at the fast left-hander after the esses, and moved me up to 5th again. Unfortunately the kart in 3rd made some mistakes and kept defending until we lost the draft to the first 2. The same kart, now in 4th, dropped their tires in the grass in the T1 braking zone, which left a gap between me and 3rd and put me out of their slipstream as well. Ultimately I finished in 4th, less than 3 seconds away from the winner and 312 points. Still, 273 points is the most I've ever scored under this points system, and I even finished ahead of last season's Nation's champion in this race.
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I'm also really looking forward to the next Nation's round. One of my favorite classes at one of my favorite tracks should give me another good points haul, but I doubt I'm going to even come close to topping this score for the rest of the season.
You killed it that night dude. Well done. GreasySamSquanch and I tried to get up there but we could never materialized. We had a great battle with an alien though and I was happy with my points. As much as I wanted to do it again 242 was too many to throw back on the poker table. Cashin out baby!
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- Singapore
Nations - Karts at Maggiore Center Reverse 2: Electric Boogaloo
I'll be honest here: this race was a snoozer for me. The race was mostly a back-and-forth between me and another guy over 6th, which became 5th when someone got the uphill left wrong.
I ended up losing the slipstream and gradually slipping into the clutches of 7th. A slide out of the final corner on the penultimate lap sealed my fate and I dropped back down to finish 7th for 129 points.
It was at this moment that I knew: I screwed up.
The guy that made this livery deleted it off his profile, but I got to keep the livery as it was already applied on my kart.
I'll be honest here: this race was a snoozer for me. The race was mostly a back-and-forth between me and another guy over 6th, which became 5th when someone got the uphill left wrong.
I ended up losing the slipstream and gradually slipping into the clutches of 7th. A slide out of the final corner on the penultimate lap sealed my fate and I dropped back down to finish 7th for 129 points.
It was at this moment that I knew: I screwed up.
The guy that made this livery deleted it off his profile, but I got to keep the livery as it was already applied on my kart.
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- Australia
I disconnected from Nations slot 1 on matchmaking as well. You might want to post it here to at least track the issue.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...ing-from-fia-races-before-matchmaking.393601/
After getting the issue 18 times in the official season last year I didn't have the issue since the June update, so it is strange that it turned up again recently.
It's not good enough in my opinion.
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- MidNight_VSpec
Before any season we always work our way to DR A but we never Survive the Season opener. going into 2021 season I expected the same but we survive somehow. it wasn't for our rivals lack of trying, We get Feel for race in the First, second sessions we found our groove in the third, so i came down in the last two to secure a good result. We Q 2nd in the 4th race secure the lead in the first corner and hold it for 14 laps till we got elbow into Narnia, Twice. So it came down to last session to get a good result. We run Qualify solo (Big mistake) and start 7th for the final race
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- OutlawQuadrant
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- Ridley-X4
Hoping to give the Manufacturers Series another chance this week. I think I should accept that I'm generally going to lose a bit of DR in the long term since I'm using the Hyundai machines, but I still wanna do my best. I'm definitely looking forwards to the Manufacturers Series rounds at Le Mans and the Nurburgring.
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- Winnie847
Very true. The Atenza handles much better than the GTR and since it lost a little weight awhile back, the top speed is pretty good too.
Also on that note....somebody should make an Evergiven livery for your GTR, in honor of the aforementioned ship stuck in said canal.
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Is it possible to find out how your lap times compare to others in the same manufacturer as yourself somewhere? A filter of some kind?
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- SpacedustDaddy
Good question. Only comparison I've seen are with people on my friends list with the same Manu.
As for the GT-R, it was/is fantastic at DTS in Race C. No doubt it's a momentum track, but held on to its tyres and got faster as the laps dwindled down.
I know Custom Race is different to FIA. However, I found the GT-R was consistent through the race. I lost a bit of rhythm as I was lapping two cars. I had to avoid an RC F and managed to tap its left rear, sending it into a spin at T1 entry. The other was a slow RCZ at the final corner.
Regained my pace and set that FL on last lap.
Anyway, I just do my race for Wednesday. Hope to have a clean replay to watch. That's all.
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- MidNight_VSpec
Sadly no, the only info available are limited to Championships Points
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- TT_Pigems
You could A) Write down a list of the people with the same Manu and scout the leaderboard for their names each week or B) Send them friend requests, that way they just show up already on your game. 👍
There is a leaderboard for times right here, it just doesn’t show their cars is all.
https://gtsport.r1s3.net/championships
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- Hasnain282
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My suggestion as well. The hiccup is whether the top guys for your Manu will even set a good time trial lap. From what I can figure out, for example, best GT-R time is a 1:27.243 which is not good. I did run that yesterday but game penalized me for track limits.You could A) Write down a list of the people with the same Manu and scout the leaderboard for their names each week or B) Send them friend requests, that way they just show up already on your game. 👍
There is a leaderboard for times right here, it just doesn’t show their cars is all.
https://gtsport.r1s3.net/championships
My expectation is low 28 pace required for top split. Mid to high 28s for A lobbies.
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- its_tricky83
Not sure if this is just me, but whenever I view the GT Sport Calendar via the official website, it's 1 day out for all events (and the time of the event is way off too).
eg. I know that FIA Manufacturers Series is on Wednesdays, but according to the calendar on the official website, it says that the races are on Thursday.
GT Sport Calendar
In the below example, it says the event is on the Thursday 29th April at 2am...
Yes my computer clock is set correctly and my regional settings are set correctly too.
Not a huge problem of course, but I often like to confirm event times from work in my lunchbreak, via the web!
eg. I know that FIA Manufacturers Series is on Wednesdays, but according to the calendar on the official website, it says that the races are on Thursday.
GT Sport Calendar
In the below example, it says the event is on the Thursday 29th April at 2am...
Yes my computer clock is set correctly and my regional settings are set correctly too.
Not a huge problem of course, but I often like to confirm event times from work in my lunchbreak, via the web!
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- New Plymouth
The answer is one that infuriated me as well. When you log on to the Gran Turismo website you get assigned a region based off language and whatever. The link you posted goes to the Gran-Turismo website with the GB English option. Go in to the menu at the top right of the page and change your language and region to Australia.
For no valid reason mine always defaults to the US so I had to go bookmark the Calendar page once I got it set properly.
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Ah shame it’s not up to date as this would have been the easiest way to see. Thanks everyone!
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Well, at least they added a bit of weight to the mazda. Not sure I get the gtr thing though.
ivann
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well, the wheel of randomness decided it, there is nothing to 'get' there
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The Vantage gets nerfed? FML! I guess the FFs might be back to meta? The Scirocco now looks like a solid performer.
Glad I did all that testing pre-season
Glad I did all that testing pre-season
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- TT_Pigems
I just don’t get it, why make changes 1 or 2 races into a season? They had months to make changes before the season started, but they do this every time and screw over a ton of people who are stuck in cars now. It’s so stupid. Between this and the penalties it’s like they are just trying to drive people away from their game.
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