[Archive] Gran Turismo World Series Thread

[jimihemmy]

Why I haven't any results?
Why am I at GT1?

On League Display, I changed to GT2, but nothing changed.

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You have no scores since Nations starts on Friday.
Switch to Manufacturers to see that score.
Should you not be GT1? You need to actually enter the first race (even though you can only practice right now) for it to give you your League ranking. It will tell you what league you will be in there.
Once you start a season, you stay in that league for the whole season.

 

[Paulo Ribeiro]

Check you have selected your region. This happens to me if the website defaults to USA region

Thank you mate. It was that. Thank you to jimihemmy and OJBrit too.
Somehow, I was in the States (United).

All is showing now.

 

[D_Dragline]

I feel like Friday’s Nations round is shaping up as a potential nightmare. There are so many Beetles on the leaderboard that lobbies will be full of them. In a race at DTS they make up time in weird places and a lot of them will be desperately pushing to get past in sectors where there’s only one feasible line (eg the esses and the COD).

I’ll probably be rolling out in the DBR9 and hoping the Beetles behave or people ignore them and use the WRX instead.

 

[Roggers]

I feel like Friday’s Nations round is shaping up as a potential nightmare. There are so many Beetles on the leaderboard that lobbies will be full of them. In a race at DTS they make up time in weird places and a lot of them will be desperately pushing to get past in sectors where there’s only one feasible line (eg the esses and the COD).

I’ll probably be rolling out in the DBR9 and hoping the Beetles behave or people ignore them and use the WRX instead.

I noticed a lot of Beetles too.
Did some trial runs and in the Beetle I couldn’t get anywhere near my DBR9 or Jaguar F-Type times. Got a few more to test run but I think I’m going to use the DBR9

 

[Mercia]

I'm miles faster in the WRX than anything else, including the beetle (though why does it have such god tier turn in, better than real life GT3 cars lmao) but man does it feel like I'm hanging on to it like a horse gone buckaroo right round the track.

For those approaching Seaside for the first time: How are you finding the so-called Chicane of Death, notorious among GT Sport veterans?

Curious if it's catching newcomers out and if you have any fun horror stories from your attempts so far?

I always feel like I take it no problem on my first lap of a session then it begins to play tricks with my mind as I try to find that perfect line again and either have to lift to get myself through or end up tank slapping the exit wall as I try to straighten up.

 

[D_Dragline]

Well, I needn’t have worried about rogue Beetles. I survived the CoD 16 times in the DBR9 only to take myself out at the first chicane, twice. I have never crashed there unaided before and yet I managed to do it twice in this race. Without those incidents I would have been p4.

Finished 11/15 in top split and A LOT of people died at the CoD. About half the field did a one stop (including me) and half did a no stop.

WRX 1st, FT-1 2nd, Beetles 3rd and 4th. 12 of the 15 starters were in Beetles or WRXs.

 

[RX8 Racer]

GTWS Nations intro:

 

[Roggers]

I'm miles faster in the WRX than anything else, including the beetle (though why does it have such god tier turn in, better than real life GT3 cars lmao) but man does it feel like I'm hanging on to it like a horse gone buckaroo right round the track.

For those approaching Seaside for the first time: How are you finding the so-called Chicane of Death, notorious among GT Sport veterans?

Curious if it's catching newcomers out and if you have any fun horror stories from your attempts so far?

I always feel like I take it no problem on my first lap of a session then it begins to play tricks with my mind as I try to find that perfect line again and either have to lift to get myself through or end up tank slapping the exit wall as I try to straighten up.

Tried the Beetle and just can’t get on with it, it’s too skittish around the track. Plus over that chicane the Beetle is just too light and wants to take flight. The AMG is my fastest car round here, plus you can attach the curbs and it’s stays planted with the weight.

 

[Zorz]

For those approaching Seaside for the first time: How are you finding the so-called Chicane of Death, notorious among GT Sport veterans?

Not a newcomer but this is going to be my first time driving Seaside in anger in GT7 - what on earth did they feed the kerbs? They're all absolute murder now!

I don't know whether to be amused or frustrated at Polyphony for making the chicane of death even more deadly than it was in GT Sport because the kerb you have to launch over on exit has been taking me out far more often than the wall ever did.

If I somehow manage to go all 16 laps without binning it I'll call that a victory in itself!

 

[D_Dragline]

Not a newcomer but this is going to be my first time driving Seaside in anger in GT7 - what on earth did they feed the kerbs? They're all absolute murder now!

I don't know whether to be amused or frustrated at Polyphony for making the chicane of death even more deadly than it was in GT Sport because the kerb you have to launch over on exit has been taking me out far more often than the wall ever did.

If I somehow manage to go all 16 laps without binning it I'll call that a victory in itself!

You need to get your right wheels on the red concrete inside the curb. If you don’t it’s goodnight.

But this also means you are millimeters from the wall.

Happy racing!

 

[AK84LFC]

Well, I needn’t have worried about rogue Beetles. I survived the CoD 16 times in the DBR9 only to take myself out at the first chicane, twice. I have never crashed there unaided before and yet I managed to do it twice in this race. Without those incidents I would have been p4.

Finished 11/15 in top split and A LOT of people died at the CoD. About half the field did a one stop (including me) and half did a no stop.

WRX 1st, FT-1 2nd, Beetles 3rd and 4th. 12 of the 15 starters were in Beetles or WRXs.

So it’s either nonstop hard or 1 stop medium?

 

[D_Dragline]

So it’s either nonstop hard or 1 stop medium?

My split was one stop softs or no stop mediums.

Softs are sketchy by the end of stints, but mediums were worse for the last 3 or 4 laps.

 

[ShiftingGears]

5th place in second split so not a bad result for first evening of Gr 3 online.

All the other kerbs are good but the Chicane of death really isnt fun with these physics, its now just like turn 3 sausage kerb at Dragon Trail Gardens where you will crash if you don't cut the kerb enough, which I really hate. Just make the kerb more gradual so the more you cut it, the more upset the car gets.

 

[Roggers]

Enjoyed that race tonight. Think PD got it right with the tyre wear and possible strategies available.

Qualified P4 in B rated lobby (highest Q time in this lobby). Fast lap was done on the first attempt and me pole until the last few laps I got beat.

So for the race I tried a 1 stop. Started on softs and lap 7 I pitted for mediums. Thought the mediums would give me the edge towards the end of the race which it did….. but yeah
Race start I was like Bottas at Hungary a few years ago with his 0.002 launch. Was leading but I’m always too cautious on the lead lap for penalties and P2 past. This car went on to win and was much faster than. P2 was looking like my position to finish. Lap 7 tyres are going and I’m losing time to P3 so switch to mediums, exit pits in P4 9 seconds behind P2. P1 pits and is just ahead and goes on to take the win. P2 & P3 I’m starting to catch and I pass P3 heading into the chicane. This is where I brake and the back end steps out and I’m gone. If I hadnt have spun I was only 5 seconds of P2 with 6 laps to go.
In the end a solid P4 and I was still catching P3 on the last lap. Closed it down to 4 seconds in the end. Think P2 was a given looking at my pace at the end of the race. Oh well happy with P4 and that’s how I will end todays racing.

Had to save my Bottas launch. Best grid start I’ve done on the game

 

[permaculture]

GTWS Nations intro:

did they just combine the themes from star trek, star wars, and jurassic park? absolutely glorious

 

[Zorz]

I went well off-meta for Dragon Trail Seaside, opting to take the GT500 Supra '97 as it felt more stable than the meta cars for me. Painful race though, very painful.

I was well off form in qualifying. After setting multiple 1:35s in free practice, I suddenly couldn't hook a lap up and my best was a 1:36.665 for P12. From that far back I decided to try the Medium no-stop. Those last laps, eep...

I'm starting to wonder if I need to make some kind of ritual sacrifice before these races because I keep having absolute shockers on lap 1. I comfortably survived turn 1 and thought I was actually going to get to stick with the pack. Turned out I simply hadn't waited long enough.

At the first hairpin, a Subaru squeezed me right on the apex, then started veering right. I don't know if he'd lost the back end or if I'd marginally tapped his corner but he ended up slamming me into the wall and dropping me all the way down to P16. I made a move at the seafront hairpin and briefly took P15 back from an Aston Martin, but it did a cutback and I had to yield going into the chicane of death.

Time for the second pain point in lap 1 - the Aston Martin hit the brakes going in, catching me off guard. I brake, take the chicane slower than I was expecting, get the line wrong and go straight over the kerb and then exit stage right into the wall. By the time I cross the line to start lap 2, I'm 5 seconds off the back.

The number of mistakes and rage quits in this race managed to help me recover somewhat, as I finished P8. If not for losing all that time from the chicane incident on lap 1 it could have maybe been P6 but definitely P7. I also want to thank the Beetle that aggressively lunged up alongside me on much fresher tyres through the S-bends on lap 15, only to then overshoot into the gravel and quit out after I lifted off and moved over to provide space. The free position and laugh were greatly appreciated.

 

[Sarajevo89]

If you qualify high and start on hard (no-stop strategy), like I did, pack behind will run you over. It was disaster. You're fighting with softs early on, then you get penalties from all the struggle and it's no good.

Soft-medium combo it is next time

 

[AK84LFC]

I did a no stop on mediums, qualified 9th, was 5th after the first lap just kept it clean and didn’t fight anyone. After everyone pitted I was in first about 3 or 4 seconds ahead but all the soft runners caught me up. Again, didn’t try to fight them just kept it on the track. Mediums were totally dead, managed to finish 5th.

 

[Hasnain282]

Went with the DBR9 and was in a lobby with @timekiller001. Quali wasn't great and I qualified way down, the first few laps were frantic, had an inevitable death at the chicane and then made up positions from others issues and in the end it was P6 in what was probably a typical Dragon Trail race. Probably would've been in the battle for the podium without that error but the result was still better than I was expecting

 

[timekiller001]

I went into the first race with almost zero practice, as I got ready just before the race started.
I was streaming (sorry, in German):

First qualifying was bad (starts at 6:53). First lap was just to get to know everything and a 36.2 came out - not great. The lap after that was ruined by a Spaniard who decided to start his lap right behind me, just to overtake me on the straight and dirty air meant I couldn't do anything. Stupid idiot. After that the chicane of death caught me out, a faster lap was ruined because someone didn't see me and crashed into me, to which I got a 3 second penalty. As I couldn't serve it, the lap didn't count.
BTW, I thought when you press start you're ghosted. Very obviously not the case, as due to that I ruined the lap of the guy that crashed me at the end.
So dead last in P16.

Decided to go with Mediums as I didn't know anything about the race. (Starts at 23:00)
By the end of lap 1 I was 10th. Others were on Softs so I fell back a bit, but also gained by errors of other people.
After the soft runners pitted, I was in P2 for a while, but then fell back. Also the chicane caught me out once in lap 10.
I was in P5 going into the last lap. Unfortunately the chicane hit me again so back to P7. Still a decent result, as I thought I'd finish dead last after qualifying and how often the chicane caught me out in qualifying and the few practice laps I had.

The second race (also posted above by @Hasnain282) was better. Still the medium strategy in this one.
Qualifying (starts at 1:08:09) was decent, although the first laps were ruined by my errors again. With my last timed lap I managed a 35.1 which was good for P8.
On to the race (starts at 1:23:00). By the end of lap 1 I was third. Not because I was that quick, but because others binned it. Others with softs overtook me, but the worst I was in was P5.
After the pit stops I was first - until the first chicane, where I spun over the curb... I was lucky I only lost one place.
Was on P3 most of the time then, until the last lap.
Both P1 and P2 spun at the same spot on the run to the second hairpin. P1 was too far away anyway, but I was able to snatch P2 and finish there. 325 points, which are my highest-ever achieved points in Gran Turismo.
Very happy, and will not try again

At first I thought medium no-stop was quicker, but I checked the replay and I just profited by so many errors. I guess soft-soft is quicker.
Plus the Beetle eats tires. There was a WRX behind me on mediums as well, and its tires were much better.

 

[Devdude]

I use beetl in manufacturers races since 1st one and the amt of beetles i see in daily races that cant handle tht car is hilarious, as i never see any of them racing for Volkswagen with me, so i expect alot of crashes on that cod tonight lol, and hope to see u in lobby woth me Roggers, always fun when u are because u never use meta cars but get up in places well

Tried the Beetle and just can’t get on with it, it’s too skittish around the track. Plus over that chicane the Beetle is just too light and wants to take flight. The AMG is my fastest car round here, plus you can attach the curbs and it’s stays planted with the weight.

 

[Devdude]

Yayyy, finally feels like i represented Volkswagen again, btw, this is my main Gr3 car and manufacturer i use, so no "meta" using for me

 

[ShiftingGears]

P.S. how cooked are random wind directions in time trial?

Its pretty much impossible to baseline yourself against other peoples practice times now and even other sessions' practice times now because you can gain or lose over a second based on how the wind is blowing.

These variables are standardised in real life because everyone in an event is setting practice times in the same practice session, its not 10000 people setting times in 10000 different sessions with 10000 different environmental conditions.

I think PD tried to get too clever here and missed getting the basics right again. It should really be restricted to the races themselves

 

[Egghaus88]

My first attempt tonight was in the 9:00 GT1 slot for NA, qualified P7 in the Corvette after I blew my flying lap in the chicane. I decided to try a no stop on mediums, I get a great start and then a couple cars get by me in turn 1, OK no big deal. I keep running my race, get as high as 2nd after others pit, then I'm running along in P5 on lap 15 and I get bitten by the chicane, dropping back to P7. -then on the final lap the 911 ahead bins it in the chicane, we end up racing back to the line door to door and I salvage P6.

After this I decide to take another swing with a one stop on softs. I qualify P4 this time, and get an incredible start and shoot to P1. I'm running alo g thinking I'm the greatest, then on lap 3 I get too aggressive on the curb on the fast right hander before before the first downhill sector and lauch myself into the air. After that it was error after error and I eventually rage quit. I apologize to SirDragon as it clipped him on the main straight and sent them spinning.

Now waiting for the 11:00 slot to redeem myself.

 

[Mercia]

God damn chicane honestly, I'm glad I'm in B lobby so I was able to ease off going through it to get consistent, if slow, exits as others tried too hard and clipped barriers, smashed against the exit wall etc. on a regular basis.

I probably made up a few seconds total race time over 10-12 cars throughout just by tapping the brake and making sure I was on the right line.

I couldn't get the strategy right though over two attempts.

First try I went soft-medium and finished 6th from Q5 after a crazy first lap which had me back in 14th for a while with penalties I received while trying everything to avoid contact

I had this idea while running this slot to go again and start on mediums and run to lap 11/12 to give me space on track to put some solid times in while others battled, and then jump onto softs and have the advantage over those who were starting to lose their grip at the end. It was almost paying off before I borked the chicane completely, got into a big group that was battling behind me, and going into the last lap and then final turns it was just chaos of jostling and bumping and I ended up losing out, finishing 10th from another Q5.

Couldn't bug the better half for another go so will have to get over it, haha.

@gun4ganz

 

[MotoJP46]

Well, I rocked the 1999 Nissan GT500 with a custom livery. I felt good in practice but again, in qualifying everything feels different. There’s more under steer and of course when the lights go out in the race, it feels like there is no grip at all.

There needs to be a serious change to things or at least allow us to change the brake bias. Heck leave the BOP in for car settings, just let me change the braking for goodness sake!

 

[samppa_944]

Taking a break from the entire test season 3. Been busy. Hopefully they use no tuning for manuf series in next season, Nations can have some races with tuning sure. Just like in test season 2. But before that, the president of all MR cars in GT7 just sent me a message. It says:

"Dear Polyphony Digital and Gran Turismo 7 development team, please fix the default setups for MR cars.

Kind regards,
President of MR cars"

 

[Roggers]

I use beetl in manufacturers races since 1st one and the amt of beetles i see in daily races that cant handle tht car is hilarious, as i never see any of them racing for Volkswagen with me, so i expect alot of crashes on that cod tonight lol, and hope to see u in lobby woth me Roggers, always fun when u are because u never use meta cars but get up in places well

Congrats on your win 👍🏻 🪲

Yeah I’m not a meta car fan. Like you said some people I think pick the meta car hoping that they can compete yet are unable to handle the car. In your case using from day 1 I don’t mind that, I’m sure my AMG will be a meta car in a race at some point.
In the nations yesterday the car that won was a beetle but at times he was all over the road going wide and the backend skipping out.
Wonder how many people picked the meta car yesterday and had a worst result because of it?

 

[Raptor013]

Replay from my third attempt at Seaside last night.

This was the cleanest of the races.

 

[jimihemmy]

GTWS Nations Cup - 2022 Series - Test Season 3 - Round 1
Dragon Trail - Seaside

After talking myself out of racing and deciding to do it anyway.....

16 cars join the race but only 11 make it to entry. We get stuck on the warm up screen and people decide to leave. We eventually get a warning that warm up is ending and there are now only 5 of us left and no one got to warm up.

Qualifying starts and we all leave the paddock. I end up on pole with a 1:39.751 in a borrowed Nissan GT-R Nismo, with a Beetle (1:40.131), Supra GT500 (1:40.251), GR Supra (1:40.419), and a BRZ GT300 (1:40.606) behind me.

I don't have the best launch and quickly lose 2 spots and fall to P3. I have the inside to T1 and gain back P2 taking the outside of T2. I get P1 back heading into the COD. From there I hold P1 until I pit at the end of lap 10. I chose a soft/soft strategy and while I probably could have ran a few more on them, they were not going to last all race. By the time I pit I have an almost 7 second lead.

I come out of the pits P3 and 11 seconds down to P1 (Beetle) and P2 being the Supra with 6 laps to go. I catch the Supra on lap 12 as we head into the esses and I undercut them with the stickier and fresher softs. I finally catch up to the Beetle on lap 14 and as we head into the turn before the COD, he slows and lets me pass! Since I caught him so fast, I was more than willing to wait until after the COD to catch him since we still had 2 more laps to go and my fresher softs were eating up his worn mediums.

After watching the replay, everyone did a no stop except for me. The Beetle and BRZ were on mediums, GR Supra was on softs, and the Supra GT500 was on hards.

In the end, I end up winning the race with pole, CRB, and fastest lap!

While I am happy I won and that we raced clean, I am more excited that our race was at night! It was weird that there were no lights in the grandstands....daylight approached just as I was starting the last lap. It was great!