Bored of GT7? Three New Custom Races Every Weekday

[Theufcveteran]

Taycan turbo was a handful to drive during the daily race.

Yeah it’s a bit unwieldy, quite a bit of understeer, but lots of power. With a lot of sharp turns I don’t think it’d feel very good to drive. I tried to go for a track where it’d lean into the attributes of the car, here, it being an EV, while also being a track that hadn’t been picked too recently for the daily races.

 

[jesse100190]

today allows me to use one of my go to road car since it fits the 625pp race automatically

 

[Theufcveteran]

The events for the 13th of November are up!

Today’s events:

• Lancia’s legends at Autodrome Lago Maggiore

• A 625 PP Super Sports car race at Kyoto Driving Park - Yamagiwa

• 35 laps of Watkins Glen in the Tomahawk X. You will be tested. One slight error and you’ll be facing the other direction. Find consistency in the chaos.

 

[benjoi84]

I have a question.

It's as much aimed at the community as it is at OP.

I've had to restrict my Power to meet the PP requirements for the race. Now I have to do the 96% default Custom Race standard for this series, will I calculate 96 percent of whatever my Restrictor is set at?

I hope that makes sense.
Obviously I'm only using the Power Restrictor, not ECU.

 

[Theufcveteran]

I have a question.

It's as much aimed at the community as it is at OP.

I've had to restrict my Power to meet the PP requirements for the race. Now I have to do the 96% default Custom Race standard for this series, will I calculate 96 percent of whatever my Restrictor is set at?

I hope that makes sense.
Obviously I'm only using the Power Restrictor, not ECU.

I didn’t consider that possibility. If you are already restricting your power then I would drop it by a further 4%, as the AI effectively drops below the PP limit when they go to 97% throttle.

So if you’re already at 96% to meet the limit then I’d drop it to either 94% or 92%. The scaling may mean that 4% below 96% is more of a relative BHP drop compared to 4% below 100% but that’s just a guess.

If you find 4% below your current reduced percentage is too slow then maybe give 2% below the current percentage a try.

 

[Theufcveteran]

There won't be any races today, my apologies. I'm just... not feeling up to it today. One of those days, if you get me. Will have races up tomorrow and I'll try and plan out the week ahead over the weekend.

 

[Theufcveteran]

I think I woke up too late last Friday and again had that bleh feeling. It’s not that I don’t like doing it, but I’m not helping myself with having to come up events sometimes not long after I wake up (and if it’s beyond the scheduled time then it’s even worse).

Next week’s events are all planned out. Only thing to add is the weather settings. No more missing days, staying on top of it fully now.

 

[benjoi84]

@Theufcveteran I don't think you need to be too hard on yourself. So far, you've given the community a whole load of content to sink our teeth into.

You shouldn't worry.

 

[Theufcveteran]

The events for the 18th of November are up!

Today’s events:

• Ford Focus models at Eiger Nordwand

• Choose from three of Lamborghini’s modern icons at Big Willow

• A round of the GT World Challenge Asia at Tokyo Expressway - Central Clockwise

• The McLaren F1 in its domain - the road. Five laps of Circuit de Sainte-Croix - Layout B with no PP limit

• Group C cars at Spa in an endurance race

• A classic Formula 1 race in the Honda RA272 at Maggiore East

 

[jesse100190]

the monsoon i dealt with at lemans last night got me ready for the rain in tokyo if it falls

 

[jesse100190]

 

[Theufcveteran]

The events for the 19th of November are up!

Today, we have:

• The Red Bull Formula Junior at Alsace - Test Course Reverse

• The best Group 4 drivers duke it out for the “Group 4 Master” title

• The NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500, with variable race distance choices

 

[jesse100190]

not even gr 4 can escape a caution there was one on lap 15 of 16 not involving me and a lovetap at all

 

[Theufcveteran]

not even gr 4 can escape a caution there was one on lap 15 of 16 not involving me and a lovetap at all

I really like that they added flags in GT Sport onward. It makes it feel much more authentic to real motorsport.

 

[jesse100190]

the 3rd place car also slammed into that same wall on the final lap allowed me to lap the car.

 

[Theufcveteran]

Sorry for getting the races up late today. Slept late, again. I'm starting to run out of ideas for races haha. Took me a while last night to come up with some for next Tuesday - trying to maintain that full week of races.

Also, a quick question if it's okay - do you prefer fully detailed weather slots (e.g if there are 4 weather slots for a specific race, have them all filled with specific weather options) or for the first one to be detailed, and the rest to be random?

I do random for endurances to give them more replay value, but I don't know if maybe folks would prefer fully detailed weather for non-endurances all the time, none of the time, or some of the time.

At the moment I'm between them both - and an error of mine has been that I haven't noted down the weather options for the upcoming races, so if I'm short on time I tend to choose an option for the first slot and leave the rest random.

I'll be updating the rest of this week's non-endurance races with fully detailed weather and doing so for the races beyond the current developed schedule - unless you guys prefer the hybrid option of the first option being a specific choice and the rest for that race being random, or having it all random.

From my side I like the idea of at least doing some with fully custom weather because it lets you create a specific visual experience (or sometimes gameplay related if rain is involved) that plays out over the course of the race. I'd really appreciate the feedback!

Here are the races for the 20th of November, 2024:

• Road cars with diffusers installed at Deep Forest

• Relive glimmers of the past with the Ford GT Test Car Spec II at Road Atlanta, racing against a smaller grid size reminiscent of older games in the series

• The Volkswagen Endurance Series at Dragon Trail - Seaside - 28 laps in the Volkswagen GTI Roadster VGT, with the usual endurance race variables like tyre wear and fuel consumption

 

[jesse100190]

having the weather at random keeps us on our toes for the races.

 

[Theufcveteran]

The events for the 21st of November are up!

Today’s slate:

• 4WD cars with at least 550 BHP at Road Atlanta

• The world’s best Group 3 driver will be crowned at Tsukuba Circuit

• Ready to race off the show floor - 25 laps at Autodrome Lago Maggiore - West in the BMW M2 Factory Cup

 

[Theufcveteran]

The races for the 22nd of November are up!

Today, we’ve got:

• A tuned Ford Escort RS Cosworth one-make at Goodwood

• Road cars with a factory PP below 590 with no event PP limit

• Four-door cars weighing at least 1,650 kg / 3,637 lbs at Suzuka

 

[benjoi84]

Ooh I really like the idea of "choose a car with X default PP and do whatever you want to it" from today's Medium event!

 

[Theufcveteran]

Ooh I really like the idea of "choose a car with X default PP and do whatever you want to it" from today's Medium event!

Yeah I wanted to capture a GT1-4 esque vibe where you absolutely cram everything into an everyday or sports car and then go up against the fastest in the game. You can still do that in PS3 era onwards games of course, but the introduction of many more supercars I think makes it less of the usual path when it comes to road cars. Glad you like it!

 

[jesse100190]

had the fuel advantage over the other cars in alsace last night