"Daily" Race Discussion [Archive]

[GTWolverine]

Maybe my brain is just fried from the '80's, but I swear I thought the gr4 Atenza was always rear wheel drive. Did simeone break into my garage and swap drivetrains?View attachment 919587

The Gr.3 Atenza is RWD, but the Gr.4 is and always has been a 4WD, front-tyre chewing hogapotaphant.

From the reports of it eating its front tires, combined with what the road-going car's drivetrain is, I just assumed it was FWD...

 

[Tidgney]

Another Guide video is up for those interested !

 

[koshmare]

This week hot laps

 

[Rexracer702]

Any thoughts on a fast car for RBR that's NOT fwd?

 

[Groundfish]

Mustang-eat curbs-other cars bounce off
Qual I dunno
I don’t race there. The WRX drives really well in gr4 tho...

 

[RacingGrandpa]

Any thoughts on a fast car for RBR that's NOT fwd?

I have had good fun with the Mustang before on that track. I usually do TCS 2 in race because it will hook up faster and be a lot less sensitive to other people trying to muscle you out of the way.

 

[CarlosEVH]

Dudes, I hate A1 gp and its random limits and penalties... It's almost impossible to finish a race without penalties

 

[Sean YZF]

Bloody typical, 3 combinations I'm not too bad at & I'm back to work.
Workshop facilities by appointment only.
Bugger

 

[Pigems]

Any thoughts on a fast car for RBR that's NOT fwd?

Try the GT-R, or maybe even the Lancer.

 

[Rosty_14]

Try the GT-R, or maybe even the Lancer.

Basic question, when would you advise to start purchasing cars? Currently I’m close to complete the campaign (only pending half of Circuit Experience). Using only the cars I have available, plenty of fun with those on daily races. Just wondering others opinion.

 

[05XR8]

Forgot to post this yesterday. Unfortunately, the way I'm playing the game this time, with Ford only, the Mustang is not at it's best.

Started last. Only got that place was, a car went off at T3 and was 11 seconds behind. More on that in a second.
I moved up to 13th, by a couple cars making mistakes. Mustang is only good at the esses. Other than that, it's getting smoked by TTs.

A fellow Mustang user I race often, was also struggling. At one point, the track seemed to have oil on it. No grip from either of us. Weird stuff. I'll post a clip.

Anyway, me getting 15th.
The TT that started ahead of me, made a run on a penalty serving Huracan(yep, those Huracan users). As the TT takes the outside line through the PZ, the Huracan tries to override that by also pushing the TT wide. Does it again at the final turn.
I take the place. After T1, the TT makes a good exit behind me and motors past(ridiculous). It catches the Huracan and revenge punt happens. TT driver brakes right after punting so it still made T2 with no time loss.
I just stay behind the TT for the nest lap.

The other Mustang goes wobbly. Loses the spot to the TT. It then lets me pass as it was slower on corner exit. Right then, I m having grip issues and have to give up the spot.

Three RCZs finish 1,2,3 and the rest of us, are 5 seconds to infinity behind.

 

[Redneckchef]

Forgot to post this yesterday. Unfortunately, the way I'm playing the game this time, with Ford only, the Mustang is not at it's best.
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Started last. Only got that place was, a car went off at T3 and was 11 seconds behind. More on that in a second.
I moved up to 13th, by a couple cars making mistakes. Mustang is only good at the esses. Other than that, it's getting smoked by TTs.

A fellow Mustang user I race often, was also struggling. At one point, the track seemed to have oil on it. No grip from either of us. Weird stuff. I'll post a clip.

Anyway, me getting 15th.
The TT that started ahead of me, made a run on a penalty serving Huracan(yep, those Huracan users). As the TT takes the outside line through the PZ, the Huracan tries to override that by also pushing the TT wide. Does it again at the final turn.
I take the place. After T1, the TT makes a good exit behind me and motors past(ridiculous). It catches the Huracan and revenge punt happens. TT driver brakes right after punting so it still made T2 with no time loss.
I just stay behind the TT for the nest lap.

The other Mustang goes wobbly. Loses the spot to the TT. It then lets me pass as it was slower on corner exit. Right then, I m having grip issues and have to give up the spot.

Three RCZs finish 1,2,3 and the rest of us, are 5 seconds to infinity behind.

I had a similar experience about losing traction at Laguna seca last week. Didnt run wide, had a little over a second gap to car in front, and all of a sudden no grip for 2 laps. Was having to suddenly brake a good 10 meters earlier for the corners to be able to actually run them at any speed and not run off. Suddenly grip comes back like nothing happened after that. Weird.

 

[ShiftingGears]

Basic question, when would you advise to start purchasing cars? Currently I’m close to complete the campaign (only pending half of Circuit Experience). Using only the cars I have available, plenty of fun with those on daily races. Just wondering others opinion.

You can play the game how you want. However I started buying cars to participate in sport mode as soon as I could afford it.

 

[Pigems]

Basic question, when would you advise to start purchasing cars? Currently I’m close to complete the campaign (only pending half of Circuit Experience). Using only the cars I have available, plenty of fun with those on daily races. Just wondering others opinion.

Any time you want to! You can always do a few offline races to get more money when needed, there’s only a handful of “really expensive” cars in the game and they rarely to never get used in sport mode. SM is mostly Gr.4 and Gr.3 cars, sometimes Gr.1 and Gr.2, but not very often.

Welcome to GT Planet!

 

[Satomiblood]

Race A was pretty fun. Actually finished 2nd on my first try.

 

[sturk0167]

I guess I really screwed this guy over. SR down for me. Check out his name. Not fooling anyone. We know where you're from.

 

[05XR8]

Basic question, when would you advise to start purchasing cars? Currently I’m close to complete the campaign (only pending half of Circuit Experience). Using only the cars I have available, plenty of fun with those on daily races. Just wondering others opinion.

Welcome.

If you haven't signed a Driver Contract for FIA races, if/when you do, you get one Gr.3 & one GR.4 car to use for this year's FIA season. However, if you haven't read the GT Sport News, on May 22nd through May 25th, the Mazda developed RX-Vision GT3 racer, will begin to be available to all players.

You will have the option to switch Manufacturers, only after the Mazda RX-VISION GT3 is made available. So, it'll give you an opportunity to try an initial brand now and maybe switch to Mazda later.

 

[Rosty_14]

Any time you want to! You can always do a few offline races to get more money when needed, there’s only a handful of “really expensive” cars in the game and they rarely to never get used in sport mode. SM is mostly Gr.4 and Gr.3 cars, sometimes Gr.1 and Gr.2, but not very often.

Welcome to GT Planet!

Makes sense, thanks for the advice @ShiftingGears and @Pigems. I’m probably overthinking to much this, I will take the plunge and purchase some Gr3 and Gr4 cars.

Welcome.

If you haven't signed a Driver Contract for FIA races, if/when you do, you get one Gr.3 & one GR.4 car to use for this year's FIA season. However, if you haven't read the GT Sport News, on May 22nd through May 25th, the Mazda developed RX-Vision GT3 racer, will begin to be available to all players.

You will have the option to switch Manufacturers, only after the Mazda RX-VISION GT3 is made available. So, it'll give you an opportunity to try an initial brand now and maybe switch to Mazda later.

Thanks, good point. Am I assuming correctly that you can use those cars even though you don’t race in any FIA races?

 

[Tea_Leaves]

I spent around 10 qualifying laps in the TT Cup at RBR and set a reasonable 1:37.0. I usually don't race in the meta car but I was curious so I tried out 1 qualifying lap in the RCZ and went down to 1:36.8 with several mistakes. It's not a wonder my race had 14 of them because if you want to be competitive, why use anything else?

BoP for Gr.4 seems to be in a worse spot. I recall there were around 4 - 5 competitive choices last time we had this combo.

 

[Rexracer702]

I spent around 10 qualifying laps in the TT Cup at RBR and set a reasonable 1:37.0. I usually don't race in the meta car but I was curious so I tried out 1 qualifying lap in the RCZ and went down to 1:36.8 with several mistakes. It's not a wonder my race had 14 of them because if you want to be competitive, why use anything else?

BoP for Gr.4 seems to be in a worse spot. I recall there were around 4 - 5 competitive choices last time we had this combo.

I think most of the front drivers get too much power to weight. They try to even things up, but fwd is inherantly crap in roadracing since weight transfer kills acceleration AND cornering under power. To make up for it they give the cars extreme top end, which makes them unrealistically fast. I'm not even close to alien speed, but when a fwd car has 10mph more speed on the straight, it's not right. In reality, a fwd car should almost never be the META, but in gr4 it seems it almost always is.

 

[05XR8]

Makes sense, thanks for the advice @ShiftingGears and @Pigems. I’m probably overthinking to much this, I will take the plunge and purchase some Gr3 and Gr4 cars.



Thanks, good point. Am I assuming correctly that you can use those cars even though you don’t race in any FIA races?

Yes. You can use both cars outside of the FIA races. Once chosen, the cars can't be deleted.
If you choose a brand now and switch to Mazda later, you will have to wait until either the season is over or possibly the next stage, to switch to a different brand.

 

[ILLEAGLE_34]

Had a terrible time at daily b. Hope it didn’t mess anyone up to bad.

 

[BombayPhantom]

GT Sport tests your threshold for pain.

I did 2 Race C’s at Interlagos in the past hour. Have a 1.34 quali time so started 6th on the grid in a C/S field.

Race 1 - got up to 3rd cleanly by the mid of Lap 1 and was making a clean pass on 2nd place. Disconnected from network.

Race 2 - started from 6th again and had nice fights to get up to 3rd. Traded 3rd place a few times but it was clean and fun. Lap 10, running in 3rd with 4th place 2.5 sec behind. Disconnected from network.

Funnily I am numb. Will try again later.

There is a silver lining to disconnections after all. After the 2 disconnects yesterday I lost >2000 DR which pushed me to the lower DR C.

Improved my quali time this morning and started the race on pole. Although I admit the field was a D/S field, and I was car #5. Managed to get through the first 3 corners without incident, and took VICTORY. DR gain 1400 points.

 

[Mistah_MCA]

First time using the Atenza Gr. 3 in a very long time. Especially took me a while to get used to the way it launches out of corners; almost feels like a pocket-sized GTR, except this car can actually turn.

 

[Stencedaddy]

I think most of the front drivers get too much power to weight. They try to even things up, but fwd is inherantly crap in roadracing since weight transfer kills acceleration AND cornering under power. To make up for it they give the cars extreme top end, which makes them unrealistically fast. I'm not even close to alien speed, but when a fwd car has 10mph more speed on the straight, it's not right. In reality, a fwd car should almost never be the META, but in gr4 it seems it almost always is.

Yup. Meta car in Gr4 is a FF most of the time and it is kind of annoying. I would rather the FFs get their own group if they can't balance it. They do FF only Race As anyway. Gr4 is just kind of stale lately imo.

 

[05XR8]

Yup. Meta car in Gr4 is a FF most of the time and it is kind of annoying. I would rather the FFs get their own group if they can't balance it. They do FF only Race As anyway. Gr4 is just kind of stale lately imo.

It is. Jumping in a race right now.

All the cars should be rwd like their sister GR.3 cars. I think it'd be more balanced that way.

There's a Supra with a 1:37.721(starting 8th) in my race. Still no time set by me 15/16. See how we go.

 

[DanSHW]

Went for a couple of races yesterday, just missed a half past race C, so went for an A instead, an odd car to drive, but fun when you get used to how it slides and regains grip. Ran 3 or 4 quali laps, and got 3rd on the grid, pole ran off the road on the last corner of the first lap, and I ran in 2nd for most of the race with a big gap back to 3rd, got closer and closer to the leader until he put himself in the dirt at T3 on the last lap, giving me a clear run to the finish and win number 10, with a rare fastest lap to boot!!

Went for a no quali race C after that, started 19th and was working my way up, but somehow got a 3s yellow flag penalty without passing anyone, presumably it got confused being in the twisty section in the middle? Ran up behind a group of cars at the start of the next lap, there was a bump at the front of the group in T3, and I ran into the back causing a bit of a ping pong and sending someone off, taking my total penalty to 5s, served immediately. This put me back to about 17th, but managed to climb back up to 9th, think I'll be qualifying before I go back in. Shame the tyre wear is so low though, could have been fun with the same levels as Kyoto a couple of weeks ago!!

 

[250Cal]

It's a shame you can't see what car was used to set every time, not just top 10. I don't really get on with the RCZ but suspect it's so advantageous it has to be used.

 

[Chuk713]

I had a similar experience about losing traction at Laguna seca last week. Didnt run wide, had a little over a second gap to car in front, and all of a sudden no grip for 2 laps. Was having to suddenly brake a good 10 meters earlier for the corners to be able to actually run them at any speed and not run off. Suddenly grip comes back like nothing happened after that. Weird.

This happened to me yesterday in Race C

 

[Barney Da Dog]

I need a lot more practice on A before trying it in a race.

I like Intelagos so will probably do a few more C races. Pity there's no tyre changes required though, as it spices it up a bit.

Sadly lost 1500 DR points due to a disconnect last night, and had to abandon an entry during warmup this morning as I got called in to work! Bit of a harsh penalty