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Set up an alt so I can just race. Not going to play dirty, but not going to give places because some idiot tries to overtake where 2 won't go. Going to try and be super calm though as often when checking replays you realise the guy really did nothing wrong or at least not on porpoise, even times when it's completely another guys fault.

So for my 5th game Race B was starting so I went for it had an M6 or the Lancer so took the M6 stating from the back came 2nd with the fastest lap. I had 1 other go this week and I've never driven the M6 except if it's in missions or stuff. I must just be awesome in it.......or got really bad drivers, no I'm awesome case closed.

Going to see if I can get to B/S without qualifying, getting to about 7000 and S should be easy it will be the last few points that might muck me up, unless of course I get better.
 
Norrin Radd
Set up an alt so I can just race.
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Norrin Radd
Not going to play dirty...
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Norrin Radd
often when checking replays you realise the guy really did nothing wrong
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Keen observation! Most people are not jerks. The in-game tends to overstate the doorbanging. From the replay cockpit view you can tell what the real intent was.

Norrin Radd
Going to see if I can get to B/S...
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..without qualifying..
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Wrong turn. Please don't do that. Firstly, don't handicap yourself. Secondly, when starting from the back you inherit a huge responsibility to not wreck the race of others. Remember, you will be paired with qualifiers that are level or two below you. It it is bad when you wreck another's race but doubly so if the victim is a newbie or lesser experienced player. Qualify and race against your peers and rank up quickly. Leave that start-at-the-back thing for the A+/S types.

And good luck!
 
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Ok last B race...
I’m switching back to the PERRIER Mustang.
The DBR 9 is a creator of massive chaos.
So many wrecks around me over the course of several entries. People can’t adjust easily to its oil tanker like behavior.
I will say it seems impossible to get penalized in the dbr9.
I think pens are more sensitive or less for certain cars.
I must say though, going back to FR has been ten times more fun than the nail biting can I keep it together for five laps R8...
Edit back to R8...
 
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So it turns out the F-Type is a solid contender at Laguna Seca (not sure if its been mentioned here before?). I thought I'd give it a bash and ran some qually laps. My second fastest car behind the TT qually time I set earlier in the week, and was getting consistent low 28's in it. So jumped into the race, averaging 1:30's dealing with all the antics and a best lap high 28. Tyre wear was easily manageable and felt really strong all the way round the circuit against the Renaults, even kept up with the TTs. Definitely going to spend more time in this little gem!
 
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Wrong turn. Please don't do that. Firstly, don't handicap yourself. Secondly, when starting from the back you inherit a huge responsibility to not wreck the race of others. Remember, you will be paired with qualifiers that are level or two below you. It it is bad when you wreck another's race but doubly so if the victim is a newbie or lesser experienced player. Qualify and race against your peers and rank up quickly. Leave that start-at-the-back thing for the A+/S types.
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Well so far 3 races in I've had 2 OK races and one where I kept getting punted by anyone. I know I'm not great, but I need to learn and one thing I struggle with is passing. So starting from the back and only making good passes, have only made one slight mistake so far and didn't even knock him off just off line but I slowed and let him back in place, it's hard work but it's teaching me something. Now applying this to people who are the same level as me is not going to be exactly the same, but if I can get better at passing slower players maybe I can get better at passing the faster ones.
I'm not some youtuber that will make a questionable move and then ask his audience if it was OK, I make a questionable move (on someone who has played fair) I always give the place back if it's possible to do. I'm just trying to get better and I recon if I can't get to B from the back then I probably don't belong there anyway.
 
So...On the subject of my ongoing TCS no TCS experiment...
Really, Brands in R8 was great to test...In R8 or any mr really besides RSR, TCS is harmful because it just upsets the car...
Now then in my favorite car (vette). I hit 22.7 after some time at TCS3.
After time my best R8 was 22.4.
In R8 in race, it CAN be very fast lap time wise, IF you are perfect on your driving...If you get the braking and steering input sequence right it’s a joy...
That said it’s quite difficult to get where you are in that “ZONE”.
Plus, even within that zone you’re maximizing track limits so it’s very “on edge” in sensation.
I had the zone but then pretty much lost it and haven’t been able to regain it.
I find biting into that last bit of time is just too difficult and intense for me to do.
I can only get the most out in a no TCS MR GROUP 3 scenario intermittently.
This week has been the most I’ve driven MR no TCS. It can win. It can be fast. But you take on a lot of risk by using it and I find it too demanding. Cant imagine it with tire wear on, or hard compound race tire..,
So far I’m not convinced I should continue. I’d say on 25 percent of races it’s faster than my normal but 75 percent not.
I’ll be honest, when I race I race but I’m not out to win at any cost. I like being immersed and competing hard in a fun way.
TCS0 is too demanding right now.
It takes the fun away from racing and makes things a battle against the car and against myself instead of a battle against the other racers..
I think going forward I might use no tcs for qualifying on a race like this in an mr car, but not in race, at least not always. FR for the race with TCS, for me.

EDIT on BATHURST I dunno on this tire.
 
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I was able to find some time to race today. I had originally planned to go to Laguna Seca, but I know Brands a little better & have passed up some of the last weeks of Gr. 3 racing. I think it went well. :lol:

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That win ties the Corvette as the car that I’ve won with the most. The next win puts the Viper into the lead (17 wins). Also, I hit 40 wins on a single account.

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Mostly race C this week, and Lagunz has been a real DR drain for me. Been driving the 86, and doing pretty well. Got Q down to a 28.1 last night, but still starting aroind 15th most races. I usually find myself in the top 10 by 2/3 distance, but then the Audis and Renaults ruin it by smashing through the apex and knocking people off. Last race I was up to 8th, with 2 slowing cars in front (L10) coming into the last corner. Audi behind, so I covered the inside. He went deeep outside, passed me just before the apex (I slowed early because of the cars in front) and slammed into one of the cars in front of me, spinning him into the other. I went into avoidance mode as the yellow flew, and got 3 seconds for passing on the yellow. Spots lost, last lap in 10th, beemer looses it out of the corkscrew and cuts back in front of me, forcing me off. Finished 12th. Maybe I'll get some gains next week at Tsukuba. It's usually good to me...just gotta find the right car.
 
On the corvette, to me, it is the most annoying car in the game. I take it out, car feels good, good turn in, feels like good power, good rear end, lap still feels good, cross the line and.....what??? Always slow. I dont get it.
 
Whew! Made it through the week of Clio @ Monza. SR took a hit, but happy to report back to S SR. Fun race; I haven't put too many laps around Monza. So it was a good time learning the track better and scoring some wins. Penalties are truly punishing here though! Looking forward to see what next week has in store.
 
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Well so far 3 races in I've had 2 OK races and one where I kept getting punted by anyone. I know I'm not great, but I need to learn and one thing I struggle with is passing. So starting from the back and only making good passes, have only made one slight mistake so far and didn't even knock him off just off line but I slowed and let him back in place, it's hard work but it's teaching me something. Now applying this to people who are the same level as me is not going to be exactly the same, but if I can get better at passing slower players maybe I can get better at passing the faster ones.
I'm not some youtuber that will make a questionable move and then ask his audience if it was OK, I make a questionable move (on someone who has played fair) I always give the place back if it's possible to do. I'm just trying to get better and I recon if I can't get to B from the back then I probably don't belong there anyway.
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I see that your motivations and intentions are good and please excuse my earlier tone. Let me pass on some advice/suggestions that I have received or learned along the way.

The guy in front of you is typically faster, that's how he got there after all. He is also not a pushover so you cannot just naturally swoop in and pass him. You need to latch onto a draft, be patient, observe a mistake and then craft a way past without a collision. That is hard! A good place to learn is to travel in the inevitable packs that form in a race. When racing with your peers that pack will find you. Either it will catch up to you or you will catch up to it. Learn to stay with that pack, be stable, hold your lines, be predictable, don't crash, all while looking for a weakness and then exploit it and emerge at the front. Sometimes that pack will be better than you and you will fall through it. No worries, there is more where that came from. That will help you more than driving from the back. Plus, those C and D backmarkers are cray-cray as they don't know when to brake!

Next up, you belong in B if you can find a positive and constructive way to get there. A good QT is a positive thing, that is what I mean by not handicapping yourself.

Kudos the top players who start from that back. They are typically clean and supportive. I understand the rationale when noQT racing is more interesting than pole, fastest lap, and a lonely 20 second victory. @Norrin Radd, you and I do not have that sort of problem.

The other alternative are the AI races but that just does not compare to the adrenalin rush of competing with real people. Boring!
 
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NevilleNobody
On the corvette, to me, it is the most annoying car in the game. I take it out, car feels good, good turn in, feels like good power, good rear end, lap still feels good, cross the line and.....what??? Always slow. I dont get it.
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The vette likes to be shifted before revving out. It is a torque monster.
It was waaay awesome before they BOP nerfed it. Maybe shift points?


Confession...Today I couldn’t race for nothin. I came apart at the seams.
I returned to the vette, but I was still off pace .5 or so...
I was no longer on pace to my qual...This caused me to be subject to attack from the lower A mob.
At some point I thought okay you want arcade? Let’s play arcade...I busted out the Aston Martin dbr9, knowing full well it would hold people up. It was fantastically fun at first to watch the A mob crash each other off all bunched up unable to give each other room unable to lift at all just sheer carnage...It was incredible. My livery looked amazing too...

But, things went too far. Many players called me out. I kept doing it anyways. I was immune to penalties...For a while.
Then the whole mess came unglued and got MESSY.
You want arcade play?
YOU GOT IT!
 
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Up a bit early this morning and thought I'd try a couple of races before work. Terrible idea. Got DR reset after a previously identified idiot tried (and succeeded in) making my entire race a dumpster fire. Ran me off, brake checked, swerve blocked, punted and sideswiped. The swerve blocking and sideswiping was always accompanied by him purposely running just off track so I would get a penalty. I have seriously never seen dirtier, more despicable driving. To add insult to injury, I lost 69 SR and he lost just 7! Reset to B/B.

The most annoying thing is that I was only anywhere near him because 3 consecutive people pushed me wide on lap 2 when I had given them plenty of room to pass. One of whom was sporting an _AU suffix to the most infamous name in GT Sport. This game can be such a frustrating experience.
 
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to improve my qualifying time in Race C, but I was still able to squeeze in two more races before maintenance began.

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I started further down than I usually did earlier this week but these results were enough to push my DR to A.
 
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No, they don't. But at least they also got more weight.
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I see the TT having the most weight increase among the FF Gr.4s that got an power and weight increase.

This is gonna be interesting to see for Daily Race B around Tsukuba.
 
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Ok here's the plan.
Qualify now on main account to practice.
Start from the back for first slot on the alt.
Get all the first-time crashes and noobishness out of the way on the alt.
Come back to main.
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Profit!

I did a race sim and Softs last for 6 laps btw.

Edit-OMFG they changed the $#%&ing BOP.
Is the Corvette still good?
 
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Stephan
BoP update.

https://www.gran-turismo.com/hk/gtsport/news/00_4767544.html
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Relieved they didn't alter the F-Type Gr.4, after I just found out how good it is! Annoyed they made the Cayman slower though, I like that car...

At Bathurst, what are we thinking the tyre strategy will be? I was thinking of running a first short stint on the M's and pitting early onto the S's, but unsure if that's a recipe for disaster in the opening laps... ??
 
Did the three races.

Race A: Pole, Win, FL, CRB

Race B: WRX - Started 14/14, Finished 8/14, CRB All clean passes. A Supra I was harrassing, was pretty fast on the straights. The short wheelbase helps it turn. However, I was .6 seconds quicker by our fastest laps. Naturally, it(Supra) does not have the corner exit acceleration, but it was still pretty good. I had to be precise with the STI to keep showing the nose.

Race C: RX-V(2:01.568), Pole, Win, CRB. 4RS/5RM
I was able to gap P2(GT-R started on RM. As did the P3 Aston and P4 Mustang). P2 must have hit the wall. Gap ballooned to 8 seconds by Lap 3 and I checked out.

Gap was 12 seconds when I pit. P2, P3 pitted. P4 stayed out for two more laps. Gap went up to 18 seconds. P2 pit. Gap dropped to 15 seconds as fuel burned for RS users. I lost FL.
Last three laps, gap dropped to 14.5 and back up to 15 seconds, by the beginning of last lap to the finish.

If a faster(top speed wise) car is behind you, I'd say start on RS. If a similar car is behind, maybe go RM/RS. I feel the players in your race, will determine what strategy you choose.
 
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