"Daily" Race Discussion

[OJBrit]

Are diesel or gasoline/petrol engines?

Diesel.
Petrol commercial vehicles are rare.

 

[ILLEAGLE_34]

The only psn friend I have who (sometimes) plays is @Pigems and there is absolutely no comparison. I just hope that GTBlade registers my time and check it out there.

Feel free to send one my direction if you’d like🤙🏽

 

[Barra333]

Looks like Race A next week is N300 at Maggiore Centre.

 

[NevilleNobody]

We have the connect, transit and a slightly larger transit. None of them will have an engine over 2 litres. I've driven all of them and never felt I needed more power. They pull very well.
That beer looks awesome. I hope you enjoyed.

As we said when they tried to replace v8s with wheezing 4 bangers at bathurst, only milk should come in 2 litres.

 

[Mike Hansen]

If you can run a 3:04 qualy you’re not “too slow”. That is seriously rapid. What I’ve noticed is that I tend to tense up in race and brake too much. Particularly once I feel like someone is starting to make ground on me.

I’ve had a couple of good results today after constantly telling myself to brake less and trust the car. The GTRs are strong in race trim, partly because of where their strengths shine, but they’re also vulnerable in a few places if you drive smart.

You are right that is one of the issues, i just cant find the quali flow, even drivers who are 2 secs slower in quali are killing me. Will try to work on it.

 

[05XR8]

Looks like Race A next week is N300 at Maggiore Centre.

Saw that. The 250 GTO would be nice.

 

[D_Dragline]

Saw that. The 250 GTO would be nice.

Even a choice of any pre 1975 car would be great.

 

[GT5Power]

Next week's dailies:

Race A: N300 @ Maggiore Centre | 7 laps | SH
Race B: Gr.3 @ Red Bull Ring | 5 laps | RM
Race C: Gr.4 @ Bathurst | 8 laps | RH | Tyres x6 | Fuel x2

 

[NevilleNobody]

My two best tracks. Now the FF's have been neutered, which Group 4 rules the mountain?

 

[D_Dragline]

My two best tracks. Now the FF's have been neutered, which Group 4 rules the mountain?

FFs would have struggled with that tyre wear anyway.

I’m guessing Jag, Vantage, SLS will be strong. Possibly Viper as well.

 

[NevilleNobody]

SLS has not been strong, anywhere, the entire time I have used this game. It is like it doesn't exist. You may be surprised, there's a lot of time across the top, the VW may well be hard to beat and the WRX too.

 

[Yard_Sale]

I’ll be in my trusty 488, but MR’s really struggle going down the mountain. My guess is the viper or the vette’ will be the go-to race car. Although I also love the WRX, it’ll struggle with tire wear in the later laps. Not too mention it’s top speed isn’t high enough to warrant a significant trade-off to its tire wear.

The TT leaderboards however will all be rife with Scirroco’s.

Looking forward to next week as I actually have some days off and didn’t get any racing in this week 😑

 

[05XR8]

I’m thinking the F-Type. Don’t think 6x type wear will slow it down. Viper was lovely at Suzuka, a few weeks back. Very smooth car. of course I’ll try the Mustang. I’ve been harassing the WRXs at DTG II.

 

[MidnightRun85]

FFs would have struggled with that tyre wear anyway.

I’m guessing Jag, Vantage, SLS will be strong. Possibly Viper as well.

I'd be going for the GTR or the Viper, personally.

 

[NevilleNobody]

8 laps so we talking no stopper?

 

[Yard_Sale]

8 laps so we talking no stopper?

Yup

 

[Cherryturbo]

We seem to have had a lot of no-stoppers recently. Hopefully we can get to have a race C with some tactics required soon.

 

[Trone_Colby]

 

[NevilleNobody]

Yup

That's gonna get sketchy around Bathurst, I forsee a hell of a mess.

 

[Yard_Sale]

We seem to have had a lot of no-stoppers recently. Hopefully we can get to have a race C with some tactics required soon.

That's gonna get sketchy around Bathurst, I forsee a hell of a mess.

Besides hammering out a good qually time and taking care of your tires…the strategy in any lobby other than top split will be to recognize who the dive bombers around you are…..and let them by so they can ruin someone else’s race and eventually their own

 

[BigSarj]

2 for 2 so far today in races being completely ruined. Just as I expected. Kinda wanna tank my SR because at least I can race in peace in those lobbies.

 

[05XR8]

Race B is madness. Race C, at least people are being patient. Either waiting for someone else’s mistake or waiting for tyre wear to become a factor.
Race B is just no patience at The Four Brothers.

 

[BigSarj]

Race B is madness. Race C, at least people are being patient. Either waiting for someone else’s mistake or waiting for tyre wear to become a factor.
Race B is just no patience at The Four Brothers.

Not in my experience. Race C is hell for any clean driver right from lap 1 turn 2. I wonder, is it my livery? Do the Brazilians hate McDonald's or Texaco? something to do with the rainforests?

Ya, I don't touch Race A or B either. C is supposed to be the cleaner one.

 

[05XR8]

Not in my experience. Race C is hell for any clean driver right from lap 1 turn 2. I wonder, is it my livery? Do the Brazilians hate McDonald's or Texaco? something to do with the rainforests?

Ya, I don't touch Race A or B either. C is supposed to be the cleaner one.

Here in Oceania, the main hairaising spots definitely after T2(the long left through to the bridge entry) and the decreasing left, after the back “straight”. Not a real risk, as long as someone backs off. Most of the lap, players are looking to set up a clean pass. Lose too much time divebombing and sliding.

 

[BigSarj]

I'd like to posit a theory. @Groundfish once said that too many drivers don't use TCS when they should have it on, thereby ruining others' races. While that may be the case for some, I suggest that it is also a case of people using the meta car when they're not capable of harnessing it.

There are other cars that are just as viable in high B/low A, like the Corvette, the Jaguar (I spank the Nissan with it), etc. But they look at the top 10 and think they can be just like their favourite streamer. Then they just wreck other people just to stay on track.

 

[O604]

I'd like to posit a theory. @Groundfish once said that too many drivers don't use TCS when they should have it on, thereby ruining others' races. While that may be the case for some, I suggest that it is also a case of people using the meta car when they're not capable of harnessing it.

There are other cars that are just as viable in high B/low A, like the Corvette, the Jaguar (I spank the Nissan with it), etc. But they look at the top 10 and think they can be just like their favourite streamer. Then they just wreck other people just to stay on track.

I'd say it's more the general mentality. GT encourages people to run before they can walk. Nothing wrong with that. It is a racing game after all.

But if all one does to warm up is chase top 10 ghosts, they only learn 1 line. Not ideal if anyone interferes with that line during a race.

Many streamers do a lot to try and teach people what's missing from GT. There would a lot more unhappy people out there if it weren't for them. But everything they are teaching should be covered before chasing the top 10 ghosts.

 

[BigSarj]

I'd say it's more the general mentality. GT encourages people to run before they can walk. Nothing wrong with that. It is a racing game after all.

But if all one does to warm up is chase top 10 ghosts, they only learn 1 line. Not ideal if anyone interferes with that line during a race.

Many streamers do a lot to try and teach people what's missing from GT. There would a lot more unhappy people out there if it weren't for them. But everything they are teaching should be covered before chasing the top 10 ghosts.

The game doesn't teach enough. I've been a casual Indy and F1 fan my whole life. A little V8 Supercar and NASCAR, too. And I was still messing up when I first started in the D lobbies. Sure, the good folks at GTP taught me what I needed to know, or at least accelerated my learning, but some things should be taught by the game, be it through license tests or what have you.

Let us hope GT7 does a better job.

 

[O604]

The game doesn't teach enough.

Depends on the person. I learned a lot. I didn't know a lot. I've mentioned it before but my goal when I started online racing was.... finish before the timer ran out.

Actually it kind of still is. Stupid game. 😉

But yes there is huge gap between single player and chasing the top 10.

 

[NoStopN]

A fair warning to those who don't run the Viper often but want to run it on the Mountain, start practicing now. The Mountain likes a car that can rotate & the Gr. 4 Viper doesn't rotate as easily as the GT3-R. Also, keep it on the blacktop. I submit exhibit A:

 

[barak181]

FFs would have struggled with that tyre wear anyway.

I’m guessing Jag, Vantage, SLS will be strong. Possibly Viper as well.

I'm a little curious to see if the Veryon can stay close enough over the mountain to overtake everyone on the Conrod straight. I've never tried it there...