FIA Events '18 - World Finals Monaco Finished! Congrats to Team Lexus and Igor Fraga for Brazil!

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mthomas_95
Asia/Oceania special page is up (only in Japanese)

https://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/gtsport/asia_final2018/

Interesting how a resident of a European country (that isn't even listed in the Star Player system) is allowed to compete for Australia. Guess we'll be seeing a lot of European accounts created in smaller countries to circumnavigate the EMEA country limit for Nations next year!
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The dude probably has two homes.

Im not going to speculate further but theres more than one way they could be eligible.

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mthomas_95
Also the 10th Japanese driver to compete at the event was only the 27th best from Japan in the Final Season. That seems like a suspiciously high number of dropouts, I know in Japan taking time off work is almost a sin but that's a bit extreme :lol:
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Slightly mischievious but who cares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
 
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mthomas_95
Interesting how a resident of a European country (that isn't even listed in the Star Player system) is allowed to compete for Australia.
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I know that Nik_Makozi recently returned to Australia, but thought it might be too little too late. But it appears that he regained eligibility just in the nick of time, and I am happy that he's getting the chance because he clearly deserves it on his pace. #1 superfan @K32 will be even more thrilled. However, I think this only worked because he had dual citizenship the entire time, so I don't expect this to become an exploit in future championships.

schnick
I was actually looking forward to mixing it up with other countries but it looks like we have to beat each other up first
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I had a feeling that this was exactly how they were going to split up the 30 player field. It gives each block a unique identity, ensures that Australia get at least 2 spots at the World Final, and PD will only have to set up 10 rigs at the event. The only thing I didn't get right was how the repecharge would work.

At least there's the Manufacturers Exhibition if you do get knocked out of the main event early.

mthomas_95
Also the 10th Japanese driver to compete at the event was only the 27th best from Japan in the Final Season. That seems like a suspiciously high number of dropouts, I know in Japan taking time off work is almost a sin but that's a bit extreme :lol:
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I don't understand it either, but if I had to take a guess, Tokyo isn't that big a deal for the Japanese players. Kerokkuma for example went to World Tour Austria, but chose to skip this one. Notably, 5 of the top 7 Japanese have elected to compete, but only 5 of the next 20 will join them. Perhaps the lower ranks felt that it wasn't worth stepping forward as their chances of making the Worlds weren't looking good.

The final possible factor for me is that several of the top Japanese players focused more on the Manufacturers Series, as it theoretically offered the path of least resistance to make the World Final, and it's much more likely that said World Final will actually offer them an overseas trip. To be fair, even Austria saw the 2nd (Jun Jen) and 4th (Minamiya) ranked players from season 2 decline, but I don't expect the drop rate to be as severe come World Final time.
 
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They're exhibition events, bois. Just something to show what the proper thing might be. I know we are all competitive but salzburg was still a non-event in grand scheme of things.
 
Maybe the Japanese had to choose between going to the Manufacturer's final or the Nations regional final. The terms for brazilian players says that.
 
mclarenLB
I've not heard of this, is it Brazil specifically or some other countries too?
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I don't really know, I just know of the brazilian:

8.4 No caso de um vencedor receber um convite para ambos os eventos, o vencedor deverá aceitar apenas um convite, e sujeito a confirmação, receberá apenas um prêmio.

Translated: If a winner gets an invitation to both events [the regional final and mfg. world final], the winner should accept only one, and subject to confirmation, will receive only one prize.

[source as seen today: https://www.gran-turismo.com/br/gtsport/form/starplayer/ ]
 
JayOTT
I know that Nik_Makozi recently returned to Australia, but thought it might be too little too late. But it appears that he regained eligibility just in the nick of time, and I am happy that he's getting the chance because he clearly deserves it on his pace. #1 superfan @K32 will be even more thrilled. However, I think this only worked because he had dual citizenship the entire time, so I don't expect this to become an exploit in future championships.


I had a feeling that this was exactly how they were going to split up the 30 player field. It gives each block a unique identity, ensures that Australia get at least 2 spots at the World Final, and PD will only have to set up 10 rigs at the event. The only thing I didn't get right was how the repecharge would work.

At least there's the Manufacturers Exhibition if you do get knocked out of the main event early.


I don't understand it either, but if I had to take a guess, Tokyo isn't that big a deal for the Japanese players. Kerokkuma for example went to World Tour Austria, but chose to skip this one. Notably, 5 of the top 7 Japanese have elected to compete, but only 5 of the next 20 will join them. Perhaps the lower ranks felt that it wasn't worth stepping forward as their chances of making the Worlds weren't looking good.

The final possible factor for me is that several of the top Japanese players focused more on the Manufacturers Series, as it theoretically offered the path of least resistance to make the World Final, and it's much more likely that said World Final will actually offer them an overseas trip. To be fair, even Austria saw the 2nd (Jun Jen) and 4th (Minamiya) ranked players from season 2 decline, but I don't expect the drop rate to be as severe come World Final time.
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Nik's 18th b'day is on the 4th of October, while the event starts the very next day! Quite an amazing stroke of luck for him. Maybe it was written lol.

I'm really looking forward to how he performs, both in and out of the simulator, come race day. :)
 
Just to clarify, I won't be as the Asia/Oceana finals as I'm in Argentina ahead of the World Superbike round there, so (as I understand it) it will be Jimmy and Chris on English commentary. My schedule this year has been a bit mad, but hopefully I'll be able to make at least one more before the year is out!
 
Tom
Just to clarify, I won't be as the Asia/Oceana finals as I'm in Argentina ahead of the World Superbike round there, so (as I understand it) it will be Jimmy and Chris on English commentary. My schedule this year has been a bit mad, but hopefully I'll be able to make at least one more before the year is out!
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Thanks for the info! It's a real shame we won't be seeing you there though, your commentary in Salzburg was top class. :) 👍
 
K32
Thanks for the info! It's a real shame we won't be seeing you there though, your commentary in Salzburg was top class. :) 👍
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Thanks so much. It’s one of those things, but Chris and Jimmy will do a top job as ever!
 
Why you from Aussies go there,make some noise to PD to solve the latency problem.

At least on par with us from Malaysia / Singapore at 4 bars.
 
Well that stream turned into a clown fiesta during the final race :lol:.

Hizal (Lightning) was untouchable in the GT3 Nissan, doing everything to prove he deserves to be the one driving that car in the Manufacturers World Final. But looking back at the 'footage' of the final, he struggled with the Super GT car and got loose on corner exit twice. The first of these meant that Blazsan (Fuvaros) was close enough to attack on the next lap, whilst the second allowed him to overtake and subsequently short fill to negate the attempted undercut (18.0 second stop vs 19.7 for Lightning). From there, Blazsan's better tyres won out.

This result largely mirrors what we saw in the final FIA season; with Fuvaros unable to qualify for the final T24 race in Manufacturers, but conversely coming as close as anyone could to beating Aderrrm in Nations.
 
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The Monza races were great. I expected much more chaos. Good to see @Zkippe back in action as well.

Overall, if it weren’t for the stream to die during the final race I would have considered this event to be nearly on par with the GT world tour. The races were great.

Congratulations to Fuvaros.

@TRL LIGHTNING Are you going to Japan anyway seeing that you were the best Nissan driver in the final season?
 
DaigoD
The Monza races were great. I expected much more chaos. Good to see @Zkippe back in action as well.

Overall, if it weren’t for the stream to die during the final race I would have considered this event to be nearly on par with the GT world tour. The races were great.

Congratulations to Fuvaros.

@TRL LIGHTNING Are you going to Japan anyway seeing that you were the best Nissan driver in the final season?
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Hi Guys, apologies to anyone watching Nissan GT Sport Cup for the final unfortunately we had an internet outage at Circuit de Catalunya! As DaigoD mentioned, you can watch the final race here:
 
DaigoD
The Monza races were great. I expected much more chaos. Good to see @Zkippe back in action as well.

Overall, if it weren’t for the stream to die during the final race I would have considered this event to be nearly on par with the GT world tour. The races were great.

Congratulations to Fuvaros.

@TRL LIGHTNING Are you going to Japan anyway seeing that you were the best Nissan driver in the final season?
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Yeah ^^
 
But still it has been an amazing event nevertheless. The first two race's (heat and semi finals race) went according to my plan as i needed to have the fastest race time overall in order to start from the pole position for the upcoming race. But as for Fuji i somehow lost my pace on the first stint only which i had on the practise session yesterday and typical me i was overlooking the total race distance we would be running at which was 10 laps instead of 5 laps which i thought before having the race. So i kinda tried to burn as much fuel as possible on the first three laps but after realizing that i was trying to safe fuel immediatly which was too late. And at the end of lap 4 before entering the start finish line i was running wide and therefor hitting the gras there which costed me a lot time. Because of that i decided to pit while trying to do an undercut on Fuvaros who was driving amazing on the final race. He rejoined ahead of me while we both had a good lap in the meantime but i had to refuel a lap more than him which was very crucial.
But as a whole i can be happy in the end because of having really good races at monza and at bathurst but thanks on the final race i need to practise with the gr2 cars a bit more. Also seeing all those GT3 cars in real life was quite surreal for me because for me it was the first time to be on a racing track and i really want to thank Nissan for giving us this awesome opportunity!
Unfortunatly my teammate's had a bit of bad luck on the final race and congrats to fuvaros for the win and coque for getting P3 there. I am already looking forward on meeting fuvaros on the Japan Trip again and meeting IOF racing and akagi san there for the first time hopefully.

But now let's see if i can keep up the momentum for the regional finals ^^
 
Thought I'd pop into this thread to thank all of you who tuned into that Nissan event. Wasn't as well advertised as I personally hoped it would have been but obviously word-of-mouth is a powerful tool on the internet and I knew my GT family would come in clutch <3

To follow up on Brooksy's post - almost certainly going to be Chris and Jimmy on commentary for Tokyo unless there's a massive curveball. I'm actually going to be completing a boyhood dream by commentating on my first ever real life race this weekend! A juicy 24 hour Kart race up in Milton Keynes, England.

I would love to go to Japan one of these days however; the inner weeb desires it so.
 

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