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

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Before you ask that, do you have some snacks or even popcorn in your house? Also do you have some turkish black tea as well as cookies at home? If you don't have that then you are not allowed to have a look on the website xD

ahahah

Not a tea lover... but I have beer... Is it ok?

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The track from the final race is "TBD". So I guess we will see a new track?
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https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gtsport/europe_final2018/
 
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You have to wonder what on Earth they are smoking with these combos. Asia/Oceania having the repechage at the worst race track in the game in extremely unbalanced N300 cars and Europe getting extremely unbalaned GrB cars at RBR. Don't even get me started on the complete waste of disk space that is Alsace. I'm now fully expecting Horse Thief Mile in N1000 cars for American Regionals at this rate!

Makes me glad I missed out in Nations. For Manufacturers the worst that can happen is they throw in a reverse layout, the car is obvious and something you've chosen anyway. No need to worry about a silly N class race which is 100% decided by car choice but pleases the old school GT crowd still living in the 90s :lol:
 
Better not be the X2014 from the Vettel challenge: too fast, ridiculous from a eSport point of view.
Don't worry, the fan car version isn't even in GT Sport. They'll be using the X2014 Standard, a car with a relatively modest 800 horsepower that drives like an F1 car with a bit more overall grip.

How did they determine the three blocks this time? Compared to what they did for Asia, it seems odd that all 3 British drivers would end up in Block A, only for Brands Hatch to be Block B instead. Nice to see Group B get a chance to shine, though I am worried about the BoP as it rarely comes up in Sport Mode and when it does, almost everyone worth a damn defaults to the Audi. Can't be worse than the N class BoP though.

Also NEW TRACK PogChamp
 
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Well there's only 9 players in each repecharge block, so they could ban the Audi Quattro and just have the other 9 Group B cars form the draft pool for it. I think that would go a long way to balancing the class. Should be a fun race if they can get things reasonably balanced in time, and it does seem as though PD respected our feedback from the Asian event, as they could've easily stuck to N class for the repecharge instead.
 
Good to see they're mixing people from the same country on different blocks.

The repercharge races tho. Why.

Wonder if the TBD is a new track or only a surprise for the drivers to not have practice on it.
 
We are trying to get rid of audi quattro from repechage car line-up, but not sure if they will listen to us?! In the tests I have done, it's currently 1-1.5 secs faster per lap from the rest of the gr.B cars on RBR.

All I can say is, best of luck to everyone....we are all going to need it in this system, if we want to catch top10.
 
We are trying to get rid of audi quattro from repechage car line-up, but not sure if they will listen to us?! In the tests I have done, it's currently 1-1.5 secs faster per lap from the rest of the gr.B cars on RBR.

All I can say is, best of luck to everyone....we are all going to need it in this system, if we want to catch top10.

I am not even surprised anymore. Anyway good luck for all the competitors! But seriously they need to listen to us for a equal championship...
 
We are trying to get rid of audi quattro from repechage car line-up, but not sure if they will listen to us?! In the tests I have done, it's currently 1-1.5 secs faster per lap from the rest of the gr.B cars on RBR.
I mean... it's obviously the fastest car in the class and by some margin, so it's not something that should even need discussing.
It would be interesting to see the heart rhythms of the finalists in a competitive race with several X2014 in a new version of Citta di Aria.
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At least there are no Gr.4 cars, and Gr.3 is well balanced to be fair.

One Block is more brutal than the other, impossible to predict who will get the first two spots.

I really wish you guys good luck, and the most important is the fairness, that's what will be remembered from the event and perhaps it will also influence the new drivers.

My thinking is, when in doupt, then rather give your position up and lose the competition than try to force it and spin yourself afterwards, or more worse, ram someone else out.

And remember, the main advantage of a live event is: You cannot get disconnected !!! :D
 
At least there are no Gr.4 cars, and Gr.3 is well balanced to be fair.

One Block is more brutal than the other, impossible to predict who will get the first two spots.

I really wish you guys good luck, and the most important is the fairness, that's what will be remembered from the event and perhaps it will also influence the new drivers.

My thinking is, when in doupt, then rather give your position up and lose the competition than try to force it and spin yourself afterwards, or more worse, ram someone else out.

And remember, the main advantage of a live event is: You cannot get disconnected !!! :D

Well you can still get a blue screen though m8 xD

(picture is from the world tour event in Salzburg)
 

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Take it from me; it's not too late to convince the tournament organisers to make some last minute tweaks. The random pit stop rule from Austria was actually in the first draft of our driver briefing, but was removed by practice day. They told me it was a misprint, though me complaining to Tom might have helped. Also, those of us using the DS4 were originally going to have to wear the racing gloves whilst holding it. I made it clear that this was impossible and that it would force me to use the T-GT. So they allowed us to take off the gloves when using the DS4 on the day.
 
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