Final Quick Match Races 2-7-18

[GTvsForza]

So the point of the Quick Matches is to get the best lap time?

For the Rome Event, I experimented with a couple of cars. First try was with my stock Esprit Sport 350, it was decent until an accident caused me a couple of positions. Next was my 370z Zele replica and while it was good on corners it lacked speed.

 

[Kossie]

So the point of the Quick Matches is to get the best lap time?

Not for me.... I want to win in a clean race.
That's the problem, some going as a monkey in a car

 

[GTvsForza]

Same here, I like to have a clean race. Some people today...

 

[Mad_Hatter76]

Is it just me, or is it when you're in an actual race, your car does not handle the way it did while in warm up. I say this because I've been noticing blatant inconsistencies with how all of my cars perform different in quick match races. Any other aspect of the game and everything is fine. Go to quick match, and everything goes to hell.....

 

[bone_tone]

Is it just me, or is it when you're in an actual race, your car does not handle the way it did while in warm up. I say this because I've been noticing blatant inconsistencies with how all of my cars perform different in quick match races. Any other aspect of the game and everything is fine. Go to quick match, and everything goes to hell.....

That can happen, particularly if you're in one of those bugged rooms where you get gaps on the starting grid - sometimes you find that you can lap 3 or 4 seconds faster in the warm up in bugged rooms. Speed, and handling, can vary depending on how many people are in a room too.

I find that I can be in one room, and the car understeers everywhere, the next one it'll oversteer, and then you go into one where the car corners like it's on rails!

 

[Mad_Hatter76]

That can happen, particularly if you're in one of those bugged rooms where you get gaps on the starting grid - sometimes you find that you can lap 3 or 4 seconds faster in the warm up in bugged rooms. Speed, and handling, can vary depending on how many people are in a room too.

I find that I can be in one room, and the car understeers everywhere, the next one it'll oversteer, and then you go into one where the car corners like it's on rails!

OK cool, I didn't know if I was crazy or if this was a real thing. Good info, thanks man.....

 

[FPV MIC]

So the point of the Quick Matches is to get the best lap time?

Like Kossie, the point for me is to win as cleanly as I can. It is just much easier if you can run faster lap times than others. How can you catch someone that's running quicker times than you? So yes, in part, it is about fastest laps. I also see many people make unforced errors if they know the person behind them is gaining.

 

[Chrome_PuPXD]

Accepting donations for me to buy the Miura

 

[kilesa4568]

You should have said. I've got every car I'll ever need and nothing else to spend my credits on so I buy one every 1-2 days to sell for 4,500,000. If I leave it for 4 or 5 days, I buy 3 and get one almost for free...

Yeah, I know. I do way too many quick matches.

 

[CBH]

Accepting donations for me to buy the Miura

Do the seasonal races and you have the car in no time.

 

[wedjim]

I used the R18 TDI detuned, but after a few races I left the room. Felt silly.

The Miura is crushing the GSXR4's...so far in that race. My best is a 1.10.68x lap. Car is perfect for that track it seems.

Even the Mazda race is fun, a bit more rough driving,most once you clear the bumper cars there can be some great racing!

Finally.

 

[CBH]

I used the R18 TDI detuned, but after a few races I left the room. Felt silly.

The Miura is crushing the GSXR4's...so far in that race. My best is a 1.10.68x lap. Car is perfect for that track it seems.

Even the Mazda race is fun, a bit more rough driving,most once you clear the bumper cars there can be some great racing!

Finally.

I use the GSX-R but not anymore, the Miura is perfect for Roma track like you said .

 

[kilesa4568]

I used the R18 TDI detuned, but after a few races I left the room. Felt silly.

The Miura is crushing the GSXR4's...so far in that race. My best is a 1.10.68x lap. Car is perfect for that track it seems.

Even the Mazda race is fun, a bit more rough driving,most once you clear the bumper cars there can be some great racing!

Finally.

The 2 or 3 times I've come up against another supercharged MX5, I've had some of the best racing I've ever had in quick match. Often with no more than a couple of tenths in it for the whole 4 laps and really having to think about where and when to overtake due to neither of us making a real mistake. Classic racing and very addictive. I get a seriously bad case of "one last race" syndrome when it's like that...

Knocking on the door of 35s now. My best is 5:36.15 (1:22.5) and lost a few 10ths with a few wheel spins out of the slower corners.

 

[Mad_Hatter76]

OK cool, I didn't know if I was crazy or if this was a real thing. Good info, thanks man.....

This may seem crazy, but is there someone to tell this too. To maybe get it corrected.....

 

[Mad_Hatter76]

This may seem crazy, but is there someone to tell this too. To maybe get it corrected...

 

[mr_rainmaker]

WOW I learned my lesson on the Indianapolis race Supercar, it only gave me a choice of courtesy car,but there were quite a few modded cars,custom paint jobs(some were kinda cool)but lots of cheating,some races were a demolition derby,watched 2 racers just pound on each other through 3 different races(LOL)cars jumping places from starting back of the grid to flashing up farther up the track or even 1/3 ahead on the track,don`t get me wrong,there were some good racers who would make the AI proud on holding a line,one guy(wish I had remembered his name would pass me would give me plenty of room and I did the same for him)would love to race him again quite the gentleman...
But not going back in there again,wish I could just watch,most all of it would be worth it to be a spectator,LOL...

 

[Kossie]

Still destroy the fields in the 2J(mostly) The hibride is also very fast.

(Brands hatch)

 

[Chrome_PuPXD]

Getting rather sick of the broken penalty system in quick races.. people seem to smash me around the track and not ghost through me or get any penalty. I was driving along a straight yesterday and a guy came across and crashed into the side of me and pushed me off the track as I was going past him.. somehow I get a ramming penalty? Another example today, I tapped a guy on the side with all the force of a small mouse(as he was steering me into the pit-lane entry wall) and got slapped with another penalty :/



I know how Lewis feels now

 

[bone_tone]

Still destroy the fields in the 2J(mostly) The hibride is also very fast.

(Brands hatch)

That's the problem with either of these cars, they don't make for a very good race! There was a 2J in a room last night, and every race he just disappeared off into the distance, whilst the rest of us had a good race amongst ourselves.

Can't see how he found that enjoyable, it's more like a TT than a QM.........

 

[bone_tone]

The 2 or 3 times I've come up against another supercharged MX5, I've had some of the best racing I've ever had in quick match. Often with no more than a couple of tenths in it for the whole 4 laps and really having to think about where and when to overtake due to neither of us making a real mistake. Classic racing and very addictive. I get a seriously bad case of "one last race" syndrome when it's like that...

Knocking on the door of 35s now. My best is 5:36.15 (1:22.5) and lost a few 10ths with a few wheel spins out of the slower corners.

I run with supercharger, and would love to know how to get down to 1.22 - I know it can be done, but I've never got near it!

Having said that, being too fast can be a bit if a double-edged sword. I was in a room last night where we were all running high 1.24s/low 1.25s, and it made for some great racing - different winner nearly every race. We then had a 1.22 runner join the room, who won every race, irrespective of where he started on the grid - after 3 races everybody else had left the room.......

 

[CBH]

I don't think I will do Quick Matches anymore, because the penalty system is broken and there is a lot of demolition derby drivers out there, I think I will only do the TTs and the seasonal races.

 

[kilesa4568]

I don't think I will do Quick Matches anymore, because the penalty system is broken and there is a lot of demolition derby drivers out there, I think I will only do the TTs and the seasonal races.

Sad fact of quick matches. You have to sort to wheat from the chaff and put up with the sneezing.

I'm not sure how I'm doing it to be honest...

I try and keep the car just over it's grip level and slide a lot through the corners to keep the momentum up but try and avoid smoking any of the tires. Get the first corner wrong and you're probably going to carry hot tires all the way up the hill unless you slow to bring them back in. You have to keep them bang on the grip level all the way round the lap as momentum loss from turn one hurts you all the way to the hill chicane.

Try to keep your forward momentum going is the main thing and the straightest line through the apexes. Keep the tires cool up to the left hairpin at the top of the hill, the chicane I take at about 80-82mph (which is safe...tricky chicane...) feather the throttle like a nutter to not slide in or out on the hairpin, slight lift through the shallow right at the bottom but I like to weight shift hard to help the turn. You'll be right on the curb on the outside but it helps bounce you off for the last corner. If I'm lazy or it's a botched lap, I take it slow and clip both inside corners. Still good for 23.3-4. If it's a hot lap, I go in wide to cut back (don't hit the curb as you're sliding) but it's very easy to cook a front understeering and the lap's gone. A slight powerslide is ideal but if you smoke a rear, you'll wiggle and I've said "ARGH!" to those little wiggles way too many times. Is there anything worse than missing a lap record on the very last corners...?

Never written a lap out before but with about 1000 miles in this quick match, I think I might have the track down. Replaying it in my head.

Are you still using the tune from earlier? 97kg@50 with the limiter dialled down and original suspension settings?

 

[BenMillard]

500pp Roma, Shelby Series 1 with the @TRL_Andromeda tune from the recent 480pp but adding a Supercharger gives 500pp and a 1m11.5s lap for me on my 2nd run. Much more could be extracted from it!

Yet to find a competitive FF but at least there's a FR which can beat most GSX-R/4 drivers.

Toyota 86 15th Anniversary Edition was quite good fun to drive. If you want to show off the money you spent on the game.

 

[Chrome_PuPXD]

Are conditions different offline? Did a 1:21.845 offline around cape ring, used all the same stuff just with no reckless fools in the way ahah. Wi-Fi is down so cant compare to my online times to check

Edit: Ignore everything I just said, thought SRF was locked on so had that on.

 

[CBH]

Are conditions different offline? Did a 1:21.845 offline around cape ring, used all the same stuff just with no reckless fools in the way ahah. Wi-Fi is down so cant compare to my online times to check.

I say yes, also you are roughly 2 seconds faster or a bit less offline than online unless it has change but I don't think it has.

 

[Chrome_PuPXD]

I say yes, also you are roughly 2 seconds faster or a bit less offline than online unless it has change but I don't think it has.

Ah never mind anyway, had SRF on as I thought the event was locked to 'on' but that must be another QR. Edited my post.

 

[CBH]

Ah never mind anyway, had SRF on as I thought the event was locked to 'on' but that must be another QR. Edited my post.

With SRF on it is still faster offline than online I think, later I will try SRF off when I practise offline and then I will go on line and see how much difference it is.

 

[sync]

Been trying many cars to find the best one after the Miura.
lamborghini LP400, best lap 1:11.1xx - total race 3:41.xxx

Race against Miura, Shelby Series 1, elise 111R, ZZII...
Won by 11 seconds 👍

This car have the best acceleration and top speed. Star at the fourth row, after the fist corner I was second!!!

Set the suspension to have more grip at cornering.
Would love to see a top driver with it

 

[wedjim]

Improved my best lap around Roma to a 1:10.30x with the Miura. Car is dialed. But need to find some well tuned racers in a room to keep it interesting. I go in with my RS200 just to see what can be done. But stuck in the pack hasn't been much fun.

The 1:22's sound awesome for Cape Ring Mazda race! I cant get faster than a 1:23.2xx yet, but it's definitely fun to drive with good racers in there. Made a few new friends and had some great races!
I also found that I like 105 ballast all the way back for a 49/51 balance. I'm using mid turbo with stage 3 engine detuned to meet PP.
I'll have to give the supercharger another go, felt like too much wheel spin last time, but I Had way less ballast then too.

 

[bone_tone]

Sad fact of quick matches. You have to sort to wheat from the chaff and put up with the sneezing.

I'm not sure how I'm doing it to be honest...

I try and keep the car just over it's grip level and slide a lot through the corners to keep the momentum up but try and avoid smoking any of the tires. Get the first corner wrong and you're probably going to carry hot tires all the way up the hill unless you slow to bring them back in. You have to keep them bang on the grip level all the way round the lap as momentum loss from turn one hurts you all the way to the hill chicane.

Try to keep your forward momentum going is the main thing and the straightest line through the apexes. Keep the tires cool up to the left hairpin at the top of the hill, the chicane I take at about 80-82mph (which is safe...tricky chicane...) feather the throttle like a nutter to not slide in or out on the hairpin, slight lift through the shallow right at the bottom but I like to weight shift hard to help the turn. You'll be right on the curb on the outside but it helps bounce you off for the last corner. If I'm lazy or it's a botched lap, I take it slow and clip both inside corners. Still good for 23.3-4. If it's a hot lap, I go in wide to cut back (don't hit the curb as you're sliding) but it's very easy to cook a front understeering and the lap's gone. A slight powerslide is ideal but if you smoke a rear, you'll wiggle and I've said "ARGH!" to those little wiggles way too many times. Is there anything worse than missing a lap record on the very last corners...?

Never written a lap out before but with about 1000 miles in this quick match, I think I might have the track down. Replaying it in my head.

Are you still using the tune from earlier? 97kg@50 with the limiter dialled down and original suspension settings?

Thanks for all of this, and yes I am still using the tune from earlier.

I'll keep trying!