Same during my race, luckily the server didn't crash.There was also constant lagging during the race with everyones connections dropping down to 1 bar.
I was in that same lobby😭 Such a waste of timeI was just doing the race and server crashed with 2 and a half laps to go. There was also constant lagging during the race with everyones connections dropping down to 1 bar. What is up with PD's servers recently?
I might be wrong, but you can quit as soon as the qualifying starts. It puts you back in the pits where you can change tires. It would mean losing 10 seconds of the qualifying session. Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.With only 6 minutes and I assume a pit on the outlap wouldn't count as qualifying, so I run the hot lap on IMs.
While chilling towards the finish line on my dying intermediates, I was letting everyone go past me, and then this guy came across me. At a braking zone during the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight, he rammed me from behind, which was clearly a "push to pass" move. Then he rammed me again while accelerating out of the corner, which made zero sense. He fell so far behind me as a result that he only managed to catch up with me at the exit of the second chicane on the Mulsanne straight. I immediately steered out of the racing line and closed in close to the wall so that this crazy guy could go ahead without troubling me again. But this guy sneaked into the wall and hit my front left so hard that my front left wheel got damaged. I needed to steer away from him to avoid spinning him out, but then I thought, "Why not?" and I did nothing. The guy spun out, probably with a Pikachu face. And after the end of the race, he gave me my badge of honor by calling me dirty.I hold my line, he pushes me outside track limits and then he spins off, no penalty becasue I was pushed. Chats me an ironic 'Nice'. I don't even save the replay, I didn't do anything except hold my line. (He calls out both myself and @appu as dirty in the post race, let's hear it for the GTPers!)
And the video is ready; Here we go
PASSES, CRUSHES, SPINS, LAG, RAIN, PITSTOPS ! THIS VIDEO HAS THEM ALL ! See for yourself
Yes I totally agree with this especially in these type of dynamic weather races. The difference between a success and failure is very marginal.Moral of the story - never give up because you have no idea what could happen!
Good to hear your second race went much better - Congrats! Yeah, I saw you in the first few turns on lap 1 ghosted sidewyas, then I saw another driver with a 5 sec penalty and thought there was a story there. After my encounter with that dude, it was mostly driving in space for me. Glad I avoided the real drama. I'm happy for mostly dry race, tbh, I can't seem to get strategy right. Today's tortoise-and-hare strategy paid off for me.GT2
I might be wrong, but you can quit as soon as the qualifying starts. It puts you back in the pits where you can change tires. It would mean losing 10 seconds of the qualifying session. Someone, please correct me if I am wrong.
It was nice to see you. And, my god, the lobby was so dirty and overly aggressive. During the qualifying out-lap, people kept fighting each other, so I kept slowing down to let the people behind me go ahead and create a gap. The people behind me were also being aggressive to each other instead of creating a gap. At the chicane before the start of the flying lap, I slowed down predictably in response to the guy ahead of me slowing down and got hit hard, damaging my left rear. So I chilled there, waiting for the damage to be gone. I couldn't even reverse and move forward again to keep the tires warm because reversing was going to disqualify me. My first sector was on cold tires, but I easily landed in 5th position thanks to many people running inters.
At the race start, I could tell that the driver behind me was in the mood to ram, so I slowed down and let him go ahead. He did take out the guy ahead of me and himself. The guy ahead of me tried to rejoin but unfortunately was not ghosted, forcing me to slow down as he took over the entire track width to rejoin. It also resulted in me being rammed from behind by multiple drivers, with one of them being successful in spinning me around.
Meh, I did not really care. All I wanted was rain-filled carnage. The race was dry throughout. I kept gaining positions easily as people kept taking each other out. Towards the end of the race, there was a big tease of rain. I knew not to pit, but I saw that some people ahead of me pitted, which meant that I was going to inherit 4th place easily. It put me in a dilemma. I wanted a rain-filled carnage and not this boring dry race. If I finished 4th, I knew that I would be happy with the result and not re-attempt this race. So I pitted for intermediates and was curious where I would finish. Win? Last?
While chilling towards the finish line on my dying intermediates, I was letting everyone go past me, and then this guy came across me. At a braking zone during the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight, he rammed me from behind, which was clearly a "push to pass" move. Then he rammed me again while accelerating out of the corner, which made zero sense. He fell so far behind me as a result that he only managed to catch up with me at the exit of the second chicane on the Mulsanne straight. I immediately steered out of the racing line and closed in close to the wall so that this crazy guy could go ahead without troubling me again. But this guy sneaked into the wall and hit my front left so hard that my front left wheel got damaged. I needed to steer away from him to avoid spinning him out, but then I thought, "Why not?" and I did nothing. The guy spun out, probably with a Pikachu face. And after the end of the race, he gave me my badge of honor by calling me dirty.
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Second race:
I did my second event, again hoping for rain. Not only was my wish granted, but it was also the best rain event I've ever experienced in the sport. Qualifying started, and I put on intermediates. Guess what? It was the wrong decision. Despite the conditions never reaching the wet territory until the Porsche curves, many of us, including myself, struggled hard for grip on intermediates! I finished 8th, trailing the pole sitter by 15 seconds, who used wets along with most of the people who qualified ahead of me. I was happy when someone commented on how useless the intermediates were.
The race started, and as someone mentioned earlier, the weather indeed carried over from qualifying, but the surface wetness was reset to dry, which was weird. I stuck with intermediates. Some folks were on wets! At the start, I got ghosted due to slowing down out of caution before the first chicane. I immediately seized the opportunity to "cheat" by staying ghosted by overlapping with another guy, allowing me to navigate the first few corners safely without getting hit.
On lap 1, just before the Porsche curves, I unintentionally punted off a guy who was being overly cautious. I didn't receive a penalty, but I felt really bad about it. After the race, I apologized to him profusely, and he accepted it, calling it an accident.
From lap 3 onwards, some people started pitting for slicks. I'm really bad with slicks on a damp track since I can never seem to consistently keep the car on the dry line. So, I decided to continue on intermediates until the track dried out more.
I ran out of my rear left tire at the start of lap 6, but I kept going because I had foreseen that more rain was on the way. I gained free positions thanks to others pitting due to the unpredictable weather. Most people changed from slicks, and one person even switched from completely worn-out wets. The rain eventually arrived, and I continued to drive on my completely worn rear left tire until the finish, for three laps. I held onto second place throughout, until the final lap where three people easily overtook me due to their fresher inter/wet tires on the slightly drying track, but one of them received a penalty at the finish line. So, I ended up in 4th place, which made me very happy. Even after finishing the race and gaining hindsight now, I still have no idea what the best strategy could have been! I really loved the dynamic weather in this race.
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I can also confirm the the lag never went away ever since it started a few weeks ago. It is there in Daily Races and in special events. Now the lag has started infecting European servers as well, I have read here.
Can confirm you can quit whilst in qualifying to quickly return to the pits. I do it quite frequently if I see I'm potentially going to be stuck in traffic and won't get a good opportunity to pull over for space.Good to hear your second race went much better - Congrats! Yeah, I saw you in the first few turns on lap 1 ghosted sidewyas, then I saw another driver with a 5 sec penalty and thought there was a story there. After my encounter with that dude, it was mostly driving in space for me. Glad I avoided the real drama. I'm happy for mostly dry race, tbh, I can't seem to get strategy right. Today's tortoise-and-hare strategy paid off for me.
Edit - I didn't think of quitting in the qualifier. I'd be curious to know if that works. I'll let someone else try that experiment, thank you!
I’m curious too. I don’t have much seat time with the GR010 but it is really stable with Intermediate tires in rain conditions. I did bump TC to 2 for rain. The car was a hoot to drive around la Sarthe.^I've seen many comments about this car being difficult to drive. I find it to be an absolute pussycat, especially compared to anything with comparable speed. In what way are people struggling?
Yeah, I didn't have any troubles with the car on this past race, but I have had these exact difficulties you mention, specifically with the hybrid system kicking in like that when a turbo is installed on the exit from the Daytona infield onto the banked left. It's surprisingly difficult to make that exit full throttle without losing it last I tried a while ago.It can be a bit understeer'y and also it has a tendency to really snap the rear when the hybrid kicks in if you haven't straightened the car sufficiently before getting on it, which as others mentioned seems excessive for an AWD car.
Honestly don't recall if it was always like this, or if it developed after a recent physics change.
I struggled a lot with it spinning at the exit of slow turns during Olympics Time Trial at Deep Forest, to the point I wasn't sure about racing because I could be a hazard to other players, but I found it really well planted here for a Gr.1 car.^I've seen many comments about this car being difficult to drive. I find it to be an absolute pussycat, especially compared to anything with comparable speed. In what way are people struggling?
It used to be a pussycat but now it is not. All the other hybrid gr1 cars pretty much can get the power down way easier, but not the GR010. Exactly as some pointed if the car is not pointing straight, it kills you. This would be easily fixed with LSD adjustments, but obviously you are not allowed those changes.^I've seen many comments about this car being difficult to drive. I find it to be an absolute pussycat, especially compared to anything with comparable speed. In what way are people struggling?
I could be mistaken but I believe the hybrid component of the car only drives the front wheels. Thus, at lower speeds in 1st and 2nd gear you need to treat the car like it's RWD. This may explain some people's confusion in understanding how to drive the car.
Another thing that might benefit me more than some (most?) is that I don't tune a lot of cars. Unless they're absolutely horrible I instead adjust my driving style to suit the characteristics of the car. For an event where the car can't be tuned, I can see how this puts some people at a disadvantage.
Just wondering out loud here, hehe.