The Ferrari team would have been F. Rodrigues, TenagaZaru, and G. Mangano.
Right below them were Lexus, who would have had a very strong team - I. Fraga, Kawakana, and M. Swiderek. Not having a top EU driver really hurt them...
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Right below them were Lexus, who would have had a very strong team - I. Fraga, Kawakana, and M. Swiderek. Not having a top EU driver really hurt them...
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Wouldn't be surprised if Subaru won again, that BRZ GT300 is a monster...
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Not bad but could have done better , still pretty good racing if we don't count those penalties and other driver's mishaps 😎
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I went in the first race of the day, GT3, made it back up to B again, so it was all B/S drivers.
I've been running some practice in the Ferrari and knew that it really doesn't like worn tyres (or maybe I don't like it on worn tyres? 😁) so I thought I'd go for a one stop. Hard first and medium around the middle as I couldn't make the softs last 10 laps with any decent pace.
In quali I actually managed to find a decent space and got 2 nice laps in. Was very surprised to see that that placed me in 3rd on the grid!
I decided to stick with the plan and got a clean start from the front with the order staying the same for the first laps and no-one trying any silly moves. First turned out to be on mediums and pulled a nice gap. 2nd and 4th were close for the first stint and we were a;; pushing hard. Some minor errors, but not enough to make a move. I came past the finish line to start lap 10 to find I had suddenly been promoted to 2nd, 1st had gone for his stop, so I started thinking about mine.
I pitted and the end of lap 11 and decided on softs in the end. Nearly binned it in the little chicane on the way into the pit but was saved by auto-drive. Came out P11 with 2 cars in view ahead so I set about getting some nice quick laps in. Got some lovely clean passes over the next few laps thanks to some good clean racing by everyone there. Passed the original leader when he overcooked it on the way to the final turn and spun. Pulled myself up to the back of 4th by the final lap, but not quite close enough to pass on tyres that were getting a bit twitchy at this stage.
All in, 5th place and a clean race. Pretty happy with that result. Didn't expect to be that close to the front and probably would have thrown it off track at some point if I tried to run hards to the end.
Pulled in a surprisingly high 6 million in the end and had great fun doing it. When's the next one? 😆
I've been running some practice in the Ferrari and knew that it really doesn't like worn tyres (or maybe I don't like it on worn tyres? 😁) so I thought I'd go for a one stop. Hard first and medium around the middle as I couldn't make the softs last 10 laps with any decent pace.
In quali I actually managed to find a decent space and got 2 nice laps in. Was very surprised to see that that placed me in 3rd on the grid!
I decided to stick with the plan and got a clean start from the front with the order staying the same for the first laps and no-one trying any silly moves. First turned out to be on mediums and pulled a nice gap. 2nd and 4th were close for the first stint and we were a;; pushing hard. Some minor errors, but not enough to make a move. I came past the finish line to start lap 10 to find I had suddenly been promoted to 2nd, 1st had gone for his stop, so I started thinking about mine.
I pitted and the end of lap 11 and decided on softs in the end. Nearly binned it in the little chicane on the way into the pit but was saved by auto-drive. Came out P11 with 2 cars in view ahead so I set about getting some nice quick laps in. Got some lovely clean passes over the next few laps thanks to some good clean racing by everyone there. Passed the original leader when he overcooked it on the way to the final turn and spun. Pulled myself up to the back of 4th by the final lap, but not quite close enough to pass on tyres that were getting a bit twitchy at this stage.
All in, 5th place and a clean race. Pretty happy with that result. Didn't expect to be that close to the front and probably would have thrown it off track at some point if I tried to run hards to the end.
Pulled in a surprisingly high 6 million in the end and had great fun doing it. When's the next one? 😆
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- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
It feels like they’re close. The gr.3 Ferrari just needs a little more differential work. I would even be willing to sacrifice even more straight line speed for some more stability. Pretty much every car was walking away from me on the home straight, EVEN when I was in their slip!
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Usually there is a 2nd season of both.
If I have it correctly then Sport mode does not affect the oil, only offline. Also you could enter the event with red oil and suffer no ill effects due to the BOP.
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- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
I’ve heard both, and seen it too. I remember doing a few hours of FP for one of the rounds, got out of sport mode and did a Sardegna grind race, and oil was “normal” afterwards. The first thing I did before I started my sport mode free practice session was change the oil. So I don’t know what to believe!!
But alas, I also did a chassis and engine refresh to both my 458’s prior to the start of the season, despite them both being “excellent”. I decided to use my own personal cars instead of the loaners. And if anything, doing the refreshes just made me feel more like a real life race car driver haha!. And they’ll both get another refresh tomorrow before I pain em “prototype white” in preparation for the upcoming offseason testing that starts Monday.
Can’t break immersion, and I gotta keep those 2 warhorses ready for battle 😂
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Good final results for me in GT3. Too bad I messed up my first race at Interlagos. I believe there was a chance for me to win. Had that happened, I'd have been tied for 3rd place in my region.
Good racing to everyone this season! Hopefully now I'll have some time to complete these extra cafe menus.
Good racing to everyone this season! Hopefully now I'll have some time to complete these extra cafe menus.
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Even though I absolutely despise driving my home track...I actually had fun during this race. First of all congrats on the win @OutlawQuadrnt, even though I literally didn't even see the color of your car this race 😂
My race pace was pretty darn good...but I qualified back in 11th (story of my season after round 3) and all I could do then is finish P6 for 259 points. The pace felt excellent and gaining 5 spots in race in this split felt amazing, but in the end it was ultimately worthless as my lowest score was Road Atlanta's 272 points.
I still hate Interlagos, though, so I decided not to do more slots..it felt more like a chore than anything else. In hindsight it was the best decision as I'd either be in @GTWolverine crashed lobby or the one above it where the odds of scoring 272+ would have been close to zero.
Here's another picture to reward you for reading this far:
Once again I find myself thinking "What if I was actually a decent qualifier?" 😅
Still had a very fun race fighting and beating a bunch of Lambos, Ferraris, one Viper and so on!! I'll check where I finished the overall season later and post here as well so that the future AI overlords can index it and tell my great great grandchild what their Neanderthal ancestral achieved in a videogame 🤪
My race pace was pretty darn good...but I qualified back in 11th (story of my season after round 3) and all I could do then is finish P6 for 259 points. The pace felt excellent and gaining 5 spots in race in this split felt amazing, but in the end it was ultimately worthless as my lowest score was Road Atlanta's 272 points.
I still hate Interlagos, though, so I decided not to do more slots..it felt more like a chore than anything else. In hindsight it was the best decision as I'd either be in @GTWolverine crashed lobby or the one above it where the odds of scoring 272+ would have been close to zero.
Here's another picture to reward you for reading this far:
Once again I find myself thinking "What if I was actually a decent qualifier?" 😅
Still had a very fun race fighting and beating a bunch of Lambos, Ferraris, one Viper and so on!! I'll check where I finished the overall season later and post here as well so that the future AI overlords can index it and tell my great great grandchild what their Neanderthal ancestral achieved in a videogame 🤪
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Yeah the loaner cars don’t come with tyres. It’s stupid. You can waste credits buying the 5 tyres required and once the season is finished with and you lose the car, you lose the tyres too. I don’t use the loaner cars for this very reason on the tyres.
Haha I know that battle. @MCL1974 and myself have had a little TT battle in this last two races.
Watkins Glen - MCL set a time and I went on to beat it. Next day I log in and MCL gone and beat my time, so I had to go beat it again. Not sure who won on that TT, but I did set the fastest time in quali that beat both our TT times.
Interlagos - again same thing. MCL set a time, I go and beat it, then next day I see I’ve been knocked down again. I tried to beat and my optimal times were saying I could beat it, just couldn’t hook the lap together.
Was good fun having this little battle.
I’ve seen your latest post too. My only assumption to this would have engine mileage. Your mileage could have exceeded which caused the engine failure, but after seeing your latest post with the engine still showing as good in the GTAuto shop, I can only assume it was bug?I also have another question, please watch the clip and tell me how I damaged my engine in the last two laps of a Mfg race today, please pay attention to the damage indicator during the main stretch, the engine damage starts blinking for no obvious reason, and after the race I checked the oil and it was GREEN EXCELLENT...
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Thats not on with Ferrari. They deserve to be in the finals above Genesis. Nic Romero only did 3 races all season, and scored the points require to make sure he was the top Genesis player just to guarantee a spot. While Gerogio for Ferrari was racing in every slot, too miss out due to a sponsor?
Point system is totally broken on GTWS in my opinion. Should make the system 6 out of 7 rounds counts towards your points total. Keeps the top players racing till the end.
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First season I’ve entered enough races for a full total score since the last official season.
Pretty pleased. 4th for AMG in the UK behind @Zorz in 3rd.
Oh come on…… how close to A+?? One day!
Who knows if PD will do any exhibitions or similar any time soon, but if not, signing off from GT. Have a good summer everyone!
Pretty pleased. 4th for AMG in the UK behind @Zorz in 3rd.
Oh come on…… how close to A+?? One day!
Who knows if PD will do any exhibitions or similar any time soon, but if not, signing off from GT. Have a good summer everyone!
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So in other words, far too long. 😕
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So only this Gazoo thingy for the rest of the year?
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Lets just calm down. As said there are usually 2 seasons in a year. Although their own roadmaps only currently have 1 season. It would be poor to not have at least a couple of exhibition seasons.
I wasn't able to post my usual picture in my report as gran-turismo.com wasn't working correctly.
This was from a good clean battle with a Spaniard in race 3.
So my results for this season.
Obviously the disappointment of falling down the order hurts, but generally it has been good with more podiums than I would normally have. I think I clicked with the Gr.4 car more as it always did what I wanted it to do. The Gr.3 car was o.k. but I never felt comfortable that it would brake correctly and thus it must have done my confidence in.
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After some reflecting now that it's all over, this GTWS Manu was great. Good job, PD, seriously! Sure, there would've been a couple little things that I'd have like to see different but for all intents and purposes, this was a very well done series. Best thing PD does.
Full disclosure, virtually all of my races were in GT2, and that was due to the time constraints of the GT1 series slots. I know the GT2 series doesn't get the same clout as the GT1 (and in a lot of respects, it shouldn't) but I can tell you the competition was definitely there. Much more so than in the past. I would bet my next paycheck a lot of people are using second accounts to sign up in GT2 for the extra times slots as most of the races I was in were all A rated players, some of which were very high As.
After seeing the final results, I can say I am pretty pleased to have finished P3 in the Drivers in GT2 and P1 in Manufactures. To my point earlier, I think the guy that won is a high ranking EMEA player as that name looks familiar, and the fact he won the series while only doing three races is interesting. Honestly, I couldn't care less, just pointing it out.
I am happy with my choice of AMG as this car is really fun to drive. I put about 2,000 miles on the Gr3 car since picking it as a Manu and now I feel like I can go drive some other stuff again. My intent for my #2 account is to pick a Manu that is non-META but can still compete (so tired of Toyota and Nissan all the time, to which both P1 & P2 were in a META) and I think this car fit the bill perfectly. As an F1 fan, I do not like team Merc... but as long as their cars have fenders they're okay in my book. Well done, team AMG and thanks for the ride!
My only non-GT2 race was was a GT1 race on my EMEA account... literally one. It was at Nord where I finished P3. On that account I picked McLaren mainly for the Nord race. There were some others I was thinking I'd compete in but either wasn't able to due to time or wasn't interested in. Regardless, little did I know at the time, that one race would net me 4.8mil on that account. I'll take that all day!
Congrats to everyone who competed. Already looking forward to the next one.
Full disclosure, virtually all of my races were in GT2, and that was due to the time constraints of the GT1 series slots. I know the GT2 series doesn't get the same clout as the GT1 (and in a lot of respects, it shouldn't) but I can tell you the competition was definitely there. Much more so than in the past. I would bet my next paycheck a lot of people are using second accounts to sign up in GT2 for the extra times slots as most of the races I was in were all A rated players, some of which were very high As.
After seeing the final results, I can say I am pretty pleased to have finished P3 in the Drivers in GT2 and P1 in Manufactures. To my point earlier, I think the guy that won is a high ranking EMEA player as that name looks familiar, and the fact he won the series while only doing three races is interesting. Honestly, I couldn't care less, just pointing it out.
I am happy with my choice of AMG as this car is really fun to drive. I put about 2,000 miles on the Gr3 car since picking it as a Manu and now I feel like I can go drive some other stuff again. My intent for my #2 account is to pick a Manu that is non-META but can still compete (so tired of Toyota and Nissan all the time, to which both P1 & P2 were in a META) and I think this car fit the bill perfectly. As an F1 fan, I do not like team Merc... but as long as their cars have fenders they're okay in my book. Well done, team AMG and thanks for the ride!
My only non-GT2 race was was a GT1 race on my EMEA account... literally one. It was at Nord where I finished P3. On that account I picked McLaren mainly for the Nord race. There were some others I was thinking I'd compete in but either wasn't able to due to time or wasn't interested in. Regardless, little did I know at the time, that one race would net me 4.8mil on that account. I'll take that all day!
Congrats to everyone who competed. Already looking forward to the next one.
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This was a good race. Started 9th lap 2 things were getting a little hairy with a incident ahead of me in turn 2 and 3 resulting a lot of cars bunched up on the back straight. I Luckily was able to avoid them on the inside of turn 3 and watched all the chaos of everyone bumping and battling almost 5 wide in the rear view, no one crashed and things settled down after turn 4. Spent a lot of time chasing the Lexus, that car was so hard to catch on the straights. Pitted for softs on lap 18 and back to chasing the Lexus again. Was able to move up some spots from a turn 4 incident on lap 27 and a two car incident in turn 3 on the final lap passing for 6th and the car ahead of me having to serve a 1 second penalty locking me in to finish in 5th. Never thought I would enjoy a race at Interlargos and very happy to end on a high note.
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My final results from the season. I was actually outside the Top 100 the entire season until the final round, but squeaked into 90th at the last possible moment. While this season wasn't "bad" overall, it was still rather frustrating with only 2 races at tracks I actually enjoyed (Spa and Watkins Glen), and only at 1 of those did I have a competitive car (Watkins Glen). To sum it up, my BEST result this season was 267 points at Watkins Glen, which equals my WORST result in the first of the official 2022 Manufacturer's Championships (although that season was admittedly an abnormally good season).
On a lighter note, for the first time ever in an official season (and only the 2nd time overall), I was the top Chevy driver in the Americas! I was also the only one who got over 200 points in at least 3 rounds, and the only one that got over 200 points at Road America and Watkins Glen (I also would've been the only one over 200 at Spa, as I had 218 points after Slot 2, but went again and got murdered). Also, all of my counted results were in the Gr.3 car, and they all came from 5th-place finishes. I've never had a season where one class didn't contribute any points at all, except the exhibition seasons that were restricted to just Gr.3 of course.
Unfortunately I was over 40 positions short of getting the gold reward in the overall standings, but I think 9,000,000 credits is alright...
On a lighter note, for the first time ever in an official season (and only the 2nd time overall), I was the top Chevy driver in the Americas! I was also the only one who got over 200 points in at least 3 rounds, and the only one that got over 200 points at Road America and Watkins Glen (I also would've been the only one over 200 at Spa, as I had 218 points after Slot 2, but went again and got murdered). Also, all of my counted results were in the Gr.3 car, and they all came from 5th-place finishes. I've never had a season where one class didn't contribute any points at all, except the exhibition seasons that were restricted to just Gr.3 of course.
Unfortunately I was over 40 positions short of getting the gold reward in the overall standings, but I think 9,000,000 credits is alright...
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My race yesterday was two attempts. The first one was a bust, ended P12 after a few incidents. Second one, I was a bit slow in qualifying, and qualified 12th.
Running the no stop RH strategy. I'm up to 9th and going side by side on one of the midfield sections, unfortunately the guy beside me spun his tires on the exit and he didn't catch it, so side swiped me off into the barrier. Now in last. But outside of that I had a very clean race, and held good pace. I had a few good overtakes on some of the guys at the back, and so much of the field did pit, so I gained a lot of positions from strategy.
Lap 16, I'm in 6th and have been in striking range of P5 and P4 for a few laps, couldn't find any opportunities but my pace was a bit faster. In Turns 4/5, P4 had a mistake and lost control a bit, sliding into P5 and I reacted and went around them on the right. From that point on, just kept my pace, created a large gap, and took it easy the last lap to not force any mistakes. Ended P4.
Glad I practiced, and from both of my races I gained more positions that I would have likely not gained otherwise if everyone ran the no stop. Having to fight traffic at this circuit is rough, so thanks for holding up the RS runners everyone behind me haha.
Very happy with my race, had a lot of fun with that one. Collected 6 mil credits later in the night, I'm in GT3, #1 in local & state, #5 for Lexus, #240-something I think for the region (can't remember will have to check again later). Had a blast with this series.
Running the no stop RH strategy. I'm up to 9th and going side by side on one of the midfield sections, unfortunately the guy beside me spun his tires on the exit and he didn't catch it, so side swiped me off into the barrier. Now in last. But outside of that I had a very clean race, and held good pace. I had a few good overtakes on some of the guys at the back, and so much of the field did pit, so I gained a lot of positions from strategy.
Lap 16, I'm in 6th and have been in striking range of P5 and P4 for a few laps, couldn't find any opportunities but my pace was a bit faster. In Turns 4/5, P4 had a mistake and lost control a bit, sliding into P5 and I reacted and went around them on the right. From that point on, just kept my pace, created a large gap, and took it easy the last lap to not force any mistakes. Ended P4.
Glad I practiced, and from both of my races I gained more positions that I would have likely not gained otherwise if everyone ran the no stop. Having to fight traffic at this circuit is rough, so thanks for holding up the RS runners everyone behind me haha.
Very happy with my race, had a lot of fun with that one. Collected 6 mil credits later in the night, I'm in GT3, #1 in local & state, #5 for Lexus, #240-something I think for the region (can't remember will have to check again later). Had a blast with this series.
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I'd like more "official" championships. Maybe a Gr.1 Championship, or one for the various classic open-wheel cars (or a Honda-specific one with the MP4/4, RA272, and both of the Honda SF cars).
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Moved up a bit with that last race finish, not too bad I guess.
Thanks for putting that up there....I was pondering saving the race, but I had to run out the house just as we finished so I just closed it out and took off. I don't like Interlagos myself, but I also enjoyed this one too. Good race.
Thanks for putting that up there....I was pondering saving the race, but I had to run out the house just as we finished so I just closed it out and took off. I don't like Interlagos myself, but I also enjoyed this one too. Good race.
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Very happy with this result 😁. Number 54 in all Americas is a bit surreal, and maybe a bit over my actual skills, but hey...it is what it is. In the end I finished 6th in my beloved McLaren constructor, which was super stacked this time now that the cars don't suck 🤣. In most rounds I could only do one slot, so I didn't actually improve my scores from the three first rounds.
And these were my McLarens in every round 🧡
The highlight of it all was the Nords round, a podium and my new points record with that 308.
Best photo Peter Parker award has to go to the Watkins Glen one
And these were my McLarens in every round 🧡
The highlight of it all was the Nords round, a podium and my new points record with that 308.
Best photo Peter Parker award has to go to the Watkins Glen one
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As an everlasting diehard Ferrari guy, I’m just happy that the Gr.3 458 is at least driveable now
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