Gran Turismo World Series 2024 Thread
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- Ulricehamn
I am sorry you feel this way and I realise it's a bitter pill to swallow but it's a lesson we all learned when we started in the tournaments. There's never anything but a set of racing hard tyres on the sponsor cars.
That's the main reason I never use the sponsor car, as buying tyres for it and then loosing those at the end of the season is an expense I can do without.
Now, the price of PS+ has nothing to do with PD, it's Sony. If they had to provide stewards for all their games our PS+ would easily be 1000 $ a month.
The penalty system is and has been a joke more or less always, the concept of knowing who is to blame appears to be impossible to determine.
Giving all involved in any contact a penalty is probably more useful.
Anyway, I hope you will come around and see the time you lost as a learning experience and come race again.
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I have never heard of a person signing to be a driver with a manufacturer and providing their own tyres. From what I have seen, there was a 50% DNF rate in most races with this being the main reason. It's poor design
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- rde1138
Well, I had a good start today in the first slot, B/S lobby, qualifying in 1st. Fell victim to nerves early on, and then got punted going into the chicane, followed a few laps later being pitted by one of the least sportsmanlike racers I've come across.
Just from what I personally witnessed, he intentionally knocked 3 people, including myself, off the track as they were going for clear passes on straights. I doubt this was all he was involved in. Didn't see any penalties for him either.
I'm hoping to get home today to get into the last race and actually finish this time with a decent position.
Just from what I personally witnessed, he intentionally knocked 3 people, including myself, off the track as they were going for clear passes on straights. I doubt this was all he was involved in. Didn't see any penalties for him either.
I'm hoping to get home today to get into the last race and actually finish this time with a decent position.
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- moosethemooche78
A win! I don't know how that happened. Winning is not something I often do. But there it is. It happened. I'll take it.
Given my performance at last week's daily race at Suzuka, I was expecting to be trounced, but somehow my mediocre time of 2:03.17x gave me pole. From there it was mostly just a matter of driving it out and keeping the car on the track.
I made one blunder in the esses of lap 2. P2 attempted to capitalize on it. There was contact. He went into the sand. I haven't had a chance to review the replay yet, so I don't know whose fault that was. At the time, I felt it was a racing incident with no one at fault. I kept driving. P2 lost a few positions, but within a couple laps had regained P2 and was running 4s behind me. He posted the fastest lap as he did.
I managed to keep a 4-5s lead until the rain came. It first showed up at Spoon on lap 10. I stayed out for another lap on racing tires. The rain hadn't worked it's way down to the rest of the track yet, but by lap 11, Spoon was getting pretty sketchy so I pitted for some IM tires.
P2 followed me into the pits. He was right behind me when we came out and passed me cleanly on T1. I wasn't too bothered by that as he was clearly faster than me. When we got to Spoon it became obvious how he managed to catch me out of the pits. He was still on racing tires. He didn't change them when he pitted. I'm guessing he'd forgotten to purchase them. He slid right off the track, clearing the way for me retake P1 to the finish.
Given my performance at last week's daily race at Suzuka, I was expecting to be trounced, but somehow my mediocre time of 2:03.17x gave me pole. From there it was mostly just a matter of driving it out and keeping the car on the track.
I made one blunder in the esses of lap 2. P2 attempted to capitalize on it. There was contact. He went into the sand. I haven't had a chance to review the replay yet, so I don't know whose fault that was. At the time, I felt it was a racing incident with no one at fault. I kept driving. P2 lost a few positions, but within a couple laps had regained P2 and was running 4s behind me. He posted the fastest lap as he did.
I managed to keep a 4-5s lead until the rain came. It first showed up at Spoon on lap 10. I stayed out for another lap on racing tires. The rain hadn't worked it's way down to the rest of the track yet, but by lap 11, Spoon was getting pretty sketchy so I pitted for some IM tires.
P2 followed me into the pits. He was right behind me when we came out and passed me cleanly on T1. I wasn't too bothered by that as he was clearly faster than me. When we got to Spoon it became obvious how he managed to catch me out of the pits. He was still on racing tires. He didn't change them when he pitted. I'm guessing he'd forgotten to purchase them. He slid right off the track, clearing the way for me retake P1 to the finish.
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- bliprunner
Thought it was absolutely epic, one of the best races I've ever been in, and I didn't even do that well!
Chose McLaren. GT1 5pm UK time, had a nightmare in quail with a slow Mustang blocking me all over the place. P12, nevermind, it's a long race.
First corners I get a couple of bumps, back left wheel is damaged, costing me 2 secs a lap and I'm last. It's a long race... repeat mantra... Slowly catch up with other cars that I assume have damage too, overtake a few and rain arrives, pit on lap 11.
Total chaos is now going on and somehow I get up to 5th, battling with two other McLarens. The leaders are in sight. People are dropping it at the hairpin constantly, I saw 5 cars spin there and one quit straight after.
I think I have a bit more pace than these McLarens so decide to pit back to hards around lap 23, poor decision as I instantly drop it coming out of the pits, then have two spins in the next couple of laps.
P7 and once I'm used to the wet lines I'm catching the distant McLarens in front lap after lap and finish 4 secs behind, the sunset fading and darkness falling, pounding around setting my best times in the final few minutes.
Loved it.
Chose McLaren. GT1 5pm UK time, had a nightmare in quail with a slow Mustang blocking me all over the place. P12, nevermind, it's a long race.
First corners I get a couple of bumps, back left wheel is damaged, costing me 2 secs a lap and I'm last. It's a long race... repeat mantra... Slowly catch up with other cars that I assume have damage too, overtake a few and rain arrives, pit on lap 11.
Total chaos is now going on and somehow I get up to 5th, battling with two other McLarens. The leaders are in sight. People are dropping it at the hairpin constantly, I saw 5 cars spin there and one quit straight after.
I think I have a bit more pace than these McLarens so decide to pit back to hards around lap 23, poor decision as I instantly drop it coming out of the pits, then have two spins in the next couple of laps.
P7 and once I'm used to the wet lines I'm catching the distant McLarens in front lap after lap and finish 4 secs behind, the sunset fading and darkness falling, pounding around setting my best times in the final few minutes.
Loved it.
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Some very good points here.GT1 - my first endurance race and admittedly my heart hasn't pounded so hard for a long time thanks to adrenalineonly after I got rear damage I somehow relaxed (see video; yes I braked a little bit too early and cautiously)
Admittedly, my connection was terminated after 14 rounds ("CE xxx - an unexpected error occurred"). But it is really fun and thanks to heavy damage it is somehow more relaxed, even though there were some Rambos. Hope that will improve
Key takeaways:
- always leave a gap in Quali. 2 seconds isn't enough and both timed laps will get destroyed if performance gap is big or some mistake happens.
- keep out of first lap shenanigans - there's nothing to gain but much to lose
- consistency is key - as an amateur I raced 0.5-1.5 second slower in race than quali to stay on track; need to improve long-term concentration
- boy are pit entry and exit slippery when wet xD
- I let my traction control correlate with track dampness - saved me couple of times
- don't expect other people to exert good racecraft
- you really don't want damage - makes you soo slow but is not worth pitting; lose-lose situation.
- Keep calm if someone crashes into you. You can't change it but your reaction shows your sportsmanship
- have fun! It's just a game
- Quali gaps - I wish more people would do this. The worst are those who go off track and then block the road for the person behind even though your lap is over
- Consistency - Agree, my race today (myself included) people were running wide. As for race pace, my race pace is poor at times. People were doing quail times on lap 2 which I don't understand
- Traction Control - Same here. As the tracks gets more wetter I start to up the TC. Helps so much
- Others Crashing into you - This is something I have improved on massively in the last year. If I'm crashed off I may say a few choice words for 10 seconds, but then I'm over it and just get on with the race. The thing that annoys me the most is if I make mistake on my own, then been crashed off.
Yeah it so stupid that you sign up to a Manu and they give you car but on give you half the tools.
I just run my car that I have bought as I know I will have all the tyres available etc...
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- Cheetack
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Decided to give manufacturer series a go one last time. Same goes for nations cup. Due to being busy in personal life and losing a bit of interest to gaming in general, I've decided to not race gtws for a long time, after current exhibition series. Too much effort and I just want to have league race fun instead, less tryharding.
In any case, Suzuka rd.1 then. First attempt was a disaster, qualified in 14th, spun on lap 1 and got damage, and a very rare ragequit due to the insane race length. Got SR back up by 2 daily c's.
Second attempt, still kinda slow in quali, 2.02.9 for a P12. Race was very chaotic, and I drove okay, but also a few mistakes cost me 15-20 sec. My biggest weakeness is when you are on dry tires and it is still wet just outside the driving line, so last 10 laps were absolute hell. Still managed to not spin and avoid damage. I did go to inters on lap 10, maybe 1-2 laps too early, but at least my tires were in good temperature when lap 13 it was fully inter weather. Defended smart the last 3 laps to force a much quicker chasing bmw driver for a spin on last lap due to touching wet parts of the track. 😏
P6 and 158 pts, I take it. Only 9 finished the race. I finished over 1 min from the winner and over 20 sec from P5 so not much to complain tbh, I think max position pretty much, because it is pointless to speculate with the last 10 laps because it is my inability for once, not a brainfart or lack of concentration etc. Solid start, 3 races left of my manu career since I skip GV Hwy 1. I hope for a miracle to win one more nations or manu race before retirement/long sabbatical leave.
In any case, Suzuka rd.1 then. First attempt was a disaster, qualified in 14th, spun on lap 1 and got damage, and a very rare ragequit due to the insane race length. Got SR back up by 2 daily c's.
Second attempt, still kinda slow in quali, 2.02.9 for a P12. Race was very chaotic, and I drove okay, but also a few mistakes cost me 15-20 sec. My biggest weakeness is when you are on dry tires and it is still wet just outside the driving line, so last 10 laps were absolute hell. Still managed to not spin and avoid damage. I did go to inters on lap 10, maybe 1-2 laps too early, but at least my tires were in good temperature when lap 13 it was fully inter weather. Defended smart the last 3 laps to force a much quicker chasing bmw driver for a spin on last lap due to touching wet parts of the track. 😏
P6 and 158 pts, I take it. Only 9 finished the race. I finished over 1 min from the winner and over 20 sec from P5 so not much to complain tbh, I think max position pretty much, because it is pointless to speculate with the last 10 laps because it is my inability for once, not a brainfart or lack of concentration etc. Solid start, 3 races left of my manu career since I skip GV Hwy 1. I hope for a miracle to win one more nations or manu race before retirement/long sabbatical leave.
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I decided to take part in the race to earn the big payout at the end of it. I wasn't expecting much, maybe a finish in 6th if I was lucky, but managed to qualify on pole position.
I pulled away from the pack within a few laps, as there seemed to be a lot of squabbling going on. Spent most of the time up until I pitted just focusing on not making mistakes.
I had read up on some of the strategies here beforehand, so I stayed out in the rain a bit longer, pitting and swapping to wets a lap after the person behind me. This gave me a bigger lead but I squandered it a bit since I hadn't practiced racing in the rain at all. The person behind me was really close for the last couple laps, but I managed to keep the lead and secure an unexpected first place finish!
Overall I had a lot of fun with the race and was surprised I didn't make any big mistakes and end up in the gravel like I often do at Suzuka. The real-time weather was great too, it was fun to have only part of the circuit wet for a few laps. Makes me wish we could zoom the weather radar in one more level though.
I pulled away from the pack within a few laps, as there seemed to be a lot of squabbling going on. Spent most of the time up until I pitted just focusing on not making mistakes.
I had read up on some of the strategies here beforehand, so I stayed out in the rain a bit longer, pitting and swapping to wets a lap after the person behind me. This gave me a bigger lead but I squandered it a bit since I hadn't practiced racing in the rain at all. The person behind me was really close for the last couple laps, but I managed to keep the lead and secure an unexpected first place finish!
Overall I had a lot of fun with the race and was surprised I didn't make any big mistakes and end up in the gravel like I often do at Suzuka. The real-time weather was great too, it was fun to have only part of the circuit wet for a few laps. Makes me wish we could zoom the weather radar in one more level though.
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When I got back to garage the oil shows yellow so I assume I had some power loss in the latter part of the race. Don't know if the power loss is nullified in a BOP race. But better be safe than sorry. Oil change is peanuts anyway.
Assuming you got all bronze awards at the end of the season that's around 800k - you can get the same in half an hour of driving Tokyo or Sardegna instead of wasting electricity and/or adding wear and tear to your console for 5x1.5 hours.
Or if you don't want to do it yourself, you can use the grinding script. There's much much easier ways to get credits without doing anything than cheesing off an online race and potentially taking a grid slot of someone who wants to actually RACE.
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- MrHatss
Qualified 8, a pity cause I did a couple of mistake in the best lap...then a great start, from 8 to 5 in a lap, I felt really good and people were behaving better than I thought but then......well, I spin off during the third lap, by myself before the last chicane I touched the grass with 1mm of tyre and sbang, off I went.
From 5 to 14 with the whole race ahead....so I started to go flat out, today I hadn't enough spare time to try again the next hour so being my only shot....regained everything I was 8th, first drops of rain immediately in the pit with wet tyre...but then I spin again, guys I was almost screaming.
Thankfully people were flying around under the rain and managed to finish 9th...it's hard to say that I'm happy but it's true considering my mistake and the fact that I had the ferrari 458gt3 that is quite tricky at suzuka
From 5 to 14 with the whole race ahead....so I started to go flat out, today I hadn't enough spare time to try again the next hour so being my only shot....regained everything I was 8th, first drops of rain immediately in the pit with wet tyre...but then I spin again, guys I was almost screaming.
Thankfully people were flying around under the rain and managed to finish 9th...it's hard to say that I'm happy but it's true considering my mistake and the fact that I had the ferrari 458gt3 that is quite tricky at suzuka
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well, my first GT1 race, whew. It was fun. But first, let me say that I was not competitive at suzuka last week, I did not choose the Genesis for that track and I really don't care for wet races! But thanks to this thread, I had an idea of what to expect.
The lobby was a low A lobby, the points (162) about what I've seen in the top GT2 lobbies. Only 14 started and 12 finished.
I Q at P11 and that was okay with me. Race starts pretty good, around lap 2 or 3 I get slightly tapped from behind and the rear bumper is blinking red, but I know that is must just be cosmetic. Didn't seem to affect lap times, they were slower anyway because I wasn't at all trying to push for positions. And when I did pit (lap 11 or 12?), it didn't list any time for repairs and the blink was cleared.
(racer post-chatted to me 'that bump got me'. I don't know, it's hard to tell intention, but he bumped me, so I took it as an apology???)
The rain section went pretty okay, no major mishaps, but neither were too many others making mistakes. I might have onlt picked up one position(? can't recall) I actually kept pace with the leader through all of it (still, it was about a minute out!) I got onto hards probably a lap or two too early. Picked up a pit penalty on entry (didn't feel like it to me, but I can't argue with a computer.) And spun on exit to get a second pit penalty for 6 seconds! urrrrgh.
Final stint on hards with lots of space, my fastest laps came in laps 30+. I was P7 and reeling in P6 but he had about 10 seconds head start.
Prior to the race, I was worried I'd get lapped or timed out. Guess what? I cross the finish at 1:29 from the leader, so neither! P7, without that 6 second penalty, I might have had P6.
The lobby was a low A lobby, the points (162) about what I've seen in the top GT2 lobbies. Only 14 started and 12 finished.
I Q at P11 and that was okay with me. Race starts pretty good, around lap 2 or 3 I get slightly tapped from behind and the rear bumper is blinking red, but I know that is must just be cosmetic. Didn't seem to affect lap times, they were slower anyway because I wasn't at all trying to push for positions. And when I did pit (lap 11 or 12?), it didn't list any time for repairs and the blink was cleared.
(racer post-chatted to me 'that bump got me'. I don't know, it's hard to tell intention, but he bumped me, so I took it as an apology???)
The rain section went pretty okay, no major mishaps, but neither were too many others making mistakes. I might have onlt picked up one position(? can't recall) I actually kept pace with the leader through all of it (still, it was about a minute out!) I got onto hards probably a lap or two too early. Picked up a pit penalty on entry (didn't feel like it to me, but I can't argue with a computer.) And spun on exit to get a second pit penalty for 6 seconds! urrrrgh.
Final stint on hards with lots of space, my fastest laps came in laps 30+. I was P7 and reeling in P6 but he had about 10 seconds head start.
Prior to the race, I was worried I'd get lapped or timed out. Guess what? I cross the finish at 1:29 from the leader, so neither! P7, without that 6 second penalty, I might have had P6.
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- jdmking13
- Lucid killer 58
Man what a race!!! In Vr it was just incredible… Qualified 10th took 6th. Between the rain coming and then gambling putting on hards once the dry line formed was surreal. I got damage early like lap 3… two Porsche drivers were just terrible! No sportsmanship.. diving in turns when there’s no gap ughhh.. What saved me was the rain… once it came I got my damage fixed then went on a hunt! Went from 12th to 6th. If I didn’t take early damage I would of had a better race! Still the experience was great! I have a hour league race tonight… if I didn’t I would have definitely hop in another slot! Good luck to all!!!
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- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
3 different accounts, 3 different races today.
Put a lot of time into testing for this one (I absolutely love race prep btw), so I wanted to perform to the best of my abilities.
Woke up at 0545 California time to jump the last slot in the oceanic region. Low A/S lobby…heard murmers in the pre race chat that there was gonna be rain. Sweet. Completely botched qually and failed to even set a time. Got caught in the back of the pack amongst the other window-lickers, and tried my best to eat my way through the pack. Rain came and I played it safe and pitted probably a lap earlier than I had to. Rain stint…..actually went decent. The secret must’ve been out already being that this was the 3rd GT1 slot, and everyone was prepared. I did my best to keep the tires cool and stayed out probably a lap longer than I had to, and pitted for RH’s at end up lap 27. Came out of the pits in 6th, and put the hammer down to catch up to the four car trains front of me. Picked them off one by one, and was closing in on second with 2 laps to go. Last lap, I got a run on him down the finish stretch, and he covered the inside but it compromised his exit out of T1 and I got to his inside before the esses. He stayed on me the whole lap, but I held on for second. 15th to 2nd…. I’ll take that.
Had a cup of coffee, a quick BM and I jumped in for the second slot of the EMEA region. Another Lowish A/S lobby. This time I set a decent enough qually lap at 2:01.003, and took a pole —-> win finish. Had a couple oh **** moments in T1 before the rain came. Had an ‘ok’ rain stint, and took Hards at end of 27 again. Cruised to the finish. Loved the sunset in VR 😎.
First slot NA on my main account. Decided not to push for DR this week as daily C seemed like a chit show, so I was in a very high A/S lobby. Nerves got the best of me, but I still managed a pole somehow with a 2:01.3. First 2 laps I got a good gap on second as there seemed to be some squabbling. Went on an absolute heater and was up by 28 seconds when I took IM tires. In hindsight, I think the top 5 took intermediate tires a lap earlier, so I guess it’s not too impressive 🙄
Didn’t have a very clean rain stint at all, but others must have had worse, because I still maintained my gap. My second RH stint was, ok I guess. Kinda scruffy. Went off once, and spun once in the last 9 laps. Still was able to bring it home
Couple thoughts:
Heavy damage is key. The racing was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cleaner. Hopefully, these long races are here to stay. I know this was a copy/paste of the live event, but between last season and this season, I think PD are knocking it out of the park. While I think it was dumb that GT1 didn’t get any GR.4 events, I think these longer races really level out the playing field, and will enable guys to pick cars that their comfortable with over long races, rather than ones that have outright pace. Yo my surprise, since GT1 is Gr.3-only, there was still a very wide swath of different cars out there today.
Oh yeah, slow-moving weather is soooooo much fun. I can’t wait for even longer endurance races online or in SP!!
Well done PD 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸
Put a lot of time into testing for this one (I absolutely love race prep btw), so I wanted to perform to the best of my abilities.
Woke up at 0545 California time to jump the last slot in the oceanic region. Low A/S lobby…heard murmers in the pre race chat that there was gonna be rain. Sweet. Completely botched qually and failed to even set a time. Got caught in the back of the pack amongst the other window-lickers, and tried my best to eat my way through the pack. Rain came and I played it safe and pitted probably a lap earlier than I had to. Rain stint…..actually went decent. The secret must’ve been out already being that this was the 3rd GT1 slot, and everyone was prepared. I did my best to keep the tires cool and stayed out probably a lap longer than I had to, and pitted for RH’s at end up lap 27. Came out of the pits in 6th, and put the hammer down to catch up to the four car trains front of me. Picked them off one by one, and was closing in on second with 2 laps to go. Last lap, I got a run on him down the finish stretch, and he covered the inside but it compromised his exit out of T1 and I got to his inside before the esses. He stayed on me the whole lap, but I held on for second. 15th to 2nd…. I’ll take that.
Had a cup of coffee, a quick BM and I jumped in for the second slot of the EMEA region. Another Lowish A/S lobby. This time I set a decent enough qually lap at 2:01.003, and took a pole —-> win finish. Had a couple oh **** moments in T1 before the rain came. Had an ‘ok’ rain stint, and took Hards at end of 27 again. Cruised to the finish. Loved the sunset in VR 😎.
First slot NA on my main account. Decided not to push for DR this week as daily C seemed like a chit show, so I was in a very high A/S lobby. Nerves got the best of me, but I still managed a pole somehow with a 2:01.3. First 2 laps I got a good gap on second as there seemed to be some squabbling. Went on an absolute heater and was up by 28 seconds when I took IM tires. In hindsight, I think the top 5 took intermediate tires a lap earlier, so I guess it’s not too impressive 🙄
Didn’t have a very clean rain stint at all, but others must have had worse, because I still maintained my gap. My second RH stint was, ok I guess. Kinda scruffy. Went off once, and spun once in the last 9 laps. Still was able to bring it home
Couple thoughts:
Heavy damage is key. The racing was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cleaner. Hopefully, these long races are here to stay. I know this was a copy/paste of the live event, but between last season and this season, I think PD are knocking it out of the park. While I think it was dumb that GT1 didn’t get any GR.4 events, I think these longer races really level out the playing field, and will enable guys to pick cars that their comfortable with over long races, rather than ones that have outright pace. Yo my surprise, since GT1 is Gr.3-only, there was still a very wide swath of different cars out there today.
Oh yeah, slow-moving weather is soooooo much fun. I can’t wait for even longer endurance races online or in SP!!
Well done PD 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸
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Well, that was disappointing.
Joined the 8pm slot in Asia, looking forward to the pending weather challenge (even softened up the suspension on the McLaren to be ready for it)….
A couple of small mistakes in qualy, 2.01.5 put me 14th in GT1, A+ lobby. Took it easy the first few laps, passing some people with damage, but generally being much more cautious given the damage and the loooong race. Up to 7th by lap 10, and the two cars in front of me went straight on at the final chicane… then another 2 against the pit wall…
Ah no, that wasn’t mistakes, that was my network failing. Disconnected and turned off the ps5 and went to bed
Just didn’t have the energy to try again in the next race (10pm start, finishing around 1130….I’m too old for that ****, especially after mountain biking all day!).
Bummer. I hope everyone else had fun! I felt the driving standards were better with the high damage, at least in my split.
Joined the 8pm slot in Asia, looking forward to the pending weather challenge (even softened up the suspension on the McLaren to be ready for it)….
A couple of small mistakes in qualy, 2.01.5 put me 14th in GT1, A+ lobby. Took it easy the first few laps, passing some people with damage, but generally being much more cautious given the damage and the loooong race. Up to 7th by lap 10, and the two cars in front of me went straight on at the final chicane… then another 2 against the pit wall…
Ah no, that wasn’t mistakes, that was my network failing. Disconnected and turned off the ps5 and went to bed
Just didn’t have the energy to try again in the next race (10pm start, finishing around 1130….I’m too old for that ****, especially after mountain biking all day!).
Bummer. I hope everyone else had fun! I felt the driving standards were better with the high damage, at least in my split.
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- Deputy_Fishtail
@icycls well done!
I barely got home in time to log in and had time for only one practice lap.
Q13 with about a second off my practice times and didn’t sweat it too much.
Lap 1 was reasonably clean and all was well until I had a car lost it and I tapped him for some front damage and we both continued on until the chicane and I got rear ended which sent me to the wall and landed rear damaged aero and suspension 😬. Now p16 I tried to work through it but was losing 4 seconds per lap. Finally realized that I was losing and not getting better and pitted on lap 7 as I couldn’t wait for the inters.
After the rain started I started seeing some folks quitting.
I lost it braking into the chicane twice before getting it right. Didn’t feel great on the inters and again just tried to stay out of trouble.
I kept inters on until through lap 23 and made my 1 and only pass of somebody who was ghosted 👻. Weak to say it was an overtake but that’s all I could muster 😂
I was trying to be super careful leavening the pits on lap 24 with slicks but low and behold I spun, crossed the line and hit the wall backwards to gain rear damages again 🤬
Finally started getting some pace and tried to chase down p10 for the last 9 laps.
First car I had a sight on since lap 3 🤷🏻♂️.
Finished p11 only ahead of one car with the other places from the dnf’s.
124 points and enjoyed the experience enough that I might try again in the last slot.
Didn’t run my best race but definitely glad to give it a shot!
GL to all who are still racing!
I barely got home in time to log in and had time for only one practice lap.
Q13 with about a second off my practice times and didn’t sweat it too much.
Lap 1 was reasonably clean and all was well until I had a car lost it and I tapped him for some front damage and we both continued on until the chicane and I got rear ended which sent me to the wall and landed rear damaged aero and suspension 😬. Now p16 I tried to work through it but was losing 4 seconds per lap. Finally realized that I was losing and not getting better and pitted on lap 7 as I couldn’t wait for the inters.
After the rain started I started seeing some folks quitting.
I lost it braking into the chicane twice before getting it right. Didn’t feel great on the inters and again just tried to stay out of trouble.
I kept inters on until through lap 23 and made my 1 and only pass of somebody who was ghosted 👻. Weak to say it was an overtake but that’s all I could muster 😂
I was trying to be super careful leavening the pits on lap 24 with slicks but low and behold I spun, crossed the line and hit the wall backwards to gain rear damages again 🤬
Finally started getting some pace and tried to chase down p10 for the last 9 laps.
First car I had a sight on since lap 3 🤷🏻♂️.
Finished p11 only ahead of one car with the other places from the dnf’s.
124 points and enjoyed the experience enough that I might try again in the last slot.
Didn’t run my best race but definitely glad to give it a shot!
GL to all who are still racing!
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- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
What a roller coaster of a race. 9th > Last > 3rd
First GT1 slot in NA. Never was particularly strong at Suzuka, I don't hate it, I just don't normally do well here. I don't recall my Q time but it was about what I was doing in practice and it put me 9th on the start. Have to thank the lads on the other side of the pond (TheKie/Rory) for putting up their livestreams so I knew exactly what the best strat was for this race...pit for IM at the end of 12th lap, then pit at the end of the 25th lap for RH and exit the pits with TC on 5 since the exit is still soaking wet This plan worked perfectly for this race.
Off the start my plan was just to keep things as clean as possible knowing how long this race was. Which worked for a few turns but about 1/2-way into the first lap I just barely tapped 8th place's rear bumper damaging mine. Fortunately a few people ran off the track and I stayed reasonably clean promoting me up to 7th by I think the 3rd lap and that's when things completely fell apart. My damaged front bumper started allowing the guy behind me to catch up and he then did to me what I did previously and smacked my rear bumper. So now its the 3rd lap and I have damaged front and rear bumpers and I just start slowly going backwards, helped out by 2 screw ups of my own that sent me off track. So I think by about lap 5 I was in dead last. At that point my brain just started wandering thinking about if I should plan to do the 2nd or the 3rd slot to make up for this. Then I started remembering watching TheKie and Rory's streams earlier and all the people flying off the course when things started to get wet, so I put my head down and just tried to put in clean laps since I was all alone with no one to bother me....although I wasn't making up much time with the damage my car had.
I took notice that a few guys dove into the pits for IM at the first hint of dampness I think at the end of the 10th lap which I knew would bite them later. In fact most of the field were ducking in by the end of the 11th if I remember correct. Spoon was treacherous but honestly not as bad as I was expecting.....but that's probably because I had watched it on those streams repeatedly lol. So by the time I ducked in for IM at the end of the 12th I had moved back up to 8th or 9th. Don't recall exactly what position I exited, maybe 10th or 11th....but I started gaining on guys ahead of me now that my damaged car was repaired and some folks got caught out by the rain. Another guy dipped back in for full wets when it got REALLY wet for a couple laps. Kept climbing back up until it was getting close to the last pit cycle. I noticed some people dipping in early (23/24th laps) when the track was still too wet for RH, moving me up some more and at the point I was pushing hard on the IM's to capitalize on those guys coming back out struggling on the slicks. Dipped in at the end of the 25th, exited pits on full TC as I watched Rory spin his car coming out since pit exit was still full wet, came out in 5th I think. Started to make up ground quick as the guys in front of me had not pitted yet for RH. Easily caught up and got into 3rd again. At that point 2nd was about 25 seconds ahead, and I just kept pulling away from 4th until it balanced out about 30 seconds clear ahead and behind. 2nd was slowly pulling from me and 1st's best lap was 2 seconds better than my best lap, so even if I managed to not have the early foul ups I'm pretty sure 3rd place is where I was going to settle in this one.....even if I didn't have my unfortunate trip to the back of the pack to make things more interesting lol.
Last stint was about as lonely as the first one which was fine with me. I was mildly dreading this race, but even the race length didn't bother me once we got going. Just kind of settled into a groove and lost track of all the laps. At the end I noticed my car had a 3 as the door number, so yeah finished right where I was supposed to, haha.
.....oh, and sorry for the verbosity 😂
First GT1 slot in NA. Never was particularly strong at Suzuka, I don't hate it, I just don't normally do well here. I don't recall my Q time but it was about what I was doing in practice and it put me 9th on the start. Have to thank the lads on the other side of the pond (TheKie/Rory) for putting up their livestreams so I knew exactly what the best strat was for this race...pit for IM at the end of 12th lap, then pit at the end of the 25th lap for RH and exit the pits with TC on 5 since the exit is still soaking wet This plan worked perfectly for this race.
Off the start my plan was just to keep things as clean as possible knowing how long this race was. Which worked for a few turns but about 1/2-way into the first lap I just barely tapped 8th place's rear bumper damaging mine. Fortunately a few people ran off the track and I stayed reasonably clean promoting me up to 7th by I think the 3rd lap and that's when things completely fell apart. My damaged front bumper started allowing the guy behind me to catch up and he then did to me what I did previously and smacked my rear bumper. So now its the 3rd lap and I have damaged front and rear bumpers and I just start slowly going backwards, helped out by 2 screw ups of my own that sent me off track. So I think by about lap 5 I was in dead last. At that point my brain just started wandering thinking about if I should plan to do the 2nd or the 3rd slot to make up for this. Then I started remembering watching TheKie and Rory's streams earlier and all the people flying off the course when things started to get wet, so I put my head down and just tried to put in clean laps since I was all alone with no one to bother me....although I wasn't making up much time with the damage my car had.
I took notice that a few guys dove into the pits for IM at the first hint of dampness I think at the end of the 10th lap which I knew would bite them later. In fact most of the field were ducking in by the end of the 11th if I remember correct. Spoon was treacherous but honestly not as bad as I was expecting.....but that's probably because I had watched it on those streams repeatedly lol. So by the time I ducked in for IM at the end of the 12th I had moved back up to 8th or 9th. Don't recall exactly what position I exited, maybe 10th or 11th....but I started gaining on guys ahead of me now that my damaged car was repaired and some folks got caught out by the rain. Another guy dipped back in for full wets when it got REALLY wet for a couple laps. Kept climbing back up until it was getting close to the last pit cycle. I noticed some people dipping in early (23/24th laps) when the track was still too wet for RH, moving me up some more and at the point I was pushing hard on the IM's to capitalize on those guys coming back out struggling on the slicks. Dipped in at the end of the 25th, exited pits on full TC as I watched Rory spin his car coming out since pit exit was still full wet, came out in 5th I think. Started to make up ground quick as the guys in front of me had not pitted yet for RH. Easily caught up and got into 3rd again. At that point 2nd was about 25 seconds ahead, and I just kept pulling away from 4th until it balanced out about 30 seconds clear ahead and behind. 2nd was slowly pulling from me and 1st's best lap was 2 seconds better than my best lap, so even if I managed to not have the early foul ups I'm pretty sure 3rd place is where I was going to settle in this one.....even if I didn't have my unfortunate trip to the back of the pack to make things more interesting lol.
Last stint was about as lonely as the first one which was fine with me. I was mildly dreading this race, but even the race length didn't bother me once we got going. Just kind of settled into a groove and lost track of all the laps. At the end I noticed my car had a 3 as the door number, so yeah finished right where I was supposed to, haha.
.....oh, and sorry for the verbosity 😂
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- United States
thank you and sorry to hear about your run. (you still scored two more points than my p7!) Good luck if you try again. For me, I could do much worse than p7, so I'll call it a night!
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- Tennessee
- tnfedexman
Been too busy today. One slot left. Too much football on. Priorities.
- 2,384
- The failed experiment entitled “California”.
My nephew plays for University of Arizona and they start in an hour. So glad I was one and done n the main
- 5,750
- USA
- TPC_Raccooon23
- CRaccoon23
GT1, Slot 2 (20:00), Door #14
Going into this race, I decided to make the dampers on the NSX slightly softer, in hopes that it wouldn't get too unsettled by the curbs. I completed qualifying with a 2:02.971 and to my pleasant surprise was enough for P4.
Despite making a couple of mistakes like going a bit too wide at 130R on lap 1 and almost spinning 90 degrees at Casio Triangle on lap 10, I still held on to P4 by the time I decided to go into the pits on lap 11 to switch to Intermediates and take on the rain.
I came out of the pits in 8th and jumped up to 5th by the following lap after two other cars pitted and a Porsche driver who surrendered their position to me after coming out with a 3 second pit lane penalty. To my shock, I got back up to my original position of 4th after a Ferrari driver thought it was worth pitting again to go from Inters to Wets.
I decided to go for a longer than usual time on the Inters to let the track dry as much as possible before switching back to Hards, not doing so until lap 26. I came out in 3rd place because leading up to that, a BMW M6 on Wets that was holding me a couple laps prior caught a 3 second pit lane penalty after switching to Hards themselves and thanks to that, they were still behind me once I got back into the action. After my last tire change, it was all about finding my bearings again and not going too aggressive since there was still a bit of moisture on the track in places. My final concern was just keeping 4th place at bay, which I managed to do.
Can't ask for a better start to the season than a podium, short of 1st place. Got 173 points from this result. Overall, this was a good and fairly intense race and only three people ended up quitting. The threat of heavy damage seemed to keep everyone on their best behavior from my perspective anyway and I hope this trend continues in the future rounds.
Going into this race, I decided to make the dampers on the NSX slightly softer, in hopes that it wouldn't get too unsettled by the curbs. I completed qualifying with a 2:02.971 and to my pleasant surprise was enough for P4.
Despite making a couple of mistakes like going a bit too wide at 130R on lap 1 and almost spinning 90 degrees at Casio Triangle on lap 10, I still held on to P4 by the time I decided to go into the pits on lap 11 to switch to Intermediates and take on the rain.
I came out of the pits in 8th and jumped up to 5th by the following lap after two other cars pitted and a Porsche driver who surrendered their position to me after coming out with a 3 second pit lane penalty. To my shock, I got back up to my original position of 4th after a Ferrari driver thought it was worth pitting again to go from Inters to Wets.
I decided to go for a longer than usual time on the Inters to let the track dry as much as possible before switching back to Hards, not doing so until lap 26. I came out in 3rd place because leading up to that, a BMW M6 on Wets that was holding me a couple laps prior caught a 3 second pit lane penalty after switching to Hards themselves and thanks to that, they were still behind me once I got back into the action. After my last tire change, it was all about finding my bearings again and not going too aggressive since there was still a bit of moisture on the track in places. My final concern was just keeping 4th place at bay, which I managed to do.
Can't ask for a better start to the season than a podium, short of 1st place. Got 173 points from this result. Overall, this was a good and fairly intense race and only three people ended up quitting. The threat of heavy damage seemed to keep everyone on their best behavior from my perspective anyway and I hope this trend continues in the future rounds.
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I was wondering if someone could answer a question. I was just perusing my results on the Gran Turismo site, and I noticed a bunch of A rate drivers in GT2 category. UM.....shouldn't they be in GT1? Is this some weird ego ploy to get the easy win against people that are lower rated than they are? Seems like a very weird flex, really.
- 751
- Finland
I am in the same club, see ya in the GTWS retirement home in November. 😁 Should we order some sushi and saké from the chefs there? 🙃
It was tough out there, but I just about survived, even if it wasn't pretty at times 🫣. If there is one thing that is my strength it will have to be my defensive driving and race iq I think. 🤔 Pacewise I am quite average and sometimes a bit slow, especially with gr3-gr4 cars. Below my race crammed into 4 clips (18 minutes in total).
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- United States
- equus_ferrum
Slot 1: Qualified 10th, over 1s off pole and several tenths behind even P9. Survived the race to find myself in P5 and absolutely abusing the heck out of P4's bumper (but not really, because heavy damage...). Then I inexplicably lost the back end in the middle of the esses on Lap 32 and drove myself straight into the gravel. Finished P7 as a result, for 220 points. I'd been looking at a Top 5, and this race was definitely the one I had the best chance of scoring at, so I decided to go again...
Slot 2: Qualifed 11th, which became 10th after someone left after qualifying. Thanks largely to a bunch of people spinning off in the Degners (before the rain even came), and some mistakes by others once the rain fell, I moved up to P5 by the time I swapped back to Hards on Lap 22. Of course, I couldn't resist throwing away all of my hard work like the idiot that I am, so I spun myself out leaving the pits, picked up a 3s penalty, and some nice aero damage to top it all off. I then forgot how to drive for the rest of the lap and ran off the track more times than I could count. I stuck around for a bit to see if anyone else would make stupid errors, but I was the only idiot left in the race apparently, so I couldn't even be bothered to finish and quit to go eat dinner before the final slot.
Slot 3: Set my best qualifying time of the night...and started DFL. 16th of 16. Before the rain even came, I was up to 8th thanks to people in front being unable to avoid running into each other. Unfortunately I picked up some rear aero damage when a McLaren couldn't bother paying attention to the 2 cars ahead of me going side-by-side through 130R and drove into the back of me when I was slowing down to avoid driving into them. Fortunately I was still able to hold onto 8th with a comfortable gap, which grew to over 7s when the rain fell. Just like I'd done the other 2 races, I pitted to put Hards back on on Lap 22. This time I wasn't an idiot and didn't spin leaving the pits, but a few laps later I came upon 3 cars who did spin leaving the pits, one of whom was ghosted on the racing line. I instinctively moved over to avoid hitting him in case he unghosted...which put me right back into the water headed into T1. Of course I instantly spun and hit the outside wall for some aero damage and fell to P10. I recovered slightly to P9 and held it until the final lap, where to top it all off I needlessly spun myself on the exit curb at T2, giving away P9 and finishing P10 for 191 points.
Since Suzuka was the only track on the schedule I don't suck at (or so I thought...) I'm not even gonna bother with the rest of the season. I originally only planned to do the first 3 rounds because I absolutely despise the final 2 tracks, but since I can't stop being an idiot even at a track I'm usually good at, DTS Reverse and the Norschleife are gonna be completely hopeless for me, so there's no point in bothering with the rest of the season at all.
Slot 2: Qualifed 11th, which became 10th after someone left after qualifying. Thanks largely to a bunch of people spinning off in the Degners (before the rain even came), and some mistakes by others once the rain fell, I moved up to P5 by the time I swapped back to Hards on Lap 22. Of course, I couldn't resist throwing away all of my hard work like the idiot that I am, so I spun myself out leaving the pits, picked up a 3s penalty, and some nice aero damage to top it all off. I then forgot how to drive for the rest of the lap and ran off the track more times than I could count. I stuck around for a bit to see if anyone else would make stupid errors, but I was the only idiot left in the race apparently, so I couldn't even be bothered to finish and quit to go eat dinner before the final slot.
Slot 3: Set my best qualifying time of the night...and started DFL. 16th of 16. Before the rain even came, I was up to 8th thanks to people in front being unable to avoid running into each other. Unfortunately I picked up some rear aero damage when a McLaren couldn't bother paying attention to the 2 cars ahead of me going side-by-side through 130R and drove into the back of me when I was slowing down to avoid driving into them. Fortunately I was still able to hold onto 8th with a comfortable gap, which grew to over 7s when the rain fell. Just like I'd done the other 2 races, I pitted to put Hards back on on Lap 22. This time I wasn't an idiot and didn't spin leaving the pits, but a few laps later I came upon 3 cars who did spin leaving the pits, one of whom was ghosted on the racing line. I instinctively moved over to avoid hitting him in case he unghosted...which put me right back into the water headed into T1. Of course I instantly spun and hit the outside wall for some aero damage and fell to P10. I recovered slightly to P9 and held it until the final lap, where to top it all off I needlessly spun myself on the exit curb at T2, giving away P9 and finishing P10 for 191 points.
Since Suzuka was the only track on the schedule I don't suck at (or so I thought...) I'm not even gonna bother with the rest of the season. I originally only planned to do the first 3 rounds because I absolutely despise the final 2 tracks, but since I can't stop being an idiot even at a track I'm usually good at, DTS Reverse and the Norschleife are gonna be completely hopeless for me, so there's no point in bothering with the rest of the season at all.
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