Gran Turismo World Series (Manufacturers Cup 2025 Exhibition 3 season: 12 Nov - 29 Nov)

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I do find it odd that the top five GT1 drivers (in the West) are separated by over 50 points; and the top 15 are over a 100 point difference. That seems like a steep drop-off for one race.

Maybe PD is messing with the points calculations, or maybe less people are participating, or maybe........


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Of course there might have simply been a mass exodus of high DR drivers before the final slot too. I vaguely recall I was #2, and my DR was about 80% of the bar (26k, I guess). Unless packed out with very-mid to quite-low B, it should still have been about 110-120 for the win though, and I think he got 96...
I am in a similar situation. My bar is roughly at 90% if I had to guess and I was door 2 behind another B driver. Therefore a 16.8k avg DR lobby (that corresponds to 84 points I believe) is somewhat hard to believe if it is true that all GT2 participants get ordered by DR and then put into their respective splits but who knows how it really works.

Info for those unfamiliar with DR points: B rating is from 10k to 30k points.
We shouldn't rule out some kind of internal software error here. It could be that when the point totals were allocated, the server was using zero as the DR amount of several drivers in the lobby.
Also a possibility.
I do find it odd that the top five GT1 drivers (in the West) are separated by over 50 points; and the top 15 are over a 100 point difference. That seems like a steep drop-off for one race.

Maybe PD is messing with the points calculations, or maybe less people are participating, or maybe........


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Also very odd. Maybe at the top end of A+ the DR point differences are rather large because say 80k+ and up gets exceedingly rare, i.e. a very thin tail in the points distribution. I would so love to dive into PDs driver ratings database and do an analysis.
 
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I do find it odd that the top five GT1 drivers (in the West) are separated by over 50 points; and the top 15 are over a 100 point difference. That seems like a steep drop-off for one race.

Maybe PD is messing with the points calculations, or maybe less people are participating, or maybe........


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I saw the same, I wonder if it’s either the calculations or they are match making a much wider spread of DR point for lobbies so the typical lobby total spread is wider than previously.

Probably not related to this but I knew I’d remember seeing something about it before when the cap was updated

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I saw the same, I wonder if it’s either the calculations or they are match making a much wider spread of DR point for lobbies so the typical lobby total spread is wider than previously.

Probably not related to this but I knew I’d remember seeing something about it before when the cap was updated

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Ah, that would explain this

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Well, I ended up signing for team Renault, as I find it incredibly easy to drive and in my opinion the GT3 car is one of the most well rounded cars on the grid.

Still building this new account to A+ (currently on 44K DR). So the competition is certainly getting tougher with each race.

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So this car in the right hands can win at such level...
I was thinking that it would be slower than all the classic meta cars...
...so it is clear that it is just related to my skills...
 
Qualified 6th. I should have been higher, I got out in time to do two laps but right before the chicane the guy in front of me slowed up, and there was someone closing in on me so I couldn't really hold up. My first lap wasn't great, my second one I went into him at La Source and he slowed down and put me in the wall after the corner.

In the first few laps the leader made a bit of a gap, with 2-5 in a pack just behind then me with a Porsche in 7th. On lap 3 I noticed he was a lot closer to me than before, before I realised it was actually a GT-R. He ended up passing me a lap later. All of this is irrelevant because it was due to rain on lap 6.

At the end of lap 4, one German guy in a Beetle pitted. I thought it was too early. It was. Next lap, I and a few others pitted. Four cars stayed out, I'd passed all of them by the time I'd made it out of Stavelot. I wasn't sure how I'd jumped everyone else who pitted but it turns out they all added fuel. Either way, once we were past the dry runners I was in the lead.

Now, the night before this race I did a 20 lap practice session in changeable conditions. I ran through the first three shades of blue on the rain map and found that even just the second level was actually full wet conditions. Looking at the map for this race there was a slight burst of dark blue. It couldn't possibly be full wet, could it? It's not as heavy of prolonged as my practice, and with 16 cars on track it'll dry up quicker. It's not going to be worth having wets when the weather passes, just go for inters!

Everyone went for inters and we spent laps 6-16 skating around. It was horrible. I was in the lead for all of it with a BMW occasionally gradually closing in on me. Eventually he got on the power too soon out of Stavelot on lap 13 and gave me a bit more breathing room. This also meant the early pitting Beetle passed him.

The rain passed for the start of lap 17 and the Bettle passed me at Pouhon on lap 18. He had a wobble to the end of the race and I could have gone for divebomb of the century into the chicane, but the BMW was still close and I would probably have just handed him the victory if I'd tried.

2nd place, clean race, 170-something points. I'm a bit annoyed I second guessed myself with the tyres, I'm a bit annoyed I didn't push the Beetle harder on the last lap since his tyres were also a lot more worn than mine with the extra lap of dry running but 2nd place and a clean race after 50+ minutes in the rain is hard to be upset with.

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I was absolutely haemorrhaging time out of Raidillon as well. Losing as much as a full second on both of those cars each time. I don't know why, I felt like I couldn't go any faster without risking a penalty of hitting a puddle on the kerb.
 
So this car in the right hands can win at such level...
I was thinking that it would be slower than all the classic meta cars...
...so it is clear that it is just related to my skills...
Thanks for the compliment, it's such an incredible car. It would have made the world finals if Moreno didn't cheat. It's my second time signing for them and I feel really confident with it. It runs really well at Road Atlanta too, so we should be competitive there. Good luck in the next round bro!
 
How's everyone's practice for Road Atlanta going? I managed a 1.17.9 a couple of times but it felt like right on the ragged edge. Probably 1.18.4 would be a more comfortable race time. Driving RSR and high C/low B driver for context
I’m gonna do some race practice tomorrow, but I’m fairly OK at RA but it’s A lobby GT1 for me this time so feeling I need to bring my game as I deliberately skipped round 1
 
How's everyone's practice for Road Atlanta going? I managed a 1.17.9 a couple of times but it felt like right on the ragged edge. Probably 1.18.4 would be a more comfortable race time. Driving RSR and high C/low B driver for context
Sounds fast for your rating. In limited laps I managed a 19 flat in my GT-R as a high B driver. I think I remember thinking to myself that 18.5 should be possible but I don't see myself going into the 17s. (Not gonna do more laps though till qualifying)
 
How's everyone's practice for Road Atlanta going? I managed a 1.17.9 a couple of times but it felt like right on the ragged edge. Probably 1.18.4 would be a more comfortable race time. Driving RSR and high C/low B driver for context
I'll try tomorrow.. my only goal is to finish all races since this is my first tine doing this type of entry.. If I remember correctly CE lap in VW beetle was in low 18s so I expect to manage to go to 18s with Lancer and that's about it...

btw guys how do you figure tactics for pits so early.. I enteres SPA just without any strategy.. lost actually a lots of time on it

edit do you guys know how to find my results here? They're fine on PS Screenshot_2025-11-13-22-21-02-278_com.android.chrome.webp
 
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Sounds fast for your rating. In limited laps I managed a 19 flat in my GT-R as a high B driver. I think I remember thinking to myself that 18.5 should be possible but I don't see myself going into the 17s. (Not gonna do more laps though till qualifying)
Ahh should state that I just used the 'practice' on the race event not a race sim so was soft tyres with no wear or fuel weight haha
 
I did another full race test against Sophy. I actually made the one stopper work. However I did a full lap with a completely dead front left on lap 11 of my softs stint. Not recommended (6 seconds down on FL down the back straight).
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Caveat would be that I forgot to switch to BB +5 until lap 5 which has a bit of an influence I believe. I also started from the back fighting my way through the Sophy field which also probably contributed to added wear compared to a smooth race.

The second stint ob mediums for 19 laps went well enough. Still some thread left at the end.
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However my pace got increasingly bad through the last 5 or so laps. I was about 1.5 seconds off my FL which kind of hurts. Total race time for me was about 41:14. Unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot of my results from yesterday's 2 stopper test. And I doubt that I will do another one tomorrow.
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Ultimately I will try and figure out a strategy as the race progresses but I'm leaning towards trying my luck with the 1 stopper. I like decent tyres however. A really interesting spot.

Does anybody know how much time a pit stop takes here?
 
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