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

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First race of the day was a disaster. First 4 cars or so started normally but the rest of the field started from a dead stop bunched up just before the season turn and pit lane. I qualified at 7. Decided to go with M and try for 1 stop but got caught up in a 4 car pack and used to the tires too quickly for obliterated stopping once.

Top 2 cars were untouchable. I pit after 14, took on the softs, was running in top 5 when I stopped again, but the car spun into the pit and it spit me back out at the finish line with no tires. So 2 weird glitchy things this heat.

The funny part though was last place in this C lobby got 13 points. My victory on Wednesday in a D lobby? 13 points.

I'll try again in an hour.
 
Okay, I usually don't do this unless a disaster happens, but I had to run this race twice.
There wasn't a disaster, but something strange, went to the pitlane on lap 20, did not cross the line, but I hit the inside wall of the pitlane, stuck a bit at it, tried to reverse to position myself into entering and the game teleported me onto start/finish line.
An extra lap on dead mediums, just what I needed... 🤣

Finished outside top 8 and got a DR hit. Next lobby was a bit weaker, 113 points for the win.
Pumped up with the previous race I did a pretty quick lap of 18.9 and I found myself on pole.

Put mediums on and promised myself to go a bit easier to save the rubber just a little bit more this time.
On lap 1 got overtaken by two cars (clearly on softs) and let them go. A lap or two later another car passed.
With a little breathing space behind I just clocked the laps.

After first round of pitstops around lap 7/8 I was 2nd and then the leader pitted on lap 14. Sooo, basically everyone on 2-stops, nice but not celebrating yet, my last laps on used rubber are really slow. Need to be careful not to crash. The original leader of the race caught me before my stop and the second one was close behind.

Reached the end of lap 20, super extra careful while entering the pitlane this time. Success!
Only one driver pitted behind me, so we were the only ones on 1 stop.

I didn't go full fire as I couldn't afford to limp on the last lap too much. So taking things with care, brake balance on the rear and a bit of TCS. The leaders of the race pitted ahead and one rejoined 1.5 seconds ahead of me, so there goes the win. The vice-leader was 2 seconds behind and closing fast. No point in fighting, I had my own battle with tires. Around 8 seconds of space behind.

Nursed them as much as I could and beginning lap 30 I had a small sliver of white bar on the left front.
Finish!

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First two drivers were on 2 stop strategy, but pace-wise they were head and shoulders ahead of me, a complete noob at saving tires. So I consider this result as satisfying.
Podium and 104 points - not bad at all!

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Ran the noon GT2 slot here in the Americas. Usual no qualify, start at the back routine.
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Ran a 1 stop, pit end of L20 from 3rd place, drove it out to a 4th finish with help at the line from at least one driver that I don't think used both tire grades and spun at the top of the hill before pit entry and another got a penalty for either leaving the track or contact.
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I'll take that 69DRWSpts and wander out to my garage and clean my car.
Wednesday night's Spa run was much the same, 16th to 4th.
 
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Well well, Well, today I did took on the 5pm slot in teh Manufacturers cup exhibiton at Atlanta, and with little practice and an ok qualifier managed to do a solid race and achieve 5th place in this GT3 league, in a C lobby! The Lexus RCF was quick and solid on atlanta gave sum 991 a run for their money!! I had some good battling and my strategy worked as 7RS>12RM>9RM. It was bit chaotic but overall good racing.

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tmtk
Okay, I usually don't do this unless a disaster happens, but I had to run this race twice.
There wasn't a disaster, but something strange, went to the pitlane on lap 20, did not cross the line, but I hit the inside wall of the pitlane, stuck a bit at it, tried to reverse to position myself into entering and the game teleported me onto start/finish line.
An extra lap on dead mediums, just what I needed... 🤣

Finished outside top 8 and got a DR hit. Next lobby was a bit weaker, 113 points for the win.
Pumped up with the previous race I did a pretty quick lap of 18.9 and I found myself on pole.

Put mediums on and promised myself to go a bit easier to save the rubber just a little bit more this time.
On lap 1 got overtaken by two cars (clearly on softs) and let them go. A lap or two later another car passed.
With a little breathing space behind I just clocked the laps.

After first round of pitstops around lap 7/8 I was 2nd and then the leader pitted on lap 14. Sooo, basically everyone on 2-stops, nice but not celebrating yet, my last laps on used rubber are really slow. Need to be careful not to crash. The original leader of the race caught me before my stop and the second one was close behind.

Reached the end of lap 20, super extra careful while entering the pitlane this time. Success!
Only one driver pitted behind me, so we were the only ones on 1 stop.

I didn't go full fire as I couldn't afford to limp on the last lap too much. So taking things with care, brake balance on the rear and a bit of TCS. The leaders of the race pitted ahead and one rejoined 1.5 seconds ahead of me, so there goes the win. The vice-leader was 2 seconds behind and closing fast. No point in fighting, I had my own battle with tires. Around 8 seconds of space behind.

Nursed them as much as I could and beginning lap 30 I had a small sliver of white bar on the left front.
Finish!

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First two drivers were on 2 stop strategy, but pace-wise they were head and shoulders ahead of me, a complete noob at saving tires. So I consider this result as satisfying.
Podium and 104 points - not bad at all!

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Nice. Man, I wish I was in a higher division. Had a guy in a Ferrari get squirrelly in turn 1, I passed on inside, he comes diving back across, hits me, bounces himself to oblivion, I save my car but get a 3 second penalty. This is lap like 8 or so. Lap 28 I pass him with solid life left on my softs for 5th place. He must have only stopped once. I pit after 8 on soft and then 23 on mediums. He sells out to punt me. With 2 laps to go. When the first crash was his fault too.
 
EMEA GT2, 18:00. Q13/P9

Honestly there isn't so much to say... when you are pushed out 2 times in the first 2 laps...
In these situations I ask myself why to do trainings and tests when this is what is attending you...

I saw a lot of fights in front of me with cars bouncing between walls and once they were again on track were trying to kill anyone found along the road...

I kept my strategy on 1 stop. Medium 21 laps and soft 9 laps.

For sure I didn't do my best laps but in such situation I loose the willignes.
I tought to re-do it but who can guarantee that I could find worse drivers and get a final worse position?

So I take the points and I move to the next one knowing that one race will not counted for the final result.

Good luck to the others and I wish you to find some serious drivers...
 
Struggle today. Qualified 11th, finished 9th. I ran 12/9/9. I should probably have done 14/8/8, but I was never going again. I think everyone in my race ran a different strategy. Things were actually coming together well for my final stint - the picture here I think is a battle for 6th with about as many laps to go, but I got punted off by another GT-R on lap 28 at the end of the esses. I was in 9th then and although there were some cars ahead who ended up with completely red fronts, I didn't make up any more places.

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Really weird race, all things considered. A bit of lag, a lot of people getting penalties at the pits. More than one person going wide at t1. I got overtaken into t1 under yellow flags and there wasn't a penalty. Same when I got punted off.

All in all, a bit weird. I felt really comfortable in practice but miles off it in the race. Oh well.
 
stpatty
Really weird race, all things considered.
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Same.

Did the 7pm slot, started last after being blocked in the chicane by the guy who started 5th (huh?), then got punted by an erratic guy in a 911 who quit after the first stops (most people two-stopping), then got tipped into a spin in the Esses by the only other Mazda (who also span and got six seconds' penalty for it)*, and managed to coax it round basically on my own - except I was getting blue flagged for the final five laps; I let the leader past as I got out of the pits, but I guess he was on 10-lap old Mediums at that point so I got past him when he got a track limits penalty and then he never caught up again - to finish 12th because four people disconnected.

To highlight the low points last time out, that 12th was worth 70pt, compared to 77pt for fourth in R1.

The strategy seemed fine so I went again, started 9th, more or less ran on my own - some people fell off, I followed a Peugeot in 6th for a while before he fell off at the chicane, let a couple of other people past who pitted on lap ten-ish - actually got up into first very briefly before the pre-pitstop leader passed me on lap 19 (I let him through T1; no point scrapping), stopped on 20 for softs to come out in 11th, passed a buuuunch of people who stopped again sometime on lap 24/25...

... then the 4th-place Ferrari I'd been following at a respectful +0.75s brake-checked me in the Esses on lap 29.

Not that it had any particular effect. He was having tyre issues, it seemed, and he was very slow out of T9, tried to sit in the middle of the track, squeezed me as I went right, then gave up. Someone else in the lobby called him "weird" after the race.

Anyway, 110pt for another fourth is more like it.

*Edit: Lol, he's one spot and seven points ahead of me in the Mazda rankings.
 
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Team Ford - GT Race Car '18 - GT2 - Americas - 10 AM EST - 133 points available - Door #7 - Q14 (1:20.120)
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An awful qualifying session -- full of stupid mistakes on my part -- had me starting back in Q14. The plan was a 1-stop, so I started with the RMs.

The first few laps were pretty hectic. Right off the bat, I got pushed into the grass the through T3 and fell back to P16. There was still a lot of race ahead of me, so I did my best to settle in and stay out of trouble. It didn't take long to start picking up positions. The Ford is really strong on the straight, so I picked up some just by getting a decent exit out of the T7. In other cases, such as the one in the photo, other drivers made mistakes and I was promoted.

As the laps went on, and the two-stoppers pitted, the field spread out, and I was able to get clean air to run my laps. By lap 16, I had gotten up to P4, with a large gap to the next car behind. It seemed it was just the four of us attempting a 1-stop. The two cars ahead were struggling with tire wear and I was able to get past both of them before pitting on lap 20 for RSs.

From there it was just a matter of driving out the laps. The leader was out of reach. There was nobody nearby to challenge me. I puttered around at my moose-like pace and crossed the line in P2 for 127 points and 5.2% increase in DR. I'll take that. Thank you very much.


Team Subaru - BRZ GT300 '21 - GT2 - Americas - 12 PM EST - 125 points available - Door #2 - Q13 (1:19.906)
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Qualifying wasn't the same disaster that I had in the Ford, but I just couldn't string together a decent lap, so I found myself starting from the back again. I started on RMs for another one-stop.

As earlier, the first 10 laps were the most hectic. This time there wasn't quite so much chaos. I got myself into a train of cars and mainly played follow-the-leader biding my time as the two-stoppers one-by-one dropped out for pit stops. On lap 17, I was finally on my own in clean air. In P5, if memory serves. Again, it looked like there were just a few drivers trying the one-stop.

I pitted for softs on lap 20 and came out in P9, but it didn't take long until I was promoted back up to P5 from drivers going in for their second pit. There weren't any other cars around, so I figured that was it. But on lap 28, the car ahead went into the grass at T7, so up to P4. Happy days.

And that's where I finished: P4 for 109 points and a 3.5% increase in my DR. I'm more than happy with that.

I have to say I'm happy with my results today, although the one-stop strategy felt a bit like a cheat code. There were plenty of faster drivers on the track with me that would have easily left me in the dust had this been a simple sprint race. The only reason I did as well as I did is because of that strategy choice.
 
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Moose78
I've been using DG Edge lately, but you can also look it up on your profile page on the Gran Turismo website. Neither one shows the percentage as numerical value, but they both show a progress bar and if you use your browser's built-in inspection tool, you can get the numerical value.

What you need to do is
  1. Go to your profile page -- in your case https://www.dg-edge.com/players/Bondwhar
  2. Click on the "Check DR Stats" tab to look up your current level
  3. Press CTRL-SHIFT-c to activate the inspection tool
  4. Hover the mouse pointer over the progress bar so that the progress bar is highlighted
  5. Click the mouse button
  6. In the debug view below, you should see a line highlighted that reads something like, "<span data-v-1884f130="" style="width: 2.72%;"></span>"
  7. The numeric part of "width: 2.72%;" is the percentage
I keep a spreadsheet record of my races, so to get the change, I just compare the latest value to the previous one. I hope that all makes sense.
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Talon16
I never knew about this. I am not signed up to Edge but I presume one could use your GT7 profile page for the same thing?

So, following your steps I was able to select the filled in white part of the bar and below it shows 19.114% full.

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Thus, knowing the A+ bar is 100k DR points (150k max-50k min) one can easily calculate their DR walking up from empty.

50k + .19114(100k) = 69,114 total DR points.

Seems to be pretty in-line with what a lot of the different websites say (though, they do differ some). But best to get it right from the horse's mouth. Llearn something new every day! Thanks Moose.
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Talon16
I dont currently have en Edge account. So when I click on DR information it asks me to log in, so doesn't show me anything. I could make an account I just don't have one at the moment.

This site looks to be right on point as well.

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Had to go back several pages to find all this, Thanks @Talon16 and @Moose78.

I'm just a lowly DR-B
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And when I finally found how to find that % value Talon posted it shows this,
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I come up with a DR value of 15,513.7243. Admittedly, I'm not the best at mathing, especially on a Saturday evening. Would someone care to check my figures?

Thanks in advance.
 
Dragonwhisky
Would someone care to check my figures?
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You're DR B, therefore the bar is showing the progress from 10,000pt to 30,000pt. In other words, the bar is 20,000pt long.

The bar is 27.57% complete, and therefore 5,514pt long.

DR B starts at 10,000pt, so your total score is 10,000 + 5,514, or 15,514pt.
 
Dragonwhisky
Had to go back several pages to find all this, Thanks @Talon16 and @Moose78.

I'm just a lowly DR-B
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And when I finally found how to find that % value Talon posted it shows this,
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I come up with a DR value of 15,513.7243. Admittedly, I'm not the best at mathing, especially on a Saturday evening. Would someone care to check my figures?

Thanks in advance.
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You're 27.57% into DR B. DR B is 10k thru 30k, thus there are 20k points available within B ranking. 10k + .2757 x 20k = 15,514. So yea, I get the same as you.

Well done, keep pushing! :cheers:

All that being said, this site gave me the exact same number that doing the code/math did. So you can always use this to verify. And, if they don't match... take whichever is higher. :D (Also some sights might take a bit longer to update if you just finished a race.)

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ETA: Just now seeing the above post. Same same.
 
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tmtk
Okay, I usually don't do this unless a disaster happens, but I had to run this race twice.
There wasn't a disaster, but something strange, went to the pitlane on lap 20, did not cross the line, but I hit the inside wall of the pitlane, stuck a bit at it, tried to reverse to position myself into entering and the game teleported me onto start/finish line.
An extra lap on dead mediums, just what I needed... 🤣

Finished outside top 8 and got a DR hit. Next lobby was a bit weaker, 113 points for the win.
Pumped up with the previous race I did a pretty quick lap of 18.9 and I found myself on pole.

Put mediums on and promised myself to go a bit easier to save the rubber just a little bit more this time.
On lap 1 got overtaken by two cars (clearly on softs) and let them go. A lap or two later another car passed.
With a little breathing space behind I just clocked the laps.

After first round of pitstops around lap 7/8 I was 2nd and then the leader pitted on lap 14. Sooo, basically everyone on 2-stops, nice but not celebrating yet, my last laps on used rubber are really slow. Need to be careful not to crash. The original leader of the race caught me before my stop and the second one was close behind.

Reached the end of lap 20, super extra careful while entering the pitlane this time. Success!
Only one driver pitted behind me, so we were the only ones on 1 stop.

I didn't go full fire as I couldn't afford to limp on the last lap too much. So taking things with care, brake balance on the rear and a bit of TCS. The leaders of the race pitted ahead and one rejoined 1.5 seconds ahead of me, so there goes the win. The vice-leader was 2 seconds behind and closing fast. No point in fighting, I had my own battle with tires. Around 8 seconds of space behind.

Nursed them as much as I could and beginning lap 30 I had a small sliver of white bar on the left front.
Finish!

View attachment 1492238

First two drivers were on 2 stop strategy, but pace-wise they were head and shoulders ahead of me, a complete noob at saving tires. So I consider this result as satisfying.
Podium and 104 points - not bad at all!

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Nicely done! But that first slot sounded like a nightmare. At least you recovered well in the second attempt!
 
I had high hopes for this race. My lobby practice in the week was proving that I was able to hang with some very fast A+ drivers.

Slot 1 EMEA door #12 45K DR lobby.
Qualified with a 1:18.1xx for 2nd on the grid

218 points on offer FTW (10 more than round 1)
If ever a race required muscle memory, it was this one. Stuck to the same strategy I had practiced in the week, 19 RM, 11 RS and it paid off! To take home my second win for Renault (the only one on the grid), to make it 2 wins in 2 rounds.

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I absolutely love this car and I don't understand why more people haven't signed for them this season. Currently 3rd in EMEA for Renault and 129th Overall.



On to Brazil for an outing in the GR4's!
 
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GT1 7pm, Q15 (last) on medium, because why not.
On the first lap I climb to 10th, because of few skirmishes going ahead of me, lose control on my own fault, end up in the grass, dead last, way behind. All is lost, but I am not a quitter. So I decide to try the 1 stop strategy. End up finishing 10th.

GT1 9pm, Q7 on soft, .603 behind pole. A very satisfying fun clean race, no penalities. I started on Medium, did 2 clean pass, and pitted once at end of 20th lap.
Ended up finishing 4th. But 8 seconds behind 1st... should have gone with the 2 stops like 1,2,3 did.
 
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Man That race was sooo hard…Spun out all three races because my tires were gone!! Any time is x4 race I know it’s over for me… Some people were running mid 18 on medium tires like what!?! Took 9th 😭😭😭

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Sadly couldn’t make GT1 time slots work for me so didn’t get to run, which is mildly annoying as it probably is my strongest combo of the season.

Well done to everyone who did get to run, seems it was either a very drama heavy race or a reeeeeaaalllly long uneventful race!
 
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Sadly couldn’t make GT1 time slots work for me so didn’t get to run, which is mildly annoying as it probably is my strongest combo of the season.

Well done to everyone who did get to run, seems it was either a very drama heavy race or a reeeeeaaalllly long uneventful race!
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Extremely stressful tonight for me man.. one race I went from P5 to P11 all on last lap!
 

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