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

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Team Ford - Mustang Gr.4 - GT2 - Americas - 11 AM EST - 137 points available - Door #4 - Q7 (1:14.582)
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My expectations were pretty low, but this was worse than I anticipated, including the move by the Ferrari pictured above. Apparently, he felt I'd left the door open and dove inside. I'll add when the photo was taken, he'd already hit me wide of the apex.

But at least he gave me space on the exit...
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Nope.

I was pushed out on two other occasions, too, losing positions each time.

Crossed the line, annoyed, in P11 for 80 points and a 2.6% hit to my DR. Got the Clean Race Bonus, though.


Team Subaru - WRX Gr.4 - GT2 - Americas - 12 PM EST - 133 points available - Door #6 - Q10 (1:14.474)
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This was a much cleaner race. I still wasn't fast, but I had some good, close racing with several different drivers. I should have enjoyed it more, but the Ford race had left a bad taste in my mouth, and I spent the whole race annoyed and expecting the worst from the other drivers.

I got the final corner wrong on lap 8 and went into the wall, picking up a 0.5s penalty, so when I took the penalty on lap 9, I decided to go in to the pits to lessen the impact a bit.

I finished in P9 for 89 points and 0.5% drop in DR. Clean race bonus, again.
 
Bit of an unexpected busy day, so lacked time, but managed to do a race on my alt account. Decided to use the Alteza gr 4 although I am very slow in it , but it looks better then the Mazda 3, although I am almost a second faster with that one. Best lap in the Alteza is around 1.14.8, in the Mazda 3 it's 1.14.0.
I'm not very smart, I know...:dunce:

So entered a GT 3 lobby and qualified with a pretty horrible 1.15.4, still got third place, behind an Honda and a Porsche, Both qualified around 1.14.7 or so.

But at the end of lap one I did find myself in the lead, one made a small mistake at turn one, the other hit the wall at the final turn.
Was leading for about 13 laps, both were much faster then me but because the seem to fight eachother they stayed a few seconds behind me. Meanwhile some Suzuki driver did the fastest lap, a 1.14.5! For comparison: mine was 1.15.2, but most laps were much slower! :indiff:

I pitted and changed tyres and a few laps later everybody else pitted and to my surprise my lead had actually increased! But around 4 seconds behind me came that Suzuki who had the fastest lap and he gained on me big time. lap 20 he was already right behind me and a lap later I made a mistake and hit a barrier and he took the lead and won the race. Well deserved win for him, he was by far the fastest!

Thought about doing the 22.00 hrs race on my main account but it is not really a fun race, that U-turn will either brake my thumb or my controller, or perhaps even both, so why bother....

Likely I can not do a race coming Saturday which is a shame as I really like that track.

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So this was an uneventful Gr4 Race to be honest, I got punted left right and center by a crazy german dude in a cayman, wasnt really sure why he kept hitting me but oh well and ended up last through most of the race, couple sof errors then recovery, then got up to 13th place only to be lapped by the leader, I kinda laughed it off but felt underwhelmed and wasted.

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Wilsonson
Here is a guide by Calster. He calls some of the corners some of the hardest in the game.



I participated in a random lobby test race. Managed a 13.5 in quali. Then got spun coming out of the first hairpin. Now had to battle slower drivers which was a good test. It was extremely hard for me to pass anyone. Skill issue. Tried to undercut but made way too many errors. Total race time of 29:30. Slow.

I feel like there is a lot of potential for lots of carnage if anyone feels like elbows out.
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Thanks for posting Calster’s video; his advice on T1 was very helpful!! Haven’t won a cup race before so the last lap was rather nervous!!
 

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Rnd6....

Found a YT tuning video for 991, some quite drastic changes to stock. Admittedly the vid says setting not necessarily quick just easier....20 laps on each setup, did pretty much identical times, did it feel any easier...possibly??? or might just be all in the mind.

Was hitting same speed (163) at end of start straight, but had to go into 6th with stock settup to stop hitting the limiter. Crossing finish line was same speed @ 160 for both setups.

Struggling with hairpin....having to do F1 Monaco style and grab underneath wheel (McLaren v3) to get all the way over one handed

All very tentative with broken pedal, hoping it won't collapse any time soon!
 
Decent race for me.. Qualified P5 finished P4 235pt.. Should have practiced more but work was busy. I hit a 12.8 in free practice but my confidence level during the race wasn’t there should have got P3 if I hit my pace. Bring on the final round!
 
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GT1 Asia - McLaren - Door 7 - 264 point A+ lobby (and the only non Japanese driver)

Well, that was a pleasant surprise! After narrowly missing the win by 0.1 sec at RBR, I managed to secure my first proper manufacturers win!

Put some solid laps in qualifying in the 650s, and managed to secure pole with a 1.12.70, 0.2 ahead of 2nd place.

Raced started smoothly, with a Lamborghini right on my tail for the first 6 laps, but a solid gap to 3rd. He eventually made a move into the hairpin after carrying more speed through the tricky right hand turn 3, so I gave him plenty of space and tucked in behind. Nice to see his appreciation with a flick of the indicators once he took the lead.

I pitted immediately to get into some space and a rhythm, no tyres or fuel, and came out into a nice amount of free space. Gradually reduced the gap to the
lead two cars who were yet to pit, and when they pitted on the penultimate lap, I was about 17 seconds back. Both came out straight into a 3 way battle for 2nd, and I was able to cruise on for the win!

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Managed to stay in the 1m13s all race except for the final lap, and a race time of 28:45.

Having my best season so far, 1st in my area, 2nd for McLaren and 35th overall in Asia. Hopefully I can break into the top 30 with a good result on Saturday night
 
Overall fun race GT1 7pm est slot
Q7, .260 behind pole. Very close qualif.

First lap there is an accident many car involved, I see an opening with smoke, a la Days of Thunder I floor it.
I rear end a car that was stuck in the middle. He gets back in the race full speed while I lose positions down to p13.

I climbed up to 6th, close battle, with 5th and 4th. I pitted half way, I did not switch tires. Last few laps were slower, but managed P5.

Everytime I try to save my replays it says "not enough space", I freed up a lot and it still complains.
 
fardoche
Everytime I try to save my replays it says "not enough space", I freed up a lot and it still complains.
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GT7 has a separate storage area from the rest of the PS storage. Look under the Options menu in the game and there is an item titled 'Storage' (I think) where you can see how much of it is in use. It is a fixed size -- maybe 1 or 2 GB. There's no way to increase it, even if there is lots of free space on the PS.

I ran into the same problem a while back. I ended up deleting a bunch of old replays to make space for new ones.
 
Just finished my race
Car #9 in a high drB (+ 2 drA) lobby
Started the race in p3 and had a run for p2 into turn 1 at the start but couldn’t quite make the pass so backed out pack in p3. Stayed with for around 5/6 lap but the Lamborghini in p1 decided to take a trip into the barrier of turn 6 and log out.
Took a penalty for touching the barrier back onto the oval and pitted on the same lap as serving it (lap 7). Changed tire to try and undercut the leader but I just couldn’t find enough pace and had to overtake a car in p13.
In the end I finished 3rd so I didn’t really lost a place and overall clean racing and a healthy 132 points for me😁
 
Fun but somewhat uneventful race. You folks in GT1 are crazy because I don’t know how anyone is cracking 1:14 much less 13 and below. Q12 after barely hitting under 1:15, slightly below my best pace.

Around lap 3, I did slam into a Huracán who braked a tad early than expected in turn 1. Served 3 second penalty dropping me down to 14th. 😑

From there, it was a grind to get past the bunched up group of P9-13. Eventually, they started bickering and after a few bumps between them and loss of pace for others, I sailed past and got to 8th.

After pitting on Lap 13, I dropped from 5 to P8. Had a nice multi lap joust with a Supra who did get the better of me on a few laps. But eventually, I did capitalize on a mistake he made and built a safe gap from there.

Q12=>P8 for 50 in GT3, holding my own among the low DR Bs. Not too shabby.

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Tidgney to the rescue again:

Looks like a very similar race to this one so lap guide should still be good

Not feeling confident as I don't do the dailies and it seems like this comes up often so will expect some experienced drivers around.

Did help using the dg-edge setup for the Porsche, makes the car much more stable - don't know if it will affect tyre wear though.
 
Moose78
GT7 has a separate storage area from the rest of the PS storage. Look under the Options menu in the game and there is an item titled 'Storage' (I think) where you can see how much of it is in use. It is a fixed size -- maybe 1 or 2 GB. There's no way to increase it, even if there is lots of free space on the PS.

I ran into the same problem a while back. I ended up deleting a bunch of old replays to make space for new ones.
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Before you delete your replays, you can share them and save them to your collection. That will free up space without losing your old replays.
 
I've only just started doing some strategy testing for this final round -- just doing a full-field practice race in each car to see how long the RM tires will last. I tested the Subaru BRZ GT300 '21, the Subaru WRX Gr.3, and Ford GT Race Car '18. Default BoP settings. Afternoon S04 weather.

In all of those, the RM tires lasted most of the race without much change in lap times until they are nearly completely worn. I'm guessing most cars will only need to do 1-4 laps on the RHs.
 

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