Gran Turismo World Series (Nations Cup 2025 Exhibition Season 3: 15 Oct - 1 Nov)

[Bondwhar]

Tried to race at 17:00 UK 🇬🇧 time and went out to set a Q time and my accelerator wouldn’t work 😳 in that it wouldn’t change gear.
Have to go again at 19:00 and hope it works 🤭🤭

 

[AttackRabbit]

I've had my paddles stop working several times recently. Accelerator, brake and steering all continue to work fine but gear changes become impossibles unless i drive with a pad on my lap to gear change on.

 

[bduddy]

I've had my paddles stop working several times recently. Accelerator, brake and steering all continue to work fine but gear changes become impossibles unless i drive with a pad on my lap to gear change on.

Do you have a wheel that comes off from the wheelbase? It probably means the wheel is loose.

 

[Moose78]

I ran the 12 PM EDT GT2 slot in North America. A lot of familiar faces in the all B/S lobby, including @tmtk (good to see you again, 👋 ). I was in door #5, driving the Porsche, with 117 on offer.

With time only for one flying lap in qualifying, I played it pretty conservatively. At least I thought I did. I posted a 3:33.401, which is just 0.4 off the best I did in Free Practice. Somehow that landed me in Q4, a couple positions back from @tmtk.

The weather radar showed that it was going to be a dry race, so I stayed on the RMs.

The race got off to a decent start. I took Dunlop perhaps a little too cautiously, which bunched up the the cars behind me a bit, while the front three took off. I saw that @tmtk picked up an early penalty.

Meanwhile, the green Toyota behind me was getting the benefit of my slipstream. They gave me a bump once on the Mulsanne straight, but as we approached Mulsanne corner, they got past me. Down to P5.

I was promoted back to P4 as @tmtk took his penalty. Then to P3, as the green Toyota spun out exiting the Ford chicane.

The two leaders were rapid and quickly fell out of reach.

For the rest of the race I was watching my rear-view mirror, expecting @tmtk's NISMO to catch up. I figured he'd eventually get by me on a straight and I could comfortably ride the coat tails of his slipstream to a P4 finish.

It took longer than I expected, but on lap 4, @tmtk caught me, but instead of flying by, he gave me a push.

Thanks for that, @tmtk!

We stayed pretty close after that. I build a bit of a gap in the corners and he'd close it again on the straights.

I crossed the line in P3 for 107 points and a 4% DR gain. A happy end to the season.

 

[AttackRabbit]

Do you have a wheel that comes off from the wheelbase? It probably means the wheel is loose.

I do, I did not think to check that. Thanks for pointing it out - I've done it up tighter and hopefully when I manage to get on this evening it all goes well...

 

[Bondwhar]

Tried to race at 17:00 UK 🇬🇧 time and went out to set a Q time and my accelerator wouldn’t work 😳 in that it wouldn’t change gear.
Have to go again at 19:00 and hope it works 🤭🤭

Thanks as always for the support. Complete PS5 re-boot and successfully managed to race at 19:00.
A fully wet race and all in VR was an experience and a half especially at night with the lap details etc slap bang where I need to look 👀.
Any ways, Q’d 9th and finished 7th so that’s good enough for me. 🥳🥳🥳

I ran the 12 PM EDT GT2 slot in North America. A lot of familiar faces in the all B/S lobby, including @tmtk (good to see you again, 👋 ). I was in door #5, driving the Porsche, with 117 on offer.

With time only for one flying lap in qualifying, I played it pretty conservatively. At least I thought I did. I posted a 3:33.401, which is just 0.4 off the best I did in Free Practice. Somehow that landed me in Q4, a couple positions back from @tmtk.

The weather radar showed that it was going to be a dry race, so I stayed on the RMs.

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The race got off to a decent start. I took Dunlop perhaps a little too cautiously, which bunched up the the cars behind me a bit, while the front three took off. I saw that @tmtk picked up an early penalty.

Meanwhile, the green Toyota behind me was getting the benefit of my slipstream. They gave me a bump once on the Mulsanne straight, but as we approached Mulsanne corner, they got past me. Down to P5.

I was promoted back to P4 as @tmtk took his penalty. Then to P3, as the green Toyota spun out exiting the Ford chicane.

The two leaders were rapid and quickly fell out of reach.

For the rest of the race I was watching my rear-view mirror, expecting @tmtk's NISMO to catch up. I figured he'd eventually get by me on a straight and I could comfortably ride the coat tails of his slipstream to a P4 finish.

It took longer than I expected, but on lap 4, @tmtk caught me, but instead of flying by, he gave me a push.
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Thanks for that, @tmtk!

We stayed pretty close after that. I build a bit of a gap in the corners and he'd close it again on the straights.

I crossed the line in P3 for 107 points and a 4% DR gain. A happy end to the season.

Moose, great write up, how do you know your DR went up by 4%? I would be interested to know how you find that info 🥸
Thanks in advance 🫶🏻🫶🏻😇

 

[Fido_le_muet]

EMEA 21:00 race GT2
Completely botched the race. Qualified 3rd, finished P12 ...
For some reason, the Nismo didn't handle like it did in practice/quali.
Spun at Indianapolis while I usually could (and still can) send it at that turn.
And my best laps were 3-4 seconds slower than in practice.
Absolutely no idea why.
Last EMEA spot now. Hope I can do better

 

[stpatty]

First slot, started 2nd finished 6th. I was in 3rd for almost all the race, my tyres were gone by the Porsche curves on the last lap and it all fell apart. The race was completely dry, so the Nissan was struggling a bit by the end.

Second slot, started 5th with a pretty poor lap. This race had rain and I went with inters. It was basically full wet conditions for 90% of the first four laps, but inters were the only choice. I passed another GT-R on the last lap who was on wets and could barely turn at all.

Second slot wasn't very good. Pole disconnected after one corner and I was in 4th. I got a penalty at Tertre Rogue and then got bumped at Indianapolis before I served it. Next lap I was about a pixel over the line at the Ford chicane, I ended up 12th but still with decent pace compared to the leaders. I scraped back to 6th with a lap to go. 7th teleported past me at the start of the last lap (I'll post a video of this tomorrow) and I had a close run with him on the last lap, including a side by side moment at Indianapolis:

Actually, highlight of this race was catching a puddle going into the Porsche curves and ending up sideways:

That's as much smoke as spray. It's weird that I finished 6th in both races with one feeling like a real letdown, the other like something I had to fight for and get back to. Neither really feels good, but I can't do this last slot so that's that.

There's a lot to criticise PD for but the LMP1 bop that makes each car viable in a race like this deserves some praise. There was a good mix of all four cars in my races and they all seemed good.

 

[AttackRabbit]

VR race as usual, absolutely love the weather and day / night cycle in a tiny cockpit view Wheel held up, tightening it seems to have done the job Qualified 1st, was 3rd by end of lap 1 then we had a touch of rain on lap 4 which saw me take 1sy back as the front 2 span out big time at the Arnage Bends then me and one other guy took off and battled it out for the remainder of the race with me taking him on lap 7 along the Mulsanne Straight just before the 1st chicane and he vanished into the distance behind somewhere...job done, qualified 1st, fastest lap and finished 1st (all that for a lovely 4 points...I need to get out of D ). Only had a minute or so of rain on lap 4 and it passed pretty quickly.
VR definitely needs a bit more hud info, splits to car infront / behind would be great, more than that would be amazing

 

[ZEE]

Well Round 6 was horrednous to say the least. I'm sorry to say PD, but this was an absolute bollox combo, I tried 3 races, the first one with the Porsche 919 and it was meh, wet weather killed it all and lots of bad driving. 2nd time with the Audi R18 but had no wet tires so just rage quit the race after spinning out multipel times, because I was ill prepared.

Third time got all the tyres for the goddamn car, a bad qualifying session only to realise there was hardly any rain, so raced on wet tyres till lap 5 then changed onto RM tyres. All the while the race was screwed becuase i got punted off to the gravel pit on lap 1 by a pesky german driver!!! Never again, was doing so well this exhibition only to get a ****** last race with no thought or plan to showcase a final race of finals.

Why try to emulate a day to night cycle in only 7 laps it makes no sense?? Also make the weather stick why do it randomise and then we have no choice or option to change tyre combos so dumb!!!

 

[Moose78]

Moose, great write up, how do you know your DR went up by 4%? I would be interested to know how you find that info 🥸
Thanks in advance 🫶🏻🫶🏻😇

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.

 

[TAU_GTP]

This has been my best season by far!

Top 5 in every race, 2 wins and a good gain in DR (about 25% of the bar to go till A+...). Still can't quite believe I pulled this off 🤯

 

[Wilsonson]

I ran the last two slots available in GT2 EMEA. Weirdly the 2nd race only awarded 87 points for first after I had scored 104 in a 132 point lobby the race before. Does anybody know if it is possible to quit this race before qualifying starts (straight away) or would I definitely get zero points then?

Both my races were good fun. Q7/P6 in an intense rain battle in the first one.

In the second one I beat my PB from the little practice I had beforehand and started Q2.

I was a little distracted and didn't look at the radar right away. Therefore I wasn't able to see it through to the end. Big mistake. What looked like massive rain was already gone. My inters had to deal with a completely dry track and no further rain in sight. While I was able to keep up with all but the pole sitter the inters would never last the distance. Therefore I came in for mediums after lap 1. Despite tons of penalties due to a lack of concentration I managed to fight my way back to P6.

The points didn't matter because they were below my 2nd lowest but it was still a nice race.

While I am now dangerously close to DR A for the first time I also slipped down to SR A for the first time in forever due to the many penalties.

On the bright side I managed to get the gold reward in all 4 categories.

I am totally looking forward to a new GTWS series. It is always great fun.

 

[dazdilly75]

Well, that definitely went better than expected.
Slot 1 CET GT1 league 40K+ DR as I continue to build.this new account. Managed to qualify on pole in 3:30.059. Would have hit a mid 29 but I messed up the last chicane.

No rain, and the nearest GTR was 4 places back in 5th. I had a nice buffer of 3 Porsches and and Toyota to the Nissan. I'm terrified of that car! Especially in a dry race as this would turn out to be.

My faith in the R18 as the overall best package for this combo would be repaid, as I got out early and managed to pull a gap from the chasing pack, after only 2 laps. Due to fighting between the Porsches and the menacing GTR, guys behind were picking up minor penalties, which allowed me to get away from the chasing pack of 5 cars.

This was my best scoring round so far
( 206 points), and my second win of the season, both of which have come in the GR1 class. Group C at Monza and LMP1 at Le Mans. Even though I missed both RB rounds, I've still managed to bag 6.5 Million credits and an overall finish just outside the top 200 EMEA.

My thoughts about this nations, is that PD wasted a great opportunity to give us something new, instead of 2 rounds in the RB. I just don't get it? We have over 500+ cars in the game and we get that twice!?

But, the other combos were really fun and challenging. I'm looking forward to the online changes coming in the spec 3 update! Who knows, we might even get bigger grids!?

Overall, It's been a good fun EX3 2025 season! I'm just greatful to have some official Esports back on the calender. Let's see what they give us for Manufacturers!

My race is attached for anyone who wants a watch...

 

[MooFasa716]

Why can't the game developers give you at least a hint to what the weather will be like ...and why don't they ghost cars during qualifying....I mean this is starting to make me hate the game .😔.... They take a good game and literally turn it to crap

 

[harryschell]

Did the 12 pm in the Porsche 919 slot excited about my good pace but it was a (mostly) self induced disaster all around for 12th. Have another go at 1pm and of course I'm bumped up to a much faster lobby. Then, even with a big gap ahead of me in qualifying I get bottled up starting at the Porsche curves all the way to the finish and lose at least 2 seconds. Everything bad that was going on so far was turning into good news though. Still ended up 6th with a 3:35.xxx which boosted my confidence as I can reliably do high 3:31s.
At the start P3 went off at the Dunlop curves and up to 5th I go. P6 meanwhile went off exiting the curve preceding Tertre Rouge and I was in the draft of the Nissan I was stuck behind in qualifying. Perfect, now there's a gap out of the draft behind me and the Nissan will tow me up the straight. This worked great especially after getting the Tertre Rouge penalty twice in the dark. That second penalty had me really kicking myself when P6 now was threatening to get back in the draft. Instead his mistake out of the final chicane got me a comfortable gap again. My pace really picked up with daylight, and came back up on the tail of the P4 Nissan again after he had his own moments. These also gave him two penalties for a full second and I hung on his tail to the penalty gate and turned on the afterburners. I created a gap from there and came stayed there for 4th.
Got the most points of the season in this race and really had no chance against the race pace of the top three so I called it there very happily. I'll just try more free practice for fun and give the Nissan a go to see how it handles.

What's the deal with the gears/shifting in the GT-R? The replay of the top time on the leaderboard shifts straight from 3rd to 5th.

This is double shifting. I just copy what others have figured out but I guess some cars have torque cures and gearing that allow to skip a gear by rapidly hitting the upshift paddle/button. The car still accelerates just as well, sometimes with less wheel spin and some more stabilty on corner exit, and and saves some time on a gear shift.

 

[MetalApe]

First slot, started 2nd finished 6th. I was in 3rd for almost all the race, my tyres were gone by the Porsche curves on the last lap and it all fell apart. The race was completely dry, so the Nissan was struggling a bit by the end.

Second slot, started 5th with a pretty poor lap. This race had rain and I went with inters. It was basically full wet conditions for 90% of the first four laps, but inters were the only choice. I passed another GT-R on the last lap who was on wets and could barely turn at all.

Second slot wasn't very good. Pole disconnected after one corner and I was in 4th. I got a penalty at Tertre Rogue and then got bumped at Indianapolis before I served it. Next lap I was about a pixel over the line at the Ford chicane, I ended up 12th but still with decent pace compared to the leaders. I scraped back to 6th with a lap to go. 7th teleported past me at the start of the last lap (I'll post a video of this tomorrow) and I had a close run with him on the last lap, including a side by side moment at Indianapolis:

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Actually, highlight of this race was catching a puddle going into the Porsche curves and ending up sideways:

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That's as much smoke as spray. It's weird that I finished 6th in both races with one feeling like a real letdown, the other like something I had to fight for and get back to. Neither really feels good, but I can't do this last slot so that's that.

There's a lot to criticise PD for but the LMP1 bop that makes each car viable in a race like this deserves some praise. There was a good mix of all four cars in my races and they all seemed good.

Did I vanish before the results came up in that race? I crossed the line in I think 5th, was that you off at the final chicane? Took my headset off as the results counted down, when I put it back on I had the dreaded "Remove headset and follow instructions on screen" error, which generally means it's disconnected me from the game. Then in the championship I see I got zero points!

I did that as I was in a mad rush at the end, I had a gig to go to at the Hammesmith Odeon a mile down the road, with the first band on 20 minutes after the race finished. (I made it there only 3 minutes late).

 

[Bondwhar]

I ran the last two slots available in GT2 EMEA. Weirdly the 2nd race only awarded 87 points for first after I had scored 104 in a 132 point lobby the race before. Does anybody know if it is possible to quit this race before qualifying starts (straight away) or would I definitely get zero points then?

Both my races were good fun. Q7/P6 in an intense rain battle in the first one.

In the second one I beat my PB from the little practice I had beforehand and started Q2.
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I was a little distracted and didn't look at the radar right away. Therefore I wasn't able to see it through to the end. Big mistake. What looked like massive rain was already gone. My inters had to deal with a completely dry track and no further rain in sight. While I was able to keep up with all but the pole sitter the inters would never last the distance. Therefore I came in for mediums after lap 1. Despite tons of penalties due to a lack of concentration I managed to fight my way back to P6.
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The points didn't matter because they were below my 2nd lowest but it was still a nice race.

While I am now dangerously close to DR A for the first time I also slipped down to SR A for the first time in forever due to the many penalties.

On the bright side I managed to get the gold reward in all 4 categories.
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I am totally looking forward to a new GTWS series. It is always great fun.

Great driving 👍, with regard quitting before the qualifying I’m not sure but be aware both the DR & SR is adjusted if you leave during the Q period as this happened to me when my pedals didn’t work and I had to leave the lobby. I don’t know 🤷‍♂️ if leaving during the warm up would do the same, but I suspect it would 😎

 

[Moose78]

Golds across the board. 5 million credits. I'll take that.

Of course, running these events in my mid-B-ranked alt account gave me an easier time of it. For Nations Cup events like these, I should probably be in low-to-mid A-ranked lobbies for competitive races.

After all the good results this season, I now have my DR on both accounts right around where I want it for Manu Cup -- in the high B range. I'm all set to try something new this season: doing two manufacturers simultaneously. We'll see how that goes.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

I had a lot of fun in this Nations season. It was maybe a little heavy on the X2019s, but I don't mind driving those. I wish we could have had a race with some slower road cars.

I do like these races where we had to choose from a subset of BoP'ed cars from a category (Lago Maggiore and Le Mans). They gave me a chance to drive some cars that I ordinarily wouldn't.

I'm still not a fan of the specially tuned cars like we had a Suzuka since there's no way to practice driving them outside of the Free Practice mode.

There was a lot more weather this season than any I can remember. Of course, I only saw it when it was scripted. Whenever we have random weather, I seem to only get dry race. The day-to-night-to-day transition at Le Mans was fun, too.

I found the twice-a-week schedule pretty demanding. I much preferred the once-a-week format we had a while back.

All-in-all a good time, though.

As always, it's been great following everybody's results on this thread and even getting a chance to race with some of you (looking at you, @tmtk).



I expect we'll see a Manu Cup season announced soon. See you all again then.

 

[stpatty]

Did I vanish before the results came up in that race? I crossed the line in I think 5th, was that you off at the final chicane? Took my headset off as the results counted down, when I put it back on I had the dreaded "Remove headset and follow instructions on screen" error, which generally means it's disconnected me from the game. Then in the championship I see I got zero points!

I did that as I was in a mad rush at the end, I had a gig to go to at the Hammesmith Odeon a mile down the road, with the first band on 20 minutes after the race finished. (I made it there only 3 minutes late).

Yeah I knew you had finished ahead of me and noticed you weren't on the standings. It said you were down in 14th/15th, I don't remember if you had a time listed. Guess my race could have gone worse after all

 

[MIE1992]

Ah, I would’ve really liked to do that last round at Le Mans but I had personal matters to contend with. My national and regional ranks even dropped a bit by this morning, but it’s fine because I still was able to secure the full 5m!

 

[Talon16]

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.

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.

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.

 

[dazdilly75]

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.

Hey Bud, the steps should lead you to an actual clear numerical figure of ypur current DR. There isn't any working out to do.

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3

Step 4:

Step 5:

I mixed up steps 4 and 5 but you get the idea!

 

[Talon16]

Hey Bud, the steps should lead you to an actual clear numerical figure of ypur current DR. There isn't any working out to do.

Step 1:

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Step 2:
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Step 4:
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I mixed up steps 4 and 5 but you get the idea!

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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Check out your driver rating at GTStats.Live!

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[bduddy]

What's the deal with the gears/shifting in the GT-R? The replay of the top time on the leaderboard shifts straight from 3rd to 5th.

So people figured out that if you still have battery, which you usually do, then skipping 4th is faster.

More importantly, people figured out that somehow, the GT-R has no actual cap on battery - you can charge the battery way past 100% on the UI. This mattered mostly in qualifying, where some people drove around for the whole outlap at half throttle, so it never deployed, meaning they had hybrid all the way to and sometimes past Tetre Rouge (since the GT-R also has no cap on how fast you're going to deploy the battery). Fun times... I still went with the R18 since that's what I practiced with, but it felt like the 4th fastest car out there. Or it was just me...

 

[harryschell]

My final results had me slide back further in the standings, but I don't care, with the two X2019 races being a good surprise I really enjoyed all the car/track combos in every race. Just for more fun I gave the Nissan a go in free practice at Le mans. Got to the third kink right before Indianapolis and and bang, around it went, just like everyone had said. I twas really a hoot wrangling it to that point, but I put it aside then and went for a faster time in the 919 and did knock it down to a 3:29.738. Got me to 591 on the leader board for a small petty vanity victory.

I've enjoyed reading and seeing all of your race experiences and am quite grateful for the good fortune of mostly very clean racing coupled with good competition. Plus I did hit that stupid in game storage limit, pruned off some replays and was able to save my two Le Mans races. Never done Manufacturers cup so I hope to see it come back soon for some more fun.