Gran Turismo World Series 2024 Thread

[Interemptor]

GT2 - EMEA - Mid B - Door #11 - 117pts for the win

Can't skip the Nordschleife after all 😅 Dissapointed that there was no rain and we had to run those damn Hards for the whole race.

Quali was awful. P12 with a really bad lap and lots of mistakes

The race was a destruction derby for the most part. Made really good progress through the first lap with a highest position of 5th due to lots of fighting and crashing in front.

At Wipperman a Porsche in front was braking really early and I hit him. Did not expect him to brake so early. Called me retarted afterwards. Watched the replay and don't know. He was fighting the car it seemed and braking a lot earlier then you normaly would. Probably should have waited either way 😕

Slipped back to P7 after that and had a great fight with another Porsche over the next 2 laps. Switched positions a couple of times and after I ran wide at Wehrseifen he was ahead and I couldn't catch him.

Another car infront spun out which handed me P6 and I finished there for 93points. Not a bad race overall I guess but definitly my last race for Lamborghini. We'll see what the next Manu Series will bring.

 

[Norbsthebald]

Does anyone know if there is enough time between GT2 races to be able to make the next slot?

Just about but don't hang around.... (I'm on a base PS4 as well so most folk will have faster loading than me)

 

[dazdilly75]

The only difference between the 2 races this week (apart from the layout) is the time of day are at opposite ends of the scale. Early morning for Daily C and sunset for Manu. The cars are a lot less slippery for the Manu race, so the tyres should warm up faster. I think the track temps were 7c for Daily C and 14c for Manu. Take it easy in the GP section and by the time you hit the forest, the tyres should be at optimum temp. Good luck guys!

 

[jimihemmy]

Just about but don't hang around.... (I'm on a base PS4 as well so most folk will have faster loading than me)

My issue is switching accounts to race my alts too. I’m on a PS5 but that still may not be enough time to exit the race, switch accounts, load GT7 and get in the race on time.

It will be the difference between doing 3 straight and doing every other….

 

[Norbsthebald]

My issue is switching accounts to race my alts too. I’m on a PS5 but that still may not be enough time to exit the race, switch accounts, load GT7 and get in the race on time.

It will be the difference between doing 3 straight and doing every other….

I switched between my AO and EMEA accounts when I did that change so you'll be good.

 

[jimihemmy]

I switched between my AO and EMEA accounts when I did that change so you'll be good.

Good to know!
As long as I have 5 minutes I should make it.
I’m about to find out as I am about to do NA slot 1 on the main. That’s the one I really want to do.

The others are just for the points.

 

[stpatty]

Started 3rd, 2 seconds or so off pole. Moved up to 2nd at the first corner as a Merc was lagging and braked really early. Stuck it out behind the Supra in front fairly well until I slid wide and into the wall just after the Karussell. Lost 2nd to a Porsche in the run up to Flugplatz on lap 2. Kept it in 3rd and had a chance to pass the Porsche on the straight at the end, got alongside him after he was weaving a lot but right as we went under the bridge there was a massive lag spike (watching the replay, about a full car's length ffs) so I backed off.

I'm not taking a picture of me with the Porsche because it has a stupid livery so here's my massive dive at the start (it was a dive but I got it stopped)

Disappointing that two or three mistakes ended up costing me but after racing Supras, Porsches and AMGs here in Race C I'm really not surprised I didn't quite have the pace to keep with them. I lost about a second on the straight alone to that Supra. Still, a decent result and about the best I could do.

 

[Zorz]

I'm going to be honest, I'm glad the season is over. Only taking one shot at that today because it's a dull race and doing it in the Renault felt like a mistake. Just another race where I've felt like I have to push the car insanely hard to try be even the slightest bit competitive.

I qualified P6, survived the start cleanly, even managed to build a bit of a gap to P7 across the lap. Coming back onto the GP circuit for lap 2, I've suddenly got a Supra looming large in my wing mirror. That completely threw me off because the gap evaporated out of nowhere. Checking the replay, I got up to 168mph without slipstream by the Bilstein gantry, then 174mph going through the compression after it. The Supra was doing 175mph BEFORE the gantry whilst still being out of slipstream range. I know cars need to have their individual strengths and weaknesses but that's crazy. The RS01 is not a car I'm going to miss.

I got flustered with the Supra so close and ended up trying to push too hard to try keep the gap, which did not mesh at all in a race where it feels like you're driving on ice with Hards. My lap 2 was a shambles and I lost a couple of positions. I managed to settle down again and slot in behind a Corvette, but there was no way I'd ever be able to pass it without some kind of mistake being made. The Renault simply couldn't mount an attack down the straights in the slipstream.


I ended up losing another one later on to a Nissan who didn't bother qualifying and was trying to do last-to-first, followed up on lap 5 by a Porsche.

I finished P8 in the end thanks to people crashing, worth 188 points. Also got a CRB. I'd have needed P5 or better to improve my season score. Considering how the Renault seemed completely incapable of making any passes down the Dottinger Hohe, I can't see that realistically happening even though I was only a few seconds behind P5 in the end. I need to start very close to the front and somehow not get slipstreamed into oblivion.

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[Famine]

Another mince race in GT2. Neither me nor the RX-Vision are suited to this track, obviously qualified last, obviously kept it clean and made a bunch of places up from crashes and quitters...

... but since I'm obviously much slower and am obviously pulling off line and braking a little early to let you pass me again, why the **** do you utter oafs keep on hitting me in the process? I got hit by four different cars, three of which were those I was letting past and one of which was a guy who crashed then apparently decided to hard-left into me as I came past at +20 only to crash again and then quit.

 

[stpatty]

I'm going to be honest, I'm glad the season is over. Only taking one shot at that today because it's a dull race and doing it in the Renault felt like a mistake. Just another race where I've felt like I have to push the car insanely hard to try be even the slightest bit competitive.

I qualified P6, survived the start cleanly, even managed to build a bit of a gap to P7 across the lap. Coming back onto the GP circuit for lap 2, I've suddenly got a Supra looming large in my wing mirror. That completely threw me off because the gap evaporated out of nowhere. Checking the replay, I got up to 168mph without slipstream by the Bilstein gantry, then 174mph going through the compression after it. The Supra was doing 175mph BEFORE the gantry whilst still being out of slipstream range. I know cars need to have their individual strengths and weaknesses but that's crazy. The RS01 is not a car I'm going to miss.

I got flustered with the Supra so close and ended up trying to push too hard to try keep the gap, which did not mesh at all in a race where it feels like you're driving on ice with Hards. My lap 2 was a shambles and I lost a couple of positions. I managed to settle down again and slot in behind a Corvette, but there was no way I'd ever be able to pass it without some kind of mistake being made. The Renault simply couldn't mount an attack down the straights in the slipstream.


I ended up losing another one later on to a Nissan who didn't bother qualifying and was trying to do last-to-first, followed up on lap 5 by a Porsche.

I finished P8 in the end thanks to people crashing, worth 188 points. Also got a CRB. I'd have needed P5 or better to improve my season score. Considering how the Renault seemed completely incapable of making any passes down the Dottinger Hohe, I can't see that realistically happening even though I was only a few seconds behind P5 in the end. I need to start very close to the front and somehow not get slipstreamed into oblivion.

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Sounds like a similar speed difference between the GT-R and the Supra. An absolute nonsense of a car that clearly isn't lacking anywhere else to make up for it.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I've missed the first two GT1 slots so will do the last as per my strategy outlined earlier in the thread.

Because I missed the first round whatever points I get on this one will count so it's worth just starting it.

 

[OJBrit]

Got through qualy for the 6pm slot. (12th) Only for the network to kick me out. The game is still connected. So screwed over again! A shame because I enjoy the Nurb. This game can be so frustrating at times.

 

[Ashthebash]

Qualified 5th with a 7:54.1 and expected a rough start. Dropped a couple of spots early laps after a couple of little errors then was running between two Supras in 8th. Got overtaken on the main straight as we were getting caught by a group at the end of L3, he then made a mistake on L4 which allowed me back past into 8th. Closing on the other Supra (who was clearly the slowest driver in the group that had formed) I made a small mistake out of the right hander a couple of corners before the back 'straight', Supra I'd been swapping places with had a run up the inside, seemingly missed the braking/turn in points and promptly barged me wide and off the track. 8th became 11th, needed 10th for an improvement on the season scores. Had way more pace over the course of the lap than both of the Supras but had no chance of passing them and the Mazda isn't exactly a slouch in a straight line

Not going again, so hopefully my rubbish results from the first two races keep me top(!) of the Mazda Manufacturers leaderboard

 

[Interemptor]

Raced 2 more times on alts. One with the Supra (GT3 high C) the other with the M6 (GT2 low/mid B).

The Supra is a damn rocket on the straights but I still struggle with it. Don't know why. Qualified on Pole (8:07)but got slightly hit at Aremburg because I was braking too early. Whenever I closed the gap again I made a mistake and finished 2nd.

The BMW race was almost perfect. Again on pole (8:05) and lead all the way to finish with a gap of over 20s to second. The Beamer is a joy to drive and if I don't go with something crazy in the next Series it will be BMW.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I didn't qualify, which was boring as hell.

Even going from the back I was p15 to to P7 in the first 2 sectors :/

Deliberately dropped back and pitted. It feels awful to do that but we are playing different long games and this is my one.

Nothing to report other than the pit lane photographer must have the sorest right knee ever and the poor right tire guy is gonna have posture issues for life.

Started P15 finished P13 🤷‍♂️ there was a few peanuts/points but they were collateral positives.

 

[emGieT]

Today's race made me seriously thinking about quitting racing online with that game...
I got 190 pts from that round, but I risked one more shot and that was disaster. I even gained fev positions at the start bqut then I literally got destroyed at lap 1 by some guy flying trough my car after massive lag. Sent to the barriers, damage everywhere... Geeeez!
There should be some alghoritm that ghosts players with big ping until their connection is back to normal. Two days of practice wasted. That's frustrating...

 

[newmedia_dev]

Today's race made me seriously thinking about quitting racing online with that game...
I got 190 pts from that round, but I risked one more shot and that was disaster. I even gained fev positions at the start bqut then I literally got destroyed at lap 1 by some guy flying trough my car after massive lag. Sent to the barriers, damage everywhere... Geeeez!
There should be some alghoritm that ghosts players with big ping until their connection is back to normal. Two days of practice wasted. That's frustrating...

It's not just his connection it's a mix of yours and his that is the issue.

Lagging is awful

 

[dazdilly75]

This race was an absolute nightmare for me. It started off well, I managed to qualify 4th in a field of very fast guys. Pole managed to hit a low 52, and I ended up 3 sec behind him in my Nissan GTR. I survived T1, which is a known hot-spot, but us front 4 guys made a sportsmans agreement to take it easy through sector 1. I got caught by a Spanish Lambo driver in the mid part of lap 2 and he had just set the fastest lap of the race, so I didn't battle with him too much, by defending. There was also an Italian Porsche driver (very fast) who I know is a Nurb specialist but he had a bad quali, so he ended up behind me by a few places. By lap 3 he had also caught me up, so I had moved from starting 4th, down 2 places to 6th. This is where things took a turn for the worse. The Porsche driver made a move on an Italian AMG driver at Aremberg and almost crashed him out. How the AMG driver didn't get damage must have been through divine intervention. I was right up behind them, so I could only bump draft the Italian Porsche driver to get him going again and keep my momentum on the run up to Adenauer. He almost went off at Metzgesfeld. This should have been a warning for me. At Kallenhard, I was right on his bumper and this is where he completely and irreversibly lost all control of his Porsche. He swerved right, I went left but he clipped the kerb and came rifling back to my side. I prayed he'd ghost, but I wasn't so lucky. Front splitter damage for me and front left suspension damage with 2 and a half laps of racing to go. His race was well and truely over, but to make matters worse, he sat on the racing line for another 3 seconds and was hit by a Spanish driver also in a Nissan, the fact that corner is blind, makes it an incredibly dangerous place to crash. So That's 3 cars damaged by one reckless crash. The AMG driver behind me eventually took back 4th and I was left in 5th, to survive until the finish. Somehow I managed to still do sub 8 minute laps with damaged car, which is a testament to how great the Nissan GTR is. The top 3 flew away, as did 4th place. But in the end, I held on and managed 269 points for 5th place. 6 points more than my last round and enough to finish the season with 532 points, and 95th place in EMEA. Its a rarity for me to finish in the top 100! Both rounds 3 and 4 have been absolute dog fights, but they have also been character building exercises and a lesson in never giving up, even when things go badly. Literally, keep calm and carry on mentality. I could have gone again, but so many things can go wrong at Nurb (and they usually do) So I took the points and chilled out for the rest of the evening. I've attached a few images in sequence of the race and my crash. Good luck for Nations for anyone taking part.

 

[ZEE]

Well this last round of the GTWS Manu Cup was chaotic to say the least!

Logged on the afternoon timing slots and waitied for the 4pm slot in the higher C ranked GT2 league. I did some pratice laps in my Aston and got an ok time of around 8:27 whic was ok, not lighting quick but resoanble.

Went into qualifying and was a crapstorm of driving went on, this track suffers form narrow gaps and openings that doesnt aloow much overtaking, so you have to be very careful, Ill admit i wasnt the smoothest and did bumpa few people on the narrow parts of the course.

I managed to get itno 9th palce to start eh race off. So Gentlemen start your engines!

Raci time and rolling start beckoened, I was wary of a fellow british driver in a Huracan GT3, who was typing Turn 1 in the chat before the race start so hmmm. His livery was green army camo so I was quite skeptical. We all took well and chaos ensuesed at Turn 1 and then I managed to avoid that and push through turns 3 & 4 racing up the hill towards the main Nurburgring.

So far I was getting a good position in 5th place to keep chase on the leading pack of cars, then this guy in the Huracan, nutty brit driver decides to ram me from behind and then pits me and i go crashign into Barry-R! I was shocked, expaling my dismay while my car recovered and he just laughed it off, he didnt recieve a penalty on the long stretch becuase when i got there he was in 3rd place by the time i played cathc up all lap on the long twisting green hell corners.

Gained back some positons as lot of peopel dealt with time penalties. i pushed ahead, then there was alot of argy bargy on the sprint part of the track.

On Lap 2 for some reason despite me not really nudging anyone I was dealt a time penalty. I didnt realise till I got the yellow beacons that it was 5 whole seconds, i coudlnt figure where I had hit someone or it was some delayed infrigment, but boy this game felt stupid at the time. I took it and it hurt as lost back down to 9th and had to push back to recover them positons. was battling for 7th ppsiton nicely with a porsche up until the main straightaway.

Luckily one of the porsche i was chasing crashed hard on the main turn leading to the fast underbridge section and the I kept pushing.

Then battled strong in Lap 3, and finished the race in a propesctful 7th place. Unfortunatly my stupid ps5 storage limit in GT7 prrevented m eto take any photos or videos of the race so i coulndt see the spinout I had which sucks. I spent another 10misn freeing up space int eh storage options to be ready for the nations cup.

Overall, I have bene good in the overall cup, but this guy int he Hurancan, soured the race for sure and he ended up rage quitting after more bumping, the race thru lap 2 so it goes to show, that Rammer cant be a bad mama jammer!