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- Netherlands
- SPDN_Stefano
- SPDN Stefano
Holy crap, I took a W in EMEA GT1. I never even won a race in a DR A lobby before. My finest moment in Gran Tursimo for sure lol.
Gran Turismo World Series (2025 Manufacturers Cup | April 2 - April 19)
- Thread starter stpatty
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- 848
- Germany
- timekiller001
Did people leave, or was it a mass disconnect? I've seen another split now (6th split EMEA), that had a disconnect for most of the grid and only 5 drivers remained.
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Honestly I don’t know, I was in the pits with a beer and got my P5 🤣
There were some leavers early doors and if you see my earlier posts, makes sense 2/3/4 will quit not having the tires, thinking one off is race ending in a 1 hour race etc.
With regards to mass d/c that’s an interesting one that I hadn’t seen, have seen the whole lobby fold but not partially to this degree.
- 763
- Canada
- moosethemooche78
Yep. Totally get it. That 'Hmm' emoji was more of a 'I hadn't thought of that' than it was a 'What are you talking about?'. Races at Nurburgring tend to get lots of quitters so parking in the pit is a viable strategy -- as you well proved.
BTW, I'm pretty sure this season is scoring the best 5 of the 6 rounds, so it is even more important to collect points where you can.
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Yeah that’s my fault, I applied previous round thinking.
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@Talon16 I know correlation isn’t causation but the daily servers have been laggy bouncy as hell this last 2 weeks, to the point of I don’t even know where the reappearing car is going to be when they teleport back to where they are. Even in the consistent lobbies it’s hard to know where people are in 3 of the corners
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- stpatty
Qualified 5th. Went down to 6th at the hairpin on the GP loop:
The Lexus bumped me a little but he'd been all over me since turn 1. I was in 6th until that BMW binned it just after youtube corner. I was then in 5th until the end. I finished 4 seconds behind 4th and about 10 seconds ahead of 6th. 146 points. Clean race. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Qualifying was dry, the race was dry but with clouds. It got cloudier as it went. Everyone pitted on lap 3, but one GT-R stayed out a lap, presumably waiting to see if it started raining. It didn't.
The new bop is a joke.
The Lexus bumped me a little but he'd been all over me since turn 1. I was in 6th until that BMW binned it just after youtube corner. I was then in 5th until the end. I finished 4 seconds behind 4th and about 10 seconds ahead of 6th. 146 points. Clean race. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Qualifying was dry, the race was dry but with clouds. It got cloudier as it went. Everyone pitted on lap 3, but one GT-R stayed out a lap, presumably waiting to see if it started raining. It didn't.
The new bop is a joke.
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- United Kingdom
- AWRacing17
Counting down the clock is a bit excessive after everyone’s finished there quali laps…
- 686
- East Yorkshire
- Zorzil
One and done for me on EMEA GT1 slot 1, that was intense. Also far, far better than anything I achieved last season with the Corvette. 😅
I qualified P5 with an 8:01.966 which I was really happy with. That was only about a second off my free practice best and my qualifying at the Nordschleife is usually a few seconds off my best due to being cautious. Not today.
Bringing up the weather radar during the pre-race countdown led to a frantic strategy decision - will that dark patch cross the track or not?
I thought it would from the angle the rain was travelling, so I started on Intermediates and crossed my fingers.
I dropped a couple of positions going through the first couple of sectors to people who started on Hards. I got them back and then some when I reached Ex-Mühle though. The heavier rain was indeed crossing the track and that's when it became too much for those on slicks. Up to P3!
A Porsche had some serious pace in the wet and got past me on lap 1. I wasn't too bothered though, I was just happy to be running so close to the front. I figured just strap in and try to hold on. The Porsche passed a Lexus at Kallenhard on lap 2 and started driving away. He then took the lead at the first carousel because the polesitter BMW had spun it. Back up to P3.
The Lexus lost traction and had to catch the car on the start of the Döttinger Höhe, allowing me to pass him for P2. I then outbroke myself a little at the left-hander after the Breidscheider Brücke and barely kept it out of the wall. That mistake dropped me back to P3 and meant I had P4 and P5 very close behind.
The polesitter BMW slipstreamed past me down the Döttinger Höhe so back down to P4. P2 had slid into the wall at the end though, so P3 again at the end of the lap.
It's at this point where I think I may have made a strategic error. I could have taken my mandatory pit stop then to get some fresh Inters (as they were showing some wear), some space (hopefully) and try to take advantage of the track being a little drier from running further back to try pick up pace to the leader. It didn't occur to me until I was in the Mercedes Arena though...
Laps 4 and 5 were tough. Funnily enough, my practice for this round didn't include driving on very worn Intermediates in wet conditions... 😅 I was very much struggling for pace now.
I was down in P5 at the start of lap 5 because a Renault (who'd started on Hards) had somehow managed to massively pick up the pace. On looking at the replay, a lot of them had a rapid lap 4 as the frontrunners had really cleared the rain. They were all 20-30s faster than the lead group! I didn't take any tyres on the stop as it didn't look like the track was quite dry enough. I was also concerned of being jumped. That choice definitely hurt at the end as the track was drying and the second half really burned the tyres up.
I ended up bringing it home in P5 for 225 points with almost dead front tyres. After the frustration with the Corvette, it feels really good to have a decent result again.
I qualified P5 with an 8:01.966 which I was really happy with. That was only about a second off my free practice best and my qualifying at the Nordschleife is usually a few seconds off my best due to being cautious. Not today.
Bringing up the weather radar during the pre-race countdown led to a frantic strategy decision - will that dark patch cross the track or not?
I dropped a couple of positions going through the first couple of sectors to people who started on Hards. I got them back and then some when I reached Ex-Mühle though. The heavier rain was indeed crossing the track and that's when it became too much for those on slicks. Up to P3!
A Porsche had some serious pace in the wet and got past me on lap 1. I wasn't too bothered though, I was just happy to be running so close to the front. I figured just strap in and try to hold on. The Porsche passed a Lexus at Kallenhard on lap 2 and started driving away. He then took the lead at the first carousel because the polesitter BMW had spun it. Back up to P3.
The Lexus lost traction and had to catch the car on the start of the Döttinger Höhe, allowing me to pass him for P2. I then outbroke myself a little at the left-hander after the Breidscheider Brücke and barely kept it out of the wall. That mistake dropped me back to P3 and meant I had P4 and P5 very close behind.
The polesitter BMW slipstreamed past me down the Döttinger Höhe so back down to P4. P2 had slid into the wall at the end though, so P3 again at the end of the lap.
It's at this point where I think I may have made a strategic error. I could have taken my mandatory pit stop then to get some fresh Inters (as they were showing some wear), some space (hopefully) and try to take advantage of the track being a little drier from running further back to try pick up pace to the leader. It didn't occur to me until I was in the Mercedes Arena though...
Laps 4 and 5 were tough. Funnily enough, my practice for this round didn't include driving on very worn Intermediates in wet conditions... 😅 I was very much struggling for pace now.
I was down in P5 at the start of lap 5 because a Renault (who'd started on Hards) had somehow managed to massively pick up the pace. On looking at the replay, a lot of them had a rapid lap 4 as the frontrunners had really cleared the rain. They were all 20-30s faster than the lead group! I didn't take any tyres on the stop as it didn't look like the track was quite dry enough. I was also concerned of being jumped. That choice definitely hurt at the end as the track was drying and the second half really burned the tyres up.
I ended up bringing it home in P5 for 225 points with almost dead front tyres. After the frustration with the Corvette, it feels really good to have a decent result again.
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- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
I may drive for Porsche but my strategy is classic Ferrari. Completely misinterpreted the pre-race weather radar and started with intermediates on a bone dry track. My 5th place from quali absolutely wasted. Managed to survive lap 1 by just getting out the way and dropped to P13 before I could dive back into the pits. Luckily it stayed dry for the rest of the race so I could keep it to a 1-stopper. The hards got slightly sketchy on lap 5 but controllable. Managed to pick up a few positions and finished P6. After the bonehead tyre call, no practice and my general disdain for the track I will absolutely take that.
Only 3 people quit or were disconnected. No one got a post-race tyre penalty. 7 Porsches on the grid including mine - we suffered immensely on the straights but it's so good elsewhere.
Got a nice surprise afterwards - I jumped from SR B to SR S from this one race.
I think I actually enjoyed a race around the Ring. Don't tell anyone! Still not going again - one and done.
Only 3 people quit or were disconnected. No one got a post-race tyre penalty. 7 Porsches on the grid including mine - we suffered immensely on the straights but it's so good elsewhere.
Got a nice surprise afterwards - I jumped from SR B to SR S from this one race.
I think I actually enjoyed a race around the Ring. Don't tell anyone! Still not going again - one and done.
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- United Kingdom
I’m jinxed i swear……
So, try again, she’s watching telly so on with the VR, midway thru ther race the headset decides to lose tracking, this wasn’t too bad but the fact when the game is paused you can’t see where you are on the track i unpause mid bend and go straight into barrier……….
Third time lucky ? Not so sure i should try, my blood pressure must be thru the roof at min
So, try again, she’s watching telly so on with the VR, midway thru ther race the headset decides to lose tracking, this wasn’t too bad but the fact when the game is paused you can’t see where you are on the track i unpause mid bend and go straight into barrier……….
Third time lucky ? Not so sure i should try, my blood pressure must be thru the roof at min
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- AWRacing17
And it is absolutely terrifying once you do a 8:01 or whatever and you're 3rd across the line, just watching the times pop up all around you, knowing how easily you could drop down from the first few row/s to the midfield because you lost 3 tenths on that one corner.
I'm really impressed how close qualifying was in all the races last night. That's one thing I don't think is talked about enough.
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In all fairness I thought the torrential downpour made that an obvious joke!
Signed up for and did the race with Ford on a whim, having not done a proper Sport Mode race in months. Car is a rocket on the straights, probably could've got pole or 2nd had I not driven into the wall on the quali lap which I've heard is a suboptimal strategy.
I don't really get the Mickey Mouse catch-up going on in the rain. Felt like I was playing Driveclub with the pack all bunched up with hyper grip, compared to the car struggling in the heavy wet at the front of the pack.
Pit for slicks on lap 3, everyone else binned it by driving into the wet track on slicks (not recommended) - ended up winning by 20 seconds. Strange race. It really feels like they can't decide if they want to be taken seriously as a simulator or not.
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- AWRacing17
- 3,204
- United Kingdom
Yeah it's a bit weird, they change the speed the weather radar moves at every time they use dynamic weather, so sometimes you'll see a cloud like that pass in 30 seconds, other times it hangs around for 20 minutes.
Wish they'd keep it consistent or at least have the pre-race weather radar show the actual speed rather than the accelerated steps they currently show.
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- Nurburgring, Germany
What a bizarre start to this online qualifiers, but I felt I perserved in this race to acheive a pretty good result in my GT3 league. Luckily PD made the slots more open ended but i rushed to do the 6pm slot after work and hospital visits, soooo....!
Did have zero praatice time, but approached it with a positve outlook and it paid off!
GTWS Manu Cup - Rd.1 - EMEA Region - C lobby - GT3 - 6pm slot - LEXUS RCF '17 (race signed) - RH TYRES - No rain!
So logged on and noticed the rain pitter patting the practice sesisons at about 5:45pm and thought ok here we go, some sketchy rain racing which I do like but not on the nurburg endurance layout lol. It started real patchy pouring all over my practice sesh and I managed a very slow 9min 13 with no dry skies in sight.
Then I was ok, lets see how qualy goes and progress I can sure make. OK went in, left pits in third place and was running some good 1st lap and then the second it clocked a 8mins 20 which was ok, not too fast but reasonble to place me 8th on the grid. I thought this is a good spot to watch the leaders and how they move early on in the race.
Onto the race, Start was good, little bumpy on turn 1, but not too much casualties. Made a solid 1st lap and kept pushing the Lexus chasing Porsches, did a lovely ovetake on the long straight before the carousel, a sick double overtake to a Ferrari and a Viper made me jump from 9th to 7th on lap 1, that was fun that it worked and I kept pushing to chase a lambo in 6th. Lap 2 was solid just kept pushing, then on Lap 3 some car pitted and I captilised on that. But on one corner before the forest turn I lost my braking and gravelled a bit and lost 1 place to a porsche that I spent the whole lap catching. Bit of nice back and forth battling with that driver.
Lap 4 start was when the weather still held up so I pushed to gain 6th postion, chasing and chasing till the last few corners and straight. I eventually saw the Porsche fumble the last two corners before the pits and I as approached hiis left, the silly driver start pushing me off the pit lane entry, but luckily I got into the pits to change tyres, no refuel. Then exit and was chasing him again.
Final lap was the best chase, just chasing, battling this gold liveryied porsche, one BMW guy fumbled a corner so we passed him, then another had a 2sec penatly on the long straight so we passed him up to 5th leading to the end of the track, a strong finish and was happy overall that I got higher up than I could done.
Look forward to Round 2, will defo make some time this weekend to practice some interlagos and get good gains!
Did have zero praatice time, but approached it with a positve outlook and it paid off!
GTWS Manu Cup - Rd.1 - EMEA Region - C lobby - GT3 - 6pm slot - LEXUS RCF '17 (race signed) - RH TYRES - No rain!
So logged on and noticed the rain pitter patting the practice sesisons at about 5:45pm and thought ok here we go, some sketchy rain racing which I do like but not on the nurburg endurance layout lol. It started real patchy pouring all over my practice sesh and I managed a very slow 9min 13 with no dry skies in sight.
Then I was ok, lets see how qualy goes and progress I can sure make. OK went in, left pits in third place and was running some good 1st lap and then the second it clocked a 8mins 20 which was ok, not too fast but reasonble to place me 8th on the grid. I thought this is a good spot to watch the leaders and how they move early on in the race.
Onto the race, Start was good, little bumpy on turn 1, but not too much casualties. Made a solid 1st lap and kept pushing the Lexus chasing Porsches, did a lovely ovetake on the long straight before the carousel, a sick double overtake to a Ferrari and a Viper made me jump from 9th to 7th on lap 1, that was fun that it worked and I kept pushing to chase a lambo in 6th. Lap 2 was solid just kept pushing, then on Lap 3 some car pitted and I captilised on that. But on one corner before the forest turn I lost my braking and gravelled a bit and lost 1 place to a porsche that I spent the whole lap catching. Bit of nice back and forth battling with that driver.
Lap 4 start was when the weather still held up so I pushed to gain 6th postion, chasing and chasing till the last few corners and straight. I eventually saw the Porsche fumble the last two corners before the pits and I as approached hiis left, the silly driver start pushing me off the pit lane entry, but luckily I got into the pits to change tyres, no refuel. Then exit and was chasing him again.
Final lap was the best chase, just chasing, battling this gold liveryied porsche, one BMW guy fumbled a corner so we passed him, then another had a 2sec penatly on the long straight so we passed him up to 5th leading to the end of the track, a strong finish and was happy overall that I got higher up than I could done.
Look forward to Round 2, will defo make some time this weekend to practice some interlagos and get good gains!
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Slot 2 Door #16 284 point lobby.
Well.... That was probably the most unexpected result I've had on this game. In the context of having a nerfed wheel and not giving myself any hope of doing well.
As some of you know, my expectations for this race were low. Being a Logitech user (G923) I knew this would be tough.
I qualified in Pole... Yes Pole! With a 7:57.xxx
I had made some adjustments to my G923, to see if I could get some feeling back. I put the FFB on 4 and turned the sensitivity down from 10 to 8. The wheel seemed to be responding well in free practice. But I never actually completed a lap, so I didn't know how well it would fare in the race.
I kept redoing just the GP section, because that is my weakest part of the endurance layout. It paid off, and I was 6 tenths ahead of the 2nd place Porsche driver.
Lap 1: Race starts and I get out cleanly. No drama. I'm being chased by 2 Porsches, a Nissan and Mclaren driver. By lap 2 I'm starting to slightly make a gap between myself and the chasing pack of 4 cars.
Lap 2: All of a sudden my wife asks to pass between my rig and the TV to get some clothes she's hung outside. Just as I'm approaching Aremberg! I signal her to go behind me. She squeezes past and puts her knee in my back I'm like WTF!!!! I go off at Aremberg, but only briefly, I'm passed by the 2 Porsches and the Nissan driver. Now I've gone from 1st to 4th in one turn.
Luckily, I manage to get back into my driving and I get a bump draft from the Italian Mclaren driver up the hill to Kessechen.
Lap 3: I'm chasing 2 cars ahead and currently in 3rd, because one of the Porsches from the lead pack pitted at rhe end of lap 2. My self and 2nd place, pit. But I notice the 1st place guy hasn't.
I figure he'll do so at the end of Lap 4, as that's his last chance!
Lap 4: The German Porsche driver,
(who wemt for the undercut) has crashed and I'm now chasing P2,
(who is actually Provisional P1) and the Nissan lead driver, who still hasn't pit.
Lap 5.: The Nissan driver clearly hasn't read the rules and has continues onto his last lap
(2 min penalty incoming) That means I'm now Provisional P2! Considering all things, I'm thinking this will be an amazing result!
I finish 4 seconds behind The English Posrche driver and we both leap frog the Nissan driver on the final leaderboard because he failed to pit.
Turns out the Nissan driver hasn't played for about 3 years and decided to just jump on, as it was one of his favourite combos. You gotta read the rules!!!
272 points for Renault! (On my alt) It's just such a great car. I'll be sticking with them for the whole season.
Miracles do happen apparently!
Well.... That was probably the most unexpected result I've had on this game. In the context of having a nerfed wheel and not giving myself any hope of doing well.
As some of you know, my expectations for this race were low. Being a Logitech user (G923) I knew this would be tough.
I qualified in Pole... Yes Pole! With a 7:57.xxx
I had made some adjustments to my G923, to see if I could get some feeling back. I put the FFB on 4 and turned the sensitivity down from 10 to 8. The wheel seemed to be responding well in free practice. But I never actually completed a lap, so I didn't know how well it would fare in the race.
I kept redoing just the GP section, because that is my weakest part of the endurance layout. It paid off, and I was 6 tenths ahead of the 2nd place Porsche driver.
Lap 1: Race starts and I get out cleanly. No drama. I'm being chased by 2 Porsches, a Nissan and Mclaren driver. By lap 2 I'm starting to slightly make a gap between myself and the chasing pack of 4 cars.
Lap 2: All of a sudden my wife asks to pass between my rig and the TV to get some clothes she's hung outside. Just as I'm approaching Aremberg! I signal her to go behind me. She squeezes past and puts her knee in my back I'm like WTF!!!! I go off at Aremberg, but only briefly, I'm passed by the 2 Porsches and the Nissan driver. Now I've gone from 1st to 4th in one turn.
Luckily, I manage to get back into my driving and I get a bump draft from the Italian Mclaren driver up the hill to Kessechen.
Lap 3: I'm chasing 2 cars ahead and currently in 3rd, because one of the Porsches from the lead pack pitted at rhe end of lap 2. My self and 2nd place, pit. But I notice the 1st place guy hasn't.
I figure he'll do so at the end of Lap 4, as that's his last chance!
Lap 4: The German Porsche driver,
(who wemt for the undercut) has crashed and I'm now chasing P2,
(who is actually Provisional P1) and the Nissan lead driver, who still hasn't pit.
Lap 5.: The Nissan driver clearly hasn't read the rules and has continues onto his last lap
(2 min penalty incoming) That means I'm now Provisional P2! Considering all things, I'm thinking this will be an amazing result!
I finish 4 seconds behind The English Posrche driver and we both leap frog the Nissan driver on the final leaderboard because he failed to pit.
Turns out the Nissan driver hasn't played for about 3 years and decided to just jump on, as it was one of his favourite combos. You gotta read the rules!!!
272 points for Renault! (On my alt) It's just such a great car. I'll be sticking with them for the whole season.
Miracles do happen apparently!
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- OJBrit
7pm slot.
Made a small mistake and went wide at Schwalbenschwanz in qualy. Kept it straight but lost probably 5 seconds or so. This put me P13 on the grid.
The weather was showing as having a patch of mizzle over the track but the surface water a 0% so certainly a hard start.
My supercharged F-Type immediately flew past the BRZ ahead with it's massive turbo. I also went around the outside of a 4C at T1 which was being cautious. Not a bad start.
A Ferrari was wobbling ahead and into the Endurance Hairpin the 4C decided to fly into it. It caught me a little and I went wide through the grass but no issues other than loosing a couple of places. (4C gets 5 seconds for it.) Out of Warsteiner the BRZ ghosts through me? (I wasn't aware BRZ's could do this...) The 4C from before takes Flugplaz too hot and finds the barrier. A Porsche ahead of them did the same and collected another Porsche putting both into the barrier. So 3 places out of 1 corner. Thank you very much!
Everyone was fairly close going up the back straight section and I was able to close and pass the BRZ just before Mutkurve.
A BMW touched the grass just before the Stefan Bellof S. It rejoined just before the Porsche directly ahead of me. Bang! They collided. Bang! I then hit the Porsche. Damage across the front but no further issues with the BRZ having fallen behind. I did cause the BMW to spear off though. End of the lap and I was 8th having made some good progress. I was feeling confident.
Lap 2 and I run wide through the long right after Kallenhard. It's nothing more than some barrier banging but the Porsche behind decides to go to my left across the grass. They also glance me pitting them into a half spin. They hold it and we carry on. The right hander with the Polish flag is my next disaster and the car pitches right and into the barrier. I'm now back down to P12. A Ferrari decides to pit and gives me P11. A Porsche had found the gravel at the NGK and I was able to come alongside and pass onto the Nord. The Porsche I was behind on lap 1 found the barriers out of the chicane after Hatzenbach quite pathetically. So I gained another place. I was behind the BRZ again and I used its turbo disadvantage to drift past it just before Metzgesfeld. Finally back in P8. I started to close on the Ferrari ahead. However I then noticed that the water gauge had moved up a little. It was still in the dry section but had really jumped seeing as there was no visible rain and the radar still showed mizzle. I wasn't too worried as this should be as much as it produces. The Ferrari was struggling though and I went past in the Pflanzgarten II section. A few corners the gauge moved into the second section but it went back as quickly as it came. It was gamble time especially as everyone else was filing into the pits. I must have borrowed some of the Ferrari strategists as I decided to gamble on staying out. If the gauge stayed near the crossover point I should be fine. However some parts of the track were worse than others. I found this out immediately at T1. Brakes? What brakes! Traction was generally fine (I popped on TC3 to help). Corners were generally fine. It was braking that was my undoing. I quickly found myself in P10 and DFL. The Ferrari who pitted early also decided to stay out as they had already made a bad strategy call and also struggled but stayed ahead enough. By lap 5 and certain sections were undriveable especially Hohe Acht onwards. P10 was where I finished. My genious was not on point today. However some positives. I was fairly competitive, and the car felt great at times. Lesson to learn is never underestimate mizzle! Onto round 2.
Made a small mistake and went wide at Schwalbenschwanz in qualy. Kept it straight but lost probably 5 seconds or so. This put me P13 on the grid.
The weather was showing as having a patch of mizzle over the track but the surface water a 0% so certainly a hard start.
My supercharged F-Type immediately flew past the BRZ ahead with it's massive turbo. I also went around the outside of a 4C at T1 which was being cautious. Not a bad start.
A Ferrari was wobbling ahead and into the Endurance Hairpin the 4C decided to fly into it. It caught me a little and I went wide through the grass but no issues other than loosing a couple of places. (4C gets 5 seconds for it.) Out of Warsteiner the BRZ ghosts through me? (I wasn't aware BRZ's could do this...) The 4C from before takes Flugplaz too hot and finds the barrier. A Porsche ahead of them did the same and collected another Porsche putting both into the barrier. So 3 places out of 1 corner. Thank you very much!
Everyone was fairly close going up the back straight section and I was able to close and pass the BRZ just before Mutkurve.
A BMW touched the grass just before the Stefan Bellof S. It rejoined just before the Porsche directly ahead of me. Bang! They collided. Bang! I then hit the Porsche. Damage across the front but no further issues with the BRZ having fallen behind. I did cause the BMW to spear off though. End of the lap and I was 8th having made some good progress. I was feeling confident.
Lap 2 and I run wide through the long right after Kallenhard. It's nothing more than some barrier banging but the Porsche behind decides to go to my left across the grass. They also glance me pitting them into a half spin. They hold it and we carry on. The right hander with the Polish flag is my next disaster and the car pitches right and into the barrier. I'm now back down to P12. A Ferrari decides to pit and gives me P11. A Porsche had found the gravel at the NGK and I was able to come alongside and pass onto the Nord. The Porsche I was behind on lap 1 found the barriers out of the chicane after Hatzenbach quite pathetically. So I gained another place. I was behind the BRZ again and I used its turbo disadvantage to drift past it just before Metzgesfeld. Finally back in P8. I started to close on the Ferrari ahead. However I then noticed that the water gauge had moved up a little. It was still in the dry section but had really jumped seeing as there was no visible rain and the radar still showed mizzle. I wasn't too worried as this should be as much as it produces. The Ferrari was struggling though and I went past in the Pflanzgarten II section. A few corners the gauge moved into the second section but it went back as quickly as it came. It was gamble time especially as everyone else was filing into the pits. I must have borrowed some of the Ferrari strategists as I decided to gamble on staying out. If the gauge stayed near the crossover point I should be fine. However some parts of the track were worse than others. I found this out immediately at T1. Brakes? What brakes! Traction was generally fine (I popped on TC3 to help). Corners were generally fine. It was braking that was my undoing. I quickly found myself in P10 and DFL. The Ferrari who pitted early also decided to stay out as they had already made a bad strategy call and also struggled but stayed ahead enough. By lap 5 and certain sections were undriveable especially Hohe Acht onwards. P10 was where I finished. My genious was not on point today. However some positives. I was fairly competitive, and the car felt great at times. Lesson to learn is never underestimate mizzle! Onto round 2.
- 610
- Buffalo, NY
- Stilva
I'm going with Ford this season this because why not. I'm in GT2 so it's not like I'm going to qualify for anything.
I was already to jump into the 6PM EST slot, but there is no race as I didn't read the times for entry. So, I need to wait a few hours until I can go. Since I have some time, I'll share some thoughts for this season. The only race I'm worried about is Catalunya as I am just terrible at the track. At least there is no chicane so it's something I guess. The opening round will be dependent on weather, so it's hard to comment on that. The other rounds are on tracks I've had success on so no worries there. I may be missing the Spa round due to prior commitments. Overall, I just want to have some good clean racing and make some DR improvemnets. Maybe I'll see you out there and good luck to all!
I was already to jump into the 6PM EST slot, but there is no race as I didn't read the times for entry. So, I need to wait a few hours until I can go. Since I have some time, I'll share some thoughts for this season. The only race I'm worried about is Catalunya as I am just terrible at the track. At least there is no chicane so it's something I guess. The opening round will be dependent on weather, so it's hard to comment on that. The other rounds are on tracks I've had success on so no worries there. I may be missing the Spa round due to prior commitments. Overall, I just want to have some good clean racing and make some DR improvemnets. Maybe I'll see you out there and good luck to all!
- 4,290
- United Kingdom
I did one racing lap, one (practice obviously) but one racing lap
I’m 3rd for manufacture and did one lap, I’m 41st for the region.
They need to fix this stuff and the wheel stuff because it’s a fallacy.
I’m 3rd for manufacture and did one lap, I’m 41st for the region.
They need to fix this stuff and the wheel stuff because it’s a fallacy.
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- 5,714
- Edison NJ
- jdmking13
- Lucid killer 58
I’m just going to sit these out until we get a fix which is a a shame I love the ManuCup competition… but my wheel feels terrible lol. I got a GT4 league race this Friday which is going to come to the end to announce a winner and I gotta drive with a dead wheel.😭😭😭
- 3,606
- United States
Despite the issues with the Logi (and other) wheels I just can't not do Nord. Ran a race on the alt as I can't make the one available time slot for people who need to sleep at night.
That account I picked Renault as unbeknown to be at the time, it's a pretty good car at Nord. And, it's very stable which would come in handy when you have virtually no feedback from the game. Despite it being one of the most stable Gr3 cars I ran TC1 and ASM as I thought that it may offset some of the lack of feeling, playing it a little safe.
Race itself was pretty straight forward. No rain, which given the circumstances was probably a good thing; but it was threatening late. I know in a 100% dry race pitting on lap two is the best strat so you do your three lap stint with a lighter car, but I was worried that I'd pit and some others wouldn't, and I'd get stuck behind them. Thus, the plan was to do a three/two strat. However, there was some light green clouds coming in and it really looking like it was going to be close to hitting the track before the end of the race.
With the car behind being eight seconds back I decided not to pit at the end of lap three, as I felt safe from the undercut. Obviously I'd have to pit at the end of the fourth lap but that cloud was continuing to move towards the track. If it hit, it was going to be late in the lap... but as we've seen that's all it take. So I pit and put RH on as it's the lightest of colors for rain, and putting IMs they'd be all but dead by the time it would cover the track.
Yadda yadda yadda, as it would turn out I was safe from the undercut from the car behind. The radar cloud would come in late in the last lap but as far as I could tell it never actually rained.
Please fix our wheels, Kaz! What would be awesome is the patch gets released, and this race happens again at the end of the season similar to how Daytona was run twice due to PSN being down. They won't, but it'd be a lot cooler if they did.
That account I picked Renault as unbeknown to be at the time, it's a pretty good car at Nord. And, it's very stable which would come in handy when you have virtually no feedback from the game. Despite it being one of the most stable Gr3 cars I ran TC1 and ASM as I thought that it may offset some of the lack of feeling, playing it a little safe.
Race itself was pretty straight forward. No rain, which given the circumstances was probably a good thing; but it was threatening late. I know in a 100% dry race pitting on lap two is the best strat so you do your three lap stint with a lighter car, but I was worried that I'd pit and some others wouldn't, and I'd get stuck behind them. Thus, the plan was to do a three/two strat. However, there was some light green clouds coming in and it really looking like it was going to be close to hitting the track before the end of the race.
With the car behind being eight seconds back I decided not to pit at the end of lap three, as I felt safe from the undercut. Obviously I'd have to pit at the end of the fourth lap but that cloud was continuing to move towards the track. If it hit, it was going to be late in the lap... but as we've seen that's all it take. So I pit and put RH on as it's the lightest of colors for rain, and putting IMs they'd be all but dead by the time it would cover the track.
Yadda yadda yadda, as it would turn out I was safe from the undercut from the car behind. The radar cloud would come in late in the last lap but as far as I could tell it never actually rained.
Please fix our wheels, Kaz! What would be awesome is the patch gets released, and this race happens again at the end of the season similar to how Daytona was run twice due to PSN being down. They won't, but it'd be a lot cooler if they did.
- 650
- Canada
- AFC-R6N
Lower GT1 slot 1, door 16, 162 points on the table.
Not a speck of rain in Q or the race. Ran a clean race, the Supra seemed strong on the long straights and I could get close and make a move.
Q9 to P6 after spinning on the last lap from 5th for 128 points.
Would go again and hope for rain, but work in the morning beckons.
Good luck to those still to race!
Not a speck of rain in Q or the race. Ran a clean race, the Supra seemed strong on the long straights and I could get close and make a move.
Q9 to P6 after spinning on the last lap from 5th for 128 points.
Would go again and hope for rain, but work in the morning beckons.
Good luck to those still to race!
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