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- Poole
- amneisactical
Gran Turismo World Series (Manufacturers Cup Exhibition Season: Feb 5 - Feb 15)
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- Ulricehamn
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- Genoa
- Cabelmania
This race........was AMAZING ! See it for yourself, I'm not gonna spoil anything ! 
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- Aegina
- Willful-Underdog
A+/S lobby – Pretty much top split as my DR is over 75k and oh boy, what a race!
I chose the Mercedes to be the different guy on the grid and qualifying was pretty respectable; P11, just half a second off pole-sitter José Serrano 🤯🤯🤯
The start of the race was OK. I lost a place before T1 due to a poor getaway but the car was keeping me within the pack... until chaos happened at the hairpin.
Many cars crashed badly and I was caught off guard, hitting a lad with nowhere to go and getting front-bumper and right-wheel damage. The main straight found me in P8 and I decided to keep going with the damage as more cars crashed in front.
The second half of the race had a great three-car battle for P2 as Serrano won easily. I ended up P3, behind an Englishman and in front of Kylian Drumont (who would've thought 🥳)
389 points 😁 Let off the DualSense and I get myself a drink.
I chose the Mercedes to be the different guy on the grid and qualifying was pretty respectable; P11, just half a second off pole-sitter José Serrano 🤯🤯🤯
The start of the race was OK. I lost a place before T1 due to a poor getaway but the car was keeping me within the pack... until chaos happened at the hairpin.
Many cars crashed badly and I was caught off guard, hitting a lad with nowhere to go and getting front-bumper and right-wheel damage. The main straight found me in P8 and I decided to keep going with the damage as more cars crashed in front.
The second half of the race had a great three-car battle for P2 as Serrano won easily. I ended up P3, behind an Englishman and in front of Kylian Drumont (who would've thought 🥳)
389 points 😁 Let off the DualSense and I get myself a drink.
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- 656
- East Yorkshire
- Zorzil
That wasn't exactly what I had hoped for. I appreciate what they're trying to do with the pre-tuned road car rounds, trying to prevent them from being simple one-makes but they never balance them well and they mostly end up as one-makes anyway.
I think these pre-tuned rounds where you can't see the settings will forever be my Achilles heel. Jumping from free practice with no experience of the car being heavier with fuel and also having the tyres grip slightly differently because wear is on does not work for me at all. I'm terrible at adjusting to that in the midst of a proper race. ☹️
VR felt like a little bit of a handicap today, at least in the Ford GT. The GT's speedometer dial isn't easy to look at when you're fighting with someone since you have to look a fair ways right. Between that and the lack of time delta information, I couldn't reliably tell how fast I was going or if I was within slipstream distance and ended up going a fair bit deeper than intended at turn 1 and the hairpin a few times. The slipstream effect was so much stronger than I had expected! Even braking early didn't seem to be enough, but I didn't hit anyone at least. The Mercedes would have been much better in that regard with the digital speed readout directly behind the wheel, but I just can't push anywhere near the same times with it.
I started P12 and picked up a penalty at turn 1 after I went slightly too wide on the exit. That did help keep me away from the bowling alley at the hairpin at least. I moved up a few positions due to bowling at the hairpin, but an Italian pushed me off at turn 1 on lap 5 and my race just unravelled. Dirty tyres made sector 2 a nightmare and I dropped right the way back to P14, eventually finishing P13.
I don't think I'll bother going again. Way too chaotic in the pack and I'm not fast enough to try qualify ahead of it. Just going to forget about it, try to relax and then think about looking into practice for Dragon Trail later.
I think these pre-tuned rounds where you can't see the settings will forever be my Achilles heel. Jumping from free practice with no experience of the car being heavier with fuel and also having the tyres grip slightly differently because wear is on does not work for me at all. I'm terrible at adjusting to that in the midst of a proper race. ☹️
VR felt like a little bit of a handicap today, at least in the Ford GT. The GT's speedometer dial isn't easy to look at when you're fighting with someone since you have to look a fair ways right. Between that and the lack of time delta information, I couldn't reliably tell how fast I was going or if I was within slipstream distance and ended up going a fair bit deeper than intended at turn 1 and the hairpin a few times. The slipstream effect was so much stronger than I had expected! Even braking early didn't seem to be enough, but I didn't hit anyone at least. The Mercedes would have been much better in that regard with the digital speed readout directly behind the wheel, but I just can't push anywhere near the same times with it.
I started P12 and picked up a penalty at turn 1 after I went slightly too wide on the exit. That did help keep me away from the bowling alley at the hairpin at least. I moved up a few positions due to bowling at the hairpin, but an Italian pushed me off at turn 1 on lap 5 and my race just unravelled. Dirty tyres made sector 2 a nightmare and I dropped right the way back to P14, eventually finishing P13.
I don't think I'll bother going again. Way too chaotic in the pack and I'm not fast enough to try qualify ahead of it. Just going to forget about it, try to relax and then think about looking into practice for Dragon Trail later.
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- Netherlands
- Pamuknai_K
I just did my first run. Had to miss last week's manu cup round. I was quite hyped even though it's just a boring Ford GT fest on SM's. Since the last GTWS i'm finally in the GT1 class so that's why i was hyped. I start the event, qualify mid pack, not bad. Not even 2 laps in, another player crashes, recovers and chooses to grieve me by slamming his car into mine. Race ruined. Can't be bothered with the Nations Cup anymore.
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- 751
- Finland
Name me the youtuber lol. How about a raid with fake accounts 😈🙃. Yeah this race was total carnage... Felt more like wreckfest than racing at times.
I had a bad first attempt, the pace was there. Qualified P15 with a 1.36.9, a whopping 1-1,2 sec slower than I should, with the Ford GT. The race started well, until I I started to brake too late into T1 and hairpin a few times.. Lost places, ended up in carnage due to my own fault, yeah wasn't pretty. P10 but if I somehow raced sensibly, even a P5 was doable..
Second attempt, silly track limit penalty on the out lap just before the back straight tunnel, and since I went to the track late, I had a one shot quali. But managed to perform under pressure, 1.35.9 and P6 on the grid, P4-5 would habe required a perfect lap, so this was fine.
The race then, it started calm, and then drivers in P3-P5 ahead of me started fighting a lot. How people never seem to think of the big picture in these types of races, or in any gtws or manu race is beyond me. We had a 4 sec gap behind us like 4-5 laps into the race, but no, they all started fighting, and as a result we all lost time, I had nowhere to go, no space to do anything.
At one point I passed 3 drivers in quick succesion on first half of the lap, up to P3. But then a dirty driver decides to to do a bump to pass me two corners before the back straight. 🤬 Down to P5 and it was going to get chaotic on the back straight. A Ukrainian driver went sideswipe action with the dirty driver (who initiated most of the chaos), then not sure what happened, they crash,, I try to weave to the left, but then suddenly the Ukrainian weaves to the left with low speed right in front of me, and I could do nothing but panic brake and still hit him. Luckily just front damage, but still annoying, car became more lose due to this. Laughed a lot when the dirty driver spun at the start of next lap and ragequit, as Alonso would say "karma" 😏😈🔥.
From there it was sensible but aggressive & fair fighting between places 3-7, 2 drivers from behind had caught the pack. I ran in 6th mostly last 5-6 laps of the race. Then up to P5 like 3 laps before the end of the race. Looked to be a P5 start of final lap hairpin. But no, two drivers get bunched up on the inside, and I end up losing a bunch of time due to being slowed down. I drop to P6 and the Austrian driver yet to serve a 0,5 sec penalty in P3-P4 finishes 0,06 secs ahead of me, I finish P6.
Wheew... That was not a fun race, I feel like I deserved at least a 3-5th place finish, but luck was not on my side. I did all I could to be sensible and not go rage mode like in first race. Still I get involved in chaos despite making 0 driving errors. It is what it is, I take 159 pts. I ask again, why don't people understand that fighting in every corner is only going to slow you and others down damn it??? 🤦 P3 finishes like 1-1,5 sec ahead of me, a whopping 14 secs from P2. Thanks a lot dirty driver, hopefully you never play this game ever again! I take the score, could have been worse, but I had the pace for P3-P5.. Not worth the risk to go again, and tbf my quali (one could say it is some kind of measure of pace) warranted a P6 so can't complain too much tbf. 🤷 Gonna do some YT clips later. Maybe I am more calm then and I can laugh at the chaos. 🤔
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- United Kingdom
In my second attempt I qualified the same as the first, 6th. Improved my result by one place, finishing 9th. Could have been worse.
Looks like none of us had clean one.
After recent experience, if I had a clean race I would probably bin it out of sheer surprise that people were behaving...
Looks like none of us had clean one.
After recent experience, if I had a clean race I would probably bin it out of sheer surprise that people were behaving...
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- Canada
- AFC-R6N
Americas slots 1 and 3, B/S lobbies were pretty much the filthiest races I've been in online. What is sportsmanship.?
Both runs should have been top 5 but finished outside the top 10 and will retire for the day with 78 points.
So much punting and pushing around out there. It's not really racing.
Both runs should have been top 5 but finished outside the top 10 and will retire for the day with 78 points.
So much punting and pushing around out there. It's not really racing.
- 1,996
- United Kingdom
- jdeviant1983
Reading all these updates I'm surprised and definitely more appreciative of my lobby today. GT is dirty generally of course we all expect that to some extent but it was almost pack racing in my slot this morning and while I did see the odd shenanigan ahead of me it was close but fair racing all around.
I guess I got very lucky!
I guess I got very lucky!
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- Finland
Yeah, usually GTWS is somewhat clean but tonight was total carnage. Since PD wanted to go technical track with supercars, they should have chosen Trial Mountain instead. 🤔 Two big braking zones with these cars - lots of power, but also some weight and bad brakes. This is a recipe for disaster, when you add the powerful slipstream into the mix.
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- Wisconsin
- GTP_Eggstor
Add in the walls and guardrails at the edge of the track in key places, and both of my attempts (13th to 10th and 15th to 8th, which could easily have been 5th had I not gone wide and spun myself out in the left-hander before T1, in D/S rooms) were essentially disasters.
I decided to be different and use the Corvette. It can't get away from the Ford GT, but it handles a lot sweeter (at least when I didn't overcook it).
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Well that went about as well as could possibly be expected. Qualified 2nd, pole guy fell victim to the worst off-track zone in the game at the exit of the 2nd tunnel on lap 1, passed him and pulled out an easy 5 second lead as everyone behind me squabbled with each other. Managed it down to about 3s at the end for an easy win, lots of points and DR too as I had number 14!
EDIT: Checked the replay, by lap 4 or 5 12/16 cars had damage, it was 14 by the end. Fun times!
EDIT: Checked the replay, by lap 4 or 5 12/16 cars had damage, it was 14 by the end. Fun times!
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- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Hmmph....first slot didn't quite go to plan. All A/S lobby, Q'd in 3rd. On the first lap the leader caught a 1/2 second penalty and slipped up into 2nd by the end of the first lap. On 3rd lap I get rammed off the track in that first series of esses damaging front and rear bumpers and right front tire. Fell back to 7th. Fought as high as 5th at one point but I couldn't gain any advantage with the damage on to my car and kept getting passed back. Finished in 6th, should have finished 2nd in this one if not for the ram-happy folks out there. Good to know the guy who rammed be off track got no penalty and finished up in 4th.
Debating whether to bother running the second slot with the possibility of potentially more carnage.
Debating whether to bother running the second slot with the possibility of potentially more carnage.
Good job....I would have tucked in and followed you away if I didn't get ass-packed into a wall on the 3rd lap.
GT2 B/S with the Mazda RX Vision
On my first attempt today, all B/S, someone was trying to squeeze me in the pit at some point. Come on!
Later in the same race, the RX Vision just spun out of control for no reason going down the hill next to pit lane. No one to blame but me... or a bug one the game. Finished 13/14.
Second attempt, qualified 4th with 1.37.134 finished 3rd for 52 pts.
Can't trust that S DR much...
On my first attempt today, all B/S, someone was trying to squeeze me in the pit at some point. Come on!
Later in the same race, the RX Vision just spun out of control for no reason going down the hill next to pit lane. No one to blame but me... or a bug one the game. Finished 13/14.
Second attempt, qualified 4th with 1.37.134 finished 3rd for 52 pts.
Can't trust that S DR much...
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- Oregon
- Deputy_Fishtail
Glad I raced this one as it was fun and I had respectful driving experiences all race long. Got a boot at the hairpin on one lap and it made me go deep but the guy waited for me to get on with rather than taking the place.
I qualified within .6 of practice so okay with that but was lined up at p15 on the grid.
Moved as high as p10 and on lap 11 I muffed the curves before the first tunnel and got a 1 second penalty which allowed two by me before going into the final lap.
Finished p12 and enjoyed the short race this week. It seemed really short.
Watching the replay afterwards I realized that it wasn’t a clean event for all, so I realized I was lucky.
GL to all those still racing 👍
I qualified within .6 of practice so okay with that but was lined up at p15 on the grid.
Moved as high as p10 and on lap 11 I muffed the curves before the first tunnel and got a 1 second penalty which allowed two by me before going into the final lap.
Finished p12 and enjoyed the short race this week. It seemed really short.
Watching the replay afterwards I realized that it wasn’t a clean event for all, so I realized I was lucky.
GL to all those still racing 👍
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- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Well, slot 2 was shaping up to be a good one. Q'd in 3rd again and in practice before the race I had already dropped a good 1/4-sec from my previous best laptime.
BUT....
Once again "he who shall not be named" (you US drivers know who that is) winds up in my lobby. On the first lap he rear ends me going into the braking zone after the esses before the first bridge but I jam on the brakes in time to keep from colliding w/ the wall (so only rear bumper damage) and fall back to 8th or 9th. He procedes to go forward and continue the carnage. A couple laps later I see he's at the top of the board and 2nd and 3rd have slowed noticeably (I'm assuming due to damage he caused to them ramming his way through). I start working my way back up until I make it up to 5th. I see up ahead he's serving a penalty and shuffles back to 4th, and I just squeak past him knowing he'll try something dirty going into the hairpin at the end of the back straight, so I drift out and let him take it. He then procedes to go back to his usual antics with the guys in the top 3 who I'm assuming all have damaged cars. A lap or 2 later he's ramming his way down the back straight past them and I manage to cruise around the outside into the hairpin and take the lead for the split second.....stupidly, because he veers wide t-bones my car and sends me spinning into the outside wall damaging everything else but the engine and 1 tire. At that point my car is useless again and I'm back in like 10th and get passed by 2 or 3 people because my car just can't keep pace....so there's really only one thing left to do.
I waited it out until he eventually started falling down the order because his car was also damaged now. Caught up to him in 12th....glued myself to his rear bumper and refused to pass him until coming down the front straight as he tried to brake I pushed him off into the wall in T1. He tried to dive bomb me later in the lap at full speed going into the hairpin at the end of the back straight but missed, so that was kind of fun to watch happen in the rear view. Finished a very disappointing 12th when I very easily should have been in at least 3rd.
One last slot to try and hope his dumb ass is not paired in my lobby again. The fact the PD allows this, along with that guy in EU who uses the first name as an F1 driver who raced for Alfa Romeo team in 2020-21 and doesn't ban these people from online play is beyond me.
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- NJ/FL
- SPL170db
Last slot devolved into lots of filth again. Q'd in 2nd this time. Got rammed several times, one damaged my rear bumper. sending me back a few spots. Another guy overcooked it into T1 as I was passing for 2nd again and ran us all off track sending me back to 7th or 8th. Weaved through the filth and got myself back up to 3rd for the finish with 2nd beating me by about 1/2 a car length. Ultimately I got more points than I did in slot 1, so all's well that ends well I goess.
- 751
- Finland
From a certain point of view, yes. But since you need 3 scores out of 5 for a champ score, personally I found this round important to do, because I am decent with road cars. So I don't regret going through this hell twice, just bad luck in the second race to being slowed down by a dirty driver and last lap hairpin bunch up.
Next 2 rounds look fun, was getting tired with the gr3/gr4 only races in Nations. I hope to score 170+ pts in both and then I don't need to stress with the last 2. I am good with fast cars, but not sure how the X2019 feels at Lago Maggiore..🤔
Hey mate, I was the guy who won that race, (SmoothOp). That YouTuber happens to be a good mate of mine btw
Here are my results after RD.1 of Nations Cup, P1! So stocked
- 1,733
- Australia
Congrats on the win. It was a messy race, you did well to navigate it.
As you’ll see from my later post, I have raced him regularly and rarely had any problems. I wouldn’t necessarily call him a mate, but there’s definitely been no bad blood between us.
I think I’ll just put it down to a bad day for us and leave it at that.
Fair enough mate
Dep Fishtail
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- 497
- Oregon
- Deputy_Fishtail
Did a few x2019 laps and that should be a fun race.
I tried to take my 25th anniversary x2019 in to practice and it wasn’t letting me. I bought all of the necessary tires and checked that nitrous wasn’t installed.
The rules state garage car is allowed but 25th anniversary must be different 🤷🏻♂️
Anyone else have an issue getting a garage car to work?
If I go to buy another car it shows like I already have. 🤔
I tried to take my 25th anniversary x2019 in to practice and it wasn’t letting me. I bought all of the necessary tires and checked that nitrous wasn’t installed.
The rules state garage car is allowed but 25th anniversary must be different 🤷🏻♂️
Anyone else have an issue getting a garage car to work?
If I go to buy another car it shows like I already have. 🤔
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