Gran Turismo World Series (Manufacturers Cup Exhibition Season: Feb 5 - Feb 15)

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Came back for 1 last shot in NA GT1 slot 3. @Pfei in the lobby with.

This one went much smoothe...for me anyway. Q'd in 4th, this time kept it nice and tidy. 1st and 2nd got a little gap and I got into a nice little battle w/ 3rd-5th, going back and forth all through the race, but we kept it respectful and clean. In the end I managed to snag the last podium spot and apparently fastest lap though I wasn't paying attention haha.



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GT1 North America Slot 3.

After my still-unexplained nap in slot 1 and my disconnect from second place in slot 2 I HAD to go again, if anything to recover some DR from the massive hit I took for the disconnect. I was expecting a weak lobby but it was a 220 pointer teamed up with @SPL170db again.

Decent qualy but only got me starting P8.

After a few laps of nice racing I worked myself up to 6th and held it until the penultimate lap where I had an epic battle with the guy behind me all the way to the finish line. P7 for 165 points. I'm not angry for missing out on 200+ points because of the slot 2 disconnect. Rather the massive DR hit was a big blow and I was expecting a weaker lobby to grab some good DR but not as many points.

Despite all my issues, all three slots were great fun. Lots of close and respectful racing tonight.

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Wannablackbee
GT1 NA slot 1: Q1 finished P4. This lobby was not as clean as the first 2 round of the WS. A lot of contacts. I did make contact by mistake myself. I saw drivers that like to battle at turn 1 but it always end in a slight contact which slow us down and makes us give positions to the ones that are far back. This sector has a lot of momentum that you rather not break with a battle because you have so much to lose.

Slot 2: Q2 finished P2. I messed up and I rear ended the Ford GT P1 in the chicane of the first lap and gave back the position. The bad thing is it forced my fellow driver @Dep Fishtail to slow down behind me. Leaving him being caught by the pack of hungry wolves behind us. I hope he got another chance and a better run at slot 3.

Overall, while I was gaining time each curvey portion of the track, I always found myself being overtaken in the straight out of the tunnel because slipstream. At the same spot happened a lot of slingshot moments that you don't see coming in the mirror leading to last minute nose dives from a train of opponents on your left trying to take the inside of the hairpin while missing their breaking points.

There was a moment when when I was P2 side by side with P1 and we both decided to lift at turn one to make the turn. Bad idea. I often lift because I know the other won't. We got caught by the others because of that. I have a lot to learn about racecraft. Starting by the need to figure out when to be agressive and overtake and when to let go.

Oh! And from what I saw, I thought that damage did not keep people from having a good pace.
Sorry for the long text. See you next round maybe.
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Great seeing you out there again.
No worries! You had a great run and deserved to be up there going for the win. I just didn’t have the pace tonight and should have been able to better stay ahead of the angry pack lol. Definitely lots of contact passing was happening in that race.
Congrats on the p2 and hopefully see you again this weekend.
Cheers
 
Holy crap the next race is ridiculous. Put in about 5 laps with the Porsche legend and #1 on the leaderboards is 10 seconds faster. I've got a beer festival I'm serving at Saturday and I'll be coming in hot with maybe 1 shot at the late slot with little opportunity to practice. sigh
 
GT3 SA (it's not GTA San Andreas lol)

I got my first victory online and it was at this official event. It was actually the first time I won a race online in any game.😃
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I did a good qualify using the car in front of me and started in 2nd. First lap got the 1st place and could maintain it til the end, never happened to me before, also did the fastest lap in lap 9.
90% was using M3 including me.

It helped a little being a so classic track that I remember spending hours and hours in GT1.
 
After a complete disaster in Le Mans (only caused by my driving skills) and pass for race with the Honda (never driven the car before, barely know the track and no time for practice) this time was a big improvemnt for me.

I choosed the LFA. Didn't wanted to take the BMW like everybody else.
Quali was very good. I did a 2.05.3, which is just .2 sec slower than my best practise lap. That ment P6, .3 sec behind P1.
There were 10 BMW, 3 LFA and 1 Porsche and Mazda.

First lap, things went very chaotic, very fast. I tried to avoid making contact with other cars but hit Barry in the right hander after the 1. tunnel > 1st penalty.
On the long straight i had a drag race with a BMW. We went side by side onto the hairpin and i forgot to break and hit Barry again > 2nd penalty.
After serving the 3 sec, i almost lost the car between turn 1 and 2. That put me back in P15.
After that, my laps became more clean and i could gain some places and had some realy fun fights.
In the end i finished P8, wich i was quite satisfied with.
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Fezzik
Biggest shock in GTWS history - first round of manufacturers cup is on the N24.

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So they nerf all the MR cars (assuming this is just mid speed tracks or is it all low & high speed) apart from Porsche. Good job I was picking Porsche before the announcement.
I wonder how many people now will be looking for a new manufacturer as they were going with McLaren or Renault etc…

Manufacturers Cup events… not too bad really. I hate that we have some repeat tracks again (Nurburgring 24h, Suzuka, Interlagos & Deep Forest) as these seem to pop up a fair bit.
Could we have weather at Nurbs 24h, Suzuka and Fuji? No mandatory tyre for those 3 races.

Looking at the dates I have a feeling I may miss one of the best race at Suzuka. 35 laps with possible weather.
 
I've only just realised the 917 "Living legend" for the next round isn't actually a 917. No, it's some god damn ugly imposter, barely looks like a 917. I thought we were going to be racing real 917's, possibly the greatest race car ever built, well pissed off.

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Roggers
Looking at the dates I have a feeling I may miss one of the best race at Suzuka. 35 laps with possible weather.
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35 laps for the GT1 elite. Meanwhile the rest are back to being treated as second-class citizens with a frankly insulting 15 laps.

Shorter seasons every time, barely any strategy, nerfed events - there’s no point playing unless you’re A or above.
 
Fezzik
35 laps for the GT1 elite. Meanwhile the rest are back to being treated as second-class citizens with a frankly insulting 15 laps.

Shorter seasons every time, barely any strategy, nerfed events - there’s no point playing unless you’re A or above.
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Annoyingly for the 35 lap GT1 race they've specified RH and only X2 tyre wear. A race that long could have been really interesting strategy wise balancing the choice of more stops, harder tyres or tyre saving.
 
MetalApe
Annoyingly for the 35 lap GT1 race they've specified RH and only X2 tyre wear. A race that long could have been really interesting strategy wise balancing the choice of more stops, harder tyres or tyre saving.
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Isn't this just the World Tour race with the slow-moving rain again? Same parameters, at least...
 
MetalApe
Annoyingly for the 35 lap GT1 race they've specified RH and only X2 tyre wear. A race that long could have been really interesting strategy wise balancing the choice of more stops, harder tyres or tyre saving.
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Lol exactly, what's the fun on not letting people try different strategies, unless there are very known meta way, which probably doesn't at this point.
 
Pfei
I own three Subarus. I'm picking Subaru. Simple. 🙂
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MCL1974
But I own three Ferrari's, one McLaren, one AMG, two Lamborghini's and a Kia Proceed. So for me it is still very difficult to pick one....
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bit off topic but anyway: on April 2nd I posted above message here when we were discussing which manufacturer to pick.

Now I have to be honest and this may come as a shock to you all but I was not telling the thruth that day and in fact I do not own three Ferrari's, a McLaren, an AMG and two Lambo's. My apologies!! And from today I no longer own the Kia Proceed as well.

But as of today I do own the below car which in it's race trim is one of the best looking cars in this game, in my humble opinion.
Very pleased to have purchased this car, maybe not the most sensible decision of my life but I think it will be fun.

So will I drive for this manufacturer now in the coming series? mweh, probably not...

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