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

[Yard_Sale]

Fun day…

2nd slot, EMEA GT1

Q’d 9th. Finished 6th. Should have been a couple places for their up, but dirty drivers holding up everyone in the middle of the race didn’t bode well for me. As with guys ramming their way through on like lap 22-23 when they were in new Softs. Ferrari has nothing in the way of straight line speed. I was a sitting duck on the finish straight all race. Pretty fun race all in all. Tough track, being that every corner lends itself to a take-out. 46 minutes of intense fun!





3rd slot EMEA, GT1

Q’d 5th with a 1:31.6

First few laps were pretty scruffy as people were pushing to pass at every chance. Goal was just to survive the first 3-lap melee, and settle into a pace. Decided to go 16H-14M as my mediums started to fall off at the end of last race. The strategies all started to come together the last 10 laps just like last time. Ate my way through a few dudes that were on hards. Let 1-2 guys through that we’re clearly on Softs. Final 3 laps, the guys I had let through with Softs Tires started to fall off and was able to nix em back.

First slot Americas, GT1


Q’d 6th…couldn’t hook up a good lap. Did the pinball game for the first bunch of laps. Pretty dirty race, actually. Tweaked my strategy to 17H-13m this time. Race came together at the end just like last time, but I had one lap better tires this time. Had to deal with a few dirty drivers that didn't want to get passed at the end. Did everything they could by way of swerve blocking and dive bombs. Found my way through and was pretty much by myself for the last 2 laps.

Did a lot of testing for this round. Determined that I personally wasn't able to get anymore than 10 laps out of softs. 8 laps, really... once you count the lap to get heat into them, and the 10th lap which was usually pretty damn sketchy. Decided I would go with hards till mid-ish race, then run mediums all out till the end. Throughout the day, I saw that my mediums started to fall off pace lap 29 and 30, so I adjusted my strategy for my main so that I would be able to charge the entire race without any serious grip issues. As long as I was smart and let the soft-runners through when they came up on me, it was relatively drama free strategy-wise. In all honesty, I was usually able to pick up about 5-6 places from lap 25 on, as I had more pace than the hard-tire-runners, and the dudes on worn softs were sitting ducks. I tested 2 stopping running 10H-10S-10S, but it felt too sketchy. Same for going 20H-10S. Never planned on doing well this round, as literally everything was against me in a Ferrari; but I must say.... I had a blast testing and developing a strategy for this race. One and done for me

I think PD really knocked it out of the park this season as far as the multipliers and courses were concerned. Lots of different possible strategies. And it also seemed like there were a lot of manufacturers that were pretty evenly matched between their GR.3 and GR. 4 cars. Hopefully they give us a couple exhibition seasons, complete with MORE LONG RACES!!!

 

[C_Raccoon23]

Unfortunately, my goal of ending this season strong wasn’t met.

Final 10pm slot. Qualified P12 with a 1:32.6 which was quite irritating as I was able to get into the 1:31’s in FP, and a time like that would have put me up front. I went with the 17H/13S strategy. However, a few small mistakes including a track cut penalty during my Hard tire stint cost me a bit of time, which led to me getting separated from the pack ahead. The Soft stint went better, but it didn't do much good at that point. I had only gained a few positions, finishing a mediocre 9th for 120 points.

I believe this is my worst season in both GT Sport and GT7 combined. I didn't get single 150+ score, which is the benchmark I set for myself in these races. The silver lining here is that there's still the Toyota championship at least, and I'm getting better results there in comparison.

 

[bduddy]

Finally, finally a good race for me in slot 2. Pulled an amazing qualifying lap out of nowhere to qualify 1st, drove away to about a 15s lead on the softs in the 1st stint (2nd place starting on hards was huge for me), pitted for hards on lap 11, got briefly held up but extended the lead when everyone pitted, and just about managed to hold on to a win of about 3s from a charging H>S runner.

But enough about me! The tentative Showdown and Finals teams are:
McLaren: Cooper, K. Mizuno, K. Konstantinou
Toyota: A. Carrazza, R. Kobayashi, C. Lopez
Nissan: ツ (M. Estevez), Okasana, A. Santos
Subaru: Amarok, T. Miyazono, Kylian19
BMW: Calen, CRV, Aphe
AMG: L. Bonelli, あ (anchovy_sand), TSUTSU
Mazda: R. Heck, HIROGRAND, P. Urra
Lamborghini: N. Arriagada, VELTRO, Will
Porsche: A. Inostroza, takuan, J. Serrano
Honda: LaoaSof, S. Nabetani, V. Gallo
Renault: A. Mosso Nunes, G. Barbara, A. Lopez
Genesis: D. Heldt, TRUST-T78-33D, N. Romero

(Genesis gets in over Ferrari by virtue of being a partner. Ferrari needed 15 more points to pass Renault and get in.)

Toyota and Subaru appear to be the favorites, as usual. Porsche and AMG could be strong as well?

 

[jrbabbitt]

When’s the last time you changed oil? Reason I ask, is this sane thing happened to me during the Tokyo grind in the Tomahawk. Went to check the oil. It was worn

I change oil before every big race, and I mentioned that after that race my oil was still in the green as excellent. If you watch the whole video, scroll to end of lap 18 just before the start line it starts blinking red and does not stop for the remaining two laps, where as normal damage goes away after 30 seconds or so, this did not, it cost me 3 positions at end of race.
Watch this clip from full video you can see the oil is still excellent...

✂️ oil check

60 seconds · Clipped by James Babbitt · Original video "Gran Turismo® 7_20230701184750" by James Babbitt

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[GTWolverine]

Slot 1: Got bumped up to a higher split for the first time this season, joining @Spider-Racer and @OutlawQuadrnt. Probably not great for someone who hates this track and had barely any practice...

I'd already decided on a 2-stop because I couldn't keep the rear end under me on the Hard tires in the limited practice I had, so I wanted to run as few laps on them as possible. Qualifying went poorly as I should've expected, and I started P15, only 0.005s ahead of DFL. Ultimately I finished where I started, and that was only because someone quit, otherwise I'd have finished DFL (well, technically I still did finish DFL because there were only 15 cars running at the end...).

Slot 2: I changed ABS back to Default from Weak, and somehow that made the car easier to drive under acceleration?? It wasn't much easier, but I felt confident I wasn't going to swap ends on the Hards just from thinking about accelerating... Annoyingly, I'd already had it on Default originally, but switched to Weak because it felt like trying to stop a freight train when it was on Default.

Unfortunately the room crashed before it even loaded (I assume it crashed - my game froze just after it loaded everyone's name, and a stream in the same race got the "'unexpected' (is it really unexpected at this point?) error" message). I decided to do a full race run in Custom Race since the game couldn't be bothered to do its job, and I settled on a 17H/13S strategy for the final slot.

Slot 3: With a much better handle on the car, and being placed into my usual split with people I can actually keep up with, I qualified 5th. I stayed in that position until Lap 4, when I got a run on an AMG in front of me into T1 and tried to go around the outside of T1. Unfortunately the Lambo behind me outbraked himself and ran into me. I didn't lose any spots, but now had rear aero damage. Headed to T4, a Ferrari on Softs got between the Lambo and me. I didn't know the Ferrari was on Softs, so I moved to the middle of the track to defend, and the Ferrari just drove into the back of me and pitched my car off track to the right, dumping me down to 10th. Checking the replay, it looked like he just failed to account for the difference in tire grip when braking, and he also moved over a bit to try to squeeze around the outside when there wasn't room and dropped his right side tires in the grass, which didn't help him in slowing down. At the time though, looking in my mirror, it looked like he intentionally PIT maneuvered me.

I then spent the next 7 laps slowly (VERY slowly) closing in on the battle for 8th between a GT-R and a 911, which became 6th when 2 of the front-runners on Softs (including the Ferrari that put me back here in the first place). The Porsche ran wide at the final corner at the end of Lap 11, and I was able to get into the GT-R's slipstream, but was unable to get anywhere close enough to make a pass, so I stared at the back of the GT-R until he pitted on Lap 16. I stayed out an additional lap before pitting for Softs, and came out behind a Ford GT LM that had pitted earlier for Mediums, and got by him in a couple laps without him putting up a fight. Up next was the Lambo that had accidentally punted me earlier, who was also now on Mediums. I caught him at the beginning of Lap 25, and he let me by on the run to T4 without putting up a fight. The GT-R I'd been staring at earlier and unable to pass removed himself from the equation by spinning out at the exit of T4. This meant I was now in 6th, almost back where I started the race, and the Ferrari that derailed my race was next up in 5th, on Hards. I caught up to the Ferrari on Lap 28, again on the run to T4. I moved to the inside and gave him a payback nudge in the left rear which sent him into a full spin and dumped him back down the order. Now I actually do feel bad about it after seeing that he'd made an honest mistake earlier instead of deliberately taking me out, but I don't feel that bad since he hadn't even bothered to wait after putting me off. Still, had I known it was just an error, I'd probably have passed him without intentionally sending him off.

Anyway, after that, I was too far back to have any chance of catching the lead pack of 4 cars, so I finished where I started in 5th when I could've been fighting for the podium if not for the time I lost earlier in the race. Thankfully it was still worth 253 points, so still a solid result. It now means all 3 of my counted points scores have been 5th places in Gr.3 rounds (Nurburgring, Watkins Glen, and Interlagos). I'm pretty sure it's the first time only 1 class has contributed all of my points.

 

[tankuroded]

(Genesis gets in over Ferrari by virtue of being a partner. Ferrari needed 15 more points to pass Renault and get in.)

Pain for Ferrari, to which I personally look forward to be in live events (despite being a Nissan driver).

 

[bduddy]

Pain for Ferrari, to which I personally look forward to be in live events (despite being a Nissan driver).

The Ferrari team would have been F. Rodrigues, TenagaZaru, and G. Mangano.
Right below them were Lexus, who would have had a very strong team - I. Fraga, Kawakana, and M. Swiderek. Not having a top EU driver really hurt them...

 

[Fezzik]

But enough about me! The tentative Showdown and Finals teams are:
McLaren: Cooper, K. Mizuno, K. Konstantinou
Toyota: A. Carrazza, R. Kobayashi, C. Lopez
Nissan: ツ (M. Estevez), Okasana, A. Santos
Subaru: Amarok, T. Miyazono, Kylian19
BMW: Calen, CRV, Aphe
AMG: L. Bonelli, あ (anchovy_sand), TSUTSU
Mazda: R. Heck, HIROGRAND, P. Urra
Lamborghini: N. Arriagada, VELTRO, Will
Porsche: A. Inostroza, takuan, J. Serrano
Honda: LaoaSof, S. Nabetani, V. Gallo
Renault: A. Mosso Nunes, G. Barbara, A. Lopez
Genesis: D. Heldt, TRUST-T78-33D, N. Romero

(Genesis gets in over Ferrari by virtue of being a partner. Ferrari needed 15 more points to pass Renault and get in.)

stupid sponsor immunity, why do they even bother competing with an automatic entry?

my poor ferrari, a motorsport competition isn’t the same without them.

 

[PuffelPizza]

Wouldn't be surprised if Subaru won again, that BRZ GT300 is a monster...

 

[RobertHammer]

Not bad but could have done better , still pretty good racing if we don't count those penalties and other driver's mishaps 😎

 

[Slowdan]

I went in the first race of the day, GT3, made it back up to B again, so it was all B/S drivers.

I've been running some practice in the Ferrari and knew that it really doesn't like worn tyres (or maybe I don't like it on worn tyres? 😁) so I thought I'd go for a one stop. Hard first and medium around the middle as I couldn't make the softs last 10 laps with any decent pace.

In quali I actually managed to find a decent space and got 2 nice laps in. Was very surprised to see that that placed me in 3rd on the grid!

I decided to stick with the plan and got a clean start from the front with the order staying the same for the first laps and no-one trying any silly moves. First turned out to be on mediums and pulled a nice gap. 2nd and 4th were close for the first stint and we were a;; pushing hard. Some minor errors, but not enough to make a move. I came past the finish line to start lap 10 to find I had suddenly been promoted to 2nd, 1st had gone for his stop, so I started thinking about mine.

I pitted and the end of lap 11 and decided on softs in the end. Nearly binned it in the little chicane on the way into the pit but was saved by auto-drive. Came out P11 with 2 cars in view ahead so I set about getting some nice quick laps in. Got some lovely clean passes over the next few laps thanks to some good clean racing by everyone there. Passed the original leader when he overcooked it on the way to the final turn and spun. Pulled myself up to the back of 4th by the final lap, but not quite close enough to pass on tyres that were getting a bit twitchy at this stage.

All in, 5th place and a clean race. Pretty happy with that result. Didn't expect to be that close to the front and probably would have thrown it off track at some point if I tried to run hards to the end.

Pulled in a surprisingly high 6 million in the end and had great fun doing it. When's the next one? 😆

 

[tankuroded]

stupid sponsor immunity, why do they even bother competing with an automatic entry?

my poor ferrari, a motorsport competition isn’t the same without them.

They haven't been in a GT live event since when, 2018?

 

[Yard_Sale]

They haven't been in a GT live event since when, 2018?

It feels like they’re close. The gr.3 Ferrari just needs a little more differential work. I would even be willing to sacrifice even more straight line speed for some more stability. Pretty much every car was walking away from me on the home straight, EVEN when I was in their slip!

 

[OJBrit]

Terrible race for me today, just couldn’t get the pace. Not too miserable tho’ as I snagged 4.5m credits for my earlier efforts with Nissan this time around. GT3, EMEA.


Was thinking the same myself. For the majority, only half the year gone and Manu/Nations are done. They really need to get something sorted for the next 6 months. Maybe monthly competitions or leagues? The point is, they need to do something (just NOT those stupid 3 race series!).

Usually there is a 2nd season of both.

When’s the last time you changed oil? Reason I ask, is this sane thing happened to me during the Tokyo grind in the Tomahawk. Went to check the oil. It was worn

If I have it correctly then Sport mode does not affect the oil, only offline. Also you could enter the event with red oil and suffer no ill effects due to the BOP.

 

[Yard_Sale]

Usually there is a 2nd season of both.

If I have it correctly then Sport mode does not affect the oil, only offline. Also you could enter the event with red oil and suffer no ill effects due to the BOP.

I’ve heard both, and seen it too. I remember doing a few hours of FP for one of the rounds, got out of sport mode and did a Sardegna grind race, and oil was “normal” afterwards. The first thing I did before I started my sport mode free practice session was change the oil. So I don’t know what to believe!!

But alas, I also did a chassis and engine refresh to both my 458’s prior to the start of the season, despite them both being “excellent”. I decided to use my own personal cars instead of the loaners. And if anything, doing the refreshes just made me feel more like a real life race car driver haha!. And they’ll both get another refresh tomorrow before I pain em “prototype white” in preparation for the upcoming offseason testing that starts Monday.

Can’t break immersion, and I gotta keep those 2 warhorses ready for battle 😂

 

[Mistah_MCA]

But enough about me! The tentative Showdown and Finals teams are:
McLaren: Cooper, K. Mizuno, K. Konstantinou
Toyota: A. Carrazza, R. Kobayashi, C. Lopez
Nissan: ツ (M. Estevez), Okasana, A. Santos
Subaru: Amarok, T. Miyazono, Kylian19
BMW: Calen, CRV, Aphe
AMG: L. Bonelli, あ (anchovy_sand), TSUTSU
Mazda: R. Heck, HIROGRAND, P. Urra
Lamborghini: N. Arriagada, VELTRO, Will
Porsche: A. Inostroza, takuan, J. Serrano
Honda: LaoaSof, S. Nabetani, V. Gallo
Renault: A. Mosso Nunes, G. Barbara, A. Lopez
Genesis: D. Heldt, TRUST-T78-33D, N. Romero

(Genesis gets in over Ferrari by virtue of being a partner. Ferrari needed 15 more points to pass Renault and get in.)

Toyota and Subaru appear to be the favorites, as usual. Porsche could be strong as well?

Crazy that Porsche bounced back in the final round. TakuAn and Josete helped secure their spots by getting the 30 and 40 global manufacturer points, respectively.

 

[GlockPants]

Good final results for me in GT3. Too bad I messed up my first race at Interlagos. I believe there was a chance for me to win. Had that happened, I'd have been tied for 3rd place in my region.

Good racing to everyone this season! Hopefully now I'll have some time to complete these extra cafe menus.

 

[Spider-Racer]

Even though I absolutely despise driving my home track...I actually had fun during this race. First of all congrats on the win @OutlawQuadrnt, even though I literally didn't even see the color of your car this race 😂

My race pace was pretty darn good...but I qualified back in 11th (story of my season after round 3) and all I could do then is finish P6 for 259 points. The pace felt excellent and gaining 5 spots in race in this split felt amazing, but in the end it was ultimately worthless as my lowest score was Road Atlanta's 272 points.
I still hate Interlagos, though, so I decided not to do more slots..it felt more like a chore than anything else. In hindsight it was the best decision as I'd either be in @GTWolverine crashed lobby or the one above it where the odds of scoring 272+ would have been close to zero.
Here's another picture to reward you for reading this far:

Once again I find myself thinking "What if I was actually a decent qualifier?" 😅
Still had a very fun race fighting and beating a bunch of Lambos, Ferraris, one Viper and so on!! I'll check where I finished the overall season later and post here as well so that the future AI overlords can index it and tell my great great grandchild what their Neanderthal ancestral achieved in a videogame 🤪

 

[RacingGrandpa]

When's the next one?

If the announcement for this season is to be trusted, next year.

 

[Roggers]

However, I have some questions. I entered today's event with my loaner car, but once I got into qualifying I noticed that I couldn't change my tire compounds from Racing Hard because that was the only owned set and there was no racing shop in which I could buy a set of Racing Softs. Do the loaner cars not come with all tire compounds? You have to buy them from GT Auto before the race begins or something?

Yeah the loaner cars don’t come with tyres. It’s stupid. You can waste credits buying the 5 tyres required and once the season is finished with and you lose the car, you lose the tyres too. I don’t use the loaner cars for this very reason on the tyres.

Ah it wasn't the game pushing me for more it was the battle with @Fezzik
Good healthy competition. I may have won but paid a price for my hubris.
I'll learn from my lessons.

Haha I know that battle. @MCL1974 and myself have had a little TT battle in this last two races.
Watkins Glen - MCL set a time and I went on to beat it. Next day I log in and MCL gone and beat my time, so I had to go beat it again. Not sure who won on that TT, but I did set the fastest time in quali that beat both our TT times.
Interlagos - again same thing. MCL set a time, I go and beat it, then next day I see I’ve been knocked down again. I tried to beat and my optimal times were saying I could beat it, just couldn’t hook the lap together.
Was good fun having this little battle.

I also have another question, please watch the clip and tell me how I damaged my engine in the last two laps of a Mfg race today, please pay attention to the damage indicator during the main stretch, the engine damage starts blinking for no obvious reason, and after the race I checked the oil and it was GREEN EXCELLENT...

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I’ve seen your latest post too. My only assumption to this would have engine mileage. Your mileage could have exceeded which caused the engine failure, but after seeing your latest post with the engine still showing as good in the GTAuto shop, I can only assume it was bug?

But enough about me! The tentative Showdown and Finals teams are:
McLaren: Cooper, K. Mizuno, K. Konstantinou
Toyota: A. Carrazza, R. Kobayashi, C. Lopez
Nissan: ツ (M. Estevez), Okasana, A. Santos
Subaru: Amarok, T. Miyazono, Kylian19
BMW: Calen, CRV, Aphe
AMG: L. Bonelli, あ (anchovy_sand), TSUTSU
Mazda: R. Heck, HIROGRAND, P. Urra
Lamborghini: N. Arriagada, VELTRO, Will
Porsche: A. Inostroza, takuan, J. Serrano
Honda: LaoaSof, S. Nabetani, V. Gallo
Renault: A. Mosso Nunes, G. Barbara, A. Lopez
Genesis: D. Heldt, TRUST-T78-33D, N. Romero

(Genesis gets in over Ferrari by virtue of being a partner. Ferrari needed 15 more points to pass Renault and get in.)

Thats not on with Ferrari. They deserve to be in the finals above Genesis. Nic Romero only did 3 races all season, and scored the points require to make sure he was the top Genesis player just to guarantee a spot. While Gerogio for Ferrari was racing in every slot, too miss out due to a sponsor?
Point system is totally broken on GTWS in my opinion. Should make the system 6 out of 7 rounds counts towards your points total. Keeps the top players racing till the end.

 

[xxPinkyKissxx]

First season I’ve entered enough races for a full total score since the last official season.

Pretty pleased. 4th for AMG in the UK behind @Zorz in 3rd.

Oh come on…… how close to A+?? One day!

Who knows if PD will do any exhibitions or similar any time soon, but if not, signing off from GT. Have a good summer everyone!

 

[Slowdan]

If the announcement for this season is to be trusted, next year.

So in other words, far too long. 😕

 

[KAlex122]

If the announcement for this season is to be trusted, next year.

So only this Gazoo thingy for the rest of the year?

 

[OJBrit]

So only this Gazoo thingy for the rest of the year?

Lets just calm down. As said there are usually 2 seasons in a year. Although their own roadmaps only currently have 1 season. It would be poor to not have at least a couple of exhibition seasons.

I wasn't able to post my usual picture in my report as gran-turismo.com wasn't working correctly.
This was from a good clean battle with a Spaniard in race 3.

So my results for this season.

Obviously the disappointment of falling down the order hurts, but generally it has been good with more podiums than I would normally have. I think I clicked with the Gr.4 car more as it always did what I wanted it to do. The Gr.3 car was o.k. but I never felt comfortable that it would brake correctly and thus it must have done my confidence in.

 

[Talon16]

After some reflecting now that it's all over, this GTWS Manu was great. Good job, PD, seriously! Sure, there would've been a couple little things that I'd have like to see different but for all intents and purposes, this was a very well done series. Best thing PD does.

Full disclosure, virtually all of my races were in GT2, and that was due to the time constraints of the GT1 series slots. I know the GT2 series doesn't get the same clout as the GT1 (and in a lot of respects, it shouldn't) but I can tell you the competition was definitely there. Much more so than in the past. I would bet my next paycheck a lot of people are using second accounts to sign up in GT2 for the extra times slots as most of the races I was in were all A rated players, some of which were very high As.

After seeing the final results, I can say I am pretty pleased to have finished P3 in the Drivers in GT2 and P1 in Manufactures. To my point earlier, I think the guy that won is a high ranking EMEA player as that name looks familiar, and the fact he won the series while only doing three races is interesting. Honestly, I couldn't care less, just pointing it out.

I am happy with my choice of AMG as this car is really fun to drive. I put about 2,000 miles on the Gr3 car since picking it as a Manu and now I feel like I can go drive some other stuff again. My intent for my #2 account is to pick a Manu that is non-META but can still compete (so tired of Toyota and Nissan all the time, to which both P1 & P2 were in a META) and I think this car fit the bill perfectly. As an F1 fan, I do not like team Merc... but as long as their cars have fenders they're okay in my book. Well done, team AMG and thanks for the ride!

My only non-GT2 race was was a GT1 race on my EMEA account... literally one. It was at Nord where I finished P3. On that account I picked McLaren mainly for the Nord race. There were some others I was thinking I'd compete in but either wasn't able to due to time or wasn't interested in. Regardless, little did I know at the time, that one race would net me 4.8mil on that account. I'll take that all day!

Congrats to everyone who competed. Already looking forward to the next one.

 

[Lewmatic]

This was a good race. Started 9th lap 2 things were getting a little hairy with a incident ahead of me in turn 2 and 3 resulting a lot of cars bunched up on the back straight. I Luckily was able to avoid them on the inside of turn 3 and watched all the chaos of everyone bumping and battling almost 5 wide in the rear view, no one crashed and things settled down after turn 4. Spent a lot of time chasing the Lexus, that car was so hard to catch on the straights. Pitted for softs on lap 18 and back to chasing the Lexus again. Was able to move up some spots from a turn 4 incident on lap 27 and a two car incident in turn 3 on the final lap passing for 6th and the car ahead of me having to serve a 1 second penalty locking me in to finish in 5th. Never thought I would enjoy a race at Interlargos and very happy to end on a high note.

 

[Yard_Sale]

Yeah the loaner cars don’t come with tyres. It’s stupid. You can waste credits buying the 5 tyres required and once the season is finished with and you lose the car, you lose the tyres too. I don’t use the loaner cars for this very reason on the tyres.


Haha I know that battle. @MCL1974 and myself have had a little TT battle in this last two races.
Watkins Glen - MCL set a time and I went on to beat it. Next day I log in and MCL gone and beat my time, so I had to go beat it again. Not sure who won on that TT, but I did set the fastest time in quali that beat both our TT times.
Interlagos - again same thing. MCL set a time, I go and beat it, then next day I see I’ve been knocked down again. I tried to beat and my optimal times were saying I could beat it, just couldn’t hook the lap together.
Was good fun having this little battle.


I’ve seen your latest post too. My only assumption to this would have engine mileage. Your mileage could have exceeded which caused the engine failure, but after seeing your latest post with the engine still showing as good in the GTAuto shop, I can only assume it was bug?


Thats not on with Ferrari. They deserve to be in the finals above Genesis. Nic Romero only did 3 races all season, and scored the points require to make sure he was the top Genesis player just to guarantee a spot. While Gerogio for Ferrari was racing in every slot, too miss out due to a sponsor?
Point system is totally broken on GTWS in my opinion. Should make the system 6 out of 7 rounds counts towards your points total. Keeps the top players racing till the end.

Agreed. A lot of the top finishers for Ferrari ONLY did the gr.4 rounds. That’s just weak..

 

[RacingGrandpa]

Lets just calm down

I agree, that there hopefully will be more. I just said that the now ongoing isn't finished before after the world tours and those are a far way ahead. I hope for a proper exhibition season with at least 8 races and only 2 dropped scores

 

[GTWolverine]

My final results from the season. I was actually outside the Top 100 the entire season until the final round, but squeaked into 90th at the last possible moment. While this season wasn't "bad" overall, it was still rather frustrating with only 2 races at tracks I actually enjoyed (Spa and Watkins Glen), and only at 1 of those did I have a competitive car (Watkins Glen). To sum it up, my BEST result this season was 267 points at Watkins Glen, which equals my WORST result in the first of the official 2022 Manufacturer's Championships (although that season was admittedly an abnormally good season).

On a lighter note, for the first time ever in an official season (and only the 2nd time overall), I was the top Chevy driver in the Americas! I was also the only one who got over 200 points in at least 3 rounds, and the only one that got over 200 points at Road America and Watkins Glen (I also would've been the only one over 200 at Spa, as I had 218 points after Slot 2, but went again and got murdered). Also, all of my counted results were in the Gr.3 car, and they all came from 5th-place finishes. I've never had a season where one class didn't contribute any points at all, except the exhibition seasons that were restricted to just Gr.3 of course.

Unfortunately I was over 40 positions short of getting the gold reward in the overall standings, but I think 9,000,000 credits is alright...

 

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My race yesterday was two attempts. The first one was a bust, ended P12 after a few incidents. Second one, I was a bit slow in qualifying, and qualified 12th.

Running the no stop RH strategy. I'm up to 9th and going side by side on one of the midfield sections, unfortunately the guy beside me spun his tires on the exit and he didn't catch it, so side swiped me off into the barrier. Now in last. But outside of that I had a very clean race, and held good pace. I had a few good overtakes on some of the guys at the back, and so much of the field did pit, so I gained a lot of positions from strategy.

Lap 16, I'm in 6th and have been in striking range of P5 and P4 for a few laps, couldn't find any opportunities but my pace was a bit faster. In Turns 4/5, P4 had a mistake and lost control a bit, sliding into P5 and I reacted and went around them on the right. From that point on, just kept my pace, created a large gap, and took it easy the last lap to not force any mistakes. Ended P4.

Glad I practiced, and from both of my races I gained more positions that I would have likely not gained otherwise if everyone ran the no stop. Having to fight traffic at this circuit is rough, so thanks for holding up the RS runners everyone behind me haha.

Very happy with my race, had a lot of fun with that one. Collected 6 mil credits later in the night, I'm in GT3, #1 in local & state, #5 for Lexus, #240-something I think for the region (can't remember will have to check again later). Had a blast with this series.