Gran Turismo World Series (Nations Cup 2025 Exhibition Season 2: 26 Feb - 8 Mar)

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yeah, not happening today. Just a less-than-mediocre finish at P12 today. I saw @afc5150 in the lobby again, you had a good race it seems. I didn't see you pit, were you on M,S? While everyone was pitting I was only 4secs behind you, but finished 15secs behind. And got undercut by those that pitted after me. I really faded in the second half of the race and I don't think it was because I was on M, I just got slow.... But I did get a CRB, small victories.

I made A again at RBR this week, but more races like today and I am perfectly capable of losing it before the Manu series gets a signup. Everyone here knows that, regardless of whether I make GT1 or GT2, I am going to complain, right?!
 
Did 2 slots this evening, GT2 high B/S low A/S

Slot 6 - after rushing home from work, chose the GT-R, qualified in 13th, crashed on lap 1, and managed to bring it home a lonely 9th for 98 points.

Slot 8 - took the mighty NSX this time, immediately felt better and went Q7 to P5 for 122-ish points. Incredibly clean and hard-fought race from where I was, one of the best I've been in online in either GTS or GT7 in terms of respect on the track! :) Had @icycls closing in at one point as the pit cycle was on, not sure what happened in the end, but always good to see a friendly face out there. I ran the 12M/8S strategy both races. *edit - set fast lap, too :D


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Really enjoying Gt7 lately, with the GTWS, Gazoo and Time Trials, it's kept me really busy with always something to do.
 
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icycls
yeah, not happening today. Just a less-than-mediocre finish at P12 today. I saw @afc5150 in the lobby again, you had a good race it seems. I didn't see you pit, were you on M,S? While everyone was pitting I was only 4secs behind you, but finished 15secs behind. And got undercut by those that pitted after me. I really faded in the second half of the race and I don't think it was because I was on M, I just got slow.... But I did get a CRB, small victories.

I made A again at RBR this week, but more races like today and I am perfectly capable of losing it before the Manu series gets a signup. Everyone here knows that, regardless of whether I make GT1 or GT2, I am going to complain, right?!
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By the time June rolls around I’ll probably be in GT2 again and you in GT1 as we swap places on the DR roller coaster 😁

Doing Nations and Toyota is giving me a good bit of competition in the pairing and I’m on the low end of the talent pool. 😂 So we’ll see what the next couple of weeks bring.

GL to all doing the last slot!
 
All week long I'd been slightly faster in the '16 GT-R than in the NSX that was dominating the leaderboards, so I decided to buck the trend and use the GT-R. I'd also been enjoying the 2-stop strategy in the practice races I'd done leading up to this round, so I was prepared to do that should I wind up mired in traffic like I usually do at Fuji.

Slot 1: The room loaded, and to my amusement, I was the ONLY driver NOT in a '16 NSX in the entire race! I qualified P8 after getting a big twitch at the exit of the chicane on my 2nd flying lap, so elected to start on Mediums and adjust my strategy between 1 and 2 stop on the fly depending on how traffic worked out. As luck would have it, the 2 cars directly in front of me came to blows at the penultimate corner and spun each other, letting me through to P6 and leaving me with a slight gap to the cars in front. I was able to break the slipstream to the pack behind me, and at the same time those in front pulled away from me, giving me some room to drive smoothly and not worry about being held up, so I committed to a 1-stop strategy. Another spin by a front-runner in the early laps at the exit of the penultimate corner gave me P5, which is where I would spend most of the first stint.

About mid-way through my first stint, I started slowly reeling in 3rd and 4th, and at the same time someone behind me had gotten through the pack and was starting to run me down. I caught 3rd and 4th around Lap 12 and they held me up until they pitted on Lap 13 (turns out they'd started on Softs), allowing the car behind me to close right up to my rear bumper and eventually pass me. They'd clearly taken better care of their tires, and I knew the 2 others ahead of me that pitted would equally be sitting ducks for me once I swapped onto my Softs, so I didn't fight and tried to minimize the time lost before I pitted. The car that passed me then pitted on Lap 15, and the former leader, who came out of the pits directly behind us, passed me into T1. All this dirty air had allowed another one of the cars behind me to get within less than 2s, and I was worried about being undercut, so I pitted 1-2 laps earlier than I'd planned on Lap 16 for Softs, knowing I'd have to stretch them farther than I'd practiced at all up until this point.

When the pits had cycled through, I was back in P6 on Softs with no pressure from behind and 2 cars directly ahead on Mediums. Knowing I'd have to go almost half the race on Softs, and that the 2 cars directly ahead had less grip on the Mediums, I took it easy while slowly reeling 5th and 4th place in. 2nd place then disconnected, moving all of us up a spot and suddenly giving me a shot at the podium. I took 4th place going into T1 on Lap 20, then doing the same thing to 3rd on Lap 23, taking the easy overtake attempts rather than burn up my Softs by being aggressive (aided by the fact that there was no one else immediately behind me to force me to hurry up). Then on Lap 26, the car that passed me at the end of our first stint, which was now 9s ahead of me and rapidly gaining on the leader, spun at T1 and handed me 2nd. He was able to claw back the gap and stay in my slipstream the final 2 laps, but I held on for a 2nd place finish and put the only GT-R in the race (and only car that wasn't a '16 NSX) on the podium! Oh, and it was worth 291 points as well.
 
I personally think PD has nailed it with these first 2 races. I did 2-slots on my alt Euro account this afternoon and only got one slot on the main N/A account which I absolutely botched!!!

Was on a 2-stop strategy, and on my second pit for Softs at lap 20, I somehow managed to not switch tires, and effectively turned a 2 stopper into a 3 stopper 🤣. I contemplating trying to carry worn Softs for 10 more laps, but I knew it was going to be worthless. Pitted again for fresh Softs. Came out in DFL, fought my way back up to 9th as the one-stoppers started to struggle.


Altogether, it was a fun day of racing

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Zorz
Speaking of which - apologies if I came across a little anti-social.
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Nah, everyrything was fine🙂 Except my race😂 It was disaster to be honest, everything gone wrong, even when I tried to pit car spinned, entered pit backwards and game spitted me back on track😂 Fuji in gr2 was always my strong side, but now after physics update Im very slow...
 
RobertHammer
If you hated Gr.2 , get ready for Super Formulas '23 in Deep Forest with high tyre wear :D
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Oh no, how tf do you save tires in that thing? 😅🤔 Fuji was way easier to save at because it is basically just saving at 100R and being gentle on corner exits. Hopefully there are alternate strats, those cars are fun to go 'balls to the wall' in. 🏁
 
Family cost me the first 2 slots, and my bad tire saving cost me any hope of doing decent on the mediums. Still recovered to 6th and a decent DR bump. About 1/3 of the way through A. Right now my target for this season is reaching A+, and I want to mostly use the championship races since I find I usually do better in longer races.

Deep Forest should be... Interesting. Or, in another word, carnage, between divebombs, walls, penalties, and tire wear. Hopefully there's a real choice between the 1 and 2 stop? Haven't tested enough yet to figure that out.
 
Tried one slot in the evening in a mid B/S lobby botched my qualifying with a penalty in the outlap But could at least save a P10.

Got kicked to last on T1 and fought the rest of the race with dirty drivers in the back.

Returned to TT on the ring afterwards…
 
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Normally hate Fuji but imo the strategy made this a really exciting race throughout. Had to do a late strategy change because of...circumstances:
 
Saturday is going to be death incarnate, especially in GT1. :dopey:

I tried doing a practice run last night and my rear right hit 0% in the sector 1/2 tunnels on lap 12. The car killed me almost immediately after trying to take the downhill left-hander towards the bridge. Fun times ahead for the 24 lap GT1 race because I somehow suspect 2-stopping will be far too slow to be viable. :lol:
 
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Had a question about the GT1, GT2 split. Hardly play online hence a B driver ranking, however given the race at RBR I'm close to becoming an A. Will this leave me in GT2 or bump me to GT1?
 
amnesiactical
Thanks, thought that was the case. Just felt strange it re-confirming the league everytime you entered in the Toyota events
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the toyota events had that first round bug, prompting the update and I assume that is why we had to re-sign the league. Now I'm curious, did anyone get placed in a different league after the first round?
 
Zorz
Saturday is going to be death incarnate, especially in GT1. :dopey:

I tried doing a practice run last night and my rear right hit 0% in the sector 1/2 tunnels on lap 12. The car killed me almost immediately after trying to take the downhill left-hander towards the bridge. Fun times ahead for the 24 lap GT1 race because I somehow suspect 2-stopping will be far too slow to be viable. :lol:
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You race in VR don’t you? If so how are you finding the VR boundaries with the SF23? If I slightly move my head I get keep getting the blackout zone thing pop up. So annoying.


Not sure if I’m going to race this weekend. I like the track and the cars are ok, but I can’t drive these SF cars fast without been in VR mode and I’ve not really raced VR in Sport mode. The rear and side awareness is what I need to learn & practice.
 
Roggers
You race in VR don’t you? If so how are you finding the VR boundaries with the SF23? If I slightly move my head I get keep getting the blackout zone thing pop up. So annoying.


Not sure if I’m going to race this weekend. I like the track and the cars are ok, but I can’t drive these SF cars fast without been in VR mode and I’ve not really raced VR in Sport mode. The rear and side awareness is what I need to learn & practice.
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You're not alone there. I'm finding the bends leading into the first tunnel are really bad for it.

I instinctively lean right a bit trying to look into the tunnel on the approach and get greeted with the black and green wire mesh screen a lot more often than I'd like. The range of head movement allowed definitely feels smaller than the car's halo looks like it should permit IMO.

I'm just glad the halo beam in front of the driver not being see through like the SF19 isn't the issue I thought it would be. I definitely prefer the transparent one, but at least this doesn't obscure vision the way I feared it would.
 
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Really don't understand the points system, at all. Racing in GT2 Group
Rd1 I came 3 or 4th (can't remember) = 79pts.
Rd2 I won, pole position and fastest lap = 62pts

Doesn't make sense so if someone knows what the heck is going on, please tell me. :-)
 
Tuono_GT
Really don't understand the points system, at all. Racing in GT2 Group
Rd1 I came 3 or 4th (can't remember) = 79pts.
Rd2 I won, pole position and fastest lap = 62pts

Doesn't make sense so if someone knows what the heck is going on, please tell me. :-)
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The points on offer for a win scale with the average driver rating of the people that got matched into your lobby. For example I'm currently at the top end of A rating in the GT1 league and usually end up in races where a win is worth about 240 points.

Your first race where you finished P3/P4 was simply much higher rated than the one you won. Pole position and fastest lap don't provide any bonuses.
 
Zorz
You're not alone there. I'm finding the bends leading into the first tunnel are really bad for it.

I instinctively lean right a bit trying to look into the tunnel on the approach and get greeted with the black and green wire mesh screen a lot more often than I'd like. The range of head movement allowed definitely feels smaller than the car's halo looks like it should permit IMO.

I'm just glad the halo beam in front of the driver not being see through like the SF19 isn't the issue I thought it would be. I definitely prefer the transparent one, but at least this doesn't obscure vision the way I feared it would.
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One thing I have done to help alleviate this is to set the sitting play area a little far forward. When you are setting it, lean forward a bit then set the area. That way you are positioned near the back of the circle and have more freedom to move your head forward and to the side.
 
Zorz
The points on offer for a win scale with the average driver rating of the people that got matched into your lobby. For example I'm currently at the top end of A rating in the GT1 league and usually end up in races where a win is worth about 240 points.

Your first race where you finished P3/P4 was simply much higher rated than the one you won. Pole position and fastest lap don't provide any bonuses.
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Thanks for the info. Good to know.
Didn’t know I was ranked within Group B drivers. Where can I/do I find out what my ranking is?
 
Tuono_GT
Thanks for the info. Good to know.
Didn’t know I was ranked within Group B drivers. Where can I/do I find out what my ranking is?
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You can see your driver rating from the menu when you enter Sport mode. The bar under the DR symbol shows progress through the grade.

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Your actual driver rating number isn't displayed anywhere (or at least not since GT7 - it used to be possible for third party websites to read your profile and reveal it back in GT Sport), but you can make an estimate using the ranges that each grade covers:

(from https://gran-turismo.fandom.com/wiki)
  • A+: 50,000 to 100,000 points
  • A: 30,000 to 49,999 points
  • B: 10,000 to 29,999 points
  • C: 4,000 to 9,999 points
  • D: 1 to 3,999 points (2,000 points are granted upon completion of one's fifth Sport Mode race)
  • E: Designation for new players who have completed less than five races

One of the GTPlanet admins posted a rough breakdown of how the game turns average driver rating into points on the Toyota Gazoo thread if it helps.
 
Zorz
You're not alone there. I'm finding the bends leading into the first tunnel are really bad for it.

I instinctively lean right a bit trying to look into the tunnel on the approach and get greeted with the black and green wire mesh screen a lot more often than I'd like. The range of head movement allowed definitely feels smaller than the car's halo looks like it should permit IMO.

I'm just glad the halo beam in front of the driver not being see through like the SF19 isn't the issue I thought it would be. I definitely prefer the transparent one, but at least this doesn't obscure vision the way I feared it would.
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I’m finding it’s not too bad at Deep Forest, but at AutoPolis of the online time trial i‘m finding it’s bad there.
Yeah I love that halo strut is solid now. I know it’s there in my vision, but I hardly notice it all.

SF23, Deep Forest and VR is just amazing. Such a great combo when all 3 are together. Take the VR away and I’m all over the place.
Done a 1.12.2 in VR but fastest non VR lap is 1.13.xxx


Tuono_GT
Really don't understand the points system, at all. Racing in GT2 Group
Rd1 I came 3 or 4th (can't remember) = 79pts.
Rd2 I won, pole position and fastest lap = 62pts

Doesn't make sense so if someone knows what the heck is going on, please tell me. :-)
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Basically the Points system works on how competitive your lobby is. The more DR you have the more points you basically add to the pot which then gives you the points you can win at the end.

Yesterday my 1st race was worth about 140 points for a win. That was a mixed DR A and B lobby. My next race I was I matched with all DR B drivers and the points dropped to about 125 points.

The points system is totally broken in my opinion for the GT1 top splits. People in lower split lobbies are able to win more points than drivers in the top split who finish P4.
 
Yesterday's Gr.2 race was intense and fun. Even though I had fewer laps due to being in GT2, the 20 laps still felt like enough for a World Series event. I did not expect this race to be as fun as it was. It did require quite a bit of practice. It is impossible to have fun unless one has practiced enough to set consistent laps.

It was nice to see @A_Higher_Place, whose unfortunate spin saw the race come alive in the last 5 laps with intense battles and multiple position swaps. I also enjoyed racing alongside PHG_Papa. I cherish every race that I get to race alongside PHG_Papa.
Fezzik
and then call it quits with this game online.
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I hope you can turn this around and stick around for a while longer. I have always enjoyed reading your posts here. When I started playing Sport a few months back, your posts were very helpful in learning what to expect and what strategy to use. I have noticed that you have been posting less frequently, and I have missed seeing more of your posts.

Sport has definitely spoiled me when it comes to online racing. The idea of searching for a lobby and joining players with mismatched skill levels in other games now seems ridiculous to me.
 
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Hello.

High A, GT 1, America's first slot.

Pretty uneventful race. Started 7th on mediums. Gained 2 positions when people did the usual stuff on THE and got to 3rd when the ones on soft pitted and entered on 18th lap myself.

Came out of pits with softs in 4th, passed two struggling players on worn tyres, probably, and carried it to the end to take 2nd place.

1st finished with a time of 47:15 with 198 points. I was 5.6 second behind with 190 points.

Nice to read the very different races we're having. The various possible strategies are a lot of fun as well.. PD nailed it this time.

See ya.
 

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