Gran Turismo World Series (Nations Cup Exhibition Jan 22 - Feb 1)

[OJBrit]

In with @Fezzik for the 6pm slot. Armed with a cup of tea and 2 biscuits I was ready to tackle the track. I had moderate success here in GTS depending on the combo. But I do enjoy driving the track. (More-so than the short course)
I managed a decent P4 on the grid with a time 4 to 5 tenths faster than my meagre practice laps. Seeing as I was far up I decided braking away from those behind was the better option and stayed on Mediums.
Start was clean. The Jag in front was over the 90's Supra in P2. It got passed. The in the final uphill before the bridge the Supra forgot to turn. (Not recommended) So I was up into P3 and a podium.

P1 was too fast. P2 was just a little quicker than me and I pulled a little on P4. In this nice gap I was able to drive my own race and not worry about any pressure and none came from my brain either. Towards the end of my stint the car behind closed a little whilst I did the same to P2. The 3 of us came in on lap 9. Both me and the Jag were on Meds but P4 was on hards. I knew he would have the pace on me so I was now hoping he would bin it at some point.
I stayed ahead for a couple of laps but when the overtake came into T1 I let it happen. They pulled enough time one me for it not to be worth my while to fight. Besides the M6 was fine on the meds but did not like the hards one bit! Another hard to med runner passed me later on too and whilst I made them go the long way around into T3 I again wasn't going to fight too hard. The last couple of laps were a case of keeping it on the road as I had a 15 second gap behind. So P5 in the end for 60 odd points which will become my highest.
Will see what my randomisation process brings for the next season.

@OJBrit nice to see a familiar name in the lobby for once. Less said about the rest of my race, the better.

(there was a reason I was last, 1 minute behind. I’m not really that slow)

Dropped 1200 DR points with one major f-up, I don't race a whole lot in one go so that'll take a while to recover.

I wondered what happened. I checked the replay and saw you did a hard to hard on lap 1. We've all been there. Live and learn and all that. Nice to see you on track.

Hi all, only got to enter the manufacturers cup on this round, good race, unfortunately a lot of dirty drivers😒 does anybody know if there will be more rounds in this season, and If not when will we have season 2?

This was the last one this season. No news yet on when the next will start.

 

[Lewmatic]

Qualified a second slower than my usual times which could've had me starting the grid in 2nd. The race went pretty good and pushed hard in the beginning to move up from 8th to 3rd in the first few laps. Pit for Hards after lap 8 and came out in 5th then eventually moving back up to 3rd did my best to keep a steady pace with less traction to hold on until the end. Love this track with the Gr.4 NSX and the Gr.3 version seems to be equally as good here too.

 

[Nightwing24]

Just got off manufacturer’s cup 17:00 est.

To the person in a mustang that punted me while entering the pit after I overtook you cleanly in the second to last turn, making me get a pit line crossing penalty, then waited until the hairpin before the end of the lap to give me the place back right before the penalty line:

** off you dirty **

Edit: thanks for cleaning up my mistakes Mods!! Much appreciated

 

[dkstz]

Just got a 2nd place at manufacturers and the 1st guy finished 32s ahead... My race was really clean. Then I remembered some discussion on this thread about alt accounts...

Not fun lol the rest of the field didn't had a chance. The man was 2s faster per lap!

 

[Giz WCR-666]

Just got a 2nd place at manufacturers and the 1st guy finished 32s ahead... My race was really clean. Then I remembered some discussion on this thread about alt accounts...

Not fun lol the rest of the field didn't had a chance. The man was 2s faster per lap!

im sure he felt good about himself though!! 🤣

Was not expecting frickin Peugeot to be in 3rd place in the GT1 Manufacturers standings.

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its equal 1st in Europe/Middle East.. 🤣

 

[Roggers]

Just got a 2nd place at manufacturers and the 1st guy finished 32s ahead... My race was really clean. Then I remembered some discussion on this thread about alt accounts...

Not fun lol the rest of the field didn't had a chance. The man was 2s faster per lap!

People shouldn’t really be using alts accounts for GTWS just to have “fun”. I know it only an exhibition season and doesn’t really count towards anything but you’re basically stealing points off people who are genuinely there racing for these points. Ive seen it with a few people who will race on their main account get a result they are happy with and then jump into the remaining races on the alt account just to have fun.

Have to admit, I will hold my hands up and say over last weekend I did use my use my main & alt account to race in the Nations Cup on that rally race. That’s the only time too when I’ve used an alt account in GTWS.

 

[Famine]

I know it only an exhibitionist season

Big nudes if true.

 

[Giz WCR-666]

Big nudes if true.

link to OnlyFans..?? 🤣

 

[Redneckchef]

Just got a 2nd place at manufacturers and the 1st guy finished 32s ahead... My race was really clean. Then I remembered some discussion on this thread about alt accounts...

Not fun lol the rest of the field didn't had a chance. The man was 2s faster per lap!

This can happen sometimes with a DR reset due to the penalty system as well. Got one in GTS during SF19 at RBR. Next 2 races there I was over 30 seconds ahead by halfway. I never have entered a GTWS or FIA race while dropped though. I've also seen it when top splits are loaded and 1 person just misses out and gets the lower split. Last race I had at Road Atlanta I finished p5 and lapped 3 people. Main account, and I knew 2 of the 4 ahead of me, no Alts there.

It is really demoralizing though.

 

[afc5150]

Didn't have much hope in this one as I suffered another 2 PS4 freeze glitches during the race. First one cost me a position on the front straight, while the second had me un-freeze right in the braking zone of T1 with a car close behind who had no choice but to punt me into oblivion as I suddenly reappeared in his path. Finished DFL 14/14. Good times.

 

[Hasnain282]

Didn't have much hope in this one as I suffered another 2 PS4 freeze glitches during the race. First one cost me a position on the front straight, while the second had me un-freeze right in the braking zone of T1 with a car close behind who had no choice but to punt me into oblivion as I suddenly reappeared in his path. Finished DFL 14/14. Good times.

Yeah I had one when a car exited the pits when I was on the pit straight, though only cost me a few tenths

 

[RobertHammer]

I did this yersterday with the RS.01 , qualification ended horribly since i did mistake and 5min wans't enough so i ended up in P14 lol
Race started with hards that turn 1 some people did a bowling manuaver , got me too but thankfully i recovered when i pitted for mediums after 9 laps, some people managed to hit pit walls instead of actual pit xD in the end i was P11 but somebody forgot to pit so i finished in P10 - happy days 😅

 

[Spider-Racer]

This Exhibition Series has been pretty cool, I enjoyed it in the end even though I wasn't a fan of the tracks used. For the first time I double accounted. I wanted to try something different than McLaren but I also didn't want to abandon my favorite team, so I went with BMW and Macca. Two very very different cars.

BMW was good everywhere and I ended up P2 in the constructor standings, P73 in Americas. I got 276 points with a P3 in Round 2. The only BMW ahead of me was Calen Roach which is an insanely fast alien. So I'm best of the humans and happy with that.

With Macca I only did rounds 1 and 3. And yesterday's race was one I won't forget anytime soon. You see, McLaren is not a very popular constructor this season. A mix of general lack of pace, being an MR and having a horrendous Gr4 car kept aliens away. So this was my chance to win with for favorite constructor. Probably forever 😂.

I signed up for the 9pm slot yesterday and got into what I think was 2nd split. I knew I had to do better than 237 points (5th) to have a chance at a win and I knew I had the pace. Somehow I qualified on pole (44.5 I think) and almost led straight to finish.
A BMW was close behind throughout the first stint, but he messed up his tire choice and selected Mediums again. He overtook me in the 2nd stint but obviously had to pit again on the last lap, so I got the lead back and brought it home for an amazing 295 points finish.

All that meant I won McLaren and put it in a nice round 50th in the regional standings. My best ever final result in Manufacturers. I know it's an Exhibition, I know the aliens don't really care and that it was just one race counting, but this feels absolutely great.

I WON FOR MY FAVORITE TEAM !

Edit: included the stream link !

 

[Fezzik]

I WON FOR MY FAVORITE TEAM !

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Great job. I want to try McLaren again, used them for one of the early tests before the MR physics changes and it was a struggle. They’re my local team - I’ll pass HQ in a few minutes on my way to work.

 

[TheRumourMill]

Enjoyed this mini season although would have enjoyed a few more options for strategy or potentially weather changes. An 8th for 93 points at Road Atlanta and a 6th yesterday for 73 points (I must have dropped a split) were my best efforts (B/S level driver). Considering these were achieved using Citroen though I think that's not a bad effort! (Currently Citroen rank 27th out of 27 in manufacturer rankings lol). I may consider an alternative however for future seasons.....

 

[Fezzik]

Enjoyed this mini season although would have enjoyed a few more options for strategy or potentially weather changes. An 8th for 93 points at Road Atlanta and a 6th yesterday for 73 points (I must have dropped a split) were my best efforts (B/S level driver). Considering these were achieved using Citroen though I think that's not a bad effort! (Currently Citroen rank 27th out of 27 in manufacturer rankings lol). I may consider an alternative however for future seasons.....

Stick with Citroen - you're top of their GT2 standings, basically a factory driver now.

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[TheRumourMill]

Stick with Citroen - you're top of their GT2 standings, basically a factory driver now.

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Ha! That's amazing, thanks for that, I feel I should do now!

I'll be qualifying for the world finals by default of being the only Citroen driver next and being lapped by the entire field, shades of HRT's foray into formula 1 😆

 

[samppa_944]

Great job. I want to try McLaren again, used them for one of the early tests before the MR physics changes and it was a struggle. They’re my local team - I’ll pass HQ in a few minutes on my way to work.

Imma try McLaren for first time, since I've had enough of FR understeer struggles I have at times. Yesterday's combo I would have been better off using it at Autopolis (I did some testing and compared to GT-R). Also at Alsace this week it seems miles better/faster than anything else I've tried (including the meta cars). Also I really feel like the gr4 McLaren is a bit underrated. One of the best gr4 RWDs out there, so it can hang around 4WDs somewhat still.

I feel like physics changes have altered my taste more from FR to MR again and also pacewise, weirdly enough. Although some MR cars still horrible to drive, like Lambo for instance. I used to always run MR in GT Sport gr3 towards the end. Prefered R8 LMS and Citroen overall, Ferrari was a good quali car for me and even Alfa worked on technical tracks.

 

[KPL_HeartStop]

Imma try McLaren for first time, since I've had enough of FR understeer struggles I have at times. Yesterday's combo I would have been better off using it at Autopolis (I did some testing and compared to GT-R). Also at Alsace this week it seems miles better/faster than anything else I've tried (including the meta cars). Also I really feel like the gr4 McLaren is a bit underrated. One of the best gr4 RWDs out there, so it can hang around 4WDs somewhat still.

I feel like physics changes have altered my taste more from FR to MR again and also pacewise, weirdly enough. Although some MR cars still horrible to drive, like Lambo for instance. I used to always run MR in GT Sport gr3 towards the end. Prefered R8 LMS and Citroen overall, Ferrari was a good quali car for me and even Alfa worked on technical tracks.

I was testing the GR4 McLaren for a league race last night with Fuel usage set to 5x and found it was at least 1 or 2 laps less than most other manufacturers at this track making the same lap times. Is the real situation or was I driving it incorrectly? I like the car handling (I'm a Porsche driver usually and like MR cars) and the manufacturer but this would be a deal killer for me in races.

 

[D_Dragline]

I'm the Australian King of Porsche!

 

[dkstz]

I was testing the GR4 McLaren for a league race last night with Fuel usage set to 5x and found it was at least 1 or 2 laps less than most other manufacturers at this track making the same lap times. Is the real situation or was I driving it incorrectly? I like the car handling (I'm a Porsche driver usually and like MR cars) and the manufacturer but this would be a deal killer for me in races.

The Gr.4 McLaren has a slight different engine map.

This one you should rev less than others cars, shifting at 2/3 of the RPM bar (don't remember the RPM number). You can extract optimum engine performance and decrease the fuel consumption by doing this

 

[Monkey Man]

I'm the Australian King of Porsche!

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Wuddun mate.

 

[samppa_944]

I was testing the GR4 McLaren for a league race last night with Fuel usage set to 5x and found it was at least 1 or 2 laps less than most other manufacturers at this track making the same lap times. Is the real situation or was I driving it incorrectly? I like the car handling (I'm a Porsche driver usually and like MR cars) and the manufacturer but this would be a deal killer for me in races.

Yeah like dkstz said just shortshift since that car has a weird powerband, which works on low revs better actually. The gr3 McLaren does struggle with fuel though according to Kie and from what I've seen. But I am willing to sacrifice something, if it means I will be slightly quicker. Not like every race is a fuel saving one in gr3 manu races.

 

[OJBrit]

My stats for this season.

Obviously Gr3 were my best rounds.
My randomisation process for the next season has been done and the results are interesting.

I will let you know closer to the time.

 

[Fezzik]

My stats for this season.
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Obviously Gr3 were my best rounds.
My randomisation process for the next season has been done and the results are interesting.

I will let you know closer to the time.

You’re a bit ahead of me.



If we have another short season, my 2 accounts are practically identical now in DR so I can use it as a proper test - leaning towards Genesis and Renault.

 

[RobertHammer]

oh wow , i must be good even though i didn't race that good lol with Renault no less

 

[Fezzik]

At risk of being lapped in to tomorrow’s Nations race, I’m so slow in that car. Also very much doubt I can do 20+ crash-free laps with others on track and tyre wear, it’s bad enough just in practice.

 

[rcharris101]

Well that was absolute mayhem.. No one really got a clean lap in quali because even if you binned it getting back upto speed on that short track without wrecking the next person in lines lap is basically impossible.. Started 8th and finished 5th, that included two proper wall hits and spins.. This is more a race of avoiding chaos than a race of going fast.. Good luck all..

 

[D_Dragline]

All I’ll say about the x2019 is that not even auto drive can get it back on the track without spinning after you’ve been pushed off. This round is just a frustrating, randomized meme.

 

[ShiftingGears]

Everyone put your skates on for lap 1 turn 1 lol

Finished P2 in top split just by keeping myself on the track

Lap 1 carnage looked like this; similar scenes with less cars on lap 2 and 3 as well.

It's a bit of a gamble, if you back off too much you risk someone hitting your rear, at which point you will just understeer off anyway. Tough combo.