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

[Moose78]

Is it ever worth pitting to repair damage in a GT1 race?

Probably for engine damage.

For the front bumper and suspension damage that I usually pick up when I get the kink wrong, though, I'm not sure. I lose about 1.5-1.8s per lap in that case. I usually just ride it out to the end of lap 11, but I wonder if pitting on lap 5 for softs (5RM-6RS-7RS ) would end up being faster. I haven't tested.

If the damage comes after lap 6, I feel like it is probably better just to ride it out.

 

[ElectricNaz]

Is it ever worth pitting to repair damage in a GT1 race?

Depends when, and what.

Rear bumper damage is about 1s a lap slower. Anything more and you're looking at wasting more than a pit stop so you may as well pit in if there's a chunk of race to go. A pit stop is about 18s with 5s worth of damage being fixed I think

As @Moose78 said, a two stopper can come into play if you have damage and have to pit anyway.

I'll be racing at 2pm, I'm sure I'll find out if it's worth it or not 😂😂

 

[Nakano219]

Is there any indication from the early races on what the DR formula change looks like yet?

 

[Bobvita]

Is there any indication from the early races on what the DR formula change looks like yet?

Someone who uses a DR tracker could probably provide better evidence, based on my experience just now looks like I lost about 20% on a 14th place finish in an A lobby. That's just purely on my eyeballing. To me, this change just gives people more incentive/reward for being dirty. I had qualified 6th, was spun on the straight by dirty driver who finished 5th. He gets a big DR boost, no SR hit, and I end up suffering a large penalty for trying to be clean.

 

[LogSwapper]

Wasn’t the new dr-system due on the next update?

 

[ElectricNaz]

GT1 Class - High A - 2pm UK Time

Qualifying went worse than expected, was aiming for a 1.32.8 (best in practice was a 32.5) but ended up with a 1.33.5, qualifying only in 6th for the first race of the season...

Started on medium tyres due to my grid slot.

The start of the race was lovely and clean for the most part. I slowly made my way upto 4th after lap 3, with a couple of spinners at the kink ahead of me helping up the order. No contact, clean racing, just mistakes from those two.

The top 4 were neck and neck, less than a second between us at times. At the end of lap lap 5, the 3rd placed driver pit, however this was the scene at the start of lap 6 down the front straight:

I ceded this corner because I knew I could keep up and didn't want to cause unnecessary damage to me or others.... Thankfully, I managed to make my way upto 2nd at the end of the lap, pouncing on the car ahead running wide at the tight left hander and I was now chasing the leader. 3rd place pitted end of lap 6 having started on softs - good news for me having kept up on mediums.

I kid you not, from lap 7 onwards, 1st and 2nd were never seperated by more than 8/10ths of a second, including when we both boxed for softs on lap 12. I was quite happy sitting behind him waiting for them to make a mistake. This was the view of the top 2, more than 5 seconds ahead of third, at the start of lap 18....

The crowd were on their feet. One managed to capture some drone footage of the pair heading down the start/finish straight and into turn 1 for the 18th and final time, as ElectricNaz made his move on his German rival....




And with that, the pressure had paid off, the German driver couldn't catch his slide after putting a wheel off the track with heavily worn tyres, and I had the lead!

5 seconds ahead or so of 2nd now, I didn't do anything categorically stupid (doing a Naz) and I took the flag for 227 points!

And that is my first ever GT1 victory! I am delighted, amazed I didn't get a clean race bonus because I don't think I had any contact with anyone /any wall at all during the race, and certainly no damage. But over the moon!

Let's gooooooo!

 

[Fezzik]

Wasn’t the new dr-system due on the next update?

No, that change begins today. The raise to the DR cap comes with the next update.

 

[Moose78]

Wasn’t the new dr-system due on the next update?

The maximum DR level increase will be part of the update. The increase in variation starts with today's race. Details here here.

 

[LogSwapper]

Huh. Can’t be that drastic of a change then, I went from seemingly full B-bar to seemingly full B-bar after finishing 2nd with doornumber 9, beating at least 3 A-rated drivers.

 

[Nebuc72]

The maximum DR level increase will be part of the update. The increase in variation starts with today's race. Details here.

It's not really clear to be fair. It infers that the change starts on the Exhibition beginning on the 22nd of January, but not starting from the round on the 22nd of January.

The way its worded it could only be implemented for the last round and it would still be right as the exhibition did start on the 22nd.

 

[Moose78]

It's not really clear to be fair. It infers that the change starts on the Exhibition beginning on the 22nd of January, but not starting from the round on the 22nd of January.

The way its worded it could only be implemented for the last round and it would still be right as the exhibition did start on the 22nd.

Good point. I totally missed that ambiguity.