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GT4 WRS Week 22: "Romeo Goes To Hong Kong"
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well cracked my time by .4 seconds since last time i think if memory goes well, splits are worse than the ones i submitted! suprise suprise... NOT! 
I have a feeling this is gonna be a very close race! probably 2 seconds (if that) gonna seperate between div1 and 2
[insert random comment here]
"Make love not war"
~~~~ Jase
I have a feeling this is gonna be a very close race! probably 2 seconds (if that) gonna seperate between div1 and 2
[insert random comment here]
"Make love not war"
~~~~ Jase
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- FASJ6418
hOt6o4bOi
hmm... interesting... i usually work like this:
in 30 minutes i have a competitive div3 time
in one day i have a competitive div2 time
in one week i have a competitive div1 time
maybe i need a whole month to win it all
strange, i used to be able to get faster with a few runs, now it takes a while to get used to...
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fasj6418
Yeah u know I dunno why they put rumble strips there it serves no purpose except to cut my patience short u know? I suggest they put the rumble strip along the wall and then we can drift that corner better, agreed? Perhaps I too on Sunday will have time again for this one. Great splits tho fasj!
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Neocrox
Thats pretty good! considering you only got one good arm to work with! I was gettin those times at the start of the week
Knocked off another .2 seconds since last post! now too tired and late, cant concentrate! hopefully get another chance to race on sunday or monday b4 submittin
~~~~ Jase
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- Ballstothewall1
Been rather frustrated this week, set what i thought was a reasonable time on tuesday,
Now i can beat my splits by .5 or more, but i must have 'purple-patched' the final sector cos now my ghost beats me to the line every time!
Mite give it a few laps over the weekend, but gonna be quite busy.
Neil
Now i can beat my splits by .5 or more, but i must have 'purple-patched' the final sector cos now my ghost beats me to the line every time!
Mite give it a few laps over the weekend, but gonna be quite busy.
Neil
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fasj6418hmm... interesting... i usually work like this:
in 30 minutes i have a competitive div3 time
in one day i have a competitive div2 time
in one week i have a competitive div1 time
maybe i need a whole month to win it all
strange, i used to be able to get faster with a few runs, now it takes a while to get used to...
This sounds a little more like it...
But how many hours out of a day are you running? 1 or 2? 3 or 4? 8 or 9?
The reason I've brought it up is because I'm curious about which drivers are fast right out of the box, and which put hours and hours and hours into the combo and become fast at the end. Some of us have regular 40-hour-plus-per-week jobs, and some are young kids who don't even have a driver's license, are out of school with nothing to do during the day besides race. Some are college students who don't do anything but race (I'd be in this boat if I were still in college!). Just trying to get a feel for who has what habits.
Overall, I guess I'm just trying to prove a point that lower combo time is inversely proportional to time spent driving. Of course, talent is certainly a variable in the equation. 👍
The absolute most time I've ever put into a combo was the race at Laguna a few weeks ago. I figure for the entire week, I ran for a combined 10 hours there. I can't foresee myself putting any more time into a week's combo than that one. I'm sure there are others out there who are putting much, much more into it than that.
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- SHigSpeed
'Droos,Androoos
Great discussion! I'm in the 40 hrs a week regular job, 3 and 5 year olds in school/preschool, wife works two days, and maintain a house, tweak on my car, take it to the real racetrack as often as possible, tinker in the garage, plus drive WRS boat.
Generally, I try to get three to four decent sessions in on the wheel a week, mostly something like an hour at a time. I find that I don't gain much after an hour, usually setting my fastest time on day one at an hour, then day two at 30 minutes though still driving for an hour, then on Sunday or Monday night I go fastest at the end of an hour or at most 1.5 to 2 hours in. Add more time if there's settings involved, multiple lap races with AI interaction that affects time, or we're at the 'Ring! :^)
Sometimes, like this week, I'll sneak in 30 minutes to an hour on the DS2 (my cockpit breaks down and takes a few minutes to set up, plus it takes up much of the family room and "counts" as wife "goodwill" time whereas DS2 time doesn't "count" as much since I'm playing on the 13" kids' TV/VCR combo in the corner while everyone else can watch TV or videos. Also full immersion DFP time includes racing gloves and headphones to drown out the gear noises in the wheel so that prevents full parental attention to the rugrats.) to fine tune the line and, though rare, whittle down my time. This week is a rare example of one where I may in fact set my best lap on DS2.
At Laguna, I think I probably put in an average amount of time, maybe 5-6 hours. Started off with the GT for an hour or so, then jumped on the Viper bandwagon for 3 or 4 hours, tried the GT again once it became clear that it MAY be faster in the right hands (not mine it seems) and then back to the Viper and my fast time. I beat you by 0.011" there, BTW. You should have put in 11 hours! :^)
Last week at HSR, I also probably put in 5-6 hours with my fast time coming at the end, Monday night. Thing was that event had tuning, multi lap, tire wear, TCS off advantage, standing start (w/ no TCS)... A HUGE learning curve for me and not to mention my first race in D1. I'm over the moon that I was able to take 2nd in a holl01/Z/toffe-less race. I'm sure if hOt would've put in another hour, he would've creamed me.
One thing I notice looking back over the completed races, Androos, is that until recently you regularly beat me, and by large margins sometimes. Also, I think I've been playing less hours recently, but doing better, so all signs point to I'm actually learning something.
Hopefully, some day, I'll be able to sit down for an hour and do a quick enough lap a-la hOt or veilsidebr that shaving off another 0.2 or so is all I need to podium, however I am still at the stage where I need to shave 1.5 to 2 seconds from my first session time (assuming a 1'30 or so race) to do "well".
Example, at Laguna, my first session in the GT netted me 1'13.985. First Viper session 1'12.721. Final Viper time was 1'12.047.
Opera Paris, first session, 1'16.7, then 1'15.9, then 1'15.0, then finally 1'14.7. I spent quite a bit of time on this track but I was having fun and enjoying the challenge of refining my line and style to continue gaining time. The dropping lap times were "fun driven".
Opposite: RX-7s at Trial Mountain. NOT FUN (for me). 1'34.0, then 1'33.5. I think I basically gave up after only 2-3 hours.
Citta di Aria: 1'58.3 first session. Fun track, very challenging, no tuning to distract. Then 1'56.9, then I got the privilege of watching a FAST lap. Got a minor A-ha and 1'55.480. Still spent some hours, mind you, but the guide replay does help.
I think it in fact did permanent help in that I think I've incorporated some of the driving style and since then I dare to say I'm faster. I SHOULD make it more of a habit to download and watch the submitted laps. Even better would be to return to the track and re-DRIVE it, but by then the next event has started and who wants to do that?
Well, it'd probably help. Hard to find the discipline, but to do better each week, it probably is the best thing to do. I may have to practice what I preach and start doing just that to remain competitive in D1 instead of stagnating in the bottom 1/4.
Sorry to ramble on but this is a great discussion. Hope others chime in.
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lol jumpace!
Alright alright! last week on the minolta i probably ended racking over 2000km, if i think it was probably closer to 3000! yes! im insane, OLR just soo addictive, all my uni work and studies went out the window!! hahah this week unfortunately no so lucky, probably got in around 50 laps, no racing on weekend... work work work! maybe sunday see what i can do!!
I probably now want to have a fine balance between racing WRS and actually studying my degree at this rate im playing id end of failing!!
Probably gonna see me around the lower end for division 2 for a while, but im gonna take shigspeeds approach, see if there's any improvement even though i dont spend many hours, try to improve with the little time i have!
WRS is pretty competitive, but i need to draw a line between learning new skills and being competitive, how many hours to put in a week vs me studies and other things... oh wells plenty time to think while im at work...
Summer break (3 months off woot woot) comes around just the start of december so i could start probably put in more and more time i guess!
~~~~~ Jase
Alright alright! last week on the minolta i probably ended racking over 2000km, if i think it was probably closer to 3000! yes! im insane, OLR just soo addictive, all my uni work and studies went out the window!! hahah this week unfortunately no so lucky, probably got in around 50 laps, no racing on weekend... work work work! maybe sunday see what i can do!!
I probably now want to have a fine balance between racing WRS and actually studying my degree at this rate im playing id end of failing!!
Probably gonna see me around the lower end for division 2 for a while, but im gonna take shigspeeds approach, see if there's any improvement even though i dont spend many hours, try to improve with the little time i have!
WRS is pretty competitive, but i need to draw a line between learning new skills and being competitive, how many hours to put in a week vs me studies and other things... oh wells plenty time to think while im at work...
Summer break (3 months off woot woot
) comes around just the start of december so i could start probably put in more and more time i guess!~~~~~ Jase
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hOt6o4bOi
LOL and look what time it got ya! beat me by miles and miles and miles
hahah oh wells!
Id probably spent the most time on that track last week, not because i liked it or i like d the car, its was difficult using supersofts on that track, and i was determined to at least give it my best try!
And with that i was satisfied! Didn't come first but satisfied 👍
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I used to really hate Hong Kong, but in this car I'm finding it a lot of fun. Just put in about 20 laps and my splits are right near the bottom of the leaderboard as it currently stands.
It's a challenging track for sure, really gotta hit those brake points *just* right or you're in the wall either to early or too late. That first major turn (Turn 2 according to the book, but it really should be 3 cause there is a bend in the track right after Turn 1) - anyway, turn 2 has been giving me fits, the inside seems to stick out a lot further than it appears visually, can't tell you how many times I've clipped that stupid thing.
I'll get past it yet and get a decent split posted.
UMP
It's a challenging track for sure, really gotta hit those brake points *just* right or you're in the wall either to early or too late. That first major turn (Turn 2 according to the book, but it really should be 3 cause there is a bend in the track right after Turn 1) - anyway, turn 2 has been giving me fits, the inside seems to stick out a lot further than it appears visually, can't tell you how many times I've clipped that stupid thing.
I'll get past it yet and get a decent split posted.
UMP
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UrsaMajorPrime
I'm the same way I typically am not too fond of tight tracks like citta di aria and MONACO (PUKE!...GAG ME!!) but this one is alright, just wish for lower rumble strips
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Well after the WRS race at Aria in that bloody Mazda - it fell below Hong kong on my personal hated tracks list. Ugh - but I do like Monaco, I didn't at first back in GT3 but after awhile I warmed up to it.
And per recent thread - I only work part time (by choice, my time is more important than money) so I've got plenty of time to race, but I play a *lot* of other games, so it's just a matter of deciding how much time I want to put in to what. For me it's really about if I enjoy the race enough to put in hours and hours.
The RX-7 for me was awesome, put in a ton of time that week. And Opera, I really like that track so I put in a lot of time there. I put in a lot of time at Aria simply because it was a challenge for me, it actually took me all week just to get a clean lap 👎 - put almost nothing into Laguna, despite the fact that it's one of my favortie tracks, and the rest of my races have been about even amounts of time spent at the wheel in more of the middle range.
I'm regretting not putting more into HSR because I had a couple of Ah-ha's near the end of deadline, I think I posted with like 45 minutes or so left
/rant
UMP
And per recent thread - I only work part time (by choice, my time is more important than money) so I've got plenty of time to race, but I play a *lot* of other games, so it's just a matter of deciding how much time I want to put in to what. For me it's really about if I enjoy the race enough to put in hours and hours.
The RX-7 for me was awesome, put in a ton of time that week. And Opera, I really like that track so I put in a lot of time there. I put in a lot of time at Aria simply because it was a challenge for me, it actually took me all week just to get a clean lap 👎 - put almost nothing into Laguna, despite the fact that it's one of my favortie tracks, and the rest of my races have been about even amounts of time spent at the wheel in more of the middle range.
I'm regretting not putting more into HSR because I had a couple of Ah-ha's near the end of deadline, I think I posted with like 45 minutes or so left
/rant
UMP
I just put in about 45 minutes and was .4xx faster overall! (mainly in the 3rd sector)
I have a question about one turn, where I think I just hit the curb a little strong, but I want to check to see if I hit the wall. I have saved the ghost replay, now how do I go and take a photo? I have checked the analyzer and I didn't lose any speed, but there's this wierd spike, which I'm thinking is from hitting the curb.
New times:
T1: 23.702
T2: 49.423
280, auto, no aids
I have a question about one turn, where I think I just hit the curb a little strong, but I want to check to see if I hit the wall. I have saved the ghost replay, now how do I go and take a photo? I have checked the analyzer and I didn't lose any speed, but there's this wierd spike, which I'm thinking is from hitting the curb.
New times:
T1: 23.702
T2: 49.423
280, auto, no aids
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SHigSpeed
I know...I have had ZERO time of late, with weddings, fiancee' visits, trips out of town, crazy work schedule, real-life racing, etc. I think I have the next 3 weeks of WRS and then it's time to get married, and after that I can certainly see my WRS time decreasing exponentially due to the same reasons you stated. BTW I'm still laughing, because I know that my life will be VERY similar to yours VERY shortly!
As for the guy who put 3000 km on the Minolta - that's just insane. You'd think you'd get bed sores or something from sitting for that long.
I do hope more people chime in on how much time they're spending on WRS.
CFM, maybe we should make a separate topic in the main WRS forum so that we don't stray too far off topic here? What do you think?
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Lewie
To take a photo, run the ghost replay like normal and when u are at the turn where u think u may have hit the wall press select, then a big menu thing will come up and basically mess around with stuff to make the blur go away and zoom in and such.
jump_ace
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Well I think I am done with this one, kinda like citta di aria, I grow 'weary' (sorry colby couldn't resist that one )of these 'tighties'. How about a rally next week at Swiss Alps CFM? Been a while since one of those. Only trimmed .1 on this one, but I'm done here I think:
T1 - :23.740
T2 - :49.535
Tried a TON of laps with 280 but I found it hard to catch a rhythm and felt the car accelerate slower, so I went back to 260, sorry Curtis!
@Lewie, welcome dude anything I can do to help just ask. Great splits there man, I'm right behind u and the most I could pull is another .2 but I dunno if I wanna spend the time. But we are up there in the D1 ladder this week tho and that is always great to see!
jump_ace
)of these 'tighties'. How about a rally next week at Swiss Alps CFM? Been a while since one of those. Only trimmed .1 on this one, but I'm done here I think:T1 - :23.740
T2 - :49.535
Tried a TON of laps with 280 but I found it hard to catch a rhythm and felt the car accelerate slower, so I went back to 260, sorry Curtis!
@Lewie, welcome dude anything I can do to help just ask. Great splits there man, I'm right behind u and the most I could pull is another .2 but I dunno if I wanna spend the time. But we are up there in the D1 ladder this week tho and that is always great to see!
jump_ace
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