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That acura is actually pretty good. Despite the wheel being on the wrong dang side 😖 just a little skittish in the bus stop but still very manageable.
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That acura is actually pretty good. Despite the wheel being on the wrong dang side 😖 just a little skittish in the bus stop but still very manageable.
GrumpyOldMan
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For anyone who cares, at Catalunya this week, going off the track means no CRB, and it affects your SR also.
I can say this with 100% certainty, since I go directly to the back of the pack at the race start, and don't come near anyone, so I know the only thing that could have affected my CRB was when I lost a little focus and drifted off the track on the next-to-the-last turn - I didn't hit any walls.
And fyi, I'm at 100% SR A (empty progress bar) - i thought the only time you got an empty progress bar was when you were at 100% of SR S, but apparently not.
I can say this with 100% certainty, since I go directly to the back of the pack at the race start, and don't come near anyone, so I know the only thing that could have affected my CRB was when I lost a little focus and drifted off the track on the next-to-the-last turn - I didn't hit any walls.
And fyi, I'm at 100% SR A (empty progress bar) - i thought the only time you got an empty progress bar was when you were at 100% of SR S, but apparently not.
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Well my D is still at an empty progress bar. I had 5 really good races at Tsukuba at midnight, the first one I finished 6th, the second, P5, the third, P4, the fourth race- P3, and then the last race I got the pole time. It was only a 10-player race, my time was 1'04.694, but I finished in 9th overall. So, I did well so I just got over it and moved forward. That's what we all have to do. Here is my video:
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GrumpyOldMan
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Well, guess what happened on my journey to get back to SR S? I found myself in Pole Position, and of course I had to give it a go.
Woo hoo! I still got it.
Here's what my progress looked like this week, getting back to SR S (currently 70%):
I'm not sure what I'll do from here. Maybe take a break for the rest of today, and see how I feel tomorrow.
I gotta say, being in a lobby with all B/S people sure felt like home. [Insert requisite BS joke here]
Woo hoo! I still got it.
Here's what my progress looked like this week, getting back to SR S (currently 70%):
I'm not sure what I'll do from here. Maybe take a break for the rest of today, and see how I feel tomorrow.
I gotta say, being in a lobby with all B/S people sure felt like home. [Insert requisite BS joke here]
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Umm... no. First to ninth in a ten-player lobby of people with no DR at all is wretched.
So, several things going on here on lap one (I couldn't watch any more because it hurt).
Firstly, why weren't you on the throttle at all at the start? Not only were you several tenths late reacting to the lights, you didn't have the power on at all before they went out. With a False Start Check you can hold the car on the brake or (ideally in a RWD car like this) the handbrake and just pin the throttle during the staging, then let go of the brake/handbrake when the lights go out.
Additionally, you're braking - and in some cases lifting off the throttle and coasting before braking - really early in corners where there's no one ahead of you. Exercising caution under braking when there's someone ahead of you is great, because you don't hit them, but you're losing seconds by doing it 20-30m early on every corner on lap one. The one into the third hairpin even looks like a brake-check of the cars behind and there's a guy honking wildly at you (unsurprisingly).
I would advise you to turn on the braking zone assist; it's not always accurate but it has much more of an idea of a reasonable brake zone than you do.
You're also braking too much. There's several corners where you're just going so slowly that you're aiming off the inside of the track and have to correct to the outside. And what's with the weird stabbing at the throttle through the final corner? Max, nothing, max, nothing, max, mild slide because the car is massively unsettled from the weight transfer rocking back and forth like someone in a padded cell.
Who set the 1'04.6 lap? I clicked to the end and your fastest race lap is 1.7 seconds slower in completely clean air, and it's one of only two laps you manage in that whole second of time. The average race lap is three seconds slower, and from clicking through the laps you barely see anyone for most of this time. Your entire approach is inconsistent, like you have no familiarity with the track and car, but if you drove that 1'04.6 lap in practice then you must have some knowledge of the whole five corners of it.
Big one: why have the course map permanently on your MFD? It conveys very little useful information to you. What would be useful is switching it to radar - especially in the early stages of a race - to allow you to see the cars around you at a quick glance so you're not wildly veering into people mid-corner. You don't seem to have much awareness of this in your driving. At other times you can flick it to momentarily useful info like traction control, brake balance, fuel map, weather radar, and sector times (great in time trials and qualifying laps, so you can see where you're dropping time), but when there's cars around you the radar is the one you need.
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For this race it seems like you were defending every corner (even those when there was nobody in your rear view mirror). If you can watch the alien driver's replays. Most take a sweeping arc driving into the apex to maintain speed and accelerate at the apex. To me (IMHO) it appears you are defending too much, slowing down too much in the corners, and riding the corners too much (not arcing the corners).
One of my teammates has the following in his subscript:
The rules of racing: https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-rules-of-racing/
A lot of good information that might help your racing.
Good luck, enjoying your racing.
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Along with the advice from @Famine I’d STRONGLY suggest you learn how to use all of the track to decrease the steering you need. I think in many cases you are over slowing because you are trying to keep the car in the middle of the track. This slows you down AND it invites your opponents to dive under you and go around you. It’s particularly bad in this video at the right-hander before the Dunlop bridge and the final hairpin. Get out wide, hit the apex and then run to the outside on exit.
Also, why the immediate swerve to the right at the start? That’s a very good way to cause a crash and ruin several people’s races.
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- Sum1s2pid
Haven't raced online since GT6.
When I finally decided to ante up for PS+, I caught the tail end of the GV/Spa dailies.
Slowly getting used to racing against human beings again. Lower rated races made it difficult to keep my nose clean. Lucked into my first win at GV with the NSX Gr.4. That car had been my go-to. Slow but stable.
WG and Gr.4 is so much fun (2 wins and a handle of podiums!), I only ran the A and B races once.
Using the NSX at WG to boost my DR/SR to B/S the past few days:
Tried the Mustang at WG today, with mixed results.
When I finally decided to ante up for PS+, I caught the tail end of the GV/Spa dailies.
Slowly getting used to racing against human beings again. Lower rated races made it difficult to keep my nose clean. Lucked into my first win at GV with the NSX Gr.4. That car had been my go-to. Slow but stable.
WG and Gr.4 is so much fun (2 wins and a handle of podiums!), I only ran the A and B races once.
Using the NSX at WG to boost my DR/SR to B/S the past few days:
Tried the Mustang at WG today, with mixed results.
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Interesting crowd late Friday night.
First off, I qualified at WG with a 1:56 which usually gets me anywhere from 7th to 11th on the grid, tonight it was good for pole 🤪 (first sign of the apocalypse).
Next race I’m running about 5th, in the middle of the front straight,about lap 7, and this guy comes up from behind, obviously faster (I don’t pit for tires). I moved over to the wall and gave him the racing line to pass. He actually slowed down and rammed me from the side…THREE TIMES. The third time, he bounced off me and spun out. I had been ahead of him by quite a few spots the entire race so there had been no previous confrontations.
There seemed to be quite a bit of that tonight.
First off, I qualified at WG with a 1:56 which usually gets me anywhere from 7th to 11th on the grid, tonight it was good for pole 🤪 (first sign of the apocalypse).
Next race I’m running about 5th, in the middle of the front straight,about lap 7, and this guy comes up from behind, obviously faster (I don’t pit for tires). I moved over to the wall and gave him the racing line to pass. He actually slowed down and rammed me from the side…THREE TIMES. The third time, he bounced off me and spun out. I had been ahead of him by quite a few spots the entire race so there had been no previous confrontations.
There seemed to be quite a bit of that tonight.
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Hey guys!
Been a while for me lol but real life had me busy until today! Did my first Race C and started in P6. I was in a genuine P3 when I pit at the end of Lap 4. I was matching the fastest time and only 1.4s away from leader. The thing is.... I exited in P10 with just the original P1, P2 and P4 not having pit yet?!
I know I am a bit late to the party lol but in terms of strategy, should I have stayed on my original tires instead of changing them? I made my way past 3 other drivers during the 2nd stint and was right behind P5, P6 and P7 at the end of the race but one of them was a dirty piece of herpes-infested poo and took me out on the final corner, meaning I finished in P9 when Top 5 was within reach ⚰️ 😡 😢
Also @TheNormsk - that is very close between us!
Been a while for me lol but real life had me busy until today! Did my first Race C and started in P6. I was in a genuine P3 when I pit at the end of Lap 4. I was matching the fastest time and only 1.4s away from leader. The thing is.... I exited in P10 with just the original P1, P2 and P4 not having pit yet?!
I know I am a bit late to the party lol but in terms of strategy, should I have stayed on my original tires instead of changing them? I made my way past 3 other drivers during the 2nd stint and was right behind P5, P6 and P7 at the end of the race but one of them was a dirty piece of herpes-infested poo and took me out on the final corner, meaning I finished in P9 when Top 5 was within reach ⚰️ 😡 😢
Also @TheNormsk - that is very close between us!
GrumpyOldMan
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Missed you! I hope everything is fine IRL. Glad to have you back.
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Haha, thank you, kind sir!
Yes all is fine, just extremely busy at work as we are in the last push to launch to the public plus I added another aquarium to the house (350 ltr) and between setting it up, assembling the cabinet and transferring fish from one to the other, it has been exhausting 🤣 Had a 4 hour mission this morning to complete everything and finally sorted it out 😅
Believe it or not, there are about 40 fish in there!! 🤣🤣
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This is the race I mentioned earlier...
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Well it's all right, I don't care what anyone thinks. I'm going to be myself and do the best I can with my abiities. It's been a long journey with this autism and Aspergers syndrome. I was diagnosed at age 3. I don't think Famine was being critical, he did give me advice and key points to look out for on the track.
I'm not a kid, I'll be 33 in September.
I'm not a kid, I'll be 33 in September.
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Well, I was, but in the sense of looking at it critically (like I do for car and game reviews) rather than dumping on something for the sake of dumping on it. You are, after all, always looking for ways to improve in here and in the TT thread (where I've also given you advice).
And, as I'm not exactly far off the spectrum myself, I gave the advice directly in the observation, explanation, improvement format. I'm only a B/A borderline player myself.
@newmedia_dev's point about replays showing the minimap (which... I don't even know why that's an option for most tracks, never mind the default!) is also apt, but I'll reiterate that - if you don't already - keeping the radar on most of the time and particularly in close traffic is a good idea. You do seem to get mobbed by cars as if you didn't know they were there a lot.
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Just to avoid any ambiguity here,
A replay shared has the mini map as the only thing shown and might also show AT instead of MT, it also doesn't show ABS intervention levels.
If you record or capture (in console gameplay capture) you get what you get from those two methods.
Regardless of what the MFD choice is by PD. I'm sure most of us not in VR click right.
The radar is sort of useful as you are learning to go fast and traffic awareness it becomes much less useful the quicker you get. Just by the nature of people not being in places you wouldn't expect.
But to go back to the original point my previous post had was that the replays show what PD want. Why not ask Chris which MFD he was using. Especially as what you saw and commented on wasn't his choice or yours or mine.
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Actually maybe I should switch to the radar in my fuel map, because it magnifies the track surface and it shows what cars are coming. See the regular map doesn't show it that well, so I can't really se what's coming behind me.
@TechnoIsLove I blundered up and pitted way too late, Famine showed me where to enter, it's way before the finish line. My goal is to set a time in the high 1'02.000's at Tsukuba but it's gonna take work. I have an aries moon and we work like crazy. Yes, I study astrology. And we like to be independent.
But with my skills as they are I have to rely on others here for help/assistance.
@TechnoIsLove I blundered up and pitted way too late, Famine showed me where to enter, it's way before the finish line. My goal is to set a time in the high 1'02.000's at Tsukuba but it's gonna take work. I have an aries moon and we work like crazy. Yes, I study astrology. And we like to be independent.
But with my skills as they are I have to rely on others here for help/assistance.
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I don't think you are a real person Chris.
You are way way way out there my friend.
I mean I wished I could live in the same place sometimes.
But I don't think you are real, and if you are fair play.
Edit:
This is ChatGPT premium. Just reading the posts back again....short of rain man level brain damage
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