GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[NvrTheSamecar]

I really hope they keep adding some competitive GR2 cars. Absolutely love how they drive. I nearly picked up a W in the '08 GTR the other night. It gets surprisingly good tire wear. Ran a 149.8 in the race but it just doesn't chew up the tires like the '16 cars do. The Lexus is the same way, but I couldn't get into the 149s with it. I think pitting with the '08s at the end of lap 4 is definitely in play and possibly even on lap 3. Either way, it's a long shot to beat the NSX and you'd have to have a good gap between everyone else that hasn't pitted. But man the NSX, wow... that thing at Suzuka is like a cheat code.

 

[brockie]

I have the GT-R on TC1 and BB 2 to the front, if that helps? Had a very satisfying win in it today, started 5th. 2,3,4 spun, then I went a lap longer than the leader and somehow came out just ahead - he then spun coming out of the hairpin.
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Would love to try VR, but worry about motion sickness.

I have to say I’m very tempted too by vr, but I just couldn’t be stuck in cockpit mode, it’s my only gripe with Iracing.

I had an oculus a few years ago for my pc, assetto corsa, that was amazing sitting in a Ferrari f1 car on the grid, tracks like brands hatch looked fabulous with all the hills etc.

Sure there was a lock to horizon setting on that which totally eliminated motion sickness

 

[Childe Roland]

Would love to try VR, but worry about motion sickness.

I had the same fear because I never tried something like that in my life. The first time I played with VR was on GT7 at 41 years old.
In my case it went well, just a bit sick on the first day.

I have the GT-R on TC1 and BB 2 to the front, if that helps?

I tried it with no TC and BB on 0.
What I did notice was that trail braking in T1 was easier on the GT-R than in the NSX.

I will surely give it another chance.

 

[skandiamannen]

I finally got to 1:55.8 on GV, and that put me with double digits on the leaderboard, but only second still on my friends list. Yes, that's you, @Dream_Catcher.

Three races, and guess what - the one beating me on the leaderboard is there, right in front of me for the first race. P1 was a car with 1:55:7, then DREAMCATCHER, then me. Boy was I nervous! P1 and P2 was flying away, me trying to keep up. Eventually I get down to P4, passed by a super fast Spanish driver, but the fight between P1 and P2 ended only at the finish line - DREAMCATCHER won with 0:00:000 delta! Closest I've seen. Hope he remembered to save the replay.

Race two and three was pretty exciting, some penalties, some missed brake marks and finally overheated tires after the complex of the twists in the middle section making the final chicane a lottery.

That final chicane is actually where your lap is won or lost. It dictates your speed through the final tunnel and up the hill. Get it good, and you can loose the cars behind, preventing them from slip streaming. Mess it up, and they get you at the hairpin in the valley.

My plan to stay BS is forgotten. The race to A+ has begun.

 

[THE_KART96]

I'm enjoying race C as this is the first time using a GR2 car in the daily event. I decided to drive the Lexus just so it wouldn't be just NXS's on track. So after a cluster *uck in the first few corners, I just wanted to keep in touch with the leader and, if possible, attack after the pit stops. Roll video.

 

[TheNormsk]

I have to say I’m very tempted too by vr, but I just couldn’t be stuck in cockpit mode, it’s my only gripe with Iracing.

But in cockpit in VR is a completely different experience than in-cockpit on a flat screen. You have to understand that everything is a 1:1 life size perspective. A somewhat blurry perspective but life size nonetheless.

The first time I played with VR was on GT7 at 41 years old.

My Vr was my 54th birthday present. I felt really ill on things like Harry Potter 4D rides and the like at Universal so thought I would suffer with VR. i did not...

 

[Talon16]

Oh lawd this was fun! Defending like a mofo, squeaking out P2 by the slimmest of margins: .001". Don't even care that it wasn't for P1 (P1 has the ninth fastest QT in the world so he was just gone).

The Supra is a missile while in slip but don't even care. That was a blast...

Streamer's stream:




If the above doesn't work...

My little video of the last lap.

 

[Stilva]

More from Grand Valley for Me thus evening. I still can't get my time down. I'll get it eventually.

Race 1 has me in P7 to start. And I'll up to P3 after the first lap. The same chaos as yesterday so I'll take some freebies. On the final lap, the driver is extremely desperate to make a pass and gives me a bump, that bumps the Lamborghini driver I was following. Naturally they take over P2 and I fall to P4 after the tussle. I was expecting a ramming attempt on the bridge straight but thankfully they didn't.

Race 2 has me in P8 and you guessed it, more chaos in front of me. I sneak though only to be dive-bombed and shoved off track and into a guardrail. I pick up my first penalty by just touching the wall entering the big sweeping tunnel turn. I settle in and finish P7 after all of that. Clean race bonus as well even after the wall tap.

My last race of the day has me in P7 and only 1 off track in the opening lap. Someone bumped me trying to make a pass and sends me into a wall. Of course I get a penalty for that. Not much happens the rest of the way and I finish P7 with a clean race bonus.

So far, a great week for me at Grand Valley. I think I'll just run laps until I set a new quick time before I race again as I can avoid the mess in the mid-pack. In theory anyway.

 

[Brinki]

Yes and I can't explain why. Since the update (I think) the gr4 huracan became a bad car, in my opinion. I tried it last week in any possible set up and this week. It just feels really bad. So anybody, please give me your set up, if you managed a good time in it.. I remember i was always good in it, changing nothing, depending on track I sometimes put TCS to 1 but now..... And it's definitely not the fastest on the long uphill straight. Around 229kmh

For me it's exactly the opposite. Before the update I couldn't get along with the Lambo and now I almost only use it, not because it's often the meta, but because I can't get along with my Porsche RSR that I usually like. For GV I use TSK 0 and BB -1 or -2 and that gets me to 1:58.0xx. Unfortunately I can't do it any faster and I'm fascinated by the specialists here who drive much better. I don't change any other settings.

The first time I played with VR was on GT7 at 41 years old.

@The_Normsk
My Vr was my 54th birthday present. I felt really ill on things like Harry Potter 4D rides and the like at
Universal so thought I would suffer with VR. i did not...

I bought my VR2 and other equipment after I stopped working last year after 44 years. I‘am the winner

Had another clean and fair race in GV yesterday.

 

[Talon16]

 

[Interemptor]

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Hopefully MP is GT3 or 4 with 10+ laps. Doubt I'll do A/B.

 

[newmedia_dev]

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B will be fun when I get back but the Gr4 times will be really sweaty by then.

I have diminishing interest in Bathurst at the moment. Just seems really soon since the last one there.

Should be a nice easy week back in to it, not that I'm rushing from my holiday tbh

 

[Childe Roland]

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My guess is
A: BMW M3 ´97
B: GR. 3
C: GR. 4 (because we had some recent gr3 after 1.49 update)

 

[newmedia_dev]

My guess is
A: BMW M3 ´97
B: GR. 3
C: GR. 4 (because we had some recent gr3 after 1.49 update)

I hope A is the M3 so badly!

I C will be gr3 for balancing reasons and bop testing.

But thinking about it, Gr3 is viable at Sard just an awkward layout for them historically.

 

[Stephan]

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Oh nice Eiger is back. After three weeks of chilling around Race B its time for me to head back to Race A.

 

[Chris30]

Eiger rules, and I'm excited about the B races as well. However Bathurst I'm skipping because I did a few races there a while back and now PD is adding this combo again, I hope it's not Group 3, make it Group 4 please. I got a pole time at Grand Valley yesterday in my 9th race, but as usual a few players still passed me so I winded up finishing 7th place. And I got a CRB too so that was one of the positives of the race and I got the top time in the lobby.

 

[Barney Da Dog]

I'm enjoying race C as this is the first time using a GR2 car in the daily event. I decided to drive the Lexus just so it wouldn't be just NXS's on track. So after a cluster *uck in the first few corners, I just wanted to keep in touch with the leader and, if possible, attack after the pit stops. Roll video.

Slightly better than my first GR2 (first ever online race too) experience at Fuji a few years ago - I was lapped!! 😂

 

[newmedia_dev]

Eiger rules, and I'm excited about the B races as well. However Bathurst I'm skipping because I did a few races there a while back and now PD is adding this combo again, I hope it's not Group 3, make it Group 4 please. I got a pole time at Grand Valley yesterday in my 9th race, but as usual a few players still passed me so I winded up finishing 7th place. And I got a CRB too so that was one of the positives of the race and I got the top time in the lobby.

Solid work mate and great racing.

CRB, top 5, win are the priorities in that order.

If you hit any of those then it was a great fun race and you were the better driver

 

[brockie]

Not sure about next week tbh, A/B look a little meh - could do with a sardegna A the (not reverse) but Maybe MP will be ok, haven’t done that in a while, maybe PD throws something strange up like this week.

I managed to get into the 1.29s at RBR

This weekend between GV and RBR and the weekenders should serve up some sort of racing

 

[Chris30]

I have the footage here if anyone wants to see the action of my 9th race! Dig in to the fun...



It's too bad I couldn't grab another win.

 

[Tazzy-91]

Comfort kit arrived today, looking forward to fitting it and trying a couple of the Suzuka races this evening...wish me luck 🤣🤣🤣

Edit: Only took 5 minutes to fit, the youtube videos I watched made it look like a big job 🙈

Edit 2: First race of the week, started 3rd. First corner of the first lap and I got punted off. Turned off GT7, had enough of this game 🤬 ACC being reinstalled

 

[benjoi84]

With Sports Soft tyres I've a feeling that Race A will be something more powerful than the M3...

 

[Rossell2]

Been some aggressive races on A this week:



Ended up getting spun round at the end. A real shame because I liked some of my defending, save a couple of bumps.



Another one from yesterday, a little less rowdy, but not much.

 

[Tazzy-91]

Calmed down after my little tantrum earlier 🤣🤣 Decided to go for C again at 23:00.
Good race, no dirty drivers at all and a pretty straightforward win with a healthy 10 second gap 👍 First ever win in VR for me. Will try 1 more and see how we go 🤞

 

[Chris30]

Calmed down after my little tantrum earlier 🤣🤣 Decided to go for C again at 23:00.
Good race, no dirty drivers at all and a pretty straightforward win with a healthy 10 second gap 👍 First ever win in VR for me. Will try 1 more and see how we go 🤞

Yeah, I tend to overreact to dirty drivers messing up my races, but it's not the end of the world. There should be a "Red Flag" for those who break the rules and ram into others or do nasty things out there. They should get a 5-second penalty. The best thing to ever do is to stay near the middle of the pack and then on the last two laps, try to get close to the front.

 

[Interemptor]

The best thing to ever do is to stay near the middle of the pack and then on the last two laps, try to get close to the front.

What? Why would you want to stay in the middle of the pack and only attack in the last 2 laps? By the time the last 2 laps come around the leaders are, most of the time, far away because beeing stuck in traffic costs a lot of time. You suddenly drive a couple of seconds faster then the rest of the drivers in the last laps or am I missing something? 🤔

You don't want to fight the whole time and risk of getting hit or pushed. You wanna get away from the pack.

 

[Tazzy-91]

Time to quit while I am ahead 🤣🤣. 3 races this evening, 2 wins and a 3rd. Not too bad as that is my first proper attempt at the daily races in VR. Oddly, I found it much easier to manage my tyres. Probably because I was more conscious about driving smoothly in cockpit view maybe?. Anyway, hopefully this is the start of my DR recovery 🙏 🙈

 

[Stilva]

The good news for tonight. I set a new quick time of 1:57.929. Very happy about that. The not so good news was the only race I did.

Because I'm in a "Big Boy" lobby in my race I was way down on P14. I was one of 3 B rank racers. I fall behind and just hope I can get some freebies via penalties and rage quits.

I get involved with an incident as shown below. I'm in the black car with the orange slime looking livery.



All I can say is yup. I should have not retaliated as I did, and I will accept 100% of what happened to me. Just dumb decisions on everyone's part. I call it quits there and for the week as I want no part of that all weekend. I do plan on running in the back at RBR for gaining SR at some point Saturday.

 

[Chris30]

The good news for tonight. I set a new quick time of 1:57.929. Very happy about that. The not so good news was the only race I did.

Because I'm in a "Big Boy" lobby in my race I was way down on P14. I was one of 3 B rank racers. I fall behind and just hope I can get some freebies via penalties and rage quits.

I get involved with an incident as shown below. I'm in the black car with the orange slime looking livery.



All I can say is yup. I should have not retaliated as I did, and I will accept 100% of what happened to me. Just dumb decisions on everyone's part. I call it quits there and for the week as I want no part of that all weekend. I do plan on running in the back at RBR for gaining SR at some point Saturday.

Ouch, that must have hurt and pissed you off. That happens to me 50-60% of the time so you're not alone there. That's cruel whoever was in that light blue Nissan car, showing off and pushing people off the road. If that was me, I would have caught up with him and bumped him into the wall, with also risking a penalty for that move. That's a good decision to stay out of it until the races switchover Monday.

 

[Jflijohn]

I’ve had an interesting couple of days at Suzuka. I was on vacation so I didn’t start until late Tuesday.
My last race at 10:00 last night was comical (DR-B, SR A/S). Lap 1, turn 8 was crowded as usual, 2 of us made it through and 1 didn’t. Not intentional banging by anyone but there was definitely contact and I wasn’t giving ground.
The guy that went off, came after me with a vengeance, he punted me for the first time on the next lap at 11 and he got a 4 second penalty but I still couldn’t catch him. He waited for me on the front straight and punted me again on turn 1, and turn 14.
He went into the pits on turn 5 and I stayed out to make some room… he came back into the pits to get in behind me again when I pitted on lap 8 and he started it all over.
At this point, I wasn’t angry, it was just funny. My goal was to finish the race. I was also thinking possibly a CRB because I never retaliated but it didn't happen.
In all, he punted me about a dozen times (I taped the race and watched it, for fun, this morning). I ended up finishing 1 place above him, 1 lap down.
I looked his name up on the web, he has history.