GT7 Daily Race Discussion
- Thread starter Pigems
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- 2,476
- Paris
- Milouse
- Milouse
Here's what i can do. It's based on a sample (1/200 th players). Not active players, all players that played at least 5 races in Sport Mode so they have a pool of DR points.
2022-08-02
7,287,363,600 pts ( 5249 pts / player)
2021-08-02
6,268,053,000 ( 4983 pts / player)
2020-08-03
5,161,688,200 (4913 pts / player)
2019-08-05
3,576,795,400 ( 4459 pts / player)
2018-08-06
2,830,980,600 ( 4587 pts / player)
It's fortunate that i refreshed the global stats just a few hours before seeing your messages.
gts sport mode activity seems to stabilize btw
- 2,224
- chicago
- EliteKilla29
So what's the deal with race C? Do we have stay on hard tires throughout the entire race right?
- 1,725
- Australia
No, you need to do at least one lap on hards. Plenty of people are doing 11 medium/1 hard.
- 61
- United States
Race C this week is fun but for the love of God they need to disable the horn. Some dude behind me last night did not let off for the entire 7 laps.
- 5,671
- Ulricehamn
Just had a great race with a Canadian, Cal Naughton Jr as a screen name.
I wanted to type Shake and Bake but wasn't finished when he left.
I was right on his tail for a lap at least then on skyline on the last lap I think he either got unlucky or the pressure got to him, he got a tire on the curb, scraped the wall and went off so I could pass
If you're in here: thank you for the best race all night. And I have been going for 4 hours....
Edit: I finished P3, and started as P8
I wanted to type Shake and Bake but wasn't finished when he left.
I was right on his tail for a lap at least then on skyline on the last lap I think he either got unlucky or the pressure got to him, he got a tire on the curb, scraped the wall and went off so I could pass
If you're in here: thank you for the best race all night. And I have been going for 4 hours....
Edit: I finished P3, and started as P8
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- 3,482
- United States
Had some really fun race As today. I had a win in the bag but halfway through lap five started day dreaming while driving and Bathurst isn't the place for that. 
Race two was a ton of fun. Great, clean fighting between myself, a Brazilian in an Evo (Astreiro), and an American in the McLaren F1 (shmacked sloth). P1 drove off, but all of us were battling for 2nd. Everything was super clean. (I ended up with P2 if you're wondering.)
Also got some screen time with our favorite British streamer. Was some good side-by-side action, which is always fun. Timestamped vid below:
Race two was a ton of fun. Great, clean fighting between myself, a Brazilian in an Evo (Astreiro), and an American in the McLaren F1 (shmacked sloth). P1 drove off, but all of us were battling for 2nd. Everything was super clean. (I ended up with P2 if you're wondering.)
Also got some screen time with our favorite British streamer. Was some good side-by-side action, which is always fun. Timestamped vid below:
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- 6,764
- Ontario
- SvennoJ
- SvenZ
Awesome. That looks like 3.4% yearly inflation rate. It became easier to reach A+ as DR points became worth less over time, and I thought I was getting better
It makes sense, people tend to avoid DR resets while every race slot has people competing at the very bottom, adding more points to the pool 5 times per hour. The rarity of a player going over 99,999 points can easily be ignored, yet every race there will be a couple DR D players going below 1 and get set to minimum 1 DR again.
Still 25% of the active players stuck with GT Sport after GT7 released. Good news for PD is, at least it didn't go back up, which is actually bad news since it definitely feels the active player pool in GT7 is much smaller
- 594
- Buffalo, NY
- Stilva
I was going to join in some Race C this evening, but I could not keep my car on the track during practice. I don't know what happened since yesterday, but I was having all types of trouble. It's like I was driving a completely different car. I barely got my time down to 1:31.3XX through the struggles. The sub 1:31 time is there, I just need to keep it smooth and on track. Here's hoping I can make it work tomorrow.
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- Wollongong
- THNDR_Artsy
Totally unrelated, but I wanted to thankyou for making some awesome liveries - I'm currently using your retro BP rx-7 bathurst 12 hour livery on for race B. Love your work!
- 5,671
- Ulricehamn
Thank you very much!!
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- Glasgow
- ZFS_Barron
- 4,949
- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
Well my fun on the alternate account is over, only took 8 races to get back up to C/S where I belong.
Was running the Megane - oddly it would do 12 laps easy at FM1 in ranks E & D, but when I got up to C it suddenly dropped to 10 at most. My AT driving didn’t change so not sure what happened.
Managed to do a no-stopper anyway by running on FM2 for most of the race, made up a couple of places to finish P2. Nice clean battle with a Pole for the last few laps, held him off by 0.02 on the line as I ran out of gas.
Was running the Megane - oddly it would do 12 laps easy at FM1 in ranks E & D, but when I got up to C it suddenly dropped to 10 at most. My AT driving didn’t change so not sure what happened.
Managed to do a no-stopper anyway by running on FM2 for most of the race, made up a couple of places to finish P2. Nice clean battle with a Pole for the last few laps, held him off by 0.02 on the line as I ran out of gas.
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- 2,476
- Paris
- Milouse
- Milouse
And here are the ACTIVE in Sport Mode filtered data, manually extracted from K' Stats database. Active here means having played GTS Sport Mode in the previous monthAwesome. That looks like 3.4% yearly inflation rate. It became easier to reach A+ as DR points became worth less over time, and I thought I was getting better
It makes sense, people tend to avoid DR resets while every race slot has people competing at the very bottom, adding more points to the pool 5 times per hour. The rarity of a player going over 99,999 points can easily be ignored, yet every race there will be a couple DR D players going below 1 and get set to minimum 1 DR again.
Still 25% of the active players stuck with GT Sport after GT7 released. Good news for PD is, at least it didn't go back up, which is actually bad news since it definitely feels the active player pool in GT7 is much smaller
Last Day | DR pts total | pts per player | est. Sport Mode active players
2022-08-02 | 446,131,600 | 10,622 | 42000
2021-08-02 | 2,211,493,400 | 14,158 | 156200
2020-08-03 | 2,102,196,400 | 13,073 | 160800
2019-08-05 | 1,711,578,400 | 13,268 | 129000
2018-08-06 | 1,837,163,400 | 10,949 | 167800
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2018-01-09 | 1,813,680,600 | 7243 | 250400
note: do not compare data with my previous post as the dates there are the date of data archival, not in-game dates.
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- 1,322
- United Kingdom
- rodgers1
Nope this is the only one I’ve made for that car. It was Yorkshire Day on Monday so maybe a few others running liveries celebrating this.
What was the overall race time in the lower lobbies compared to the C lobby? Im wondering if the pace in the C lobby was faster so could be that you drove a bit faster which cause you to burn more fuel? In MT you get 11 laps in mix 1 but if you short shift you can do the race with no fuel stop (still in mix 1)
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- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
Don't think that's it. I was doing 1:36s for most of the C lobby race on hards, dropping down to 34s at the end. The lower levels I was on mediums, running 1:32/1:33s (stopped on lap 11 for hards but no extra fuel). Anyway, the fuel estimate was 10 laps from the very first lap of the C race, whereas the others it started at 12.
- 2,794
- New Plymouth
Been having an absolute blast in race B so far. Several runs and almost always some close battling. Lots of very close battles with the constant threat of the car stepping out on you just because.
I'm sure some people are tired of the Mazda TC, but it's still a good break from yet another Gr3 or Gr4 race
I'm sure some people are tired of the Mazda TC, but it's still a good break from yet another Gr3 or Gr4 race
- 3,482
- United States
That's because you're doing it wrong. The #2 account isn't for try harding and picking on lower ranked drivers (as you once accused us duel account holders of doing
) but rather for starting from the back (or do you best to start from the middle), using non-meta cars, try alternate strats, etc. Use the Mustang, because why not? Start from the back and run RH tires only. That kind of stuff.I'm all for people enjoying the game however they want, but that is what I use my #2 account for anyway. Regardless, it can be 'difficult' sometimes keeping the ranking from jumping up too quickly; you just have to use the aforementioned tricks to keep it from happening.
- 1,538
- NRW - GT
Or you simply drive in the class where you end up, if you get off, you just get off and if you climb up, you just drive in the next better class.That's because you're doing it wrong. The #2 account isn't for try harding and picking on lower ranked drivers (as you once accused us duel account holders of doing
I'm all for people enjoying the game however they want, but that is what I use my #2 account for anyway. Regardless, it can be 'difficult' sometimes keeping the ranking from jumping up too quickly; you just have to use the aforementioned tricks to keep it from happening.
BTW. In race A, the Jag "used to be" always good too...
I only did 1-2 laps there just to be able to drive a Gr3 this week... but I'm NOT interested in the races or the rating.
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- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
To be clear, the reason I created my backup was so my main account would stay in B for the next load of nations/manufacturers races - I want to compete this time in GT2. Results are extremely track-dependent for me and I didn’t want the main to drop after bad weeks like Dragon Tail and the Ring.That's because you're doing it wrong. The #2 account isn't for try harding and picking on lower ranked drivers (as you once accused us duel account holders of doing
I'm all for people enjoying the game however they want, but that is what I use my #2 account for anyway. Regardless, it can be 'difficult' sometimes keeping the ranking from jumping up too quickly; you just have to use the aforementioned tricks to keep it from happening.
It also lets me use a few different non-meta cars like the Ferrari, or try that no-stopper. These races in E & D have been completely unfulfilling though, so glad the backup is up to C with other drivers of my natural pace. I’m not going to deliberately tank to race down in the lower levels.
- 1,322
- United Kingdom
- rodgers1
Going to retire from Race C I think. Not really had much luck Monday or today.
Two issues I keep having are:
Done 7/8 races in total and I’ve only had 2 top 5 results, the others have been bottom 10 or last. DR taken a nose dive.
Also I’m slow in a few corners. Surtees I can never get the power down early enough. And then through Westfield, Dingle and Sheene i always lose time to car infront or behind
Two issues I keep having are:
- idiots either using the push to pass, or if they go off track they dont rejoin safely and end up hitting you or they don’t adjust the braking for dirty tyres.
- and the last one is I keep dropping it on the same 2 corners (See image). So frustrating!!
Done 7/8 races in total and I’ve only had 2 top 5 results, the others have been bottom 10 or last. DR taken a nose dive.
Also I’m slow in a few corners. Surtees I can never get the power down early enough. And then through Westfield, Dingle and Sheene i always lose time to car infront or behind
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- United Kingdom
- jdeviant1983
Finding it difficult as well, always have though, I am enjoying driving it more than I used to at least even if it is running bottom half.
Not had too much trouble with the driving standards other than people turning in blindly with a car alongside that I'm just getting used to now, to be honest.
Race A though has been Wreckfest in the few runs I've tried. Way too many divebombs into the right hander up the mountain and then on the way down where there really isn't space for it. Could kindly put it down to it being a difficult drive but some of them have been just blatant hit and runs.
- 1,167
- United States
- Grand_Slammin
How in the world did you gain 30s on the field?! Would you share the car and strategy you used?
Thanks @xMAXIx79 I found it yesterday and have been having fun with it, although it can cause me some frustration if I can’t optimize my laps! I need to change my habits, though, as I’m used to clicking right on through that screen. I need to remember to slow down and look at my splits.
Me too. I feel like it’s a cruel joke.
I’m having the same problems as you. I’ll lose time on the front end and then gain it back on the back, so basically I’m following the same driver all race long, just closer and farther away from their bumper. The unintended benefit is that it tends to make them nervous and maybe lose it on a corner so I can pass. I can’t seem to overtake anyone any other way!
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- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
It was a DR E race on the backup/practice account - I qualified on pole in the Megane and just drove off. Mediums for 11 laps.
I love Brands and a win's a win, but I'm not particularly proud of that one. Managed 2nd using the same stragegy in a C race later on - the Renault just seems to fit there, like a proper BTCC car.
- 1,167
- United States
- Grand_Slammin
Yup. I really want to drive other cars at C this week, but they’re just not cutting it. I tried all kinds of weird stuff like the Ferrari and they are so hard on the fuel that they can’t compete. So I’m going back to the Trophy (I’m assuming you were driving the Trophy?)
I saw someone no-stop the WRX last night and finish top 5, but I have no clue how because when I tried it on my first race this week it was several laps short of fuel.
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- United States
Daily C has been really clean for me. starting 4-14th top american splits. Only one bad apple in 8 races. Was blocking me and Kei while kei was streaming. after he intentional blocked kei I basically figured best to dispatch him. I also visited Barry-R this race
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- United Kingdom
- jdeviant1983
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- London
- Granite_Lw
Daily race C really does make you appreciate how good the BTCC drivers are - they spend most of the race pretty much touching nose-to-tail yet are absolutely blasting round and getting loads of over-takes in. They used to do a LOT of push-passes but they seem to have toned that down nowadays...
