I've completely abandoned that habit. I use the radar, and that's it. What I don't see can't scare me.🤣
So you haven't run into issues with not seeing the drivers come up from behind? I'm going to try this.
I was able to secure my weekly race win(goal) tonight in B.
That's awesome! When I was a lower ranking I used to get wins all the time (no idea why), but lately, one win a week is a great goal.
I just don't hop into a new car an run fast laps right from the start. It's (almost) always me doing a lot of laps, finding incremental improvements until finally everything falls in place. And I like the process and find it quite rewarding. But it's still a very wide gap in talent and performance towards the real fast guys.
I'm the same, with starting a new car. Except I give up really quickly, because I don't know what things to vary in my driving to get another car to work.
The Imposter's syndrome kicks in when I jump into an actual race and find myself in a good starting position, sometimes even on pole. Then I'm nervous about the drivers behind me finding out that I'm not that quick actually. 😬
I go half-and-half on this. If I manage to open a little gap right at the start, I get cocky. Otherwise, I'm not unhappy when someone passes me, so I can chase them instead. And half the time they succumb to the pressure, just like I would. My guess is, everyone who isn't way better than the rest feels the same way.
Remember that the other players aren't watching your race, don't care about you for the most part.
Very true.
You are never too old to learn something, I think... 😆
Yeah, but remembering what you learned isn't so easy!
Unfortunately, i was having a really sloppy night. I kept dropping a wheel into the grass or dirt at least once a race, which had the expected unfortunate results. Still, fun was had and that is what counts.
That's been happening to me more than I'd like, also. And even still, I'm having fun also. That's why I like this track.
It's rare that I'll do it, especially these days, it's too difficult in race to know if a move was deliberate or part of another sequence of events etc. and I don't want to punish someone for a mistake... but that one, I knew right away he'd just went for a swipe and i felt like teaching him that hey, being dirty is actually a choice we all make at many points in a race, and everyone can choose an a-hole move whenever they want, not just him... we just usually don't.
When I was watching your vid and saw what he did, I was thinking "There's no way that wasn't deliberate. Most of the time you can't be sure, but this one is clear-cut." So I don't blame you for your response.
Since GT7 came out the focus is on improving, qualifying and gaining DR at almost any cost.
It's a bit of a shame that we can't really seem to have both as our focus.
I wonder if instead of DR letters there were just points, if that would help? I mean "I've got 50,200 points, so it doesn't matter much if I lose a little", as opposed to "I can't afford to drop back to DR B".
