GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[r_epp]

Successful day at Laguna Seca. Did a couple hours in the morning, ending it with a win right before lunch. Went away for the afternoon and came back to race some more and put together my first sport mode back to back wins!

Unfortunately, right after those I ran into a tough lobby, however I did manage to move into 5th because of some squabbles ahead of me.

 

[bone_tone]

I’m a bit confused on the pit entry penalty at Watkins glen. To be honest I hit the wall on the exit to the final straight so dived into the pits cutting across the lines and didn’t get a penalty. But I’ve touched the line before and gotten 3 seconds.

Are penalties generally lenient if you lose time?

Yes, I saw the same thing. I had a few races where people dived into the pits at the last minute, and I thought they'd be out of my way with a penalty, only to see they didn't get one?

 

[Dep Fishtail]

See the stayed up for the new race B to begin since I’m on holiday tomorrow.

only did two races and it was quite fun. Took a p4 and then a p6 before calling it a wrap.

Not sure how the global list works for times but I put a few laps down, checked where I stood and saw this. I proceeded to LOL at this place as that couldn’t be accurate since most of the world was on Monday a long time ago.

Fun seeing it anyways 😂

 

[zjn]

2 RaceC on Sat, and another 2 on Sun.
All had morrowless the same script: start between 8-10, somehow for my fault, others fault, or both, ended up last, start to recover and finished in the same 8-10 spot.
I wondering how my races my finish if I don't have to recover from last each single time

I think that the strategy that worked best for me is going 5 laps SH and 5 laps SS.
Starting with SS in the traffic does not allow to really user them as much as doing it with less traffic in the second half.
I could have also go 4+6, but I preferred having a solid 5th lap in rithm with SH than risking to have a 10th lap on the eggs with finished SS.

Overall I lost 7.5pts and I'm still in the C rateing for a piece of pixel

Credits to https://www.grantracker.com/

This week, provided I can race, will be probably another beating: Race A, I don't even consider a race, Race B and C it's a learning from scratch given the reverse.

 

[Steer]

Very disappointing races this week. Race A is a weird joke, and then we have two courses that really don't work well in reverse.

Time trials for me then.

 

[hardvibes]

Very disappointing races this week. Race A is a weird joke, and then we have two courses that really don't work well in reverse.

Time trials for me then.

Why is Race B disappointing? Maybe you don't know the reverse layout of Trial Mountain?
I believe we already had it 2 times, once with Gr.4 (Alfa owning all, of course), once with Gr.3 (Mustang was one of the fastest, I'll try it again this week). I remember having a blast both times.

 

[Famine]

«predicts influx of "why did I get a penalty" posts for Race C»

 

[Steer]

Why is Race B disappointing? Maybe you don't know the reverse layout of Trial Mountain?
I believe we already had it 2 times, once with Gr.4 (Alfa owning all, of course), once with Gr.3 (Mustang was one of the fastest, I'll try it again this week). I remember having a blast both times.

For me the track works much much better in the other direction. If we are not going to have any real tracks during a week, then I would prefer that the fictitious ones are run the main / normal direction. For me, there is no flow in this direction and some weird corners with barriers that jut out at all sorts of wrong angles - because the track was designed to run the other way.

Other people might like it, and that is fine. But not for me.

 

[hardvibes]

For me the track works much much better in the other direction. If we are not going to have any real tracks during a week, then I would prefer that the fictitious ones are run the main / normal direction. For me, there is no flow in this direction and some weird corners with barriers that jut out at all sorts of wrong angles - because the track was designed to run the other way.

Other people might like it, and that is fine. But not for me.

I understand. Grand Valley GT7 disgusts me in every way, shape or form. I hope it'll never come up in Race B.

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races: Reverse Psychology​

A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races is now available, running across the next seven days and focusing on reverse track variants...

 

[ILLEAGLE_34]

«predicts influx of "why did I get a penalty" posts for Race C»

Hi 👋. Yeah I made that mistake and didn’t realize until like the last few laps when the majority of everyone pitted and put back on RM. one of the safest 1st place finishes I’ve had. Some people should learn how to read the details. I’m some people. I’m usually the one to catch people off guard with the pit stop. But they got me this time with the mandatory pit stop but same tire compound. 🍻

 

[Tidgney]

They've removed the car I used this morning already from Daily Race A! Even so the guide is below for those interested as Trial mountain in reverse is rather tricky!

 

[gigio79]

With Hypercar race A would be a fantastic event, but one more time PD lost a chance to do something special and very funny for the community. Nothing new about Race B and Race C, always same old story, group 3 and group 4. They are happy, everyone is happy.

 

[Rossell2]

That's a bit odd, did they remove it because it was too fast then? Seems the GTR 17 is the new goto, managed to fetch a win by 0.015 seconds, helped I think by everyone else stuffing up. Did a race afterwards and was a distant 6th so no idea..



Edit: R32 isn't bad either:

 

[surelook]

That's a bit odd, did they remove it because it was too fast then? Seems the GTR 17 is the new goto, managed to fetch a win by 0.015 seconds, helped I think by everyone else stuffing up. Did a race afterwards and was a distant 6th so no idea..

I think the R34 is weak everywhere, but strong at the end on the nitrous duration. At least that's what I've found. Very difficult to stay with the pack at the start.

 

[aguia]

another week of racing with a handful of nothing

 

[TheNormsk]

I’m quite like Trial backwards so far this week. Of course, that might change later on in the week as people get better :-)

On my GB account, I set a reasonable QT. in race one I started in second and if it wasn’t for a barrier hit on lap 3, I would’ve come in second instead, I came in third.

The second race, I put in a better qualifying time and QT’d in pole and not only got the win, also the fastest lap; the trifecta. Good times.

Of course this is a mid DR C ranking on my GB account.

Still have to try the US DR B account…

Edit. Got a couple of 6 place finishes on the US account starting 10th and 8th in a much more challenging field.

 

[TechnoIsLove]

Has anyone given Race C a proper go yet? I only had time to put in some qualy laps after work as have some stuff to do, should be able to hop in later.

How was the race overall and, more importantly, the level of filth of other drivers? Is it just a straight race or need to pit in for another set of RM?

Here is the time I managed, and I actually lost around 0.4s as I went wide and onto grass after the downhill chicane in sector 2. Still was good for top 400 around 40 mins ago Really hoping the actually racing will be good...

 

[hardvibes]

I don't know where to ask this but...
Am I wrong or did they finally remove penalties for accidentally hitting barriers?

 

[bone_tone]

Has anyone given Race C a proper go yet? I only had time to put in some qualy laps after work as have some stuff to do, should be able to hop in later.

How was the race overall and, more importantly, the level of filth of other drivers? Is it just a straight race or need to pit in for another set of RM?

Here is the time I managed, and I actually lost around 0.4s as I went wide and onto grass after the downhill chicane in sector 2. Still was good for top 400 around 40 mins ago Really hoping the actually racing will be good...

I've run a few today, seemed to be mainly clean 🤞

You have to pit anyway, whether you change tyres or not. I chose to change them, and found that I caught a few people at the end who were obviously struggling on very worn tyres!

And then there are the usual 1 minute penalties for those who don't read the race rules! Double whammy for them, as they've already had to struggle with worn tyres...

 

[OJBrit]

Operation 'Back to B' has started well. Started P3 for race C. Harassed the Silvia ahead well and made the pass after a few laps. Leader pitted lap 5 so I gained the lead. Put in some consistent laps but the front left on my Alfa soon screamed in torture and the times tumbled. A McLaren caught up towards the end and managed to get me in the last corner on lap 9. I ducked in to the pits and the McLaren made a move to do so too but decided to stay out. I came back out behind the Silvia and brought it home P3 as the McLaren predictably got the minute penalty. The 4x4's need a pit stop to be competitive I guess. Will use something else throughout the week.
Pleased to say the Spaniard in the Silvia was very clean and we had a really good race. Proof not to tarnish them all with the same brush. As I beat 3 DR B's in the race too a healthy 15% was added to my DR score. 16% to go.

 

[Nakano219]

I don't know where to ask this but...
Am I wrong or did they finally remove penalties for accidentally hitting barriers?

This is a per-race setting they can adjust rather than a game-wide thing. They generally only put the strict wall penalties on in races where they're scared of wallriding.

 

[hardvibes]

This is a per-race setting they can adjust rather than a game-wide thing. They generally only put the strict wall penalties on in races where they're scared of wallriding.

I don't think that's the explanation. This week's Race B is on Trial Mountain, which has lots of wall-riding spots. Yet I haven't received a single penalty for accidentally hitting barriers multiple times.

 

[MIE1992]

Personally, I'm fine if a given week's Daily Races don't appeal to me - mostly since I still have quite a bunch of World Circuits events to do. Then there's also the fact that the Maggiore 1hr mission is still giving me quite a challenge.

 

[r_epp]

Not feeling the DRs this week, but I've only got Wednesday and Friday off anyway, so hopefully next week's are more appealing to me!

 

[Nebuc72]

I don't think that's the explanation. This week's Race B is on Trial Mountain, which has lots of wall-riding spots. Yet I haven't received a single penalty for accidentally hitting barriers multiple times.

It is the explanation. They just have them off for this race. Could change if we see the top times start wall-riding.

 

[appu]

Personally, I'm fine if a given week's Daily Races don't appeal to me

Not feeling the DRs this week

Glad that I am not the only one. With no World Series/Toyota Cup events either, this week is most likely my first break from GT7 ever since I started playing it. Will try to play this thing called real life.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I don't think that's the explanation. This week's Race B is on Trial Mountain, which has lots of wall-riding spots. Yet I haven't received a single penalty for accidentally hitting barriers multiple times.

TM is a bit of an anomaly as if you remove all the pretty scenery it's actually very much like a street circuit with artificial Armco around it.

But in the reverse config because some of the apexes are reversed for some reason they lower barrier collision penalties for this config.

That said there is no where in this layout that wall riding is effective or faster, and I even think they have the barrier auto collision correction on for this race but I'd need to check again.

 

[shio]

Honestly liking Race C a lot more than I thought I would. Did three this morning, starting to get a feel for it. For a while I was stuck around 1:45 lap times, but between my 2nd and 3rd race was able to shave off two seconds, which surprised me but there's still obviously a lot to cut.

In my opinion the track flows well with the exception being that downhill chicane thing. That section just feels super awkward, especially if you are in a train / pack. Having fun with it though overall. Mostly clean racing so far for me, made a crappy mistake race 3 and executed a terrible dive turn 1 lap 5 though, felt bad about that one and tried to apologize but the guy left before I entered it.

I'm getting a bit better at defensive driving but still pretty bad at executing a successful dive. Still bad at both but I think making some improvements.

 

[PMK]

Race C is tough. Was hoping car selection would be more balanced now that the Silvia is nerfed but it's just a McLaren fest now. Went from doing top 3's all week long to not even finishing better than 13th today lol. Tbf, my driver rating has been given a huge boost due to WG, went from 1/4 of A to almost A+ but that means i'm up against a+ drivers while i'm on a controller so it's hard to get a really good result atm. Not really doing great in Race B either, but that's just because i don't know the reverse version of Trial Mountain very well. Hoping to do better further down the road, goodluck everybody!