GT7 Daily Race Discussion
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TheNormsk
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Funny how no one here like Trial Mountain in reverse. The irony is that I was not keen on it in the normal direction but I like reverse. So far in five races today:
Normsk_GB (mid DR C): 3rd and 1st.
Normsk_US (1/4 DR B): 6th, 6th and 4th.
So far better than last week which was a disaster for me (lost 1/4 of my DR B rating).
Normsk_GB (mid DR C): 3rd and 1st.
Normsk_US (1/4 DR B): 6th, 6th and 4th.
So far better than last week which was a disaster for me (lost 1/4 of my DR B rating).
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- 186
- Wollongong
- THNDR_Artsy
I'm actually really enjoying race C.... I've had some great clean racing and found the track to be really fun and challenging to get right! A few of the corners have a couple of lines that work equally well too, so it makes for some great battles. I tried a few different cars, and liked the McLaren, Jaguar and NSX the most, though the Lexus and Supra should be good too.
Hoping to put a full qualifying lap together and get into the 39s today....
Hoping to put a full qualifying lap together and get into the 39s today....
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- Poland
- Cheetack
I decided to come back to daily races after worrying for some time that I would need a lot of practice to keep my DR A. Last time I was racing it was Nordschleife 2 lap race about a month ago and I thought practicing a lot for Ring gr. 3 Time Trial inflated my DR back then.
It seems though that time trials helped me improve in general as well. I decided to stick with race B - reversed layout felt odd at the start, being rusty from online racing didn't help as well. First race was a disaster from my side and ended up in P11 - about where I started with 1:52 QT set with RS01. Was not feeling confident at all.
I have then decided I was not fit for racing until I get to know the track better. Practiced for about an hour and managed to improve to 1:50.9, which was placing me in top 5 at low DR A most of the races. I've had a lot of close and mostly fair battles with other players (knowing the braking points well certainly helps with that!).
At the end of the day my QT improved into 1:50.596 which is currently P184 on the leaderboard. My finishing positions were: 4xP1, 3xP2, 3xP4. I'm well into DR A now
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As some of you guys before I have also met @Famine wannabe in one of the races 😂. He has fans as well!
I also have a little request for stewarding on one of the moves I've attempted today. I'm in pink Renault - coming up to last overtaking opportunity on last lap. Porsche driver was holding myself and Lambo quite a lot in this race but was defending well. Before left hander I've seen that Lambo is cooking a move, so tried to sneak into the inside. As we approached right hander into the tunnel, I've followed Lambo and seeing that he brakes in the middle and leaves door wide open, dived into the inside line. As we went 3 wide there was contact on the apex - Porsche (couple frames earlier) and myself hitting Lambo in the middle. Not sure how to feel about this move, what do you guys think?
Moment of first contact:
Videos:
It seems though that time trials helped me improve in general as well. I decided to stick with race B - reversed layout felt odd at the start, being rusty from online racing didn't help as well. First race was a disaster from my side and ended up in P11 - about where I started with 1:52 QT set with RS01. Was not feeling confident at all.
I have then decided I was not fit for racing until I get to know the track better. Practiced for about an hour and managed to improve to 1:50.9, which was placing me in top 5 at low DR A most of the races. I've had a lot of close and mostly fair battles with other players (knowing the braking points well certainly helps with that!).
At the end of the day my QT improved into 1:50.596 which is currently P184 on the leaderboard. My finishing positions were: 4xP1, 3xP2, 3xP4. I'm well into DR A now
.As some of you guys before I have also met @Famine wannabe in one of the races 😂. He has fans as well!
I also have a little request for stewarding on one of the moves I've attempted today. I'm in pink Renault - coming up to last overtaking opportunity on last lap. Porsche driver was holding myself and Lambo quite a lot in this race but was defending well. Before left hander I've seen that Lambo is cooking a move, so tried to sneak into the inside. As we approached right hander into the tunnel, I've followed Lambo and seeing that he brakes in the middle and leaves door wide open, dived into the inside line. As we went 3 wide there was contact on the apex - Porsche (couple frames earlier) and myself hitting Lambo in the middle. Not sure how to feel about this move, what do you guys think?
Moment of first contact:
Videos:
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I don't think B and C are bad combos. At least, they're not something we've seen in a long time, if ever.
C has not-RH tires and requires a pit stop, so there is some strat involved and the under/overcut is a viable option. It doesn't particularly appeal to me, but at least it's something new.
B isn't too shabby either. I prefer TM forward but it's not too bad in reverse. Don't know that we've seen this combo before either, especially with the RM tires. It should be five laps and not four, though.
A is dumb. It was kinda funny for a meme race when we had it a whopping six weeks ago. Like, literally the exact same thing... albeit it less cars. But PD being PD, they had to redo it so a Nissan could be the META instead of the AMG.
18 months into the game and I am still waiting for Blue Moon Infield in Gr3.
C has not-RH tires and requires a pit stop, so there is some strat involved and the under/overcut is a viable option. It doesn't particularly appeal to me, but at least it's something new.
B isn't too shabby either. I prefer TM forward but it's not too bad in reverse. Don't know that we've seen this combo before either, especially with the RM tires. It should be five laps and not four, though.
A is dumb. It was kinda funny for a meme race when we had it a whopping six weeks ago. Like, literally the exact same thing... albeit it less cars. But PD being PD, they had to redo it so a Nissan could be the META instead of the AMG.
18 months into the game and I am still waiting for Blue Moon Infield in Gr3.
TheNormsk
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I'm also driving the RS01 but I'm down with a 1.53.2 time. I don't know how you can drive that car to 1:50.9... That's stonking quick!
That could be a fun race! I was just doing Blue Moon the other day on my alt account in single-player mode and I was thinking why we had not seen that in the daily races. I figured it would be a good one. How many other track combos have not been used?
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- Italy
- MrHatss
Raced 4-5 times the Mountain Reverse today in my third day with the wheel...it's always tough for me the monday's change in track for the sport mode, but this went terribly bad.
Driving the GT-R Nismo btw.
I'm a S user for sportmanship and everybody in the lobby were S but races were absolute nuts, first couple of slow turns and people were flying everywhere, almost impossible this night, only in the last race I managed to start 8 and end 7 without any problem.
Gonna try again tomorrow.
Just to know cause I'm fairly new to the sport mode, or at least at the community side of it, I seeing that lots of you can track your point, how's that work?
Driving the GT-R Nismo btw.
I'm a S user for sportmanship and everybody in the lobby were S but races were absolute nuts, first couple of slow turns and people were flying everywhere, almost impossible this night, only in the last race I managed to start 8 and end 7 without any problem.
Gonna try again tomorrow.
Just to know cause I'm fairly new to the sport mode, or at least at the community side of it, I seeing that lots of you can track your point, how's that work?
TheNormsk
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I was having a pretty good day and then this happened..
That gave me my one red spot for the night.. Oh well.
That gave me my one red spot for the night.. Oh well.
Take a look at https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/official-grantracker-thread.420003/
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Dep Fishtail
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- Oregon
- Deputy_Fishtail
8 B Races for today and really enjoying it. Today 🫣
I’ve been keeping qt down more than I have ever been able to, and it had me starting in the top 4-8 places other than one race at p9 and another at p10 to start.
More than half of them CRB and mostly p4-p7 finishes. No podiums but they don’t come often for me so pretty pleased overall.
Been a while since a combo worked like this one for me.
Gotta get another car figured out soon because I think I’m squeezing almost all the RCZ has to be racing so well today.
C race looks fun but I can’t leave B just yet.
I’ve been keeping qt down more than I have ever been able to, and it had me starting in the top 4-8 places other than one race at p9 and another at p10 to start.
More than half of them CRB and mostly p4-p7 finishes. No podiums but they don’t come often for me so pretty pleased overall.
Been a while since a combo worked like this one for me.
Gotta get another car figured out soon because I think I’m squeezing almost all the RCZ has to be racing so well today.
C race looks fun but I can’t leave B just yet.
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- United Kingdom
- slowdan01
Had a go at quali on Trial Mountain but didn't really feel like I had a handle on the layout there. Definitely need more practise!
So I had a go at C instead. 1st went reasonably well despite a slower than expected quali. Started 14th, finished 12th. So I went aand found a bit more time in qualification.
Bumped into @Fezzik in the second race, too slow to realise and say hi before the race started though! 😁
It didn't go brilliantly, I started 8th and was keeping pace when the guy in front got a wheel in the dirt at the downhill chicane. He ended up broadside in front of me and I hit him, then the barrier and ended up backwards in the wall. Rejoined completely last. Caught back up after a few laps though and got behind Fezzik when I put my wheel on the grass on the exit of the final turn and spun it into the wall. I enjoyed that off so much that I tried it again towards the end of the race to finish up 12th again. 😆
That's me in the Ferrari, just behind Fezzik, getting it all kinds of wrong! 😆
3rd went much better! Started 9th this time. Got caught up in someone else's mess at the end of lap 1 and dropped a few places, but managed to keep it on track for the rest of the race. Had some nice close battles, watched some people disappear off the edge (without hitting them this time!) and crossed the line 5th. That quickly turned into 4th as it turned out 1st hadn't stopped.
Almost passed this little group through the fast esses towards the end of the lap, but got the back corner tagged by someone spinning.
I'm enjoying this track, high speed, big penalties for getting it wrong. It is easy to get caught up with others making mistakes, but there's also lots of room to race clean.
So I had a go at C instead. 1st went reasonably well despite a slower than expected quali. Started 14th, finished 12th. So I went aand found a bit more time in qualification.
Bumped into @Fezzik in the second race, too slow to realise and say hi before the race started though! 😁
It didn't go brilliantly, I started 8th and was keeping pace when the guy in front got a wheel in the dirt at the downhill chicane. He ended up broadside in front of me and I hit him, then the barrier and ended up backwards in the wall. Rejoined completely last. Caught back up after a few laps though and got behind Fezzik when I put my wheel on the grass on the exit of the final turn and spun it into the wall. I enjoyed that off so much that I tried it again towards the end of the race to finish up 12th again. 😆
That's me in the Ferrari, just behind Fezzik, getting it all kinds of wrong! 😆
3rd went much better! Started 9th this time. Got caught up in someone else's mess at the end of lap 1 and dropped a few places, but managed to keep it on track for the rest of the race. Had some nice close battles, watched some people disappear off the edge (without hitting them this time!) and crossed the line 5th. That quickly turned into 4th as it turned out 1st hadn't stopped.
Almost passed this little group through the fast esses towards the end of the lap, but got the back corner tagged by someone spinning.
I'm enjoying this track, high speed, big penalties for getting it wrong. It is easy to get caught up with others making mistakes, but there's also lots of room to race clean.
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- Australia
39s is crazy quick. It's a mostly enjoyable combo, but I'm finding the races a bit sterile. I was sorted into all A/S and B/S lobbies last night and generally drove on my own for the majority of the race. The one exception was where I came across another A+ driver whose Q time was a full second quicker than me. I thought it would be a good challenge, only to find the game glitched weirdly and he started the race at turn 4 while the rest of us were still auto-driving. It also recorded his first lap as the quickest of the race at 1:37.xxx!!! I matched his race pace and lost by 5 seconds...
It really shoudn't be too much to ask that PD have these glitches sorted out by now.
TheNormsk
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I had a couple more goes at B on my GB account this evening. Thought I would get the early risers in Europe. Before that I improved my QT to 1:52.938. Getting better and faster than my US account.
First race started P4 and did lose a spot but finished in 5th which is still good for points gain. I had some Bs ahead of me, one of whom has a 1:51 QT so the competition was getting stronger.
I decided I needed better QT still, so a bit more practice between sessions and got this down to 1:52.547. Now I have my work cut out to get my US account on the same QT level..
I entered the next race and QT'd in 4th but what shocked me was that KIMI-VELOCINI was in the lobby! I laughed and was also somewhat terrified. If you are not aware KIMI has a reputation for being one of, if not, the dirtiest driver on YouTube. The antics could make your head explode.
What worried me was would this be a dirty race and would he mess up my chance for another good position on my climb to DR B? First corner would good to me and I jumped to 2nd. Kimi was in the lead and I followed behind gradually slipping back to around 2.5 seconds by lap 2, which was were it stayed through lap 3.
I was worried that Kimi would try to knock off the track anyone that came near him but in the end that was not a worry as no one could catch him. While he is now a B/B rating, he is capable of an A/A+ drive level. I suspect that without pressure from me he eased off and maintained that 2.5 to 3 second lead over me.
On lap 3, Valterizapatilla who started P2 and who went off at turn 1, caught up and I was unable to keep him behind and dropped to 3rd. Kimi sped up with new competition and I had to put in QT level of concentration two keep P4 from stealing third from me, but in the end I got the podium.
My DR C against all these DR B got an signifiant boost in points.
I think I'm only one or two races away from moving up to DR B.
First race started P4 and did lose a spot but finished in 5th which is still good for points gain. I had some Bs ahead of me, one of whom has a 1:51 QT so the competition was getting stronger.
I decided I needed better QT still, so a bit more practice between sessions and got this down to 1:52.547. Now I have my work cut out to get my US account on the same QT level..
I entered the next race and QT'd in 4th but what shocked me was that KIMI-VELOCINI was in the lobby! I laughed and was also somewhat terrified. If you are not aware KIMI has a reputation for being one of, if not, the dirtiest driver on YouTube. The antics could make your head explode.
What worried me was would this be a dirty race and would he mess up my chance for another good position on my climb to DR B? First corner would good to me and I jumped to 2nd. Kimi was in the lead and I followed behind gradually slipping back to around 2.5 seconds by lap 2, which was were it stayed through lap 3.
I was worried that Kimi would try to knock off the track anyone that came near him but in the end that was not a worry as no one could catch him. While he is now a B/B rating, he is capable of an A/A+ drive level. I suspect that without pressure from me he eased off and maintained that 2.5 to 3 second lead over me.
On lap 3, Valterizapatilla who started P2 and who went off at turn 1, caught up and I was unable to keep him behind and dropped to 3rd. Kimi sped up with new competition and I had to put in QT level of concentration two keep P4 from stealing third from me, but in the end I got the podium.
My DR C against all these DR B got an signifiant boost in points.
I think I'm only one or two races away from moving up to DR B.
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- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
Nice to see a fellow GTPer in the race. Thanks for not showing one of the many occasions it was me clouting the wall.
Only did a couple of practice laps and it showed - 2-3 seconds off the pace. The Citroen was perhaps not the smartest choice, I saw a few near the top of the leaderboards but I don’t have the extra terrestrial ability with it.
Bad result, will take me a while to figure out this layout but nothing to lose on this account anyway.
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Im not the greatest authority on Stewarding, but I thought I'd comment since this is such an interesting scenario.
I think my main takeaway would be that this is a racing incident, and thats it. The main argument against you would be that the move was probably "not advisable" given that 3-wide going into that tunnel probably was not going to end well for one or two drivers.
That said, the gap was left there, and you made your way into it. When the divebomb finger gets pointed, my main criteria is determining whether the accused car would have made the corner reasonably with space given, and without contact.
It's quite hard to tell from the video, but subjectively it does appear you slow down sufficiently enough that you could have both made the corner and given "the space" if needed.
For that reason, I'd say racing incident...albeit one that was hard to avoid for the other two drivers.
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- ILLEAGLE_34
I decided to come back to daily races after worrying for some time that I would need a lot of practice to keep my DR A. Last time I was racing it was Nordschleife 2 lap race about a month ago and I thought practicing a lot for Ring gr. 3 Time Trial inflated my DR back then.
It seems though that time trials helped me improve in general as well. I decided to stick with race B - reversed layout felt odd at the start, being rusty from online racing didn't help as well. First race was a disaster from my side and ended up in P11 - about where I started with 1:52 QT set with RS01. Was not feeling confident at all.
I have then decided I was not fit for racing until I get to know the track better. Practiced for about an hour and managed to improve to 1:50.9, which was placing me in top 5 at low DR A most of the races. I've had a lot of close and mostly fair battles with other players (knowing the braking points well certainly helps with that!).
At the end of the day my QT improved into 1:50.596 which is currently P184 on the leaderboard. My finishing positions were: 4xP1, 3xP2, 3xP4. I'm well into DR A now
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As some of you guys before I have also met @Famine wannabe in one of the races 😂. He has fans as well!
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I also have a little request for stewarding on one of the moves I've attempted today. I'm in pink Renault - coming up to last overtaking opportunity on last lap. Porsche driver was holding myself and Lambo quite a lot in this race but was defending well. Before left hander I've seen that Lambo is cooking a move, so tried to sneak into the inside. As we approached right hander into the tunnel, I've followed Lambo and seeing that he brakes in the middle and leaves door wide open, dived into the inside line. As we went 3 wide there was contact on the apex - Porsche (couple frames earlier) and myself hitting Lambo in the middle. Not sure how to feel about this move, what do you guys think?
Moment of first contact:
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I would’ve backed off a little more as soon as I made contact but that’s just me. Even with the contact I wouldn’t consider it to be a blatantly dirty move though 🍻
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- Hasnain282
Pretty difficult to put a lap together at Trial Mountain but managed a 49.7, though even that lap felt like it had a couple of tenths in it.
Seems to be a nice variety of cars on the leaderboard with people still learning the combo
Seems to be a nice variety of cars on the leaderboard with people still learning the combo
- 1,724
- Australia
I decided to come back to daily races after worrying for some time that I would need a lot of practice to keep my DR A. Last time I was racing it was Nordschleife 2 lap race about a month ago and I thought practicing a lot for Ring gr. 3 Time Trial inflated my DR back then.
It seems though that time trials helped me improve in general as well. I decided to stick with race B - reversed layout felt odd at the start, being rusty from online racing didn't help as well. First race was a disaster from my side and ended up in P11 - about where I started with 1:52 QT set with RS01. Was not feeling confident at all.
I have then decided I was not fit for racing until I get to know the track better. Practiced for about an hour and managed to improve to 1:50.9, which was placing me in top 5 at low DR A most of the races. I've had a lot of close and mostly fair battles with other players (knowing the braking points well certainly helps with that!).
At the end of the day my QT improved into 1:50.596 which is currently P184 on the leaderboard. My finishing positions were: 4xP1, 3xP2, 3xP4. I'm well into DR A now
View attachment 1270391
As some of you guys before I have also met @Famine wannabe in one of the races 😂. He has fans as well!
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I also have a little request for stewarding on one of the moves I've attempted today. I'm in pink Renault - coming up to last overtaking opportunity on last lap. Porsche driver was holding myself and Lambo quite a lot in this race but was defending well. Before left hander I've seen that Lambo is cooking a move, so tried to sneak into the inside. As we approached right hander into the tunnel, I've followed Lambo and seeing that he brakes in the middle and leaves door wide open, dived into the inside line. As we went 3 wide there was contact on the apex - Porsche (couple frames earlier) and myself hitting Lambo in the middle. Not sure how to feel about this move, what do you guys think?
Moment of first contact:
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Videos:
If everyone held their line this would have been fine. Any fault I can see rests with the Porsche. He should have realized he’s been beaten and left room. Instead he moves in to try and block.
Your move was 100% legit.
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- Bristol, UK
- OJBrit
I decided to come back to daily races after worrying for some time that I would need a lot of practice to keep my DR A. Last time I was racing it was Nordschleife 2 lap race about a month ago and I thought practicing a lot for Ring gr. 3 Time Trial inflated my DR back then.
It seems though that time trials helped me improve in general as well. I decided to stick with race B - reversed layout felt odd at the start, being rusty from online racing didn't help as well. First race was a disaster from my side and ended up in P11 - about where I started with 1:52 QT set with RS01. Was not feeling confident at all.
I have then decided I was not fit for racing until I get to know the track better. Practiced for about an hour and managed to improve to 1:50.9, which was placing me in top 5 at low DR A most of the races. I've had a lot of close and mostly fair battles with other players (knowing the braking points well certainly helps with that!).
At the end of the day my QT improved into 1:50.596 which is currently P184 on the leaderboard. My finishing positions were: 4xP1, 3xP2, 3xP4. I'm well into DR A now
View attachment 1270391
As some of you guys before I have also met @Famine wannabe in one of the races 😂. He has fans as well!
View attachment 1270392
I also have a little request for stewarding on one of the moves I've attempted today. I'm in pink Renault - coming up to last overtaking opportunity on last lap. Porsche driver was holding myself and Lambo quite a lot in this race but was defending well. Before left hander I've seen that Lambo is cooking a move, so tried to sneak into the inside. As we approached right hander into the tunnel, I've followed Lambo and seeing that he brakes in the middle and leaves door wide open, dived into the inside line. As we went 3 wide there was contact on the apex - Porsche (couple frames earlier) and myself hitting Lambo in the middle. Not sure how to feel about this move, what do you guys think?
Moment of first contact:
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Videos:
Looks initially like it comes from too far back. However you make it correctly to the apex and the Porsche squeezes. Probably not a move I'd have made and if I was the Lambo I would not have been happy. But you made it all stick. I'd err on racing incident too considering this is a game. In real life you should expect damage and a trip to the bus.
Not a glitch just someone with a really poor connection. You should always be a bit more careful around them and you got unlucky. It's happened to us all.
- 1,224
- Malta
- TechnoIsLove
Had a bit of a frustrating one yesterday evening (Race C) and it had started really well...
Kicked off in P8 and by the end of lap 5, I was legitimately in P5 through some overtakes which I was quite pleased with. P1 was already gone but less than 2 seconds split P2 from me at the time. As we came to start lap 6, they didn't pit so I rushed to change tires, hoping for a nice undercut.
Came out in P9 right behind someone driving the wrong car for this track (Veyron) and he was clearly struggling with the car and used tires... He just would not let me through! And I don't mean it in a "move over, I am privileged" way - he obviously saw me come out the pits (as he passed me as I exited) so knew I had better tires and fighting me just loses time for the both of us...
I was almost through at least 4 times during the out-lap but he would either try to force me off or slam on the brakes and turn out on me when I was going past the long way... His 5th attempt was his downfall, right before the last chicane at the top of the hill... Tried to again swipe me but I braked and he sent himself to the barriers! But the damage was done, I lost too much time and was over 4 seconds behind the original pack after they pitted on lap 6. Started/ finished P8 but was very disappointed and frustrated...
Thankfully, just now during my lunch break, I hopped into 2nd account for a quick race at Trial Mountain and set a 1:52:0 with the Renault and started P4. The car is amazing for qualy laps but has zero top end speed in the straights compared to the Nismo and 911's during a race! I was gaining a total of 0.7s over those around me in Sector 1 and from the 1st tunnel up to the main straight but losing it all in the high speed straights..
Still managed a podium with a lot of defending and anticipating the moves from those behind, finished 8s behind the winner. Might try the R8 later on tonight as MR seems the best car for Race B this week!
Kicked off in P8 and by the end of lap 5, I was legitimately in P5 through some overtakes which I was quite pleased with. P1 was already gone but less than 2 seconds split P2 from me at the time. As we came to start lap 6, they didn't pit so I rushed to change tires, hoping for a nice undercut.
Came out in P9 right behind someone driving the wrong car for this track (Veyron) and he was clearly struggling with the car and used tires... He just would not let me through! And I don't mean it in a "move over, I am privileged" way - he obviously saw me come out the pits (as he passed me as I exited) so knew I had better tires and fighting me just loses time for the both of us...
I was almost through at least 4 times during the out-lap but he would either try to force me off or slam on the brakes and turn out on me when I was going past the long way... His 5th attempt was his downfall, right before the last chicane at the top of the hill... Tried to again swipe me but I braked and he sent himself to the barriers! But the damage was done, I lost too much time and was over 4 seconds behind the original pack after they pitted on lap 6. Started/ finished P8 but was very disappointed and frustrated...
Thankfully, just now during my lunch break, I hopped into 2nd account for a quick race at Trial Mountain and set a 1:52:0 with the Renault and started P4. The car is amazing for qualy laps but has zero top end speed in the straights compared to the Nismo and 911's during a race! I was gaining a total of 0.7s over those around me in Sector 1 and from the 1st tunnel up to the main straight but losing it all in the high speed straights..
Still managed a podium with a lot of defending and anticipating the moves from those behind, finished 8s behind the winner. Might try the R8 later on tonight as MR seems the best car for Race B this week!
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With tt secured and a day off i went to race B, which actually is not that bad. I had to learn the track from scratch, and it did not help as I dropped to rate D.
I'm using Nissan, not that great on the straight, but good in the mix and with a safe feeling also with full fuel. Lamborghini is better in Q, but a bit more sliding in the race.
I also got a win, fresh breath...
I'm using Nissan, not that great on the straight, but good in the mix and with a safe feeling also with full fuel. Lamborghini is better in Q, but a bit more sliding in the race.
I also got a win, fresh breath...
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GrumpyOldMan
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- 2,032
- Southern California
- dagware
Not sure who so many people are howling about doing Trial Mountain in reverse. It's like getting a new track - you have to spend some time learning it, just like anything else. As for driving, it works quite well in reverse. Nothing super awkward or anything like that. I quite like it.
Even if I did crash and burn my first race. I discovered that I need to know the track better before subjecting other people to my lack of skills. Even starting P14, I managed to kill someone. I waited for him, then lost all desire to finish the race, and quit outright.
Even if I did crash and burn my first race. I discovered that I need to know the track better before subjecting other people to my lack of skills. Even starting P14, I managed to kill someone. I waited for him, then lost all desire to finish the race, and quit outright.
You might want to try the R.S.01 (or whatever ifs name is). I really like it on this track.
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See my post 2 above yours 🙂 Great for qualy, very slow in the race..
I also had a slightly weird Race C just now. Started P7 and made my way up to P4 by the start of lap 3. Leader was only 4 sec in front at the time and P5 was 1 second behind me. P3 pitted lap 4 and I pitted lap 5.
No idea what driver behind did but I exited in P9 and felt lonely 🤣 Had a 4 second gap to the driver behind and a 5 second gap to P8 in front.
When the dust settled by the start of lap 8, I was still ahead by almost 5 seconds from same driver behind but in P7, around 2 seconds behind the pack of about 4 cars.
Managed to overtake 2 of them and finish P5 but still, what the heck happened to everyone around me from before?! 🤣🫣 It's like I entered the pitlane in Kyoto and exited somewhere else, like an abandoned track with just me driving around 😅 was averaging 1:42:6s which isn't going to make A+ drivers shiver 🤣 But it's weird for everyone to disappear over a pit stop...
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GrumpyOldMan
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Dangit, I hate being "that guy".
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Fair point, for me personally the awkward corner exits with undulation going the wrong way is the thing that catches me out.
In standard anti clockwise configuration you are braking on or over them, which agreed is tricky but more manageable. In the clockwise configuration you are hitting the bumps at full acceleration points which is much less forgiving than braking a bit deep.
All horses for courses, and it's early in the week so it may well start to click a bit for me. But I agree with your first paragraph. 👍
Got my clockwises the wrong way round.
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What you mean? You're the dude 😎
I also am trying to find out which car I can consistently go through the final 2 corners without too much understeer.. Whilst obviously still being decent in a race 🤣
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Trail Mountain in reverse is horrid. Mid pack drivers are terrible and used each other to send it around corners. Did 3 races this morning. Luckily the mid pack on the first race was taking each other out and had a great battle from 3-8 place. The last two races were just bad. Would get slapped from the back at T1 every time then get swallowed by the mid pack in which everyone was sending it on the inside or missing their braking point and overspeeding into corners. The problem is there is to many high speed straights into sharp corners which people miss their braking point and too many sweeping mid speed corners with awkward wide line efficiencies that allow the trailing car to overspeed on entrance and wash wide to send you into the wall since the fastest way around the track is to take a wider line. This never happens on the normal layout because when cars miss their braking point, the turn bend radii usually benefits the car in front as the efficient lines are usually in to out, so if drivers behind try to send it, they will wash wide before they can get to the inside of you.
