GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[Chris30]

No offense taken, and it's a great theory, but it's wrong (about me, anyway). I am NOT usually aggressive when I drive. I'm constantly kicking myself for not being more so, because I can't get around people in front of me who are driving slower, for whatever reason.

Yes, I do post some posts that indicate I did some aggressive driving, but honestly, it's pretty rare - it only looks more frequent because I post about it.

The main indicator that I don't drive aggressively is the fact that the vast majority of times, the only way I finish in a better position than I started is when there's attrition. I almost never pass someone who hasn't crashed or otherwise slowed down due to a mishap.

Back to my posts: There's a reason my name is Grumpy Old Man. I spout off at the mouth a lot. But look at my avatar picture - that's the way I look most of the time. I'm passionate, but ultimately I'm a wimp with a wry smile.

With all that said, this is just my opinion of my driving. We're rarely good judges of ourselves, so I could be wrong.

LOL. I used to live in central state New York, where the winters were just like that. So I know what you mean.

Idk how people can stand those cold temps near Canada, 50 below zero. It's not too far from New York. I only visited there twice in my lifetime. It's the city that nevers sleeps, xD.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Oh that doesn't mean I'm not situationally aware of what is going on around me. I agree that is important, but there are other ways to do that.

1) I use the radar so that you know what is behind and to which side.
2) I keep an eye on the leader board and notice the time intervals between me and the car behind.
3) I occasionally use the look back if I'm approaching a prime punt spot and I need to know how to handle the next corner (if it does not distract me from setting myself up for that corner).

Just be careful with the radar, it's proximity window is very small and in to braking zones a good barometer but on things like corner exits it can be a bit misleading as closing speeds can be be quite big

I use bumper/low cam with rear view and radar but they tell me 2 different things.

I use the rear view to understand position of the car behind me. I use the radar to avoid close contact in tighter spaces like corners.

Neither is perfect but they have very different jobs and benefits.

 

[brockie]

For anyone interested, gt sport from next week

Race A - 2 laps mount panorama n400

Race B - 7 laps Suzuka east gr4

Race C - sardegna A 10 laps gr3

I’m still lvl 43/50 so still relevant for me and probably will be for years to come

 

[NAXEHT]

For anyone interested, gt sport from next week

Race A - 2 laps mount panorama n400

Race B - 7 laps Suzuka east gr4

Race C - sardegna A 10 laps gr3

I’m still lvl 43/50 so still relevant for me and probably will be for years to come

This thread over here is the daily race discussion for GT Sport. And if you’re looking to do level 50 on GT Sport you should be doing some of the offline events there, mate, else you won’t manage it.

 

[Moose78]

I often wonder how many folks are completely unaware that the headlight flash is mapped to L3 by default on a controller? TBH, I didn't. It wasn't until I watched a replay that I noticed...and it was a LOOOOOOONG time until I had a replay worth watching. You get all amped-up and the grip get's tighter and tighter, it just kinda happens.😁

On the topic of inadvertent controller changes, has anybody ever seen their TC setting change without their knowledge? I had a couple tries at Race C last night where the car just felt really slow. It was fine for qualifying, but in the race it was just horribly sluggish. Somewhere late in the second race -- when I'd already fallen to dead last -- I thought to check my TC setting and found that it was at 3. I usually race at TC 0. As far as I recall, I never even had the TC settings on my screen to change it. Has anybody else seen this? I guess I need to check my controller settings to see if there is button mapped to TC or something.

Also, this is my first post here. Been lurking for a while. Seen some of you in races. Apologies if I've caused you any grief. It was not intentional. If anybody is looking for more 'friends' to compare lap times, I'm open to accepting invitations.

 

[peniu]

On the topic of inadvertent controller changes, has anybody ever seen their TC setting change without their knowledge? I had a couple tries at Race C last night where the car just felt really slow. It was fine for qualifying, but in the race it was just horribly sluggish. Somewhere late in the second race -- when I'd already fallen to dead last -- I thought to check my TC setting and found that it was at 3. I usually race at TC 0. As far as I recall, I never even had the TC settings on my screen to change it. Has anybody else seen this? I guess I need to check my controller settings to see if there is button mapped to TC or something.

Also, this is my first post here. Been lurking for a while. Seen some of you in races. Apologies if I've caused you any grief. It was not intentional. If anybody is looking for more 'friends' to compare lap times, I'm open to accepting invitations.

Welcome
I've seen exact same behaviour a couple times on my end as well - TC 0 changing itself to TC 3. Since then I'm checking it every race start just to be sure.

 

[Nebuc72]

On the topic of inadvertent controller changes, has anybody ever seen their TC setting change without their knowledge? I had a couple tries at Race C last night where the car just felt really slow. It was fine for qualifying, but in the race it was just horribly sluggish. Somewhere late in the second race -- when I'd already fallen to dead last -- I thought to check my TC setting and found that it was at 3. I usually race at TC 0. As far as I recall, I never even had the TC settings on my screen to change it. Has anybody else seen this? I guess I need to check my controller settings to see if there is button mapped to TC or something.

Also, this is my first post here. Been lurking for a while. Seen some of you in races. Apologies if I've caused you any grief. It was not intentional. If anybody is looking for more 'friends' to compare lap times, I'm open to accepting invitations.

TCS will reset to 3 if you join a race without entering a practice/quali session beforehand. So if you qualified, then backed out to join the race and waited the timer out, it will reset your TCS.

 

[benjoi84]

I think it comes down to variances in how we process situational stressors that cultivates differences in the manifestation of said stressors. Possibly the "some people clench their teeth, some people clench their hands" sort of thing that varies greatly from personality to personality. I was a bartender, though, not a psychologist.

EDIT: @astiik Welcome aboard, BTW!!! 👍

Personally, the death grip/L3 shenanigans began when I started learning about brake modulation and trail-braking. I have to hold my left hand in this bizarre statuesque manner in order to correctly graduate the inputs, without it I get all loose. I've ruined 3 PS4 controllers since GT Sport!

 

[Moose78]

TCS will reset to 3 if you join a race without entering a practice/quali session beforehand. So if you qualified, then backed out to join the race and waited the timer out, it will reset your TCS.

That would explain it. I had an 'unexpected error' in the last minute of qualifying before both of those races and had to rejoin without qualifying.

 

[MrHatss]

A pretty good start of weekend here with a solid friday, after an unusual - for me - morning session I did 3 races tonight with fair results:
Q7 F5
Q7 F4
Q9 F8
Good amount of fighting....lively but not terrible, happy for still being B ranked after almost a week, "sad" for not being able of improve my QT time, but tomorrow is saturday and I'm already looking for next week track....any news guys?

Have a great friday evening

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

This is what happens when you're motivated. I got creamed on T1 of Lap 1, and was really pissed. Not at anyone in particular - I started P3, and P1 braked sooner than P2 thought they would, so I had to slam on my brakes, and someone behind us didn't get the memo soon enough. So like I said, pissed, but not at anyone in general.

So I drove like my hair was on fire. I don't believe I was dirty at any time, but I certainly was aggressive. If there was an openinging, I took it. I didn't knock anyone off the track, and I didn't use anyone as my brake. Other than that, it was balls-to-the-wall driving (hmmm, that expression doesn't sound right...)

Anyway, to make a short story long, I got Fastest Lap, and I can't remember another time when I got FL when I was so far back. Usually I only get it starting P1 or P2. But this time I was back at P13, and managed to come back to P6. Yay me.

I'm already looking for next week track....any news guys?

Look a back a handful of posts - someone just posted it. I'm too lazy to find it, though.

 

[Nebuc72]

but tomorrow is saturday and I'm already looking for next week track....any news guys?

Have a great friday evening

PD haven't published them yet.

I'm wondering if they have cracked down on how people were accessing it early, I never got the impression PD liked people accessing things they weren't supposed to.
They could make it work like time trials, where it (mostly) only goes live when it should go live, not days beforehand.

 

[MrHatss]

PD haven't published them yet.

I'm wondering if they have cracked down on how people were accessing it early, I never got the impression PD liked people accessing things they weren't supposed to.
They could make it work like time trials, where it (mostly) only goes live when it should go live, not days beforehand.

Guess that I'll spend monday just trying to learn the track

 

[Chris30]

A pretty good start of weekend here with a solid friday, after an unusual - for me - morning session I did 3 races tonight with fair results:
Q7 F5
Q7 F4
Q9 F8
Good amount of fighting....lively but not terrible, happy for still being B ranked after almost a week, "sad" for not being able of improve my QT time, but tomorrow is saturday and I'm already looking for next week track....any news guys?

Have a great friday evening

You too, and I'm Chris btw. When did you start playing your first GT game. Mine was gt1 back in 2001. So I've been playing for over 15 years allround. I'm not gonna bother with the Red Bull spa TT, b/c I'm not used to driving on wet roads and trying to not get a penalty, uhhh beats me! Bogus.

 

[MrHatss]

You too, and I'm Chris btw. When did you start playing your first GT game. Mine was gt1 back in 2001. So I've been playing for over 15 years allround. I'm not gonna bother with the Red Bull spa TT, b/c I'm not used to driving on wet roads and trying to not get a penalty, uhhh beats me! Bogus.

Ciao Chris, Alex here
Been playing GT since the first but I was a casual player, using the controller didn't moved me to play actively, I just bought the game - drove for a couple of months against the AI and move on.
Since a month ago I moved to a wheel and the world changed, everything changed, I'm just driving and driving and driving everytime I've got 30min of spare time to spend at the PS...I'm engaged, I love it.
And the community is great, a real pleasure to write/read here guys

 

[GT5 Level 41]

Posted this elsewhere and got no response. It happened again just now.

I'm getting a new problem The last four sport races I ran, all the cars but mine were frozen. They stayed at the start position the entire time. I ran a full race by myself. At the end, my time along with everyone elses was logged. I was awared CRB. I got a bunch of hate over corner diving, but I never saw a car move. They all just stayed in one spot.

Anyone have this happen and how do I fix it?

 

[RacingGrandpa]

Astute observation. So I am a more cautious, defensive driver and @GrumpyOldMan is more of a "here kids, hold my beer" kind of driver?

I think you must be a psychologist by trade. Do you provide therapy session? I think I need some as my wife tells me I'm addicted and that it is kind of concerning!

Personally, I'll take "high level amateur racer" as a compliment. Now if I want to move to A, I need to learn to shake that away and become an a-hole and just become more aggressive...

Not a psychologist, by far. Blue collar worker.

But has 10 kids so used to read behaviour....

But since you both reject my observations they're probably way off

No offense taken, and it's a great theory, but it's wrong (about me, anyway). I am NOT usually aggressive when I drive. I'm constantly kicking myself for not being more so, because I can't get around people in front of me who are driving slower, for whatever reason.

Yes, I do post some posts that indicate I did some aggressive driving, but honestly, it's pretty rare - it only looks more frequent because I post about it.

The main indicator that I don't drive aggressively is the fact that the vast majority of times, the only way I finish in a better position than I started is when there's attrition. I almost never pass someone who hasn't crashed or otherwise slowed down due to a mishap.

Back to my posts: There's a reason my name is Grumpy Old Man. I spout off at the mouth a lot. But look at my avatar picture - that's the way I look most of the time. I'm passionate, but ultimately I'm a wimp with a wry smile.

With all that said, this is just my opinion of my driving. We're rarely good judges of ourselves, so I could be wrong.

LOL. I used to live in central state New York, where the winters were just like that. So I know what you mean.

Glad you guys took it the way it was ment.

 

[mellofello9]

LOLOL....so, yeah, me and Daytona don't get along. I've just got lots of learning to do, I guess. Went out for a couple of races and had fun, but finished terribly. For anyone that I blasted/punted/divebombed/offended, please know that it wasn't on purpose. I just suck really, really bad here. 😁

Finally caved and bought the Ford, really wish I would have sooner. Three laps in the blue oval powered wonder sled and I took two seconds off my qualifier. TWO SECONDS. I ran everything I had, the Merc', Mustang, F-Type, etc. and couldn't get below 1:48 and change. Now I'm at 1:46:8xx. If you were wondering/questioning how much of a difference it might make in your lap, well, there's some insight.

For those struggling with the TCS reset thing, pretty sure if you go into driver settings and change your TCS to zero there it sticks everywhere. No more forgetting to turn it off...which I did a lot. 👍

 

[r_epp]

For anyone interested, gt sport from next week

Race A - 2 laps mount panorama n400

Race B - 7 laps Suzuka east gr4

Race C - sardegna A 10 laps gr3

I’m still lvl 43/50 so still relevant for me and probably will be for years to come

Is this GT Sport or sport mode in GT7?

 

[icycls]

I've had the opposite experience of most of you in Race B (or at least those that post about it). I've had some fantastic and mostly clean races with excellent drivers around me. Sure, I had a few go sideways (figuratively and literally!) but by and far I've come through unscathed and with respect for the other drivers. Maybe I'm just lucky in my lobbies or a sixth sense at sniffing trouble.

And I'm still laughing hysterically at my results. I've read posts in the past of people with large swings in DR over short spans and I couldn't relate. My DR tends to move glacially both forward and back. But the last two weeks of Race B, I've gone from about B-98% last week to A-45%! (guesstimating, I don't pixel count)

My qualies have been unusually good in the last two race Bs. This puts me in the top 6ish in A/A+ lobbies; get through the first few turns unscathed, settle in, keep pace, run clean, rack up some DR. Simple. /sarcasm.

I'm not delusional, I know this is an outlier and I'll regress to the mean soon enough. But you'd better believe I'm spamming these races, storing up fat to carry me through the lean times!

 

[mellofello9]

I've had the opposite experience of most of you in Race B (or at least those that post about it). I've had some fantastic and mostly clean races with excellent drivers around me. Sure, I had a few go sideways (figuratively and literally!) but by and far I've come through unscathed and with respect for the other drivers. Maybe I'm just lucky in my lobbies or a sixth sense at sniffing trouble.

And I'm still laughing hysterically at my results. I've read posts in the past of people with large swings in DR over short spans and I couldn't relate. My DR tends to move glacially both forward and back. But the last two weeks of Race B, I've gone from about B-98% last week to A-45%! (guesstimating, I don't pixel count)

My qualies have been unusually good in the last two race Bs. This puts me in the top 6ish in A/A+ lobbies; get through the first few turns unscathed, settle in, keep pace, run clean, rack up some DR. Simple. /sarcasm.

I'm not delusional, I know this is an outlier and I'll regress to the mean soon enough. But you'd better believe I'm spamming these races, storing up fat to carry me through the lean times!

Congrats and you gotta love when you get your groove at a track!

Back in 'Sport I was stuck at 'C' for an eternity and when I dropped back to 'D' again one day, I basically just gave up, lol. Then Blue Moon Bay and it's oval-y awesomeness happened. Had an amazing, week-long streak and catapulted myself up through the ranks. The sense of accomplishment that yielded truly 'set the hook' on my 'Sport racing addiction.

Enjoy the drive!👍

 

[brockie]

Is this GT Sport or sport mode in GT7?

Gt sport,

This thread over here is the daily race discussion for GT Sport. And if you’re looking to do level 50 on GT Sport you should be doing some of the offline events there, mate, else you won’t manage it.

Thanks, and do some Le Mans races too in that red bull but quite realise this. Could take me until retirement 😂

 

[Mercia]

Posted this elsewhere and got no response. It happened again just now.

I'm getting a new problem The last four sport races I ran, all the cars but mine were frozen. They stayed at the start position the entire time. I ran a full race by myself. At the end, my time along with everyone elses was logged. I was awared CRB. I got a bunch of hate over corner diving, but I never saw a car move. They all just stayed in one spot.

Anyone have this happen and how do I fix it?

I can imagine you looked pretty awful if you were driving as though no one was there

I mean this sounds like an issue with your internet connection I'd start there and make sure it's as strong as it can be, wired preferably.

 

[brockie]

For anyone who likes to know next weeks daily races for gt7, there seem to be 2 x ABC races quoted at Gtsh, not sure if a change of format next week?

https://gt7.gtsh-rank.com/index.php?view=article&id=231

 

[Nakano219]

For anyone who likes to know next weeks daily races for gt7, there seem to be 2 x ABC races quoted at Gtsh, not sure if a change of format next week?

They occasionally pre-load two weeks of races when a major holiday is upcoming and they're out of office (they did it at Christmas and Golden Week). Not sure if there's anything like that next week.

 

[Dairyworker]

Ever have a miracle lap in qualifying and then get scared because you knkw you can't run that pace, in race? Yeah, just happened......

It honestly messes me up in race a bit cuse i get imposter syndrome and end up pushing to hard to match i pace i don't know how i did lol

Hope everyone's weekend is starting nicely ☕️

 

[Hasnain282]

They occasionally pre-load two weeks of races when a major holiday is upcoming and they're out of office (they did it at Christmas and Golden Week). Not sure if there's anything like that next week.

World Series Showdown in Amsterdam the week after next

 

[gt7scotplayer]

Preferred car this week for race b seems to be the Peugeot vgt according to ranking. I’m a vr2 player and the view I’m getting the the car top one and not cockpit view which means I can’t time my shifts properly. Presumably it’s because the cockpit view hasn’t been modelled? Tried the ford gt and got it down to 1.46.9 but wondering what I’m missing by not using the Peugeot.

 

[moby323]

Preferred car this week for race b seems to be the Peugeot vgt according to ranking. I’m a vr2 player and the view I’m getting the the car top one and not cockpit view which means I can’t time my shifts properly. Presumably it’s because the cockpit view hasn’t been modelled? Tried the ford gt and got it down to 1.46.9 but wondering what I’m missing by not using the Peugeot.

Not being sarcastic, can you not use the engine sound to know when to shift? I’m a VR player as well but I’ve used that all week. I’ve thought it’s been kind of interesting to race with this view since VR players can’t use the bumper camera. I’ve felt the lack of a rear view mirror much more than the lack of a tachometer.

Anyway, the Ford and the Peugeot have been pretty much neck-and-neck so I doubt you are missing much by using the Ford, which ironically has a very cramped cockpit with poor visibility.

I think it comes down to variances in how we process situational stressors that cultivates differences in the manifestation of said stressors. Possibly the "some people clench their teeth, some people clench their hands" sort of thing that varies greatly from personality to personality. I was a bartender, though, not a psychologist.

EDIT: @astiik Welcome aboard, BTW!!! 👍

In a lot of games L3 is “run” so I wonder if it’s because some people get used to holding it down the whole time and don’t even think about it

 

[Famine]

Presumably it’s because the cockpit view hasn’t been modelled?

Not just not-modelled; it doesn't have one. Peugeot didn't even make a concept drawing of the interior as far as I'm aware - all of the release images are of the exterior.

Even if it did though, it might be a bit painful to drive in VR as it has no side windows...