GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[cyirush]

Really looking forward to Spa this week. Also enjoy racing Sardegna A. And Sim Grid Seasons is running Spa and Watkins. Have to try and fit in some work this week 😉

@Chris30 - weather is not changeable at Spa according to Womble’s track guide.

PS Wish PD wouldn’t sort lobbies so that those of us with SR S sometimes have to race against players with a higher DR but a much lower SR. I was in lobbies at the Nurb GP last week and Sardegna this morning with SR C and D drivers. And, yes, they are as bad as you’d guess!

 

[sturk0167]

Oh, boy. I got a pretty lucky start at race B, from the 16th position.

 

[newmedia_dev]

once the early spinners are out of the way or left behind there just isn't a lot of clear passing places as it's so flowing and the hairpins so so so slow

Yes, but I'd imagine there'll be some races were one or two people end up losing control somehow and end up netting me some free positions.

Yes you would imagine correctly exactly what I said previously?

I type to many words sometimes.

 

[NAXEHT]

You've had some good races there this week! Saw you in the distance occasionally👀

Cheers. Yeah, pretty solid week. Tried some from the back to begin the week with but I don’t really like the slow second sector at Interlagos, especially with players ahead and behind you with questionable race craft, that sector can become quite a stupid mess. People have a tendency to do the boring defense of parking on the apex there which often leads to incidents. You may read the situation and take avoiding action but the dude behind you probably won’t and then you got that ping pong crashing crap going on. Dreadful stuff. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

All that said — “forced” to qualify and fortunately pace was pretty good (1’30.327), landing me pole almost all the time. To demonstrate in numbers and statistics what I mean above: in the first 10 races I lost CRB 4 times (6/10 = 60%), once I qualified and went from pole (and 2nd pos 15 or so times) from race 11 onwards I got 47/52 clean (90,38%). Lovely!

Had many exciting and intense races, especially with a nice Polish guy, WarioR_bambik. Another really cool one on the final evening against SanJackGG8, replay below. That one I actually found so good I was laughing and properly smiling afterwards. Hunting him real close for all six laps, managed to get next to him as he made a minor miss on the final lap, was ahead for the final three corners, got a nice exit as well but the straight line speed of that Supra ain’t to mess with.

Wow, amazing win ratio and amazing top 5 finishes ratio, impressive 👍

You comment on those but not the clean races ratio (which is the one I’m focusing on)? Come on, man! Thanks.

 

[TechnoIsLove]

Not feeling confident that I will be starting anywhere close to the top 5 at Sardegna this week! Took me around 30 laps setting up the wheel and in-game to be able to barely get into the 1:40's 😅 Sitting in 13xx in the LB is not promising for sure - Top 400 doesn't even guarantee a P7+ start for me most times lol but will see tomorrow, maybe it will be good at the back?! (never gonna happen, I know!)

Anyway, this is what 2 hours of grinding got me tonight.... Good luck folks!

 

[mellofello9]

Oh, boy. I got a pretty lucky start at race B, from the 16th position.

Nice work and MUCH envy!

I put in some decent qualifying laps at B and was gonna call it a night. When I bailed, I noticed it was only 38 seconds until the next flag dropped..."What could go wrong?", I said. Come to find-out, everything.🤣

Pretty sure I was the prime example of why most people don't race on Monday. No matter what I did, tried, attempted or even thought about, failure was the end result. P3 start to a P12 finish was the cherry on top. If I impaled anyone here, I truly apologize. Not sure what happened but, well, yeah.💩

Lesson learned and back to my original plan...go to bed.😁

 

[Mert160]

They gave use a endurance daily and they made it as boring as possible. I'll be sticking to race B this week.

 

[Chris30]

They gave use a endurance daily and they made it as boring as possible. I'll be sticking to race B this week.

Yeah, I'm not even going to bother with Spa, 24 laps of nothing and getting nowhere would be the risk. I'll be sticking with Tokyo and Sardegna this week also.

 

[Trk-el-son]

PS Wish PD wouldn’t sort lobbies so that those of us with SR S sometimes have to race against players with a higher DR but a much lower SR. I was in lobbies at the Nurb GP last week and Sardegna this morning with SR C and D drivers. And, yes, they are as bad as you’d guess!

Yes, I have always wondered about that concept. Like, you have worked your way up through, say C, and then just before transitioning to B you are “rewarded” with some B drivers with absolutely hellish S rating. I am missing out on the logic here.

 

[Nakano219]

Yes, I have always wondered about that concept. Like, you have worked your way up through, say C, and then just before transitioning to B you are “rewarded” with some B drivers with absolutely hellish S rating. I am missing out on the logic here.

The thing they were trying to avoid is that in the old GT Sport system where SR drops you all the way down (rather than just to the bottom of your DR letter like GT7 does), you'd end up with A DR/B SR drivers in the same lobby as people in their first ever race (since you start E/B) which is obviously not a fun onboarding experience and I think they thought that puts people off.

 

[Trk-el-son]

Random (not very proud) confession:
I did a Sardegna race where I started at pole (mid B), got a good lead on P2, but P2 slowly reeled me in. Surely a good fast driver. At the last corner before the last lap, he came up on the inside, bumped me so I went a bit off-track, and he and another guy passed me. I do assume it was not on purpose, but it would have been SO easy for him, just to wait up for me, as I was only marginally behind. We would both have lost one position. But he just carried on, and my mind just went “Nope, we are not having this.” I T-boned him at full whack at T1. (And yes, I left the other guy out of the mess.)

Afterthoughts: It can be quite mentally taxing to maintain good ethics in the environment that is Daily Races. I guess a key to staing sane is to NOT EVER focus on winning, but only on doing good racing. If there was some good racing, then the race was good. You were bumped down from lead to P13? Fine, have some good racing with P12 and P14.
I will try to work from that perspective.

 

[Chris30]

@Trk-el-son

I've had incidents like that happen, for example several months ago I was doing a B race at Laguna and I got a pole time and P2 behind me pinned he to the wall where you cross the finish line. He purposely planned it so he could pass me and get a win, that's mean. So I gave up trying to get up front of the pack because there will always be that devious driver who will cause turmoil and drama on the track. They'll do anything for a win, I don't like how some drivers treat me, it's like they punt me like I'm an object or a pile of debris on the track. It bothers me. I don't think I've added you yet on my friends list. Maybe by the end of the week, would you mind adding me to your list?

 

[ElectricNaz]

Had a really good series of races this morning at race B.

5 races, 3 wins and 2 2nd places. Some really clean racing as well, I had 2 walkover wins by around 5 seconds, the other 3 were all really close between the top 3/4 for most of the race.

I know there's been discussions about this but in the EMEA region I feel like mornings and evenings are fine, it's that lunchtime / early afternoon slot that is full of clowns?

 

[Gurzu]

Random (not very proud) confession:
I did a Sardegna race where I started at pole (mid B), got a good lead on P2, but P2 slowly reeled me in. Surely a good fast driver. At the last corner before the last lap, he came up on the inside, bumped me so I went a bit off-track, and he and another guy passed me. I do assume it was not on purpose, but it would have been SO easy for him, just to wait up for me, as I was only marginally behind. We would both have lost one position. But he just carried on, and my mind just went “Nope, we are not having this.” I T-boned him at full whack at T1. (And yes, I left the other guy out of the mess.)

Afterthoughts: It can be quite mentally taxing to maintain good ethics in the environment that is Daily Races. I guess a key to staing sane is to NOT EVER focus on winning, but only on doing good racing. If there was some good racing, then the race was good. You were bumped down from lead to P13? Fine, have some good racing with P12 and P14.
I will try to work from that perspective.

Hi, I actually didn't win all the races that were my preferred in terms of good hard fair racing neck to neck (except few wins).
I find "cathartic" sometimes a good payback, whiteout being proud of it. After all we're humans. I notice way less dirty moves in DR B compared to C or D (C being actually the worst). In Tokyo I can't count the times I found my self 9th or 11th after the first corner, starting basically always on pole, with a bent car for at least the next half lap.
I started to enjoy climbing back to the top of the field like "let's see what I'm able to get from that initial mess".
It helped a lot on improving my self-control, decreased heartbeat during fights or under pressure. Keeping cold blood allows to make better choices while attacking/defending a position.