GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[Famine]

a tree doesn't make you a better driver or racer

Except at the Nurburgring and Snetterton.

Well, until the Snetterton one blew over.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Except at the Nurburgring and Snetterton.

Well, until the Snetterton one blew over.

By all means play scenery simulator, I personally like the cathaic nature of farm sim and that has trees in it

 

[Famine]

By all means play scenery simulator, I personally like the cathaic nature of farm sim and that has trees in it

There's genuinely trees used as marker points though. The "aim for the highest tree" advice for the Karrusell is probably the most famous.

 

[Nebuc72]

Laguna Seca also has three trees on the outside of the corkscrew after the first apex - always heard when you are pointed to the centre tree then that's your time to go full throttle.

 

[newmedia_dev]

There's genuinely trees used as marker points though. The "aim for the highest tree" advice for the Karrusell is probably the most famous.

There is to be fair and I use some shadows (I know I know they move)

There are only 2 trees I use, yours and Nebucs but they really depend on the entry/exit

And I'm not very good at either of those, my wife will tell you.

 

[Stilva]

I dropped my time at Dragon Trail by a tenth of a second to a 1:47.5XX which is cool with me.

That new time has me in P3 for race 1. I cannot control the car and have a hard time not bouncing and sliding all over the track that has me fall back to P6. I make a pass at the cruise ship turn, and am ahead enough that I would think the driver would back out entering the CoD. Nope. They decided to try and shove me aside and I retaliated. And I got the worst of it as I spin and they get away. Not the best idea, but I don't appreciate getting shoved like that. I finish P11 with a clean race bonus somehow.

My next race has me in P5 this time. For some reason I cannot control the NSX again and fall way down the grid. Also got stuck behind some drivers heavy on the brakes in the CoD and that killed my momentum that didn't help. The last lap I make a pass for P8 on the last corner, but the driver I passed had massive understeer and that forced me off track from what I can tell. So, I finish P9 and feel dejected from that one.

So naturally I go for one last race and start P5 again. I manage to keep my spot this time and have a nice race with P4 the entire time. I was on their bumper all race and I force a mistake on the last lap on the cruise ship turn. I hold them off and finish in P4 for a nice end to my eveneing. They gave me some kudos in the post race chat and I responded in kind.

I think my time with the NSX is over as I can't keep up with the Huracans. I probably try and learn to control the Huracan tomorrow and determine if I want to jump back in. It has been getting aggressive and drivers becoming desperate to make passes in questionable locations and I want a car I can handle if things get out of hand.

 

[Charmantha]

At Sardegna do you guys also see graphical glitches like flickering trees and trees that change color or is there something going wrong on my end? It happens every lap so its pretty distracting.

Yes, just in my last race 1hour ago. I was irritated by something, i thought a reflection, but then i saw in the upper part of 2trees yellow/white flickering symbols, honestly the left looked a bit like 🌲. It was max. A second and gone. And i missed breaking point a little bit.

In race B, my best time so far is 1:48.272 Subaru wrx. But, i am not doing much quali at the moment, cause I'm in top 3 for the 3rd time and gonna move to DR B again, then I have to qualify again.
The wrx is very forgiving here. Bb +5.
My time in sardegna?? I'm still too embarrassed to announce it. Just did 3 laps and raced.
I like both tracks🥹

 

[Charmantha]

Race B
I just did my 2nd training lap in the F-Type and improved to 1:48.134. Bb - 3 to the front. But most importantly, it makes happy driving it.

 

[newmedia_dev]

But most importantly, it makes happy driving it.

And to be honest that is all that matters.

Genuinely that is all that matters in the grand scheme of things. Do things that make you happy, the Jag can be super competitive as well it just takes a lot of patience to extract the pace from it.

 

[shadow0460]

I did Race C today in Sardegna in reverse. I was looking at the rules, RM tires and RS tires with no minimum number of stops. I started in RM and picked up RS at the end of lap 9.
The race was a demolition derby. I bumped a couple folks off the road myself and wall ride twice once they started trying (unsuccessfully) to spin me out.
At the end I wound up with a one minute penalty that I didn't expect. Penalties were handed out in the race also, and oddly my SR went up. I'm not angry but I would like to know what I did wrong to get the one minute added on. It's as if I missed a second pitstop or something.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I did Race C today in Sardegna in reverse. I was looking at the rules, RM tires and RS tires with no minimum number of stops. I started in RM and picked up RS at the end of lap 9.
The race was a demolition derby. I bumped a couple folks off the road myself and wall ride twice once they started trying (unsuccessfully) to spin me out.
At the end I wound up with a one minute penalty that I didn't expect. Penalties were handed out in the race also, and oddly my SR went up. I'm not angry but I would like to know what I did wrong to get the one minute added on. It's as if I missed a second pitstop or something.

1second or 1min?

1 second is for a .5 rounded up which the game does.

1 min as Famine always points out is because of an incorrect pit stop or missed stop.

By the sound of the quality of the racing you describe I'd imagine you did QT on the RS didn't change them at the beginning of the race to RMs and ran two stints on the same compound.

Did you save the replay? I'd love to see it to help explain this issue you had?