GT7 Daily Race Discussion

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I'm very interested to see how the DR stuff changes, this was my best race of the week at GV (and no I don't win, and on lap 4 I tap the Porsche which was no pen but cost me half my SR bar!!!)

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The top 3 in this race didn't really belong in this lobby, they were mostly clean and it looked like a fun race for all involved but they need to balance the lobbies better, I'm not sure if increasing the point spread is the answer but they have done the math and have the data so we will see. But it's unfair for me being 9s over a race faster than the next person and that works the other way when I'm 10s slower than some of the A+ guys

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This is about as close racing you can get, I'd love to hear your guys thoughts on it generally and the contact on lap 4 sector 3, I got surprised he braked that hard and no harm was done.

Quick edit: I'm driving in VR and the replay is console replay capture, picture quality or depth is no where near the same as the replay shows, that's the nature of projection in to space stuff.

 
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More Road Atlanta! More Miatas!

Bleh, brought my time down to a a 1:45.400. I realize that gains is gains, but spending a couple dozen laps just to barely scrape 0.089 off of my Race A QT is wack. Track limits at Turn 5 can suck a butt. 😤

Race 1: Started P4. A bobble out of Turn 7 on the last lap cost me a position. Finished P5.

Race 2: Started P5. Blew Turn 1 on Lap 2. Finished P9.

Race 3: Started P7. Quick room. Avoided early incidents. Finished P4.

Did a few practice laps before the next race, and accidentally did a 1:45.319.

Race 4: Started P1. Penalty exiting the first chicane on the final lap. Finished P2. 😤

Race 5: Started P1. Penalty exiting the first chicane on the final lap. Again. Finished P3. 😤

Did a few more practice laps before the next race, and accidentally did a 1:45.257.

Race 6: Started P1. Picked up a rare hat trick. Finished P1. 😬

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Decided to end my race day on a high note. Wasting two Pole Positions by collecting penalties in the same place on the final lap doesn't sting. At all. I'm fine! 😤

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Road Atlanta with this little Mazda is lit.

Love the low power where momentum is key.
Love CS tires and the balance of the car.
Love the turn 1 and hate to miss it.
Hate to do a double overtake on the exit of last chicane only to eat grass in T1.
Hate to throw the car on the left hander after the esses and got a penalty by smallest of margin.
Hate to T-bone someone from my friend list, sorry Ben! :rolleyes:

The racing is good overall. Couple of wins and lots of podiums with my dummy QT of 1.47.6. Plenty of action and clean racing ahead of me and I have spare pace so I can be part of the action.

Today I decided to push for a decent qualification time and i ended up with a 1.45.6 with optimal time of 1.45.2. I don't think and can reach the 44's like @mellofello9 did.


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I wish daily A had DR turned on again, it would change the dynamic massively.
I think about this constantly. There's two sides to the coin. Firstly, as I've mentioned ad nauseum, is the inevitable slide of ranking (you can't 'earn' DR here, but you will almost definitely eventually lose SR and therefore perhaps DR too). Secondly, it actually throws effective matchmaking out of the window. I've made many a friend on Race A over the years and some of their race stats are astounding. I'm talking 2,500 races and 2,000 Top 5's, for example, and stuck in DR B. You're telling me they aren't eligible for matching in top lobbies because they (admittedly maybe sandbagging) are partial to racing non-category racecars?

I've suggested a couple of times that if they are going to insist on non-ranking Race A, they could at least shuffle the combo once or twice. This week for example, we could've started with Miatas, then on Thursday they could switch it up to Toyota 86s and then for the weekend try something really fun like Beemers. The track knowledge would be more or less intact and would definitely boost the reputation of that first slot.

The CS tires are fun IMHO.

Right on!!
 
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