GTP_WRS Week 2 : FXXza Irresistibile!

[Deton]

Thanks for all the replies considering my straightline braking problem with the FXX, much appreciated! I've given it a couple tries today with all the tips I've gotten, and I've come to a conclusion that it's partly me and partly the wheel that are to blame.

This is because as I mentioned before, the wheel loosens up after about 30 minutes of driving, and today I gave it some tries with the wheel being "fresh" and not touched for about 10 hours, and for the first couple laps it was much, much easier to control the car under braking. After about 20 minutes the wheel started to lose it's resistance again and I started to realize that it's much harder to control the car as the deadzone of the wheel grew larger. It's next to impossible to give it precise inputs when it has absolutely 0 resistance.

And this leads to...

It's true that the car squirms under braking, but sorry it sounds to me like the motor in your wheel is dying. Electrical problems tend to get worse as temperature rises, like after 30 minutes of use. I think we can blame your wheel because after seeing your week 1 result I would argue that your driving skills are top notch.

Yeah, I'm afraid my wheel might be on it's last legs too, as there is a huge difference between how it feels during the first couple laps compared to what it feels like after a little while of driving, I don't think that should happen if the wheel was in mint condition. Not sure if there's anything I can do to fix it, but I might open it up as a last, desperate act. Otherwise I'm in for a break of GT6 until I can afford a new wheel.

Also thanks for your kind words! The effort I put into the S1 TT seems to have cost me a new wheel and partly a wheelstand too, but I guess it was worth it.

 

[pilmat]

Yea, I'm in

First splits from1.03 last night:
27.717
1'02.084

I'm down nearly 2 tenths on my PB at T2, but I had such a good run through Ascari and the Parabolica that I'm up over 3 tenths at the line

 

[ollie57]

First few laps..

27.846
103.179

 

[Tuffers86]

First ever set of splits on WRS. I'm so darn slow through lesmo.

Edit: new splits

27.450
1'02.717

 

[GTP_Jonjig]

First splits from last night..

ABS 0
BB 5/5

28.000
1'03.233

thought abs0 might be my undoing with this combo, but looking at every ones initial splits, a couple of tricks with the braking learnt from last week seem to be paying off .. nice ..

good luck all

 

[Stevious]

Please help!
I have just done a hot lap and I believe it to be clean but because I'm a noob, I can't pause the replay at exactly the right millisecond to be absolutely sure. Can I please email it to a moderator or someone more used to assessing this who can help me out?
I cannot find a dirty frame. It is close to one inch on the red/white coming out of Ascari
So provisionally I will post my new splits, which would be awesome if I know they were valid

27.417
1'01.633

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you

 

[Vagabond]

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you

This is stated in our rules:

• If you're not 100% sure that your lap is clean, then consider it dirty

You have to consider whoever may be reviewing your replay and the time they will have to spend to verify if its clean or not... and then probably the time required to have it admin verified as well if its very close. Better to put it aside and try and replicate your time without being so borderline. Its only Tuesday so there should be time enough for you to put the right lap together. 👍

If you want me to take a look to see how close we're talking, send me a PM and attach your replay to that. We don't want to set a precendent for this - in a busy week, imagine if everyone wanted their laps looking at.

 

[Racingworld68]

Yea, I'm in

First splits from1.03 last night:
27.717
1'02.084

I'm down nearly 2 tenths on my PB at T2, but I had such a good run through Ascari and the Parabolica that I'm up over 3 tenths at the line

Good to see you again in GT6.

 

[Deton]

After a series of setbacks, I've finally managed to push the FXX's nose through the finish line about 3 times, first splits are as follows:
2 hours, 38 minutes.. just kidding:

27.522
1'02.289

Doesn't really help that I can only give it about 30 minutes a time before I have to give my wheel a little cooldown, but I'll take what I can get!

Also Rosso Corsa was the color of choice for getting a couple clean laps, if anyone is looking for some placebo effects.

 

[Im_Lukas]

So much to learn, I usually avoid Monza as much as possible so I have no confidence here at all.

27.450
1'01.733

 

[Deton]

Starting to get more comfortable with it, little by little:

27.466
1'02.016

Now it's time to give the wheel a little rest, it's hard though, as I'm starting to develop an addiction once again!

As a sidenote, since it looks like I'm going to have to invest in a new wheel in the near future, I was thinking if I should go "tier up" and go for the G27. The problem is that it's twice the price of a DFGT, so what do you guys think, is it worth it's price tag, is it more durable etc?

 

[pilmat]

Fetchy still in a 1.04 funk?

 

[Gravitron]

Yes, but Joost is on it.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Hey Lucas (@Gravitron ) - put the keyboard down and grab hold of the wheel. Less typing, more driving please young man!!!!!

 

[Gravitron]

Do you want to see week 1's T3 times or not?

 

[Flaren89]

May I suggest you for next time to validate the use of the improved chassis rigidity?
That's true, it can have negative responsives (someone said it adds understeer just like how happened on GT5), but if in the future you will use more high cost cars, there will be somebody (like me) that don't want to buy a second copy just because the first one have it installed... I would appreciate more to lose 0.2-0.3 because of a little of understeer than spend 2-3-6 millions for another car in which I can't put an habit-tune...

Just a suggestion, don't want to change someone else ideas...

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Do you want to see week 1's T3 times or not?

I know what mine was...

 

[Strop]

After running for about an hour with steady improvements I finished with a lap with no major mistakes but when I went to post my splits I wasn't even close to being competitive (even for me). Took me a while to figure out what I was doing wrong. Apparently this car isn't nearly as fast on Sports Hard as Sports Soft tires.

Who'd have guessed

 

[Crispy74]

After spending an hour with this "Supercar", I'd definitely say I'm not it's biggest fan...as soon as this weeks WRS is over it's heading for the bin, ha ha!

First splits,

27.747
1:01.814


Cheers,

Chris

 

[Windy_1238]

First splits with a sub 28 T1.
27.867
1'03.500

 

[Windy_1238]

Admins: How do we check the replays to check IF grip on track is set properly in
BallS1 to the Wall?

 

[Argon]

Admins: How do we check the replays to check IF grip on track is set properly in
BallS1 to the Wall?

Don't think you can Gayle. I believe it's automatically checked when you submit the replay thanks to some magic from @JoostBaksteen 👍

 

[pilmat]

Leaderboard seems to be updating again 👍

But Fetchy doesn't love me 👎

Cheers @JoostBaksteen

 

[billyjoebobx]

As a sidenote, since it looks like I'm going to have to invest in a new wheel in the near future, I was thinking if I should go "tier up" and go for the G27. The problem is that it's twice the price of a DFGT, so what do you guys think, is it worth it's price tag, is it more durable etc?

If you can afford it definitely go with the G27. I own both wheels, and the G27 is a much more precise weapon, the pedals alone are worth the price. Also the wheel has much better FFB and weight. Then again the DFGT is quite good, some of the fastest guys use one. Still I think you'll get even faster with the G27. Wait, you're faster than me, maybe you should just get the DFGT.

 

[Xelyno]

First splits after 10 laps:

28.234
1'03.800

 

[Deton]

Wheel has cooled down, so I gave this some more laps (I should stop mentioning my wheel in every post I make):
27.312
1'01.879

Starting to get the hang of the first sector, second one still needs some work.

If you can afford it definitely go with the G27. I own both wheels, and the G27 is a much more precise weapon, the pedals alone are worth the price. Also the wheel has much better FFB and weight. Then again the DFGT is quite good, some of the fastest guys use one. Still I think you'll get even faster with the G27. Wait, you're faster than me, maybe you should just get the DFGT.

Yeah I've been quite pleased with the DFGT so far, it just bugs me a bit that it starts to die when it's only seen 97 hours of GT6 and maybe two weeks of GT4. Maybe it being in the storage for a couple years somehow made it weaker, dunno. I'll have to think about my next investment, of course the G27 is tempting, because I guess it's the "next level" wheel after the DFGT.

And you're giving me too much credit, I don't think one WRS proves that I'm faster than you.

 

[Mr_ANDERSON]

I HATE this car!!!!!! Chris, did you hear me??

Anyway, put in a few laps & have come to these splits so far.

27.534
1'01.684

 

[gm matthew]

Mixing it up with the D1 Silver guys

27.287
1'00.953

Substantially faster in T3, carrying a lot more speed out of Ascari to gain 0.5 at the line.

On another note, I've observed the division intervals from last week's results. In GT5 they were pretty much uniform until Division 5, whereas now the higher divisions have considerably smaller intervals; the Division 1 intervals have half the range of Division 2, for instance. That would explain why fewer drivers were able to get into Division 1 this time around

 

[poolhaas]

First laps.

27.900
1'03.183

Just noticed the arcade driven miles aren't added... Sweating for an hour and 0 miles driven, so much for my oil change.

 

[Mr_ANDERSON]

Last splits for the day.

27.250
1'01.416

I still hate this car though