GTP_WRS Week 40 : El Toro

[mistersafeway]

I have no idea where to find the time in T1 to get under a 27.

This car hates losing grip or stability, always try to flow the car through corners. That may sound ridiculously obvious, but in turn one, for example, I’m using all of the track (very close to apex bollard and the traffic cones, abuse track limits wherever possible for super happy bonus points! ), pulling it out wide again for turn two, then trying to aim for a line which smoothly takes the car from the apex of three to a point to the left of four’s apex (I do use turn four’s apex, just in case that isn’t clear) to avoid compromising either, and hopefully maintaining momentum and grip throughout. Once you get the hang of that you can gain quite a bit of time elsewhere, as you’ve learnt the limits of the car.

I hope that all makes sense and actually helps someone at least a little. I always feel like my explanations are clumsy at best.

 

[skaboy607]

Thanks man, appreciate the advice.

 

[routergod24]

37.053
26.495
24.420

 

[Infernuz]

So i have been very busy the past week. Found a new job and i'm also studying for upcoming exams but i finally found some time for this TT.
36.648
26.415
24.124
It feels like a Caterham on steroids . Trying to find grip out of a corner is the most frustrating thing with this combo. I realized that you don't turn on corners, you need slice through them. Or something like that, you get my point .

 

[shoenboggie]

This is it for me, great race car:

36.880
26.237
24.103

 

[RACECAR]

Now that I actually remembered this was a thing, My best splits from A 5 Lap stint:

36.892
26.496
24.562

Fun little car, tempts you into pushing harder but will actually bite if you get too greedy.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Fair bit happier with my time now, however I made an error in T2 and lost .25 easily. Frustrating as the rest of the lap is solid.
My best T times are: .21 / .06 / .69.

Will be extremely interesting to see everyones T4 time

36.213
26.366
23.867

Out of curiosity how far off is everyones time vs their "optimal"? I'm currently sitting at .5 - .6 and this feels like too much...

 

[Argon]

Fair bit happier with my time now, however I made an error in T2 and lost .25 easily. Frustrating as the rest of the lap is solid.
My best T times are: .21 / .06 / .69.

Will be extremely interesting to see everyones T4 time

36.213
26.366
23.867

Out of curiosity how far off is everyones time vs their "optimal"? I'm currently sitting at .5 - .6 and this feels like too much...

I'm pretty close to optimum but I've gotten to the point where I pretty much ignore it. So many times I've gotten close to what the game believed was optimum and then found huge amounts of time in one or more sectors. These days if I feel good about my lap then I quit regardless of what optimum tells me

 

[monkeywall]

Fair bit happier with my time now, however I made an error in T2 and lost .25 easily. Frustrating as the rest of the lap is solid.
My best T times are: .21 / .06 / .69.

Will be extremely interesting to see everyones T4 time

36.213
26.366
23.867

Out of curiosity how far off is everyones time vs their "optimal"? I'm currently sitting at .5 - .6 and this feels like too much...

I'm .5 ish off my op but every time i improve my pb lap my op changes.
My sector 4 time is about .2 of my pd

 

[ColinNZ]

D'oh! I got distracted by Monza and the Red Bull Ring this week, so never really got back to this after the race (where I quietly learned a lot). I'm heartened by my progress at this track (a whole second since my last splits) but there are still parts that are a complete mystery to me (most notably sectors 1-4).

37.286
26.626
24.420

I'm looking forward to a week driving in the dirt!

 

[Jfrod]

Probably my Last splits. Improvements in T2 and T4

36.396
26.027
23.888

 

[mistersafeway]

Out of curiosity how far off is everyones time vs their "optimal"?

.64, all in one session. Don’t know about actual optimal because I haven’t been paying that much attention, although I don’t think it’s much more (a tenth or so).

I’ve submitted anyway, even with my lack of confidence in the last sector, because I am not that unhappy with the lap, just a little irritated that I couldn’t at least go a couple of tenths faster. Maybe I still will, who knows...

 

[roamer2629]

Had a half hour session yesterday and I was .4 off my best lap. Probably Will submit what I've got.

 

[mistersafeway]

To think I started getting paranoid that my best lap may have been dirty... I left a whole car width in the last turn.

 

[skaboy607]

Can we discuss last sector if we don’t talk about time? I have a question about the chicane.

 

[monkeywall]

Can we discuss last sector if we don’t talk about time? I have a question about the chicane.

I've never been fast in the last sector of nur gp. Although i take it in 2nd and try to stay on the flat part of the curbs. I don't fully put my foot down till after the 2nd curb. Think with the right line you could do it earlier. For the last corner it's important to get your foot down early. I use 2nd. Concentrate on the exit then work on your entry.

 

[mistersafeway]

Can we discuss last sector if we don’t talk about time? I have a question about the chicane.

Yes, so long as it doesn’t reveal too much about your time to ask it. If somebody wants to answer it but it would contravene the rules to do so in the thread they’ll just send you a PM.

 

[skaboy607]

I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to straight line or cut with this car?

I’ve tried some variations and if I try and take too much curb it sends me flying! Or at the very least unsettles car.

 

[Hasnain282]

I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to straight line or cut with this car?

I’ve tried some variations and if I try and take too much curb it sends me flying! Or at the very least unsettles car.

Yeah same, I've generally been avoiding using too much of the kerb

 

[Hasnain282]

When you pull out a stonker of a lap but:

Managed to get within a couple of tenths of that time on another lap and I think I'm gonna be sticking with that

36.527
26.159
24.043

About 0.5s off optimal, lap submitted

 

[Argon]

I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to straight line or cut with this car?

I’ve tried some variations and if I try and take too much curb it sends me flying! Or at the very least unsettles car.

You can discuss the last sector, no hint of time though.

You can't straight line the chicane, aside from anything else you would probably nail the course bollard on the second apex and DQ your lap. The other thing is this car does not like raised kerbs so you have to weave your way through keeping to flat ground as much as you can

 

[skaboy607]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything there.

 

[Speedy6543]

I had 1 more hour to try and beat my time but all I did was push my optimal lap further away.
Submitted with splits on the board.
Good luck to whoever is still running.

 

[skaboy607]

I’m still plugging away! Getting better

37.525
26.903
23.855

Still can’t get under 37 in T1. So frustrating

 

[routergod24]

Finally managed to get under 37 on T1

36.570
26.377
24.247

 

[DirtBagMagoo]

38.375
27.412
25.999

 

[skaboy607]

Submitted. Never managed under 37 in T1 sadly, best I got was a 37 flat but not on the fastest lap. Can’t wait to watch some replays to learn from the masters

 

[Infernuz]

Well that was fun. I , eventually, found the car's grip limits, therefore i stopped losing time on the exits. That took some time .
36.700
26.373
23.943
Everything's fine and well on all 3 sectors, but just the last one is just not on par. We'll see.

 

[MikeyLCR]

cant improve on my current time and getting tired so submitting what I've got, good luck all.

 

[GTP_Guido]

I change back to the older splits. My fastest lap is to risky for another red flag.

36.879
26.769
24.492