Is the end of your improvements near?

[Vince_Fiero]

I was racing my ghosts of my last fast times and:

1) I can beat my ghosts in all sections
2) I always make major mistakes in an other section then the one I did well in

So although I"m not improving my times at this moment,
I have the impressions there is still a lot of improvement possible.
My targets, that I set end of December, I have not reached yet.

I guess Dan and Timo know they will probably be limited in .2 to .3 improvements.

Where are you in your limits?
Any innovative approaches to push your limits?

I try exercise, exercise and analyse, but it needs to stay fun and the analysis is boring sometimes.

 

[Hypo_Pylon]

I have hit a brick wall in the Normal for now, so going back to the tuned where I think I can find at least a few 10th's. I find chasing a fast ghost helps

 

[Synwraith]

I can see better laps in my splits, a 35.8 and a 47.8 but I have not improved in many days now. One day T3 is great, another day T1 and T2 are great, all the time I'm watching people go faster and faster....so maybe even psychologically I am not helping myself by assuming I cannot go as fast as these superhumans.

Sometimes a lucky lap may come along that pushes you up to the next major laptime bracket, and then you relax and chill becausde you hit your target and even better laptimes come.

All the best
Maz

 

[Mason__666]

Have gone roughly 0.200 better in each sector in each car so theoretically have a .6 gain per car to make, giving 1'36.1xx and a 1'47.0xx.

Worryingly that would only make me 26th

 

[Imari]

Once you get that lucky lap that pushes you up a bit, you then have to practise heaps to be able to do that lucky lap consistently. Once you can do that, you're in a position to get another lucky lap that will be even faster.

At the start you might have needed an hour to perfect your lap and move on to the next, but now that people have been playing for a while and are really starting to push the edge of their skills it might take days before you're good enough to be able to hit that next good lap.

Patience, and persistence is key. Turn the system off before you get frustrated with it, and come back later. Don't restart laps looking for that perfect one, just practise. The good laps will come with time, so do everything you can to avoid yourself becoming frustrated while you wait for them.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Mine has come and gone. I'm going to wait until after the contest is over to play the demo again, so there is no pressure.

 

[Hypo_Pylon]

 

[Anghammarad]

I thought that I was very near my limit until I bettered the tuned time by a tenth yesterday with a lap that felt very far from perfect. I then proceeded to lower the time in the normal car with an even worse lap. It was the first time in the normal car for almost two weeks and I remember that when I set my previous best it felt like that was a fluke time that was really almost too good to be true. Now I have the feeling that 3-4 tenth faster still is not out of the question. I can also see a tenth or so in the tuned car so maybe, just maybe I will be able to hit the 3'24s in the end.

 

[Synwraith]

Having spent another 5 hours in the tuned throughout yesterday without any overall improvement on my 1'36.004, I am tempted to say that's all I have. The thing is, I've had better splits all over the track, finally learned to drive the whole lap wihout a ghost and match my personal best minus a few thousandths...so who knows.

It's been a long time since I made an improvement in either car though

All the best
Maz

 

[HaylRayzor]

I'm nowhere near the times you guys are doing, but what I find is that if I have a great T1 (like 0.3 faster than T1 of my best lap) then I mentally freak out and botch the rest of the lap. But if I blow T1 then I relax and can run good T2 and T3. If I added my best splits I'd be almost a second quicker in both cars. Of course, even that would be 3+ seconds off the pace of the top guys.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Is that world ranking? Doing better there than I thought...

 

[Vince_Fiero]

better splits all over the track

I think this is why Dan stated in another thread:

Practice is the main answer I can give, and also the desire to perfect the task at hand, and not settling for second or 3rd best

So for me the conclusion till now is:
1) I you had your golden lap (getting no where near it) you might hope for better, but relax.
2) If you are seeing better parts, not reaching a general improvement, keep going.
3) If you drop, stay down till count 9 to recuperate and come back kicking harder then before. Translated: when not motivated anymore take a break and come back fighting with energy a few days later.

Dan in the same thread stated:

Although with drivers like takeuchi and Lars, I may have to settle for such positions in the end

So don't be down not to be the best, but be proud to have given it the best you've got.

P.S.: I'm concentrating on the tuned since 12 days and came up to .009 from my best this weekend, improving majorly on insights and control, but not improving my time and I'm still in the 1'47.6XX. Mostly losing it in turns 6-11, different one almost every time, the, for me, good time this weekend was actually slow in turns 3-5.
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raceur 12.64%

I should concentrate on the stock, so might move back there now.

 

[Hypo_Pylon]

Is that world ranking? Doing better there than I thought...

Yeah it is, my PSN is jonzster, thought it was funny we both had exactly the same time. I managed a slightly quicker lap tonight in the tuned, could of had a much better lap though, but messed up the last corner

 

[SpawnBlack]

I too have improved on my split times but always seem to spin out on the last corner. If anyone looks at my Replay Video you can see that I have cut the last corner a bit which I did not mean to do. My outside wheels are on the Black-n-White rumble strip which gives me 2-3 tenths, but when I'm ahead and faster that my Ghost Reply I always seem to spin out on the last corner because I'm just a a tad over zealous so I cant beat my time.

Maybe I have reached my limit but I'll keep trying.

 

[cucpake2]

Haven't played for 2 weeks. I picked it up again, played for 1/2 hr and still 2 seconds behind my own record. I think I'm done.

 

[Anghammarad]

I don't think I am near the end of improvement. But I am near my willingness to run lap after lap in this TT. I think I'll do one more try in the tuned to see if I can get into 3'24 (.143 missing now) but that's it.

I miss racing with other people.

 

[RyanWreck]

Far from it! I am still a few seconds off where I want to be (1'39'9xx, I want a 1'37'5xx, using sixaxis) with the race/tuned and I have barely even touched the road car. I've probably done 20 laps total with the normal one.

 

[Mart_b]

I just got down to the 1.37s after a monster 3 hour sesh, no improvements til the last run and then I better my previous best by half a second can't see any chance of improving further though, I might stick at around 750th in UK

 

[ZO6Freak]

I am a huge GT fan and this is my first post.

I have been running the TT and I am forced to use my sixaxis controller. I feel that I am quicker than the average "controller guy" where my Tuned time is at a 1.37.9 and my Normal time is a 1.50.000.

I have oficially reached my tolerance level / patience with the controller. I do feel that there is room for at most .5 of a second improvement but i simply dont have the patience to devote to it.

 

[BolgOfThe North]

I'm making up massive chunks of time everyday. Nothing innovative really just been on it quite often but taking regular breaks and watch what the top guys are doing, oh and turning the ghost off has definitely helped.

 

[fasj6418]

Don't know how much time i'll have this week, but when your close to the limit, it's harder and harder to improve.

One thing i like to say, is that when you are running constantly withim 0'1 or 0'2 of you PB, the new record is coming.

Every barrier you break, i think you have to set a new one to go after to keep motivated.

Good splits do bother me. I would love to put togheter my best splits for a lap...

Also, i thing i would like to mention, that to me has a lot to do with improvements. When you push too much, it's likely that you will restart a lot, and then, my god how much the start position bugs me! You end up losing 20 seconds on each restart just to get to the start of the lap. I wish the start position was closer to the start of the lap.

I know it's nitpickin, but that makes me lose my focus, and it becomes hard to make good laps. I'm sure others are bothered by that as well.

 

[carmad_Hainesy]

I hope not, quick coffee break then on to the tuned car...Deep breath, 'I can do it!'. Currently 36 pos uk but feel the tuned time can be better. Ater a few day in normal car I jumpted into tuned and just couldn't hit the brakes without loosen the rear, is the answer not to use them lol

 

[RyanWreck]

Ater a few day in normal car I jumpted into tuned and just couldn't hit the brakes without loosen the rear, is the answer not to use them lol

It's the opposite with me: if I play too much with the tuned I spin out with the normal, but that's just how the normal is! I don't for-see myself getting too much better with the tuned, maybe a .500 would be nice but I really need to work with the normal.

 

[osrg]

I thought i had reached the end of the road in the Tuned...... but took 0.119 off tonight in a 40min session to end up with a 1'35.972 after being stuck circulating constantly in the low 1'36.100's for a few days earlier this week.

I still think there might be 0.100 -0.150 in the stock, but my time is limited unless i can do some major groveling at work to re-arrange an out of town trip this weekend.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Tried one last time tonight to keep myself in the top 30. (USA) Currently sitting in 30th place, but don't expect to finish there, since I am done with this demo until the contest is over.

 

[RyanWreck]

I'm pretty much done too, even though I didn't make it where I wanted to. Back to Live for Speed and Prologue (finally picked it up, haven't touched it yet) until GT5 comes out.

 

[BolgOfThe North]

I'm still improving everyday it's just with only about 12 hours of the competition left the end of my improvements is definitely near .

 

[OutlawQuadrnt]

Can't do much else with the normal given the mandatory traction control when using a pad.

I gave it one last go with the tuned last night and I finally found a way to stay ahead of my ghost up until the split after T7. Everything after that is a mess.

My fingers are tired and my pad is worn out. I am done, finished, finito, and whatnot.

 

[.pixr]

Surprised myself with an improvement of almost 2 tenths in the tuned today, giving my a 1'35.950 in the tuned. I have the feeling there's maybe one or two more tenths in normal car, but I've lost desire to push harder... I'm currently in P11 in my country (The Netherlands) so I'm pretty safe with 3.5 hours of competition left.

But anyhow I do think there's progress to be made.. I just don't feel like it anymore

 

[jedaye]

I'm done and dusted with GT Acadamy 2009-10. I was 160th in New Zealand the last time I played. Not even old enough to enter the competition, so it's not all bad for me.