Mercedes-AMG Launches Multiplatform “Virtual Championship”, Starting Today

[A_Higher_Place]

Division 2.2 photos featuring the GTPlanet car . Photo credit: AMG Motorsports

 

[P-Courty]

it looks like your div only has 1.5 aliens compared to my 3.5. Maybe I'm just making excuses now too .

I class you as an alien being able to qualify 3rd 👽😅

That second race made my blood boil. I served my penalty to the right of the racing line and once I was un-ghosted I was entitled to the racing space. That driver decided they wanted it and basically pit manoeuvred me. Submitted a report to AMG so we will see what happens there.

I'm waiting to see them post the link of their replay showing it 😬

Also Div 2.1 photos from AMG page, there is only 5 and the purple GTP machine is in 4 of them, can you guess the odd one out 😝

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[A_Higher_Place]

I class you as an alien being able to qualify 3rd 👽😅

Ahh, I can only do so when one alien isn't present. Even then, it's luck and lots of practice. I was able to close the gap pace-wise to two of the others since Laguna. However, my nerves and consistency need some work.

Really looking forward to Suzuka. It's a stronger track for me than Brands.

 

[P-Courty]

This may be a bit controversial, but I think Brands Hatch is a rather technical track when you think about the corners individually, no two are the same and there are fast and slow corners as well as many elevation changes.

You had more battles to contend with to try to keep your cool through whereas I was only trying to catch P5 on race 2, so I was really pushing it but had the space around me (18 sec from P7) to treat it more like a time trial, concentrating purely on my lines and brake/turn/accelerate points.

It only takes 1 lap to make an alien time 👽😝

 

[P-Courty]

Thought I'd play around in photo mode this morning... Enjoy 🙂

Div 2.1

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Livestream up for today's race. 2pm and 3pm qualifying before each race start. They changed the second race to rain... so don't expect a great drive

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Race 1: Qualified 3RD, FINISHED 3RD!! I'm over the moon with this result 'cause I'm reaching far above my weight class here. Was bumped into the gravel early on and fought my way back. The driver who bumped me ended up showing good sportsmanship and yielded on the homestretch after I closed the gap. From there is was simply keeping it cool with a mantra of "Its just good car placement, its just good car placement..." Thank you @Nicktune for all your help with prepping lines. The work paid off 👊🏻💪🏻.

Race 2: Qualified 4th and finished 4th. Ended up taking myself out by getting overzealous and challenging the far quicker Italian. I thought I could capitalize on their struggle but it wasn't meant to be. Took myself down to 5th for awhile until a driver took themselves out at the hairpin. As I recieved damage from the impact with the wall, I just kept it cool and brought it home. Solid points finish

 

[P-Courty]

2 guys in my rain race who are same pace as me had an amazing run, they finished 3rd and 4th. In the dry race I was constantly on the tail of one of them, didn't let them go and finished together still.

I struggled with both races, the car felt nothing like Brands Hatch where it was a dream to drive.

At Suzuka in the dry I was fighting with so much understeer that I had brake balance set to rear 4 just to get any sort of turn in but then as soon as I tapped the accelerator on corner exit I just got snap oversteer and ended up in the opposite direction.

I was properly fighting with the car in both races, with struggling in the dry I knew the wet race would be a disaster, which it was, I had no control at all.

I tried different levels of TC and BB and even turned TC completely off half way through the race which seemed a bit better but still nothing like the front runners experience.

I studied their laps during practice and they could get full throttle quite easy, I couldn't replicate it at all, I had to try to race with 3/4 throttle everywhere otherwise I was in the sand pit.

I just don't understand how the car felt so drastically different at Suzuka compared to Laguna and Brands which were both great.

I sat there after the first race and thought the only change is the recent update, but why did mine feel so bad but others had a great experience.

I finished 8th and 9th, just can't believe that the 2 guys I've been battling for the past two races were both blisteringly quick here up at the podium.

😕

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Results are up for Race Day 3. With a solid performance, I move up to 60th overall!

Interestingly, as we go into the break we can expect the relegation to happen. If I understand this correctly, and due to their unavailability thus far, I could be sharing the track with Kylian Drumont for the next three races 👀🔥


@P-Courty the car definitely changed between updates but not too much. A couple of us were finding that we were around 0.5s slower over a lap at Suzuka due to the physics update. Trail braking is necessary now and seems to provide far more rotation that before. I ended up using +1 BB for quali and 0 for the race. Whenever I went (-) BB I would get massive oversteer into corners.

Hopefully we can get some solid practice together for the second half of the season!

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Stream for todays race if anyone is keen on watching. Race two's gamification will be a reverse grid today.



Qualifying for race one starts in a little under an hour.

Edit: Well, with the aliens being promoted to Div 1 and no relegated aliens participating, I won back-to-back at the Nurburgring GP! GTPlanet car is victorious!

 

[P-Courty]

In D2.1 there was also another GTPlanet podium even after some Turn 1 carnage.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Photo credit: AMG Motorsports. Best race day yet and really appreciating their photos of the GTPlanet car crossing the line in 1st place

 

[P-Courty]

I was just looking through their photos when you posted these.

D2.1 photos courtesy of AMG Motorsport

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