My best race yet, loving the Honda Sports VGT

[Guffaluff]

Since none of my friends like racing games, I felt the need to share my joy with you guys .

I did my second Honda VGT One Make daily tonight. The first one I qualified 2nd, and finished 2nd, in a good race, very close to the 1st place in early last lap but never got proper space to make my move.

I went in again. Put in a little more time in qualifying, improved my lap a little bit and entered the event. I got pole position, and I was focused on getting a win tonight. After 3 wins in my first 5 races in Sport Mode, I've been on a 6 race winning drought, been too long since I get a taste of gold!

Race starts, and I kept my lead through the race, winning with a sizable gap. I also got the fastest lap, 2nd time I manage that, and I even beat my QF lap by .400. And to top it off, I got promoted to DR C. Couldn't have ask for a better result .

On a sidenote, I really like that car! Fun to drive. Coincidentally, I just got that car as a daily gift earlier today

Sorry to blabber, just felt the need to share my fortune tonight

EDIT: Driver field had 3 DR C / SR C drivers, the rest was D/C. I drive manual with ABS on "weak", and I set TC on 3 for this car. All other aids off.

 

[iGeaux_Psycho]

It can be a little touchy under heavy braking imo but overall I think it’s a super fun car to drive. I qualified 2nd in my event as well and was running strong until I took a corner too fast. Still finished 3rd tho

 

[Guffaluff]

It can be a little touchy under heavy braking imo but overall I think it’s a super fun car to drive. I qualified 2nd in my event as well and was running strong until I took a corner too fast. Still finished 3rd tho

True. Can also be a little tail happy, even with TC on 3, as evident in my replay .

 

[CConspicuous]

It's totally undrivable on DS4.

 

[jagenigma]

I couldn't do this one cleanly, this car understeers and oversteers its weird.

 

[Shottah072]

Good stuff.

Little tip. If you'd use some more of the track and attack some curbs a bit harder, especialy in the esses and downhill chicane there is some easy time to be found there.

 

[iGeaux_Psycho]

It's totally undrivable on DS4.

I did it on DS4. TC at 3 and Braking set to brake heavier on the front

 

[Guffaluff]

It's totally undrivable on DS4.

I have to disagree . I'm using the DS4 myself and found it a bit challenging, but a very fun drive with ABS on weak and TC on 3

Good stuff.

Little tip. If you'd use some more of the track and attack some curbs a bit harder, especialy in the esses and downhill chicane there is some easy time to be found there.

Thanks man, will keep that in mind . I tackled those corners a bit safe as I've had some trouble with consistency on those parts. Will continue working on it, practice makes perfect

 

[danthespam]

I enjoyed it but I found it does promote a somewhat more chaotic race. I had a quick go last night and couldn't set a decent quali time. ended up 11th and carnage ensued. I managed to stay out of trouble and ended up seventh. had some more time qualifying before the second event and grabbed pole, made a small mistake on lap one and ended up second, me and the guy in first had a great battle only aside from the last lap. Coming into the last corner I got the run on him and went for the outside, he defended the inside and broke early (as you would on the inside), I lost the rear end completely and he didn't break enough, anyway we met somewhere in the middle i ended up running a 10 sec penalty down on the home straight and ended up 6th. He ended up with a 2 sec penalty and came second. Mutual apologetic messaging followed soon after...

 

[thorfynn]

I also had a race yesterday with the VGT but i also have to say that it´s really not so easy to drive with controller. It dances more through the curves then smooth driving… ;-) Espacially the tight corner after the downhill right is tough to drive. But in the end it´s a nice track and i like it.

God i need a wheel back on my PS4…..!

 

[Deadheadbill]

Since none of my friends like racing games, I felt the need to share my joy with you guys .

I feel your pain. Makes that friends leaderboard pretty meaningless.

 

[CConspicuous]

I did it on DS4. TC at 3 and Braking set to brake heavier on the front

I have to disagree . I'm using the DS4 myself and found it a bit challenging, but a very fun drive with ABS on weak and TC on 3

I had to do the same, but really don't like TC even though I'm using a controller, something that inherently needs it... also very very stubborn lol

 

[Guffaluff]

I had to do the same, but really don't like TC even though I'm using a controller, something that inherently needs it... also very very stubborn lol

Haha true. I try to race without but often find it hard with the pad to make very fine adjustments to the throttle and steering, especially with the last 20% of the travel controlling such a big range of the throttle input. So I shamelessly use TC if I feel it's needed .

I had the G25 before with GT5 and GT6 and raced pretty much exclusively with all aids off (except ABS). Just so much easier with a good wheel

 

[Jump_Ace]

Do we have to put up with this car for the next few days like the Clio? It's the worst Honda I've ever driven


Jerome

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

On the DS4 I still couldn't dial that car in. My fastest times were with weak counter steering and TC of 1. Even with the counter steering set to 1, I was twitching the car left and right on the straight praying that my car would be balanced enough before the next turn. I would either thrown down some gritty hot laps or wash out hard. In that state racing with the car would be an SR nightmare.

Pushing the TC to 2 and the counter steer to heavy made the car more consistent and manageable but I would losing 1 second off of my time despite being able to better put my car where I needed it. I never got my lap dialed down enough to begin racing before I got tired and went to bed.