Time Trial Discussion

[Dolph Drago]

I finally got used to the intricacies of the C4 during tonight's session, and it became quite enjoyable to chuck the car around. Many fewer spins. But why is it that on my fast lap, I seem to always have one absolutely awful sector? I was consistently running 36.6's, a couple rare 36.5's in sector 2. So naturally, I would completely flub the uphill esses and put down a 36.866 on my best lap. I coulda/shoulda/woulda have been down in the 1:54.3's.

 

[Chris30]

God, those sausage curbs are annoying as hell! When my car hits them, it causes it to bounce. I narrowed my time down to 2'00.033. This might be a tough challenge to gold. Even after watching the YouTube guides.

 

[CarreraGT]

Man this time trial sucks compared to Murcielago at Monza. Both the car and the track are 🤢

 

[ScottPuss20]

This car just wants to kill you, everytime you hit throttle the devil unlocks or something
Then this track with it's huge rounded curbs doesn't realy help on exits
it's a lot of fun to throw around, to bad it's not the fastest way around..
Secondly..... when you finally understand the thing how not to make 180's on exits you have to be very brave at the COD....
it killed me most of the laps to be honest...
either...
To slidy on entry.... which kills you....
To close to the first apex..... which kills you...
To fast around the first apex...... which kills you...
then the real COD has yet even arrived

it's just 4th gear... lift.... hold on and pray it doesn't scrape the paint off....
Fun but very frustrating!!

That said, TV session was a lot better than the remote.... entrypoint of the COD in 120FPS is far more doable than on the laptop

Not to Shabby for the first meters but still it feels like Flabberthewapsky and need to find a way to get it more stable


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Sounds like fun.

 

[Evilmuffin]

But why is it that on my fast lap, I seem to always have one absolutely awful sector? I was consistently running 36.6's, a couple rare 36.5's in sector 2. So naturally, I would completely flub the uphill esses and put down a 36.866 on my best lap. I coulda/shoulda/woulda have been down in the 1:54.3's.

I totally get what you were saying. But in my case, after the best sector one and sector two, I totally chickened out on the chicane of death 🙈

 

[skydragon49]

Day 2 at Dragon Trail and I got to enter the yellow zone. It's a thin gold, so now I gotta improve on it and try a safer time.

Spoiler

The splits and possible optimal lap:

 

[zjn]

After my message from frustration last night I slept tonight, and ready to fight back

Yesterday I had one white lap in the 107% territory, just for the sake of having one, but really having to choose between riskying (and redding) and going safe (and slow) is the point for me here, at least until now. I'm just not competitive.

I run also a bit of Dforest to hunt for that .05s that would bring me under 2%. I have it in the first half of the lap, so now I need to find again the peace of the last 2 turns, the very last in particular.

It's a busy we with some work to do and some family meetings. Then f1 wec and week2 nfl is also there and will probably not able to look big chunks of them, so let's see if I will find some wheel time

 

[half_sourly]

@Gomario JSP I know how you don't like getting up for your morning sessions and seeing someone overtook you on your personal leader board, so I meant to send this last night to prepare you mentally, but I injured myself during my celebration dance and had to rest.

 

[P-Courty]

You can check with @P-Courty what settings he uses, he taught me what they do.

I used 8-10-8 on this one 👍🏻

 

[Gomario JSP]

@Gomario JSP I know how you don't like getting up for your morning sessions and seeing someone overtook you on your personal leader board, so I meant to send this last night to prepare you mentally, but I injured myself during my celebration dance and had to rest.

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Crap...... it all starts again..... 🤣🤣
Fire mate, well done!
Im in very little opportunity to play over the weekend due to my daughter 21's dinner and party today, so enjoy your victory over the weekend and dane along mate....
Ill be back 🤣🤣

 

[half_sourly]

Ill be back 🤣🤣

Yup, I think you'll be in the 53s before long.

 

[krazislaw]

Did daily marathon with vette today (only so much time today for me). Got into gold, but by a very tight margin. I enjoy the combo. Invalidated only one lap at cod, but I'm driving very slowly through there. I lost the car once at the kerb of T3 where the right side of my car went flying. I'm having the most trouble with last turn of uphill slope, lost my rear on the exit kerb countless times

Spoiler

 

[Interemptor]

Me after finally getting back behind the wheel 😅 Probably skip the new TT for now and try to get better with the wheel. So much learning to do and I find the Corvette really hard to control with the wheel. But since I'm totally green behind the wheel (exept for maybe 10hours before this crazy heat wave) it was to be expected. CSA schould help at the beginning I think.

Got myself a McLaren GT3 V2 wheel and I really like the feel of it. Only thing that I don't like is the low amount of buttons I can map in GT7. Anyone using this wheel and got some tips?

@330_D Got the load cell too and like you said a couple of months ago it is a huge difference to the standard one 😯 atm I either stop too soon or overshoot 🤣

Edit: Totally forgot.. Monza was good for me in the end 🙈

 

[Pesselles]

Hi guys (and Greek)

Yessss, it's me again

I've decided to test the new TT at DT with the Vette. Because this "boat" loves to dance the samba with her butt, I've decided to select a sticky/grippy livery to stay on track as much as possible. This one should do the trick:

And after few laps (mostly in red because of my stupidity and of the cod), I've scored a not glorious bronze in 1:58,6xx.
Spidey was decided to go faster and more brave to demonstrate her capabilities.

Less than 10 laps, and only 2 valids: 1:57.318 (no time to do more laps, I had to cook....)

I'm perfectly aware this isn't an exciting result for now but I'll give more time in the next coming days to improve it.
The gold mine is at 1.5 sec, and it seems to be impossible to reach after these first laps.
But impossible isn't French 😎

ATTACK!!!

 

[Evilmuffin]

Had a quick 100km this morning. Did a 1:54.491....0.001 slower than PB...and that's with a first sector a 10th slower than usual 🙈

I also forgot how to take the chicane of death. I had a few .3s foiled by a cappy COD :/

 

[330_D]

I was stuck in the high 55s for a minute and couldn't quite figure out what I was doing wrong but I was just thrashing this old girl a little too hard. I actually find the COD to be pretty controllable in this car. Not sure if it's the weight translating really well or what but through the flat corners this car absolutely hammers. Elevation changes are NOT your friend. 😂😂🍻

 

[Evilmuffin]

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I was stuck in the high 55s for a minute and couldn't quite figure out what I was doing wrong but I was just thrashing this old girl a little too hard. I actually find the COD to be pretty controllable in this car. Not sure if it's the weight translating really well or what but through the flat corners this car absolutely hammers. Elevation changes are NOT your friend. 😂😂🍻

You haven't found the right curbs to hit yet 🤣🤣

 

[330_D]

You haven't found the right curbs to hit yet 🤣🤣

This is not true sir. 😂

I nearly rolled it twice in the chicane after turn 1. If I hit that curb on the left hander just so the FFB is so sudden and hard it nearly rips the wheel out of my fingers!

Super fun combo though and a few more laps found this.

 

[zjn]

Mission 2% accomplished

Now some offline study for the new tt

 

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[Metalgear9493]

Ran a 1'53.083 earlier, but a lot of restarts were needed to reach that time. Still fun though, enjoy the ghost If anyone wants to use it!

 

[330_D]

Ran a 1'53.083 earlier, but a lot of restarts were needed to reach that time. Still fun though, enjoy the ghost If anyone wants to use it!

Your ghost is always the one to drag me the furthest. 🍻🍻

 

[Lomic]

10 laps stint at DF this morning, no improvement, not even a 1:34.

 

[TumeK5]

This might be a tough challenge to gold. Even after watching the YouTube guides.

I think it's best if you didn't think about gold...except for Deep Forest, that's manageable for you.

 

[Jeje6410]

New test today in Dragon Trial and improve my time by a very small difference from 1'55'677 to 1'55'669. All this effort for such a small improvement !!! 🥵🥵
But my optimal time of 1'55'186 lets me say that I can do much better, but still this problem of being constant.

 

[feral and bad]

Way, Way too much effort today. Thanks to @Metalgear9493 for the ghost. Looks like a three-bagger, at least for now. 2%, into the 1:54's and top 1000.
@EbrahimX7 will probably push me out of the 2% club, but I'm still counting it as target accomplished. On to the yard work.

 

[EbrahimX7]

Way, Way too much effort today. Thanks to @Metalgear9493 for the ghost. Looks like a three-bagger, at least for now. 2%, into the 1:54's and top 1000.
@EbrahimX7 will probably push me out of the 2% club, but I'm still counting it as target accomplished. On to the yard work.
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I only have around 1.5 more tenths in me. So low 52.5. But its not guaranteed aswell. Its pretty tough to nail everything

 

[2cam16]

Adjusted Counter Steer from off to weak and did about 5 laps. Was able to cut more than 2 ticks. I think I'm safe for Bronze now.
Gran Turismo® 7_20240914133543 by 2cam16, on Flickr

 

[Chris30]

Yes, I entered silver territory an hour ago. My time is 1'58.293, but it may not hold. Thanks to watching Sulka's guide, I paid attention to what driving lines he used for Sector 1 and then I figured out the rest on my own. My replay is in the showcase, but I'll post my YouTube run here in the morning.
So I'm pushing until I get a low 1'57.000 time.

 

[Vule]

Evening guys, long time no see Sorry for not liking anyones posts and amazing results, I was semi-offline for almost 3 weeks now, not driving or anything, sold my previous sim rig and I was waiting forever for all parts to arrive for my new project, finally managed to put it all together 3 days ago, but fine tuning, cable managing, testing, adjusting etc... (I will take some pictures and post them)

I missed my second attempt at Monza, so 1:51.3xx was the result at the end with the Lambo, from the first evening at the track, could have done much better for sure but it is what it is...

Had my first proper session tonight with the Lancer:

As much as I would like to go into the 32s, that would really need to be a one-off lap, I'm struggling with the second sector massively, especially the exit to the back straight and the downhill left hander before that corner... Just can't seem to hook up both of them at the same time and put together everything in one lap... But this is OK I guess, maybe I'm gonna try one more time tomorrow, and then it's off to the death chicane