Time Trial Discussion

[Gomario JSP]

No further time this evening for some Miata rubber burning Nokia laps, but got some quick laps in after dinner 😁 slip and slide .... very fun!.....never knew it was such a fun little thing to throw around 😁

 

[smoothbore12]

Hi guys (and Greek)

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S1: 25.460... My best so far and I'm now regularly around 25.5xx.
S2: 18.253 - I've left 1 or 2 tenths here because I was conservative.
S3: 18.029 - Same here where I could save 0.150, I guess.

Compared to my previous PB, I've gained 0.389! I'm already curious to see what my final score will be here.
This combo is really addictive, far more fun than the croatian Vette (IMHO).

And for the record, I've also managed to make the logic being respected (for once):
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Don't be too upset @djolliea it's just a game

I don't forget to share my replay for the fans:

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Great time mon ami ,great.
I hope to join you under 1.02 but first must figure how to take that last turn right and stay on white pants 🤣

 

[Ian JB]

Hi,

Many people have been complaining about the penalty system in GT7. I am not a fan - not a fan at all frankly! My dislike for the system has been heightened to new levels during the time trial at Dragon Trail. If I so much as touch a wall, the lap is invalidated. In real life, on a real circuit - This level of penalty simply isn’t feasible. So… I have come up with a new penalty system! One that more closely resembles real life. A system that is based on the severity of the damage done to the car. I have called it the Penalty Incurred Severity System or P.I.S.S. for short! Here is how it works…

Return to the pits after your allocated laps and your race engineer say something like “Ohhh wow! you have sanded the paint off the wing mirror by grazing the wall!!!”
NO penalty would be applied.

Or…

“Blimey mate! You have cracked the housing on the wing mirror by hitting the wall!”
No penalty would be applied.

Now your race engineer says
“<Expletives deleted> Where is the ********* wing mirror, door handle and rear bumper after hitting the wall hard?”

NOW a penalty would be applied!

I really do think that a Penalty Incurred Severity System would be useful, helpful and widely accepted with our beloved and enthusiastic members here.

In future then - please take your penalties with some dignity and grace

Your thoughts please, on a postcard to the usual address.

Many thanks and best regards to all here.

Ian.

 

[Evilmuffin]

I don't understand T1 & T2 at Suzuka....nor do I know how I managed to take it right on this PB lap. Most of the time I just flat out spin or too damn slow 🙈

 

[Pesselles]

Great time mon ami ,great.
I hope to join you under 1.02 but first must figure how to take that last turn right and stay on white pants 🤣

Thanks so much, Your Highness!
Based on my calculations with my very best sectors, I could gain 3 more tenths on an ideal lap.

Once you've understood how to take the first turn correctly, you're almost good for gold.
The last turn is very easy (to me). You must anticipate the moment when to turn to the right (with almost no visibility) and let the car flow while keeping enough speed along the curve.

See you in the 1:01 Club

 

[Chris30]

Ok, here I go at Suzuka, dang. I feel asleep for 7-8 hours and missed the action this morning. Yes, it is the East Course and not the long one, I can't stand Degner 1, Spoon and the long hairpin after you go under the Bridgestone landmark. I better stay on schedule or my mom's gonna me mad at me, I've been focusing more on these lap challenges and chatting with you guys and not pulling my weight around the house. I'm dissapointed about not earning gold at Deep Forest, I was so close, but...

 

[Lomic]

Much better after watching @Tidgney's lap guide, I can manage a decent T1 from time to time.

Not sure what I did at lap 6, after a good T1 and -0.5s in blue, I lost everything in the esses 🤔

Optimal is MUCH better than current best lap time so there's margin, if I am able to piece the 3 sectors together...

In gold for now but not sure it'll hold.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Dis. Dis I like.

Red Bull at GVH is awful. Wish I stayed away from it. I think it'll be the end of my gold streak. Carazza decided to go ham on it this afternoon and knocked out of gold and I can't even get close to that lap again.

 

[Chris30]

Dis. Dis I like.
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Red Bull at GVH is awful. Wish I stayed away from it. I think it'll be the end of my gold streak. Carazza decided to go ham on it this afternoon and knocked out of gold and I can't even get close to that lap again.

I tend to suck at the Olympic lap challenges, as usual. What about you? I think a majority of people won't bother getting gold at Grand Valley except all the aliens. Too much hassle.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

I tend to suck at the Olympic lap challenges, as usual. What about you? I think a majority of people won't bother getting gold at Grand Valley except all the aliens. Too much hassle.

You know Chris, I generally tend to suck at the special TTs too. But, I will keep pushing. My first posted time was without watching any videos. So, I'll watch a couple and then go back at it with the tricks I've learned from the faster drivers 💪🏻.

Have fun out there!

 

[skydragon49]

Hello there!

Gold collected:

Spoiler

Gold in the bank:

And that's a moment in (my personal) history. Me in the top thousand. I know, it's super early and lots of players will set faster times. But still. 😅

I'm not going to back to this one, I'm maybe returning to Dragon Trail and the Vette from hell.

 

[Pesselles]

Exceptional online event next sunday at 6PM CET:

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[Lomic]

Exceptional online event next sunday at 6PM CET:

And it is exceptionnal because it will be a Free PS Plus Week-End 😊

 

[Moglet]

The X2019 at Grand Valley is possibly the worst track and car combo we've ever had for the time trials. What a miserable, awful experience it is. It feels like the handling changes at random on every lap.

 

[Chris30]

@Moglet I totally agree, this morning at 6am when I did my first two laps, the RedBull X2019 car spun out when I was taking that corner at the first bridge and I had TCS set at 2. As soon as I earn a bronze time, I'm outta there unless I get the motivation to push even more, but that is a big if. Not a favorable combo for us, but there's nothing we can do. I think PD has a computer system that selects the cars/tracks every 2 weeks. That's what I'm guessing but I don't really know.

 

[Talon16]

.6XX" into gold on both. Should be good enough.

 

[Moglet]

@Moglet I totally agree, this morning at 6am when I did my first two laps, the RedBull X2019 car spun out when I was taking that corner at the first bridge and I had TCS set at 2. As soon as I earn a bronze time, I'm outta there unless I get the motivation to push even more, but that is a big if. Not a favorable combo for us, but there's nothing we can do. I think PD has a computer system that selects the cars/tracks every 2 weeks. That's what I'm guessing but I don't really know.

I got bronze on lap 4 and I don't intend to return to it. I'd much rather spend my time trying to get gold with the Mazda instead as I'm very close after 5-6 laps. It's so much more fun!

 

[manou]

Ok, the new TT with the Mazda is forgettable, gold is very easy, move on.

Now the TT with x2019 ? NOW we are talking !! What an incredibly fun combo... gold is not easy (top time seems suspicious, 6 tenth on the second, 1 full second on the 4th, Tidgney), and my brake pedal is really annoying me (g29...). Still what a fun TT !

 

[Chris30]

Ok, I just did 2 manual transmission runs for Suzuka and scored a 1'04.396, so I am not far from the silver time. I will post my runs later on tonight. It's a pleasant car to drive on a simple short track, so I'll take this any old day.

 

[Dolph Drago]

If I can just figure out turn 1...

 

[LSFDRX]

Hey all, haven't had any extra time to devote to GT lately so my TTs have been suffering! I even gussied up a Murcielago like Bruce Wayne's but never even attempted the TT at Monza.

I did get a minute to knock out last weeks weekly races and do about ten laps in the EVO at Deep Forest, but not time to work on it and crawl my way up any leaderboards. Sucks because I had gold on lap 2, the EVO was a super predictable, if understeer prone, car that's also fun to drive and I love Deep Forest. I'm sure I could have done a fair bit better there. Even made a livery for it too... haha.

I also stepped into the Vette for a bit as well, but only managed silver after a few laps. I thought it felt like a good pace, but the chicane of death is hard to nail at speed and I like to dip my toes into wheelspin and oversteer a little too much, haha. No livery for it. The C4 looks good bone stock.

I think I'll be in tonight and hopefully have something to show for it! Until then, you guys stay fast.

 

[linksracer]

Initial lap with the MX-5 around Suzuka, took about 60km of lapping to get this time. First 30km was lots of spinning at T1 and exceeding track limits through the final 2 corners. I can definitely see some improvements in the time are possible, but it will likely take a lot more laps and effort to find that time, so I may just leave it at that, we'll see how much free time I have.

Initially recorded a 1:01.247 which placed me at 60th when I set it, but I've already dropped to 106th now that the North Americans can participate, so there goes my hopes for a 1 and done top 100

You'll notice I start the lap off coming from the inside line on the final corner, this is because my previous lap was also a personal best but I decided to keep going. As a result, I've probably lost maybe 2 or 3 hundredths on my previous best just going into T1.

In terms of T1, I found if you hold the accelerator a tiny amount while braking initially, it neutralises the rear end a tiny bit which makes T1 a little easier. My other struggle corner was T8-9, if you trail brake here it gets the rotation, but you can end up too slow, so its a big old juggling act.



Might leave the X2019 for a week or so to let some aliens put their times in for me to copy

 

[Evilmuffin]

Turn 1 & 2 are impossible 🤣🤣 I'm totally relying on crapshoot to get good time through them 🙈

This car needs the ND3's differential 🤪

 

[VSpec_R]

T1, T2, & the last corner had to be on point! I might be done here. 😂😂😮‍💨

 

[Metalgear9493]

Hope you guys enjoyed using my ghost at Suzuka East, not sure If Adams new improvement has an available ghost.

Feels good to hold the overnight P2 after some seriously fast drivers like yuhki and tokari (and to a lesser extent Damian Chafe 😂) all tried their hand at it.

Turn 1 with this car is the most difficult single corner I've ever encountered in GT7.

 

[Evilmuffin]

Hope you guys enjoyed using my ghost at Suzuka East, not sure If Adams new improvement has an available ghost.

Feels good to hold the overnight P2 after some seriously fast drivers like yuhki and tokari (and to a lesser extent Damian Chafe 😂) all tried their hand at it.

Turn 1 with this car is the most difficult single corner I've ever encountered in GT7.

Been using your ghost for this TT (big thanks!)...agreed on turn 1! I just throw the car in and hope for the best 🙈

 

[skydragon49]

For the first time ever, I uploaded my time trial laps online.

Sorry for the quality of the video and the poor editing cut.

And sorry for the driving. 😅

Any inputs or hints will be welcomed. 😎

Mazda Roadster - Suzuka (1:01:700)


Corvette ZR1 (C4) - Dragon Trail (1:55:748)

 

[ZevZoq]

well I hope these stick...especially the silver. I was stuck at 4.73% for a long time and did lap after lap to improve the margin.

 

[2cam16]

Good enough for me right now. I'll check back in a week:
Gran Turismo® 7_20240919142547 by 2cam16, on Flickr
Suzuka Circuit East Course_ by 2cam16, on Flickr

 

[Chris30]

Look, I'm going to be busy tonight, so I'll have to post my runs over the weekend. But there is plenty of time on the Suzuka and the Grand Valley ones. I'm not sure yet if I will improve anymore at Seaside. The C.O.D. stresses me out everytime I go through it. And perfecting the Sector is a small job on it's own. because if I do not do it right, I have to restart my trial/run.

@2cam16 Great job. So, how are you doing at Seaside? I suck there apparently in that sliding Vette.