There are also many players with multiple accounts, so the numbers will include duplicates. I made a second account to farm credits in Circuit Experience since it was the fastest way for me to earn millions, and I do the TT challenges in both for quick credits.
Time Trial Discussion
- Thread starter seadog777
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How do you track unbroken gold streaks? If you don't mind me asking.
- 3,445
- United States
Hard to quantify without trying. But, I will say on the race A with the McLaren P1 GTR it helped quite a bit. I did a handful of laps and races before realizing I could (and should've been) activating it. Once I did, my times came down. I don't have those numbers, but if it was .500"/lap I wouldn't be surprised.Yes i get the function of the DRS but how much does it going to effect the laptimes?, so i'm very curious to try it with and without
we will see, i expect a picture if it works
- 140
- Western Sahara
- 3,418
- Canada
Got gold by a 10th with the Cayman, man what a battle that was.
This ID4 is NOT what I was expecting, I quite like it though I am not sure how to drive it. Not having any gears is weird, I sort of hit the brakes and expect rotation due to downshifting but ...........nope. I cannot work out if i should be carrying more mid corner speed or just stop as fast as i can, get her pointed and absolutely LAUNCH out?
Sitting on high 58 after just 5 laps so i should be able to get gold here though I expect one may need a 56.
So DRS and the battery, is this all AUTO or do I need to map buttons?
This ID4 is NOT what I was expecting, I quite like it though I am not sure how to drive it. Not having any gears is weird, I sort of hit the brakes and expect rotation due to downshifting but ...........nope. I cannot work out if i should be carrying more mid corner speed or just stop as fast as i can, get her pointed and absolutely LAUNCH out?
Sitting on high 58 after just 5 laps so i should be able to get gold here though I expect one may need a 56.
So DRS and the battery, is this all AUTO or do I need to map buttons?
- 1,782
- Willow Springs
- schlafhund
You have to map DRS if you haven’t already. “Nitrous/Overtake” in the settings.
- 4,888
- United Kingdom
- Fezzik-GT
- Fezzik1983
Too much downforce, wouldn’t even pull a wheelie. Ferrari more fun.we will see, i expect a picture if it works
Might be my favourite TT so far. Car just sticks and goes.
- 2,561
- The Netherlands
- Espanjolicos
Yes indeed, every lap every corner is faster than the lap before, I did some laps on my laptop at 720P 🤣 But managed 1:57'532 on the first session, bit made a few mistakes, my problem lies in the acceleration, a fractioneel to soon on throttle and you have massive power understeer. So bad that my wide next to me was laughing because my body moved along with the car 🤣
But I was kind of consistent the first stint,
But I was kind of consistent the first stint,
- 3,418
- Canada
Nah I reakon gold is doable here for B rated players. For starters, there's no advantage using a manual as there are no gears. It's very clinical, hit your marks, rotate and fire it off, no throttle modulation needed either, just hammer it. Will need a 56 to be safe I think.
Glad to hear DRS makes a difference as i have not used it yet so hoping that is about a second on the table for me.
- 4,505
- Finland
Isn't DRS's whole purpose decreasing laptime?
- 3,445
- United States
I like this combo; this car is fun. Had to remap DRS to the circle button for easier access. Was thinking of using like a binder clip to just have it depressed all the time, but didn't.
Best time thus far is a 1:56.5. The aliens are going to have fun with this one.
Best time thus far is a 1:56.5. The aliens are going to have fun with this one.
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- up a gum tree m8
- skyhighguy86
Glad some of you guys are enjoying this latest time trial , for me its easily the least enjoyable so far 🤮
- 4,547
- Indiana
- DolphDrago
Ran a 1:58.324 and was wondering how the top times were SO much faster. I just assumed DRS opened. Whoops!
My next session I'll open that wing up (or whatever it does in the case of this car) and let 'er rip.
My next session I'll open that wing up (or whatever it does in the case of this car) and let 'er rip.
- 1,149
- Mumbai
- UnlikeUday
Yesterday had tried this TT & ran about 10 laps. Managed a mere 58.8 but wasn't aware of the DRS (what a thing to have after years of playing F1 games). It surely will be beneficial & will map it to one of my buttons. I still need to learn the layout well, especially the middle sector.
- 2,561
- The Netherlands
- Espanjolicos
Alien's go fast haha this morning already kicked to silver 🤣 then I watched the top replay, they don't even brake on thr turn after the fast S'es 🤣 So there should be some time to win 🤣
- 440
- Blayney
I'm B rated and have gold in all bar Nurb with NSX (because reasons). I very rarely race online so my rating hasn't gone up much.
Final finishing position on the Cayman was 190th 😎
Haven't had chance to try this new one - might not be until Sunday now.
- 140
- Western Sahara
It looks like generally DR correlates very well to finishing position, although there are obviously outliers (the best time trial player has never done a daily race, at least not on that account).
If you're golding these on the regular you have the pace to be A rated basically.
Some numbers for those interested:
The percentage of players with at least one gold might change a lot if you take away the easy Sardegna one. There might also be an effect from second accounts but don't have a way of knowing which ones are second accounts and not a unique person.
Edit: added percentage with at least one gold not including Sardegna results.
If you're golding these on the regular you have the pace to be A rated basically.
Some numbers for those interested:
| DR | Number of unique PSNs | Average position | Percentage with at least one gold | Percentage with at least one gold (excluding Sardegna) |
| S | 39 | 1411 | 100 | 100 |
| A+ | 5486 | 7150 | 90.2 | 88.3 |
| A | 16346 | 17692 | 71.5 | 64.2 |
| B | 66306 | 34761 | 39.9 | 27.4 |
| C | 67609 | 50310 | 17.7 | 8.1 |
| D | 124840 | 67814 | 6.0 | 2.1 |
| E | 186123 | 72662 | 4.6 | 1.9 |
The percentage of players with at least one gold might change a lot if you take away the easy Sardegna one. There might also be an effect from second accounts but don't have a way of knowing which ones are second accounts and not a unique person.
Edit: added percentage with at least one gold not including Sardegna results.
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- 1,237
- Sweden, Gothenburg
- Highlanderlast
Very interesting statistics! Thanks for sharing.
I played online few months ago, but not 50 races and reached C DR. My total average on TT so far is 9386 position, but improving a bit and average for last 6 TTs is 3617 position. Checking your table it looks like I could reach A DR if I start playing online again, or I got numbers wrong?
- 140
- Western Sahara
Yeah I'd say you can definitely reach DR A if you're averaging that high up on the leaderboards.
Those stats will be slightly skewed due to different factors, so they're definitely not hard cutoffs or anything. For example a lot of DR A drivers will just get their gold (or worse) and stop after a few laps, and not push it to the limits, so their true pace is maybe faster than the time trial results reflect.
But I think you are so far within the margins of error that you definitely have the pace. But there's other factors to take into account too. Like there's an element of needing to develop race craft skill too. But even that can be minimised by just qualifying well. So then the question is how long it takes you to get your time trial time, and whether you're willing to put that effort into setting a qualification lap and learning the daily race combo well enough. But if you're hitting top 3-4000 in time trial i think you'd be way below that in daily race time trial rank because there's less players (although I haven't checked this) and most of them wouldn't put in as much effort to push it under 3% of the top time as they do for time trial. So you should be able to just race smoothly from near the front all the way up to DR A, but even then it will still just take some time to farm DR and get the 50 000 points you need.
- 221
- France
Agree👍
