Time Trial Discussion

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That is clean Dan! what a lap!

This indeed proves the alien thing......🤣🤣
I hope it turns out nicely with your car, orherwise...... you should realy buy a van..... 🤣🤣

I think I'm out for this one, we had a powersupply error yesterday that blasted my experiaV10a modem when it went back on, so I have no connection anymore and have to wait for the mechanic to call to check it out and prob to bring me a new one, this one is def dead
Many thanks! Dude that sucks, I know what internet problems are like.. my router is fine but my actually connection is really unstable and regularly disconnects for hours or even days(!).

If you really want to try and improve your time before the trial ends, you can try hotspotting your PlayStation from your phone 😉. I did it yesterday and for the time trial at least, it worked 😆
Congratulations! That was an extremely good lap! I admire stability in your movements, wish I could recreate it myself. Question since you were testing steering wheel vs controller, but I assume it might be stupid question, but still, steering wheel or controller ?
Thank You man! All I did was practice a lot, no skill here.. just repetition of movement and slowly improve slightly each time 😂. This was done with the wheel and pedals

My bastard car made it off the driveway this morning so there is hope for me yet…

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All I did was practice a lot, no skill here.. just repetition of movement and slowly improve slightly each time 😂. This was done with the wheel and pedals
I wonder how would one lap look like if YOU test motion steering on controller (tilt-to-steer, the way I steer)? Curios to see how lap would look like with your skills? If you have some time to test it, if not it is ok, I apologise for bothering.
 
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I wonder how would one lap look like if YOU test motion steering on controller (tilt-to-steer, the way I steer)? Curios to see how lap would look like with your skills? If you have some time to test it, if not it is ok, I apologise for bothering.
I've got the feeling I'll be rubbish at it... But I'll give it a go! What do you use for accel/brake/gears?? Obviously I used L2/R2 for the former and then X and Square for gears when I was on the controller..
Nice car, but why would you post your license plate in the internet?
It doesn't bother me, If someone wants to clone/steal it then they would probably do me a favour :D If anyone wants my address for the latter, please let me know :cheers:
 
I had 45-mins to play this morning and did TT because I've dropped almost 300-spots and well outside the top 1,000 since Saturday. Oh man it was ugly! After 30-mins, I was +0.8-seconds over PB and optimal was still +0.5ish. Then randomness happened and I started getting lower 27's but still like +0.35ish. 7AM rolls around and it's time for me to get the kids up and fed so "one more lap" and I throw a 1:27.004 (PB is 1:26.965) and I lost 0.2 on the long left before the hill!!! So I threw 1.3-laps more: 1:27.098 and then overshot the first turn and called it quits. This is going to haunt me now lol!!!

Edit: Although, I'm quite happy that I'm ahead of 99.14% of the participants (132,879-total as of this post)
 
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What do you use for accel/brake/gears?? Obviously I used L2/R2 for the former and then X and Square for gears when I was on the controller..
Yeah, same, L2/R2 x and square, if I remember correctly sensitivity is on 0, default, likevise other settings, strength of feedback vibration on deafult. If I increase sensitivity I find it just turning too quicky after even slight tilt, so 0 works fine for me. Thanks for giving it a go. I am pretty sure that in your hands it will go smoothly and you can get good lap times.
 
I've got the feeling I'll be rubbish at it... But I'll give it a go! What do you use for accel/brake/gears?? Obviously I used L2/R2 for the former and then X and Square for gears when I was on the controller..

It doesn't bother me, If someone wants to clone/steal it then they would probably do me a favour :D If anyone wants my address for the latter, please let me know :cheers:
You should place a sign next to it staying "please replace me with a Toyota Alphard " 🤣
But nice ride, they are indeed alot of fun to drive and feel quite balanced!
 
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here is the last session before the end, I was able to improve my record by only a few hundredths -0'022 (1'27'159 against 1'27'181 before)!!!! The bar of 1'26 seems so close to me and yet I have the impression of being at the end of the end!!!! 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
 
Those older M3’s are a ton of fun to drive…….when they run. 😂
Lots of them converted to track or drift cars as they’re pretty light once completely stripped. And when you get rid of all of the electronics in them they work pretty good. Lol
It never works! Mine is sort of OEM+ with lots of suspension mods, it’s pretty epic. But it never runs without throwing up a code or a noise or something falling off.. absolute mistress. And I’ve had some great cars over the years that have been mega reliable, sold them all but kept this one 🤯
Yeah, same, L2/R2 x and square, if I remember correctly sensitivity is on 0, default, likevise other settings, strength of feedback vibration on deafult. If I increase sensitivity I find it just turning too quicky after even slight tilt, so 0 works fine for me. Thanks for giving it a go. I am pretty sure that in your hands it will go smoothly and you can get good lap times.
I tried, I really tried! It was hard to my hands coordinated especially for smooth throttle and braking whilst also turning so I ended up going AT to give me hands less to do 😄 it was tough to be smooth, do you rest your arms somewhere when playing? I can imagine it being a struggle when steering. I did five laps and got a 1:27.606 and let’s never speak of it again 😂😂

You should place a sign next to it staying "please replace me with a Toyota Alphard " 🤣
But nice ride, they are indeed alot of fun to drive and feel quite balanced!
The Alphard is fun and quite well balanced, I agree! 🤣
 
I tried, I really tried! It was hard to my hands coordinated especially for smooth throttle and braking whilst also turning so I ended up going AT to give me hands less to do 😄 it was tough to be smooth, do you rest your arms somewhere when playing? I can imagine it being a struggle when steering. I did five laps and got a 1:27.606 and let’s never speak of it again 😂😂
Thanks for testing it. It's good time for first try.
I just sit on sofa in front of TV not resting my hands on anything except on my legs from time to time.
 
It never works! Mine is sort of OEM+ with lots of suspension mods, it’s pretty epic. But it never runs without throwing up a code or a noise or something falling off.. absolute mistress. And I’ve had some great cars over the years that have been mega reliable, sold them all but kept this one 🤯
If PD really wanted to be the real driving simulator they’d let the GM LS/LT engines be swapped into everything. Just throwing it out there 😂
 
After days of pushing and getting nowhere close to my PB, I felt like I was in a groove today. Consistently high 26's as opposed to low 27's. I gained a pinch over half a tenth and picked up roughly 100 spots globally. Funny enough, my previous best was .004 behind @Gomario JSP (at the time), and with now we are tied down to the thousandth. If only I could have taken the final turn slightly faster...or had a better final corner the previous lap and lost less time just getting to turn 1...:mischievous:
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After days of pushing and getting nowhere close to my PB, I felt like I was in a groove today. Consistently high 26's as opposed to low 27's. I gained a pinch over half a tenth and picked up roughly 100 spots globally. Funny enough, my previous best was .004 behind @Gomario JSP (at the time), and with now we are tied down to the thousandth. If only I could have taken the final turn slightly faster...or had a better final corner the previous lap and lost less time just getting to turn 1...:mischievous:
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That is quite a nice time you got there! what are the odds right :lol:
A tie on the leaderboard!, that's cool, and congratulations on that lap!, maby we can't get to our top aliens, but come on!!!, below place 300 overall is very fast!

Nice job!! :bowdown:
 
Many thanks! Dude that sucks, I know what internet problems are like.. my router is fine but my actually connection is really unstable and regularly disconnects for hours or even days(!).

If you really want to try and improve your time before the trial ends, you can try hotspotting your PlayStation from your phone 😉. I did it yesterday and for the time trial at least, it worked 😆

Thank You man! All I did was practice a lot, no skill here.. just repetition of movement and slowly improve slightly each time 😂. This was done with the wheel and pedals

My bastard car made it off the driveway this morning so there is hope for me yet…

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Nice car Dan! I've got a derivative of an E46 (in my avatar) which is also getting some use at the moment! Needless to say, I don't drive it like the time trial in GT7...

Anyone got any idea what the next TT might be??
 
Nice car Dan! I've got a derivative of an E46 (in my avatar) which is also getting some use at the moment! Needless to say, I don't drive it like the time trial in GT7...

Anyone got any idea what the next TT might be??
mmm i was wondering about that allready....., i hope Gran Valley

But something in me says we are going to get Mount Panorama this time, maby GR4 Tuning Allowed :lol:

We will see

But if they wanna troll us, we can always get Route X with a swapped Willy and a standing start :lol: :lol:
 
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Olympic Virtual Series TT starts tomorrow, which going off the screenshots from the announcement from a couple of months ago will be Deep Forest in the Toyota GR010 (not confirmed of course)

It's just whether or not they decide to run 2 TTs simultaneously
Good call. There is an interesting caveat in the announcement though (my emphasis)
"An online time trial will begin in mid-April (eligibility criteria to be announced at a later date.)"

That might mean the Olympic TT event is not open to all. Would be odd, so maybe I am misreading the statement.
 
Good call. There is an interesting caveat in the announcement though (my emphasis)
"An online time trial will begin in mid-April (eligibility criteria to be announced at a later date.)"

That might mean the Olympic TT event is not open to all. Would be odd, so maybe I am misreading the statement.
See also Nenkai reply. Generally he is in the know, so high likelihood that this will be the TT.

 
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