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Another 300km added to the Olympcs, and a 1:15.9 is done. In fact, from what I've seen of my laptimes after this, I can probably even reach for a low 1:15.8xx. But for now I'm very happy with this. Here are my times (the RBR and Fuji were done in like 4-5 laps each, likely won't bother with them anymore):

I wouldn't want to imagine how extremely difficult something like the X2019 at Road Atlanta or the NSX-R at Nurburgring would be if they had a 1.5% requirement for gold.

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The RBR and Fuji were done in like 4-5 laps each......I wish I could say the same 🤣🤣🙏🙏

Great Times!
 
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Somehow, I can't drive that Alfa in the Red Bull Ring anymore. Not getting close to my previous best time, and now I've grown sick of the car, too. I'll take the silver for this one and focus on Fuji in the Ferrari.
 
I'm fighting the GR010, i tried 3 controllers but i keep running against the same problem, don't know what it is,
sometimes it just doesn't get my steering input and then suddenly it does sometimes
tried to show it on video but it's not that clear what happens, but in both videos i'm at full steering input on DS4

Should i buy more downforce or a 4th controller??? :lol: :lol:

So my 17.0 still stands :banghead:

 
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Why?
I'm trying to gold Red Bul Ring in Alfa. The Gold Time was 1:40.533 so i did 1:40.486 but now Gold is 1:40.360

Why this is changing ?
 
Why?
I'm trying to gold Red Bul Ring in Alfa. The Gold Time was 1:40.533 so i did 1:40.486 but now Gold is 1:40.360

Why this is changing ?
Gold is 3% on the top time, if the world record changes it's still 3% so you have to give it another go ;)
 
I'm fighting the GR010, i tried 3 controllers but i keep running against the same problem, don't know what it is,
sometimes it just doesn't get my steering input and then suddenly it does sometimes
tried to show it on video but it's not that clear what happens, but in both videos i'm at full steering input on DS4

Should i buy more downforce or a 4th controller??? :lol: :lol:

So my 17.0 still stands :banghead:


Definitely something not right there. No obvious understeer, looks like a problem with the algorithm that determines how much steering input maximum input gives?? Not good if so for an ‘officially licences’ competitive event but that is the risk with esports I guess! 🤪

Will be interesting to see if anyone else reports a similar problem. Did you say this was on a PS4?
 
Definitely something not right there. No obvious understeer, looks like a problem with the algorithm that determines how much steering input maximum input gives?? Not good if so for an ‘officially licences’ competitive event but that is the risk with esports I guess! 🤪

Will be interesting to see if anyone else reports a similar problem. Did you say this was on a PS4?
Yeah it's quite annoying, and unpredictable, it's not always, otherwise i could not do a 17.0, but it completely kills you lap immidiately.
Then even when i try to restart it sometimes hangs and is frozen, but the dashes of the current lap ( above all the other laptimes ) are still blinken on screen...

i'm indeed op PS4, after i shot the video i lowered my time on Fuji, so controller still works :lol:
But it's quite irritating, and i'm very curious indeed if someone else reports similair
 
Given all the updates provided, I thought I'd share mine too.

Decent time at RBR so will leave it at that unless I somehow gold Deep Forest, in which case I'll come back to it; great combination.

Okay for gold at Fuji but would like to spend more time on it; it is a track that I need to get to know better.

Deep Forest would be gold but for the odd decision to make it harder to get gold by reducing the gap to number 1 from 3% to 1.5% for the one TT where the world's best will give their absolute best in a once every blue moon event, while at the same time changing bronze from 10% to 20%. I'll keep pushing but need around 0.4 seconds to feel safe. It will be tough.

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What is this sheet? Can you share?
 
Why this is changing ?
 
Yeah it's quite annoying, and unpredictable, it's not always, otherwise i could not do a 17.0, but it completely kills you lap immidiately.
Then even when i try to restart it sometimes hangs and is frozen, but the dashes of the current lap ( above all the other laptimes ) are still blinken on screen...

i'm indeed op PS4, after i shot the video i lowered my time on Fuji, so controller still works :lol:
But it's quite irritating, and i'm very curious indeed if someone else reports similair
I have hard time to see. I guess YouTube compressed video. Are we supposed to see that red dot that shows steering angle?
Can you share in the game and give us keywords to find replay?

I am not on DS4 so I can't tell, but there are still issues with controller that I told about earlier, in my case on DS5 when I drive through turn and hold either accelerator or brake (L2/R2) and all of the sudden it can totally "fall" to 100% like someone cut power supply to it. And with motion control steering turning, still there, but it seems impossible to reach out to PD and report this behavior.
 
I saw I'd lost gold on RBR so got back to it tonight, got down to 1:40.386, but I'd been doing it with no sound so I could listen out for the sleeping baby while my partner was in the shower - when she went to bed I put my headphones on and almost immediately found a 1:39.974 :lol: I think being able to hear the tyre squeal let me trust the acceleration out of the slower corners more.

I'm on 1:41.672 at Fuji, might see if I can get into the 1:40s and secure gold while I watch the end of the Grand Prix.
 
I'm fighting the GR010, i tried 3 controllers but i keep running against the same problem, don't know what it is,
sometimes it just doesn't get my steering input and then suddenly it does sometimes
tried to show it on video but it's not that clear what happens, but in both videos i'm at full steering input on DS4

Should i buy more downforce or a 4th controller??? :lol: :lol:

So my 17.0 still stands :banghead:


Not just you. I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now. Most of the time, the car just won't turn. I've got loads of understeer, the car just ploughs on. Then on corner exit, with a small amount of steering applied, it's like I've suddenly thrown in a larger steering input and the car just spins out. I've been trying to watch replays to watch the front wheels, but I can't get the right angles. ETA. Braking seems to make the car straighten as well - no brake bias changes have altered that.

I've tried different controller sensitivities and different controllers, no difference.

As far as I can see so far, there's no way of adjusting anything to try and work around it. The only time I've felt anything like this before is when I've done custom tunes and run the front suspension too low/soft and the steering has fouled. Something definitely feels off.
 
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Yeah it's quite annoying, and unpredictable, it's not always, otherwise i could not do a 17.0, but it completely kills you lap immidiately.
Then even when i try to restart it sometimes hangs and is frozen, but the dashes of the current lap ( above all the other laptimes ) are still blinken on screen...

i'm indeed op PS4, after i shot the video i lowered my time on Fuji, so controller still works :lol:
But it's quite irritating, and i'm very curious indeed if someone else reports similair
Do you have more than 1 controller connected at the same time?
 
I have hard time to see. I guess YouTube compressed video. Are we supposed to see that red dot that shows steering angle?
Can you share in the game and give us keywords to find replay?

I am not on DS4 so I can't tell, but there are still issues with controller that I told about earlier, in my case on DS5 when I drive through turn and hold either accelerator or brake (L2/R2) and all of the sudden it can totally "fall" to 100% like someone cut power supply to it. And with motion control steering turning, still there, but it seems impossible to reach out to PD and report this behavior.
True, i am on a slim, so 720p is the most out of the youtube indeed, hard to see
i'll try to record again ( it's frequently so should not be a real problem ) :lol: en share in game and report back :)
I did not look at the dot, i'll try to figue it out and let you know :)
Not just you. I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now. Most of the time, the car just won't turn. I've got loads of understeer, the car just ploughs on. Then on corner exit, with a small amount of steering applied, it's like I've suddenly thrown in a larger steering input and the car just spins out. I've been trying to watch replays to watch the front wheels, but I can't get the right angles. ETA. Braking seems to make the car straighten as well - no brake bias changes have altered that.

I've tried different controller sensitivities and different controllers, no difference.

As far as I can see so far, there's no way of adjusting anything to try and work around it. The only time I've felt anything like this before is when I've done custom tunes and run the front suspension too low/soft and the steering has fouled. Something definitely feels off.
mmm, interresting, i wonder if it's a PS4 thing, but then we should have heard this a million times allready cause a lot are still on the 4 i believe, have you got any "freezes" to on that particulair TT?


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Do you have more than 1 controller connected at the same time?
mmm, naah don't think so, there a 4 controllers in total, 2 old ones and 2 new ones from this year, one is like a month old and i only use it for GT, ( cause the kids press toggle to sprint on fortnite has created some stickdrift on earlier controllers ) so i replaced them and the blue one is GT only :lol:

so there are 4 asigned to the PS, but none at the same time, there are times i'm on Remote play with my own DS4 but think the other one is off then
 
Hi,

I, for one, am a big big fan of the "invalidated" lap - as opposed to a time penalty! This means I can continue with a lap and not ruin the following lap. I would love to see this implemented permanently. Just for the Time Trials obviously. Its a much better system IMHO.


Best regards to all here.

Ian.
 
I'm at 140.514 in the Alfa so my margin of error is not a margin. Or already back to silver because I don't want to look t the leaderboard this morning. Think my only hope for gold is that nobody at the top cares enough about this one to set a faster time at the top. At least I know now the only 2 places I can make up time. Turn 1 and the hairpin are where I usually screw it up so I can concentrate on those 2 and probably shave a couple of tenths if I need to. That is as long as I don't get a penalty for the last 2 turns.
 
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Well, yeah pretty much :D I always screw up the last hairpin when I'm on a new record run. On a slower lap I'm having no problems being fast there but whenever I've nailed the first two sectors I either take it too cautiously or spin. It's like a mental thing I can't get over and it happens every single time.

One thing I've found out is that I get slightly faster lap times by setting the brake bias towards the rear.
 
Well, yeah pretty much :D I always screw up the last hairpin when I'm on a new record run. On a slower lap I'm having no problems being fast there but whenever I've nailed the first two sectors I either take it too cautiously or spin. It's like a mental thing I can't get over and it happens every single time.

Story of my life... How many times have I beaten my ghost of 1:15.9 in the first two sectors, only to just screw it on the hairpin. You have to brake up until 50kph and then lift/coast to the apex and smash the throttle when the car is in the right direction (controller user here)... That's far easier said than done though.

One thing I've found out is that I get slightly faster lap times by setting the brake bias towards the rear.

Same here... I had my lap record with the brake bias on 5. I didn't even notice any changes in behaviour with the car, but I did get a faster time even if it was by 1 tenth.
 
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Looks like the end date of the Olympic TT has been moved to the 22nd May (though apparently the date in game is the same)
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Looks like the end date of the Olympic TT has been moved to the 22nd May (though apparently the date in game is the same)
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That's not new. Yes, there are two different dates depending on where you look.

 
Yesterday I tested the 49 gr3 cars at Fuji with the shadow I had done at the RCZ, and with none I managed to make a better time. In the end I returned to the Peugeot and improved the time.

Strange is the old Nissan with 570hp and 1050kg more like a turtle. In my view the RCZ and the new GT-R are cars that easily do better than gold.
 
Looks like the end date of the Olympic TT has been moved to the 22nd May (though apparently the date in game is the same)
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