Time Trial Discussion

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1.17.1 yesterday in the Wicked Fabrication TT. I know it is early doors, but it might be enough for gold. I think Puumalainen in #2 place did really well in the Mustang Laguna Seca TT, just a few tenths from eventual #1 time. So the current top laps should already be good reference points.

Car felt nice to drive, but wasn't easy initially, had to even check what #1 was doing. The torque band kicks in really early, so for me the key was getting the exits correct and shortshift to 3rd asap.
 
Glad you posted your lap, watched it at work just now, and i had a real Aaaahhhhaaaaa moment...
You never went to second!, that will save me some real time!, cause i revved the **** out of second in my (realy bad ) gold lap :) :lol: :lol: :lol:
No idea if it's the best method, but it worked for me! I've not watched (our GTP friend's) the top lap yet...
 
I did a bit of shakedown yesterday on both Fuji and Greese TT

Fuji: it all goes good until the last 3 corners. I'd like to say that I have to master them, but the reality is that I have to digest them first. Given that the really last one impacts the main straight of the circuit it is not a surprise that I'm stuck in the bronze area.
I tried Ferrari, Lambo and Nissan, will also shortly try Porsche before stop focusing on car selection and dedicating to improvement.

Grand Valley South: very intriguing for the car-track-tyres combination. I don't know at all the track, I don't know at all the car, so again it is not a surprise I'm stuck in the bronze area.
For this one a nice livery is mandatory, PD should not accept any time posted with the default one.
 
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I did a bit of shakedown yesterday on both Fuji and Greese TT

Fuji: it all goes good until the last 3 corners. I'd like to say that I have to master them, but the reality is that I have to digest them first. Given that the really last one impacts the main straight of the circuit it is not a surprise that I'm stuck in the bronze area.
I tried Ferrari, Lambo and Nissan, will also shortly try Porsche before stop focusing on car selection and dedicating to improvement.

Grand Valley South: very intriguing for the car-track-tyres combination. I don't know at all the track, I don't know at all the car, so again it is not a surprise I'm stuck in the bronze area.
For this one a nice livery is mandatory, PD should not accept any time posted with the default one.

That's a poor take I am afraid, hope you are joking. Changing livery means actually buying the car. With the rent function and if you don't use it car for anything else other than this time trial, why should you buy it? Imagine if it was a 2 million plus car instead.
 
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That's a poor take I am afraid, hope you are joking. Changing livery means actually buying the car. With the rent function and if you don't use it car for anything else other than this time trial, why should you buy it? Imagine if it was a 2 million plus car instead.
Oh...wow... 2M!
That means I somehow/sometime spent 2M, because I have it in my garage. I was probably bewitched by it's old style look or drunk when I bought it.

Ok than, let's change my ruling:
if you have it, you do NEED to also spend couple of cents for the livery or do it one yourself
if you rent you will be granted with a default livery + this tail
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And, yes, I'm joking :D
 
Finally I got there to go down under 1'17!!!!! My goal was not to reach the gold medal, but to go below 1'17 and that's it after 554 kms !!!! 🍾🍾🍾🥳🥳🥳🥳
I am very happy and I think my neighbors must have heard it so much I shouted loudly!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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That's a poor take I am afraid, hope you are joking. Changing livery means actually buying the car. With the rent function and if you don't use it car for anything else other than this time trial, why should you buy it? Imagine if it was a 2 million plus car instead.
It’s actually a good idea to try to buy as many cars as possible. A few months ago there was a Suzuka tuning race with Sileighty as the meta car. It was not available in the used cars as that time so only way to race there properly was to own the car beforehand.

Same could happen in the future, maybe even in the time trials too.
 
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I actually (almost) always buy a car because I don't want the same generic image on the leaderboard that others have. I want to be special! :lol: And the long term plan is to own them all anyway...
This is generally what I do... at least on my main account. Gives me a reason/excuse to buy a car I wouldn't otherwise. And, the ironic part is, these TTs are why I even have any money to spend since Sport Mode pays out peanuts (and I don't grind).
 
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As expected, with only one driver per country going to Singapore, the two Italians at the front are having another go; Mangano has dropped to 1:14.795 (from I think 1:14.809). I expect it will be the same across the top 20 or so until close on Sunday, with more than one driver in there from Japan, for example. This is not over and my 0.146 second safety buffer to gold does not feel so safe any more.
 
I don't know how you guys put hundreds of miles in to these time trials. I put 150 miles on the last night of the Alfa at RBR just to cut .1 seconds off my fastest time and get in to the gold territory, but it was genuinely a huge waste of time. The 2 hours I spent working on that could have gone in to racing Tokyo 5 times or Spa twice, both netting 3M+ credits. Instead I raced around for 2 hours just to get 1M more credits and frustrated the hell out of myself in the process.
 
I don't know how you guys put hundreds of miles in to these time trials. I put 150 miles on the last night of the Alfa at RBR just to cut .1 seconds off my fastest time and get in to the gold territory, but it was genuinely a huge waste of time. The 2 hours I spent working on that could have gone in to racing Tokyo 5 times or Spa twice, both netting 3M+ credits. Instead I raced around for 2 hours just to get 1M more credits and frustrated the hell out of myself in the process.
Ultimately its because I have fun time trialling, and I don't have fun grinding.
I don't actually care for the money at all, I just like the leaderboard competition, and so I have fun doing the TT until I get sick of the combo.

I don't see the point grinding to get money to buy cars I won't use.
 
Sorry if it's already been asked or even answered, but has someone here managed to get gold on the Olympics time trial with a controller? I'm stuck at 16.106 and I'm using the DualSense.
 
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I don't know how you guys put hundreds of miles in to these time trials. I put 150 miles on the last night of the Alfa at RBR just to cut .1 seconds off my fastest time and get in to the gold territory, but it was genuinely a huge waste of time. The 2 hours I spent working on that could have gone in to racing Tokyo 5 times or Spa twice, both netting 3M+ credits. Instead I raced around for 2 hours just to get 1M more credits and frustrated the hell out of myself in the process.
I went through this exact same thought process trying to improve my time at Deep Forest. The things that really pushed me is that I'm a perfectionist, and I'm competitive. Getting (another) silver medal just isn't on the cards for me.


Damn you '02 NSX.
 
I went through this exact same thought process trying to improve my time at Deep Forest. The things that really pushed me is that I'm a perfectionist, and I'm competitive. Getting (another) silver medal just isn't on the cards for me.


Damn you '02 NSX.
I've accepted that I'm generally ~3 seconds/lap behind the top aliens (track dependent, of course), so if I'm 3 seconds behind 1st sitting in a mid-high silver metal but am not threatened to go to bronze, I have no incentive to try to push for faster numbers. The only reason I pushed on that Alfa TT was because I was 1 tenth off a gold medal. Ended up with a 1:40 and the top aliens were in the 1:37's, so there's my 3 seconds.
 
I don't know how you guys put hundreds of miles in to these time trials. I put 150 miles on the last night of the Alfa at RBR just to cut .1 seconds off my fastest time and get in to the gold territory, but it was genuinely a huge waste of time. The 2 hours I spent working on that could have gone in to racing Tokyo 5 times or Spa twice, both netting 3M+ credits. Instead I raced around for 2 hours just to get 1M more credits and frustrated the hell out of myself in the process.
If you weigh everything by dollars/hour, then anything in GT7 is a waste of time. Lol. This has been discussed numerous times in this thread, but spending more than 15 minutes on the TT's is about the competition. Pushing yourself to see where your ability is and trying to get better at it. Daily races and the TT's are a terrible way to spend a lot of time if you are just looking at the money, but they are the best ways to better your skills and get faster at sim racing.
 
I don't know how you guys put hundreds of miles in to these time trials. I put 150 miles on the last night of the Alfa at RBR just to cut .1 seconds off my fastest time and get in to the gold territory, but it was genuinely a huge waste of time. The 2 hours I spent working on that could have gone in to racing Tokyo 5 times or Spa twice, both netting 3M+ credits. Instead I raced around for 2 hours just to get 1M more credits and frustrated the hell out of myself in the process.
I prefer by a miles to drive 500km to get gold and 2m cr in time trial than drive another Sardegna race ;d
 
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I usually get silver within 5-10 minutes on every time trial. If I stop at that point it is an extremely efficient way of earning credits. The problem is when I try to go for gold... At least half of the time it takes longer than 2 hours, which means it is no longer more efficient than grinding.


I usually pair the TT with the corresponding circuit experience while it's fresh in my memory
 
If you weigh everything by dollars/hour, then anything in GT7 is a waste of time. Lol. This has been discussed numerous times in this thread, but spending more than 15 minutes on the TT's is about the competition. Pushing yourself to see where your ability is and trying to get better at it. Daily races and the TT's are a terrible way to spend a lot of time if you are just looking at the money, but they are the best ways to better your skills and get faster at sim racing.
I don't weigh everything by dollars/hour, but grinding for credits at Tokyo or grinding for an extra tenth of a second on a TT is exactly the same thing in my book. Its grinding. Running the same thing over, and over, and over again for hours and hours. At least with grinding for credits at Tokyo/Spa/Sardegna/Le Sarthe I can change cars, I can change tracks, I can earn more credits, buy more cars, have more cars to grind with, etc. I get a greater satisfaction of accomplishment grinding for credits than I do grinding for TT times because of this. If you are the opposite, that's fine. You just get greater satisfaction from shaving an extra tenth off your time.

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I prefer by a miles to drive 500km to get gold and 2m cr in time trial then drive another Sardegna race ;d
You should join our "lowest PP" challenge at Tokyo. Currently its at 531pp for a win on hard difficulty. I'm sure it can get sub 525pp, maybe even an alien could hit sub 500pp. No one is saying you have to make the grinding boring. Spice it up a bit. Make it more challenging.

 
I usually get silver within 5-10 minutes on every time trial. If I stop at that point it is an extremely efficient way of earning credits. The problem is when I try to go for gold... At least half of the time it takes longer than 2 hours, which means it is no longer more efficient than grinding.


I usually pair the TT with the corresponding circuit experience while it's fresh in my memory
This is exactly the approach I take as well
 
I don't weigh everything by dollars/hour, but grinding for credits at Tokyo or grinding for an extra tenth of a second on a TT is exactly the same thing in my book. Its grinding. Running the same thing over, and over, and over again for hours and hours. At least with grinding for credits at Tokyo/Spa/Sardegna/Le Sarthe I can change cars, I can change tracks, I can earn more credits, buy more cars, have more cars to grind with, etc. I get a greater satisfaction of accomplishment grinding for credits than I do grinding for TT times because of this. If you are the opposite, that's fine. You just get greater satisfaction from shaving an extra tenth off your time.
It's not just the tenths, unless it's just a personally set goal. It's fighting to see how high up in the world ranking you can get, and even more so, how high in your friends ranking you can get. And while grinding it over and over with no improvement can be extremely frustrating, the feeling you get when you finally see that time on the screen is better than drugs.
And you're exactly right, everyone has something different they are aiming to get out of it.
 
I'm also a perfectionist, and for me that is taking part in each Time Trial and golding it (except for Nordschleife)

Doing the Time Trials is the only way of spending time in GT7 for me. Daily Races are often junk, and boil down to having a meta car, and even if I was interested I'd have to pay for the multiplayer access so I'd really rather save money. Same reason why I'm not playing iRacing is because of the subscription; you kinda have to dedicate yourself for these games for it to be worth what you're paying for.

I'm already kinda scared I'll get another silver from the Olympic TT, and believe me, I hate grinding that particular event, but if I want gold at the very least, I must try. I gave up on the NSX though as I was running out of time as well as sanity, but I vowed that'd be the only silver I'll ever get.
 
Question for you:
I was reviewing my lap at fuji. I was using TC2.
I watched carefully the lap and I never noticed some red in the throttle gauge.

Does it mean that I would have made the same time and felt the same car reaction as I would run that specific lap with TC0?

Thanks
 
Decided to push some more at Deep Forest today. Switched from ABS Weak to Default and set the brake balance all the way to rear (5). Chased Gallo's ghost and managed to drop down to 1:15.689.

Forgot to save the replay but here's the lap in VR:
 
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