Time Trial Discussion

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Yesterday morning left France at 06:30 and did arrived at 5:30 after a real life very long stint 🤣. A lot of rain in France, Belgium and the Netherlands so was an exhausting drive of 11 hours!

But there it was.......waiting for me.....

So hooked it up yesterday for the first time and downloaden the PS5 version of GT7,
Man that music rally looks a lot better than on PS4!, but was so tired I waited till thr download was secured and went to bed.

This morning for thr first time hopped into the Viper..... that Dualsense..... what a world of difference in feel, it is going to take a little time to get used to, but it feel quite good!
Prob not the best car to get to know the controller 🤣🤣

But did gold it after I kind if begun to understand what the fuzz was all about with that understeery oversteery brakeless yaght 🤣🤣

Now after 2 weeks with a new console I'm thriller!.....and yet now the servers are down 🤣, hurry up that update PD, I need to practice!
But don't train too much with this DS5 because otherwise you'll be part of the aliens and it's going to be hard to be as fast as you !!! 🤣🤣 Already you are very fast !!!!
 
Wait, let's call experts, @half_sourly does "car settings enabled " means we can tune the car? 🤔
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First try today at RBR with Godzilla : 1'31'182 with optimal time at 1'30'920
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I'm not very happy with myself, especially on the first corner where I can't be consistent. And then I don't really like this RBR circuit. I never managed to get the gold medal on the 3 TTs that took place on this circuit. But let's say I'm not that far from gold before the alien invasion lowers the gold time
 
First try today at RBR with Godzilla : 1'31'182 with optimal time at 1'30'920
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I'm not very happy with myself, especially on the first corner where I can't be consistent. And then I don't really like this RBR circuit. I never managed to get the gold medal on the 3 TTs that took place on this circuit. But let's say I'm not that far from gold before the alien invasion lowers the gold time
That's much better than me! You're close to gold and it shouldn't be too hard for you :) I agree with you, this circuit is not really technical, not really fun, not really fast, it's a "medium" one, without real taste!

But the GT-R is a kind monster and can can deliver incredible scores on any kind of circuit. I'm sure you'll be best friends together.
 
Tried to improve at BMB but still no improvement...I think I'm going to stick with the silver on that one. Something is just not clicking for me with that Viper. Also gave the RBR TT a go and after 5 laps 1.31.174 with a flat 1.31.000 optimal. Gold is definitely on the card here so we'll give another later.
 
Just had a 20 lap stint on RBR - so glad they've put invalidate lap track limits instead of time penalties on this one. Out of 20, only 8 laps were clean for me (courtesy of last sector invalidating next lap as well but still a lot). Managed 1:29.624, but it feels like I can squeeze more if I learn the corner entries properly, especially for T1 and long turns in sector 2. Wondering if I could get under 1:29 with almost 2 months to go on this one.
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Just had a 20 lap stint on RBR - so glad they've put invalidate lap track limits instead of time penalties on this one. Out of 20, only 8 laps were clean for me (courtesy of last sector invalidating next lap as well but still a lot). Managed 1:29.624, but it feels like I can squeeze more if I learn the corner entries properly, especially for T1 and long turns in sector 2. Wondering if I could get under 1:29 with almost 2 months to go on this one.
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It's mad this one lasts nearly 2 months. I get that it times with the movie screening, etc. But just seems such a long time to wait for the reward. I'm sure this one will have very little progress for a very long time.
 
It's mad this one lasts nearly 2 months. I get that it times with the movie screening, etc. But just seems such a long time to wait for the reward. I'm sure this one will have very little progress for a very long time.
True that, I think people are used to having 2 weeks for TT so I would not expect much improvement later than that and maybe last couple of days. If they wanted to keep a bit more hype for the movie for longer, they could have made 3 times 2 week events instead, quite sure there are more tracks featured in the movie rather than just RBR.
 
Well, I was going to try to get back into BMB, but the allure of a new TT at RBR in Godzilla was too enticing. I have to say, I quite enjoy driving this car, however, I don't really enjoy the RBR. Regardless, I did manage to put down a respectable lap for the first day. I'm sure the times will tumble a bit during the long entry period.

I'm a bit annoyed that toward the end of my 20 lap stint, I was really getting into a groove, when the audio from my headphones started to cut out intermittently. It was so distracting, and I'm sure cost me a couple tenths.

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I really don't like driving the Red Bull Ring, never have, I don't know how to properly take a single corner here. After couple of laps I set myself the goal just to go under 1:30. Had literally 5 laps of 1:30.004, 1:30.011, 1:30.023, 1:30.007 ???

And then finally:
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And this is also an OK stat I guess :)

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I've maxxed out the Viper TT, only by pure luck I could go under, and I think I can find a tenth or two on the HSR, will try tomorrow.
 
😂 Not that I know of, but I'm feeling OK, thank you.

😥 We have 51 more days to try to improve our time, but I think our silver is safe... famous last words? 😂
I'll do my best to get a score as close as possible as your, my friend! Silver is already nice but maybe we could do better.
I'm aware it's a huge challenge for me but, impossible isn't French :dopey:
 
Mazda HSR TT, well I did hit that wall, who cares :lol:

PD please, tell me why the grip changes when you restart the TT? Artificial hardness factor?

Why changing the wheels rotation give way more grip initial bite when turning?

Why all wheels cant be tuned to stick with rotation setting, only the expensive ones?

Why cant we tune throttle maps?

Why the tire temp meters are so poor, but tire temps affect heavily how the car drives?

I know that you dont answer, maybe the answers are in that movie? :cheers: Well not going to bother :lol:


Okokok, I drove the ACC today after long brake, and most of these are coming from that :lol::lol:
 
1.13.990 for Viper BMB time trial, a decent improvement, but as I suspected, lacking the pace for gold. Making one last effort next week on Wednesday or Thursday. Hopefully I can get gold in the High Speed Ring TT at least 🤔

Good TT running on Monday-Tuesday night to start off the week. Never been that good at High Speed Ring, but I still managed a 55.751 in this TT, so a chance for gold at least.

And then did the Viper TT on my secondary American account, somehow did a 1.13.627 lap, which should be enough for gold. Now the pressure is on to get gold on main account too. 😅 Smooth inputs (especially throttle) and accurate driving lines and braking points are the keys to tame the Viper 🤔.
 
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