Time Trial Discussion

[crome]

@Pesselles Alright, I can finally sleep well again 😜

Ever so slightly in Gold now, but it kind of came out of nowhere. I had slowly worked my way up to a 2:24.5, then suddenly had a lap where I was 8 tenths ahead after the second sector. I got scared and played it safe in the chicane, which cost me three tenths. I guess that means a 2:23.7 or better should definitely be possible if I figure out what I did right in these first two sectors.

 

[Lomic]

@Pesselles Alright, I can finally sleep well again 😜

1.6s of margin ? seems comfy 😅

Come on @Pesselles don't let this slide, you have to beat our german friend 😁

(and I have to work on this TT but I feel I have some tenths in me for TM)

 

[Pesselles]

@Pesselles Alright, I can finally sleep well again 😜
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Ever so slightly in Gold now, but it kind of came out of nowhere. I had slowly worked my way up to a 2:24.5, then suddenly had a lap where I was 8 tenths ahead after the second sector. I got scared and played it safe in the chicane, which cost me three tenths. I guess that means a 2:23.7 or better should definitely be possible if I figure out what I did right in these first two sectors.

I was on Daytona this morning, trying to improve my DR (with no success, for now) with a German car (maybe this is the reason why) and now, I "see" you smiling like...

@Lomic: yes my friend you're right except you can't associate "German" and "friends" in the same sentence...

 

[Lomic]

@Lomic: yes my friend you're right except you can't associate "German" and "friends" in the same sentence...

I know... I know... they eat soft butter, but you should look beyond that 😁

 

[P-Courty]

It seems that I haven't really had the TT feeling today.

Started with the Supra and improved by 0.1sec 😂 I spent about 2hrs on it after that and I can definitely improve by around 0.5sec at the least, if only I could put one whole neat lap together, so left that after getting frustrated.

Went onto the RX8 and all I can say is, consistency is key 🤣

After getting used to the car I managed to tidy things up a bit, I'm in gold but won't improve this one as I really didn't like it

Also had the kitten for support

Replay shared with tags GTP GOLD PCOURTY

Heres the vids for 2:23.438

Follow Cam


Bumper Cam


Cinematic Cam

 

[zjn]

My first trial with all assist but abs off.
The lap is not good, is not even good enough, but still I'm so happy about it.

The combo is probably not so complex to be handled without assists, and with more powerful cars will be quite difficult, but here is so so fun

 

[Gomario JSP]

It seems that I haven't really had the TT feeling today.

Started with the Supra and improved by 0.1sec 😂 I spent about 2hrs on it after that and I can definitely improve by around 0.5sec at the least, if only I could put one whole neat lap together, so left that after getting frustrated.

Went onto the RX8 and all I can say is, consistency is key 🤣
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After getting used to the car I managed to tidy things up a bit, I'm in gold but won't improve this one as I really didn't like it


Also had the kitten for support


Replay shared with tags GTP GOLD PCOURTY

Heres the vids for 2:23.438

Nice!, if I may give a sugestion, I would exit T3 definitely in second, seems a lot faster!, same goes for hairpin T8, try to end up completely on the left and and take it in second gear, it's sort of a dubbele apex one so you can realy V-shape your way through!
Last chicane I would do second gear too, I think you realy have to nail it for getting advantage of beeing in third, I was way more consistent in second this morning.

Nice laps mate, and nice kitty 😁👍👍

 

[Gogga]

I really can't fathom PD's logic on this one.
Advantage gained on the consecutive lap after just sniffing that stupid pole : 0 milliseconds.
Yet, it's an invalidated next lap 🤔

 

[Evilmuffin]

My first trial with all assist but abs off.
The lap is not good, is not even good enough, but still I'm so happy about it.

The combo is probably not so complex to be handled without assists, and with more powerful cars will be quite difficult, but here is so so fun

Actually not too bad of a lap. There are a couple places you can stay with 3rd.

The tight right turn before the hairpin. You can enter in 2nd if you need to rotation, but definitely exit in 3rd.

The last corner also is a 3rd gear for the entire thing.

The right sweeper before the chicane...don't need to brake that hard. Just drag the brakes slightly to lose up the rear for rotation is enough.

Should be a fairly easy 1 second right there.

If you still have trouble, try to spend 80% of the effort for turn-in and the apex. If your entry is done right, the corner exit is just an after thought. If you have to fight the car during exit, then you had done something wrong during the entry.

 

[smoothbore12]

Dear Mr Muffin,
Could you please stop complaining about the last corner, some HUMAN players are struggling with ALL THE corners...
Thanks for your consideration.

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ps: nice lap, nice consistency, nice scores

Tell me about it 😂
Sometimes they bring you very close to that scenario even hypothetical.

 

[Jeje6410]

New test today in Nurburgring GP and after lot of kms (375 kms) I improve my time with 00'310 at 2'22'574 with optimal time at 2'22'441

 

[Stormbreaker]

2.21.928 with the pad.

 

[Kurosaki Dan]

I was stuck with bronze (56'9) with wheel and yesterday testing with controller got silver by over 0,50 of the target time 😅 (Supra - Trial Mountain)

How safe this time will be? ABS on and TCS at 3 did the trick with controller, hopefully tomorrow I can do another go with the wheel but gold is way above my skills I think.

 

[GlockPants]

Decent progress today at TM for a short stint.

After the Nation's Cup race, I didn't want to stress myself too much but just doing an hour on a TT. So I ran a relaxing easy race at Le Mans first to cleanse the palate. Then I'd hop in the Supra.

13 laps and I did manage to find some time. So I'm pretty pleased with how efficient I was today.

S1 wasn't my best and S2 was ok, but I had a killer S3.

I think one or two more sessions I'll be able to break into the high 1:51's.

 

[Ed_Night]

Lost 0,1s untill the first split, the rest of the lap felt really nice.
Going to be hard to get in to the 20s. 🥴

 

[Dolph Drago]

Was able to pick up a tiny bit of time in the Mazda. Considering I had an optimal of 21.6, you'd think I managed to get under a 22. Nope, not even close. 2:22.279. If it wasn't for a terrible first sector, I would have reached the 21's easily. Why is it so hard to put down a solid 4 sectors on the same lap?

Every lap it's something. Either I:

• Have a poor sector 1 or...
• Overshoot (or undershoot) the hairpin or...
• Get on the gas too late at turn 12 and understeer off or...
• Jack up the chicane or...
• Understeer like hell entering the final turn and lose time with a terrible exit.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Thought I’d have another crack at the RX8. Obvious missing link yesterday was no stripes , so that was the first job 😂! Ran 20 laps and pulled just under a second off my first session last night… best now of 2:22.6 with optimals at 2:22.1. Still don’t like the car though…

 

[Gomario JSP]

Was able to pick up a tiny bit of time in the Mazda. Considering I had an optimal of 21.6, you'd think I managed to get under a 22. Nope, not even close. 1:22.279. If it wasn't for a terrible first sector, I would have reached the 21's easily. Why is it so hard to put down a solid 4 sectors on the same lap?

Every lap it's something. Either I:

• Have a poor sector 1 or...
• Overshoot (or undershoot) the hairpin or...
• Get on the gas too late at turn 12 and understeer off or...
• Jack up the chicane or...
• Understeer like hell entering the final turn and lose time with a terrible exit.

I must say that it looks easier than it is this one, you have to exactly have your momentum otherwise you loose so much time!, and the chicane and last corner are just hideous 🤣, I did spend a lot of time this morning to get into the 21's, my flow came after 2 freaking hours or something 🤣🤪
I'm sure you will get there very soon, al it takes is one clean lap....... wow that sounds easy... 🤣

 

[AshenGraey]

After 100 or so miles session, I managed to improve at TM with the Supra and clocked a time of 1.53.368. My optimal was 1.53.002 but I can't say that I'm motivated to chase that as I'm really not enjoying that TT. So here's to hoping my time is good enough to keep my gold streak going.

 

[Evilmuffin]

Did a 20 laps practice session focusing what I had preached....take my time and sort out the entry and let the exit be the result of my entry. I wasn't aiming for fastest lap, so I was't doing qualifying pace at all....more like race pace for 20 laps.

Seems to be a good reasult, as my pace was slowly getting faster and faster and I wasn't intentionally upping the pace.

I was going to go for another 10 qualifying laps but my shoulder hurted like hell (landed funny when snowboarding last week and made it worse playing badminton today 🫠) I guess I'm calling it a day until my shoulder brace arrive from Amazon tomorrow.

 

[mattmouth]

Nice!, if I may give a sugestion, I would exit T3 definitely in second, seems a lot faster!

I’m not @zjn but this just helped me out - thanks! Made it into a very safe gold time now, woohoo

 

[Gomario JSP]

I’m not @zjn but this just helped me out - thanks! Made it into a very safe gold time now, woohoo

Nice! that is always good to hear!
Great job!, 😁😁

 

[Gomario JSP]

Didn't have much time to play sthis morning and had other things to do, if you buy a new TV then the 40 inch goes to the bedroom so had to install a new wall Mount, wife wish...

Didn't uploaded my yesterday lap either, it kind of good to see where you can improve, and if I look at it it seems like a lot, but still was a descent lap, but I know next stint I have to work on the chicane, im now in the fase " 3th gear chicane".... it's 1 out 10.....if I master that, I'll make some real progression 😁 but have to wait to tomorrow morning.

Happy lapping guys, here is the old 21.833 lap

 

[EbrahimX7]

I finally got a 19.9 on the RX-8, still issues with the lap especially sector 1. Somehow I can smell a Low .8 now 😅 but i will wait until i feel threatened 😆. I dont want to to through the emotions through the back straight before the chicane. When you gap the ghost by alot, the chicane gets scarier and scarier 😂

 

[smoothbore12]

@Gomario JSP aka Max verstappen , do i see some whining or it's my idea ?
While you're testing 3rd gear chikane, we're struggling to find 3 seconds needed to get in the gold zone 😂 .

You're done excellent " job" ( as always ) but as it goes the only thing left is to tell us :

 

[Pesselles]

I finally got a 19.9 on the RX-8, still issues with the lap especially sector 1. Somehow I can smell a Low .8 now 😅 but i will wait until i feel threatened 😆. I dont want to to through the emotions through the back straight before the chicane. When you gap the ghost by alot, the chicane gets scarier and scarier 😂

When I follow your ghost, it last less than 5 seconds and its gone: no more ghost, no more stress.... You're already at the lobby when I'm still on the first corner.

So, I suggest you to follow my ghost and you won't have any problem at the chicane

See you tomorrow for more smart advices on GT7!

 

[crome]

Next attempt at Nürburgring yesterday, and this time it finally clicked and I was getting into a nice flow. Ended up with a 2:23.320, so an improvement of over 7 tenths. I think I'll let it go at this point. The next milestone would be a 2:22.x, and the next player above me (@Gogga) in my friends list is half a second faster than me. Both seem out of reach, at least at the moment, but I'm very happy with what I got so far. Maybe I'll return to Trial Mountain before it's over.

@Pesselles @Lomic you should try some soft butter, it seems to help!

 

[Gogga]

Next attempt at Nürburgring yesterday, and this time it finally clicked and I was getting into a nice flow. Ended up with a 2:23.320, so an improvement of over 7 tenths. I think I'll let it go at this point. The next milestone would be a 2:22.x, and the next player above me (@Gogga) in my friends list is half a second faster than me. Both seem out of reach, at least at the moment, but I'm very happy with what I got so far. Maybe I'll return to Trial Mountain before it's over.

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@Pesselles @Lomic you should try some soft butter, it seems to help!

Nice time mate! Keep at it, you will crack into the 22's.
I made a slight improvement today to a 2:22.719 with optimal of 2:22.509. My biggest issue is consistency. Just have a look at these sector times. They are all over the place.
I'm suffering from one lap wonder syndrome again 🤣

 

[P-Courty]

Next attempt at Nürburgring yesterday, and this time it finally clicked and I was getting into a nice flow. Ended up with a 2:23.320, so an improvement of over 7 tenths. I think I'll let it go at this point. The next milestone would be a 2:22.x, and the next player above me (@Gogga) in my friends list is half a second faster than me. Both seem out of reach, at least at the moment, but I'm very happy with what I got so far. Maybe I'll return to Trial Mountain before it's over.

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@Pesselles @Lomic you should try some soft butter, it seems to help!

Ignore what @Gogga said, don't keep at it, you've just pushed me down the friends list 🤣 I don't like this TT but I am becoming tempted to run it again 😉

In truth though, great improvement 👍🏻

Also, if you have shared your replay then I may need to borrow the ghost... And the Ghost Busters to help me beat you 😜

 

[crome]

Ignore what @Gogga said, don't keep at it, you've just pushed me down the friends list 🤣 I don't like this TT but I am becoming tempted to run it again 😉

In truth though, great improvement 👍🏻

Also, if you have shared your replay then I may need to borrow the ghost... And the Ghost Busters to help me beat you 😜

Thanks for the kind words. And: yeah I did share it