Time Trial Discussion

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Gomario JSP
Yeah i have no idea how he makes it looks so easy, if you look at this lap, i swear he can still find like 2 tenths.....
The only thing i'm interesting in is the staying in 5th... i'm going to 4th at the end on the S' es and the staying in 4th in the corner after the deadly downhill left hander..... looks so much more smooth, i'm fighting it all the way......

we shall see!
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It was anything but easy >.>

Trying to keep the rpm up while staying in the higher gear was nerve wrecking. I had to kept telling myself to lift the brake yet every fiber of my being told me keep the foot down.
 
Well, think I’m done with the RX-8. This has been a very grindy TT for me, after a long and slow climb up the leaderboard I managed to hit a 2:22.565.

Not a perfect lap, but a very good lap by my standards. Can see a couple of glaring errors (missed apexes, not using the width of the track in some places) but I think I’m happy to call it quits here.

 
With one day left i figured i'd give the RX-8 another chance,still sitting .044 out of gold.
After 15-20 laps i was hopelessly bad,something just felt off,i'm sitting too low i figured,jacked up my chair and boom,first lap .300 better,5-6 laps later busted into the 23's,woot!woot!,problem solved,next! :lol:

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Evilmuffin
It was anything but easy >.>

Trying to keep the rpm up while staying in the higher gear was nerve wrecking. I had to kept telling myself to lift the brake yet every fiber of my being told me keep the foot down.
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Naah in know the drill, takes hard work, very jaleouse of your smooth lap, and I think a top 100 isn't that easy here!

I'll try to catch up a bit, but only have tomorrow cause Thursday is update morning, and still am a one week man 🤪🤣🤣
 
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10 more laps at NBGP with the RX8, very frustrating feeling of slugging all the time.

No a lot of improvement.
Sector 1 got 0.083s better
Sector 3 got 0.035s better
Sector 4 got 0.034s better
All in different laps of course...

Optimal went down of 0.246s
Medium went up a bit and best lap was 0.441s slower

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Not sure I'll try this one again tomorrow, it is like a chore to do for me.
 
zjn
Now I feel my gold is safe, unless the two aliens at the top of the leaderboard will go in a dogfight

I'm happy because I entered the trial with 3 propositions get from looking at my previous time, stayed stick with them and saw the results

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Pretty sure you are safe. I highly doubt they can find another 3/10s on such a short track.
 
Day 3 LM.

Better progress today. But the time isn't coming down as quickly as I'd like. The esses are inconsistent but I think I get it right sometimes. However, I can't seem to keep enough speed through the wall exit in 5th.

Hopefully I'll have time for a longer stint tomorrow and Thursday. Maybe get closer to my optimal lap.

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Rayquaza


Made some further improvements, optimal lap now even in the 1:28. Done for now, @EbrahimX7 please don't ruin this for me 🙈😆
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I wont, i think im done with this combo. you should tell kaj that 😅 even tho i have a low .8 in me but its just not clicking for me. I might try one last time later. Your time is perfectly safe anyway 26.7 is the max humanly possible.
 
Gomario JSP
:lol: :lol:, it's a weird one indeed with the Civic, but i will surely give 4th a try then!, thanks for the inside,. these things make this forum so damn good and competitive!



@Chris30 read the above as "i did not have the right gear since last year and was still high on the leaderboard, now i do have the right gear............goodbye... i am officially abducted.... see ya! " :lol:

But Chris, sticking with the controller is fine!, i am a controller user and sometimes i can give him kind of a hard time, or more.... keep him sharp :lol:, so just keep practising on the controller and you will become faster every step of the way 👍
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Wow, I can't imagine how some of you can even play this game with a controller, let alone set fast times with it!

This reminds me of when I first started playing GT and was introduced to the world of Sim Racing. It's kind of a long story, but there seem to be some really cool guys that hang out on this thread, so I hope some of you will indulge me. If not, feel free to move on, and sorry for making you scroll :lol:

I'm a huge movie fan, and in 2008 when Blu-Ray players became widely available, the most economical way to get a Blu-Ray player was to buy a PS3, so that's what I did. For over a year, all I did with the PS3 was watch movies

Then a year later, I was thinking I should probably try out a game. When I was a kid I played some of the first video games, Atari and Intellivision, but by the time Nintendo and PlayStation came around I was already in college and/or working, and so I never joined the "gaming" community in those days. Anyway, I'm in BestBuy one day and I was talking to the one of the kids there about what would be a good game for PS3, and he gives me GT5 Prologue.

I got the game home, and was instantly impressed, but after 10 minutes of trying to play it with a controller I came to the conclusion that there's no way that I'm really going to enjoy this game without a wheel. So the next day I put down a couple hundred bucks for a Logitech DFGT. I pull the thing out of the box and I'm like, "what in the hell do I attach this to?" It was clear I had no clue about gaming. In any case, a TV tray did the trick, and within an hour, the addiction began!

I discovered GTPlanet not long after, and I was amazed to learn about the long history of the franchise, and discover a really cool online community of fellow enthusiasts.

GT5 was unlike anything I could have imagined, actually being able to feel the handling differences in the all of these different cars that I would never own in real life. it just blew my mind how far gaming technology had come. And this was in 2010! I was never a real racing guy like many of you, but I did love the driving arcade games as a kid, and I loved going fast and driving on twisty roads where I could find them in the concrete jungle of southern California.

Of course, as soon as GT5 was released I upgraded to that and spent a few years with it until GT6 was released. After a while the series got a little stale, and other competitive 'racing sims' appeared such as Project Cars and Assetto Corsa. I spent some time with those, never really got into GT Sport, and had a couple year hiatus due to a back injury that is thankfully now completely healed.

Speaking of the wheel, he DFGT didn't last long and I upgraded to a G29 probably within the first year. That wheel lasted several years until it gave out and I replaced it with a G923. In 2013 my wife was nice enough to give me a Playseat for Christmas, which I had to replace once

I sas playing ACC and AC on PC for a while with Quest 2 VR, but finally got back to GT with the launch of GT7 (even though I had to wait 6 months because you couldn't get a PS5 without a $300-400 markup in 2022.

Last year I upgraded my setup with PSVR2 and splurged for a Logitech G Pro, both investments I don't regret for a second. I'm having more fun and driving faster than ever.

Thanks for letting me reminisce a little. It's hard to believe that I've been playing this game and coming to this forum for something like 14 years now. It sounds like many of you are in the same boat, and I imagine you have similar stories. The one story I hear often repeated is how great GT4 was. I guess I jumped on the bandwagon just after that game which may have been the pinnacle of GT.

I'm kind of sorry I missed that, and even though I never became a "gamer", I've had countless hours of enjoyment from this franchise and several of the others, and can fairly say I'm a "sim racer"
 
Hi,

@GlockPants....

"However, I can't seem to keep enough speed through the wall exit in 5th.".... Oh my words!

How do the aliens even do that? I have tried and tried and better tried. I am - we maybe - missing something here? I wonder if it's down to the time of day? The weather outside? What you fed the cat ( nod to earlier posts here )? The dog?

I need to watch more replays I think. I lose sooooo much time through that section.

Best regards to all here.

Ian.
 
luv2drive
Wow, I can't imagine how some of you can even play this game with a controller, let alone set fast times with it!

This reminds me of when I first started playing GT and was introduced to the world of Sim Racing. It's kind of a long story, but there seem to be some really cool guys that hang out on this thread, so I hope some of you will indulge me. If not, feel free to move on, and sorry for making you scroll :lol:

I'm a huge movie fan, and in 2008 when Blu-Ray players became widely available, the most economical way to get a Blu-Ray player was to buy a PS3, so that's what I did. For over a year, all I did with the PS3 was watch movies

Then a year later, I was thinking I should probably try out a game. When I was a kid I played some of the first video games, Atari and Intellivision, but by the time Nintendo and PlayStation came around I was already in college and/or working, and so I never joined the "gaming" community in those days. Anyway, I'm in BestBuy one day and I was talking to the one of the kids there about what would be a good game for PS3, and he gives me GT5 Prologue.

I got the game home, and was instantly impressed, but after 10 minutes of trying to play it with a controller I came to the conclusion that there's no way that I'm really going to enjoy this game without a wheel. So the next day I put down a couple hundred bucks for a Logitech DFGT. I pull the thing out of the box and I'm like, "what in the hell do I attach this to?" It was clear I had no clue about gaming. In any case, a TV tray did the trick, and within an hour, the addiction began!

I discovered GTPlanet not long after, and I was amazed to learn about the long history of the franchise, and discover a really cool online community of fellow enthusiasts.

GT5 was unlike anything I could have imagined, actually being able to feel the handling differences in the all of these different cars that I would never own in real life. it just blew my mind how far gaming technology had come. And this was in 2010! I was never a real racing guy like many of you, but I did love the driving arcade games as a kid, and I loved going fast and driving on twisty roads where I could find them in the concrete jungle of southern California.

Of course, as soon as GT5 was released I upgraded to that and spent a few years with it until GT6 was released. After a while the series got a little stale, and other competitive 'racing sims' appeared such as Project Cars and Assetto Corsa. I spent some time with those, never really got into GT Sport, and had a couple year hiatus due to a back injury that is thankfully now completely healed.

Speaking of the wheel, he DFGT didn't last long and I upgraded to a G29 probably within the first year. That wheel lasted several years until it gave out and I replaced it with a G923. In 2013 my wife was nice enough to give me a Playseat for Christmas, which I had to replace once

I sas playing ACC and AC on PC for a while with Quest 2 VR, but finally got back to GT with the launch of GT7 (even though I had to wait 6 months because you couldn't get a PS5 without a $300-400 markup in 2022.

Last year I upgraded my setup with PSVR2 and splurged for a Logitech G Pro, both investments I don't regret for a second. I'm having more fun and driving faster than ever.

Thanks for letting me reminisce a little. It's hard to believe that I've been playing this game and coming to this forum for something like 14 years now. It sounds like many of you are in the same boat, and I imagine you have similar stories. The one story I hear often repeated is how great GT4 was. I guess I jumped on the bandwagon just after that game which may have been the pinnacle of GT.

I'm kind of sorry I missed that, and even though I never became a "gamer", I've had countless hours of enjoyment from this franchise and several of the others, and can fairly say I'm a "sim racer"
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Great story.
I have a very similar experience. I started with PS1 and GT, then didn’t return until the PS3 with prologue, a G25 and a playseat. Also found GT Planet in’08.

Now it’s a Fanatec GT DD Pro 8nm, CSP V3 and a RS1 rig. Oh and a bunch of wheel rims.

Good times.
 
Ian JB
Hi,

@GlockPants....

"However, I can't seem to keep enough speed through the wall exit in 5th.".... Oh my words!

How do the aliens even do that? I have tried and tried and better tried. I am - we maybe - missing something here? I wonder if it's down to the time of day? The weather outside? What you fed the cat ( nod to earlier posts here )? The dog?

I need to watch more replays I think. I lose sooooo much time through that section.

Best regards to all here.

Ian.
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It all begins at the beginning of the S'es. You have to be willing to sacrifice some entry speed and make sure you place the majority of the car on the curbs. Then as much as you want to floor it for the 2nd part of the S'es (left turn), you have to lift a bit and let your car turn and ride the rim of the curbs (as in right tires barely touching the curbs...also partial throttle to keep your line in check). This will give you the widest possible arc for the final part of the S'es...thus allow you to have high enough of a minimum speed to make 5th gear useable. Aside from the downhill killer left turn of the dead that's coming next, this is where it make or break your lap time.
 
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Evilmuffin
It all begins at the beginning of the S'es. You have to be willing to sacrifice some entry speed and make sure you place the majority of the car on the curbs. Then as much as you want to floor it for the 2nd part of the S'es (left turn), you have to lift a bit and let your car turn and ride the rim of the curbs (as in right tires barely touching the curbs...also partial throttle to keep yur line in check). This will give you the widest possible arc for the final part of the S'es...thus allow you to have high enough of a minimum speed to make 5th gear usable. Aside from the downhill killer left turn of the dead that's coming next, this is where it makes or break your lap time.
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It's why my times are so good. I'm consistently fast in there. Turn one, the wall of death and the downhill left with the indeterminate braking/coasting/hammering the throttle section are the make or break ones. 😂😂😂
 
Frustratingly slow car and a terrible chicane with inconsistent track limits. Joy.

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Top 100 is the idea though, and as if by magic I started tonight instead of tomorrow night and will get another chance. P90 for now which I expect to be a three figure position before this is over. That invalid lap, man. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
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Ran a bunch more laps last night and got this time. Ran some more just now and got to basically the same time but couldn't improve. I know there's another 0.5 I can get, but I can't string the good sectors together at the same time :). This may be where I land, but at least it's comfortably in the gold range.

This has been a very frustrating combo for me, probably because it exposes the skill that I'm lacking :lol:

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Right.......... 256km stint......

from 1:27.823 --------> to 1:27.816.....

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Took me about an hour to learn to drive the damn Civic again, i couldn't even sub 28 the first hour, where i had splits below 55.1xx's yesterday i had a VERY hard time to get even below 55.3xx, what the hell is going on??...
Felt like driving a complete different car??....

At the end of the session i sort of got the grove back but it was to short to make a real difference.
Learned a lot tho, .... i'm faster exiting the S'es in 4th for sure, and if i nail it i run 55.0 if i don't stuff up the downhill.
But funny enough that's not my problem with this combo...

Like today, i finally did hit a 55.0, stayed in 4th ( which is a lot better than 3th indeed!! ) in the corners after the downhiller..
and felt super fast until the line, but still .816 so i'm clearly doing something wrong in the last 2 corners :lol: :lol:

Didn't uploaded the video cause i didn't have anymore time, had to almost melt my own turbo to get to work on time :lol::lol:
 
Long session yesterday, in my pursuit to crack the top 1,000. For the longest part, it felt out of reach. I was consistently doing sub 1:29 laps, but never came close to my previous best.

Then, as is often the case for me, the moment I accepted that it wasn't gonna happen today, I did a last stint without any real ambition, just to try some slightly different lines, and suddenly everything felt easier, and then this happened:

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Optimal time is now at 1:27.997! But the stars would have to align perfectly for me to get there. Today I am going to give my arms and hands some rest though :D

Edit: here's the lap:

 
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crome
Long session yesterday, in my pursuit to crack the top 1,000. For the longest part, it felt out of reach. I was consistently doing sub 1:29 laps, but never came close to my previous best.

Then, as is often the case for me, the moment I accepted that it wasn't gonna happen today, I did a last stint without any real ambition, just to try some slightly different lines, and suddenly everything felt easier, and then this happened:

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Optimal time is now at 1:27.997! But the stars would have to align perfectly for me to get there. Today I am going to give my arms and hands some rest though :D
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1.50%, that's hauling with them big boys Crome!
Nice! but now you can't sleep peacefully until that is a sub 28 ;) :) :lol: :lol:

Great job!
 
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I managed to push my time down to a 23.158 in the rx8 yesterday. My optimal was consistently 22.8xx but i just couldn't break that 23.xxx barrier. Might try some more tonight as i really feel like i can do it, but I'm not sure I'll have the chance.

Really big fan of how this combo feels tbh....
 
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