You have done a 59.9, is that with a controller because I've been going and going and going and the best I can do is 1.01.020. I have never struggled like this with a time trial before lol!
It is, here's my lap. I found looking at the leaderboard ghosts/replays was a bad idea because the car does different things on a controller to a wheel, I tried to get the exits as clean as I could because the driving on the grass and throwing the car at the entries seems impossible for me.
Not that I know of, it just feels different to the old game where the cars with high downforce were much more responsive, it's felt like I've been losing time in the tight corners since launch but this time trial has filled in some of the gaps on how.
Dualsense, max sensitivity in game and the haptic trigger stuff turned off.
I think the spread on the McLaren time trial is more down to the weird gearbox and the strange way people were driving for the fast times than anything to do with the steering, it's a old car too so probably has less downforce than these.
It feels yes but more under controll and faster then on controller. They should lift the gold % to 5 then the benefit between wheel and controller is defenetly more then 5%.
Lifting it to 5% would be far too easy for the wheel users in my opinion, if there was an option to filter the leaderboard by input device and then give gold to whoever is in the top 3% of their own leaderboard that would be fair. It would also give credit to whoever the 2 fastest in the world are, at the moment it gives you TDG_MARKUS but doesn't even mention the other fastest player or give their time.
I did actually record my session so I've uploaded it below, lost at least 2 tenths at T3 and 4 from braking slightly too late and losing the rear on exit (going off my S1 times on later laps), my sector 2 was pretty good as I struggled to match it on later laps and the chicane I think I could've gone slightly quicker
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How I was going about the lap was: The lap starts at the chicane so firstly make sure you get a good exit out of there, T1 is flat, just turn in when you get to the grass on the left.
For T3 I was using the first set of dashed lines as a braking reference, as you pass them, brake, drop down to 5th, throw the car in when you get to the kerb on the left and floor it out.
For T5 the start of the kerb was the brake reference and once again dropping down to 5th and throwing it in.
For T6 you can use the electrical post on the right as a reference and you want to exit T7 in 4th gear to avoid wheelspin
For T10 brake just before the 2nd set of dashed lines, drop to 3rd for the first apex then upshift to 4th for the exit
Though saying that it was mostly just chucking it in and hoping the kerbs didn't spit me out.
It's a fun TT until you're trying to consistently get under 1:00.5, at which point it's more fun to crush your head in a hydraulic press.
Didn't try shifting down to 4th and then back up to 5th as you exit?
@Grimm6Jack
Stay in 5th gear in that corner and go only over the kerbs on the right site. When you hit 21sec in that sectore you halfway done
