GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

Gomario JSP · Sunday at 10:37 AM

Morning!

Went from .565 to s whopping .554 whoop whoop 🤣🤪

I did exactly stole 1 place back on the global board ( at the time )

Average S1 for me and a tenth slower in S2 than optimal 😢

First hairpin 😱

crome · Sunday at 3:01 PM

Hey folks,

Sardegna is a 10/10 challenge for me, just so much fun. Made some good progress as well and was even unexpectedly able to sneak past @Gomario JSP. Sorry for contributing to your German trauma mate, you‘ll have to go again 😄

I had quite a few 1:16.3xx S2 splits, even a 1:16.276 but just couldn‘t figure out S3 at all. Things got much better when I started staying in third for accelerating out of the first lefthander in S3. But it‘s still hit and miss.

Happy lapping!

Gomario JSP · Sunday at 4:26 PM

crome
Hey folks,

Sardegna is a 10/10 challenge for me, just so much fun. Made some good progress as well and was even unexpectedly able to sneak past @Gomario JSP. Sorry for contributing to your German trauma mate, you‘ll have to go again 😄

I had quite a few 1:16.3xx S2 splits, even a 1:16.276 but just couldn‘t figure out S3 at all. Things got much better when I started staying in third for accelerating out of the first lefthander in S3. But it‘s still hit and miss.

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Happy lapping!

Oooh come ooonnn...... placed so high and yet ..... 🤣🤣
Nice job buddy, I was hoping that you would have a hard time matching that but I was wrong again 🤣

#germansaregivingmeheadackes 🤪🙏🤣

crome · Sunday at 4:43 PM

Gomario JSP
Oooh come ooonnn...... placed so high and yet ..... 🤣🤣
Nice job buddy, I was hoping that you would have a hard time matching that but I was wrong again 🤣

#germansaregivingmeheadackes 🤪🙏🤣

Thanks mate, I'm sure I won't stay up for long.

Also (almost) hesitant to mention it, I returned to Tokyo for a bit after over a week. I had really bad technical glitches last week where the steering wheel would get stuck on turn in, then suddenly jump to the correct position a second later. The best I could muster was a 1:55.5 under these conditions. Then someone told me they had the same problem and using a rental car fixed it. Tried it, and it was a night and day difference, way past placebo territory. I beat my previous PB after 3 laps and after 7 more I arrived comfortably in 1:54

Funny thing is that when I drove the car with the broken steering I had to learn to be super precise, so driving it now with working steering the car felt super easy to control 🤣

Metalgear9493 · Sunday at 5:29 PM

Couldn't resist trying the electric trash lol.

Gomario JSP · Sunday at 5:30 PM

crome
Thanks mate, I'm sure I won't stay up for long.

Also (almost) hesitant to mention it, I returned to Tokyo for a bit after over a week. I had really bad technical glitches last week where the steering wheel would get stuck on turn in, then suddenly jump to the correct position a second later. The best I could muster was a 1:55.5 under these conditions. Then someone told me they had the same problem and using a rental car fixed it. Tried it, and it was a night and day difference, way past placebo territory. I beat my previous PB after 3 laps and after 7 more I arrived comfortably in 1:54

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Funny thing is that when I drove the car with the broken steering I had to learn to be super precise, so driving it now with working steering the car felt super easy to control 🤣

Nice result!

I haven't been back to Tokyo to be fair and don't think I am going to, I always have a lot of difficulty to focus on 2 trials at the same time but if they are good I might sometimes, otherwise it's just a week of blasting and on to the next one.
Tokyo is one I have mixed feelings about, thr car is absolutely fire, but those damn walls make it kind of to frustrating for me, I have some time on the table but I think I'll run the WRX another time before the next one ( wich is hopefully the update RX7 ) 🤪

Good to see you climbing up the ladder buddy, you are getting faster and faster and to fast for me 😡🤣

Germans..... yeah... nice people 🤣🫶

NicoGmbh · Sunday at 6:31 PM

Hi guys, did you have a good weekend?
@TheNormsk motivated me to return to the shade of the wind turbines.

Nice session... a goal, I hope to join the club. 59.
Good evening to all

TheNormsk · 2026-03-09T03:22:41+0000

I jinxed myself saying I thought I might be able to go sub 2min. Tonight, I couldn’t get better that 2:00.5. Ugh.

I blame @bliprunner🤨. He went quicker and hid his replay so the prior ghost disappeared. I was gelling with that one.🤬🤣

So I’ve been chasing @Tidgney VR ghost. I can go faster in sectors 1 and 2 but never at the same time. One time I matched sector 3 but I usually lose all my time in that one.

It was time for a break..

DDK-Racing · 2026-03-09T09:06:56+0000

Sardegna with the Subbie is my jam. After 1 short (15mins) and 1 slightly longer (30-40mins) stint I was in top 1000 at the time, currently slipping slightly to P1184.

2:00.8xx is showing in the optimals.

bliprunner · 2026-03-09T10:00:02+0000

TheNormsk
I blame @bliprunner🤨. He went quicker and hid his replay so the prior ghost disappeared. I was gelling with that one.🤬🤣

Sorry about that... the replay didn't save, I wish there was something to hide! I switched to ABS normal and found more confidence, the final two corners in particular are much easier and I yeeted them to grab another tenth.

Wanted a .58 but that's it for me. I recently decided to stop TT's after the weekend. Monday-Wednesday is now reserved for some daily races.

MP81 · 2026-03-09T15:20:02+0000

crome
I had really bad technical glitches last week where the steering wheel would get stuck on turn in, then suddenly jump to the correct position a second later.

Would it backfeed into the wheel?

I've noticed incidents in a few of my cars, while racing normal offline races where I am in cockpit view, where I can watch the steering wheel jump mid-corner, but it doesn't have anything to do with how far I've turned the wheel, but it's always struck me as extremely weird. Was it that same kind of issue?

crome · 2026-03-09T15:39:48+0000

MP81
Would it backfeed into the wheel?

I've noticed incidents in a few of my cars, while racing normal offline races where I am in cockpit view, where I can watch the steering wheel jump mid-corner, but it doesn't have anything to do with how far I've turned the wheel, but it's always struck me as extremely weird. Was it that same kind of issue?

I was talking about the on-screen wheel which gets stuck and disconnected from the physical wheel‘s position as the latter continues to turn in. Once the force feedback falls below a certain threshold, the on-screen wheel (and by extension, the car’s front axle) then suddenly snap into a position that is aligned with the physical wheel again. I could 80% „fix“ that by dialing down FFB to 1, but of course I lost all feeling for the car when I did that.

And I went back and forth multiple times between Garage and rental car and am 100% sure the issue only existed with the garage car.

bliprunner · 2026-03-09T16:47:48+0000

crome
I was talking about the on-screen wheel which gets stuck and disconnected from the physical wheel‘s position as the latter continues to turn in. Once the force feedback falls below a certain threshold, the on-screen wheel (and by extension, the car’s front axle) then suddenly snap into a position that is aligned with the physical wheel again. I could 80% „fix“ that by dialing down FFB to 1, but of course I lost all feeling for the car when I did that.

And I went back and forth multiple times between Garage and rental car and am 100% sure the issue only existed with the garage car.

Maybe your garage car had wider tyres or was super low, and the tyres were getting caught on the bodywork? (I think that is possible even with BOP)

MP81 · 2026-03-09T16:58:10+0000

crome
I was talking about the on-screen wheel which gets stuck and disconnected from the physical wheel‘s position as the latter continues to turn in. Once the force feedback falls below a certain threshold, the on-screen wheel (and by extension, the car’s front axle) then suddenly snap into a position that is aligned with the physical wheel again. I could 80% „fix“ that by dialing down FFB to 1, but of course I lost all feeling for the car when I did that.

And I went back and forth multiple times between Garage and rental car and am 100% sure the issue only existed with the garage car.

Ahhh, yeah, that sounds like what I've experienced. I'll be turning in - let's say, using arbitrary steering degrees, I'm at like...45 degrees, and all of a sudden the wheel, visibly on the screen, jumps to a completely different angle, and then as you leave the turn, it aligns back up. My one R32, my 308 and my stock Taycan all do this at certain tracks - Banky Boi at Maggiore is almost always a guaranteed spots to make these cars do that. It seems like when I lifted the R32 up a tad, it did it less, though it's not that low.

bliprunner
Maybe your garage car had wider tyres or was super low, and the tyres were getting caught on the bodywork? (I think that is possible even with BOP)

This is always what I've wondered if it is the cause...

crome · 2026-03-09T17:11:14+0000

bliprunner
Maybe your garage car had wider tyres or was super low, and the tyres were getting caught on the bodywork? (I think that is possible even with BOP)

Could be, and it would explain why it happens only under braking when weight is on the front axle. But it would not explain why it‘s less of an issue when FFB is dialed down … 🤷‍♂️

MP81 · 2026-03-09T17:40:25+0000

crome
Could be, and it would explain why it happens only under braking when weight is on the front axle. But it would not explain why it‘s less of an issue when FFB is dialed down … 🤷‍♂️

Oooh, I should try that and see if it's similarly illogical on mine, as well.