GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

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linksracer
This layout cutting out the big banky boy really helps me to not lose time to P1, I'm terrible at that corner and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong there, thankfully not a problem this time.
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Are you on controller? I have typically similar pace on both pad and wheel (depending on the track/car), but find BBB miles harder to get a good run on a controller.
 
Wilsonson
Awesome replay. Thanks for the upload. You carry so much speed through T3 and the esses. Wow. I noticed that you delayed your turn in point into the very first S quite a lot. Is this instrumental to then take the other two at such high speeds or am I overthinking this?
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Thanks! :cheers: My lines are just my best attempt at following whoever has the fastest replay ghost available (although I'm not always successfully following).

Yes, the line to enter the esses is going to be very important as it will determine your line through the rest of the esses and subsequently how much speed you can carry through. If you turn in too early and try to carry the speed, you will overshoot the entry into the second apex, in this case meaning an invalidated lap as you go off track and cut the corner, or having to slam the brakes to try and stay within track limits, either way a ruined lap.

Remember, the racing line is the line that carries the most speed whilst minimising the distance travelled through the corner. You want to make the corner as "straight" as possible, as this means less turning and therefore more speed carried. You'll notice on the exit of the 3rd apex, I ran very wide and had to slow down a bit, and that cost me probably 1.5 tenths all the way up that straight.
peniu
Are you on controller? I have typically similar pace on both pad and wheel (depending on the track/car), but find BBB miles harder to get a good run on a controller.
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Yep, on PS4 controller. I suspected the wheel had an easier time but I've also seen some other controller users take it better than me as well.
 
I can’t tell if I hate Yas Marina or if I’m going to grow to love it. I’m a long way from being proficient in that third sector still but it’s beginning to come together for me. It does have a bit of everything; fast straights, fast corners, slow complex corners.

I want to love to hate it or hate to love it. I can’t decide. For now, I got into gold, even though not exactly a stellar performance, but it’s the most I can do for now.

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I’m also 3 for 3.

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Since installing QR2 on my DD Pro, I've never had a disconnection, but it happened three times last night.

Has this happened to you too ?

Perhaps a bug in the Spec 3 ?
 
EbrahimX7
The amount of people that sent me messages wanting the +1 would fill an a380 plane 🤣... my lap is still not enough for p1 anyway. I dont even think i will win it lol. Unless i improve to .5xx i think anywhere in the .5 will be enough.
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So popularrrrr.

Rooting for you to get it! Though I wish you'd share your replay so I can data logger a bit 😉
 
MP81
I didn't try CSA on the Polestar, but I found the oversteer to be fairly easy to catch on TC0 due to it being AWD and having the front to pull you out (somewhat) - which is rare for me, since on most TTs I end up finding myself fastest with CSA on strong in order to allow me the hope of completing a lap with TC less than 2. I ended up with a 50.7xx yesterday, so that should be plenty safe for gold, but now it makes me wonder if going back at it with CSA on strong and TC on 1 (or maybe still 0) could net me a slightly faster lap - especially on turn 2 and the final corner.

I am leery about the Espace time trial. I had my first go at the track for the weekly challenges and I am not sure if I am a fan of it or not. My 787B did not like it, but it also doesn't tend to like tight, technical courses anyway.
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I went back at it, after the Espace TT (below), for some reason and dropped myself to, I believe, a 50.280? CSA on Strong, TC on 0. Tried TC on 1, but it seemed like it was compromising my speed out of most corners. It would occasionally help on the last one, but sometimes it'd also just shoot me straight off the circuit, so I usually left it at 0. I think I have more time in that lap, as I believe my optimal was a 50-flat based on the too-many laps I did yesterday.

For Yaz Marina...yeah, still not sure I'm a real fan of that track, or its limits (mainly bollards on the curbing), nor the Espace that seemed mighty unhappy doing anything other than accelerating in a straight line. Profuse amounts of understeer when you really don't want it, brakes that mostly work, and then oversteer when you expect understeer. Some of that may be the nature of that track, too. Either way, needed CSA on Strong to drop down to TC1 and got a 1:49.274. Annoyingly, I had an invalid 1:49.4xx early on, at a time when I was gold, but only just barely. I chased that lap for many more before I finally replicated and then improved on it.

I don't expect I'll go back to that one unless gold somehow drops by a second, but the Polestar one is so easy just to go put lap after lap in. I'm in the low 300s (as of when I stopped yesterday), would like to see if I can get into the 50-flats or maybe, magically, a high-49. My ability to trail brake was just going out by that time, so I was losing my ability to get the car turned in for a corner nicely.
 
Todt
Since installing QR2 on my DD Pro, I've never had a disconnection, but it happened three times last night.

Has this happened to you too ?

Perhaps a bug in the Spec 3 ?
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Since is upgraded the clamp on my QR1 I’d never had a disconnect in over a year. I’ve had several since Spec III a week. Coincidence or related?

Last night I re-seated the axle and camped it again. Since then it’s been okay but only time will tell.
 
I have done a test with Polestar on Brands Hatch and turned on TC. Since I am on controller, and controller already has smoothing built in on throttle pedal (trigger on controller), TC slows me down and I can not come near my time that I got without TC. So I guess it helps if you are on whee/Pedals set-up but not when you are on controller and already have fast time.
 
TheNormsk
Since is upgraded the clamp on my QR1 I’d never had a disconnect in over a year. I’ve had several since Spec III a week. Coincidence or related?

Last night I re-seated the axle and camped it again. Since then it’s been okay but only time will tell.
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I think it's related!
I seem to recall hearing about other bugs, but not with Fanatec products.
I turn my base off and on again, and it works for me.
 
linksracer
Quick session last night, surprised to get into the top 100 so soon. I think there's a bit more time in the lap to find but with 2 trials ending this week and a busy schedule, I don't think I'll have time to go back and find it.

This layout cutting out the big banky boy really helps me to not lose time to P1, I'm terrible at that corner and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong there, thankfully not a problem this time.

First time using the data logger also! Very cool feature which I'm glad has been added. Comparing to @Metalgear9493's superb lap, looks like I'm generally just a bit blunt on the inputs, and also a bit delayed. Was beautiful to observe the Senna-like throttle inputs in fine detail and how that was being used to gain time.

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Onto the Polestar, which probably won't get a big session either.
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Awesome lap — you're so fast!

I've been slowly but surely improving on my time-trial journey that I started a few months ago.

Right now I’m in this weird spot where I feel both so close and yet so far from reaching my first-ever Top 100. It’s a mixed bag: I’m really happy with my progress, but at the same time a bit frustrated that I can’t squeeze out those last few milliseconds.

Hopefully the telemetry data will help with that. 🙏🏻

For context, I play in VR and still use my old and trusty G29.
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pabloprp69
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That's amazing progress in such a short time, well done!
Even if you're missing out on tenths of a second not milliseconds to be in the top 100, it's not much!

But remember you can quickly gain or lose a tenth or two in each corner. If you manage to gain just a tenth in each corner, you'll find yourself in the top 10!

Perseverance and above all time my friend.
 
Just tried the Polestar 5 @ Brands Hatch Indy, and I felt like it was a somewhat easy gold. Seems like I’m in the top 9k times, too.
 
Hey folks - new kittens tearing around caused me to wake before my alarm this morning, so decided to use the time to get more familiar with the Polestar having only put 30 miles on it previously. Having been at 50.85 previously, I managed to whittle that down to 50.406 without aids after 25 laps or so. Switched on CSA strong, and that became 50.259 after 5 laps. I then turned TCS to 1 (still with CSA), and after another 5 laps, delivered the time below (while the kittens were munching on my headphone lead). Not sure I'll get another go before the deadline, but surely some more time in there with those settings and some patience. Decent result though so if I go no faster, I'm happy with this :cheers:
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