GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

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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 😢

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First hairpin 😱

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

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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.
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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?
 
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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?
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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.
 
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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.
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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)
 
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.
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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)
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This is always what I've wondered if it is the cause...
 
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)
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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 … 🤷‍♂️
 
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 … 🤷‍♂️
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Oooh, I should try that and see if it's similarly illogical on mine, as well.
 
This is a slow burn for me, took awhile to really understand how to take T1 and T2. Getting very, very close to the walls on T3 also gave me a strong run of it. Will keep trying!!

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Looking at your sectors, I realize how bad my sector 1 is.

And your best S1 is at 37.7?

I lose . 500 just here... bravo my friend.

I think I will have trouble going down to 49.8XX
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Yeah I think 37.798 😁 and the worst part is that my last PB had a .933 on S1 but i absolutely nailed S2....
Lots or room (but also to stuff up 🤣)

Staying in 3rd on the first hairpin helpt me quite good with some stabilizing of the Suubawuu, you can brake way beyond the 150 board and trailbrake your way in, and for the right hander after that I do tap the brake now , yeeet it in and pray for the blue paint 🤣... by the time I notice I did 't hit Barry R ( wich I hit 7/10 times) it's time to go to 5th gear 😁
Very tactical trial, to bad everybody on my list seems to be good at it 🤣🤣

Good luck buddy, you got this! 😁
 
Thx @Gomario JSP

As I play in VR, I wait for the hole in the stone wall to disappear from pillar A windshield bay to brake. It seems quite close to your mark to me.

Compared to you, I think I’m wasting time because of the slide in the previous turn (yet I am close to the WR ghost which uses the 6th speed).

I also think that I am bad at the hairpin exit.

Maybe the opportunity for me to analyze the available data.
 
Hello everyone!

Some may remember I used to make guides for these time trials... well I've done a special one off video for this week.

Recently I've realised a childhood dream and actually bought a blobeye Impreza! So when I heard what this time trial was... I knew I'd be making a video for it!

The lap itself is atrocious... but its gold for now...

 
Two last Time Trials resume:

S2000 amuse - Spent some time to understand that last S before the last curve should be done in 6th after apex, as the power is deleiverd less aggressive. This is a wild car that deliever too much power in low rpm. In general, very fun.




Subaru Impreza - The problem here is the track: Sardegna reverse doesn`t make sense for me. Some curves looks wrong as the curbs are totally out of position. Also, this is one of some 4x4 cars that has an aggressive turn in, maybe exagerated. I didn`t like so much, so that I focused and only remain insied gold zone.


 
90 more miles in the STi (really should go see a doctor about that) and I only got as close as two tenths to my best (2:00.490), with the theoretical at maybe one tenth under my best time, so I think I'm tapped out on that one.

It's fun, until the walls and the car generally doing mostly what it feels like start to grate on you.

Was hoping to get down into the 1:59s, but it doesn't really seem feasible for me, as apparently luck is just not on my side...and you need a lot to get this thing to do a real fast lap it seems!
 
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