GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

[PowerJunkie]

I was getting pushed out of the top 100 at CGV, so I had to go back. I was not fond of driving this car in the beginning, but started get a better feel for it. I am glad now that is was so throttle sensitive, it was great training to have a little more finesse with the throttle. I can be the cram and jam kind on the throttle occasionally.
VERY happy with a p70 in the WORLD!! YES!!!! Puts me in p4 of the USA. Stoked!!!!

 

[DDK-Racing]

Got my Mercedes at Circuit G. Villeneuve down from silver to a 1:45.282
Got for a place in the top 5k (for now)
A high 1:44 maaaaaay be possible but I'm not sure I'm willing to put in the effort.

Tonight it'll be Monza to get some love 🤣

 

[zaxs]

I can't improve my time, doing only slower ones or fatal mistakes in the run...

 

[KAlex122]

Back to my main account. This is not good.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Had another (and likely) final crack at CVG. 15 laps yesterday and the same this morning (super early start with my Jomar-esque alarm) - both sessions showed a best of 1:44.2, and a theoretical best across the 30 laps of a 44.0... unfortunately hands, feet and eyes were not coordinated in the right way to get there, but did manage the below lap this morning in the F1 medical car, which is a lot more respectable, and 4 tenths quicker than my prior best. No CSA, but TCS 1 to nip the initial torque spike on throttle input. Good luck to all those still pushing

 

[PowerJunkie]

~snip~

Tonight it'll be Monza to get some love 🤣

I can assure you, the 2 1/2 TON brick on wheels is not the lovable type, and she sounds like a silent fart.

 

[KK78]

Giving it a go at the Green Hell (I love the track, probably my all-time favourite, but I don't tend to do TTs there because invalid laps are very painful)

I kinda like the car (it's got a sweet turbo sound), but find it difficult to get a flow going due to its point-and-go nature. Into Gold after a couple of sessions.

 

[Lightsider74]

Found another 10th but still not happy. 1:46.660

 

[Stormbreaker]

Dancing on the kerbs at CGV, finally after a LOT of track limits invalidated laps i managed a 43.3 with the boat handling Mercedes 🏁

 

[RB_Free]

My lap with the Hyundai ELANTRA N TC, this time despite being an FF it was fun to drive and it has even a nice sound inside.
I made a small mistake after the Pflanzgarten where I lost 3-4 tenths compared to my previous lap, but the rest of the lap was pretty good.

 

[zaxs]

Ok, this one at Green Hell is killing me.
I know I can attack current gold - who knows what will be in days ahead, but all my times in the end are about second or less from my best!
Until I finally beat my time - by a 2 thousands, my God!

And then, from this, something good happened - I decided to turn on that Ghost - I usually never use them bcs they are bothering me and taking concentration...

But this time was better, from very start, I was doing some gap, that was many times determined by my silly mistakes, BUT, I still had a good distance between us, and lap was going to end, we passed 2 critical combos - and I was at Nurburgring finish line, with 9:04.500!

It was crazy lap, here is direct capture, where I'm fighting with 9:06.977 Ghost:

 

[Gomario JSP]

Some great times are throwen in here folks, it's very nice to see people realy getting faster and very cool to see a lot of world top players among us and that amount only will get more and more 🤣

@Vule and @bliprunner congrats you two on your laps in the AMG, epic times, now that's some hauullling with them big boys 🤣

@Carlos Fandango solid time at the Ring buddy!

I only had a few minutes this evening so....
Wife in the shower....microwave power!
Quick pair of laps around Monza ,annoyingly I had 2 invalid 1:46.0xx laps and got stuck at 46.136, so very litte progression but not to bad for only a few laps 😁

 

[samsaoule]

Ok, this one at Green Hell is killing me.
I know I can attack current gold - who knows what will be in days ahead, but all my times in the end are about second or less from my best!
Until I finally beat my time - by a 2 thousands, my God!

And then, from this, something good happened - I decided to turn on that Ghost - I usually never use them bcs they are bothering me and taking concentration...

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But this time was better, from very start, I was doing some gap, that was many times determined by my silly mistakes, BUT, I still had a good distance between us, and lap was going to end, we passed 2 critical combos - and I was at Nurburgring finish line, with 9:04.500!

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It was crazy lap, here is direct capture, where I'm fighting with 9:06.977 Ghost:



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Yes!!!... Well done, mate...💪💪

I'll get back to it in a few days...
At the moment, I'm on the Schleife in GT3 with the Power Pack races...

 

[pabloprp69]

My lap with the Hyundai ELANTRA N TC, this time despite being an FF it was fun to drive and it has even a nice sound inside.
I made a small mistake after the Pflanzgarten where I lost 3-4 tenths compared to my previous lap, but the rest of the lap was pretty good.





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Amazing lap mate!

Digging more and more this combo!

The more I learn the track, the more I see there's time to be found. I think a 54 is very possible!!

Just need to keep it calm and precise - this combination has me all sweaty and nervous like I used to be before 🤣

 

[MP81]

hEy LeT's HaVe A tImE tRiAl At NoRdScHlIeFe

Always a terrible waste of my time. Sitting at a 9:05.924, I'm sure with gold time in there...if the car doesn't randomly snap oversteer (despite the fact it doesn't do that...until it does) and ruin a good lap...like it did quite a few times.

Or the stupid bug that has never been fixed where - seemingly only at long tracks like this - the ghost suddenly ignores your chosen offset distance and consistently resets INSIDE your car if you restart a lap. You have to completely exit the TT and come back in to fix that. It's been like that forever. It needs to not be like that.

I'm sure I'll get gold, especially if I sit here with a chair next to mine, pausing every 10 seconds to watch the next bit of Tidgney's video for what to do next. But is that really a good, fun use of time compared to a more normal TT? I don't think so.

And I definitely see what some were saying about the steering feedback on the Hyundai. It's weird. You get used to it, but that first bit of the drive is real odd.

 

[Oshawa-Joe]

Hello Everyone,
Im trying the AMG at CGV but really having a hard time with the last chicane. The rest of the lap is decent, I just do a horrible job of either starting the lap, or finishing it. Its a decent time, top 1000, but still can't figure out that part consistently. Any tips for the last chicane?

I have a replay on share.

I had a poor start to the lap but S3 is a PB.

Edit: I'm always more than willing to help other drivers improve and sharing with them what I've learned. Would be grateful for some help on this one.

 

[DDK-Racing]

I can assure you, the 2 1/2 TON brick on wheels is not the lovable type, and she sounds like a silent fart.

Did around 10-12 laps in total on Monza. Got gold with a 1:48.038
And that is indeed enough for the brick... The handling is ok-ish but the weight is terrible for the braking distance.. Also it doens't feel like a 1500bhp car... These EV's just don't do it for me... Meh... 🤷‍♂️

On other news: Nordschleife 24h
3 laps, 2 invalid in the last 2 sectors. 3rd lap was the charm and resulted in a 9:03.517
Roughly 1.3s in the gold so that is safe unless someone can manage 8:47.687 (another 1.249s drop that I can't see happening as P5 is already 1.2s behind WR as we speak)
Maybe I'll try to get closer to 9:00.x depending on what comes thursday for the new TT

For now i'm looking at another 3 gold medals ✅

 

[P_O_L_66]

After many attempts I managed to get just under 43, for me it is a great satisfaction, despite my 59 years, I can still be a bit fast.

 

[MP81]

Hello Everyone,
Im trying the AMG at CGV but really having a hard time with the last chicane. The rest of the lap is decent, I just do a horrible job of either starting the lap, or finishing it. Its a decent time, top 1000, but still can't figure out that part consistently. Any tips for the last chicane?

I have a replay on share.
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I had a poor start to the lap but S3 is a PB.

Edit: I'm always more than willing to help other drivers improve and sharing with them what I've learned. Would be grateful for some help on this one.

I haven't loaded the video, but I know what I found to be the quickest way through that final chicane was a combination of a few things:

1) Proper angle to go over the first sausage and be set up for going over the second one without making you bounce all over
2) Doing the above without being too far over and thus invalidating that lap and the next one
3) Luck the car bounces how you want even if you nail both of the above
4) More throttle input than you expect - you basically want to be on the throttle pretty aggressively one you are at and going over the second sausage, under the assumption all three above are done ideally

If they are, you'll come out close to the wall but with a lot of speed leading to great straightaway end-of-lap speeds and start-of-lap speeds.

If not, you'll either slam into the wall, spin, or spin and then slam into the wall.

 

[NAXEHT]

The final chicane was unsurprisingly the bane of my existence but in the end content with having put a pretty good lap together. Had I nailed the middle sector a bit better it could’ve been a 42 but the successful passages through the final chicane were so few and far between that I probably would’ve screwed up such potential laps anyway, the effort wouldn’t have been worth it in my case. Got the Xiaomi and Elantra to take care of as well.

Took some time to get into it with this C 63 but quite a lovely (and lively) ride. Expected it to be heavier and slower but it felt pretty rapid.

Hello Everyone,
Im trying the AMG at CGV but really having a hard time with the last chicane. The rest of the lap is decent, I just do a horrible job of either starting the lap, or finishing it. Its a decent time, top 1000, but still can't figure out that part consistently. Any tips for the last chicane?

I have a replay on share.
View attachment 1510971

I had a poor start to the lap but S3 is a PB.

Edit: I'm always more than willing to help other drivers improve and sharing with them what I've learned. Would be grateful for some help on this one.

Wish I could help but I don’t think I’m particularly good in the chicane, I find it very lotto, the sausages are incredibly stupid and senseless. I brake by an orange coloured part on the barrier on your left, just ahead of the GT banner above you and then it’s really just trying to time the turn in correctly. If the first part of it is fine then so is likely the second. Like MP81 also said, on the throttle input going over the second and exiting it, not fully but feather it somewhat.

 

[linksracer]

I am reminded why I don't drive Mercedes' often. Terrible car in every aspect and on a track that is effectively a series of chicanes. 100km was too much of an attempt for this poorly considered combo.

Didn't get a chance to even do 1 lap of Daytona, and now we have another 2 trials for this week. Will probably give the Xiaomi 10 laps total and focus the rest of my time on an actually entertaining track in the Nurburgring.

PD are doing their best to make me lose interest in this game with these lackluster combos.

 

[manou]

Freaking GREAT TT this time !!!! LOVE it ❤️

 

[Lightsider74]

Another sesh another 10th.
Top 100 might be doable.

 

[Barareklam]

Hello Everyone,
Im trying the AMG at CGV but really having a hard time with the last chicane. The rest of the lap is decent, I just do a horrible job of either starting the lap, or finishing it. Its a decent time, top 1000, but still can't figure out that part consistently. Any tips for the last chicane?

I have a replay on share.
View attachment 1510971

I had a poor start to the lap but S3 is a PB.

Edit: I'm always more than willing to help other drivers improve and sharing with them what I've learned. Would be grateful for some help on this one.

I made a video replay comparison. You vs P1 Replay . Basically, you are pretty much very close to both braking points, both pressing and releasing, and even throttle, major difference is when P1 press the throttle pedal he press is much more. Resulting in higher exit speed. look at the image and zoom in onto Throttle on display. Resulting in 116 vs 103 km/h speed. That's where you are losing the most, otherwise you are pretty much just sightly behind in last chicane. (Image you see is print-screen from video editor, P1 video is under your video, which is sightly pushed up and right and slightly scaled down for better visibility of both at same time)

 

[Oshawa-Joe]

I made a video replay comparison. You vs P1 Replay . Basically, you are pretty much very close to both braking points, both pressing and releasing, and even throttle, major difference is when P1 press the throttle pedal he press is much more. Resulting in higher exit speed. look at the image and zoom in onto Throttle on display. Resulting in 116 vs 103 km/h speed. That's where you are losing the most, otherwise you are pretty much just sightly behind in last chicane. (Image you see is print-screen from video editor, P1 video is under your video, which is sightly pushed up and right and slightly scaled down for better visibility of both at same time)View attachment 1511126

Thank you. Is it possible to see the full video? I was already subscribed to your YouTube channel but don't see it there.

 

[Barareklam]

Thank you. Is it possible to see the full video? I was already subscribed to your YouTube channel but don't see it there.

Honestly, I have not done full video, only last corner. I actually thought to post it but I was not so proud with result, I had few frames miss so I thought not to post it. if you really want this result, I can post it if you want, but it is not perfect so don't chase me for missaligned frame. (tried new software version and "new featrures" were giving me troubles, hey just blaming something else )

 

[Oshawa-Joe]

Honestly, I have not done full video, only last corner. I actually thought to post it but I was not so proud with result, I had few frames miss so I thought not to post it. if you really want this result, I can post it if you want, but it is not perfect so don't chase me for missaligned frame. (tried new software version and "new featrures" were giving me troubles, hey just blaming something else )

Please don't use any more time on the video. I appreciate the help!

 

[LeandroSvSt]

So, 2 TT that I liked very much.



1st one, Xiaomi SU7 is a good car considering the EV boring scale. Different from many comments I've been seeing about how crap the car is, I don't agree. You must understand the power and torque delievering. A 1500 cv car will allow you to use at least 80% throttle only straight. The breaks are not bad too, the problem is that most people don't understand that you have too much speed in braking zone as usual. I thought an easy one.



2nd one, Elantra TCR in Nordschleife is a perfect combo. Different from other FF powerfull cars, I thought this one has a much better differential settings from curve exit. I almost didn't have problems with lost traction because throttle + wheel turning.