Time Trial Discussion

[Chris30]

@Moglet how many silvers and golds do you have?

Wow, I haven't even reached bronze at Fuji, I'm somewhere in the 1'28.000's. This isn't as bad as the Autopolis one, I don't even think I earned a medal there at all which is fine to me. I guess a driver's lap time is based on how well they know Fuji and all the turns/corners that is included in the track.

@Jeje6410 smoking lap mate!!

 

[Moglet]

@Moglet how many silvers and golds do you have?

I have 2 gold, 23 silver, and 10 bronze. The bronze ones were mostly from when I first started attempting the time trials and didn't have much time to practice.

 

[Pesselles]

Hi guys (and Greek),

No panic guys, I haven't improved my PB on Big Willow
I prefer to warn first because I know some of you are sweating, shaking, and freaking, in case this could happen...

I've only improved my optimal...

... for now...

Everything is fine @krazislaw @MUC76 @bluealpine and S. "Ronald" MacDonald (don't want to mention the wrong guy), enjoy your nap...

 

[JasonMcDonald]

Hi guys (and Greek),

No panic guys, I haven't improved my PB on Big Willow
I prefer to warn first because I know some of you are sweating, shaking, and freaking, in case this could happen...

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I've only improved my optimal...

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... for now...

Everything is fine @krazislaw @MUC76 @bluealpine and S. "Ronald" MacDonald (don't want to mention the wrong guy), enjoy your nap...

It still tickles me that an old guy in my age from France in a German classic car outperform me .
I call it sacrilege and it is difficult to bear 🙈🤷‍♂️ at least @Interemptor is holding the torch on my board 😎

 

[Chris30]

I think a big factor of a driver's lap is how fast they can get through each sector of the track, at least it's that way for me.

 

[Vule]

I think a big factor of a driver's lap is how fast they can get through each sector of the track, at least it's that way for me.

Well yes, usually when you go faster you get to the finish line in less time, hence your lap is better.

 

[ZEE]

Well I logged on earlier this afternoon on GT7, and managed to clock a good SILVER time - woohoo lets Go!

 

[Jeje6410]

Finally here is the gold obtained with this very fast but very manageable Super Formula. Much nicer than the Red Bull X2019 which I hate. I'm really happy because with this same car but on a different circuit (Autopolis) I only got silver. So when you want, you can !!!!!

 

[Chris30]

@ZEE keep going until you reach the gold zone!

 

[MUC76]

Hi guys (and Greek),

No panic guys, I haven't improved my PB on Big Willow
I prefer to warn first because I know some of you are sweating, shaking, and freaking, in case this could happen...

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I've only improved my optimal...

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... for now...

Everything is fine @krazislaw @MUC76 @bluealpine and S. "Ronald" MacDonald (don't want to mention the wrong guy), enjoy your nap...

Dear Colleagues,
The situation is much more serious than I thought. I have therefore written the following e-mail to KAZ.

Dear Mr. KAZ,
I apologize for having to address you personally once again in the matter of "@Pesselles". As you know, he is an aging, rather extroverted guy (we call him "Sim-Racer" - please be gracious with the use of that term, but it seems to help him) from the TT community who is caught in a Willow Springs time warp. Probably because it's a very slow car there on a very very clear track (which suits his old eyes and bones). The other players have therefore already achieved very good results in a very short time and are already thinking about the next TT.
But not poor Pesselles. This is perhaps his last chance to really perform. Unfortunately, this takes much longer than we expected (you know, it's the age). After you informed me that our times, which are faster than @Pesselles', cannot be deleted from the database, we are asking to extend the duration of the Willow Springs TT until Christmas so that poor @Pesselles still has some time left to improve to alien-standards.
We also promise not to run this TT again so that further extensions to next year should not be necessary.

Sincerely yours
@krazislaw, @MUC76, @bluealpine and @ScottPuss20

 

[Gomario JSP]

Now I have to try to get a sub 1'35.100 if I can at the desert. I will not ask for any help, I'm confident that I'll nail this.

Let me remind you Chris, you already started a private conversation for help for the RBR and desert Chris, which I extracted turn by turn for the desert.......

 

[Lomic]

I think a big factor of a driver's lap is how fast they can get through each sector of the track, at least it's that way for me.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

You mean... the faster you go, the faster you go?!

 

[Jeje6410]

I think a big factor of a driver's lap is how fast they can get through each sector of the track, at least it's that way for me.

Well yes, usually when you go faster you get to the finish line in less time, hence your lap is better.

Ah okkkkkk !!!! I thought the opposite was happening !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Pesselles]

I think a big factor of a driver's lap is how fast they can get through each sector of the track, at least it's that way for me.

#CaptainObvious

 

[MUC76]

Now as the secret of the top 5 has been revealed all of them can share their replays 😉

 

[KAlex122]

I guess I'll switch to MT for the Mercedes TT, but it distracts me from watching the road by keeping an eye on the map where the gear numbers are. I assume it's still possible to earn gold using an automatic.

I know, many say differently and you will know best by yourself but if i where you, i would stay with automatic. If you are concentrating on the gear numbers, focus gets away from driving the right line, which is definitely more important. Also, only watching the gear numbers doesn't get you faster as they are more or less only what automatic transmission would suggest. People that drive MT mostly don't watch that numbers but find their own rythm and often go a gear higher out of a turn or use hard motor braking and down- and upshifting to get a better rotation. These are the positives of AT. Following the suggested numbers alon doesn't make you faster. It only distracts you.

 

[Chris30]

I was making a true statement, I guess I should put a chalkboard in front of me that says, "DUH Chris, Of course you'd go faster!"

@Gomario JSP Oh, that's right!!

 

[MUC76]

I was making a true statement, I guess I should put a chalkboard in front of me that says, "DUH Chris, Of course you'd go faster!"

@Gomario JSP Oh, that's right!!

Maybe your strategic considerations (I try to follow since a couple of weeks) are too much for my little kitten brain 😉

 

[Chris30]

Maybe your strategic considerations (I try to follow since a couple of weeks) are too much for my little kitten brain 😉

Lol, I have never owned a cat. Only dogs. See I don't want any cats to bug me while I'm time trialing in gt7. They are distracting too.
But I still may have to use a ghost every now and then to guide me as well. If it wasn't for the braking meters too it wouldn't have helped me in certain TT's of the game.

 

[zaxs]

Made an big improvement, 0.6s and that puts me in silver zone!

Here is direct capture:




Usually it ends like this, due I'm not using TCS.

 

[TheNormsk]

I had another go at Willow.

The 300 SL is so fun to drive when you get it right however 98% of the time I get it wrong and spin off the track . It’s such a fine line between glory and 💩. Anyway I managed to get both accounts into gold. 😊

 

[kowalski__1]

Well,this is a good start to a muggy Friday night....got back in the Gold in the desert after being knocked out by .002,....and it was a struggle,lots of cursing,followed by a few Zen moments,lol....🤪

 

[TumeK5]

Let me remind you Chris, you already started a private conversation for help for the BRB and desert Chris, which I extracted turn by turn for the desert.......

Be Right Back, and not Red Bull Ring? Or did you misspell dessert? 🤔

 

[Ian JB]

Hi,

@TheNormsk... Our times are pretty much identical here. I am now convinced that getting the final corner "Nailed" is the equivalent of getting a gallon of cow **** through a rolling doughnut!

This corner is driving me crazy.

More practice required here, me thinks!

Best regards to all here.

Ian.

 

[MUC76]

I did another session at Fuji and tried to figure out how to create a license plate in inkscape to export an svg <15kB for GT7

Sorry, but I have to post the license plate, too, because this was much more difficult than Fuji 😆

 

[Gomario JSP]

Be Right Back, and not Red Bull Ring? Or did you misspell dessert? 🤔

🤔 RBR it should be indeed 🙈, typo ofcourse due to my lovely dutch phone spelling addition.. ... 😭
dessert I like , but this time the desert was not to bad either....😂

 

[Vule]

Went to visit the desert for the second time, this time with a rusty barn find Merc, apparently it goes even faster than the restored one. Had a horrible sector 1, but somehow slided my way majestically through sector 2 and made up all the time lost, so this is the best I can do for now. If I nail together the optimal lap, it will be around 1:33.4xx, but that won't happen

 

[K1LLD0z3R]

Well,this is a good start to a muggy Friday night....got back in the Gold in the desert after being knocked out by .002,....and it was a struggle,lots of cursing,followed by a few Zen moments,lol....🤪
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Congratulations! I have to return to the desert myself. And I’m really not a fan of the place.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Squeezed another tenth. Good fun this.