Time Trial Discussion

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Absolutely not.
I drove a Nismo GT-R on circuit and it really sticks to the track.
I suspect the physics and the tires to give us this very unpleasant experience with Godzilla.
This doesn't do this racing machine any favors.
Thanks for clarifying that because I was starting to think that they are crap 😂. It may just be my own skill but I seem to struggle with most of the GT-Rs in GT7 when they are in their stock form. Without a tune of some sort, I find it hard to gel with them, which sucks because I quite like them.

I'm feeling the same, I'm really struggling to nail my braking points as it feels like the handling is changing on every lap. It's very unpredictable. I might leave this one at my silver time - I know I'm losing a lot of time in the final chicane by not cutting the entry but I can't be bothered to try again when the car feels so wild.
I agree, even though I got into silver with just my first lap, the braking was very irritating for me at the start, which is why I was stuck in that silver range for a while too. After over 30 or so laps and I would only improved by less than a tenth but then I started to figure a bit of what @Gomario JSP mentioned when it comes to over pushing the car. If you can nail your braking point and slowly downshift as you go down the revs, it will keep the car stable enough to make your apex. Once I understood that, I got gold. The bigger frustration for me now comes when trying to improve on that time because I get too eager on corner exit so the car always becomes an understeery mess which gets even more annoying when I keep hearing the tires constantly squeal 🤦‍♂️ lol
 
Thanks for clarifying that because I was starting to think that they are crap 😂. It may just be my own skill but I seem to struggle with most of the GT-Rs in GT7 when they are in their stock form. Without a tune of some sort, I find it hard to gel with them, which sucks because I quite like them.


I agree, even though I got into silver with just my first lap, the braking was very irritating for me at the start, which is why I was stuck in that silver range for a while too. After over 30 or so laps and I would only improved by less than a tenth but then I started to figure a bit of what @Gomario JSP mentioned when it comes to over pushing the car. If you can nail your braking point and slowly downshift as you go down the revs, it will keep the car stable enough to make your apex. Once I understood that, I got gold. The bigger frustration for me now comes when trying to improve on that time because I get too eager on corner exit so the car always becomes an understeery mess which gets even more annoying when I keep hearing the tires constantly squeal 🤦‍♂️ lol
I found following @Metalgear9493 's ghost to be valuable for me. We appear to have similar driving styles and I can match his moves fairly consistently compared to some other ghosts. It is just that he does everything 2.7% better than me :D
 
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Thanks for clarifying that because I was starting to think that they are crap 😂. It may just be my own skill but I seem to struggle with most of the GT-Rs in GT7 when they are in their stock form. Without a tune of some sort, I find it hard to gel with them, which sucks because I quite like them.
Ohh no problem, you're very welcome :)

On this TT, your skills are probably not the reason but more probably the tires (sport medium, what the f....) and also, the physics. I really don't understand how to drive it like it should be. And I'm not the only one...
Godzilla is a 4RM war machine, it doesn't "dance" like this in curves.

The car I drove the most in GT7 is the GT-R GT3 (near 25.000 kms so far). Like the RSR, it's one of the most balanced car in this category.
 
As others have said, real GTRs don't drive this way. I've driven them on the road and on track days (albeit not a T-Spec and not at 140 mph), and they are far more pointed and 'urgent' than this combo, which is surely down to slightly off physics and awful tyres. The GTR is one heavy car, so these bargain basement sports mediums are most likely not up to the job.
 
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As others have said, real GTRs don't drive this way. I've driven them on the road and on track days (albeit not a T-Spec and not at 140 mph), and they are far more pointed and 'urgent' than this combo, which is surely down to slightly off physics and awful tyres. The GTR is one heavy car, so these bargain basement sports mediums are most likely not up to the job.
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I can see it now that I'm gonna have to show this Nissan car who's boss. I'm gonna have to control it myself, it's wild taking in most of the turns, corners and hairpins. I'd like to manage a sub 1'34.5xx or 1'35.000 for now if I can. I need to get my groove back.
 
For those struggling with the GTR, I found that grip levels continued to improve through the first 6-8 laps... like the tires would take a v. long time to warm up. Started doing longer runs which helped me.
Not feeling much motivation for either event right now though, as I've reached my potential on both I think. Sitting at 206th in the GTR on 1:33.308, and 142nd in the Alfa on 1:14.384 so just waiting for the new event to come out. Good luck and happy lapping to those still grinding out the tenths :cheers:
 
I gave it everything, but I think this is all she wrote.

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Not a single sector in this lap was my personal best, but put it all together, it was a good lap. I may give it one last shot on the final night, because I know I can do a .1xx, actually had a .171 but I just literally licked the outside track limits on the second to last corner, so that was that...
 
A half a tenth pickup in the Alfa tonight after not being able to get close to my previous best yesterday. Could have gotten to the gas sooner in the carousel, as a lot of tarmac was left untouched on exit. I'm not sure if I can get into the .3's or not, but I'll probably give it one more try Wednesday.
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