Time Trial Discussion

[A_Higher_Place]

Autopolis in a slide-y road car? Yes please! There's another 0.3 in the opt time for me so I may head back over the weekend. Very predictable drive for an American set of wheels.

Happy lapping everyone!

 

[skydragon49]

Hello there!

Gold collected, first top 1000 of my career! 😅
I miss the M3 already.

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Oh....the Viper.... The very first car Gran Turismo kicked my butt with! A young skydragon couldn't keep the Oreca Viper on track while trying to clean a GT2 license test at Laguna Seca. Good times.... Going further back in the memory lane I was a fan of a TV show called "Viper". Remember that one!? A copycat from knight rider and KITT...

Anyways, I love the Viper. The SRT10 is not my favorite, I would much prefer GTS '02, but the '06 car is a machine I like. And I don't mind Autopolis it all.

I'll keep pushing for more time, but unlocking the gold zone is enough for the first session. Fun combo in my opinion.

The secret for faster times:

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listen the Dodge dealership theme while hotlapping!😎

 

[Jeje6410]

Can't wait to have your opinion of this TT (not on the beauties, perverse....).

Oh zut !!!!! Pfffff....
Me perverse !!!!!?????

No !!!!!!....
Naughty ???🤔🤔

🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[MIE1992]

Ah, regrettably, I wasn't able to make myself some time to even try the E36 M3 @ Dragon Trail Gardens Reverse time trial, but I'll see what I can do with the current offerings...

 

[LSFDRX]

Hey all, long time no post. I just haven't had any time to devote to TT's in the last couple months. I barely have time to do any of the weeklies either. School, work, and life aren't leaving much time for VR shenanigans at the moment.

Last night I had a little time for the weekly races, finishing up about 11:30PM. After that, I checked the current TTs and saw the M3 was still up for another half hour. Initially I wasn't going to enter (I broke my 50-something gold streak with the unusually challenging Vette at Dragon Trail a couple weeks ago when I forgot to go back and work for gold, ugh), but I took a stock M3 to Gardens reverse for a quick few laps to see if the gold was "easily" achievable, and it was. Don't want to shoot myself in the foot.

With that knowledge I entered the TT with 12 minutes to go. I didn't know what would happen at midnight, but I knew I could put in 6-7 laps and I just had to get a sub 1:50.9 to get the gold. Long story short, I was able to get a 1:50.6 pretty quickly, but invalidated FOUR 1:49 laps by eating too much sausage in the chicane (which also invalidated the next lap too, grrr). All in all I got about two clean laps in for gold!

It turns out once the clock strikes 12 you simply get booted from the TT! Just a black screen and your time is displayed.

Wish I would have had a LOT more time for this one. My previous experience with the E36 has been bad. I haven't used it since it debuted, but for some reason here on SH tires it's a total blast to drive. I love how controllable oversteer is and how chuckable the car was. I know with more time low 1:49s were very possible, but oh well, I'll have much more time to play... next year, haha...but I got that gold!

Hope you guys are having as much fun as always in the TTs. I've missed being a part of these discussions, but since I haven't been participating I haven't had much to say. Congrats to @330_D for topping my friends board, and to PCourty for a new PB! Seems like the M3 is right up your guys' alley!

I would like to dip into both of the current TTs, but time will tell.

Keep it up everyone!