Another week gone by, another medal :
Like I said before, Interlagos is a pretty cool track IMO with a very nice flow to it, that was definitely the good part of the combo... the other not-so-good half was unfortunately the car.
It's very good in terms of acceleration and overall stability, but I just don't like its behavior under (hard) braking, it's like the front wheels simply lock up and you get an avalanche of understeer, even with ABS Default.
Anyway, I'm proud of my lap time. As usual, I could be chasing tenths to improve a little more but, in this particular case, I just lost the willpower to do so, my skills took me this far so I'll take my prize and walk away happily.
The bottom line is: I'm not into this to obsess over my lap times and I'm definitely NOT going to put myself through the suffering of chasing for those missing tenths for hours, my play time is very limited so I want to use it to do things I actually enjoy and have fun doing... sure, if a combo really sparks my interest then I could dedicate a little more time to it (when possible), but when a combo fails to captivate me, then I'll just do my best for a few laps and accept whatever the prize I get and move on.
Speaking of interesting combos, the next one is a good example:
This one is a pretty nice combo, if you ask me. Really enjoy this kind of challenge, technical tracks with road cars
I've made a good improvement here, been trying to use Tidgney's gearing for this one but a few laps later I started to feel like it wasn't working for me... so ditched the "3rd gear only" strategy and decided to use 2nd gear (and short-shifting to 3rd when applicable) way more often and almost immediately shaved an extra 1.1 seconds off my PB.
Further improvement is very possible, it's all a matter of putting together a good enough lap (no kidding?!)
I'm not going to fool myself here: Gold is out of the equation, but I really love this track and the Viper so I'd like to keep pushing, maybe I can find some more tenths here and there.
Thinking about trying ABS Weak for a change, just to see if it helps me in any way... probably it will help me to find even more understeer or make me wash out of the corners with even greater ease, so can't wait to try it! 🤣
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PS: About that Le Mans TT... or should I call it "Understeer Festival".
Haven't properly "tried" this one yet, only made like 10 laps, and only 3 of them where actually valid.
The result? Still almost a second off from Bronze...
(yes, I'm driving the Nissan)
Enough as been said about the track limits, but words cannot express the frustration inflicted by them.
I used to race a lot at La Sarthe with many different cars in GT6, and had a ton of fun there! Of course, back then we didn't have these ridiculous track limits to worry about...
On the other hand, there's the cars... and while they're absolutely awesome on the straights, when it comes to braking & turning in at the same time, it's a complete disaster.
You can't really do both things at the same time, you either have to choose to turn in or brake.
I need to adjust my driving to suit the behaviour of these racing machines... this time for me though, even scoring a Bronze is going to be a struggle.
Am I the only one missing a good old Time Trial with a FF car here?!
Come on PD, where well overdue on that, give us TTs with FWD cars!
