Time Trial Discussion

[GT_Tuga]

Can't wait to reach those hights then 😅

But not today...

Today I found out that the gold at LM was down to 1:07.336 and my best lap is 1:07.379 😑

So I went back and did another 10 laps stint at LM, invalidated a 1:07.147 by driving 1 pixel too much to the right in the esses (the right one with red paint)

Opimal 2:06.831...

I can do it, but it is frustrating.

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I feel your pain.

I was also struggling at Maggiore until last Friday, couldn't even get past the Gold bracket with the Huracan (was "only" a tenth and a half away).

After watching Chafe's replay (I believe he's 2nd or something in the top 10 by now) and using his ghost I pulled off a 1:06.9xx which still feels like a miracle to me, almost feels like the hand of God himself grabbed the controller and made the lap for me 😅

I just hope it holds, because I have no intentions of going back there...

 

[Lomic]

I am following a very fast cow (@Pesselles in 1:05) and I am quite close most of the lap but there are still lot of places where I lose a tiny bit here and there (or a good bit if I make a mistake of course).

Tomorrow, probably, did not try this TT since last tuesday and I am very close in 1 stint so I am confident.

 

[Chris30]

Why did none of you tell me this week was Goodwood in an easy to drive road car!?

Also.. its Christmas so guess what? I made a video for you guys! First time in 10 months! Let's just say toddlers are time consuming 😳

Always run well at goodwood so currently 40th after maybe 70 miles. I might come back to this one and push for a sub 1:24.5... nah can't see me getting chance 🤣

Thank you for this guide, I'll use it as a reference. Also, I got a ps5 last week for an early Christmas gift, it's been a long month and a half but I persevered. My aim is for a silver time, I'm not even going to touch gold. I'll just have to miss out on the extra 1 million credits.

 

[NAXEHT]

Genuinely the stuff of nightmares.

 

[TumeK5]

I am following a very fast cow (@Pesselles in 1:05)

That is a very fast cow indeed 👀

 

[linksracer]

Gave the 2 trials a quick run last night. Not particularly interested in either of these so I won't be spending that much time with them.

First off we have Gr4 around Maggiore, managed a 2:06.009 in around 50km of driving using the Lambo. Feels like I'm no where near the limit of this car, which is obviously the case since I'm 2.4 seconds off the top time. Gr4 cars feel a bit weird to drive, they have so much grip for the power that they have, you can be extremely aggressive on the brakes and the throttle compared to road cars, almost like its driving on rails. Might come back to this for one more session tomorrow, but otherwise I think that's a safe gold.

Onto the Megane around Goodwood, time was a 1:24.948 with at least another tenth in the optimum. This track is extremely difficult to maximise everything as almost every corner is followed by a massive flat out section, so small mistakes add up over the course of a lap. Then there's the chicane of death right at the end just to add to the pressure. Something about the Megane feels off, the rear end is extremely floaty under braking which is particularly troublesome through the final chicane with the direction change. Not sure I'll bother coming back here, the chicane of death is too scary for me

 

[luv2drive]

Finished work a little early, so decided to run a 2nd stint on Goodwood with the Megane. Starting to get the hang of the chicane. There's still a few more tenths to be found out here I think.

And to what @half_sourly said earlier about this thread making people faster, I totally agree. It's all psychology. Since I've been participating in this thread, it's motivated me to put in more time on the TTs and try to improve, and many of you have helped. Thank you!

When I started doing it earlier this year, getting gold was always an objective and "usually" achievable, often after much suffering and I had never cracked the top 1000. Now, I find gold almost always achievable (except in cases like the 'Ring a few TTs ago when all the aliens came out and blew up the top time), and I can aim for other goals, like catching up to some of you super fast guys on my friends' leaderboard.

 

[Dolph Drago]

Well, I improved at Goodwood. From 1:25.074 to...drum roll...1:25.065. Wow. What a gain.

I had a handful laps I could have been quicker had I made it through the chicane. The struggle is real. I'm lucky if I can even get through the first two sectors with a decent time. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a split under 1:03 at the end of sector 2 (my best were high .9's). Which makes the lap where I had a .767 split so confounding (blew the chicane of course).

Turn 1 is a lottery. Either I turn in (read: slide in) too early and lose time in the inside grass, understeer off track, or keep it on track but lose a ton drifting sideways. IF I get it right, I have a knack for messing up the left hander in sector 2. I seem to get on well with the double rights in that sector for some reason. The sector 3 double rights are another story. Coin flip whether I make it through them cleanly or not. Finally, I get through the chicane cleanly maybe 1 out of 10 times. Actually, more like 1 out of 20.