Time Trial Discussion

[samsaoule]

Ugh what a horrible horrible combo this new TT is! This one is going to separate the men from the old men. My poor reactions need a much slower car to work with.

Early thoughts are that I might have to settle for silver this time. Good luck with it guys

idem for me.....7 or 8 laps to see, I'm already at full speed and 3 seconds from the silver medal...☹️🤔🤔

it's too fast for my 75 years....😂😂

I got gold at Daytona but I may have to settle for bronze at Monza......and I hate the first 2 chicanes....just like the one at Spa...😡😡

well, I'll still try for silver......if I get a bit closer, otherwise....

 

[zjn]

The wise man says:

"When you see tc in tidge replay you know you are in trouble"

 

[Homestead]

 

[samsaoule]

The wise man says:

"When you see tc in tidge replay you know you are in trouble"

that's true.....🤣🤣 I forgot to say that I was in TC2 already....

this TT is for 1st league players........me I'm in league 4 or 5 or 6.....😂😂

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Well... that was something. 😅

How in the crikey hell am I supposed to find 2 seconds?! 😤

 

[newmedia_dev]

Well... that was something. 😅

How in the crikey hell am I supposed to find 2 seconds?! 😤

Have you checked down the back of the sofa I usually find wrappers and hair bands from the child and occasionally seconds...

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Have you checked down the back of the sofa I usually find wrappers and hair bands from the child and occasionally seconds...

I need to get my eyes checked... thought you said you found a child in your couch. 😅

 

[newmedia_dev]

I need to get my eyes checked... thought you said you found a child in your couch. 😅

To be fair wouldn't surprise me after the last time I looked....do not ever ever ever have children!

 

[OldandSlow]

I found the Monza TT a bit more difficult when running the 3500 right after the new Toyota C-HR.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I found the Monza TT a bit more difficult when running the 3500 right after the new Toyota C-HR.

Try the other way round and the Toyota shopping trolly thing is immense

 

[Gomario JSP]

Well I wasn't planning to try the new one but I couldnt just not to......so.....

the verdict....

New TT - PAD - Thursday Remote day- nope.....not happening .....

9/10 invalidated laps.... long time ago I didn't gold something on Thursday on the laptop....25.7 🤣🤣

Let see tomorrow if the TV is the key here 🤣
And maby ill watch Tidge first this time 🤣

#Iknewitwouldsuck

 

[NevilleNobody]

I am busting to try the new TT, the Super Formula felt amazing on a wheel vs a pad, dpad and formula cars are not a good match so hoping the F1 feels similarly good.

 

[ZEE]

Well I busted hard and fast to get this time silver time, and it wasnt an easy feat, the car is awesome at speed, but very tricky/twitchy on corners to manage on MONZA!! but LFG! Onto the GOldyyyy!

Replay included for chase times!

 

[manou]

Not an easy one, but glad to join the 1:24 club anyway. I have an opti 1:24.6, but I just can't get it done.

 

[NevilleNobody]

Baby Jesus cries when people put music to sim racing replays

 

[skydragon49]

The writting's on the wall.... Read the signs, people.

@Tidgney is on TCS 2 and @Gomario JSP not on the gold zone already on Thursday....

This TT is gonna be pure pain. 😅😅😅😅

 

[2cam16]

Tough one for me on pad/auto. Maybe I'll try it with CSA strong.
Gran Turismo® 7_20250130142336 by 2cam16, on Flickr
Autodromo Nazionale Monza_ (6) by 2cam16, on Flickr

 

[Dolph Drago]

I'm reluctant to try Monza. So back to Brands Hatch I went tonight. I don't know if it is the physics update (or maybe the questionable paintjob, albeit slightly less garish than what @Dan_Tes used ), but it took me all of 10 laps to better my previous fastest time by a tenth and a half. I was much more consistent in sector 4 especially. Had I bothered to run any more laps, I'm sure I would have improved more.

 

[ZevZoq]

Don't know how much I might be able to improve this...gold feels pretty out of the question. Just getting into silver was a struggle!

 

[NevilleNobody]

Well, isn't that car something? I am not finding the thing twitchy or unstable, no desire for csa for example, but yeah she's a bugger to get on the throttle with. There's no real sign either, if you're 1 degree too much steering angle boom, you're off, no slide or subtlety....just off.

The tough part is actually the kerbs, there's no give in thr suspension so she just kicks and bucks and you bleed a ton of time in the first two chicane if you get the sausage kerbs wrong.

I managed a 27.2 , I feel like I could find a second but not two, silver again as with Daytona I suspect but it's a much more enjoyable experience so won't mind giving it lash for 2 weeks.

I tell ya what, trying to drive a group 3 car after this f1 car was brutal, took 10 minutes to recalibrate my brain.

 

[pcmfocus]

first day over and no gold time 1.26.0 no TC only ABS after i see the nr1 replay need to get the second chicane under control don"t use the curbs enough ahh gonna be 1 long session this weekend 😅

 

[VSpec_R]

I prefer this over the Brands TT.

 

[911RSR]

Holy moly, after 70 Km i'm a second away from gold! I thought it's just my poore driving (it's definitly not the car, it's mad but brilliant!), but seeing more of you guys struggle gives me a little hope!

Chapeau to those in the TOP100!

 

[Gomario JSP]

Morning folks....

To my fellow PAD- users.... may you rest in peace mates...

What an absolute nightmare this one on the pad.... took me an hour this morning to even gold it,
This..... is clearly not my thing, but i knew that already before i started yesterday.

ABS weak felt a little better than normal and CSA off felt better then on...
Tried TCS at 0 but that's just nuts, and if you even think of curb when running 0..... you're gone ...Barry R...hi... it's meee, i'm the problem it's meeee 😂🤣

Eventually i did ran two .2xx laps in a row, with a poor S1 though.
Let's hope this is enough 🤣

ABS - Weak
TCS - 3
CSA - Off
PAD sensitivity 0 ( normally 10 )

 

[DDK-Racing]

Morning folks....

To my fellow PAD- users.... may you rest in peace mates...

What an absolute nightmare this one on the pad.... took me an hour this morning to even gold it,
This..... is clearly not my thing, but i knew that already before i started yesterday.

ABS weak felt a little better than normal and CSA off felt better then on...
Tried TCS at 0 but that's just nuts, and if you even think of curb when running 0..... you're gone ...Barry R...hi... it's meee, i'm the problem it's meeee 😂🤣

Eventually i did ran two .2xx laps in a row, with a poor S1 though.
Let's hope this is enough 🤣

ABS - Weak
TCS - 3
CSA - Off
PAD sensitivity 0 ( normally 10 )

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Ok, that's it... I'm out lol.
Did 10 laps yesterday, thought I was doing good... I was WRONG.
Lucky to be in silver. And if even the aliens say it's hard 🙄

Back to Brands and the Testa

 

[Barareklam]

Honestly, on gyro, Testarossa is soooo tricky to hold steady it's just crazy 😧 one of the most unstable TTs for me...

Soo... update.. physics or maybe controller IDK since they never mentioned any update on Gyro, did had just enough time to test one thing, that is Testarossa TT on BH.. oh boy what a difference.. last week before update, 10 laps, 8-9 invalidated.. yesterday after they update, 10 laps, all ten valid and pretty good... even slight improvement of pb plus some tenth still in me...

thanks PD, for me, an update in right direction

 

[Gomario JSP]

Soo... update.. physics or maybe controller IDK since they never mentioned any update on Gyro, did had just enough time to test one thing, that is Testarossa TT on BH.. oh boy what a difference.. last week before update, 10 laps, 8-9 invalidated.. yesterday after they update, 10 laps, all ten valid and pretty good... even slight improvement of pb plus some tenth still in me...

thanks PD, for me, an update in right direction

That's good news mate!
Happy to hear that!,

I'm curious if I can notice some difference too at BH, should be able to do some laps this weekend 😁

 

[Wilsonson]

PAD sensitivity 0

😳 That's crazy. Could you give some more explanation for this please.

I remember back in the day on GT5 in the Vettel X Challenge in the original insane Red Bull with ground effect it was basically impossible to get it through the chicanes without dialing pad sensitivity all the way up to 10 because otherwise the change of direction would happen too slowly. Of course the downside is that the car becomes twitchy.

Is that the reason why you put it all the way to 0?

 

[Gomario JSP]

😳 That's crazy. Could you give some more explanation for this please.

I remember back in the day on GT5 in the Vettel X Challenge in the original insane Red Bull with ground effect it was basically impossible to get it through the chicanes without dialing pad sensitivity all the way up to 10 because otherwise the change of direction would happen too slowly. Of course the downside is that the car becomes twitchy.

Is that the reason why you put it all the way to 0?

For me i'm almost always at 10 accept for the high downforced cars like the VGT trial we had some time ago at Suzuka.
I like the way of having more and faster control over the stick, but the downside of this the twitchyness on the faster cars, the roadcars are absolutely fine with the higher settings ( and i'm fairly descent with slidy roadcars )
But if i'll set it at 10 at this trial i'm already heaving trouble setting up the car before the corner because looking at the stick makes it go already.
So lining up for T1 is doable at 10 but i have a lot of trouble on the Lesmo's and especially lining up for Variante Ascari because it's not entirely straight..... and the minimal input there makes you go grass or to far in immidiately ...

So for me it's a tiny bit easier setting it low on this combo 😁

 

[Chris30]

Holy moly, after 70 Km i'm a second away from gold! I thought it's just my poore driving (it's definitly not the car, it's mad but brilliant!), but seeing more of you guys struggle gives me a little hope!

Chapeau to those in the TOP100!

That means you've found your magic touch with this special Formula car. Yeah, anyone that gets a 1'23.XXX or 1'24.XXX time is totally insane and crazily skilled. My driving tends to be worse than yours. Good luck on going for the gold. For beginners, it is best to turn on the line assists so you can get an idea of where to brake and what direction you should be going and timing the throttle too. It all takes time, patience and skill but anyone can do it as long as they put the work in and effort.