Time Trial Discussion

[Ian JB]

Hi,

@NevilleNobody...

"It's all exits, getting on the gas like 1 tenth earlier on all three chicanes is worth like 2 seconds a lap, it's insane."

Ohhh... Reach out and help me now brother! If I could manage to get on the throttle at the right time, in the right position and at the right amount. I would be a full blown Alien every time. My problem is always the wrong time in the wrong place and the wrong amount. I just need to have more seat time and grow some bigger {insert your own word here}

@KK78...

I am beginning to think that this, just might be, possibly, maybe, could be, I wonder?, Is it really? Me? Then I refer myself back to the answer I gave the gentleman some moments earlier...

I just need to have more seat time and grow some bigger {insert your own word here}

I have had some seat time this evening. Monza in the F1 car. Re-start. Re-try. Exit. Rinse. Repeat. At my level of skill vs ambition, I really cannot see a difference. For me, I think it could be how loud the dogs are barking or which way the wind is blowing!

Best regards to all here.

Ian

 

[Chris30]

Here's my (sneaky?) move...

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Didn't go chasing that tempting opt, but did chase @Metalgear9493 's insane ghost so thank you for that sir, extremely useful.

Took a while to get my head round the physics change but a week on I'm mostly ok with them, did the Manufacturers race today in the Alfa and that felt good. Do agree with everyone (including Jordan in the GTP video) who dislikes the more aggressive understeer BZZZZZZZZ though, hope they dial it down a bit.


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Full lap replay:

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I don't like aggressive understeer either. Wow, that was sneaky indeed brother!! Maybe you will get a time in the low 1'36.000's or even a high 1'35.XXX time. But it's really up to you what decision you make. Oh, and I must say that picture you took of yourself and that Red Ferrari Testarossa was pretty awesome. When did you actually buy that car, it has a real good paint job to it. I miss that TT, I was on a mini-roll about 10 days ago. Oh well...good luck with your mission!

 

[NAXEHT]

I didn’t get around to posting but this was from two days ago, just dropped a few positions since, so that’s cool. Didn’t try this one before the physics change but honestly it felt fine to me. Sure, quite a bit of understeer but a pleasant enough drive.

Also gave the F3500-A a first attempt tonight and can’t exactly use the word pleasant here. Quite a handful, very tough to keep control of this thing. Only at a 24.5 so far, hoping to at least cut off half a second tomorrow if possible... Travelling to Austria for some skiing on Friday and will be back after this one is over so have to get it done tomorrow.

 

[linksracer]

First time trial post for the new year. Have been participating in the other trials, but not giving too much energy to them as they didn't capture my interest all that much. Probably a bit tired of trials after putting in a huge effort with the S2000 at Grand Valley.
Most of my results have been around the top 400 or so, top 300 at best.

Only 1 session in the Testarossa last night, about 150km worth. Managed a 1:37.167 with an optimal of 36.85X. This was good enough for 165th at the time, probably dropped a little now.

Found the Testarossa to have brakes made of the finest Italian cheese, don't think I've ever driven a car around Brand's Hatch where I had to brake so early for every corner. Didn't have too much of a problem with the understeer that others are mentioning, unless I out-braked myself which was frequently. This car with a brake upgrade and an exhaust would be quite a bit of fun for me.

Overall, I'm enjoying the physics changes, cars are far more predictable and smooth to drive for me, which leads to overall more driving enjoyment. Although I've yet to attempt many racing cars yet, so that still remains to be seen.

Going to be quite busy in the coming weeks, so my new challenge might be to see how high up the leaderboard I can get in a single session, as opposed to doing multiple sessions over the fortnight.

 

[tmtk]

Hello TT friends!

A serious comeback to the hard TT work for this special car!
If in my early teens I could afford a dream car poster, it would be the Testarossa, no doubt, preferably with some Miami style backdrop. So however bad this car drives or slidey tires it's equipped with, I'm in!

I was a little rusty in the TT department lately (last serious TT I ran in July), so I dedicated three whole days of my free time to get into the rhythm and clock some decent lap.

In summary:

• 8:26 hours of real time driving
• 302 laps completed
• 2 badly sore thumbs (directionals + X/[], remember?)

On the last day I was running 36.9 optimal, but it doesn't mean anything in my case, I'm so terrible to put those sectors together. Running about +1 second on the optimal was ok, but I wasn't really satisfied with that.
Finally on the 111st lap of day 3 I was able to line up some decent sectors together and come up with this:

• time under 2% of WR ✔️
• firmly into top 1000 ✔️
• last but not least, once again (maybe last time?) ahead of our dear Jerome! ✔️ Sorry my friend, you are my TT target!

Happy with this, but the stress of reaching the self-imposed high level expectations is still too much for me right now (real life stresses are just enough), so I won't be back on regular basis. Carry on people!

This effort is a tribute to Sonny Crockett! So let's "head further south, where the water is warm, the drinks are cold, and I don't know the names of the players".

 

[Dolph Drago]

Improved my lap tonight. Well, sort of.
Sector 1: Great
Sector 2: Pretty Good
Sector 3: Pretty Good
Sector 5: Great
Sector 4 (the one I was bragging about hitting consistently since the physics update): Awful, of course.
Overall gain? A whopping .008 seconds. Just an average fourth sector would have given me a 37.0. Simply a semi-decent sector and I'd have broken the 36's.

 

[ScottPuss20]

It was a joy before the update

It's a joy when you aren't trying to push it to the limit.

 

[linksracer]

Improved my lap tonight. Well, sort of.
Overall gain? A whopping .008 seconds.
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Would've preferred if you'd left the gains to 0.004 seconds.../s

Awesome lap!

 

[crome]

New TT (Sports Hard)

 

[Chris30]

Durn, I would have enjoyed that TT if I still had the ps5. What a bummer. That car would have fit perfectly for the Sprint track. It probably had the right amount of speed and weight. Wow crome found it early. Usually Gogga posts the next TT on here at 2am every Thursday. Strange, but good luck folks.

 

[LogSwapper]

So, Nürb as a daily and a TT at the same time. This is actually getting ridiculous.

If anyone here has any connections to PD, could you please remind them about the existence of Tokyo Expressway South? The 2 circuits that have, as far as I can remember, not been used in sport mode (daily, tt nor gtws) a single time.
In Gt Sport they were in the rotation, even had the Olympic TT on the longer version, which happens to be one of my favourite tracks in the game. And now they are both just completely abandoned. While even SSRX has had multiple races.

 

[Lomic]

If anyone here has any connections to PD, could you please remind them about the existence of Tokyo Expressway South [...] which happens to be one of my favourite tracks in the game

The Clash of the Titans

"We had a great match again !" Yes, of all the Titans in the world I bang your door most of the time. I thought about changing into GR86, too, but you got very quick in this thing and so I went instead all the french way... At time trials I might get in front of you but you are by far the...

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[Chris30]

So, Nürb as a daily and a TT at the same time. This is actually getting ridiculous.

If anyone here has any connections to PD, could you please remind them about the existence of Tokyo Expressway South? The 2 circuits that have, as far as I can remember, not been used in sport mode (daily, tt nor gtws) a single time.
In Gt Sport they were in the rotation, even had the Olympic TT on the longer version, which happens to be one of my favourite tracks in the game. And now they are both just completely abandoned. While even SSRX has had multiple races.

Speaking of SSRX, we've never had an online time trial on this track. Not that I have known unless someone can prove me wrong on my theory. A Group 1 class challenge would have been a fun popular combo for many of us to do. You're right, I haven't seen Tokyo South either for any sport mode event/TT. PD has only used the East course or the Central part. Idk what to tell you except we can't control what PD gives us every week. We have to take what comes, I'm trying to deal with it too.

 

[Barareklam]

If anyone here has any connections to PD, could you please remind them about the existence of Tokyo Expressway South...

Also that we do have snow and dirt tracks too.... would be fun with Dirt track TT ....

 

[Vule]

It's a joy when you aren't trying to push it to the limit.

That can be said for most TTs.

I just love it when I'm raging about some stupid physics "feature" or specific car behaviour trying to get into the top 20 for example, chasing every last thousand in my millionth attempt, and someone comes to the forum with like a 4 second slower time and says "wow this is such a nice drive, it's so pleasant, I'm loving this combo"... No, just no...

 

[newmedia_dev]

Man the brakes on that Ioniq 5 are like milk bottle tops for the 640hp and 7 gazillion tonnes the thing weighs!

I love the road cars, CVT isn't my fav transmission but this one is fun, the body roll is hilarious as are the brakes 😂

 

[Chris30]

Also that we do have snow and dirt tracks too.... would be fun with Dirt track TT ....

We should have a Group B class challenge at Colorado Springs next time. That is if PD will make the challenge for us, we need some more variety. I know the road cars are fun and unique to drive and get a feel for, but every track and car combo should work like a charm every single time and be enjoyable to do over and over.

 

[half_sourly]

The results for TT126 at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit in the Ferrari Testarossa '91 are over here. I have updated the opening post with the index of all TTs and the second post with the community scoreboards.

Here are some statistics for TT127 at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in the Gran Turismo F3500-A.

Spoiler: GTP Scoreboard

 

[Chris30]

Hello TT friends!

A serious comeback to the hard TT work for this special car!
If in my early teens I could afford a dream car poster, it would be the Testarossa, no doubt, preferably with some Miami style backdrop. So however bad this car drives or slidey tires it's equipped with, I'm in!

I was a little rusty in the TT department lately (last serious TT I ran in July), so I dedicated three whole days of my free time to get into the rhythm and clock some decent lap.

In summary:

• 8:26 hours of real time driving
• 302 laps completed
• 2 badly sore thumbs (directionals + X/[], remember?)

On the last day I was running 36.9 optimal, but it doesn't mean anything in my case, I'm so terrible to put those sectors together. Running about +1 second on the optimal was ok, but I wasn't really satisfied with that.
Finally on the 111st lap of day 3 I was able to line up some decent sectors together and come up with this:

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• time under 2% of WR ✔️
• firmly into top 1000 ✔️
• last but not least, once again (maybe last time?) ahead of our dear Jerome! ✔️ Sorry my friend, you are my TT target!

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Happy with this, but the stress of reaching the self-imposed high level expectations is still too much for me right now (real life stresses are just enough), so I won't be back on regular basis. Carry on people!

This effort is a tribute to Sonny Crockett! So let's "head further south, where the water is warm, the drinks are cold, and I don't know the names of the players".

Huge comeback! I bet your thumbs/fingers were sore. Wow, 302 laps, amazing long run!! And to place a time in the top 500.

 

[zaxs]

Picked my silver from Testarossa TT, it was fun, but wasn't quick enough to be more competitive...

Tried new TT, man, that thing doesn't want to brake!

 

[zjn]

The results for TT126 at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit in the Ferrari Testarossa '91 are over here. I have updated the opening post with the index of all TTs and the second post with the community scoreboards.

Here are some statistics for TT127 at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in the Gran Turismo F3500-A.

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Spoiler: GTP Scoreboard

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Despite my difficuties here I'm higher than usual in the leaderboard (by now...)
I think I'm done with Monza, I'm hitting a skill wall plus I'll have little time in the next days

@half_sourly is this the worst one / among the worst ones in terms of Gold%?

 

[half_sourly]

@half_sourly is this the worst one / among the worst ones in terms of Gold%?

No, 16th of the 127 so far. Top one is misleading given 1.5% target for gold, but that was the target, so that is the outcome.

End Date	TT	Track	Car	Tyres	Total	Gold
08-May-23	23	Deep Forest Raceway	Toyota GR010 HYBRID '21	RM	166,328	0.83%
28-Nov-24	115	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Rallycross Layout	Toyota GR Yaris RZ "High performance" '20	Dirt	144,852	0.94%
23-Nov-23	56	Lake Louise Long Track	Toyota GR Yaris RZ "High Performance" '20	S	107,581	0.96%
05-Jan-23	14	Nürburgring Nordschleife	Honda NSX Type R '02	SS	83,260	1.26%
21-Nov-24	114	24 Heures du Mans Racing Circuit	Gr.1	RH	121,910	1.33%
12-Dec-24	118	Nürburgring 24h	Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition	RS	68,456	1.45%
13-Oct-22	8	Suzuka Circuit	McLaren MP4/4 '88	RM	110,213	1.90%
22-Dec-22	13	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta	GT Red Bull X2019 Competition	RM	112,048	1.97%
18-Apr-24	77	Suzuka Circuit	McLaren Ultimate VGT	RS	155,990	2.16%
01-Jun-23	28	Autopolis International Racing Course	SF23 Super Formula: Toyota '23 / Honda '23	RS	136,745	2.46%
24-Aug-23	40	Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit	Maserati MC20 '20	SH	119,433	2.60%
11-Jul-24	90	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta	Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition	RS	154,259	2.65%
03-Oct-24	107	Grand Valley - Highway 1	Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition	RS	138,103	2.65%
15-Aug-24	97	Red Bull Ring	Gr.3	IM/W	149,255	2.68%
01-Sep-24	101	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Honda RA272 '65	RH	151,060	2.80%
13-Feb-25	127	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Gran Turismo F3500-A	RM	168,100	3.23%

 

[Tidgney]

Here is this weeks guide for those interested! I found it quite enjoyable!

 

[Famine]

So, Nürb as a daily and a TT at the same time. This is actually getting ridiculous.

Check out the Weekly Challenges thread for more fun

 

[zjn]

No, 16th of the 127 so far. Top one is misleading given 1.5% target for gold, but that was the target, so that is the outcome.

There are some patterns in there:
non typical compounds (Snow, Dirt, Wet)
overpowered cars (Gr1, VGT, Formula)
tracks (Green hell, Bathurst)

or any combination of them, for sure....

Probably Wet is where there may be the bigger room for PD to do something "new" in terms of TT, since the use of other compounds is track-limited.
Maybe old cars also, not necessairly for power, but for drivability. I don't think it has been explored that much.

 

[Gomario JSP]

Can't wait to plunge into the Ionic , i did one valid lap this morning after i found out braking for the last chicane should be done in turn 1 ......, but found it fun already, the big question @Tidgney ( sorry if you have discussed it already in you video but it's before my lunchbeak, so no Tidge video watching time yet 🤣 🤣 ) ... does the overtake button actualy does something here?