Time Trial Discussion

[skydragon49]

Hello there

I found another tenth at the Alpes.

Being within the 2% is good enough for me. 😃

 

[snc]

 

[ZEE]

Went back and had to squeeze some much needed time out of the Suzuka course and the Honda SF23 delivered. Behold my new SILVER time!!! Getting better day by day!

 

[Gomario JSP]

This one is really tricky at the sharp end and usually I'm good at finding time on these tires.

Sorry for the video bomb but I recorded some gameplay from my last unfruitful session and had this last sector that I thought was pretty insane. Chasing the #1 ghost. I'm in his trunk for a good bit... At .3 offset

Yeah third sector is very evil on this combo, I'm getting better in the first 2 though but that turn in point on that fast sweeper you show is very difficult to nail and I just can't seem to find the sweetspot 🤣

 

[zjn]

Funny combo this last one. I fill abs default suits better my braking style here, or maybe it's just placebo.
Im not sure it's enough to be safe, but betting that other half a second of my ideal is not that easy

 

[Barareklam]

Very difficult to see anything wrong with your lap. What are your optimals like? is it just a question of stringing the correct set of sectors together? Not sure if it translates to the controller, but I am definitely a little bit quicker with ABS weak.

Managed to break the 1:15 barrier.
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Congrats on 1:14 that's fast!

My optimals? Well I have 1-2 tenth more in me. After more studying my lap, I think I am losing most of time on exit of T2 just before end of S1, If I nail that one there is hope for improvement of PB.
Thanks all who checked my lap and gave advices! You guys are real legends!!!

 

[TheNormsk]

Well that’s awful. I can’t figure out how to get a decent time on this. Well it seems decent but I’m in the mid 3000s so really not.

Edit. Came back to it and got improvement. I feel a top 1000 might be doable.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Well after saying I wasn’t sure where to find time, here I am, a quarter of a second quicker! ABS weak, but honestly don’t think that’s really helping me that much and I think this is more about getting a little faster through the hairpins. Had a 25 lap run and got down to a 15.240 and was about to call it quits, but optimal said .1 so went back in and found another half tenth. First two sectors are still my weakness, particularly getting out of the second and fourth hairpin. Second half of the lap I’m quite respectable, and to be honest I’m pretty pleased being this close to the top of the leaderboard… or to put it another way, I’m closer to p1 than Lawson was to Verstappen in Melbourne Qualifying 😜

Will have another run in the morning after watching the Grand Prix.

 

[TheNormsk]

More improvement. Got my top 1000.

I found a new ghost to chase that had a line through the esses that was more aligned with my driving. Now, I just had to remember who it was.

 

[bigfluffy888]

The last s-curve is haunting me. I’m improving and will focus on that turn as much as I can over the next few days.

 

[TheNormsk]

That’s me done for the night. Improvement again. I’m beginning to minimize the loss of time coming out of the 2nd and 4th esses.

There’s a 1:15.2 optimal but it seems random if I do well or poorly on the track. Sometimes I swear, one pixel makes all the difference.

Finally, I was pleased to get into the top 10 of my friends board. You all are getting fast!

 

[Metalgear9493]

That's it for me, opening 2 sectors too hard. Was able to pull back 40 thousandths from split 2 to the finish when comparing my lap to AT_1826's (Adam Tapai) lap, so pretty happy with that!

 

[ottis911]

Finally, after a few days of hard work, I made a gold time. My pb slowly went down from 38.3, 37.9, 37.5, 37.2 and to 36.7, really not easy.
And the 3.4k position was also my highest rank.

 

[Gomario JSP]

Morning folks,

Fighting hairpins this morning,
I had a lot of progression on the first two sectors, they are a real tricky to nail all but eventually were rewarding and could rather be consistent in the .4xx splits.
But my real trouble zone is the long righthander and sweeper after that, I binned somany .4 splits there, not even funny anymore 🤣, so I'm kind of the oppositie @Metalgear9493 🤣

But there was a lap it all came together quite nice for me, there should be another tenth in that last part, but not much more for me but quite happy with this lap!

Hope this stays top 100 😁

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[Barareklam]

Pretty OK S2 time on my lap 11

Do you want to know how lap 11 ends?

Spoiler: lap 11

 

[Gomario JSP]

Pretty OK S2 time on my lap 11

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Do you want to know how lap 11 ends?

Spoiler: lap 11

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Nice progression!, still time to find on the S2 split mate, my fastest this morning was a high 3 but ended meeting Barry on the long righthander 🤣, PB S2 was .408 I believe so there is room there 😁
Kind of a difficult TT this one beeing so tactical in the fist two sectors and when you finally nail them .... then you still have to meet the worst 🤣

I'm positive you'll sub 15 this one, almost there 😁

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Looking for help on this TT, GTP Team! I cannot, for the life of me, get my car to turn into the hairpins. Also, on exit of the first left-hander hairpin I cannot stop understeering wide. I have no idea how the top times get that turning angle and speed to come together.

What gives?

 

[Gomario JSP]

Looking for help on this TT, GTP Team! I cannot, for the life of me, get my car to turn into the hairpins. Also, on exit of the first left-hander hairpin I cannot stop understeering wide. I have no idea how the top times get that turning angle and speed to come together.

What gives?

I must say I'm trailbraking the crap out of it and on my first session I couldn't realy get it turned either, turned out I wanted to fast, a little less speed and staying close to the kurb seems to realy help rotating it, the exit of the hairpin is indeed a thing, few pumps of throttle seems fast in my case, full throttle results in a Barry or the ghost just pulls away.
What I did wrong in my first run was letting it kind of die in first, tiny throttle input when in 2nd again after rotation in first seems to help a bit though!

 

[Ed_Night]

Morning folks,

Fighting hairpins this morning,
I had a lot of progression on the first two sectors, they are a real tricky to nail all but eventually were rewarding and could rather be consistent in the .4xx splits.
But my real trouble zone is the long righthander and sweeper after that, I binned somany .4 splits there, not even funny anymore 🤣, so I'm kind of the oppositie @Metalgear9493 🤣

But there was a lap it all came together quite nice for me, there should be another tenth in that last part, but not much more for me but quite happy with this lap!

Hope this stays top 100 😁

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@crome 🤪 joined ✅️

Very nice improvement mate. 💪

Should be already a safe time for top100, although you just lost one place. 😂😂

At least you have a new goal now, so you won't get bored until thursday. 😋😂😂

 

[imChris]

I spent quite some time yesterday trying to get a sub 1:15 lap and couldn't even get close. Then today I managed it on only the second lap of the day. I think I just needed a mental reset in order to stop overdriving the car

 

[330_D]

Looking for help on this TT, GTP Team! I cannot, for the life of me, get my car to turn into the hairpins. Also, on exit of the first left-hander hairpin I cannot stop understeering wide. I have no idea how the top times get that turning angle and speed to come together.

What gives?

It's hard. It's an exact speed and exact turning angle at exactly the right moment. You have to trail in but you also have to totally release at the exact moment to get it to turn. It's pretty hard. I have some pretty wicked optimals but putting it all together is so tough. I still have no idea what gear is best where. 😂🍻🍻

 

[Gomario JSP]

Very nice improvement mate. 💪

Should be already a safe time for top100, although you just lost one place. 😂😂View attachment 1436601

At least you have a new goal now, so you won't get bored until thursday. 😋😂😂

Lost one?? I lost 10 already 😡😡🤣🤣
Nice time mate!
I think a .7 is max for me though, we will see, indeed some nice hunting until Thursday 🤣🙏🙏

 

[bigfluffy888]

Looking for help on this TT, GTP Team! I cannot, for the life of me, get my car to turn into the hairpins. Also, on exit of the first left-hander hairpin I cannot stop understeering wide. I have no idea how the top times get that turning angle and speed to come together.

What gives?

Helps me to view one of the top replays, turn on driving info, focus on how they trail brake in, how tight they are to inside corner, and where they feather the throttle. Then when driving with the ghost, focus on staying right on their bumper, go a little slower first few times, then on subsequent laps push till you feel the wheel spin or slower exit which is sign of trying to throttle too much or too early, so you can hone in on how aggressive you can be. I don’t have it anywhere optimal but I feel this is the way to improve it 😊 The exit of the last s-curve is where I’m noticeably a few tenths behind the ghost, I think I need to go a little wider on entry so the car snaps back to the left.

 

[Hasnain282]

Took me a few runs but managed to scrape into the 14s

 

[Stormbreaker]

Soooo... I basically didn't sleep last night to watch F1,F2,F3 and the Sebring 12h but i tried the Swiss TT with the Lancer and i closed my lap in 1.15.000, perfectly balanced 😂
Looking forward to sleep this night😪😴 and maybe try again the next week 👊🏻

 

[Ian JB]

Hi,

I think that the Nordwand / Mitsubishi time trial is one of theeeee most difficult that I have contested. I am seeing folks who are much faster and quicker than me struggle here. The level of precision and control you guys are demonstrating is, quite frankly, astonishing!!!

Once again, I am chasing a well known contributor and guide creator's ghost - Thank you, all of you, who create this content for us, mere mortals, to chase! 😃.

I am pretty much parked on your rear bumper for the whole lap. The last two corners I just cannot get right for the life in me. It is frustrating beyond belief as this - right there - is the whole story of my Time Trialling exploits here. Virtually every single circuit, I struggle with one or two corners <Gnashing of teeth and snarling here>

That said, I am happy with the fruits of my labours to date....

Best regards to all here.

Ian.

 

[A_Higher_Place]

Thank you, GTP 😁. Touched the 14s by shaving off 0.4

 

[Ed_Night]

Lost one?? I lost 10 already 😡😡🤣🤣
Nice time mate!
I think a .7 is max for me though, we will see, indeed some nice hunting until Thursday 🤣🙏🙏

Yes our splits are very close, you can do that
1:14.7xx. 😁
I'm 0,03x faster at S1, than you are 0,02x infront of me at S2 and at S3 i'm infront again by 0,028s. 😂

 

[zaxs]

What can I say, don't know can I repeat it:

 

[ZevZoq]

Managed to take off another couple tenths at Eiger to get my time back under 2.00%...this one doesn't even feel like a struggle for me really - in the sense that I just find it way more fun than frustrating. Very enjoyable.