Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[Akers]

Challenges for the week complete. With the changes in the update, several cars need tweaks to their previous configs to meet the PP limits. All completed on Hard, except the F3500 challenge. Honestly, with the AI cars behaving like it was stock car racing rather than Open-wheel, I decided to quit while ahead.
No wonder some drivers in Sport mode think dive-bombing is acceptable, when the AI cars do so regularly. 🙄

 

[DriveSpark]

Thought the F1 race was horrible.

Found that on softs right front gets a lot of wear if you do the last corner flat out, so on to mediums, which hardly wear at all.
On normal difficulty I got pitched in to spins/barriers by the AI who are all over the place.

Don't think much of the car to be honest, on the right-left before the tunnel it wallows about in understeer, don't even think about touching a kerb here, traction is awful. Numerous times I attempted a different line to pass cars, so for example, go in deep then get on throttle to pull the car out and get passed - doesn't work, nose pushes wide, you lose traction - next lap you use the AI line, yet they amange to go deep with no issue... eugh.

On the approach to the last corner the car is very snappy, found it up on the kerb/grass more than once, had to reduce controller sensitivity.

Having got bored of being taken out by AI I dropped to easy difficulty - in the lead on lap three, which then made for a boring 12 laps just circling to get to the end. Slip stream makes all the difference

I presume its a number of things adding up here, but I won't be rushing back to the car and its probably the worst weekly race I've done.

 

[Force-Feedback]

Sees all the posts above with people winning the F1 race by 0.5 seconds or less...

I think I had a bigger gap, Racing softs, minimum aero, increase top speed by 20/30. (I did have racing gearbox from the tuning shop along side racing exhaust, no real difference but just in case).

A cheeky wallride on turn 2 and flat out for the last corner and it should be ok.

I'm sure others ran the race differently but at least this worked for me.

 

[JDMKING13]

The F1 race is difficult..

No chance on the mediums as you lose too much time around the esses about half way through the lap.

Tried softs plus a new gearbox tuned to 360kph and 2 notches of traction control but could only manage 7th.

I was placed nicely in 4th at one point and just went a bit too aggressive on tyre management and lost the slipstream from the front pack. Then because my tyres were gone I lost a few positions by the end.

Definitely going to be a fine balance between pushing to get to the front pack but also leaving enough tyre to have an enough to fight at the end.

Beat it with medium tires … Caught P1 lap 11 and took it home completely stock.

 

[crooky369]

Beat it with medium tires … Caught P1 lap 11 and took it home completely stock.

That's why you're the King!

Presumably on hard difficulty m'lud?

 

[MIE1992]

If I happen to have time to do all five events, here were my picks:

European Sunday Cup 400: Mini Cooper S '05
Japanese Clubman Cup 550: Honda S800*
WTC 600: Honda S800*
Porsche Cup: Porsche 911 (991) GT3 RS
Special Event: Gran Turismo F3500-A

* = Swapped!

More specifically, for the WTC 600 round, if I can't get the swapped S800 as close as I'd like to 600 PP, then I'll alternatively use an Aston Martin Vantage DB11 instead. In which case, I'll put it on either Sport Mediums or Sport Softs - whichever puts it over the 600 PP threshold - then tinker with the ballast and power limiter accordingly. But otherwise, I plan to leave the DB11 entirely stock.

Then, for the Porsche Cup, simply putting that car on Sport Softs should be enough, as far as the 650 PP limit goes.

 

[Vitesh Patel]

Managed to beat the final race on Hard. Stock tune with RS and the gearing set to 370. I must admit, I got lucky with the lead group containing 6th through to 1st so once I passed them, I could hold them all off, while still doing 1.55s

This race was tough, I hope we get more races with these cars, hopefully a proper length event around a more complex track.

 

[JDMKING13]

That's why you're the King!

Presumably on hard difficulty m'lud?

lol yeah I am on hard difficulty… It was actually easier for me with the mediums
Vs the Softs.. I did it in VR also was such an experience let me tell you!

 

[Force-Feedback]

Bigger gap this time, in true Ayrton fashion!

 

[Waster3000]

I won the F3500-A event, by dropping the difficulty from Hard to Normal. And I never do that.

Almost never.

Praiano tune, RS tyres, my fastest lap was in the 54s. Able to take time out of the AI cars through Turn 2, struggled to take the 3-4-5 esses consistently. Tried not to deviate from my line if there were other cars around me, I hear those guys are brutal... No problems with tyre wear for me either, thankfully.

Won just barely, some 'inventive weaving' helped in the run to the line. 🤣

 

[Greg65P]

Managed to beat the final race on Hard. Stock tune with RS and the gearing set to 370. I must admit, I got lucky with the lead group containing 6th through to 1st so once I passed them, I could hold them all off, while still doing 1.55s

This race was tough, I hope we get more races with these cars, hopefully a proper length event around a more complex track.

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Don’t you have to add the racing transmission to set the gearing to 370? That’s the only thing you changed?