Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[mastretta_mx]

This week cars:

-Japanese FR in HSR: Toyota 86 GT
-American FR in Watkins Glen: Dodge Super bee
-Group B WRC in Lake Louise: Toyota 86 Gr.B
-Schwarzwald in St Croix: Porsche 992 GT3 RS
-Special event at monza: F3500-A

(4/5 races with CRB 🤭 ) I got 500k credits from 6* ticket and on daily marathon I won also 500K Crs from a 5* ticket, basically I got almost 2 million credits on one hour🤣🤣

 

[jesse100190]

Japanese FR in HSR: Fairlady Z34 '08
-American FR in Watkins Glen: Viper GTS '13
-Group B WRC in Lake Louise: RCZ Gr.B Rally Car
-Schwarzwald in St Croix: CTR3 '07

 

[nickf1gr]

I completed the weekly challenges after changing the difficulty to easy in the F3500-A race!!!!

 

[Greycap]

Another shot at the Monza race, this time I got the CRB too. But I don't know what they've fed Serrano before the start as that's pretty extreme for a Normal difficulty level, my times are nothing to write home about as I was taking it extremely safe through all the chicanes for the entire race (and being stuck in the three abreast formations) to not blow the bonus and the rubberbanding was still hard enough to warrant a 1'26 lap.

 

[DDK-Racing]

My cars for the weeklys.
Won each one on first try on hard. Monza was stressfull though lol.

-Japanese FR - High Speed Ring: Nissan 180SX Type X, Sport hard. Took it with 0.5s because AI was way faster on the main straight and were in my slipstream. CRB✔️
-American FR - Watkins Glen: Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 C4, Sport hard. CRB ✔️
-Group B - Lake Louise: Toyota Celica GT-FOUR Rally Car (ST205), Mid-range turbo, adjusted supension & gearing. Bit overkill beating the Audi with 25+sec 😅 CRB ❌
-Schwarzwald - St Croix B: Widebody, swapped, Porsche 911 Turbo (930) sitting on 699,98PP 😅 Twitchy, unstable, but fast. Love this car (and the livery)!

-Special event - Monza: Mansell's Williams FW14B '92 livery. Racing medium, FM3 shifting around 75% of the rev bar for he first 6 laps. Then FM2, shifting again at around 75%. No stop. Took the lead after the leading AI came in for their stop end of lap 7. Had around 1,5s lead in the beginning of the lap. at Ascari they were right up my.... 2 more laps of holding them up in the corners trusting my exits, make them try overtakes on the outside of corners and won with less then 1s. Stressful, fun, will not be coming back. 😅 CRB❌

 

[Cat Power]

Tried the F1 race last night and couldn't get anywhere on Normal and RH then RS both on F1 fuel.
But pleased lots have struggled as well......oh dear, down to Easy for another try !

 

[TheCracker]

Attempted the F3500-A race on Hard (RM, fuel map 3), but after a handful of attempts - mostly 1st lap restarts after finding the gravel on the outside of Prima Variante (turn 2) - i could do no better than a distant 6th with no chance of catching the leading pack after dropping out of their slip stream, so didn't even bother finishing the race. Was getting late so i skipped Normal and went straight to Easy. AI cars were still every bit as quick on the straights but they slowed far to early into the braking zones, destroying my CRB in the process Was quite content in finishing 3rd to get the prize, but started to reel the distant 1st and 2nd in on lap 6. Got into their tow exiting the parabolica on lap 8 but they darted into the pits. Ended up winning by a sizeable margin. On reflection i think a win on Normal setting would have been fairly straight forward knowing they pit towards the end of the race.

 

[wfooshee]

For the F3500-A I ran a VERY tall 6th gear, not redlining on the straights, and just watched the intervals to the leader climb. I ran fuel mix 3 until the cars in front pitted, and won the race by a slim margin by not needing to pit, just a few seconds. My times are not what anyone else here has posted, 1:32s and 33s.

My first effort (actually my first didn't-give-up-and-reset,) needing to refuel, I pitted from 4th and came out in 12th, after taking FOREVER to fuel up, finished 10th. They may have copied the early 90s car, but they did not copy the early 90s F1 refueling!!!

 

[Tommy_D]

For the F-3500 race, you absolutely need to get in the slipstream of the cars ahead of you. If you can't to that you will never catch up. No amount of fast driving through the turns will make up for the losses you take on the straights. I will admit that I didn't not race that cleanly going into the chicanes. It's almost impossible to when there are 6 cars jamming themselves into that first one. But if you can get into the slipstream you can pass cleanly on the straights and on the brakes into the other turns.

 

[equalitus]

I suspect those of you using RS [or RM] with the highest levels in the suspension settings are using a wheel or you belong to the fastest top 3%. I haven't quite tested how much less tire wear there is from lowering suspension settings to minimum but perhaps some of you have estimated a percent which translates to x amount of laps before the car is uncontrollable even with a wheel & a top 3% driver?

I am obviously only talking about the F3500 race [or similar with the F1500 or the SF cars or even the Gran Turismo RB cars], in almost all other races very different driving mechanics apply, both because the cars are much heavier & much less downforce & much less power..!

 

[Tommy_D]

I suspect those of you using RS [or RM] with the highest levels in the suspension settings are using a wheel or you belong to the fastest top 3%. I haven't quite tested how much less tire wear there is from lowering suspension settings to minimum but perhaps some of you have estimated a percent which translates to x amount of laps before the car is uncontrollable even with a wheel & a top 3% driver?

I am obviously only talking about the F3500 race [or similar with the F1500 or the SF cars or even the Gran Turismo RB cars], in almost all other races very different driving mechanics apply, both because the cars are much heavier & much less downforce & much less power..!

I reduce the camber settings on all my cars that have customizable suspensions. Usually to 2.0. This helps a lot with tire wear, braking and acceleration performance at the cost of a bit less speed in the corners. But if it means I can go without pitting, or be able to get an extra lap or 2 without needing to pit for a second time, it's worth the small sacrifice in corner speed.

Edit: I am not a top 3% driver. I am lucky if I get silver medals in the weekly time trials.

 

[Cat Power]

Got 2nd at last but had to do it on easy.
Reduced f/r downforce and final drive to 4.100, RM tyres fuel 3 occasionally 2 or 4 to ensure no pit stop.

 

[NevilleNobody]

The rally challenge is just utter rubbish isn't it. The Ai scoots out of corners like they are on rails and god help you if you're anywhere near them mid corner as thy nerf you off the road and you INEVITABLY get turned backwards. Hated every damnded second of it.

I am pretty handy in the F1 car, went RS full fuel for 6 laps then went to FM4 and did a bit of Lift n Coast, finished p1 by a few seconds.

 

[AlexWilmot]

The rally challenge is just utter rubbish isn't it. The Ai scoots out of corners like they are on rails and god help you if you're anywhere near them mid corner as thy nerf you off the road and you INEVITABLY get turned backwards. Hated every damnded second of it.

It’s a different approach to driving, for this race specifically get the racing gearbox and set speed to 300 in any car, then you want to chuck the car into turns early, down shifting to get the engine speed down but exit on power early and in a high gear

 

[Greycap]

The Ai scoots out of corners like they are on rails and god help you if you're anywhere near them mid corner as thy nerf you off the road and you INEVITABLY get turned backwards.

It's not like the AI is ever all that good, but if anyone drove in a real race like they do at Lake Louise the chance of receiving a high velocity helmet to the face in the paddock afterwards would be high enough to require considering.

 

[Def-Infinity]

The rally challenge is just utter rubbish isn't it. The Ai scoots out of corners like they are on rails and god help you if you're anywhere near them mid corner as thy nerf you off the road and you INEVITABLY get turned backwards. Hated every damnded second of it.

The key thing is to just never be on the outside since they will just overdrive the moment they 'sense' a battle with a player.

They're actually pretty trash in the corners, and are getting carried hard by those HP figures. Kind of a recipe for disaster, honestly.

 

[NevilleNobody]

The AI in general is just dross, so hard to deal with. They generally exit like a scalded cat but brake way too early and run you off the road. The one last week at Daytona was insanely bad at T1. I only do these stupid races to get my piece of cheese but man they are terrible.

 

[RACECAR]

The rally challenge is just utter rubbish isn't it. The Ai scoots out of corners like they are on rails and god help you if you're anywhere near them mid corner as thy nerf you off the road and you INEVITABLY get turned backwards. Hated every damnded second of it.

I am pretty handy in the F1 car, went RS full fuel for 6 laps then went to FM4 and did a bit of Lift n Coast, finished p1 by a few seconds.

I find the AI to be the absolute worst on any surface that isn't tarmac. Braking far too much and frequently, always hitting the wall or another car. So when I go to make moves, I'm always watching where they about to take their atrocious lines or their illogical braking points and make moves based on what I observed (which in the case of Lake Louise for example, is that they brake terribly early and hug the inside line going into 1, making it easy to power around the outside and carry speed right past them)

 

[kjb]

I completed the weekly challenges after changing the difficulty to easy in the F3500-A race!!!!

No shame at all. Do what you have to do

 

[NevilleNobody]

In Normal mode I am making up 4 seconds on the AI braking I to T1. Yet some corners, random ones, the burst out if the corners like jack rabbits.

 

[Vitesh Patel]

The rubber banding is insane. The AI can post impossible times and it can be demoralising.

Have a strategy and stick to it. The leaders will pit in the Monza race. Just focus on getting into 5th and then on putting in clean, fast laps.

The refuel speed is staggering slow, so try your keep the gap to the leaders at around 10-12 seconds. Once their stops all shake out, you'll have a 5-ish second lead to defend. But by now you've already got your rhythm, driving in clean air.

Just keep nailing your brake points, short shift to maintain traction on exit. You've got this.

 

[jrbabbitt]

Ok i am a bit late on my weekly races but family does get priority...
F3500 at Monza. 🚫
On my 3 attempts at first go, my best was only P3, so I had to accept this knowing I can go back to this and try again.

As I did i found a great tuning setup just about a page back in this thread and it helped my game for which I got my P1 but no CRB 🚫 (picture from alt account)

Schwarzwald at St. Croix. 🔰
Jumped in and tuned the RUF to fit the race.

Gr.B at Lake Louise 🔰
Thought this was going to be by hardest race but in the NSX it was like icing on the cake.

Americans at Watkins Glen. 🔰
Hopped into a British Ford to show the muscle cars how it's done...

Japanese FR at HighSpeed Ring. 🔰
Found this gem and ran it well...

 

[AlexWilmot]

The choice of cars:

Race 1: Had a pretty easy win with the sleighty

Race 2: Mustang had the legs on the straight to catch the front but this car is too floaty in the turns, needs an arb

Race 3: Race gearbox and set speed to 300, throw it into the turns early and exit in a higher gear, can get 1st place before the end of lap 2

Race 4: This was fun in the SLR, not a car I've used but needs loads of patience on the brakes and turn in to actually work

Race 5: Flat out in FM1 on RS tires for a one stopper at the end of lap 7 like the leaders, just coasted behind them to have less fuel to add, was pretty boring

 

[Cat Power]

I'm confused.
I found it REALLY difficult to get 3rd in the F1 race on easy but if i have a F1 custom race even on hard / professional I find it fairly easy to get from 20th to first.
As I'd said, confused.

 

[lilcat89]

I'm confused.
I found it REALLY difficult to get 3rd in the F1 race on easy but if i have a F1 custom race even on hard / professional I find it fairly easy to get from 20th to first.
As I'd said, confused.

Have you checked your tune? I only ask because I had the same issue of getting nowhere near the AI on easy. I had not fixed the tune after I used a detuned F3500 in last week's WTC900 weekly race. I had no problem after that was fixed.

 

[coryclifford]

Monza race. My trick. Hard level.
Stock car on RM tire.
Buy the fully customisable transmission.
Set it to 360.
Short shift sometimes.
Fuel map 2.
Last lap, FM 1. Because they’re hunting you down.

And don’t forget you can take those chicane first corners over the yellow.

 

[Cat Power]

Have you checked your tune? I only ask because I had the same issue of getting nowhere near the AI on easy. I had not fixed the tune after I used a detuned F3500 in last week's WTC900 weekly race. I had no problem after that was fixed.

Many thanks but tuned OK and I put final drive ratio to 4.100 which helped at Monza I think.

 

[BWX]

Hard AI, controller, auto trans, TC-2, Weak ABS.. no stop. I like these somewhat challenging weekly races. Not saying it's a good tune or good race but good enough LOL.
Tune right at beginning.