Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

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Alea iacta est - my cars are all set up. I'm looking forward to some enjoyable races with three cars pretty much unknown to me.

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Just had half an hour to used 919 evo to race the autopolis one, this car has massive understeer on default setting, and had to set brake bias to +5, just as an fr car to reduce the front tires wear. RM 7 laps and RS for 3 laps, just an easy win.
 
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1. I begun with the Integra Type R, it was pretty easy.
2. A bit more difficult with the second race, I used a mini cooper with a tune that makes it like a cup car. You can find the tune on HSG Automotive's youtube channel. It was easy getting to third, but a bit of a fight getting above that, so some "Creative driving" was needed.
3. I next used the FT-1 GT3 with the vision GT championship, honestly, this race could do with being about 4 laps instead of 7.
4. Finally, I used the Viper GT3 with the one make race.

I did give the WTC900 race a try with the 908 HDI but I just couldn't get close. I don't deal well with these sorts of races.
 
Really making us work hard for the money this week.

Eiger🤮, Autopolis🤮 , VGT 🤮 , Viper 🤮 and as a bonus Trial Mountain which is a great track, but absolutely does not work in reverse IMO.

Anyway. Did it all in one go. Now back to doing fun stuff.

😉
 
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I did most of the weekly races with ABS turned off and I was surprised how dynamic and realistic it made braking and cornering feel. For example, here is a big rear lock up I had which felt super immersive:



I think I will continue to run ABS off for future weeklies, and for credit grind races

Edit: Never mind, most cars are undrivable with ABS off
 
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Really underwhelming set of events this week, I feel. Same goes for the prizes. My choices for cars were also pretty boring, as a result.

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Can never go wrong with a Type R. Stock except for weight reduction, did the job as well as it could. Easy 100k.

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Couldn't remember the last time I drove the Fiat 500. With some light tuning, the agility makes it perfect for Eiger. Actually not bad, maybe the most fun out of all the races.

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I'm not sure why, the car was understeering like crazy. I think I needed to probably tune the downforce and suspension a bit more. I still won the race with it, but it was not fun.

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I tried this race with the 02 Viper and failed miserably. I gave up and just used my maxed out Viper for it and made it easy. Meh. Very uninteresting for a Special Event. Come on, a unique Sunday Cup style race is more fun than this.

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I accidentally used a tune for a different track here. Made it understeery as hell. Managed to do it with no pits with RM tyres at FM6. No rain, thankfully. But still pretty uninteresting otherwise.

Come on, PD! You can come up with more fun races and prizes than these. I did them for the 800k, but oh my, maybe should have just done the Le Mans 700pp again.
 
That was a nasty Autopolis race if I've ever seen one. Starting 40 seconds behind, running on a no stopper strategy picking off the AI one by one and getting heavily slowed down by them, doing 1'41s for the first three laps thanks to basically no room to pass and not gaining on the lead at all, actually getting left further behind. Then a straight row of six 1'38s with clearer track, all but one of the leading pack pitting after lap 8 and only one left, OK he's going to pit coming onto the final lap and I'm two seconds behind, no problem - EXCEPT OH 🤬 HE'S NOT WE HAVE A RACE HERE - fortunately still 17% fuel in the tank, on to fuel map 1 on tyres that are way more dead than alive, and oh yes I'm going to win this no matter how. Which I did and with the CRB to boot.

Does someone know how to spell R-A-B-B-I-T?

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Tired Tyres
I hate Eiger. i hate VGT's. I hate going the wrong way around a track.... The first and last races are okay though.
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At least the switchbacks on Eiger were downhill. I really hate it the other direction. This week is my favorite of the VGT races. I normally use the Lexus because it's easy to convince myself I'm driving a real car.
 
Hmmm, I have 98M credits in the bank and all the prizes are for credits.... The races are also rather boring. I'll probably do the viper race because it is the only unique one.
 
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At least the switchbacks on Eiger were downhill. I really hate it the other direction. This week is my favorite of the VGT races. I normally use the Lexus because it's easy to convince myself I'm driving a real car.
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I mean its literally just a Racing car with a fancy show livery (Same goes for the Toyota FT1 Vision Gran Turismo). That, along with it having the overtake button, is why I always use it (Especially when those all-electric VGTs show up to annoy me).
 
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1. I begun with the Integra Type R, it was pretty easy.
2. A bit more difficult with the second race, I used a mini cooper with a tune that makes it like a cup car. You can find the tune on HSG Automotive's youtube channel. It was easy getting to third, but a bit of a fight getting above that, so some "Creative driving" was needed.
3. I next used the FT-1 GT3 with the vision GT championship, honestly, this race could do with being about 4 laps instead of 7.
4. Finally, I used the Viper GT3 with the one make race.

I did give the WTC900 race a try with the 908 HDI but I just couldn't get close. I don't deal well with these sorts of races.
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No pitstop is the way to go with Autopolis. Used sauber c9 without pitstop. It wasnt easy ,cause i made some small mistakes ,but won it by 4 secs at the end.
 


Japanese FF Challenge 450: Honda Integra Type R. Pretty much easy peasy.
European Sunday Cup 500: Radical SR3 SL. Forgot this even exists in the game and after using it, gonna drive it more often. Fun
Vision Gran Turismo Trophy: Lexus LFLC GT Vision Gran Turismo. The usual stopping of those pesky Electric VGTs. As you were.
World Touring Car 900: Honda NSX-Concept GT. One-Stopper as per usual, though the left front takes a beating around here.
Dodge Viper One-Make: Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R. Way more trickier then I was expecting.
 
This event turned me into a Dodge Viper hater I swear. Dude why Viper are so ****** in GT7? Lol no matter how I tried to tune it, I won but I had to do wall ride each time I can. Is it so bad like this in Real life? If so holy **** I don't why know anybody would buy this car over other car

Please Podi stop with viper wtf give us Ferrari Porsche Aston Martin etc events

The last one did it with lm55 gr1 with 1 pit stop, no rain also btw. I got first by less that one second.
 
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This event turned me into a Dodge Viper hater I swear. Dude why Viper are so ****** in GT7? Lol no matter how I tried to tune it, I won but I had to do wall ride each time I can. Is it so bad like this in Real life? If so holy **** I don't know anybody would buy this car over other car

Please Podi stop with viper wtf give us Ferrari Porsche Aston Martin etc events

The last one did it with lm55 gr1 with 1 pit stop, no rain also btw. I got first by less that one second.
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Daytona was fine, but Trail Mountain really exposes just how suboptimal ALL the Vipers are (even the GT3 car).
 
Decent week although it feels like I've driven Autopolis a lot. First two were pretty easy around the suggested PP, Eiger is a decent layout for cars of that speed too. VGT offers you a chance to use some slower cars given how bad the AI through the first sector, Jaguar VGT Roadster on RH was quite an easy win in the end but a lot of fun to drive. I suspect people won't massively enjoy the Viper race given how fast the AI cars are in a straight line, they then massively hold you up through the last 3 corners which can get annoying. Tried the Gr.3 Viper with BoP and it wasn't close, turned it back to stock power and weight and won pretty easily and had quite a bit of fun with it sliding around. WTC 900 is usually pretty easy given how often the AI likes to pit an extra time on lap 9 and they did it once again for me, didn't really affect the outcome given I was already >5 seconds ahead. Decided to use the '16 GT500 GT-R and struggled a bit on strategy as it rained 4 laps in but it was right between IM and slicks, I picked IM and thankfully it rained more to stop me wearing them out in a couple of laps. Pretty easy to catch and pass the AI then, they're pretty slow even on the same tyres. I really like driving the 2016 GT500 cars, they're so much fun.

Cars for this week:
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This was an adventurous week.
Autopolis I've won last year with the 787 so decided to try something different. Audi RS. Made a mistake with my FM3. I think I could have gone no stop with a higher FM. Oh well, ended up second and behind by 2.5 secs. It was a no-rainer too.
Autopolis International Racing Course_ (18) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Trial Mountain was a doozy. I've never like the Viper, in real life and in games. Never been my thing. Anyway, had to mod this '06 to 900hp. Geez those AI drivers were a step ahead! And this car is a POS. Was on RS and still the understeer. Plus I can never find the flow in TM reverse. If it wasn't for my straightline speed and some lucky turns, I wouldn't have won. Barely a win over Kylian, a couple of seconds. No more Vipers, PD!
Trial Mountain Circuit Reverse_ (2) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Kyoto was in my trusty Lexus which I used for this race before. Easy 40 second win.
Kyoto Driving Park - Yamagiwa_ (11) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Eiger in this 500 which was about 20 over the suggested PP. This car was pretty fun on this track. Won by about 5 seconds over this M3.
Eiger Nordwand_ (9) by 2cam16, on Flickr
HSR was another easy one in the Toyota H-whatever it's called. lol
High Speed Ring_ (6) by 2cam16, on Flickr
 
Pass the weekly races yesterday, i use latest F1 for Autopolis non stop on RH.
LM 55 for VGT and for the hateful Vipers i put level at easy before i start and feel no shame about it 🤣
I don't like at all these rocketship race and especially on reverse layouts like this one.

I left Eiger for last using various cars at 500 pp ,did 5 races and lost only one CRB chasing faster lap.
Easy and fun credits for 50 plus K for under 4 minutes .
At least Eiger will keep my interest since there's a huge band of cars that you can use and wish was that one 7 laps and not the bloody Vipers .
 

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