Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[mindseye]

The Valkyrie is one of my favorites to drive

It is truly beautiful to drive without any tuning, a wonderful surprise, considering many cars are unraceable without a tune.

 

[RACECAR]

Ready for the challenges.

 

[Fuzzi0n]

Pretty good week with some fun tracks. First two are simple, can be under the suggested PP and still win easily, Brands is at a nice time of day and as much as I don't like this Grand Valley it did look good overcast and a little foggy. Vantage race is easy in an unmodified car given how bad the AI is around Deep Forest, they just love to brake on corners that are easily flat out. Hypercar Parade I ended up demolishing with the Porsche Mission X on SS, was way too fast for the AI but I had a lot of fun driving it around there. Final race at Monza is a good one because you can use a lot of road cars if they have good straight line speed. I went with my swapped MR2 and didn't have much trouble, the Viper is quick but pits an extra time so as long as you run map 3-6 you just 1 stop it and have enough pace to cover all the others too. Felt the AI was dumb at times, I had the Lexus just jump a chicane and spin which caused a 5 car pileup behind me. Overall I think the races were quite easy but there's some good combinations and a lot of cars you can use.

Cars for the week:

 

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[nickf1gr]

The PD should deploy the weekly meeting with more strict rules in order to make this small championship more challenging...

What a great idea!!!!! 👍 👍 👍

 

[ElectricNaz]

Really easy week this week, especially compared to last week. Completed all in under an hour I think before work.

On hard difficulty, won Monza by 56 seconds as you can easily no stop with the R92CP.

 

[Moose78]

This week, I'm on it...

All on hard difficulty.

Brands Hatch - Toyota 2000GT '67 - Didn't touch the car. It was already over the suggested PP without any changes. The race was surprisingly challenging. Only caught the lead car on the final lap for the win. First ticket obtained.

Grand Valley - Toyota Sprinter Trueno 1600GT APEX (S.Shigeno Version) - Another challenging race. I upgraded to SS tires but otherwise left the car stock. Caught the lead car on the final corner but didn't have the top speed to get by. P2 and second box checked.

Deep Forest - Aston Martin Vantage '18 - Upgraded to SS tires. No other changes. Easy win. Second ticket obtained.

Trial Mountain - Italdesign VGT Street Mode - I've driven all the cars that are categorized in the game as #HyperCar, so I decided to go for something a little different. This Italdesign thing had a similar PP to the hyper cars, so I threw on some RS tires and went for it. It was way too much. Easy win. Fourth box checked.

Monza - Toyota FT-1 VGT (Gr.3) - No changes to the car. I started on RM tires because I wasn't sure how long they'd last. Had to fuel save a bit to make it to 5 laps. Changed to RS tires for the second stint. Could only a muster a P7, 25 seconds behind the lead. I did make some mistakes, but nothing that would have cost me that much time. I guess this just isn't the car for this race. Doubt I'll try again, though. Don't need the credits, and I already got what I wanted out of the race, which is to drive a car I hadn't yet.

 

[makeover]

Here are my reccomandations:
1. Japanese Clubman Cup: Toyota Himedic
2. Sunday Cup: BMW i3
3. Special Event: Of course Aston Martin Vantage 2018
4. Hypercar Parade: Chevrolet Corvette C7 or C8 (your choice)
5. WTC 800: Ford GT LM Race Car or Suzuki V6 Escudo Pokes Peak Special
I hope you like my reccomandations!

 

[AlexWilmot]

Used a tuned up Murciago LP 640 on RM tyres, FM6 one stop strat.

 

[smoothbore12]

Today at weeklies i did the " unthinkable" ( for me ).
I took every CRB first try ever !!?
Always at normal level but i couldn't even think of it , so i deserve some glitter

So after that i try to entertain my seff and push back the AI at Monza to the eternity 🤣
Use NSX 08 non stop and cut everything that can be cut 😱😱😱

 

[RACECAR]

Sunday Cup: Ford Escort RS Cosworth. Hadn't driven it in abit and forgot how fun it was. Easy peasy.
Japanese Clubman Cup 550: Toyota GR Supra. Another easy one, though not without alittle bit of danger.
Hypercar Parade: Ferrari FXX-K. You know the drill by now.
World Touring Car 800: Mercedes AMG GT3 '20. Decided to make abit of a challenge and it certainly was with how the AI were too brake happy or too eager to run each other off in some corners.
Aston Martin Vantage One-Make: An already good car made even better as a GT4 build. Was on the Hardest Difficulty and I still smashed the field.

 

[AlexWilmot]

Unfortunately this Porsche is just not fuel efficient enough to go fast enough to win in my hands

 

[jlbmel]

Won all on hard difficulty:

Japanese Clubman Cup: Honda S660 '15 -397pp-CS
Sunday Cup: Mazda CX-30 X Smart Edition '21 -550pp-SH
Special Event: Aston Martin Vantage '18 -600pp-SM
Hypercar Parade: Aston Martin Valkyrie '21 -900pp-RS
WTC 800: Honda NSX GT500 '08 -800pp-RH-No stop

The tune I used on the Vantage was 150hp below the stock car. The AI killed me in the tunnel but I took a close win by passing the lead car at the turn before the tunnel on the last lap. I then had to do some blocking until the end of the tunnel.

The AI is so slow in the Hypercar races. The race was over in 1.5 laps. So I took a 700pp BMW M2 Competition '18 with the engine swap and lost by .900 second. My poor vision caused me to scrape the walls a couple of times and cost me the victory.

All cars had tunes by @praiano63.

 

[A1an]

The cars I used, all new cars to me except the Vantage 18 🙂

 

[coryclifford]

Vantage race with just the Sports stuff, on sport medium, good fun. Short shifts. Hard mode. I think they gave up.

 

[skydragon49]

Cars I drove tonight:

Sunday Cup at Brands Hatch: Corolla Levin '83. Fully stock, comfort medium tyres. Understeer city, futuristic (ish) cockpit. At least for the 80's...

Japanese Clubman 550 at Grand Valley: Civic Type R '22. Fully stock with a special livery gifted from the time trial at Spa with the classic F1 Honda. I should be driving this car more. It is a great ride.

Hyper Car Parade at Trial Mountain: Ford Mustang Boss 429 '69. Engine Swapped. Racing hard tyres. Because beating european hyper cars in an American Muscle icon is super fun.

All races driven on easy (no shame, I want to have a nice and relaxing time driving my fav cars. I have my challenge quota filled with the online time trials). All races with CRB.

I don't wanna do the Aston Martin because I just didn't like the new Vantage and I don't care much about the WTC 800 races anymore. Specially at Monza.

I might repeat the Hyper Car event though.

 

[Tired Tyres]

After the Sophy update I can’t bring myself to do the weekly races anymore

 

[sirjim73]

The cars I used, all new cars to me except the Vantage 18 🙂
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Nice that you got the Vantage to exactly 600pp. Always good getting to a round number! 👌

 

[A1an]

Nice that you got the Vantage to exactly 600pp. Always good getting to a round number! 👌

Thank you, I always try to get it exact.

 

[2cam16]

Ho-hum kind of week. The only exciting race I had was Grand Valley.
WTC800 in my Lexus. Easy win with a splash and dash after lap 8.
Autodromo Nazionale Monza_ (9) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Hyper Cars? Well it was my go-to FXXK seen here getting a rise on the competition. Easy one again.
Trial Mountain Circuit_ (8) by 2cam16, on Flickr
AM race was over by lap 2.
Deep Forest Raceway_ (10) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Brands I had won last week in this so it was repeated with the Renault. Easy again.
Brands Hatch Indy Circuit_ (6) by 2cam16, on Flickr
GV was fun. 549pp in the Mazda. Just didn't have it on the straight v. Yamanaka in his Supra. Took second over Kokobun on the last lap and lost by 1.5 ticks. All good.
Grand Valley - South_ (4) by 2cam16, on Flickr

 

[Greycap]

My original idea was to take a machine gun to a knife fight in the WTC800, just steamroll everyone and get it done. Not that easy it seems... the first plan, follow them in the corners and pass on the straights. Should be an easy CRB win.



That clearly doesn't work, so stay well away in the corners, and still pass on the straights.



I swear they turn some random clown factor higher in every update.
(videos expire in two days)

 

[Carpocalypse]

Well, this was a pretty fun week, again.

1. To begin the week, I used my Suzuki Cappuccino Faux-LM (Seen behind the White Honda S660), it's been upgraded to approx. 400PP (I think). It's small size and decent power made it a very fun and stable car.
2. Next, I used the aforementioned Honda S660. I upgraded it until it resembled what I call the S660 Type R. It's got the engine from the Project 2&4, with no other upgrades to the engine. Even without it, this thing is absolutely ludicrous.
3. After that, I used the Aston Martin Vantage, again, it's a pretty drifty car, but not so drifty that it's uncontrollable
4. For Hypercar parade, I decided to use a CTR3. It's a car I rarely drive, and I discovered why, this thing understeers bad, but not so bad that I couldn't manage a win.
5. Finally, I used the downtuned 787B for WTC800. I was initially worried, Monza is not one of my strongsuits. It was for nothing however, as my car was routinely quicker (I believe my fastest lap was a 1:51) I probably could have done this with no pitting at all, but I chose to, just in case.

Finally, using the money from the challenges, I brought the Escudo Pikes Peak. It wiped out a sizable portion of my money in game going from just over 2 million to 500k, but this should recover fairly quickly, plus you don't seem to have many chances to get the car.

 

[imChris]

My original idea was to take a machine gun to a knife fight in the WTC800, just steamroll everyone and get it done. Not that easy it seems... the first plan, follow them in the corners and pass on the straights. Should be an easy CRB win.



That clearly doesn't work, so stay well away in the corners, and still pass on the straights.



I swear they turn some random clown factor higher in every update.
(videos expire in two days)

Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed this, the AI in this race was bad even by normal GT7 standards.

 

[ROCKET JOE]

You might remember I'm completely swap hyped atm so I used my current favorites wherever possible. Of course, winning the events came quite easy that way so I put my focus on the driving itself. And that's not been just trying to receive the clean race bonuses but to keep it really free of contact, not making any driving mistakes, getting smooth and stable runs and keeping my car under control permanently.
The most difficult run, believe it or not, was the one at Brands Hatch. Keeping the swapped, extra heavy but otherwise stock Roadster on CM tires in check needs ultimate patience. Using a slight bit more than 20 percent throttle / brakes while not straightened out and stable is a bad idea, trust me.
At Monza I needed a second attempt as Beauvois rear ended me braking into Parabolica making me touch another car and disappear in the run off after an otherwise fine run.
All in all I'm really content with what I had so far ... and here's the cars :

Race 1
Ford Roadster swap / fully restricted power, 200 kg ballast, CM tires, everything else stock setup / 505 PP

Race 2
Toyota Hiace swap / fully restricted power, 200 kg ballast, SM tires, quick and dirty setup / 545 PP

Race 3
Aston Martin Vantage / fully stock except additional aero and wider wheels / 610 PP

Race 4
Dodge Viper swap / fully restricted power, 70 kg ballast, SS tires, quick and dirty setup / 735 PP

Race 5
Porsche Cayman swap / quick and dirty setup / 800 PP ... RM tires, FM6, one stop after 5 laps for fuel and tires

@Greycap
Experienced the exact same incidents at Monza, however, could avoid that 3 car pile up at Ascari by a hair's breadth.

@imChris
From what I hear and see you're driving a 787B, a car way faster than all the rest. And yet, you didn't have the patience to pass the Ford cleanly. In my book that's clearly your fault.

 

[smoothbore12]

You might remember I'm completely swap hyped atm so I used my current favorites wherever possible. Of course, winning the events came quite easy that way so I put my focus on the driving itself. And that's not been just trying to receive the clean race bonuses but to keep it really free of contact, not making any driving mistakes, getting smooth and stable runs and keeping my car under control permanently.
The most difficult run, believe it or not, was the one at Brands Hatch. Keeping the swapped, extra heavy but otherwise stock Roadster on CM tires in check needs ultimate patience. Using a slight bit more than 20 percent throttle / brakes while not straightened out and stable is a bad idea, trust me.
At Monza I needed a second attempt as Beauvois rear ended me braking into Parabolica making me touch another car and disappear in the run off after an otherwise fine run.
All in all I'm really content with what I had so far ... and here's the cars :

Race 1
Ford Roadster swap / fully restricted power, 200 kg ballast, CM tires, everything else stock setup / 505 PP

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Race 2
Toyota Hiace swap / fully restricted power, 200 kg ballast, SM tires, quick and dirty setup / 545 PP

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Race 3
Aston Martin Vantage / fully stock except additional aero and wider wheels / 610 PP

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Race 4
Dodge Viper swap / fully restricted power, 70 kg ballast, SS tires, quick and dirty setup / 735 PP

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Race 5
Porsche Cayman swap / quick and dirty setup / 800 PP ... RM tires, FM6, one stop after 5 laps for fuel and tires

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@Greycap
Experienced the exact same incidents at Monza, however, could avoid that 3 car pile up at Ascari by a hair's breadth.

@imChris
From what I hear and see you're driving a 787B, a car way faster than all the rest. And yet, you didn't have the patience to pass the Ford cleanly. In my book that's clearly your fault.

Hats was the most difficult for me also 🤣
I guess i need a slower car to be more calm otherwise i always skrew something 🤣

 

[GTvsForza]

This week gave me a good challenge.

• Sunday Cup - Corolla Levin 🚫
• Japanese FF Challenge - CX-30 🔰
• Vantage One-Make - 🚫
• Hypercar Parade - Lambo V12 VGT 🔰
• WTC800 - Renault RS.01 🚫

Got a Porsche Invitation from a 4⭐️ daily, but already have the Carrera 😑

 

[smoothbore12]

Trial mountain parade today .

Cars i use , most of them was past lemans settings at 700pp ( some at 701 something from updates that didn't fix them since i haven't use them long time ago)


Aston Martin
Vulcan


Ferrari
Enzo
La Ferrari
Berlinetta
F40 swapped

Ford
Gt06 swapped

Pagani
Hyaura

Jaguar
XJ220 not swapped

Bugatti
Veyron

Thoughts about it.
Best top speed Ford 06 but difficult to manage it.
Best lap after the Elephant ( Veyron) was surprisingly the XJ while he had the best top speed of normal cars and that cost me the CRB touching the barriers on last lap .
The car that All laps was under 2.00 min. was only Veyron but i run her last and i already knew where to pass the AI safe .
Although i didn't get CRB with her and the same happens with Hyaura which i really don't know why.
With F40 i had a touch with a wall but i get the CRB and that was the main target today.
Best handling Vulcan but also the slowest in speed at my 700pp settings at least.

So 9 runs 6 CRB and with two losses being my fault and one remains unknown why .
Best laps , Veyron at 53's and XJ at 54's while the others wasn't far away 55's-56's etc.

Have a good weekend guys 😃

 

[skydragon49]

Trial mountain parade today .

Cars i use , most of them was past lemans settings at 700pp ( some at 701 something from updates that didn't fix them since i haven't use them long time ago)


Aston Martin
Vulcan


Ferrari
Enzo
La Ferrari
Berlinetta
F40 swapped

Ford
Gt06 swapped

Pagani
Hyaura

Jaguar
XJ220 not swapped

Bugatti
Veyron

Thoughts about it.
Best top speed Ford 06 but difficult to manage it.
Best lap after the Elephant ( Veyron) was surprisingly the XJ while he had the best top speed of normal cars and that cost me the CRB touching the barriers on last lap .
The car that All laps was under 2.00 min. was only Veyron but i run her last and i already knew where to pass the AI safe .
Although i didn't get CRB with her and the same happens with Hyaura which i really don't know why.
With F40 i had a touch with a wall but i get the CRB and that was the main target today.
Best handling Vulcan but also the slowest in speed at my 700pp settings at least.

So 9 runs 6 CRB and with two losses being my fault and one remains unknown why .
Best laps , Veyron at 53's and XJ at 54's while the others wasn't far away 55's-56's etc.

Have a good weekend guys 😃

A long time ago I used to repeatedly drive the Porsche Strassenversion and the Porsche Spyder 918 at this same event. Good rides if I could suggest some cars for you to try.

 

[Greycap]

@Greycap
Experienced the exact same incidents at Monza, however, could avoid that 3 car pile up at Ascari by a hair's breadth.

Another day gone with enough restarts to have the marathon completed and without getting past lap 3, they keep finding new ways to hit me.

@imChris
From what I hear and see you're driving a 787B, a car way faster than all the rest. And yet, you didn't have the patience to pass the Ford cleanly. In my book that's clearly your fault.

Well, about that... the AI Ford is really beyond all uselessness. It laps at high 1'52, low 1'53 even at hard difficulty, and I just took a 700PP road car on sports softs to Monza for comparison. I did one lap, the braking points were best guesses coming from the LMP, and the result was 1'49,0 with corner speeds matching or surpassing those of the Ford. It wasn't even my best 700PP car, just the first one I grabbed from the garage.

 

[smoothbore12]

Seems impossible for me to win at GV with the suggested 550 pp and also take the CRB 😬.
Mostly am second and i only managed to win it once by blocking the second at the straight.
Although didn't get CRB while i get it at second place finished.
I want to try different cars but at 550pp running clean and win it's quite hard so i decided to say