What did you do in GT7 today?

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Today I:

Collected my silver million from the RX8/Nurburgring TT. (silver #7 out of 10 entries)

Completed the Super Formula menu. A 6 stars ticket reward gave me 1M.

A daily marathon ticket gave me 500K

Completed the new VGT races using a detuned to 850pp Ferrari VGT.

Bought a bunch of old cars from the UCD.
 
Ran the Genesis TT a bit. Ran the Jimny races, getting the CRB on all three. Bought two Jimnys, a ‘20 Supra and Raptor and swapped them both. Completed both Cafe Specials, getting carbon brakes and a Stage 5 WR for a safety car. Got 30k from the wheel.
 
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Did my first Sport race in probably over a year.....decided to go with the Porsche on Lake Maggiore (short circuit) and with a good 12 minutes of practicing got quicker and quicker with each lap. Ended up qualifying 4th out of 8 which is better than I thought.

Didn't have the best start off the grid so dropped down to 6th place but quickly re-took a position on the first corner into 5th. Tried to drive cleanly and overtook another as someone went wide....into 4th! 3rd place was relatively quick (ended up setting the fastest lap time by nearly a second) but I ran him down by driving cleanly and using slipstream - I think he let his wheels spin too much out of the corners so I caught up and overtook him into 3rd. Had a good final sector of the lap and opened up a 1 second lead over him. Then it was just about keeping a cool head and that gap ended up being almost 3 seconds. Was catching up to 2nd but ran out of laps.

So 3rd place out of 8....qualified 4th. Clean race bonus which is nice. Not bad for my first Sports race in over a year lol.

I want to get better as a driver as my driver rating is C. :(
I know I'm better than that (have nearly everything in the game to gold apart from 3 licence tests) but I've always struggled with the online racing modes especially when B or higher drivers are in the race. :(
 
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Today I decided to screw PP up more than I ever though it would be possible

Strange things occured while I was deciding on which braking system I want to use:
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So, installing brakes magically enhances acceleration and blows PP up more than necessary ...
I thought at least the acceleration values would have been somewhat accurate without considering the transmission setup.
 
1. Regain my yellow reward on Lago Maggiore with Miss Civic :sly:
With the silver gained yesterday on Monza, I should potentially get Cr. 3.000.000 when I'll be back from Sweeden 6th Feb.

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2. The roulette is still the roulette... :irked:

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Should I kill the cat for a Citroen invitation?
#AskingForAFriend
 
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Bought and tuned a 2014 STI for 700pp

Bought and tuned the old Challenger for 650, found a way to make it as fast as a good 700pp car (728hp on RM with racing trans?! It's silly)

Continued my months long attempt at making the 500 Abarth viable at 650pp and still failed (my '16 Abarth was totalled new year's day 2023, my in-game car is an exact replica of it .... except for the aero, which it desperately needs)

Tuned up a swapped Levin for 700pp, and it's actually pretty good! Got 1:51 lap on trial M, and 1:21 on Road atlanta in a 700pp room limited to 400hp.

Bought a Jimney, tried tuning it for 500pp on RH but gave up because I can't get it to stop spinning out under braking

Finally raced my swapped s800 at 650pp, give it a solid "Meh +"

And I caved in and bought an R34 to race at 700pp in desperate times
 
1. Regain my yellow reward on Lago Maggiore with Miss Civic :sly:
With the silver gained yesterday on Monza, I should potentially get Cr. 3.000.000 when I'll be back from Sweeden 6th Feb.

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2. The roulette is still the roulette... :irked:

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Should I kill the cat for a Citroen invitation?
#AskingForAFriend

3. Because I need to to be more confident on Big Willow for the 3rd edition of the Clash of the Titans, I've practised "a bit" and worked mainly on the 2nd sector and the lap attack CE with the 'Vette Gr.3

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Dunno yet if I'm ready to "fight" with the Big Boys on sunday but I'm pretty much happy with these results :sly:

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So today was a good session for me in GT7:

I logged on and just took my Orange LFA (nurburgring spec look) for aspin round Tokyo and Grand valley catching in the sights.
Then I started to tackle the CIVIC TT again and wanted to drastically improve my time, I followed an american ghost and loo & behold I got into the 1:29 sector which i was very happy with my controller! My Time (with video) is in the the time trial discussion.
Then I moved onto tackling the GENESIS VGT TT at Autodroma Monza and this is still very tricky time trial, the car is so skittish and powerful it wants to fly everywhere and the brakes are hopeless. Impoved my time but still bronzing lol.

Moved back to my weekly challenges and did the turbo sports car race and will finsih those more tomo.
Headed over to finish up the X2019 cup with my last race at Dragon Trail Seaside. A good race that I won and finished up.
Then opened up the Jimny cup and completed the three races, Lake louise, Sardegna Windmills & Willow Springs short course.
(Some snaps below)
Unlocked some 5 star roulette and netted for the first time my 1million prize, woohoo!
Good practice now for the Nations cup Round 4 last race tomorrow.
Lastly just took some snaps on the new scenery in Scapes.

Overall a happy and fun sessino with a variety of cars, I still love the Jimny contrary to popular belief, but we ned more rallycross to explore the 4x4 & rally cars better. Why havent we had a Rally online TT yet?

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I never did get back to the Plus account yesterday, so I started there by cashing in the Genesis ticket and completing the extra menus as I already had the cars. The 6-star Wheel of Despair puked out a 2016 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 (sold for a rock-bottom 211,920 Cr. as I already had 2). and the cashless 5-star Wheel of Despair chucked out a S camshaft (at least for a car for which I didn't already have enough). The only way it could have possibly been worse is if I got the invite also showing on the 5-star.

I then bought the Jimny and over 91,000 Cr. of tuning parts (max weight reduction, chassis stiffening, widebody, roll cage, spare removal, dirt/snow tires, and the best bolt-on engine parts) to get a 385.22 PP/116 HP/1861 lb monster, and headed to the cafe for the Menu Book. Continuing the poor prizes, the 4-star Wheel of Despair from completing the Menu Book with the overpowered Jimny vomited up the lowest-possible 10,000 Cr.

I didn't yet have the mileage for the marathon ticket, so I took the Jaguar E-type to the Goodwood Sunday Cup Classic that is part of this week's Weekly Challenge. Still lacking the mileage, I took the 100,000 Cr. for doing the 1st Weekly Challenge race and did the Deep Forest Silvia Sisters with the S15 I used before. I was surprised the workout ticket was a 4-star instead of the 3-star, but it was even more useless as usual as I got the shaft.

The Grand Valley Race of Turbo Sports went to the RUF CTR3 (with an additional 150,000 Cr. from the Weekly Challenge ticket), the Brands Hatch one-make went to the Honda Civic Touring Car, and the Tokyo WTC 800 went to the 2008 Nissan GT-R GT500 (too many attempts to get the CRB), for the 500,000-Cr. ticket from the Weekly Challenges.

I finished the new VGT races with the Audi e-tron. It is different driving an electric vehicle, as in frustrating. I was too frustrated after the VGT races to open the GTP account.
 
Raced 3 Sports mode races. My first proper 'bunch' in a year. Decided to have a go at Atlanta....qualified 13th but avoided some carnage at the start and drove relatively clean...ended up 5th in a 5 lap race.

I was a bit gutted at the end because 4th place had a 3 second penalty at the line and I finished a second behind. If I hadn't incurred a few 0.5 sec penalties for exceeding track limits I might have come 4th from 13th. Oh well...

Next race I improved my time but still qualified in 10th. Ended up fighting back from 11th to 4th with a great overtake on the final corner after a Ferrari had to serve a penalty.

Third race I qualified 8th, got knocked down to 11th after someone nearly punted me off the track. Managed to keep the car on the track and fight back through the carnage with some aggressive overtakes to go 3rd. Unfortunately a small penalty made me drop to 4th and while 2nd and 3rd were only a second or two ahead, I pushed a bit too hard and went off track and into the grass. Luckily had a 3 second lead over 5th so I finished 4th.

Summary:
Race 1: Qualified 13. Finish: 5.
Race 2: Qualified 10. Finish 4.
Race 3: Qualified 8. Finish 4.

Pretty happy with the results and keeping my composure when having someone tailgating me. Just need to keep working on it and hopefully improve my driver rating which should be soon. Sometimes qualifying at the back is fine especially if there's carnage in front of you as you can overtake 5 cars in the opening lap haha!
 
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Collected 2mil from the NGP TT.

Made a livery for a car I drive a lot. Spent some time placing different shades of transparent flames over a gold-chrome base and finishing it off with a bunch of other JGTC style race-car livery stuff. I'm really loving it.

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Did the weekly races between last night and today. Had a lot of fun with them, especially the WTC800 in that purdy girl right there ^.

Race videos (in VR) here: Post in weekly race thread

Pretty enjoyable GT7 day.
 
Bought the Suzuki Jimny, put the widebody kit on and took it to Willow Springs for some on and off-road driving. I then took it to the Nurburgring to see how fast it would go and the answer was not very. It's the slowest car I've ever driven around the Nurburgring, but it was far from boring with the crap suspension. I then did the Genesis VGT time trial which wasn't a complete disaster. After that I swapped the LFA engine into my widebody Supra, added a few extra upgrades and took it to Watkins Glen. I then swapped the XJR-9 V12 into the XJ220, repainted it in the official "British Racing Green" and drove it around Le Mans.
 


I knew there are 2 sec "MORE"in this lap..bested previous hotlap...had to optimised setup
made 1 big mistake .. rear has to dance 🤣🤣🤣
my way to say goodbye to GT7 it was a ok game..
back to rally now..can't wait for ASSETTO CORSA 2 END OF THIS YEAR
 
Did another Atlanta daily race...improved my lap time but still qualified 8th in a full 16 person lobby.

Had a few nervy moments with the carnage going around lap 1. Lap 2 had more battling but I fought back and drove consistently. Was into 4th again haha...my fave position apparently today (see earlier post). On final lap, the front 3 were fighting and one of them pushed too hard and went off. Thanks for 3rd! Drove clean and finished in 3rd with 5 second gap to 4th.

Driver rating B now lol.
4 daily races today. No poles or wins. One podium. 18 places gained from starting grid across the four races. I'll take that! 😊
Side note, loving driving the Atenza on Atlanta....I know the leaderboard is filled with Jags but I found this car oversteers too much.

Edit: just did my first B ranked race and qualified 11th haha...ended up finishing 9th but my DR dropped. I thought if you improved your position from the grid that would increase it? Or do you also have to be very quick?
 
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I just finished all events in the Weekly Challenges, by finishing 2nd in the Silvia Sisters event at DF. The reward was 500k credits. I also finished 1st in the WTC 800 race at Tokyo-East using my Porsche RSR. Let me tell you that car is fast, I overtook all opponents in 2 laps. It's cool how the weather changes as you get further in the race, it always ends at night. So before that I did 4 online races at Autodrome. The car is funny and weird in a way.
 
Got my ass kicked in a full lobby no thanks to being pushed off and then given a 3 second penalty! Lol! And I was the one go wide to avoid any conflict! Hilarious PD...

Tried again and finished 4th again from 10th on the grid. I don't think B driver rating suits me as I still drop DR even finishing 4th with no pens....
 
Did a few Race C , with even another podium P2 .
Overall i'm not quicker but from 2 weeks agoni drive differently as it's not anymore push and pull the contrôler joystick but managed now to keep same speed on fast corner.
And it's funny to see dr C that WE all have better section and it's clear i have a problem with hairspin for example , but i'm fast when you have to be gentle on the sterring and throtle.
So pretty happy with this improvement.
Did also once Le Mans to be able to buy super silhouette at Haggerty.

5* ticket grant me an A86 gr4

Did one more race and p4 so back to dr B/S not for long i suppose 😉✌️
 
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Had a lot of fun with the Jimny in the cafe races.
Finally sold my last duplicate - for now.
Realised that for Monza to be fun, it needs the right car.
I bought a Jimny yesterday and went full race mode with the tune and was so surprised at how much I enjoy that thing. We can't get them here but I've always wanted one. I've read about them for years and wished we could have them here.

It's fantastic at Rally and on snow, and thoroughly stomped the competition at the Horse Thief Mile. I'm going to buy another and match the pp to this events and see how it does without all the power and handling upgrades later today when I get a minute. Glad it was in the update!
 
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Red-covered weather map with flames. Nice. A pontoon boat would've worked. :)
It was like monsoon for 3/4 laps... Just drive carefully, not too much throttle and braking and it's fine. The Toyota is perfect in these awful weather conditions.

1. Went to Spa for credits reasons :sly:
The weather was deliciously awful but I won with 2 laps ahead the AI cars, without any crash or penalties.

2. I received a 5 ⭐ ticket for the daily marathon and...
... I sold it immediately (already one).

3. Discovered that (Big Willow sectors CEs):

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and I'm in shock... I can't imagine what insane scores this friend TRAITOR can manage with the NSX but tomorrow, this friend TRAITOR will kick my ass...
 
I did the Civic Special Event race at Brands Hatch using the Civic Touring Car... that's the second such race in a few weeks, and I really enjoy the car and the tightness of the race.

A very minor gripe, but I don't know why the AI can't just use differently numbered cars. In my race, it used 10 different cars and 1 the same as the car I selected (same colour and number). It's a tiny detail, but it's the difference between close realism and something that would never happen in real life... I should probably get out more though.
 
It was like monsoon for 3/4 laps... Just drive carefully, not too much throttle and braking and it's fine. The Toyota is perfect in these awful weather conditions.



3. Discovered that (Big Willow sectors CEs):

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and I'm in shock... I can't imagine what insane scores this friend TRAITOR can manage with the NSX but tomorrow, this friend TRAITOR will kick my ass...
I gotta up my time in the third one...🍻💨
 
Bought and swapped the 400
You did what!?

I'm going to start a petition to have the engine swap for the 400R removed from the game, and by jolly PD better do it! That car has been #1 dream car since the first GT... And you're over there just ripping the heart out of it!

Anyway...

Last night in GT7 I continued to work through some menu books on the secondary account, including the WT600 championship. At 1.1mill credits I remembered the track experience and cranked out a few to put myself at around 2mill.

And promptly went to the legendary dealership and purchased the Nismo 400R THAT WILL BE KEPT PRESTINE AND STOCK.
 
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