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- BrYAnT_JnR
Which car do you think has an advantage in this event? F430 or GTR?
World Event - 650pp Fuji - Ferrari F40 / R Tires Only :00 & :30
- Thread starter Earth
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- 7,511
- Lisbon,Portugal
- beerzgood
Just had one of the best races ever!!!
Nobody out at turn 1, everyone went smooth and fast, then awesome racing until the end.
Braking for the final chicane was 3-wide: me on the left, jackstanley on the middle and edebert on the right. Just awesome!
Plus, I managed to keep the car on track (it was tricky), and even ended up winning that race.
And thanks for having waited. 👍
Nobody out at turn 1, everyone went smooth and fast, then awesome racing until the end.
Braking for the final chicane was 3-wide: me on the left, jackstanley on the middle and edebert on the right. Just awesome!
Yeah, of course I know not everyone from Spain and France are dirty drivers, it was more a figure of speech.
No problem, I saw you tried to avoid but had nowhere to go from that point.
Plus, I managed to keep the car on track (it was tricky), and even ended up winning that race.
And thanks for having waited. 👍
- 482
- Aero-R
Am I the only one who suffer a bit of delay when pressing the X button at the moment to join into a race? It only happens to me when I left the controller so much without touch. For example, if I'm waiting like 6 mins for the next race without touch the controller, when I press the X to join the next race it's like a 2 seconds delay..
See you bjmels !!Thats it for me fellows, dinner and a movie awaits....
Thanks for the enjoyable races.
- 482
- Aero-R
Thanks mate !, with which controller do you suffer it, SIXAXIS or DUAL SHOCK 3?
Ah okey, I was afraid of my new controller because I imported a white DUAL SHOCK 3 from Asia the last week and I was thinking it was a fault of the controller.
I've checked that it doesn't get delay with the LEFT or RIGHT buttons of the D-Pad, it's just with the X, so it should be like a delate due to the game interface to connect after a few minutes of no race.
- 3,277
- Norfolk
- GTP_Hyper-Dan
It is the game mate as I get it with six axis DS3 and G25 and like you say only X button. Here is what i do, If you leave it longer than say ten mins, and there is a race coming up and you are worried you will get the delay, join one a minute early, then cancel during player matching. Then you will have no delay for the proper race. 👍
- 482
- Aero-R
God, who was driving that gray GT-R that was in the middle of the straight before the 130R on the xx:48 race? He was from side to side of the straing and all we lost the control with that, the last thing I remember before the host disconnection was my car doing round & rounds due to the lost of control and Timpaqq on the other side, he should be astouned of my rounds haha
- 482
- Aero-R
A shorter solution I'm still checking is to enter to the car settings menu (where do you select Driving Line ON/OFF and so on) and exit it, a few seconds before the moment in which you like to press X to join to a race. It has worked the 2 or 3 times that I've done it, but I'm still checking..GTP_hyperuk
- 7,511
- Lisbon,Portugal
- beerzgood
No problem, that race was yours easily without that one mistake. 👍Thanks Beerz, for giving the win to me. Again, a stupid mistake at spoon, just like earlier today.
hyperuk - Some races are just impossible, huh?
I'm getting a bit (ok, very) frustrated with this event.
Choosing an F430 means I have to start at the back of the grid (why? why? why's that?), meaning all races have to be done from the back, trying to reach the top positions.
The fact that most people who can't drive to save their lifes (along with many that are just plain dirty) choose the F430 as their car for this event is also beyond me, but it usually means that if I can get to the hairpin without being thrown off the track at least once, the leaders usually have a healthy lead. If they're good racers, like Racer_LP or hatton-jp (Japanese guy), it's next to impossible to reach them if they don't make mistakes.
Also, I'd like to add that on turn 1, when I'm braking for it and see these people not even bothering with the middle pedal, only thing I can think of is stuff taken from movies where people get tortured beyond their worst nightmares...
- 3,277
- Norfolk
- GTP_Hyper-Dan
hyperuk - Some races are just impossible, huh?
I'm getting a bit (ok, very) frustrated with this event.
I know what you mean mate, I have given up in there for today and am having fun offline, Just improved my time in the golf round London. and managed a top ten in the Clio round Suz east. much more fun than gettin punted left right and centre. 👍
- 1,291
- Vermont, USA
- GTP_Superwally, supahwally
GTP_Luxy, that's the best racing I've had in a long time. Thanks for being so clean and tolerating my repeated moves to the inside.
Great to see GTP_Earth, Chadwicks, GTP_Vaxen, many, many others out there. Too bad about the punting and disconnects-I really wasted a lot of time today just waiting around for scheduled race starts, only to have my race blown in the first minute.
Not that I didn't stuff it all by myself on numerous occasions, and I missed more :24 races than I made. I always seem to start on :26. Not smart!
Great to see GTP_Earth, Chadwicks, GTP_Vaxen, many, many others out there. Too bad about the punting and disconnects-I really wasted a lot of time today just waiting around for scheduled race starts, only to have my race blown in the first minute.
Not that I didn't stuff it all by myself on numerous occasions, and I missed more :24 races than I made. I always seem to start on :26. Not smart!
- 8,017
- GTP_Royalton
BeerzI'm getting a bit (ok, very) frustrated with this event.
Choosing an F430 means I have to start at the back of the grid (why? why? why's that?), meaning all races have to be done from the back, trying to reach the top positions.
The fact that most people who can't drive to save their lifes (along with many that are just plain dirty) choose the F430 as their car for this event is also beyond me, but it usually means that if I can get to the hairpin without being thrown off the track at least once, the leaders usually have a healthy lead. If they're good racers, like Racer_LP or hatton-jp (Japanese guy), it's next to impossible to reach them if they don't make mistakes.
Also, I'd like to add that on turn 1, when I'm braking for it and see these people not even bothering with the middle pedal, only thing I can think of is stuff taken from movies where people get tortured beyond their worst nightmares...
Yeah, there is alot of problems with this event.
The GT-R has superior handling and acceleration from low speeds
The F430 has better brakes (maybe just lighter) and a much higher top speed.
That creates a odd balance.
I kind of understand their decision to start the F430s from back, because it's next to impossible to pass one piloted by a good driver unless he makes a mistake, because the top speed of the F430 is far superior to that of the GT-R. I've had F430s come from 6 car lengths back on one of the straights to pull along side me but I have a tough time pulling along side one when I'm right on the bumper of a F430 coming out onto a long straight. It takes time to set up a pass when you have to rely on handling, and 3 laps isn't enough.
As Beerz said if a good driver in a GT-R starts out front and gets into the lead after turns 1 and 2 it's probably over for everyone else unless he makes a mistake. Today I was racing Superwally, I started first, and by the time he cleared 2nd place I was 6 seconds in the lead. That wasn't fair to him. Only way to resolve this is some sort of qualifying before the race.
That's why the RBE is a necessary evil with these 3 lap sprints, without it the GT-Rs up front would dissappear into the sunset or stay a distant spec, now you can catch them with equal drivers if they're only 2-3 seconds ahead.
Still though if you survive until after the hairpin your usually in for a good race, unless you're racing some of the nastier drivers...
- 1,008
- GTP_Luxy
Same here, Superwally. Such good fun 👍 Can't wait to race you again...
