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Well, you can update my time to a 2'15.532 a whopping 0.06 gain!I really seem to be struggling with this combo. So far today I've only managed a 2:15.520, 0.14 off my current fastest. However, it feels like I always do better after complaining about not doing very well, so maybe I'll set a 2:15.1xx in the next 15 minutes...
Also, it turns out maintaining a leaderboard is more work than I anticipated. Oh well.
I have been wanting one of the fastest wheel users to do this and you have confirmed it's validity. Eau rouge and the last left hand corner before the last chicane where wheel users can take flat out, DS3 users can't. It's really not fair to DS3 users. Like I said in the main news article everyone deserves a fair shot at going to the finals and silverstone. They should take the top 16 wheel users and the top 16 DS3 users to the finals. Top 8 wheel and top 8 DS3 users advance to silverstone, simple. Just because your on a DS3 doesn't mean you don't have potential in a real car, and just because your fast on a wheel doesn't mean your going to be fast in a real car. But this just proves that DS3 don't stand a chance and I bet even Ayrton Senna himself wouldn't approve. He would want everybody to have a fair shot.Out of curiosity, I unplugged the wheel and gave this combination a go with the DS3. Grant you, I was a pretty fast guy with the pad but I stopped using it starting with GT5.
If there's one advantage with the pad, turn in is quite sudden (I wish the car would do that with the wheel at the bus stop). The downside is what many others had said - Eau Rouge and Blanchimont is an absolute nightmare. The nose immediately washes out big time if you try going at or near full throttle. There's probably a way to make it work but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Throttle management is much less precise as well. At some spots, I literally resorted to jabbing the right nub up a few times because I wanted three quarters gas but I could only get half. At least in Spa, my DFPro is a Porsche compared to the Reliant Robin that is the DS3.
Suffice it to say, I could only run around the 19s.
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I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
Two things here, 1st: After teking @R0T0RAU86 advice on the bus stop, I just gained .484 coming out of there alone!!! I was pretty much even with my ghost up until that point and doing what you suggested, I gained that amount of time in the bus stop alone. So thank you very much @R0T0RAU86 , your advice on that section has saved my ass. Thank you so much.
Now, to the second issue. @Jbaffoh After logging out and shutting things down as I thought I was done for the night, I decided to give it one more go after getting the advice above. Now, this may seem odd or maybe merely a coincidence, but the only thing I did differently this time was clear my cache, which took a long time I might add, about 4 minutes. Guess what was next...my car all of a sudden seemed back to normal, or even a little faster!!! All of a sudden, I was gaining large amounts of time in every sector, like between .200 - .400. I was finding time everywhere, just haven't been able to string it together yet in the few runs I've had so far. Its not my imagination either, like I said, the car seemed like it was lacking speed and I couldn't even keep up with my ghost. Now, its the complete opposite, gaining time everywhere. Now, I don't know, and its probably unlikely, if clearing my cache had anything to do with this, but it does seem coincidental. Kinda baffling to say the least. An hour ago the car seemed like a slug, now its like a rocket...compared to what it was anyway. I don't know what to think but there is something definitely different from an hour ago.
Two things here, 1st: After taking @R0T0RAU86 advice on the bus stop, I just gained .484 coming out of there alone!!! I was pretty much even with my ghost up until that point and doing what you suggested, I gained that amount of time in the bus stop alone. So thank you very much @R0T0RAU86 , your advice on that section has saved my ass. Thank you so much.
Now, to the second issue. @Jbaffoh After logging out and shutting things down as I thought I was done for the night, I decided to give it one more go after getting the advice above. Now, this may seem odd or maybe merely a coincidence, but the only thing I did differently this time was clear my cache, which took a long time I might add, about 4 minutes. Guess what was next...my car all of a sudden seemed back to normal, or even a little faster!!! All of a sudden, I was gaining large amounts of time in every sector, like between .200 - .400. I was finding time everywhere, just haven't been able to string it together yet in the few runs I've had so far. Its not my imagination either, like I said, the car seemed like it was lacking speed and I couldn't even keep up with my ghost. Now, its the complete opposite, gaining time everywhere. Now, I don't know, and its probably unlikely, if clearing my cache had anything to do with this, but it does seem coincidental. Kinda baffling to say the least. An hour ago the car seemed like a slug, now its like a rocket...compared to what it was anyway. I don't know what to think but there is something definitely different from an hour ago.
