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It's Monza babyyyyyyyyy

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No stop hard is probably the way to go. I did a 1 stop soft/soft, started 4th and finished 3rd. The pole sitter did a no stop hard and finished 17seconds ahead of me

Edit: checked the replay, the leader actually did a no stop on mediums
 
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Oh what a race.

Quali was a nightmare. First push lap I spun out down the back straight. Got a bit sideways out of Ascari, thought I had it covered but touched the grass on the straight and off I went. 2nd push lap went wide at Lesmo 2. 3rd lap was just a poor lap and then my final lap was what counted. 1.51 for P10.

Race started and I was super cautious going in the first chicane. I’ve watched enough F1 to know that first chicane is nightmare (just ask Verstappen and Hamilton). Lost two place, but gained one for a spinner up ahead. Made a few more places with more spinners ahead or people battling and getting penalties. Half way mark a few started to pit but I was mediums and happy with the wear so went to the end. Up to P5 and P4 & P3 were fighting and then as P2 was exiting the pit it was 3 into 1 with me behind been cautious. P2 came out on top and P3 was shunted off and P4 gain a 4 second penalty and then pitted. Now into P3 and this is were I just cruised over the line. Not able to make up ground on P2 and P4 wasn’t gaining on me. The Aston was good on the mediums and were good all race. The last 3/4 laps I could tell the tyres were starting to struggle a bit so just made sure to keep it easy on the difficult corners. Good race and another clean race bonus 😀

Also I had a great mix of cars in my group which was nice too see. Think we had 10/11 different cars, with one Peugeot and two Mazda.
 
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Phwoar, tell you what, there's nothing like roaring engines at Monza.

First slot crashed when I exited qualy to change tires.

Second slot and I had set a provisional pole with my fastest lap of the day and was watching the times coming in when another brit pipped me by over half a second, oh well I wasn't actually expecting the Chevy to run so well here on GT7.

Race starts and I almost send it at the first chicane like a total pillock but just pulled it round enough to drag it over the kerbs and keep 2nd position. Scruffy, needed to calm down.

Then, a breakthrough, the polesitter goes wide off the first lesmo and spins it, sending himself face first into the inside barrier, we're through and into the lead.

I was on a 1 stop Soft/Soft strategy so from here it was just about putting in the laps. A frenchman followed me closely behind, seemingly on the same strategy but I was able to build out a 4-5 second gap and could maintain that throughout.

When I pitted two cars went through, neither pitted so I assume running hards, but not far enough in front of me or the trailing frenchman to keep us behind and it finished like that - with me eagerly watching the timing screen and sweating over every small mistake.

My first World Series win, first win as a B Driver and 4th overall on GT7 at my favourite track in the world in my favourite car, absolutely chuffed with that.

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I had no idea what Strategy to do.
No practice or anything.
Only had time for the 1st Slot.
Jumped in qualified 10th finished 10th.
Did a no stop on the Soft tires.
In hindsight should have gone with Mediums and no stop would have finished top 5.
Anyway very entertaining Race clean and respectful that’s what I look for.
I don’t care about Points 😁
 
PirovacBoy
Did a no stop on the Soft tires.
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They must have been dead at the end.

2 very frustrating races.

6pm slot.
Only get 1 decent lap of qualy in and muck up the rest. Start P13.
Take the Viper ahead into T1 and pull away too. Lap 2 or 3 and I glance the inside kerb at Lesmo 2 and bam! It's wall time!. DFL.
I actually catch up with the pack quickly. But one of the leaders has had a hard time and starts moaning on the chat about idiots and penalties and how they are quitting the race. Unfortunately they don't quit soon enough. They brake check me twice into the Parabolica and try to block another car with me before they disappear. The 2 hits to them gives me a 4 second penalty. What was that about idiots and penalties? 🤬
Again I catch up with the pack ahead and on lap 10 I pit for almost last. At the end I cross the line P12 for 50 points.

7pm slot.
Again I butcher qualifying but thankfully nail my the Parabolica on my final qualy lap to squeeze into the 1:49's and P11. This time I have decided to go for the hard no stop. A 2nd uneventful T1 but the Della Roggia is full of cars everywhere. I make it up into the top 10. But again Lesmo 2 gets me. No kerb this time the car just went.
DFL and we go again. Caught up quickly once again. Thanks to pitters I make it up to 9th towards the end. P10 is getting closer but I feel I can hold them off. Penultimate lap and coming out of the Della Roggia the car spins. I drop to P11 and angrily cross the line for those same 50 points. I lost nothing in the end but my haul could have been better.

Still struggling to find speed and consistency with the new physics. Others seem to be fine though.
 
OJBrit
They must have been dead at the end.

2 very frustrating races.

6pm slot.
Only get 1 decent lap of qualy in and muck up the rest. Start P13.
Take the Viper ahead into T1 and pull away too. Lap 2 or 3 and I glance the inside kerb at Lesmo 2 and bam! It's wall time!. DFL.
I actually catch up with the pack quickly. But one of the leaders has had a hard time and starts moaning on the chat about idiots and penalties and how they are quitting the race. Unfortunately they don't quit soon enough. They brake check me twice into the Parabolica and try to block another car with me before they disappear. The 2 hits to them gives me a 4 second penalty. What was that about idiots and penalties? 🤬
Again I catch up with the pack ahead and on lap 10 I pit for almost last. At the end I cross the line P12 for 50 points.

7pm slot.
Again I butcher qualifying but thankfully nail my the Parabolica on my final qualy lap to squeeze into the 1:49's and P11. This time I have decided to go for the hard no stop. A 2nd uneventful T1 but the Della Roggia is full of cars everywhere. I make it up into the top 10. But again Lesmo 2 gets me. No kerb this time the car just went.
DFL and we go again. Caught up quickly once again. Thanks to pitters I make it up to 9th towards the end. P10 is getting closer but I feel I can hold them off. Penultimate lap and coming out of the Della Roggia the car spins. I drop to P11 and angrily cross the line for those same 50 points. I lost nothing in the end but my haul could have been better.

Still struggling to find speed and consistency with the new physics. Others seem to be fine though.
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Don’t know if they were at the end, I play with no HUD 😅 but they felt pretty worn indeed.
Qualified with a 46.9 in 10th place, worked my way up to 5th but at the beginning of Lap 9 or
10 I was starting to struggle.
Started to loose pace consistently and progressively and fell back to 10th Place .
No worries I just raced for fun, and I had a lot.
People were cautious and respectful, I let them pass me and indicated my intentions.

After a long time, I finally had a cool experience in these GTWS/Manufacturers Series.
No tryhards, no idiots, just cool racing 😁
That’s what I look for 😁
 
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GTWS Manufacturers Cup - R6 - Monza
GT1 League - A/S room
WRX GR.3

Recovered my lost DR from the disconnect and was in a stronger lobby again. Qualified 4th, 0.334s from pole. Did a no-stop with hards.

The first couple laps I get around a couple people and a couple of people get around me. The two leaders were pulling away so they were clearly going to stop so I focused on keeping touch with P3. When the leaders stopped and the guy in front made a mistake I was P1. But a few laps from the end one of the stoppers caught up and I let him pass, hoping for him to make a mistake as he pulled away on better tires. He must have burned through them quick because with two laps left I was only 1.5s back and gaining, but I couldn't pull it off. Came home second, 1.002s back. Got 197 points and kept my perfect GT7 podium streak alive. Good race.

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I just raced my worst race I have had in a long time. I entered the 20:00 GT2 slot and despite a spin in qualifying I'm in P9 to start. Everyone survives turn 1 and I grab a few spots when drivers run wide coming out of Lesmo 1. "Cool" I say as I immediately go wide coming off of Lesmo 2 and fall to dead last. Then I am shook the rest of the race and can't find a rhythm. 2 colliding into car penalties (one I had nowhere to go, the second was from a bad rejoin by me), multiple corner cutting penalties, me not hitting my lines right, running wide on corner exits, and a near spin exiting Ascari lands me in P14.

I was really hoping for a good finish tonight as I had one shot at this race. Just a total disaster from the get go. To steal, and modify a line from Bill Belichick, "We're on to Autodrome Lago Maggiore."
 
Slot 1: Once again, I was in a race with @Geauxgreddy, and once again he was in another ZIP code! I thought I might finally be able to keep up after my first qualifying lap was quicker than him, but nope! He quickly improved and ended up 5th on the grid and finished on the podium yet again, while I qualified 11th and had a slightly scruffy race (but still ultimately a decent result).

First incident was on Lap 2 with a Supra that had been punted off at the 2nd Lesmo. They were half on the outside curb and half on the gravel, so when I came through already committed to my line, I had nowhere to go except into the back of them, which killed my momentum and cost me the spot I'd just gained due to the Supra's misfortune, but I'd still worked my way up to 9th at that point. The entire race I had trouble getting through Ascari because I couldn't see the first apex well due to that part of the track being in much heavier shade than in Free Practice. I probably lost close to half a second every lap there. Still, I eventually made my way up to 7th due to other's misfortunes, and (mostly) survived the pressure from multiple people catching me from several seconds behind, only for them to make massive mistakes as they finally got into my slipstream. On the last lap I started rapidly catching an M6 in 6th who'd done the entire race on Mediums and was now paying for it, but unfortunately I was too far back to apply even a little pressure on the final lap, so 7th is where I finished for 232 points, my best score of the season thus far. Maybe if I hadn't kept screwing up Ascari...

While the Gr.3 Corvette is much better against its competition than the Gr.4 version, it still leaves much to be desired, especially in straight line speed. While far from the slowest car on the straights, it's easily outclassed by several cars, and obviously doesn't have the handling to compensate. In GTS, its "secret weapon" was how great its low-speed acceleration was, but the lack of rear-end grip in GT7 seems to have completely nullified that advantage. I was in the middle of a 3-car slipstream train with a McLaren ahead of me and a 4C behind me. Even though the McLaren had no slipstream help, I was barely gaining on it down the length of the front straight, but the 4C in my slipstream was reeling me in like I had no slipstream myself.
 
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Today I did two races in the GT3 with the RCZ in Monza.

In the first slot I had a terrible race. Started on pole, but I forgot to change to hard tires before the race. Still, thought that I would have a chance, but ended up doing a lot of mistakes, went off the track 4 times, etc. Awful. Finished 11th if I remember correctly 😅

Then, in the 2nd slot, things got easier. Started on pole again and this time I changed to hard tires. Dropped to 2nd after the first lap, and I stayed around 5 sec behind P1, but he needed to change tires. So I ended up in first and the people behind never got really close, so I was more consistent and in the end finished 11 sec ahead of P2. I used TC1 in the 2nd race and I think that really helped me avoid more mistakes. Got 66 points. I'm happy with the result. Before the round I did not think that I would have a chance with the RCZ.
 
GT2, B/S, Manu/Monza/Chevy.
First race was a disaster, qualified low, forgot to switch from softs. Pitted at the end of lap 2 to check how the mediums wore, conclusion: not very well.
2nd race, qualified 3rd. Remembered with 5 seconds to go to switch from the softs, didn't have time. Decided to stick with it this time. Both drivers ahead of me crashed and I realized that on lap 7 I was still pulling away. Pitted at 8 for more softs, came out in 3rd, passed both drivers easily, won going away. Considering how short the Monza pitlane is I honestly think soft/soft might be the best strategy here.
 
GTWolverine
While the Gr.3 Corvette is much better against its competition than the Gr.4 version, it still leaves much to be desired, especially in straight line speed. While far from the slowest car on the straights, it's easily outclassed by several cars, and obviously doesn't have the handling to compensate. In GTS, its "secret weapon" was how great its low-speed acceleration was, but the lack of rear-end grip in GT7 seems to have completely nullified that advantage. I was in the middle of a 3-car slipstream train with a McLaren ahead of me and a 4C behind me. Even though the McLaren had no slipstream help, I was barely gaining on it down the length of the front straight, but the 4C in my slipstream was reeling me in like I had no slipstream myself.
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It still carries some benefits I think if you can get some space and out of traffic, its handling consistency remains so you can just nail those apexes over and over and be confident in how it will react each time (shady apexes aside!) but yes definitely once you're in the mix it seems like other cars get a pull from it that it doesn't get itself from cars in front, it also feels easier for the car to become unsteady. As you mentioned as well its acceleration is feeling very heavy at the moment, on the Gr4 mostly that thing is a tanker but the Gr3 it's noticeable as well.
 
Mercia
It still carries some benefits I think if you can get some space and out of traffic, its handling consistency remains so you can just nail those apexes over and over and be confident in how it will react each time (shady apexes aside!) but yes definitely once you're in the mix it seems like other cars get a pull from it that it doesn't get itself from cars in front, it also feels easier for the car to become unsteady. As you mentioned as well its acceleration is feeling very heavy at the moment, on the Gr4 mostly that thing is a tanker but the Gr3 it's noticeable as well.
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You're right, if nothing else the Corvettes are consistent. The broad torque curve means I can get away with using a higher gear to accelerate in order to avoid wheelspin; very useful at the chicanes and even the Parabolica.
 
Mercia
Great tune for the Ford truck by @Harmonic for anyone needing it today

Runs really well.

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This is a good tune. Now I need the skill to go with it. I’m doing 2:00.5s right on the edge and have no idea how people are doing 1:56s.

Also, the new Oceania times are ridiculous. The last slot is at midnight AEST which is 2am NZ time.
 
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Raptor013
I'm only using the gearing from that tune. If I use the rest, I can't even get through turn 1 without the car trying to murder me.
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What times are you doing? Chupagetti has a different tune, but I couldn’t get it within a second of this one.
 
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Was in with @Raptor013 again and other familiars. Tuning making it a joke. I tried multiple tunes and adjusting my own to get something I could handle. Q8 over 8 tenths faster than my best practice lap. Quickly dropped in the race, aided by getting a silly 0.5 penalty in the chicane lap 1. Only excitement after that was when 2 teammates took each other out, but I was so bad one of them still passed me back on the second hairpin in the infield last lap and beat me by well over a second as well.

If they're gonna do tuning they've gotta do some changes. It wasn't even remotely viable for some of us as I couldn't find anything to get a handle on the truck or get better speed. If they don't find a way to make it more accessible it's gonna be just as bad as the current BoP.

All credit to guys who got their stuff right, my hat's off to you. You included @Raptor013
 
Redneckchef
Was in with @Raptor013 again and other familiars. Tuning making it a joke. I tried multiple tunes and adjusting my own to get something I could handle. Q8 over 8 tenths faster than my best practice lap. Quickly dropped in the race, aided by getting a silly 0.5 penalty in the chicane lap 1. Only excitement after that was when 2 teammates took each other out, but I was so bad one of them still passed me back on the second hairpin in the infield last lap and beat me by well over a second as well.

If they're gonna do tuning they've gotta do some changes. It wasn't even remotely viable for some of us as I couldn't find anything to get a handle on the truck or get better speed. If they don't find a way to make it more accessible it's gonna be just as bad as the current BoP.

All credit to guys who got their stuff right, my hat's off to you. You included @Raptor013
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Believe me. I lucked out. The tune mentioned in a post above was completely undriveable for me. The back end would snap out going into T1 no matter what I tried regarding my driving style.

Went back to the stock diff and suspension settings, which at least made the car controllable.
 
Unsurprisingly Daytona in trucks is a mess. But I’ll tell you what I really don’t like is when you bump draft someone for 2 laps and then, when they get it wrong and you have to overtake, they pit maneuver you at the next available opportunity.

Disgusted.
 

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