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Pigems
I just realized I did those SF races and Q times today without ever using the OverTake button, I don’t even have it mapped! :lol:
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I just raced my first C race of the week. Totally forgot about the overtake. Raced from the back and worked my way from 18th to 4th on the last lap. Had 3 seconds on 5th and was catching 3rd, just under 2 seconds back, and I got waaay sideways coming out of the first hairpin and drove through the grass (tcs 0, bb +2). Finished 7th. Maybe I can lower my Q by using the boost.:lol:

BTW. Kudos to @Groundfish . I saw your top 10 this morning. Nice lap!
 
I took the quick way down to SR.E. Tired of Brazilian dive bombs, then the game giving me SR Down for staying on the road. This one did not survive. He went to SR.D and finished somewhere behind when he tried to retaliate and racked up 7 sec in penalties. I have 8 SR and 7K DR left. Worth it. Trying to race clean all day has only got me down to SR.C so what's the point really :lol:

Ok still want that clean race bonus before moving on to the next car. Ferrari is fun to drive luckily, much better than 650S, felt like driving a wet sock.

@Rexracer702 @Pigems There is no boost in qualifying. Reminds me off Wipeout on the ps3, trying and trying and trying to get gold on certain time trials until I finally realized that there you do get a renewable boost once per lap :lol:
 
I got a 1 sec penalty from a car hitting me and going off, a couple SR Downs from more cars using me as a guide and still gained 3 SR to SR.D How do you stay in SR.E! Unfortunately I got rammed off twice as well, so still no clean lap. One more attempt tonight. Last race coming up for me.

Mission accomplished.
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Still got hit, but SR Downs went the right way this time. Clean race in SR.D was worth 10 SR, now back at 21, SR.C, and 800 DR for a podium finish.

Fun track, fun car, now what car shall I start with tomorrow.
 
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Pigems
There’s a Gr3 Megane?? lol




That’s really weird that you can’t map it like any other button, I wonder why? How is it any different than putting our headlight on that button?

Sell it all and get a T300GT and Ferrari Elcantara rim for half the price and all the support. 👍
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The Elite wheel works ... the Porsche wheel is expensive I suppose but when I put it on it was 1 second faster, straight away. its a larger wheel than most and its leather is long life and georgeous in feel and shape. But yeh - the wheel does not show up on the conroller page ... either does the Ferrari Elantara wheel though. all so called compatible wheels should show up on the GTS controller page IMO.
 
I used to worry about DR and SR - now dont care, it's not like I'll be a S/S or A+ driver so in reality my DR and SR doesn't really matter as long as I am enjoying the racing online who cares what rank it is.... Daily B this week is for me ultra fun, only ran a couple races last night, do Daily C tonight I think.
 
Took me 4 separate sessions to break 1:00 on Brands. Only able to break it once today.

Usually have problems with T1 (Paddock Hill Bend) but having more trouble with entry into T3 (Graham Hill Bend). Fun trying to push it though.

Tried 1 race. QT 59.968. Got me 5th on the grid. Very clean race. 2 second gap both in front and behind pretty much the whole way. Finished 5th.

Picked a red Porsche. Thought I was being suave and it'd be easier to spot in the replay. But half the grid picked red. :irked::lol:
 
I did 13 races with my new 2nd account, getting to DR B after the last one. I was definitely a lot less stressed than I would have been with my main account. I put a couple of the races where I managed to gain some places on youtube. I thought the racing was actually reasonably clean for a SR B lobby.

 
NevilleNobody - hey man, after weeks of being over 30,000 and Sr 40-65, you're now SR75 - and A class. ****'g awesome. :cheers: :gtpflag:.

You've been climbing in scores every day and week too. Your noticeably faster too from you qualifying I reckon. And your DR speaks for itself. 👍

Darn it this week I doubt I can race much if at all.

I ran a few laps of the "A" race as I almost bought a hard top Porsche for my first car. The speedsters had all been sold from Australia into the USA. They were easy to convert to left hand drive. The prices for the coupes had not yet moved, but it their increase was maybe just starting to creep up a little. No rust issues with out 356 Porsches back in the early 1970's. Only ever drove them around the suburbs testing cars. In my price range the hardtops did smell of old carpet. But their interiors were remarkably high quality. Even for today in a sort of old men's club way. Jeez they were beautiful. They were pretty cheap back then too. i remember seeing my first 911 when they came out, it was a beige cream colour, it was running down Beach Road which was near my place. I knew it was a Porsche straight away. But I did not know they'd re-invented their platform. I was only 10 and had never seen a car magazine back then. But I knew the 356 as a Porsche, and when I saw the car race by I knew it was a knew fangle Porsche. It was so beautiful for the time. I'm going to use that cream colour. Its more cream than the 911 I saw in the 1960s, it was whiter, but it'll do. It's certainly is a beautiful paint job.

I had a run for 45 minutes in the Speedster and had a 59.46, but the combined best time is in the 48s. I haven't worked out the corner leading onto the curve that leads onto the main straight. Somehow you've got to get far left before the big curve and get that Apex from wide out I reckon, keeping up the speed there would be worth half a second I reckon, but not sure how to firstly get the line, and then what to do with the throttle. The motor dips there too and I think that might be the wheels loosing traction - not sure what is going on. Darn I'd love to race it and lower my time but at best Friday. I might have to run some laps on Friday as everyone will be quick buy then and also I did not do so many laps and they count your top 12 for the average qualifying, so my early laps had slow times.
 
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breeminator
I did 13 races with my new 2nd account, getting to DR B after the last one. I was definitely a lot less stressed than I would have been with my main account. I put a couple of the races where I managed to gain some places on youtube. I thought the racing was actually reasonably clean for a SR B lobby.

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now i understand why so many people do weird moves. Cones.
In the first race, first lap, you are braking a tad early at mulsanne (F1 brakes poorly i know), the aston seems to think you left the outside open because defending the inside/middle, but you closed it as soon as he came closer (I guess because you corrected your line and aimed for the outside cone).
nothing dramatic happened, but this kind of things happen often to me and I'm often mad at people changing their lines upon braking. Now I know they are probably too focused on the cones to pay attention to the car following/attempting to pass them
 
breeminator
I joined in the multiple account thing, as I'd become too anxious to actually race on my main account. It seems my fears were justified. After 7 race Bs on my new account, where on no occasion do I regard myself as having done anything dirty, my SR is down to 45. I'm finding it hard to truly not care about my ratings on my 2nd account, but I'd probably have stopped racing on my main account after 1 or 2 races like that, so at least this way I'm gaining racing experience rather than just confining myself to time trialling.
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hey mate, we raced together last night. I was on my 2nd account as well (leftcurl-gt). That was a great race, i think you were P5 and i was P6 then the moses effect happened and everyone binned it leaving you P1 and me P2... and then i binned it to finish 5th! Enjoyed that though... see you again soon!

EDIT: just noticed you posted the video of the race... haha.. what a jerk binning it on that chicane, it could have been a good battle to the end!
 
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overtake button not available in qualy for race C @Pigems but man how tough is Autopolis!!

First time I've ever given that track a go, really struggled with getting the lines right and all of those blind apex's!

could only muster a 1:29 so I didn't even bother with the race.... back to the drawing board tonight
 
Really enjoying race B so far. Not enjoying the maclaren F1s in the back field quite as much...
So far I'm using the Aston, which I'm enjoying and got me a couple of podiums. However I just beat my qualifying time by nearly 3 seconds in the GTR so will try that. I may use my day off to try out a couple of other cars and see what else is decent. I can't seem to make the Mustang hustle though even thought that seems to be quick for everyone else!
 
MortosDer
Wish I could jump into daily races like I used to. Ever since I started tryharding the nations cup I've been very afraid of sr loss. I'll jump into a race c once in a while but that's it. Not touching the shorter races. At least on c is virtually impossible to lose sr lol.
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Just make an alt account and use it when you don't want to worry about your ratings. I got tired of having very little to gain and so much to lose by racing in the morning or mid-day with my main account in the Americas. So I made an EU one and starting jumping into dailies with that one instead, much more enjoyable and I spend more time getting race experience instead of doing lap after lap in qualifying like I used to.
 
banckzy
overtake button not available in qualy for race C @Pigems but man how tough is Autopolis!!

First time I've ever given that track a go, really struggled with getting the lines right and all of those blind apex's!

could only muster a 1:29 so I didn't even bother with the race.... back to the drawing board tonight
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It's a great car on a horrible track. I think the key is to turn the steering sensitivity up to 7 then run a few laps (it might just be me but it feels like the tyres take a lap or 2 to come good, at the start I was understeering as though the fronts were cold). Otherwise trust the downforce, you can get away with more than you would expect.

There is a 1:25.5 here (with tyre wear and boost but some things like gear and lines should match up so it might be of use).

Starts at about 2:55 in the video:

GOTMAXPOWER
This was quite a tasty little battle for the win, I've cut off the start of the race and the end because nothing really happened.

I've left in a hot lap too since it felt pretty quick.

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MikeV27
Just make an alt account and use it when you don't want to worry about your ratings. I got tired of having very little to gain and so much to lose by racing in the morning or mid-day with my A+ account in the Americas. So I made an EU one and starting jumping into dailies with that one instead, much more enjoyable and I spend more time getting race experience instead of doing lap after lap in qualifying like I used to.
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Look, I don't wanna attack you here, but being scared to race at A+ kind of defies the point of being A+

If you have got there you surely qualify high and race well in general, but if you can't maintain A+ while actively racing, well, maybe you belong in A rank, and you're not gonna get better not racing/racing sub par players.

Maybe I am missing something here, but all having an alt account leads to is easy races for you, harder races for me, and now I can't trust someone's DR or qualifying times (people like to sandbag it seems) as even a rough measure of the skill level of drivers I'm up against.

To reiterate - I like you guys, and you can do what you want, but I would rather you be brave and race at your actual rank, and if you lose it, take it as motivation to improve, not just to jump in D/C rank and go dominate a bunch of slower guys.

If you wanna race without high stakes, just for fun or experience, the lobby screen is right there. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to gather some friendly faces from this lobby and go racing without the stress.

If there's some other reason for alting that I don't know about, please enlighten me.
 
MikeV27
Just make an alt account and use it when you don't want to worry about your ratings. I got tired of having very little to gain and so much to lose by racing in the morning or mid-day with my main account in the Americas. So I made an EU one and starting jumping into dailies with that one instead, much more enjoyable and I spend more time getting race experience instead of doing lap after lap in qualifying like I used to.
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How is it enjoyable to beat people that are not on your level? Wouldn't you have more fun with people that had the same skill as you? It's the whole point of these rating systems: placing you in the same lobby as people of the same skill so everyone has an enjoyable race. But people with alt accounts just ruin the fun for people like me, who don't have a rating that high and have to race against guys who are much better and more experienced than me.
 
MaxAttack
Look, I don't wanna attack you here, but being scared to race at A+ kind of defies the point of being A+

If you have got there you surely qualify high and race well in general, but if you can't maintain A+ while actively racing, well, maybe you belong in A rank, and you're not gonna get better not racing/racing sub par players.

Maybe I am missing something here, but all having an alt account leads to is easy races for you, harder races for me, and now I can't trust someone's DR or qualifying times (people like to sandbag it seems) as even a rough measure of the skill level of drivers I'm up against.

To reiterate - I like you guys, and you can do what you want, but I would rather you be brave and race at your actual rank, and if you lose it, take it as motivation to improve, not just to jump in D/C rank and go dominate a bunch of slower guys.

If you wanna race without high stakes, just for fun or experience, the lobby screen is right there. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to gather some friendly faces from this lobby and go racing without the stress.

If there's some other reason for alting that I don't know about, please enlighten me.
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Well I got to A+ way before I made this EU account, and to do that I would do dozens of practice laps before I even enter a race. At the time of day I normally race at, the lobbies are too varied in terms of ratings, I don't race against a whole lot of A+ people or even A's. If I win in these lobbies I gain maybe 100-200 points of dr, if I get crashed by someone and have a miserable race I could lose anywhere from 500-2000 DR depending on how bad it is. I prefer to race in the late afternoons-evenings when the lobby is full of other A's and the DR gains are better along with cleaner races, but I rarely have that option.

Right now it might be a bit too easy on my EU account since I just made it, but sooner or later I will get to the lobbies who have more people around my level and that's exactly what I want out of it, it will only benefit me on my main account as well. There are way more competitive players in that region at the time of day that I play at.
 
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GOTMAXPOWER
It's a great car on a horrible track. I think the key is to turn the steering sensitivity up to 7 then run a few laps (it might just be me but it feels like the tyres take a lap or 2 to come good, at the start I was understeering as though the fronts were cold). Otherwise trust the downforce, you can get away with more than you would expect.

There is a 1:25.5 here (with tyre wear and boost but some things like gear and lines should match up so it might be of use).

Starts at about 2:55 in the video:
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cheers mate will give this a watch when I'm sat in the chair later
 
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