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Gotta beat those Huracans
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Sven Jurgens
Be careful in lap 5 and 7 (if you pit end 5) for cars coming out of the pit not respecting the solid line there.
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This is one of the small things that annoy me in GTS that could likely be fixed easily: Crossing the white line on pit exit should be a penalty just as in real life racing.

But, even on auto-drive, your car goes to the racing line immediately, indicating that the developers never thought about using this line in any way.
 
Ben Hunt
I'm also fancying Monza this week. Tsukuba (again!!) in the N400s could be a bun fight making it very hard to maintain any SR.
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The Aston is definitely gonna be my bread and butter this week. Win or lose, it just felt too good last week. Not sure who posted it last week on :gtpflag:, but someone's advice was "it's not as quick as the Big Mac, but it's quick enough if driven correctly" or something along those lines, led me to try it. I don't usually do Race C, especially Monza :scared:, but this week I'm all in. Starting later today :p. Hope to see some of you out there!
 
Qyn
The Aston is definitely gonna be my bread and butter this week. Win or lose, it just felt too good last week. Not sure who posted it last week on :gtpflag:, but someone's advice was "it's not as quick as the Big Mac, but it's quick enough if driven correctly" or something along those lines, led me to try it. I don't usually do Race C, especially Monza :scared:, but this week I'm all in. Starting later today :p. Hope to see some of you out there!
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i'm with you. Tried the GT-R and Mustang but then had a couple of laps in the Aston and it was solid as ever. Now i've heard it's good on fuel, i think i'll be sticking with that for racing.
 
O604
Ever notice how Dragon Trail Gardens sounds like name of a Chinese Restaurant? :sly:

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No I don't notice.

Sven Jurgens
Finally!!!
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It took all evening, probably the hardest thing I've ever done in GT Sport. Clean race bonus on Monza in this under powered, prone to sliding when avoiding, piece of junk. What a dirty evening. This race was not contact free either. I got bumped off, lost 4 places and the MacLaren that drove me off got 1 whole second for a penalty... He overshot another corner later so I passed him again anyway. Constantly dodging dive bombs, then let the next car go ahead as well as now you're 'slow' after avoiding the diver. Hold your breath each time past the penalty zone, who is a ghost, where is an out, are the cars behind paying attention, there is no room here to merge slow and fast traffic. Be careful in lap 5 and 7 (if you pit end 5) for cars coming out of the pit not respecting the solid line there.

I had a much better result in the Audi earlier
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But clean race spoiled by a bump from behind, or a barge pass, or T1 pinball, or an freaking car spawning on top of you.

Only 4 cars cleared after 1000 km on Monza today. That's not a pace I can keep up, the holiday weekend is over tomorrow. Plus it should be 5 a day. Monza needs to clear up a lot to be able to get all 35 clean race bonuses this week.
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So I'm not the only one who thinks that the Audi is awful to drive.
 
At the moment I have the fastest time in a Subrau WRX Gr. 3 on Monza. The topspeed is much lower than in the favorited Mustang, but I an much faster in the corners.
Lap time is 1:50,555 in Mustang
and 1:50,460 in Subaru.
A few days ago I got 1:50,046 in the Mustang in the lobby and also a 1:50,1XX in BMW M6 GT3.
Hope to be faster than 1:50. That is what I aim for this week on Monza.
 
I know it's been said before but I hope PD consider adjusting race time schedules. Race A is over very quick especially given it's N300 this week so you're waiting around another 10 minutes for the next while missing Race B by a minute.

Race B QT is 1:38.8 in the 4C. I tired the Huracan but was slower by a whole second so I'm probably doing it wrong somewhere.

Famine
Butch? Batch? Botch?
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I'd say it but well, think of the children. :dopey:
 
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Trying to qualify better for race B. @Pigems vid helped me get down to 1.39.803, which I'm pretty sure is still slow as all hell. Definitely doing better through chicane 1, I really need to learn to abuse kerbs by instinct instead of this thread reminding me every time. I blame rally instincts.

The hairpin I think I'm doing OK, but the twisties, trying to hold 4th thru there like the vid, seems slow and hard getting on the power, then the long left, I had been holding 3rd all the way, noticed you drop to 2nd and been trying to emulate it, but end up running wide onto the red surface. Help! Brake Balance? Something?
 
Gonna give a shoutout to @Pigems for his time on the Daily A Race. I like to beat his times as a sign of dominance* as one of my goals, since he gets some juicy lap times.

Yeah this time, he got me stumped. :lol:
I can't break into 1:03 territory haha, well done!

*please don't kick my butt. :nervous:
 
MaxAttack
Trying to qualify better for race B. @Pigems vid helped me get down to 1.39.803, which I'm pretty sure is still slow as all hell. Definitely doing better through chicane 1, I really need to learn to abuse kerbs by instinct instead of this thread reminding me every time. I blame rally instincts.

The hairpin I think I'm doing OK, but the twisties, trying to hold 4th thru there like the vid, seems slow and hard getting on the power, then the long left, I had been holding 3rd all the way, noticed you drop to 2nd and been trying to emulate it, but end up running wide onto the red surface. Help! Brake Balance? Something?
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After coming out of the hairpin try to get into the left kerb as soon as possible when starting the S bend in 4th gear. Let go of the throttle and brake just a little so that you keep as close as possible to the kerb on the right. After that directly shift down to 3rd gear and let go of the throttle again for just a moment so that you can turn in to the left kerb and start going full on the throttle again. Keep it in 3rd but manage your throttle input as you will go full onto the right kerb. The most important part is managing the throttle because this will make it or break it for coming out of the S bend. Throttle management is pretty key for the chicane and the S bend if I may say for myself.

I have a 1.38.1 Q atm but it is for sure not my best. I can get it down to 1.37.6/5 at least.

Ps. I am using +3 BB
 
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Any advice on brake balance on the Huracan @ DTG?

I just cant find the best BB. I've done a .38.6 with the Scirocco, but i don't want to drive it in the race. I had 5 races with the GT-R , and had 4 top 3 places. But, the GT-R feels so heavy at the hairpin and in the last sector. My Q car(Scirocco) is like a snail in to the triple right hander. ...Any advice, Racers?
 
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Wow the GT-R in Race C is something else. Just a 1:48.588 with just 2 completed laps.
I do want to experiment with others cars though but i can see why that car is quite used.
 
Got some time for a couple races this morning. First attempt in the Viper SRT, forgot to change tires doh. It didn't take long to get the clean race bonus taken away, first penalty zone I have to lift for the slow traffic getting back up to speed and get draft bumped by an impatient driver coming from behind. SR Down. After T1, the penalty zone is the biggest risk factor for losing the clean race bonus. Why is it not after Ascari, much more room there and actually straight. Of course in the pit I automatically press X so do the whole race on hard tires.

Second attempt
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People were actually driving carefully! I was stuck behind a laggy swerving MacLaren and had to concede a few positions to less patient drivers behind me. Too risky to get alongside that laggy out of control mess, but at least the people behind me were smart enough to take the wide open road instead of trying to drive through my car. Things are improving!

Time for one more, NSX next. The Viper is a dud. Best lap, 1:51 while drafting a Corvette for a full lap without being able to gain on the Vette enough to attempt a pass. No power. A better corner exit simply goes to waste. On its own, on hard tires I was doing 1:53 laps, slow bugger.


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Wow the GT-R in Race C is something else. Just a 1:48.588 with just 2 completed laps.
I do want to experiment with others cars though but i can see why that car is quite used.
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Yep, together with the Mac it's the meta this week. BOP isn't very balanced at all. 7 GT-Rs in the next race and 3 MacLaren BMWs.

A Mustang won with 11 sec lead. Aliens always have more choice in cars, yet I don't see them win in a Viper or NSX :odd: The Honda is faster than the Viper, not much though. Good brakes, lacks speed. 1:50.6 best lap with some drafting, low 1:51 laps on its own.
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Twas a dirty one. Lost of penalties being served and I got rammed off once. I wonder if PD only tested the penalty zone with one car occasionally having to serve a penalty, not 3 to 5 at once all with different penalty times. That run up to Ascari is terrifying in lap 1 and 2. It has a nice psychological effect on those with 0.5 and 1 sec penalties. They try to get through lesmo 2 in a hurry hoping to stay ahead after the serving the penalty, only to go wide or spin out right before the penalty zone :lol:

Back on track 6 out of 35 cleared. Hopefully dirty hour doesn't last from 6pm to 11pm again tonight so I have a chance to get 4 more cars with a clean race bonus :)
 
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