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To all the doubters who assume that people with second accounts don't give a toss about keeping it clean - i don't change my driving style regardless of which account i'm using - i'm absolute filth all the time!(joke!)
) & not having enough front downforce to help the car turn. As Bivittavus88 stated, it's when someone doesn't get the turn in that they want or expect. On the flip side, I have more difficulty when I get the speed & turn in right where I want them & go to power out of the corner. Typical racer mentality is get on the accelerator as soon as possible. When you're on the edge of adhesion & you want more grip to accelerate & there is none, you get the understeer blues. I wonder if I can get PD to officially sponsor me with their fictional Understeer brand? 
Yes mate, it absolutely did. I didn't touch Sport Mode apart from occasional attempts for a good couple months. I had only ever really played rally games and basically had to relearn to drive - taking the ideal line, keeping the car planted, slow in fast out, these things aren't a priority in rally, and I was especially bad for not using all the track as on a rally stage getting greedy with corner cutting leads to punctures or worse.
Yeah the exit from Spoon ruins all my good Quali laps. It's downhill and off camber and pretty much the toughest corner in the game for me.
Forgot to mention that this is on automatic and TC on 2.
"Half a second up, are we? It'd be an awful shame if Spoon happened . . Again."
2:00.979. Hairpin wasn't great, a little too much rotation entering the first half of Spoon (not smooth enough coming off the brakes) and I should have stuck to the pit wall at the end of the lap. But, we're under the 2:01 barrier. At my skill level, I don't think I can get much more out of this car. A couple more tenths, maybe? We'll see on Friday.
Bane of my life.
"Half a second up, are we? It'd be an awful shame if Spoon happened . . Again."
And I thought I was making progress. Geez. My best is now a 2:02.528 & I know there is possibly a half second that I left on the track.
Top tips from me would be to brake slightly later, and less aggressively for turn one/two. Say 50%. All the way through, pretty much. Instead if two distinct braking areas, as you are now. That'll let you rotate the car, keep a bit tighter, and you'll get a better exit into the esses. That should be worth a couple tenths.
The last right in those esses, tap the brakes, turn in earlier, and hug the rumble strip. That will save a bit of time, and give you a better line into the uphill left, after it.
When you come to the second half of Spoon, brake earlier, and less aggressively. As with turn one/two. That will let you rotate more, hold a tighter line, and get on the power a bit sooner.
I'd also brake earlier for Casio, and keep it in 2nd gear.
All that said, Suzuka is infuriating. If you're anything like me, don't forget to take breaks when you're wanting to throw things at the TV, because you've binned it at Degner/Spoon/130R/Casio for the hundredth time
). Do you have any advice for going easier on the brakes? I use a controller. No wheel here. 
Everyone needs to know this. T1 niiiiice and easy. It's hard from the middle of the pack though- it's always the goobers in the bottom quartile who don't know what they're doing (yet, at least- I'll give them the benefit of the doubt) and torpedo 6 cars. But the front row and the guys in the back who didn't qualify were the only ones unscathed in two races I had.
I remember my days on the ds4, my advice on braking... When you are in Qualifying mode, try to only use “half brakes” on every corner, even if you have to increase your braking markers a bit. By doing this you will find that a lot of the time, your braking distance will be shorter by easing on the brakes just using half the pressure, rather than going all out 100%. It will take a while to get a feel for this, but you will learn to keep a bit more momentum improving your lap times.I'll give some of those tips a try. I'm currently on the computer doing other non-GT Sport related stuff (like uploading GT Sport videos
