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Finally had a decent race after two weeks of suffering. The Gr3 RC F was my go-to forever, but now I can't get over the Aston. It's so much fun to drive and it sounds like a snarling beast. I'm not too fast at race C with a QT of 1:50:402, but with a cool head and a proper fuel mapping I can no-pit and make up quite a few positions. Last night, clean race- gained 6 positions to finish 7th.

MikeV27
I can’t remember what these fuel and tire multipliers are like. Is race C a no stop?
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Tires are good, but it looks like fueling is an option. I run no-stop because I can't lap quickly, but I've seen a lot of faster drivers pitting.
 
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It's really interesting what you can find out from KP.

I was just seeing where my current QT for Auto sits and whether I wanna try and improve it when I get home or whether I just wanna race. Currently it rests joint 7175 in EMEA and will likley drop as the week gets on and more people up their respective games. But I don't suppose the top times will get much quicker so I may just settle for my +5.1sec +4.6% split. That's pretty much on the money from my standard.

The interesting thing to see is who else is around you. So I currently share my time with a DR/B rated Italian who along with his 14,000 points has 760 races, 13 wins and 15 pole positions to his name. Not bad company.

But there's also another chap alongside the pair of us... A fellow Brit with 2200 points, 95 races, 7 wins and 6 pole positions. He's also been reset more times than you can really say is 'bad luck'...

Vanity suggests I should QTT until my thumbs are sore. But racing I reckon it'll be!
 
Just had about the worst race experience I’ve had on this game.

Race A was an absolute horror show with two or three drivers deliberately punting and sideswiping everyone who came in contact with them. One guy in particular was just on a very deliberate tear and brake checked me hard down the straight, sending me into the wall sending me to the back of the pack.

Then to top it off someone came after me in the comments. I did accidentally punt a guy when a scrum of three cars had slowed with their battling, but I fairly received a penalty and that wasn’t even the guy yelling at me! I seriously can’t remember what I did to him, but he reiterated his complaints even after I explained myself. Ugh whatever.

It seems like simply reporting is not enough for the brake checking chaos bringer. It absolutely put me off playing anymore and I had to talk myself out of casting all players from that certain country that’s also run by a homophobic fascist clown show in the same light because they seemed to be among the worst in this situation.

Off to find something productive to do with my free time this morning...
 
Gave the new mazda tt a little run this morning then switched over for some A race action. Dog decides to go bonkers over something he saw outside. By the time i got back to the tv i was "disconected for ignoring penalties".... i think thats the first time thats happend to me, i have had to quit a race a hanful of times but never missed one like that i dont think......
Oh, and i am stillplaying catch up. Down to a 4.191 though
 
JoeyLeonine
It's really interesting what you can find out from KP.

I was just seeing where my current QT for Auto sits and whether I wanna try and improve it when I get home or whether I just wanna race. Currently it rests joint 7175 in EMEA and will likley drop as the week gets on and more people up their respective games. But I don't suppose the top times will get much quicker so I may just settle for my +5.1sec +4.6% split. That's pretty much on the money from my standard.

The interesting thing to see is who else is around you. So I currently share my time with a DR/B rated Italian who along with his 14,000 points has 760 races, 13 wins and 15 pole positions to his name. Not bad company.

But there's also another chap alongside the pair of us... A fellow Brit with 2200 points, 95 races, 7 wins and 6 pole positions. He's also been reset more times than you can really say is 'bad luck'...

Vanity suggests I should QTT until my thumbs are sore. But racing I reckon it'll be!
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I could find my results for last week, Willow Springs, but not for Autopolis. Do you look under player name?

Edit:Kyoto of course
 
MaxAttack
If you peep my stats you'll see my previous forays into B rank weren't very long lived, though I think I'm more consistent, a little faster, and a bit better at qualifying now, so my goal is to try and make it stick this time and see if I can hit a new high, for which I'll need to break 14K.

Good races this week, so I'm going to be testing around Autopolis and Barcelona - if I don't think I can extract a decent performance at either, I will obsessively time trial race A until I've put in the best lap I can and go from there. Historically, road cars + low power stuff where it's more plant the foot and keep on the fast line has suited me better! Trying to be tactical about where and when to race.

I mean, it SEEMS like a good plan...
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I think you're underestimating yourself... i've only ever seen you competing in that endurance race at Bathurst - but from seeing that alone you're more than capable of holding your own amongst higher B level and comfortably into A i'd say. I've been up to 28k and then bottled it by entering races i shouldn't have in my quest to get to DR.A... since then i've settled around 25k i think, but not really raced much at all in the last few weeks and when i have i've used my 2nd account (bottling it again)! I think i'm around 20k on that account but not too fussed about DR really.
It makes a massive difference if you land on a week where you really get into qualy sessions and enjoy the track / car combo - i think the last time that happened for me was Gr4 Dragon Trail, since then i've not fell in love with any the road car combo's or any Race C for ages :(
 
RacingGrandpa
I could find my results for last week, Willow Springs, but not for Autopolis. Do you look under player name?

Edit:Kyoto of course
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it's not particularly straight forward... so go to Times and you'll get the leaderboards from all the events. But there's no way (not one that I've found) of searching for your name. It's more a game of trial and error trying to work out what page you're going to be on based on your time... You don't necessarily have to click next every time. You can edit the URL...

so for instance the 1st page of the Autopolis EMEA leaderboard is here...

https://www.kudosprime.com/gts/rankings.php?sec=daily&eid=20033&start=0

the second page is here - note that the start of this page is at whoever is in 500th place

https://www.kudosprime.com/gts/rankings.php?sec=daily&eid=20033&start=500

and so on, so change that number to where ever you think you may be and then try and narrow it down...

Someone is bound to tell us there is a far easier way than this to work it out... One can only hope anyway!
 
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JoeyLeonine
it's not particularly straight forward... so go to Times and you'll get the leaderboards from all the events. But there's no way (not one that I've found) of searching for your name. It's more a game of trial and error trying to work out what page you're going to be on based on your time... You don't necessarily have to click next every time. You can edit the URL...

so for instance the 1st page of the Autopolis EMEA leaderboard is here...

https://www.kudosprime.com/gts/rankings.php?sec=daily&eid=20033&start=0

the second page is here - note that the start of this page is at whoever is in 500th place

https://www.kudosprime.com/gts/rankings.php?sec=daily&eid=20033&start=500

and so on, so change that number to where ever you think you may be and then try and narrow it down...

Someone is bound to tell us there is a far easier way than this to work it out... One can only hope anyway!
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don't want to toot my own horn... but you can hit CTRL+F and then type your name in the search box (working on Chrome on PC) and that will search that page that you're on.. apart from that, i don't know any quicker way :)
 
Trone_Colby
I played race c twice last night with the Porsche.

The first race I started at ten. I put my fuel on 2 and took an easy on gas. I was doing well with it and got to 7th. Half a race to go, I decided to put the fuel on 1 and try to power it....it wasn’t happening especially since my tires were bad. I wiped out here and there. I finished 9th.

Second race was better. I started 11th. Fuel at 2 again and decided to stay there. I was taking it easy and go up to 7th due to people serving penalties. P6 was a good battle although his tires were going bad. I kept braking a bit early to avoid hitting him. People ahead of us went into the pits...to my surprise at least. The guy I was battling went up to 2nd and I went to 3rd.

P1 wiped out before the final chicane and had to reset, pushing us up to 1st and 2nd (me).

Last lap was a good battle. His tires were really bad but manages to hold it and I can’t pass him. S3 is where the battle got real for a bit. I was gaining on him. The turn before the chicane, he went wide and I tightened up on the inside. We were side by side before the chicane. He was ahead on the inside so I had no choice but to brake early and go wide without contact. He slipped away and got the win. I got 2nd. It was a good race. My heart was pounding lol.

Here’s the video of that race:
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Awesome race! What did you make of the Porsche with the fuel mapping on 2? I did some races with the mapping set to 1 (max power), but had to aggresively short shift to make to the end without stopping and this ruined my pace in the last laps specially.
 
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I think you're underestimating yourself... i've only ever seen you competing in that endurance race at Bathurst - but from seeing that alone you're more than capable of holding your own amongst higher B level and comfortably into A i'd say. I've been up to 28k and then bottled it by entering races i shouldn't have in my quest to get to DR.A... since then i've settled around 25k i think, but not really raced much at all in the last few weeks and when i have i've used my 2nd account (bottling it again)! I think i'm around 20k on that account but not too fussed about DR really.
It makes a massive difference if you land on a week where you really get into qualy sessions and enjoy the track / car combo - i think the last time that happened for me was Gr4 Dragon Trail, since then i've not fell in love with any the road car combo's or any Race C for ages :(
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I appreciate the praise, but I'm not so sure. I still always do my driving with the nagging feeling that I'm missing something. For me GT Sport started with learning to drive tracks basically from scratch after pretty much only playing rally games and proper arcade racers (shoutout Hydro Thunder the best game ever made). I would handbrake into hairpins and scandi flick chicanes. Good enough for some fun and to beat the Ai but deeply slow in truth.

After a while learning the game, yeeting rally cars around the 'ring and lobby drifting I felt the desire to go quicker. Started driving the open wheelers and race cars for my daily miles and I'd do a Sport race here and there with terrible results. I asked people, learned manual, kept driving grippy until eventually I started gaining positions in races - but was always starting near the back.

Then I found GTP, and I gained a bag of pace from lurking this thread for a couple of weeks before showing my face (and Markku's glorious mullet). I got my first win soon after, in the Honda Fit as I recall, because I qualified well and was starting up front, so I committed to better qualifying as my place to improve.

It's a bit better now - I'm usually at least in the middle and I don't race until I can put in consistent laps I'm happy with, but I'm still frequently well off the pace of B rank drivers. I'd say most common for me is to be leading the second group, off the pace of the leaders, but holding off the rest. I think driving so much rally makes me comfy in confined spaces, improvising, and I'm good at understanding weight transfer and the dynamics of the car.

But I'm not A rated yet, not in my view. Too often other racers can disappear in a couple corners, too often I lose the line and get out of shape. It just feels to me that there's a corner or two on any given track that I just don't "get" and everybody else does.

The road continues. It'll come in time.

EDIT: Consider, for example, that Bathurst race was at night, and I have frequently smashed my headlights and finished stages at night in the fog at Rally Wales. I long ago enforced a "never restart" rule on myself for rallying.
 
Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, I saw koifishy at race A. He started on the pole and won, of course. I guess he's still around, but just not hanging out in this place.

I see quite a few people on the track that used to post in this thread, but quit doing so. :odd: I have my suspicions.

I can understand wanting to stay away from other threads, because they're mostly just a bunch of arguing. This is definitely the most friendly of the regular threads. :cheers:
 
wowbaggerBR
Awesome race! What did you make of the Porsche with the fuel mapping on 2? I did some races with the mapping set to 1 (max power), but had to aggresively short shift to make to the end without stopping and this ruined my pace in the last laps specially.
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I copied @kie25 doing that to be honest although I’m nowhere as fast as he is. I do feel its great for fuel saving. At times I short shift too soon but it turns out well. Also, I think it helps me with consistency. I’ll look into that later. I know in the race before, I put on 1 after a while and I suffered. I did switch it back right after I wiped out the second time and got better.
 
Top of the morning!
I just had to enter c race again, I’m competitive there.
I entered up starting fourth. A pink Lexus starts sixth and door bangs his way past fifth and myself.
Lap three he takes a .5 and I pass on the back straight...
He’s flashing his lights all over, but I’ve pulled a gap into lap four, but somehow I copped a .5....
I’m saving fuel, so I lug the right handler into the back straight figuring I’ll just stay inside and he’s too far back...
Ow that hurt. He nailed it, and I have to concede.
I’m like no big, I will dispatch him in short order and there’s still time to catch the leaders...
Little did I know this guy in pink is just fast and smart enough to be difficult to pass...He’s defending inside on the front straight into t1, and the Lexus has enough power that it’s tough to get by. He deserves a punt, but fifth is too close...
Lap seven I was pretty much through into turn four and he sideswipes me...
I’m all over this guy, but his pace is mid .50. I am losing 1.5 seconds a lap...
Effectively all his battling is just bringing the pack closer. The leaders got away.
By lap eight the pack has caught, and there’s a viper again...Excellent driver...
So now they’ve caught, the Lexus behind me in fifth bashes me into the hairpin (total accident he apologized, no worries man!)
Finally lap nine the inevitable happens and I get by cleanly on the front straight...
Now the pink car is holding up the Viper and I can try to escape with third...
Of course pink misses a breakpoint and Vipers through and bringing it end of nine into the chicane...
He got a 1 sec somehow though. Lap ten I realize this is why I fuel saved and go full rev...I am needing it.That viper is still back there...His unfortunate pen holds him up and I gap and it’s a quiet final lap...
Basically the pink Lexus prevented all chance of making the run at the leaders. Funny thing was I noticed on replay, another Lexus was cleanly through and pink doorbashes him, but it backfired, pink ends up in sand near turn two, then disappears...WHAT A MAROON!

Welcome to another wall of text!

Stay thirsty, my friends
 
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Well, I had nothing but time to kill, and got myself all fired up writing about my journey to the top, so what harm can there be in a couple of race As while I wait for my buddy?

Turns out, no harm in it at all;

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I gotta say it, how am I seeing so many people lose the handle in this thing!? The race I won, which was actually the first of the two, both guys in front of me totally bottled T1, sliding the car all the way to the run off. I brake as gently as I can, take third gear as I head past the apex, and saw at the wheel if I sense the rear slipping. Every time, I'm gaining on whoever is ahead of me. I must have a MUCH faster lap in me. What a delight this car is, though.

The only annoying thing is that I put in 1.04.8 and 1.04.7 laps in these races, yet every time I go to try and qualify and go after my 1.04.6, I can't break past 5 :P. Probably a bit of slipstream on my side though.
 
Trone_Colby
I copied @kie25 doing that to be honest although I’m nowhere as fast as he is. I do feel its great for fuel saving. At times I short shift too soon but it turns out well. Also, I think it helps me with consistency. I’ll look into that later. I know in the race before, I put on 1 after a while and I suffered. I did switch it back right after I wiped out the second time and got better.
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Yeah, you seemed extremely consistent in that video, I was amazed at how much fuel and tyre you had saved on the first half off the race. I'll try to run it at 2 and with your style tonight without bothering at all with the race, just focusing on keeping it clean to see if my luck changes.
 
My 3rd race C of the week in the 'Vette, and 3rd win too!!

I've found my own strategy, I non stop, and run the car in mix 5 the whole lap, then whack it up to mix 1 along the start/finish straight, almost making my own invisible DRS zone lol, and it seems to work!

It's nice to be racing with some people that are clean, as you can see in the video.....



I was trying to keep it as smooth as possible while on my economy run, and won by over 10 seconds by the flag, as others pitted, or dropped back for burning up too much fuel in the early laps, great fun with the strategy this week. :)
 
MaxAttack
Well, I had nothing but time to kill, and got myself all fired up writing about my journey to the top, so what harm can there be in a couple of race As while I wait for my buddy?

Turns out, no harm in it at all;

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I gotta say it, how am I seeing so many people lose the handle in this thing!? The race I won, which was actually the first of the two, both guys in front of me totally bottled T1, sliding the car all the way to the run off. I brake as gently as I can, take third gear as I head past the apex, and saw at the wheel if I sense the rear slipping. Every time, I'm gaining on whoever is ahead of me. I must have a MUCH faster lap in me. What a delight this car is, though.

The only annoying thing is that I put in 1.04.8 and 1.04.7 laps in these races, yet every time I go to try and qualify and go after my 1.04.6, I can't break past 5 :p. Probably a bit of slipstream on my side though.
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Better than me, dude. 👍

I tried race A, for the first time last night. In 3 races, I started 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd. I finished 6th, 3rd, and 5th. I'm really inconsistent on the first turn. Every once in a while, I can get it right in qualifying, and get a fast lap. So far, in my qualifying, I've done well on that turn maybe 7-8% of the time. It showed during the race. I was just getting in people's way.

More work to do.
 
sturk0167
Better than me, dude. 👍

I tried race A, for the first time last night. In 3 races, I started 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd. I finished 6th, 3rd, and 5th. I'm really inconsistent on the first turn. Every once in a while, I can get it right in qualifying, and get a fast lap. So far, in my qualifying, I've done well on that turn maybe 7-8% of the time. It showed during the race. I was just getting in people's way.

More work to do.
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Nah man, just the reverse of you. I nail t1 in the race and biff it in qualifying :D
 
Groundfish
Top of the morning!
I just had to enter c race again, I’m competitive there.
I entered up starting fourth. A pink Lexus starts sixth and door bangs his way past fifth and myself.
Lap three he takes a .5 and I pass on the back straight...
He’s flashing his lights all over, but I’ve pulled a gap into lap four, but somehow I copped a .5....
I’m saving fuel, so I lug the right handler into the back straight figuring I’ll just stay inside and he’s too far back...
Ow that hurt. He nailed it, and I have to concede.
I’m like no big, I will dispatch him in short order and there’s still time to catch the leaders...
Little did I know this guy in pink is just fast and smart enough to be difficult to pass...He’s defending inside on the front straight into t1, and the Lexus has enough power that it’s tough to get by. He deserves a punt, but fifth is too close...
Lap seven I was pretty much through into turn four and he sideswipes me...
I’m all over this guy, but his pace is mid .50. I am losing 1.5 seconds a lap...
Effectively all his battling is just bringing the pack closer. The leaders got away.
By lap eight the pack has caught, and there’s a viper again...Excellent driver...
So now they’ve caught, the Lexus behind me in fifth bashes me into the hairpin (total accident he apologized, no worries man!)
Finally lap nine the inevitable happens and I get by cleanly on the front straight...
Now the pink car is holding up the Viper and I can try to escape with third...
Of course pink misses a breakpoint and Vipers through and bringing it end of nine into the chicane...
He got a 1 sec somehow though. Lap ten I realize this is why I fuel saved and go full rev...I am needing it.That viper is still back there...His unfortunate pen holds him up and I gap and it’s a quiet final lap...
Basically the pink Lexus prevented all chance of making the run at the leaders. Funny thing was I noticed on replay, another Lexus was cleanly through and pink doorbashes him, but it backfired, pink ends up in sand near turn two, then disappears...WHAT A MAROON!

Welcome to another wall of text!

Stay thirsty, my friends
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That Viper is sneaky good around there, lots of power with just a bit of short shifting makes it to the end. Was a chaotic race, couldn’t quite close the gap on you final lap. Nice race :cheers:
 
Lgirasol
Just had about the worst race experience I’ve had on this game.


It seems like simply reporting is not enough for the brake checking chaos bringer. It absolutely put me off playing anymore and I had to talk myself out of casting all players from that certain country that’s also run by a homophobic fascist clown show in the same light because they seemed to be among the worst in this situation.
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Hmmm.. for which country could he possibly be referring?
 
bdubclub
That Viper is sneaky good around there, lots of power with just a bit of short shifting makes it to the end. Was a chaotic race, couldn’t quite close the gap on you final lap. Nice race :cheers:
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Hey thanks! I saw a Viper no qual in the pre race...I kinda figured it was you! It was nice to share the track with you! :)
Nice fastest lap, and what ten overtakes lol!
 
Autopolis.

Fun mid-evening session today.

Qualifying before my first race dropped .7secs to give me a 55.1xx with a 54.9xx opt. So close.

Race 1. P3 > P4. Pretty respectful driving for the most part. I gave P2 a nudge at the second hairpin. Not enough for a pen, but enough to drop us back to P4 and P5 after I waited for him. But he then threw it away himself on L4 overcooking the first hairpin so I gladly 'passed' him this time.

Race 2. P3 > P3. First result was enough to take us back into DR/C... Which is slowly becoming more and more familiar. And I expected to be biting off more than I could chew. Sure enough a Slophy came bombing through from P5 at T1. I gave him a cars width on the inside and fair play to him we went around together. He was fast, but not skillful and it showed when he went straight on at the first hairpin. I raced with P1 & 2 for a lap and a half before they pulled away.

Race 3. P6 > P4. All a bit messy... After a few door handles had been thrown my way I managed to settle down into P8... Until L4... All hell broke loose up ahead. Some crazy attempts at pit manoeuvering and all sorts. Fortunately I was able to just sit back and watch them drop like flies. 1 guy went through T1. I passed the guilty party through the penalty zone quite happy to take the P6 I started in. P4 & 5 went all handbags through the very last corner kink and I received the unexpected gift with open arms! MENTAL...

That's about 3K DR made in 3 races once you ignore the bump.

Did I say that I quite liked Autopolis?
 
Decided to jump into a quick Race C in the 911, made up one position in the end and a pretty clean despite a spin on lap 1 coming out of the last chicane being too eager on the throttle, somehow went down like 200 DR and 2 SR, not much but weird outcome
 
Any strategy recommendation for daily FIA race? I've stuggled to keep it a 1 stopper with the 991 Gt3 RS, while the others were doing a no stop strategy :o. How do they do?
 
Somehow in the past 24-48 hours I’ve gone from hating Suzuka and never being able to figure out how to take all the sweeping S’s to consistently getting poles and winning races and being about .5-6 off the top 10 board.

These last couple weeks of Race A’s have really been helping improve my pace, it’s entirely possible that I could go DR A by the end of the week.
 
Had an hour tonight so jumped on for a couple of runs at race C, didn't like my quali time but thought I'd see how it went. First race - 12th on the grid - this ain't good! Race was dull but can usually bank on something happening ahead so many thanks to the four people who fell off the track ahead of me so I finished 8th. Second race - 8th on the grid. Same thing, some stupidity ahead saw three go off at T4 on L1 then later in the race the two ahead of me have a battle for a lap and a half before taking each other off at T3, thanks for the podium guys! And broke the 40k point barrier into the bargain :D

Things I've noted from my little runs, I haven't overtaken and haven't been overtaken so improving that qualifying time is a must (clocked a 1:45.9 in the Porsche but invalidated the lap at T9!). And practise the chicane! The first left is so important. Think I'll be watching a few replays before going again (and practising with the BB to the rear - which I detest!)
 
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That'll do nicely.

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Pole sitter got away from me to begin with, and held a 3.8s lead at the end of lap six. He'd used too much fuel, and had to pit. I kept things to a steady 48.2xx - 48.8xx the whole race (bar one lap, where I messed up the last chicane) for a 5.5s lead, at the finish line.
 
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