"Daily" Race Discussion [Archive]

[golfer07840]

I don't know if anyone likes statistics as much as I do, but for those of us who notice that certain tracks get used way more than others, here's the real track usage data for the daily races. I compile the info from KP. The first daily race he has data on, is June 13th, 2018. From then, until July 28th, 2018 there were 3 new races every day. July 29th was the beginning of the weekly daily races. The number next to the track is how many times it's been used Sport mode races.

36 Suzuka
30 Lago Maggiore
27 Tokyo Expressway
22 Dragon Trail
17 Circuit de la Sarthe
17 Tsukuba
16 Kyoto Driving Park
15 Brands Hatch
15 Fuji (First race was 10/3/2018)
14 Interlagos
12 Nurburgring GP
11 Mount Panorama
10 Blue Moon Bay
10 Monza
10 Nordschleife/N24
9 Willow Springs
8 Alsace Village
7 Autopolis (First race was 3/17/2019)
6 Red Bull Ring (First race was 9/7/2018)
4 Sardegna (First race was 7/7/2019)
3 Barcelona-Catalunya (First race was 11/18/2018)
3 Broad Bean Raceway
2 Goodwood (First race was 6/9/2019)
2 Northern Isle Speedway
1 Circuit de Sainte-Croix (First race was 8/5/2018)
0 Special Stage Route X & all dirt tracks

*Here's the interesting part: Many of the tracks have variations (you could run 8 Maggiore races without using the same variation).
Here's the track usage broken down by it's average per variation.

Top 3:
18 Suzuka
17 Tsukuba
14 Interlagos

Bottom 3:
1.67 Blue Moon Bay
1.5 Broad Bean Raceway
0.167 St Croix

*Sardegna (paved variations) is at .67 because it's the newest. 6 variations/4 races

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[RacingGrandpa]

There used to be a game for the Commodore 64 called "Test Drive" you could test drive a Ferrari, a Porsche 911 a Lotus, etc.

I had to use.. ready for it? A JOYSTICK to drive it. And yes, I had to use gas, brake and switch gears with this:

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And this is what it looked like on the TV screen, circa 1987:

I remember that game. I was 23 and had been driving a real car for more than 5 years. We where wildly impressed with the graphics.

 

[golfer07840]

1 Circuit de Sainte-Croix (First race was 8/5/2018)
0 Special Stage Route X & all dirt tracks

*Here's the interesting part: Many of the tracks have variations (you could run 8 Maggiore races without using the same variation).
Here's the track usage broken down by it's average per variation.

Top 3:
18 Suzuka
17 Tsukuba
14 Interlagos

Bottom 3:
1.67 Blue Moon Bay
1.5 Broad Bean Raceway
0.167 St Croix

The use of St Croix only being used once is very very very strange. It's like they made the track, hyped it up with a big release and then simply forgot about it.

I remember that game. I was 23 and had been driving a real car for more than 5 years. We where wildly impressed with the graphics.

I was impressed as well. The best part was if you were driving too fast a cop would pull you over, or if you crashed, it would show your windshield cracked and the game would be over. If you drove it fast and didn't get caught or crash, they let you have the car

 

[O604]

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Joystick would suck but the paddle would be interesting. Wish there was a modern version.

 

[Pigems]

It's difficult, as it's always been. With every event I go to, I learn a little more and get a little better. I'm never on my prime when I'm on the wheel, though.

I still can't change as I own a T-GT, but my desk is too tall and I'm the stubborn kind of learner where my first experience is how I tend to stick, so I need to have something relatively similar to learn effectively.

Want to get a Playseat Challenge, but money is tight considering I have to save to buy a house. In short: I won't have a setup I like for my wheel for the remainder of the year at least, so these tours will continue to be my practice.

Cool man, thanks for the info and good luck in the future! If you’re handy, I built my own rig a while back and I still have the plans. It only used one sheet of 3/4” MDF($40) and a $20 used seat from a Honda Civic. I’d be happy to share the plans and walk you through the build. It only took a few hours to build once you get the materials, but it works great!

 

[Scotchboy]

Just had a ridiculously dirty Race C.
Started 11th, worked my way up to 8th. Lots of being tapped by cars behind and people from the outside swingly wildly towards the inside mid-corner, and a 6th place car that had poor connection so was teleporting a bit. I cleanly passed the Austrian GT-R in 7th on lap 4, and apparently this made me a running target because in the complex corners in the last sector he pushed past me then brake checked every 1-2s, meaning versus the car in 1st we lost 12-15s in just that section with everyone bunched up behind me as I tried to avoid hitting him, I get SR down for every brake check. Managed to get mostly past on the straight at the start of lap 5 then he darts sideways and slams me into a wall, then quits. I am now running 9th because so many others had incidents trying to avoid this. At the end of lap 6 on entering the pits, the RC-F behind doesn't bother braking and punts me into the barrier, so of course he's free and clear and I get a 5s barrier contact penalty. I am then pushed off by another RC-F as I unghost off the line after my penalty, while I was purposefully leaving plenty of room for it to pass. I run the rest of the race in 10th, 11s behind the car in 9th. Utter farce.

Edit* after my 3rd race of the night, which was relatively clean except for a lap 3 incident, I am now above 25000 DR. YAAAAY.

 

[Illum_Concept]

There used to be a game for the Commodore 64 called "Test Drive" you could test drive a Ferrari, a Porsche 911 a Lotus, etc.

I had to use.. ready for it? A JOYSTICK to drive it. And yes, I had to use gas, brake and switch gears with this:

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And this is what it looked like on the TV screen, circa 1987:

Loved that game. It was arrow keys on a keyboard for me on my dad's work computer!!!

 

[watto79]

There used to be a game for the Commodore 64 called "Test Drive" you could test drive a Ferrari, a Porsche 911 a Lotus, etc.

I had to use.. ready for it? A JOYSTICK to drive it. And yes, I had to use gas, brake and switch gears with this:

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And this is what it looked like on the TV screen, circa 1987:

I remember this! Think I used a keyboard to play it. I also remember the early Nascar and Indycar games by Papyrus where I definitely used a joystick!

 

[golfer07840]

Cool man, thanks for the info and good luck in the future! If you’re handy, I built my own rig a while back and I still have the plans. It only used one sheet of 3/4” MDF($40) and a $20 used seat from a Honda Civic. I’d be happy to share the plans and walk you through the build. It only took a few hours to build once you get the materials, but it works great!

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Look at those fancy golf bags collecting dust *

*Always focusing on the important things

 

[Pigems]

Look at those fancy golf bags collecting dust *

*Always focusing on the important things

Have they ever! Still stuck on 27 holes for this year lol, I’ve had to free passes for a local course since last Xmas and still haven’t used them, I do plan to though. I would never have thought I’d see the day where I enjoyed another activity as much I loved golf, but GT basically took the money and ran!

 

[dimassa19]

Have they ever! Still stuck on 27 holes for this year lol, I’ve had to free passes for a local course since last Xmas and still haven’t used them, I do plan to though. I would never have thought I’d see the day where I enjoyed another activity as much I loved golf, but GT basically took the money and ran!

I get it, it's you in the profile picture...

 

[GT5Power]

A nice P16 to P2 run in daily race B gave my alt account a huge DR boost. Graduated to DR/B on that account now.

 

[sturk0167]

@Pigems, I've raced your Fuji ghost a few times today. A couple of times I managed to stay even with you for most of the lap, but you killed it in the last two turns. 👍

 

[Pigems]

@Pigems, I've raced your Fuji ghost a few times today. A couple of times I managed to stay even with you for most of the lap, but you killed it in the last two turns. 👍

Thanks man, and nice work! Those last couple of turns are sooo friggin hard to carry momentum through. I just kept rewatching @QC YALUM ’s(The #2 Lap) Lap and chasing his ghost, he kept running away from me in those same corners, I was even a car length ahead of him one lap at the end of the back straight(where the chicane would be on the full track) only to have him blow my doors off thru those corners. They’re definitely the key to a really good lap at Fuji.

 

[El_Beardo]

Yo, @RacingGrandpa

This work for you?

 

[El_Beardo]

If anyone is interested, I'm hopefully wildcarding at a couple of rounds of this . .

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...starting-september-3-spaces-remaining.389274/

Currently have a practice lobby open at Fuji, so I can get used to the RCF again. You're more than welcome to join, and give me some lap times to compare against.

Room ID is 0457-4203-5730-8953-2996

 

[sturk0167]

Nobody has mentioned it, but they made race A longer than usual. Only a couple minutes between races. Maybe sometimes they're listening. 💡

 

[ROCKET JOE]

@Pigems... A couple of times I managed to stay even with you for most of the lap, but you killed it in the last two turns. 👍

... Those last couple of turns are sooo friggin hard to carry momentum through. ... he kept running away from me in those same corners, ... They’re definitely the key to a really good lap at Fuji.

These situations when you realize that 0 - 20 percent throttle can be more than 100 !

PS
And ... how fast braking can be !

 

[sturk0167]

@Pigems, there's some really good racing at Fuji, right now.

 

[Pigems]

@Pigems, there's some really good racing at Fuji, right now.

Sweet! I just got home from getting groceries and the wife works until 11 tonight, so I’ll be on soon. Had to prep for the Hurricane, I guess this one’s not gonna die off before it gets here like they usually do.

 

[Granadier]

The use of St Croix only being used once is very very very strange. It's like they made the track, hyped it up with a big release and then simply forgot about it.

Good

 

[Dairyworker]

@sturk0167 i actually did notice. In my first race i was thinking after two laps, "sweet one more an.... 5 laps, whaaaaa....." wish i could get on to race with yous, sadly will be at work for a few more hours

Hope it doesn't get to bad for you out there @Pigems and anyone else on the eastern shores.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

There used to be a game for the Commodore 64 called "Test Drive" you could test drive a Ferrari, a Porsche 911 a Lotus, etc.

I had to use.. ready for it? A JOYSTICK to drive it. And yes, I had to use gas, brake and switch gears with this:

View attachment 848539

And this is what it looked like on the TV screen, circa 1987:

I played that on the PC, an 8086 running at 0.8 Mhz in glorious 12" green black o' vision.
Test drive ran at about 5fps. Indianapolis 500 ran much better, looked like this

My winning strategy was to wreck all other cars

Then those sound effects, pc speaker bleeps. PC was crap for games back then, but it had a hdd (10 MB) no fussing with tapes! Plus load times were super fast compared to what we have now. Not everything gets better :/

My favorite game on the C64 was rally speedway. So fast, so smooth with a great track editor. Building devious tracks to race each other. Top down, the way to score was to drive out of the screen away from the other player with of course the risk that you can't see what's coming.

So much fun and always hilarious when driving top to bottom on screen and you turn the wrong way.

 

[NoStopN]

Halfway into the race, I get 5 seconds for punting a blocking player on worn tyres. Then, I get 5 seconds for ignoring a yellow flag. Saywhatnow?

Number of times I've slowed down for the caution flag: 0. Number of times I've passed a ghosted car that got reset: too many to count. Either you got a raw deal or PD changed the way that works in some update.

I feel slow when I read this thread. One gets almost DR B on the second week, I have been driving since X-mas and are right now D..
You guys drive at alien speed too
Well,I have improved, so I will just keep at it.

That's how I've been doing it this week. I keep trying to keep my ghost within reach. Sometimes I fall behind & remember that ghost lap had a big bobble moment, so I just keep it clean. Here is that best lap replay (because I don't think the Viper gets enough credit). That session showed a best potential time of 1:22.245, which would have put me 1 spot higher starting in a couple of races.



Now, this is the race I won on Tuesday night.



Since then, I've run only 5 more races. Two more in the Viper (5th & 3rd) & 3 in the Mustang with a 4th, 5th, &.........

 

[RacingGrandpa]

Yo, @RacingGrandpa

This work for you?

Beautiful man!

 

[Pigems]

@sturk0167 I’ll be in the next Race A, had to re-up my Q time and missed the last one by a second.

 

[RacingGrandpa]

I played that on the PC, an 8086 running at 0.8 Mhz in glorious 12" green black o' vision.
Test drive ran at about 5fps. Indianapolis 500 ran much better, looked like this

My winning strategy was to wreck all other cars

Then those sound effects, pc speaker bleeps. PC was crap for games back then, but it had a hdd (10 MB) no fussing with tapes! Plus load times were super fast compared to what we have now. Not everything gets better :/

My favorite game on the C64 was rally speedway. So fast, so smooth with a great track editor. Building devious tracks to race each other. Top down, the way to score was to drive out of the screen away from the other player with of course the risk that you can't see what's coming.

So much fun and always hilarious when driving top to bottom on screen and you turn the wrong way.

Any of you remember Test Drive 3 with the invincible Micra? You would run through traffic is a big one muscle car and occasionally run into a tiny Nissan Micra, it was like hitting a wall.
And A-10 Tank Hunter, it came on 3 floppy disk. I ran it on a Cyrix 120

 

[Invisigoth]

Surely Anakin started his path towards the Dark Side because of those dirty pod races.

I agree. It's like Bruce Banner only with Dilithium crystals rather than Gamma rays .

that's a lesson to teach any young children.... 'don't play with cones!'

Keep them away from @Pigems , he's always talking about doing dubs. Dubs are bad, m'kay?

 

[Pigems]

Right, I forgot I was starting off at A/B after the disaster on Monday.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

Any of you remember Test Drive 3 with the invincible Micra? You would run through traffic is a big one muscle car and occasionally run into a tiny Nissan Micra, it was like hitting a wall.
And A-10 Tank Hunter, it came on 3 floppy disk. I ran it on a Cyrix 120

I remember that one, it was pretty impossible to control at speed. I only managed to go around the silly pointy hills at a tourist pace. First it ran like crap on the PC we had when it came out, then on the next one it ran so fast it was even harder.

I don't remember A-10 Tank hunter, my favorites were F-19 Stealth fighter and Chuck Yeager's air combat. F-19 became a lot easier after I figured out all the runways were north-south aligned After that Comanche maximum overkill was simply amazing, Voxel graphics worked wonders for that game.

I forgot about the update, so just sitting here waiting for 35 minutes again while the game copies