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Yeesh, not having a great night on sarthe. First race I didn't have my shifting and braking sorted properly so got bumped around and down a bit. Add my own mistakes and it was ugly. Did a second race that was a bit better but my consistency is garbage. And the track limits are driving me mental. I followed another car through the first chicane, stayed totally in between the lines, he was all over. Um, 1 sec penalty to me? I forgot how much hell this issue could.be here. Bonus points to drivers in the 787 going bowling down the mulsanne. I got nudged sideways, but the guy in front was not so lucky. Mazda driver kept it under control and beat me anyhow. Back for more. Will buy and test out 962 tomorrow. :scared:

Indianapolis braking point, where are you?:banghead::banghead::banghead::confused:
 
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Since Le Sarthe and Gr1 are both far from being my cup of tea I decided to give race B a change.
A few months ago I decided RBR is not in the top 20 of my go-to circuits since I never got a good lap out there, plus it looked like it was going to be a all meta (Lambo) race which I really hate. However, after some practice laps in the Porsche I pushed out a 1:30:669, I know not a top time, but for me being 2 seconds of the pace compared to the top 10 is about as good as I get, this time I managed to squeeze this one out after a good 10 laps!
So I joined a race and what do you know: started 2nd in the first race, had a bit of a fight with p3 for 2 laps, p1 profited and pulled a 4 second gap. In lap 3 I managed to get out of slipstream range from p3 and from there on it was a relaxed drive to the finish. Started and finnished 2nd with a door number 6.
Second race I started P4, battled a bit with a couple of GT-Rs, after T3 I was even leading for a while but at T1 lap 2 P2 managed to squeeze by on the inside and P3 dive bombed so I decided to go a little bit wider and let him by, in sector 3 my pace was much better and I managed to reclaim P2 having a much better exit from the final corner and just flew by on the straight, managed to pull a gap of around 2 seconds again and claimed P2 at the finnish line again, this time with a door number of 15.

DR went up from 12.1xx to 14.1xx in those two races and (surprisingly) SR went up from 95 to 99 again.

So glad I gave the RBR a chance again!
 
I always thought the group C cars were uncompetitive in group 1 but once you get used to them they can turn good laptimes.

Did some custom races on the porsche 962 with daily race C settings and was doing 25's in race trim and still improving so took it into qualifying and did a 22.4 after 3 laps which at time was good enough for top 200 in the world leaderboard.

It's a decent lap but shouldn't be that high which I think is down to low player count. There is a lot of moaning about repetitive daily races and this seems like a signal that players have stayed away from this race.

Repetitive daily races are the biggest complaint I see on here and ironically the simplest thing to fix. It truly baffles me why this is an issue in a game with 30+ tracks and 400+ cars all with the ability to set different fuel and tyre settings.
 
Jumped in for my first dailies of the week - Le Mans in the Toyota

First race: Pole, lead from lights to flag, won by 11s, gain around 500DR

Second race: Pole, lead from lights to flag (bit closer this one!), won by 2s, gain around 500DR

This left me on 49501DR, so I decided to go one more time and see if I can get A+

Third race: Pole, lead from lights to... Indianapolis. Because the guy behind decides it's a good idea to try and go around the outside of the right hander on the approach to Indianapolis. We both crash. He gets off better than me, I'm down to 18th of 19, recovered to 9th but that DR went back down by 500 or so

Impatience is a real problem! If you're in the same car and can't get past before that corner at Le Mans then that's it pretty much done for that lap unless the guy ahead makes a mistake. Have to wait and try again. Oh well. He left as soon as the race ended so I couldn't vigorously wave my finger at him and "tut" in a disappointed manner!

A+ eludes me for today (but I have a feeling I'll hit it this week on that track)
 
Tried yesterday my best in Race B.

Was not as bad as expected. Seems like the speed of the GT3 cars are responsible for a further apart pulled field. It may change when people find their pace, but it was by far not as much a destruction derby as with the GT4 cars.

As always, my Q-Time was a big disaster. Have raced two cars yesterday, the Z4 and AMG GT3, of course the Mercedes was the faster one. Qualified with 1.31 something.

Started in the first race with the BMW from 14th position, was an eventless race. Seems like a few guys got hammered or distracted as they messed up the braking points in funny ways. Ended 9th, no penalty.

Second Race was the AMG GT3. Grid Position 12th Have not used it too often and I personally find it a bit nervous. The tail happiness out of T3 is consuming lots of time imo. Had an incident at T3, 2nd lap. Swiss guy lost the rear of his Lexus and shot into the right lane - i crashed into him and got 4 secs. Penalty. Ended up as 10th.

My SR dropped only from 74 to 72. Which I will take as a huge win out of RBR.

Hope I will find some time to get Le Mans a shot. As I´m not too long in the business again in GT Sport probably my first time with Group 1 cars. :dopey:
 
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Pigems
Live from Le Mans! :D Starting from the back in the TS050 to start, race 1 will be the warm up. :lol:

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i must have just missed you.. i was racing with most of those guys last night... first from the back, then i put a 3:25 QF in and got P3.. but spun out at the end of Mulsanne and then did one of those twirly pirouette's to try and get straight.. got a 4 sec pen and ended up P16. Got it back to about P11 i think.. so frustrating when you're mid pack :crazy:
 
jaquelinesv
that person in 4rth place with the NISMO!
the FF NISMO, like winning against all this Toyotas (which probably will be meta car again).
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Thanks. When I last raced the Nismo back in June I think, I swore never to drive it again unless they fixed the BoP. But then I had this weird thought about how to drive the car differently. It nearly worked kind of, but I think the Nismo has taken a hit in it's straight line speed, as it is only just a little faster than the Audi '16 which I don't believe should be the case.
If they opened it up so the Nismo could top out with the GroupC cars, then it may be viable. It's quite unique to drive as you can't deploy the battery from slow corners, you need to get out of 3rd gear before opening it up. So I found I would lose out to groupC cars under acceleration, then peg them back between 180kph and 260kph before being overtaken again, bit of a laugh!

As it was, I ran 3:31's dropping to 3:32's late race. Needs to be the better part of 8 seconds a lap quicker, current BoP won't allow it.

The Mclaren for something different is more competitive, but not Meta. Running 3:26's for most of the race. Quite a unique car in that it only gathers battery power when 75% throttle or less, but doesn't gain anything from the brakes. I think a more twisty circuit may work better.
 
Invisigoth
It's funny how the mind works. At first read my brain took the B from Braking and combined it with (gently). I was thinking "Wait what??!!!! When did we get a Bently? Is it the Continental GT or the Gr1 car???". Yeh... took me a while to work out it was two separate words on two different lines... and Bently is Bentley :lol:.
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What our brains tell us we're seeing is a masterpiece of image processing and interpretation, but sometimes it does take one too many shortcuts with results like this. You have however given me potential nightmares at the thought of a Gr.3 or 4 version of a Bentley Mulsanne dive bombing at RBR, Autopolis or Interlagos, or trying to go two wide throught the chicane of death at DTS ... :crazy: :nervous: :boggled:

ringkurier
Tried yesterday my best in Race B.

Was not as bad as expected. Seems like the speed of the GT3 cars are responsible for a further apart pulled field. It may change when people find their pace, but it was by far not as much a destruction derby as with the GT4 cars.

As always, my Q-Time was a big disaster. Have raced two cars yesterday, the Z4 and AMG GT3, of course the Mercedes was the faster one. Qualified with 1.31 something.

Started in the first race with the BMW from 14th position, was an eventless race. Seems like a few guys got hammered or distracted as they messed up the braking points in funny ways. Ended 9th, no penalty.

Second Race was the AMG GT3. Grid Position 12th Have not used it too often and I personally find it a bit nervous. The tail happiness out of T3 is consuming lots of time imo. Had an incident at T3, 2nd lap. Swiss guy lost the rear of his Lexus and shot into the right lane - i crashed into him and got 4 secs. Penalty. Ended up as 10th.

My SR dropped only from 74 to 72. Which I will take as a huge win out of RBR.
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With a bit of care and a little luck it's entirely possible to get a clean race in Gr.3 at RBR while still gaining DR. It's quite a bit harder in Gr.4.
 
The_Tullster
You have however given me potential nightmares at the thought of a Gr.3 or 4 version of a Bentley Mulsanne dive bombing at RBR, Autopolis or Interlagos, or trying to go two wide throught the chicane of death at DTS ... :crazy: :nervous: :boggled:
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I was just thinking of the Continental GT's at Bathurst, particularly the year they had the Fiat 500s. Can you imagine being in one of those little Abarths down Conrod, looking in your mirror and the view is completely filled with Bentley bearing down on you :scared:?
 
Tried out the Nissan R92CP for qualifying in Race C, felt like the brakes had a nerf or something was changed as i kept missing my braking points everywhere. 4.30.x. Quickly changed to the Porsche 962 and hoped for the best. Started p16 out of 19. Fuel set to 2 for most of the race but very few mistakes and penalties meant i was able to climb up to ninth place at the end (no stop). just love the track even though i still mess up the entry to the Porsche curves way too often.
 
This is what my DR looks like when not using META.....

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I hope to be back in B soon ;)
 
Stuff it. Tried to get involved with the 962 but the racecraft required to get a decent result is nigh on impossible with all these midpack Toyota scrubs.

I'm going to go flat out in the R18 now and try and gap the Toyota's enough to pit. It's a little more fun than joining the one make race.
 
pennanton
Stuff it. Tried to get involved with the 962 but the racecraft required to get a decent result is nigh on impossible with all these midpack Toyota scrubs.

I'm going to go flat out in the R18 now and try and gap the Toyota's enough to pit. It's a little more fun than joining the one make race.
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I prefer one make races, that way if I do well/bad I know it’s because of nothing but my own driving, not because I chose a better/worse car than everyone else. :)
 
Invisigoth
Last Gr1 la Sarthe every man and his dog qualified with the Alpine and Raced with the TS050.
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...And it's exactly the same this time around.

BoP needs re-balancing to at least keep the meta fresh or otherwise rename it "One-Make: TS050" to accurately reflect the event.

doblocruiser
I hope to be back in B soon ;)
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Come join me, I already am. :lol: Although I'm still often facing A and A+ so 90% TS050 grids...
 
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ringkurier
Tried yesterday my best in Race B.

Was not as bad as expected. Seems like the speed of the GT3 cars are responsible for a further apart pulled field. It may change when people find their pace, but it was by far not as much a destruction derby as with the GT4 cars.

As always, my Q-Time was a big disaster. Have raced two cars yesterday, the Z4 and AMG GT3, of course the Mercedes was the faster one. Qualified with 1.31 something.

Started in the first race with the BMW from 14th position, was an eventless race. Seems like a few guys got hammered or distracted as they messed up the braking points in funny ways. Ended 9th, no penalty.

Second Race was the AMG GT3. Grid Position 12th Have not used it too often and I personally find it a bit nervous. The tail happiness out of T3 is consuming lots of time imo. Had an incident at T3, 2nd lap. Swiss guy lost the rear of his Lexus and shot into the right lane - i crashed into him and got 4 secs. Penalty. Ended up as 10th.

My SR dropped only from 74 to 72. Which I will take as a huge win out of RBR.

Hope I will find some time to get Le Mans a shot. As I´m not too long in the business again in GT Sport probably my first time with Group 1 cars. :dopey:
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Just read your findings of the Gr.3 @ RBR. I'm a true Lexus '16 Prototype driver at almost every Gr.3 event. The turn 3 @ RBR is always my weakest point with that car over there. I use tcs 2 in that corner and most of the time i lose traction for a bit or i sometimes go sideways. Now, i've put my stuburn a side and took the AMG. Well, for me it's the most stable car under tcs 2 in that corner that i've used now. Very happy with it. My best with the Lexus is a .30.0. With the AMG it's a .29.8.

Edit: The Lambo and Nismo are way to nervous in general for me.
The WRX is awesome in braking but misses a lot of top end.
The RSR is too slow in general but has awesome brake and turn in.
The Aston is also too nevous on exit and the Jag is the one i gonna try later.
Grtz
 
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Just read your findings of the Gr.3 @ RBR. I'm a true Lexus '16 Prototype driver at almost every Gr.3 event. The turn 3 @ RBR is always my weakest point with that car over there. I use tcs 2 in that corner and most of the time i lose traction for a bit or i sometimes go sideways. Now, i've put my stuburn a side and took the AMG. Well, for me it's the most stable car under tcs 2 that i've used now. Very happy with it. My best with the Lexus is a .30.0. With the AMG it's a .29.8.
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Makes me confused a bit, too. At Lago Maggiore the AMG GT3 felt so stable and I hadn´t any issues with it. Also checked the McLaren, Z4, SLS AMG and the Porsche. It was kind of a "fire and forget" situation with them in that corner. Take the corner, activate the engine at full throttle and that´s it.
Will maybe give the AMG GT3 another try, maybe I had a trembling.. :nervous:
 
I am back in action this week. But got a penalty when a driver in last place with the Romania flag spun at last turn after hitting my car and crashed into the inside wall and then left the race.

That race was on daily Race A and have shared the replay
 
ringkurier
Makes me confused a bit, too. At Lago Maggiore the AMG GT3 felt so stable and I hadn´t any issues with it. Also checked the McLaren, Z4, SLS AMG and the Porsche. It was kind of a "fire and forget" situation with them in that corner. Take the corner, activate the engine at full throttle and that´s it.
Will maybe give the AMG GT3 another try, maybe I had a trembling.. :nervous:
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Pigems
I prefer one make races, that way if I do well/bad I know it’s because of nothing but my own driving, not because I chose a better/worse car than everyone else. :)
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Oh definitely, I meant that more in jest at everyone choosing the Toyota. :lol:

Having said though, I've struggled in the Mazda/Tsukuba combo in Race A. Just doesn't suit my style of driving at all.
 
Going out with the Jaguar at Le Mans....

Started on pole but couldn't bring it home. Thé Jag is slow out of the corners due to missing downforce. Got bumped and bruised all over but it is sooooo much fuuuun...Taking on the straight and going almost 360km/h. Leaving everything behind :lol: They desperately trying to get a drag but to no success. Risky car because of accélération out of slow corners but sound and top-end make up for it. :bowdown:

Another round then....
 
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Pigems
I prefer one make races, that way if I do well/bad I know it’s because of nothing but my own driving, not because I chose a better/worse car than everyone else. :)
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I understand your view but Race C was never (or shouldn't had been) intended to be a one-make. If a race turns out that way, that suggests balance issues to me.

I prefer to race against a diverse grid because each car is different: excelling at areas and lacking in others. While also running a different strategy which in turn, makes a race a lot more interesting. When every car is the same and follows the same strategy, that's uninteresting to me.
 
I'm not fast enough yet at RBR -- my race there yesterday was a bloodbath. People are so goddamned impatient sometimes. I'll keep hot lapping to try to find a car I like there. The R8 has some potential -- my fastest lap is with it so far. The Beetle isn't working here, although my laps are pretty smooth. I tried the Ferrari and the Porsche too...neither really worked for me.

I ended up doing Race A three times yesterday. As a new racer to the game, the combo isn't stale for me like it is for y'all, and I really like the Roadster at Tsukuba. I'd love to do a Race C there at some point. People are impatient there, too, but I managed to get my last race in as the slowest of the fast half of the race. I ran mid 1:06s to low 1:07s, and placed 5th about a second and a half behind of 4th, and a comfortable 4 seconds in front of 6th. It's nice place to race, and the CRB brought me back into SR A after a quick stint to SR after RBR.
 
I'm trying the 787B today. First race started 10th, got into 5th in lap 3 and pitted for a bit of fuel. I dropped to 7th in the pit (about 8 sec lost on lap times from pitting) In lap 5 I got a better lap time than the best I had in the 962C, yet overall my race time was 4 sec slower. I finished 6th since 6th quit. I never got close to the TS050 again that I passed in lap 3. No CRB, got bumped by a TS050.

Maybe with a few more tries I can beat my 962C time, needs to dial it in a bit further. 962C feels more stable for now.

2nd race, got bumped by the same Brazilian in an LM55 about 10 times, last time he bumped me into a reset just before the finish. He got a penalty but that doesn't matter, still lost 3 places. He left to SR.A, I never got SR Down for any of the bumps so at least there's that. He called me babaca, that's not a nice word. (I brake checked him a couple times after the first 5 bumps since he liked bumping so much)
 
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