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I have been driving the game for a year,and I still mostly use the Mustang. Down here in C and D it's competitive too, because it's us drivers that are the limitations. So I hang on to it, it's like second nature to me now.

I've personally found other driving techniques that reward me better than what the Mustang offered me.

PD killed the top end in one of the last two updates. It is kinda like the Porsche, it’s all brakes now.

Maybe I should give the American stallion a try. If you can keep in the slipstream & pull off a heroic braking maneuver, it might get a win.
 
Tried improving m my Q-Time for Spa-Tar by any means; 2:40.8 and that was one of these golden laps you cannot reproduce. 2:42-2:43 is more common to me.

Wanted to race tonight so I chose Race B. Took my trusty M4 and started 15th. Carnage at Paddock Hill, Druids and Graham Hill Bend carried me into 8th. Then I got pushed wide at Hawthorne, bumped off at Westfield and blatantly slammed into the outside pitwall when passing just before the finish line. And that was just Lap 1.

Since this is plainly frustrating and since I‘m getting a stye that makes me want to gouge my eye out or rub it sore I call it a day and have a beer; maybe more than one.

Cheers!
 
Race C is intense. Very difficult to be consistent and crazy midfield action really kills the pace. The drivers up front are lapping at 2:35 finish 30 secs+ up the road.
Did I see you complaining about a driver earlier? ;)
 
You may have done ;) Some fairly snidey driving going on. It's generally people trying to minimise the damage from their mistakes. Then there's the ****** punt.
Thankfully it was all going on behind me - people in front kept going off track, and I went from 8th to 3rd without actually overtaking anyone!
 
If any of you are doing race A, I think I'm starting to get it figured out a bit better.
If someone wants to be a 🤬 and dive on you, just let em. Trying to defend will get you punted.
You'll either eat em up on corner exit, or you can apply pressure from behind until they blow it, and also use their draft to get FL. 👍
 
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Today I had a bit of disaster day. Kept losing the back of the car for stupid mistakes and then pushed out a few more times while overtaking. Enjoyed every minute of it, though! Not much time I can give to GTS!
 
I feel like Race C is a example of when the Fanatec belt and direct drives really shine.

I dialed in my wheel to match the steering feel of the 911 (light, precise, tons of detail) and the ability to feel the under/oversteer to a greater detail level gives a huge boost to confidence in the rain. That plus a load cell brake to finely control the car on entry, it’s really a game changer.
 
Since this is plainly frustrating and since I‘m getting a stye that makes me want to gouge my eye out or rub it sore I call it a day and have a beer; maybe more than one.

<sends @beegentoo a keg>

It might be part of the reason I can't seem to grow out of DR D. Not the Mustang, but my driving techniques.

DR/D...not just a Driver Rating, it's a way of life :D!
 
Maybe I should give the American stallion a try. If you can keep in the slipstream & pull off a heroic braking maneuver, it might get a win.

Stay close cause the old days of it pulling good for far back is over too.
 
In another one with CLowndes. Drag to the finish.
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Thought he got offed by that 991 again. I had a shaky start. The Beetle got ahead and battled with the front runners. When I caught up, the same green 991 had just punted the Beetle into the gravel. I was too far to do anything, but caught CLowndes at the final chicane.
You probably didn't realise but I was concentrating extremely hard, to the point where my head was hurting. Having to work the brake, gears, steering, throttle, conserve fuel and hold off other cars took a lot of brainpower. I had to let the green Porsche through as getting into a battle would increase my fuel consumption, and I was more concerned about that. You only got onto the back of me because I stuffed up No-Name Corner. I can't believe I managed to hold you off at the Bus Stop with only 1% fuel! 3rd is probably the best result I'll get...

What car are you using? Because, honestly, the 911, NSX, R8, and RCZ will all make it without issue.

The REALLY good guys are lapping in the 2:36's or less while saving fuel. I am hovering around 2:38-2:39. When I get a 2;40 lap, something has gone terribly wrong.

Traction control steal A LOT of time in the rain, so try not to use it. It steals a lot of time in general and there really isn't a need to use it.

Now, that said, I have run out of fuel with the R8 and the NSX, but both time it was because I wasn't properly paying attention to it. My mind wanders from time to time when I race ;)
I use the AMG GT3 because a) I'm very familiar with it and b) I find it quite stable, which gives me a lot of confidence. Most mid-engined cars I struggle with, however I can drive the Porsche. I did manage a 2:39 whilst short-shifting during 3 of my races, so that's a decent gain over what I did previously. But I only made it across the line with 1% fuel and on one attempt, I ran out with 2 corners to go. At least I know that the pace is there.
 
Did a few Race B's last night. Still feeling the effects of a lacking penalty system.

In my final race I was in the middle of a 3 way battle for 2nd position. On the final lap, the guy behind me decides turn 6 is best spot for an overtake. Essentially ends up putting most of his car off the track to get up the inside, then proceeds to push me wide off into the gravel. Later on in the lap, I see yellow flags and on the exit of turn 9 this guy is facing the wrong direction, giving me my 3rd place back. I scored fastest lap for that race and somehow continued my clean race streak although it would've been nice to see what the battle would've been like with 2nd since we'd been nose to tail without contact for the entire race.

In my first race of the night, there was chaos everywhere, somehow managed to sneak through mostly untouched and achieve a 5th after starting 10th. At the end of the race somebody accused me of not driving cleanly, i can't remember having any interactions with him during the race so I was a little confused. Only contact I had was with someone who had "unsafely" re-entered the track after coming off at turn 8, despite being slightly behind me and with dirty tyres, he attempted to battle for position through turn 9 before losing a load of time, I'm not entirely sure how. Bare in mind the person i made contact with is not the one who accused me of dirty driving :confused:

Second race, the accuser is starting one place in front of me, coming into turn 4, he punts an Alfa 4c in-front off into the gravel, giving himself a poor exit from the corner, I intend to take advantage of this on the straight since he has ended up going slowly on the left of the track with plenty of room on the right. As I was approaching, he made a last minute direction change to cover the inside, I had significant over-speed and being the racing driver that I am, left my foot in and swerved over to the left. Unfortunately the Gr4 cars don't quite have enough grip to do this kind of maneuver, so I ended up receiving a bit of over-steer which ended up in a small nudge that hardly moved him. I guess he took this as an act of aggression because he then began to attempt to force me off the track, in which he was successful, giving me a significant hit into the wall underneath the bridge which effectively ruined my race. I recovered to finish one place ahead of where I started, however that could have been a much better race.

Maybe I would've received blame for being behind when he swerved initially, however the move was so last second I had no time to react so acted on my first thought which was swerve to avoid contact rather than brake and lose momentum. I know there is some responsibility as the driver behind, but I felt that the move was far too sudden and late, had he moved any later, he would probably have simply pushed me off the track.
 
It might be part of the reason I can't seem to grow out of DR D. Not the Mustang, but my driving techniques.

I've personally felt like I had to get out of my comfort zone at times because my previous method was slow. Before I started using a wheel, I had to intentionally use BB to get some cars to rotate, Mustang included. It actually helped me shave some time off, even though most of us can see tenths going up in smoke. Last week at DTS, I couldn't get the Corvette to rotate like I wanted to. So, I adjusted BB & caused excessive oversteer on entry. But, it caused the car to point in the direction I wanted it to go & got on the throttle sooner, helping my QT.

Stay close cause the old days of it pulling good for far back is over too.

Same advice used for the Viper & 'Vette.
 
Yeah I’m not sure I’ll get back to DR B until they fix the penalties. I got punted hard in both of the Race As that I did tonight. Finished 9th and then 6th, and lost the 1000 pts of DR I gained in FIA. The time I have to race isn’t clean.

down to 1:01.051 though. I’m starting to doubt that I can get into :00s.

edit: the punt in the first one was just like the one @sturk0167 posted earlier this week, just on the final corner. The guy hit me at top speed in the middle of my turn and I took a wall collision penalty on top of it.
 
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Just did my very 1st race in the wet, only practice before the race got 142.5 in my Merc. Decided to try online thought I would be at the back.
I Was 4th:confused: both good & bad feeling, I got nervous didn't push to keep up the the top 3 before the end of 1st lap I had a gap of 6sec behind 3 sec infront so I decided to fuel save. Got caught & rammed to the back :lol: that teach me.
Lap3 to lap 5 got stuck in, worked my way up to 4th had 1 car to pass to get 3rd but it was slow & blocking me trying to push me off.
So on the last lap decided to let a car behind me go because I didn't want to get rammed again.
The two pushed each other until the car behind me got through, I was ready to pass the slow car but again it started t push me off, this time I decided to keep my line let it push because I know one of us would go off & it wasn't me.
I got back my 4th place & felt dam good I didn't let this dirty driver win.
:lol::lol:
No penalties but not a clean race.
 
During the 15min pre-race qualify I somehow put in a Hail Mary lap and beat my time by over a second.. and passed @The_Tullster 's time :P.
Sorry, not any more.... I pulled another 1.5s plus off my time. I don't think there's more than another 0.5 in it for the me in the Jag though, too much fish tailing coming out of corners.

And this is why I'm not going to race it, lap times in practice are varying by as much as 3 seconds lap to lap. I don't want to be that driver with the unicorn Q lap who holds up or bumps into half the grid once in the race.
 
First ever race on Race C this week? On pace for a good race moving up from 9th to 5th on just the 3rd lap? What's that, wheel? You wanna die on me mid-race and spoil all of the good mojo I was having? Okay! :lol:

Grief aside, Race C is quite dynamic this week with the wet conditions. Pace and control are what really matters; one little mistake, and if you don't save it, you're done. Makes for some really close nail-biting competition when players who make mistakes up front have the whole pack who's been mostly consistent catch up from behind. I'll try again tomorrow in hopes that my wheel doesn't die again.
 
First ever race on Race C this week? On pace for a good race moving up from 9th to 5th on just the 3rd lap? What's that, wheel? You wanna die on me mid-race and spoil all of the good mojo I was having? Okay! :lol:

Grief aside, Race C is quite dynamic this week with the wet conditions. Pace and control are what really matters; one little mistake, and if you don't save it, you're done. Makes for some really close nail-biting competition when players who make mistakes up front have the whole pack who's been mostly consistent catch up from behind. I'll try again tomorrow in hopes that my wheel doesn't die again.
"Pace and control" are what's making this race different from recent races.
Lately, punting someone means the punter doesn't get a penalty. However, actually punting and being involved in lots of shenanigans, makes it bad for both parties. Yes, some are still getting away with it, but it still hampers their race.

Race C is a refreshing break, from fast pace, all out Daily races.

It's funny, I qualified for Race A. I cancelled my entry just before time ran out. I'm not feeling it. Brands Hatch is enough of "I only have a short time to win this race at the first corner. If I can't get past this car ahead by T3, I need to off it or I'll never be successful in anything. I'll show that Timmy!".

I'll wait for next week's races.
 
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"Pace and control" are what's making this race different from recent races.
Lately, punting someone means the punter doesn't get a penalty. However, actually punting and being involved in lots of shenanigans, makes it bad for both parties. Yes, some are still getting away with it, but it still hampers their race.

Race C is a refreshing break, from fast pace, all out Daily races.
I liked it too, even though I did only one race and had it ruined due to my wheel acting up. In any case, even if aggressive players only stick to one line and just expect to ram their way through you, you can switch up your line and lose no time in doing so all because of the wet surface. Everyone has to slow down early and be at the same speed to make the corners without spinning out, so those who get greedy will often be extra careful, or will face track limits penalties. The prior race I did was Race A, and everyone was driving beyond their limits and using other cars as barrier-brakes or guides. You can't exactly get away with that in Race C without both players experiencing trouble.
 
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