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Yup. Big Willow is going as expected for me. Got a pair of clean bonuses with the Mustang and made sizable jumps in grid placement. People can’t handle this course as well as they think. Then they get cute trying to bump you off and lose control.
 
CurbHog
Does it matter if you serve it or if you drive over the line and let it be deducted?
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I don't know; I use to serve it as soon as possible. (I got the penalties in the first lap, I rubbed some in that lap, then served the rest in the beginning of the 2nd.) Fortunately it is not that frequent with me, so I'm not an expert of the issue. And there was some words about it to getting higher.
 
TamasToth
I don't know; I use to serve it as soon as possible. (I got the penalties in the first lap, I rubbed some in that lap, then served the rest in the beginning of the 2nd.) Fortunately it is not that frequent with me, so I'm not an expert of the issue. And there was some words about it to getting higher.
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After the first update when penalties no longer went down automatically just by driving, penalties did go up if you ignored it. After the next update it seems to just stay where it is if you ignore it. Pulling over on a trait and slowing down can reduce the penalty in less time than the penalty is worth, so it only takes a couple of seconds to negate a 4 second penalty. :D
 
Satomiblood
Yup. Big Willow is going as expected for me. Got a pair of clean bonuses with the Mustang and made sizable jumps in grid placement. People can’t handle this course as well as they think. Then they get cute trying to bump you off and lose control.
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Same, except I'm starting in the back as A/S and am a prime target for penalties. Either I escape the carnage and go from 12th to 4th with everyone in front either driving themselves off or each other. Or I get bumped off myself, dive bombed or crashed into by a bad track re-entry and get the penalty for getting hit.

Perhaps later I'll sit down to improve my qualifying time. For now too much other stuff to do in between races. The report button is getting a good workout today. Perhaps I should make a marshal livery or something for my car. You have been spotted. No excuses in A/S. (Although matchmaking keeps filling it up with B/S as well, they should know how to behave as well)

Now I'm starting in 14th, I wonder how many accidents I'll pass this time :)

First lap, car respawns in the middle of crowded last turn. One car flies off trying to avoid, another brakes so hard I can't avoid him. 10 sec penalty. How can I report PD for interfering with the race.
 
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kjeldsen
I like willow, problem is i like it more than it likes me. I thought that today would be nxt lvl day, but i had 3 races in a row with a few impatient players. And as everyone knows when the tarmac stops at willows the desert walk starts. Good thing it is like that for every racer.. maybe tomorrow..

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People take Big Willow way too fast. You have to wait for the race to come to you. I’m very cautious with overtaking. I go just fast enough to stay in the race and wait until there’s a pileup or someone decides to explore the desert before I make my move.
 
Satomiblood
People take Big Willow way too fast. You have to wait for the race to come to you. I’m very cautious with overtaking. I go just fast enough to stay in the race and wait until there’s a pileup or someone decides to explore the desert before I make my move.
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Ohh you can be certain that I let the race come to me, problem is that sometimes it comes to me a bit to fast on the inside of the corner and has a thing about not wanting to give me my personal space
 
Anyone else having server problems today? 3rd time disconnected from the daily B while entering the room. This time I saw a lot of other people getting disconnected as well, mass exodus just as the room opened. Why is this game still so unstable!

Lol, that cost another 1500 DR and 5 SR and I didn't even have a chance to touch the controller.
 
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Oh boy. Nothing but GT-R, M4 and Huracans in this race. My lowly RC F is going to have a hard time starting 7th.

Edit: Just finished. That was weird. I was placed 7th. On the starting grid, we get going and i'm 6th. Managed to not pit. A knucklehead tried to punt me on one of the right-handers in the esses. I counter-steered and secondary contact was made. That black M4 went off. I go down to 11th.

1lap to go 4th place. 1/4 tank fuel left. Front tyres, about 60% left. Red M4 that was way behind, is catching me up. I let it pass before going under the bridge. it made a slow exit out the hairpin and I was bumper to bumper until the left-handers. It crosses the finish line with a 2 second penalty and i move up to 4th.

Good work, RC F. We showed those meany M4s. :D
 
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All this talk and personal experiences on track about the Gr4 M4 finally made me decide to buy one and see for myself how it did at Suzuka.

The first surprise was that I was doing short shifting practice in qualifying and just like that, ran just under 2:08. When it came to race it, had the usual intense pressure while leading but the competition eventually peeled off to pit. That victory was, as Mika Hakkinen would put it, "Oh yeah, it was so easy. I can't believe it." :lol:

I could've just sat there and piled up a boatload of wins all day but instead, I stuck with my Gulf Vantage because that wouldn't be fair. Of course, that didn't stop others from trying. One last race, I did the unthinkable and was catching up to a fuel miser on the final lap approaching 130R. I had to plan the move right because the rate of speed was great. Well, I timed it wrong, bumped the guy on the exit and spun myself out. At least I knew you it could be done under the right circumstances.

A bit of a side note but also on that last race, I switched my view from bumper to hood as an experiment relating to the throttle matter. I never could get the handle of hood view in prior Gran Turismos but strangely, I was able to match my best times in qualifying and maintained my usual pace in race trim. Dare I say I was even a little more consistent hitting my marks overall. I need to try this with other cars and events.
 
Sven Jurgens
Finally Nurb 24h is back. It should be 3 laps though, no fastest lap if you pit...
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I'm pretty sure if it was 3 laps, you wouldn't be able to start the next race 30 minutes later.

There's a 30 minute window, and because of the loading times, warm-up, 3 racing laps (including pitstop), and then waiting for people to finish, and then finally the loading times before the 'celebration scene', it would overrun...

..and then to race again, you'd have to wait over 20 minutes for the next race. Which yeah, does mean people will have time to do extra qualifying laps if they wish, but I'm pretty sure the start times are designed so a race isn't meant to take so long that it overlaps.

Not being able to get the fastest lap really is a non-issue
 
MhtyClipster
Its not just night its pitch black, could make things rather interesting. On the plus side it looks very nice just wish i knew the course a bit better.
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Exactly :D
It took me so many tries to get a feel of where T1 actually is :lol: I'm quite surprised I'm only 5 seconds off the pace compared to my daytime lap. No complaints though, as that was enough to net me Top 10 ;)
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OutlawQuadrnt
All this talk and personal experiences on track about the Gr4 M4 finally made me decide to buy one and see for myself how it did at Suzuka.

The first surprise was that I was doing short shifting practice in qualifying and just like that, ran just under 2:08. When it came to race it, had the usual intense pressure while leading but the competition eventually peeled off to pit. That victory was, as Mika Hakkinen would put it, "Oh yeah, it was so easy. I can't believe it." :lol:

I could've just sat there and piled up a boatload of wins all day but instead, I stuck with my Gulf Vantage because that wouldn't be fair. Of course, that didn't stop others from trying. One last race, I did the unthinkable and was catching up to a fuel miser on the final lap approaching 130R. I had to plan the move right because the rate of speed was great. Well, I timed it wrong, bumped the guy on the exit and spun myself out. At least I knew you it could be done under the right circumstances.

A bit of a side note but also on that last race, I switched my view from bumper to hood as an experiment relating to the throttle matter. I never could get the handle of hood view in prior Gran Turismos but strangely, I was able to match my best times in qualifying and maintained my usual pace in race trim. Dare I say I was even a little more consistent hitting my marks overall. I need to try this with other cars and events.
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Hahaha that was me. I had no tires left through 130R in the last lap. Still, I think next time I’ll try not refueling, but changing tires. I don’t think anybody in that race would come near me if I had done that. Not saying other racers weren’t skilled, because there were some top 10 guys there, but I’d be able to keep my pace, that was pretty good for the first half of the race, and still would have a better pit time. And... I think I deserved that win. Lots of M4 in the race and I started 6th. Kept my cool and was third before the pit window. Lots of fast players in the race!
 
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Gah. N24 is really fun but it's also really tiring :scared:
I also happened to stumble upon the famed derek. Jesus he was 9 seconds faster than second!
 
Just manage my 1st win at Monza, started 3rd but got a good slip stream and was 1st into Curva Grande. Managed to out brake myself on the last lap and went across the gravel trap at Ascari but luckily my gap was larger than the penalty. As a bonus it was victory 91 to boot so I got the Certified Genius Trophy.
 
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