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What he said
. But after fafing around cleaning up excess liveries it's 12:50 run 
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. But after fafing around cleaning up excess liveries it's 12:50 run .
I've found it a lot more fun. The R8 really is fun at the Nurb GP. For instance, at corner 6 (that right hander leading to the short straight that ends with corner 7's tight 180 degree corner) at corner 6, I take it in 2nd gear in the Audi R8, but I can stick it in first and tail leaps out, then grab 2nd and you drift through - hilarious fun. The 180 that comes up I can do the same thing and it really drifts all the way through there. But doing so there is not quick. But fun ... in practice I am getting ultimate best laps in the 1:57s but I am still far too inconstant. So there's a lot more variation driving the car for me, its a lot of fun now. But rear wheel slip is certainly still a big issue, but the car feels easier to catch.
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. Ahhh crap! And two cars pass me on the strait before T1 
. All I can do is finish the lap. I managed to get the two positions back somehow to finish P6. I call that a result 
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. Another day above DR 1 .
LOL. this happened to me yesterday on my first run at NGP. I had a 0.3.. Second penalty from avoiding 4th place at the last chicane on lap 1. As I came to round what I thought was the last lap, pull to the inside to quickly clear the penalty, at this point to hold 4th, cross the line and race is still on. Lost two places down the straight and one more from overshooting turn one.Race gets underway and I'm being cautious for the first few corners and letting the optimistic ones thorough to make their mistakes while keeping my nose clean. That worked because I made it round the first lap unscathed, but there were a few close calls
I was on the final lap and had cut a corner a bit too much avoiding another car. 3s penalty and the guy behind was less than 3s behind. I get round the final corner , pull over to the right and try reducing the penalty. I cross the line ahead of the car behind, which comes as something of a surprise, when "Final Lap" flashes up
Thats good.Bathurst for me was a bit of an eye opener,night in a game never seems as clear as night IRL.
I will. I might have to forgo my typical purple and yellow livery and paint up a Hertz rent-a-racer.
I meant driving at night in general,love to have a go in a GT3 IRL though,even as a passenger just for the experience.You've raced a GT3 at night IRL huh?
Bathurst at night is an experience, but I found that it's much easier if you have a car with decent lighting. Some of them massively improved visibility if you changed the headlights to clear lenses instead of yellow. Better than Bathurst at night is N24 at night. The first time I did that race I actually found it easier than during the day!
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After a few weeks without GTSport and bringing fear and terror upon the wild west, along with some classic GT racing (I love those 70s and 80s turbo-monster sportscars in Project Cars 2) I decided to have a quick look at GTS again and set a few Qualifyer laps.
First of all: what happened to the cars? They feel like they are running on rails. I tried R8, 997 and M3 and with every car I had a nearly equal time (somewhere around 2:02.6 with 3 laps for each).
I might join a few Race Bs this week, depending on my mood. I also tried A but that‘s not my type of racing. Can‘t try C since I lack the required car.
For race B there‘s only this car for me:
(Though I might have a shakedown with the R8 as well
You're right. Natural tendency is to swing wide and try to cut the apex on the exit of the final corner. Seems like it would be faster, but it never really works. For whatever reason, maybe it's the track surface or the slope, when your car starts wide, it stays wide. Staying low is usually the best bet, there. 👍I just stick to the inside and drop to 3rd for the final part of the corner leading on to the start/finish strait
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I've missed a ton of races because of the livery editor taking too long to save, and because of being on this website.Hah, I decided to "slightly modify" a livery before the 23.30 race a few nights back. I went to bed at 00.30 having missed that and subsequent races. All just to move a decal off the curve of a rear wheel arch because the distortion was annoying me.
Nice! What is that cracked effect? I need to start making my own decals. Gotta see if I can still fire up my old CorelDraw
I've missed a ton of races because of the livery editor taking too long to save, and because of being on this website.
@FreewingF16: Just remember, guys like me lapping at 2.01 are finding it just as hard to figure how the ones doing 1.58 are doing it.
@GarikFirst: Wathching vids helps, also allowing yourself a slower lap where you are studying the course, trying multiple cars to see what fits best, playing with things like brake balance and of course...practice. Last week I knocked 5 seconds off my qualifying time between Monday and Sunday just by learning the track, the car and getting comfortable with how far I could push. Another day and I'd nearly have caught @VolkswagenX
For my own part I'm a bit annoyed at myself. Late last year the two Nurb GP races we had I qualified 2.01.2 +/- a smidge. I thought I was getting faster with the G29 but last night having tried about 6 different cars I was still just behind my DS4 time. I reckon I've a sub 2 min in me when I click with the right car. The R8 was my fastest last night but I had to use traction control which I never usually do and didn't think I'd be consistent racing it. The M3 & Beetle were consistent but also half a second slower. Need to find a balance...stay on the track and get faster.
I will set an official time on friday but my practice runs are in the high 1.59s. Starting from the back has dropped my dr from 7000 to 1600
I just checked kudos and found out I did a 1:58.358 on Nürburgring gp with a DS4 back then
