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Raced my first race of the week at Suzuka. I was afraid to race since my SR was down to 16 pts, so I pulled a @Sven Jurgens and went with no Q. I figured I'd drive around at the back and sacrifice some DR to get my SR to a safe level. Don't want a reset. Got gridded 14/16 and crossed my fingers for the start. Had some sleepers at the green, I accelerated and watched my mirror and coasted into T1. Got settled in the esses in P12 with space behind me. The 2 in front of me were slow, but dirty, and I wanted no part, so I followed for 3 laps, running 47's and 48's. On lap 4 one went wide in Spoon and I passed him...almost tagged me coming back on. The other went wide in the kink, so I pushed my brake mark to get into the chicane before he could hit me, but I ended up holding off on my turn in because he came up fast. He ended up cutting both curbs and getting a bit sideways, and I got by with a tap to the rear quarter and an SR down flag. Got the better drive and into T1 before he could reach me, and had 1.6 seconds on him by Degner. Being slow and careful gave me a chance to work on clean lines and corner speed. I wasn't pushing the brakes at all since I didn't want to risk an off. Every time I caught up to someone I would just brake early and easy, get my angle and take a good line, and accelerate smoothly. I've never been off throttle so much in a race. Eventually whoever I was behind would push too hard and make a mistake, and I'd just roll by, or have way more speed on the straight since they blew the exit. I ended up finishing 6th, with 4th and 5th within .4. I finally get what @Sven Jurgens does. That was actually really fun, and the best part, after starting with SR at 16, I finished up 200 DR, and a blue B with SR at a comfortable 44 points. I might have to do that again.:cheers:
 
I just had a 5th a 3rd place finish in rooms that included @Dairyworker for what I believe was our first races together, it’s always nice to race with other members.

The rooms also included the 11th and 16th ranked times in NA, yeah, I wasn’t catching those guys. I got caught in a battle with 4th and 5th in the first race and ended up 5th in the end but the second race I stayed clear of the pack but still 3.5 seconds behind the fast guys for a clean 3rd. Up to 33k now. I think I’ll call it a night and quit while I’m ahead. :D

Great to get a chance to race with you @Dairyworker, hope to see you out there again soon. :)
 
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Off to a rough start tonight. Three races in all starting mid pack. The first was a decent race but the next two, with @Pigems i put it in the sand. The competition is tougher at night for sure, so i am pushing it harder than usual to try and keep up. I have generally done most of my racing in the mornings before work.
 
Dairyworker
Off to a rough start tonight. Three races in all starting mid pack. The first was a decent race but the next two, with @Pigems i put it in the sand. The competition is tougher at night for sure, so i am pushing it harder than usual to try and keep up. I have generally done most of my racing in the mornings before work.
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Yeah after 9pm EST the fast guys seem to start coming out of the woodwork, it usually gets a lot cleaner during time as well, though today was some great, clean racing all night. :)
 
Of races, I've had altogether an 8th, and 7th, a sixth, three thirds and a second. The 7th and 8th I came back from 14th and 15th after two Kamaze hits at the end of the first corner - #1, and the same type of Japanese attack turning left at corner #10 while coming 2nd ( #10 is when you exit corner 7's 185 degree U-turn, charge up the short straight, turn left from out to the right daring to go onto the right curb then going left to the right turn #9 catching some of the curbing on the right there if it suits the gaol there is to not back off but I normally have to, and then you approach a nice fastish left and right kink turn - the left #10 turn - daring to go onto the curbing are on the right there - which I am too scared to do - especially with someone 0.4 seconds behind - and that is where you are a plumb candidate for being belted off. Take your pick - a boot up the backside if you don't take the wide "to the right" approach - or get belted in the back left flank of the car if you are in the turn. Or just hit you in the bump if you haven't turned left yet. Stupid me I did not think at "S" rated SR safe driver would do that after a clean pass.

I wonder what's its like to drive like that? The annoying thing was that there was an S driver well behind (practising I guess in a Peugeot) and two A+ drivers as well ... and I had passed an A driver at the first corner, he was annoyed I guess an he took the dishonourable path. If I'd pulled over and let him through, I'd have got a third. I guess I am just too naive. But my DR has gone up I think only about 200. Oh well ...
 
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Ffs.... got taken out three times in the next race.... i just don't understand the way some people behave on track in this game.... first guy left the race after he took us both down and then after i cought the three car pack at the back and passed one of them he took me out on the next turn. He then took me out again when i cought him just before the finish....
 
Did some qual laps on Nurb GP. Just missed my goal of getting under 58 with a .1.
I see from the top ten that times are coming down.
I’ve got my way of running it nailed but it’s tough to string everything together.
There’s so much darn time in that track.
 
My goal for today was originally 3 wins in daily race c, then bumped up to 5. I killed it with 6 for a total of 13 wins.
I probably won’t do too much more of this daily to be honest due to the awful, atrocious, terribad shifting. I already got a lot of wins anyway and drove my dr up 1,500 points so ehhh.
 
Well ... hmmm ... I was going to have another race, but the accelerator peddle was squeaking. So I got out the dry lube spray can, and put it all over the throttle pedal's accessible moving parts. No time to find the Lithium grease. But darn - still squeaking. So I was able to quit the race's pre race delays without a penalty. Spent more time with the spare can. Cleaned it with a rag. Blew on it - no worries. I entered the race. Not much time to go ... then the pedal squeaked and squeaked and squeaked. And squeaked. Darn - I couldn't quite the race - the time counter had gone. A big field. Full of Bs, A's and several better, a 15 car field. Was on the corner in 9th place when the flag fell. I had put the TC onto 2 for that turn ... turned it off during 2nd gear on the straight. Worth it - I was closing on the 911 in front - then he hit the brakes early - and I hit him. Not me ... I hit HIM. Sheesh ... darn ... OK not heavy, but boy ... so where is the guy - actually, I think close behind. The rest of the race was a blur. I didn't hear the squeaking pedal. Maybe it fixed itself. When I finished, I started to shake. Heck this is not good for a 65 year old dude. Came third. Got 870 point gain. Entering the second last straight, I had a 1:25 something - it was a great lap. Didn't even read my fastest lap time. Darn. But the game - it's just not fair.

Now where's that Lithium?
 
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Well ... hmmm ... I was going to have another race, but the accelerator peddle was squeaking. So I got out the dry lube spray can, and put it all over the throttle pedal's accessible moving parts. No time to find the Lithium grease. But darn - still squeaking. So I was able to quit the race's pre race delays without a penalty. Spent more time with the spare can. Cleaned it with a rag. Blew on it - no worries. I entered the race. Not much time to go ... then the pedal squeaked and squeaked and squeaked. And squeaked. Darn - I couldn't quite the race - the time counter had gone. A big field. Full of Bs, A's and several better, a 15 car field. Was on the corner in 9th place when the flag fell. I had put the TC onto 2 for that turn ... turned it off during 2nd gear on the straight. Worth it - I was closing on the 911 in front - then he hit the brakes early - and I hit him. Not me ... I hit HIM. Sheesh ... darn ... OK not heavy, but boy ... so where is the guy - actually, I think close behind. The rest of the race was a blur. I didn't hear the squeaking pedal. Maybe it fixed itself. When I finished, I started to shake. Heck this is not good for a 65 year old dude. Came third. Got 870 point gain. Entering the second last straight, I had a 1:25 something - it was a great lap. Didn't even read my fastest lap time. Darn. But the game - it's just not fair.

Now where's that Lithium?
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Dang you could be my grandpa xD
 
sturk0167
I'm wondering if switching from auto to manual would make much time difference for me. I've never used it before, because it's one more thing to mess with. But, if you're saying it's only 2 shifts per lap, maybe I'll give it a try for qualifying.
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Yes, give it a try - like you I'm auto only usually, but my brain can cope with the two shifts needed here!
 
bone_tone
Yes, give it a try - like you I'm auto only usually, but my brain can cope with the two shifts needed here!
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The old motor racing description of a course is given by which gear you're in.

I am wondering though - if you are in auto, do the wheel flippers still change the gears up and down if you flip the magic wands? 'Coz if they do, hmm it might work ... sometimes I missed a gear, from high speed braking, and it can be quite costly. But if you lift the throttle to change the balance, does an auto respond, or just leave it in gear.?

In GT4 I was hugely faster in manual. Mostly because it was much easier to get the braking point right, by changing down as your braked. So from 6th, hit the brakes - 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd - you now know its time to turn. You can figure the corner out from when its safe to turn ... so if its a 2nd gear corner, when you get to 2nd, its safe to turn. Where's the apex? OK I braked a bit early - remember that for next lap. But when you get to 2nd for that second gear corner, you know its time to turn, and your not going too fast. I couldn't do the with an auto without loosing too much other information. Also, throttle control was so much easier with the gear locked in. Plus with TC off, you can get your own traction control by changing from 1st to second gear earlier. Also some cars' motors like full revs, others liked to be changed earlier. Plus you can save fuel and tyres by changing earlier. You cannot do that much of that stuff with an auto.
 
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Well ... hmmm ... I was going to have another race, but the accelerator peddle was squeaking. So I got out the dry lube spray can, and put it all over the throttle pedal's accessible moving parts. No time to find the Lithium grease. But darn - still squeaking. So I was able to quit the race's pre race delays without a penalty. Spent more time with the spare can. Cleaned it with a rag. Blew on it - no worries. I entered the race. Not much time to go ... then the pedal squeaked and squeaked and squeaked. And squeaked. Darn - I couldn't quite the race - the time counter had gone. A big field. Full of Bs, A's and several better, a 15 car field. Was on the corner in 9th place when the flag fell. I had put the TC onto 2 for that turn ... turned it off during 2nd gear on the straight. Worth it - I was closing on the 911 in front - then he hit the brakes early - and I hit him. Not me ... I hit HIM. Sheesh ... darn ... OK not heavy, but boy ... so where is the guy - actually, I think close behind. The rest of the race was a blur. I didn't hear the squeaking pedal. Maybe it fixed itself. When I finished, I started to shake. Heck this is not good for a 65 year old dude. Came third. Got 870 point gain. Entering the second last straight, I had a 1:25 something - it was a great lap. Didn't even read my fastest lap time. Darn. But the game - it's just not fair.

Now where's that Lithium?
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You sure it's not your knees that were squeaking? I'm at the age where my body makes some strange noises.
 
sturk0167
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. 👍
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On that final corner i always start wide and go as close to the guardrail as possible. The speed diff is huge when i don't do that. ...Ofcourse, there's always the risk of touching it. From experience i can say that you can touch it kind and lose a sec. or hard and lose a lot more time.
 
Threw my hat in last night, perhaps group 3 at the Nurburgring was not a good place to start my online racing career, but I ended the night incredibly annoyed but I learned a lot about time penalties and the effin chicane :lol:.

Raced about 8 times, literally just to get my DR and SR up, and after trying a few cars, I settled on the Gr3 beetle and was pleased with a couple of laps in the 2.03's which is probably slow for most of you guys, but given I am only a couple of days in and I still have all driver aids on and using auto transmission (for now), I was happy.

I started the first few races just keeping out of everyone's way, my DR went up to do and so did my SR to B, I got into a couple of races with very similar drivers, pace and level, then it happened............. I got up to second and I began closing on the 1st place guy, I actually started to think day one I might get a podium, then I got nudged into the gravel which cost me 7 places, then whilst trying to make up ground I caused a bit of a pile up at the chicane (completely my bad and caused by frustration at being sat in the gravel watching my podium disappear) and my Driver Rating dropped to C, so all races from then were literally like the wild west, starting mid pack (between 5-8) and usually getting punted or knocked off the track at some point. Went to bed in a foul mood :lol:!

On the track itself, I cant win, my approach is slow in fast out, but slow in tends to get you hit, this is particularly bad when trying to hit the T1 apex, and especially at the chicane when I was gaining a second on the faster guys in front during the lap, and then losing it all at the chicane, so I tried a slower entry which is ultimately faster, but leaves me open to getting punted.

Tonight I am just going to keep clean and focus on getting my SR up, when my SR puts me in rooms with people that can drive without crashing, then I think I will start going for position.
 
For people who have a H shifter , does it work like previous games, you can switch gear without clutch? Or do you need the clutch? Thinking about buying one if it's faster, but if you need clutch it may take a while for getting used to it, if you don't, i guess then it's OP for N class.
 
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For people who have a H shifter , does it work like previous games, you can switch gear without clutch? Or do you need the clutch? Thinking about buying one if it's faster, but if you need clutch it may take a while for getting used to it, if you don't, i guess then it's OP for N class.
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You can use the shifter without the clutch, but the shifting speed on H-pattern cars will be increased with the clutch.
 
VolkswagenX
Are you using the R8? Car is very easy to drive.
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& @Pigems:

I was 2.01.2 on DS4 on Nurb GP. Got down to 2.00.5 last night on the G29 with an AMG. Had a sub 2 in the bag with the Lexus but messed up the last chicaine so I know the sub 2 is there for me. The real challenge for me now is to lap in the 2 mark consistently rather than once every 3 turns.

@GarikFirst asked how to improve. Just for an insight into my own improvements I started in the 2.02's on Monday and quickly got to the high 2.01's and then only edged lower. The biggest improvements for me so far have been by trying different cars. R8 is a bit squirmy coming out of slow corners for me. The other MR cars were also giving me handling issues. M3 I couldn't get to turn in. Beetle was just not fast enough for me. Vantage (my highest KM car of the entire game) just would not work on any level for me this week. Oddly though I noticed a pattern in my quali times: the other long nosed FR cars like AMG, Corvet & Viper have done well. Actually, Viper is incredibly stable and very well geared for Nurb GP but I just can't get the sub 2.01's out of it. Of all so far though Lexus is silky smooth, fast and I reckon the one I'll be sticking with for the week.
 
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6BK
& @Pigems:

I was 2.01.2 on DS4 on Nurb GP. Got down to 2.00.5 last night on the G29 with an AMG. Had a sub 2 in the bag with the Lexus but messed up the last chicaine so I know the sub 2 is there for me. The real challenge for me now is to lap in the 2 mark consistently rather than once every 3 turns.

@GarikFirst asked how to improve. Just for an insight into my own improvements I started in the 2.02's on Monday and quickly got to the high 2.01's and then only edged lower. The biggest improvements for me so far have been by trying different cars. R8 is a bit squirmy coming out of slow corners for me. The other MR cars were also giving me handling issues. M3 I couldn't get to turn in. Beetle was just not fast enough for me. Vantage (my highest KM car of the entire game) just would not work on any level for me this week. Oddly though I noticed a pattern in my quali times: the other long nosed FR cars like AMG, Corvet & Viper have done well. Actually, Viper is incredibly stable and very well geared for Nurb GP but I just can't get the sub 2.01's out of it. Of all so far though Lexus is silky smooth, fast and I reckon the one I'll be sticking with for the week.
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Wich Lexus you mean?

I drive the Prototype on a DS4 D-pad and have a .57.8 Qualy.
 
Doglove
Wich Lexus you mean?

I drive the Prototype on a DS4 D-pad and have a .57.8 Qualy.
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Apologies, yes I forgot there's two of them. I use the 16 Prototype as well. It's been a while since I used the 17 but I always got better results with the 16. Amazing how two cars with such similar stats can do that. Ages since I used the 17 though so may give it another go now.

Well done on the quali time. I'm not even getting 1.57's in my dreams.:rolleyes:

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Had one more sloppy race where i put it in the sand, but then had 5 great races. Started anywhere from 4 to 7 but managed to gain at least one place in each race. I also got a fastest lap in one race and a few clean races. Was some real clean, hard competition once i found my groove.

No races before work today as i am headed in early, but that means i will be home early also, so i can get some races in befor the wife gets home.
 
6BK
Apologies, yes I forgot there's two of them. I use the 16 Prototype as well. It's been a while since I used the 17 but I always got better results with the 16. Amazing how two cars with such similar stats can do that. Ages since I used the 17 though so may give it another go now.

Well done on the quali time. I'm not even getting 1.57's in my dreams.:rolleyes:

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...Thanx. Yeah, defnitly the Prototype drives much smoother and is easyer to get throttle on in exits. When i drive the '17 i get nowhere nehre my times set with the '16. Also, i prefer braking above turn in, so i drive it with only 1 to the rear, and that car can cope with it very well. Grtz.
 
Haha Naw I meant me, that would be cool though if she had. :)[/QUOTE]

yeah I got 3rd using my bmw M6 gt3 but top two in 911s 10 secs infront of me omg
 
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Doglove
...Thanx. Yeah, defnitly the Prototype drives much smoother and is easyer to get throttle on in exits. When i drive the '17 i get nowhere nehre my times set with the '16. Also, i prefer braking above turn in, so i drive it with only 1 to the rear, and that car can cope with it very well. Grtz.
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Lexus is not one of my "go to" cars so when I say I drove the 16 more it has about 400 KM on it. I was delighted last night to find exactly what you said; smooth, easy, and great to put power down. I was only a little disappointed with the down shift sound coming through my earphones. It sounded a little more like air coming out of a balloon, especially after running the clunky AMG for a few laps. I tend to like the front to bed down in a corner and the back to come around so usually drive FR cars with -3 braking. The Lexus I only set to -1 so similar to yourself found braking very even.

Pigems
Man, I’m sitting in a warehouse picking up plywood for work and all I can think about is how bad the forklift drivers lines are through the isles, they could be shaving seconds off of every pass lol.
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The car I'm driving at the moment has one of those systems that alerts you when you are going over the line in the middle of the road. On a winding country road and using the "racing line" through the corners this morning I had to turn the thing off 'cause it would stop beeping at me.:dopey:
 
Pigems
Man, I’m sitting in a warehouse picking up plywood for work and all I can think about is how bad the forklift drivers lines are through the isles, they could be shaving seconds off of every pass lol.
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So, are you carrying a laptop around with you, or is there a mobile ap for this site?
 
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