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I lost 9 SR points on the oval race last night, I'm not 100% sure what happened but my detective work says I fell asleep between qualifying and the race then got disqualified for being inactive. I am a true professional in every sense of the word.
 
Im a painfully average driver, but the Nordschleife is the one track I know very well. Needless to say I dropped from C/S to D/B from the madness. I can't imagine ever escaping the bumper cars league now.
 
Something strange happened at Race C today (24hr Nordschleife).

Standing start, everyone trying to do the right thing in T1 but obviously still a bumper car fest. Not dive bombing or anything stupid but constant bumping and nudging from left and right and from behind and into the car infront. All the way through T2 it's the same. I'm thinking "yeah, here we go, wait for this is my exit form Sr-S for sure". Nothing. Green SR sign and off we go?

Anyone else see that or was I super lucky? Seems the SR system only kind of kicked in by T3?
 
Im a painfully average driver, but the Nordschleife is the one track I know very well. Needless to say I dropped from C/S to D/B from the madness. I can't imagine ever escaping the bumper cars league now.
Me too brother, me too
 
Raced in Suzuka. All were clean and competitive. Last race got the chance to line up with top racers. :bowdown: Finished 5th and able to reach A S today.:cheers::gtpflag:
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Im a painfully average driver, but the Nordschleife is the one track I know very well. Needless to say I dropped from C/S to D/B from the madness. I can't imagine ever escaping the bumper cars league now.
Suzuka is a good place to rack up some SR :)
Raced in Suzuka. All were clean and competitive. Last race got the chance to line up with top racers. :bowdown: Finished 5th and able to reach A S today.:cheers::gtpflag:
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Two TRLs and one of them is Lightning :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:
Dat quali time tho!
 
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First Race of the night, Suzuka! I tried pre-qualifying in a few different cars that I usually have a vague handle on, but I just couldn't find my groove :boggled:. One last roll of the dice after quitting pre-qualifying before not even completing a lap with a few cars. Finally, I was still wasn't feeling it, but the Beetle seemed to at least kinda work for me. Suzuka has a rhythm and I just couldn't get anything to dance the way I usually can. Qualified with a 2:05.126. The grid was all Japanese with a single Taiwanese thrown in, and me, all the same DR/SR. Was a little surprised I qualified as high as 3rd.

I was divebombed at the first corner and received an orange SR. Picked up a few greens, but not enough to get me off of 93 :yuck:. I moved up to 2nd due to opposition pilot error, but sadly was carrying 5s of penalties. I knew that I'd loose 2nd place either way, but didn't know about 3rd. Pulled over after the last corner to try bleed the penalty, but the finish is too close to the corner. Still kept 3rd because Mr Divebomb was more than 3s behind with a 2s penalty. I don't know how clean the race was because aside from that first corner I didn't have any sight of the cars behind me.

And so, so far another day above 1 point! :D
 
ok so here's a question, I'm compiling my replays of last night and a guy messaged me after one race and just come across the "incident", he's behind and carrying more speed on a straight, not significantly more, but he's going faster than me. Is it within my right to drift over to close the door? Bare in mind I gave him plenty of time to react and he's still going for a gap that is no longer there?
 
Looking at those qualy times for suzuka. I am down to a 2.03. I feel like i am doing great lines and as fast as the car will go. 6 seconds to find!! So there is something fundamental I am not doing.

Use pad. Auto gearbox. Tcs minimal.
How much does manual gears add? I usually run 1 or 2 tcs. Should i try to use no aids? I have auto counter steer off. Would that give me time?
 
Just being with him on the grid is an absolute honor! :lol:
How honor and lucky I was I finished ahead of top racer. I just can’t believe saw his ghost car. Read post race message he got spin. JAdam was the winner in the end.:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

1st time I stayed so long after the race to read others’ post-race messages.:yuck::yuck::yuck:
 
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ok so here's a question, I'm compiling my replays of last night and a guy messaged me after one race and just come across the "incident", he's behind and carrying more speed on a straight, not significantly more, but he's going faster than me. Is it within my right to drift over to close the door? Bare in mind I gave him plenty of time to react and he's still going for a gap that is no longer there?

One move. Was he going fast enough that he would have been ahead of you at the next corner?
 
How honor and lucky I was I finished ahead of top racer. I just can’t believe saw his ghost car. Read post race message he got spin. JAdam was the winner in the end.:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

1st time I stayed so long after the race to read others’ post-race messages.:yuck::yuck::yuck:
Whoah congrats! That's a story to be told for a while :D
:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:I also dream of it but not yet achieved. Another 0.6s to go.

AMS has the same flag with me.:cheers:👍
You can do it! Last time I did Suzuka Gr. 3 it's almost the same time as yours :)

Singaporean flag always looked weird to me... So I went back to the flag I'm used to :D (My PSN on the PS3 had the HK flag as well)
 
Whoah congrats! That's a story to be told for a while :D

You can do it! Last time I did Suzuka Gr. 3 it's almost the same time as yours :)

Singaporean flag always looked weird to me... So I went back to the flag I'm used to :D (My PSN on the PS3 had the HK flag as well)
Thanks your blessing:cheers:

Off GTS for F1 qualifying. :D
 
Thanks your blessing:cheers:

Off GTS for F1 qualifying. :D
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I just did a miracle lap on Suzuka during the race and set a 1:59.362...

On the first lap.
No one was able to match it during the subsequent laps (including myself :lol:)
 
Total idiots on my last race on Race B, was already rank down to S/R C, got rammed from all side brake checked you name it, now back down S/R E with 2 manner points and D/R reset to 3000 last time my rank was this low was 155 days ago. Not best pleased. :grumpy:
PD needs to fix the penalties its outta hand right now.
 
I'm having great races in Suzuka since early.
Managed a good time trial, but still trying to go under 2:00.000
Did 6 races so far, 5 wins and one 2nd place.

This second place was a weird one.
I'm leaving the video here.
I'm not blaming anybody here neither saying it's his/her or mine fault for the penalties, actually I think they were minor rubbing.
My question here is the penalty system and what it shows when we get it.
First it was at 0.50 seconds, on the first turn, I got one second and the message in game shows me orange SR and says he also got orange and 5 seconds penalty
I did try to slow down in the hairpin and in the last chicane on the first lap to see if the penalty was reduced but nothing happen.
He was on top of me and in my head he had 5 seconds and also could't rub it off.
At 3.38 he hits me again this time in the hairpin.
I get 1second and, according to the game message, both orange SR plus 4 seconds for him.

At this time I have 2 seconds penalty and he should have got 9seconds
I managed to get a 1.5 seconds ahead on the last laps, on the last section of lap 4 I try to slow down but the penalties don't come down, he glues on me again and I think to myself "I have two and he have 9, so what, I still win"
The race finishes and he has nothing, not even a red dot... we both finish with blue Sr but I got second due to the penalties.

I try to explain this in the after-race chat but all I got from that driver was an insult

Watching the replay I know I could avoid first hit, but so could he... Second hit I don't understand...
This penalty system is crazy, but if the game would tell me that I got orange Sr and the other driver had no penalties maybe I would have taken a different approach to the end



It's your lag. See how his car is moving around erratically? On his screen it is your car that is moving like that. The lag causes your car to be slow / behind when you start accelerating out of a corner and vice versa causes his car to seemingly brake too late on your screen and run into you.

That's probably why he has no penalties, chances are he didn't hit you on his screen as he slowed down enough to avoid your lagging car, yet on your screen that extra braking arrived at your console too late, so he did run into you on your screen. Penalties are calculated asynchronously and there is no communication between consoles about the assigned penalties. What it says about the other car getting a penalty is solely based on what happens on your console after lag.

I've run into lagging cars before, received a penalty and a message the other car had a penalty, yet after the race, no red dot and he swears we never made contact. It's not smart to be close behind a lagging car, nor in front or beside, yet what can you do... The game needs to handle lag better.
 
One move. Was he going fast enough that he would have been ahead of you at the next corner?

Potentially, now if it were me, and the car in front was drifting to the right I would go left, which was where the racing line is. I wouldn’t then block him again because that’s naughty IMO
 
In the last Races I was victim of the "Funny Random for No reasons GTS penalty system"..

IR
 
Y'all must be masochists for doing 24h nurb races.

*Raises a paw*. Erm...maybe :dopey:?

Just finished the Green Hell. Holy whiplash Batman! I was in a mixed grid of A's, Bs, a couple of Cs and 5 Ds, with me qualifying P7/17. Really 7/10 since 7 didn't post a qualifying time.

I had a great start, and with the standing start I was in 2nd at the first corner. Unfortunately the car didn't handle *anything* like it did in qualifying, so I screwed up the first of the two tight corners after the 2nd corner. When I got back on the track I was bashed six ways from Sunday and tumbled down the list. Finally got going again and was held up by slower drivers, and trying not to hit them, getting rear ended multiple times till I got to the end of the first decent of the Nordschleife. I was struggling with the difference in handling but managed to more or less hold down my tumbled position. The 2nd lap was easier and I made some ground, past a couple of people, then got rammed again. Finished 12th with 5 seconds of penalties, and I wasn't the only one!

Somehow after all that carnage I still managed to creep up from 93 to 95 SR and even gained a few DR points. I really need to learn how to read Kanji, I have no idea what 95% of the pre/post race comments are!
 
*Raises a paw*. Erm...maybe :dopey:?

Just finished the Green Hell. Holy whiplash Batman! I was in a mixed grid of A's, Bs, a couple of Cs and 5 Ds, with me qualifying P7/17. Really 7/10 since 7 didn't post a qualifying time.

I had a great start, and with the standing start I was in 2nd at the first corner. Unfortunately the car didn't handle *anything* like it did in qualifying, so I screwed up the first of the two tight corners after the 2nd corner. When I got back on the track I was bashed six ways from Sunday and tumbled down the list. Finally got going again and was held up by slower drivers, and trying not to hit them, getting rear ended multiple times till I got to the end of the first decent of the Nordschleife. I was struggling with the difference in handling but managed to more or less hold down my tumbled position. The 2nd lap was easier and I made some ground, past a couple of people, then got rammed again. Finished 12th with 5 seconds of penalties, and I wasn't the only one!

Somehow after all that carnage I still managed to creep up from 93 to 95 SR and even gained a few DR points. I really need to learn how to read Kanji, I have no idea what 95% of the pre/post race comments are!

I use google translate app to kinda read what they are saying. Not totally all there.
 
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