"Daily" Race Discussion [Archive]

[Haitauer]

The lowered penalty standards are a mess. I almost feel like I'm doing a clean race in GTA 5 every time I play now. Which puts me in a tough spot since now I have to drive way more defensively just to stay on the track.

Race B seemed to be the dirtiest, the large esses on Dragon Trail seem to be a massive penalty mess as people refuse to concede their apex and constantly chop and crowd on you after they were already sliding wide. I got unstable on a curve there and my car popped out of the curbing and I accidently rammed a guy trying to cut back to crowd my apex from the outside. I totally understand his frustration but he then proceeded to passively push me wide and off of the track at the top of the hill before the hairpin with no penalty. Just constant nudging off of the track as people just throw their nose to the inside and wedge you out. The bus stop chicane is still a leap of faith, where you lift off and power through hoping that everyone in the way ghosts out properly, but that second curb on the exit is constantly throwing two of my wheels in the air and messing up my line.

Brand's Hatch was a lot better but I think it was just due to people being more focused on staying on the track and not wanting to drag a tire in the grass during a shoving match. The track is all wrong for the default gearing of the 2000 GT having you change gears mid incline on Surtees and just killing speed on the straight, but the weird gearing ratio created a lot of speed variation out of the turns, keeping Race A less stagnant than usual with lots of position changes. The ugly penalty system would still rear its head as I had to constantly deal with people running wide off track full throttle, trying to pass me in the grass and then ramming me to come back on and granting me the penalty. This happened most frequently on Cooper's straight when people would want to randomly go rally racing high up on the kerbing. Just total lunacy when people are driving like idiots.



I usually race from the middle of the pack so I rarely get an open lead to try and hit the chicane full throttle during a race. So my inability to do it rarely effects my lap time. I usually end up having to lift off of the throttle just as I reach the rumble strip on the right side wall, this will typically put me right on someones bumper to draft and pass on the exit. Or someone hits a wall and we all die.

SR points are a flippin mess now. Two bad luck races on monday dropped me from SR99 to SR49. Now i cant gain SR points even though i had 2 consecutive clean races and one with just a minor overshoot in long chicane at Dragon. Got even red SR from last one and neutral from 2nd clean..

Btw PDI - ones SPORTSMANSHIP points shouldnt be affected by overshooting a curve when no one is nearby..

 

[LNSE492]

My SR has tanked at Dragon Trail too. Started the week DR:A SR:A, now down at DR:B and, after my last two races, SR for goodness sake. The chicane at Dragon is an absolute nightmare. I can't do it flat out, I'm sorry, I just can't. I dab the brakes. I just did it in my last race, on the final lap, having put a lovely, clean overtake on a guy in a Veyron at the hairpin for 2nd position. I dab the brakes, he hits me rear end (very lightly as the replay showed he braked too), bounces off, hits the wall, and I get a 4sec penalty that costs me second place. It's a nightmare.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

SR points are a flippin mess now. Two bad luck races on monday dropped me from SR99 to SR49. Now i cant gain SR points even though i had 2 consecutive clean races and one with just a minor overshoot in long chicane at Dragon. Got even red SR from last one and neutral from 2nd clean..

Btw PDI - ones SPORTSMANSHIP points shouldnt be affected by overshooting a curve when no one is nearby..

It's not, overshooting only makes you miss out on the minor contribution you would get from a clean sector. Race B is usually low in points and this week it's also only 4 laps. A contact free clean race is probably not worth more than 4 or 5 points and any slight rub or contact with another car will bring that down fast.

I missed my usual race start today as my ps4 pro is acting up. No picture on my 1080p tv. First I though the tv was toast yet the old wiiU still worked on it. Restarting it in safe mode made a picture appear again, then selecting change resolution fixed it. However the race had already started! Modern tech sigh. Just give me the good old component video cables back instead of all these HDMI HDCP handshake problems.

 

[suprajef]

Right I give up, how do you do the chicane at Dragon Trail without slowing down?

Don't let off the gas

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Since I haven’t touched Sport Mode in a while (and last week’s selection was awful), I’m doing a few rounds of the Gr.4 race at Dragon Trail right now.

Has it always been the case that someone can sideswipe you off on the little kink at the beginning of the straight, and even though you hold it together and make the pass, you’re the one hit with a post-race penalty?

I had messed up a run into the chicane on lap three and ruined my race. After the game decided to set me back, I ran the final cycle in the hopes of a fastest lap. I sliced over five seconds off the gap to 11th over the course of it, and seemingly not happy with that, he ran me off the road on the way to the line.

 

[Groundfish]

Decided to go race one on B. My practice paid off and I found myself in pole position baby!
At start P2 caught a slight jump on me almost pulling even but luckily I was inside at the kink and he stayed indecisive. I was so scared he was gonna be an idiot and crash us both out. Luckily he tucked in behind and I nailed a nice slow entry and good on through! I check behind before the right and the P2 has been replaced by a Veyron.
I made a good gap at the chicane and no one was able to close. I extended and cruised home. Clean fastest lap for the win baby!
My seventh win. Even though I have made so many laps there I was still anxious with the lead. P3 ran a good race coming up through some folks but unfortunately the Veyron smashed him after going wide on the final turn.
I watched the replay and they had a good gap with 3applying pressure. Veyron cracked went wide then came sliding across and took out the poor guy who was making a perfect exit. Veyron into wall on left and poor guy on right. Veyron of course somehow keeps second but he ruined that other dudes race. Feel for that guy. He ended up like 6th.
I’m at a strange dr right now very top of c after losing so much last week at ring gp. Low b seems tough. I feel like there’s a target on my back as a b.
C I do well. B-very tough worse if you get held in traffic.

 

[Chiefy17]

Love your work telstra...thats a kick to the dr...

 

[Sven Jurgens]

With all that dirty driving in the back I was wondering how I kept hanging on to SR 99. Well, no more.

My first race today at 7:30 pm, notorious crash hour time, delivered as expected. It was a destruction derby where I got taken out in both the first and the second lap on the downhill section. Since I cannot control my car after getting turned into a missile on the grass, I could not avoid traffic in front and ended up with shortcut and contact penalties totaling 11 seconds for that race. My SR went down 19 points to 80, I reported 3 people at the end.

Of course then I got matched with even worse drivers and it took another 7 races to get back to SR 99, where in the last race I got screwed over again to end on 94 for the day. Just like last week, and the week before, driving standards deteriorate as people get to know the track better. I guess a lot of people start to feel overconfident in how close they can drive.

4 more cars tested today

I actually did 5 races with the Jaguar. The first race I had a car right behind me on pit entry who I did not trust, so I started braking a bit later, slipped on the curb, tapped the pit wall and had to do a lap of shame. Finished +1 lap, no time to record. I lost SR as well, as while driving around at 80kph as a ghost, I got hit... 2 sec penalty and SR Down.

Wednesday

Car used (car won) pit in lap #, fuel left % -> fuel after %, pit time, fuel left % at finish
Start position / Door number / Finish position Total time (Total time winner) My best lap (fastest lap) DR after, SR after

19:30 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 16% -> 68% 30.915, 4% left, destruction derby, taken out twice, 3 reported
19:30 S16/D07/F10 20:04.563 (19:28.279) 2:05.999 (2:05.670) DR 31389 (-412) SR 80 (-19)
20:00 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 18% -> 66% 30.280, 0% left, dirty
20:00 S16/D06/F05 19:42.385 (19:14.030) 2:06.803 (2:04.564) DR 31568 (+179) SR 80 (--)

20:30 Jaguar F-Type (WRX GR3) pit 6, 0% -> 53% 31.174, 1 lap left, dirty, crashed on pit entry, hit as a ghost
20:30 S16/D07/F14 +1 lap (19:10.417) 2:06.982 (2:03.962) DR 30361 (-1207) SR 79 (-1)
21:00 Jaguar F-Type (Corvette C7) pit 3% -> 78% 34.101, 0% left, dirty, pinball
21:00 S16/D07/F04 19:43.864 (19:21.390) 2:05.539 (2:05.260) DR 30605 (+244) SR 81 (+2)
21:30 Jaguar F-Type (AMG GT3) pit 5, 5% -> 77% 33.751, 2% left, dirty, used as a rail by Ford
21:30 S17/D08/F03 19:50.056 (19:13.047) 2:06.689 (2:04.868) DR 31197 (+592) SR 80 (-1)

23:30 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 4, 31% -> 87% 31.573, 4% left, destruction derby lag fest
23:30 S18/D10/F07 20:17.869 (19:32.059) 2:07.748 (2:05.600) DR 31079 (-118) SR 85 (+5)
00:00 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (Mustang GR3) pit 5, 15% -> 70% 31.365, 2% left, dirty, taken out twice lap 1
00:00 S16//D05/F11 20:25.DNF (19:24.798) 2:07.163 (2:05.920) DR 30306 (-773) SR 95 (+10)

00:30 Lexus RC F GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 5 15% -> 69% 31.281, 2% left, dirty, clean race bonus!
00:30 S19/D12/F06 19:41.622 (19:25.489) 2:06.141 (2:05.123) DR 30861 (+555) SR 99 (+4)
01:00 Lexus RC F GT3 (Mustang GR.3) pit 5, 17% -> 68% 30.698, 1% left, dirty
01:00 S18/D10/F05 19:52.448 (19:27.279) 2:06.217 (2:05.644) DR 31253 (+392) SR 94 (-5)

Running totals

Fastest run: Ford Mustang GR3 19:34.276
Best lap: Jaguar F-Type 2:05.539

Fastest race: V12 Vantage GT3 19:07.629
Fastest lap: 2:03.138

Shortest pit time: Hyundai Genesis 30.280 (48% Fuel)
Longest pit time: Corvette C7 35.318 (84% fuel)

I Improved my best lap with the Jaguar, yet the races were too dirty to get a faster time over all. I have not seen a clean race today, kinda beginning to wonder how there are still people in SR.S Matchmaking is also getting worse though. I have been starting behind a whole bunch of D/S drivers all night. A+/S to D/S rooms, and while I was closer to 80 SR SR.B drivers were mixed into the group as well. Perhaps people are starting to avoid Bathurst.

Some out takes:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Here I slow down for a track re-entry.

The car behind me flashes his light instead of using his brakes and bumps me into the track re-entry. Then hits me two more times. 3 contacts, 2 sec penalty, SR Down, -1 SR for that race from just this.


Tonight improved the record of most awful lag during a race

He did that for most of the race, jumping all over sometimes in the air as well.



The last race had this nice individual. I guess he got mad as when he started braking too early I avoided him by establishing overlap before corner entry. However he did not pay attention and drove me into the wall to receive a penalty.

The eager car behind me hit me twice as well, yet that's expected, so I got 3.5 sec behind.

I catch up to him again and figure I better hang back until the straight, however then he does this at the esses

Tries to ram me first, yet alas he ghosts. Then he tries to punt me, denied. Then he quit.
It's another yoyo profile on KP, I keep running into them all the time.


As for the cars today. Jaguar great drive. Huracan awful with the new tire model. It used to be a great car for the mountain, yet now you're continually battling under and oversteer. There is no middle ground with that car anymore.

Jag, Mustang and V12 Vantage are my favorites so far for the mountain.

 

[6BK]

SR points are a flippin mess now. Two bad luck races on monday dropped me from SR99 to SR49. Now i cant gain SR points even though i had 2 consecutive clean races and one with just a minor overshoot in long chicane at Dragon. Got even red SR from last one and neutral from 2nd clean..

Btw PDI - ones SPORTSMANSHIP points shouldnt be affected by overshooting a curve when no one is nearby..

I went 99 to 57 in 3. Clawed my way back to 70 with 6 consecutive clean only to get tanked back down to 26. Not sure what the recent change was but I feel the punishment is now more severe while the rewards back up are slow to come.

It may create a monster. After being a proud SR S driver I’m nearly starting to enjoy the more relaxed racing, the 1990’s British Touring Car feel, of SR C where taking the wing mirror off your opponent’s car was considered an art form.

 

[LotusEvoraGTE]

Don't you just love it when you're low on fuel, about to go into the pits, but you mess up the entry and spin out just outside the entrance, only to get respawned away from the pit entrance?

 

[Haitauer]

It may create a monster. After being a proud SR S driver I’m nearly starting to enjoy the more relaxed racing, the 1990’s British Touring Car feel, of SR C where taking the wing mirror off your opponent’s car was considered an art form.

+1 to that mate...

Yes - it seems punishment vs reward is off. USED to be a steady DR S driver also..

 

[Invisigoth]

Don't you just love it when you're low on fuel, about to go into the pits, but you mess up the entry and spin out just outside the entrance, only to get respawned away from the pit entrance?

You would not be the first to find that out the hard way at the mountain. A lap at 80kph takes 5 odd mins from memory .

 

[Bobert power]

Tonight improved the record of most awful lag during a race

He did that for most of the race, jumping all over sometimes in the air as well.

I was there when it happened. His lag was so bad, it almost made me crash at the second corner.

 

[MhtyClipster]

The penalty system is too harsh right now, SR S seems a distant memory I have been back up to A once since the last updates, am usually in C or B now. Previously I could get back to SR S after a couple of good races now I seem to have no chance, to top it off just got reset. 3000 DR and 1 SR now, -13000 driver points for one bad race..
Anyone tried the Mountain in SR E?
Great now I get booted during matchmaking for race C so have 1/2 an hour to wait, really not my day.

Edit: Race C in SR E was chaos for the first few laps with a fair few idiots who clearly couldn't drive in traffic, got pushed off into the sand at the top of the hill and lost a bagful of places, of course the driver who did this only did a couple of laps and was DNF at the end. The result being, SR up from 1 point to 4 whole points, not bad I guess?

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Thank goodness for Circuit De La Sarthe next week and being Grp 1.

That's a good combo for me and surely has to be the turn around I need for my SR as for every good set of races I have this week I seem to end up
with a bad one offsetting any gains I make in my SR.

Wonder what will be the one make N300 car this time round?

As MhtyClipster said earlier in thread SR S seems a distant unobtainable memory now but I will not give up, I will return to greatness and improve my racing again.

 

[LNSE492]

Glad it's not just me struggling then. It does seem almost impossible to make amends after one or two bad races, and you get a few of them once your ratings drop. At the level I'm currently racing, it seems nobody is aware of how wide their car is and nobody leaves a gap; twice last night I was penalised for other drivers spinning themselves out on my nose trying to cut across me when I was alongside them on a straight.

Last week, the only race I tried was Tskuba. I was SR:A when I started, and I strung together a new record of 8 clean races in a row (my previous best was 6). Even that wasn't enough to get to SR:S.

Needs a much better balance between gaining and losing SR.

 

[seandimes]

Had a great day on GT yesterday! Finally back to SR:S, won 2 more races in race C, and most importantly, cut my qualifying time by another second to a 2.04.1.
Big thanks to the guy who linked the "SafeisFast" youtube channel here, their videos on "Is smooth fast" and "Hitting the Apex" were eye opening for me. One guy in the video said "if you feel like you are driving to the grocery store, the lap time is going to come and you wont even notice it". Made me realize I was driving the wrong way all along. After I started to focus on hitting the apex, and getting around the track without "fighting" the car, my laptimes went down almost every lap.
Still have to work on getting to that 2.03 time, and hope I can win my first race in SR:S ever.

So far my favourite cars are still the Jaguar and the Aston Martin. Undecided yet if I should focus on getting a bit faster in the Jag, or more consistant in the Vantage. Tried the Beetle and the Lexus, but dont really enjoy driving them.

Especially on the Mountain, I find driving in SR:S provides its own challenge. In the lower SR rankings, I drive like the people I am racing against are not aware at all of whats happening around them, and/or will punt you off track if they get the opportunity, cause thats what you can expect from 80% of the field.
In SR:S, there are a lot more clean drivers, but you still have some of the drivers mentioned above, and some who have perfected gaming the system to put you off track without getting a penalty for it. So you really never know what to expect

 

[Herrybo79]

With all that dirty driving in the back I was wondering how I kept hanging on to SR 99. Well, no more.

My first race today at 7:30 pm, notorious crash hour time, delivered as expected. It was a destruction derby where I got taken out in both the first and the second lap on the downhill section. Since I cannot control my car after getting turned into a missile on the grass, I could not avoid traffic in front and ended up with shortcut and contact penalties totaling 11 seconds for that race. My SR went down 19 points to 80, I reported 3 people at the end.

Of course then I got matched with even worse drivers and it took another 7 races to get back to SR 99, where in the last race I got screwed over again to end on 94 for the day. Just like last week, and the week before, driving standards deteriorate as people get to know the track better. I guess a lot of people start to feel overconfident in how close they can drive.

4 more cars tested today

I actually did 5 races with the Jaguar. The first race I had a car right behind me on pit entry who I did not trust, so I started braking a bit later, slipped on the curb, tapped the pit wall and had to do a lap of shame. Finished +1 lap, no time to record. I lost SR as well, as while driving around at 80kph as a ghost, I got hit... 2 sec penalty and SR Down.

Wednesday

Car used (car won) pit in lap #, fuel left % -> fuel after %, pit time, fuel left % at finish
Start position / Door number / Finish position Total time (Total time winner) My best lap (fastest lap) DR after, SR after

19:30 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 16% -> 68% 30.915, 4% left, destruction derby, taken out twice, 3 reported
19:30 S16/D07/F10 20:04.563 (19:28.279) 2:05.999 (2:05.670) DR 31389 (-412) SR 80 (-19)
20:00 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 18% -> 66% 30.280, 0% left, dirty
20:00 S16/D06/F05 19:42.385 (19:14.030) 2:06.803 (2:04.564) DR 31568 (+179) SR 80 (--)

20:30 Jaguar F-Type (WRX GR3) pit 6, 0% -> 53% 31.174, 1 lap left, dirty, crashed on pit entry, hit as a ghost
20:30 S16/D07/F14 +1 lap (19:10.417) 2:06.982 (2:03.962) DR 30361 (-1207) SR 79 (-1)
21:00 Jaguar F-Type (Corvette C7) pit 3% -> 78% 34.101, 0% left, dirty, pinball
21:00 S16/D07/F04 19:43.864 (19:21.390) 2:05.539 (2:05.260) DR 30605 (+244) SR 81 (+2)
21:30 Jaguar F-Type (AMG GT3) pit 5, 5% -> 77% 33.751, 2% left, dirty, used as a rail by Ford
21:30 S17/D08/F03 19:50.056 (19:13.047) 2:06.689 (2:04.868) DR 31197 (+592) SR 80 (-1)

23:30 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 4, 31% -> 87% 31.573, 4% left, destruction derby lag fest
23:30 S18/D10/F07 20:17.869 (19:32.059) 2:07.748 (2:05.600) DR 31079 (-118) SR 85 (+5)
00:00 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (Mustang GR3) pit 5, 15% -> 70% 31.365, 2% left, dirty, taken out twice lap 1
00:00 S16//D05/F11 20:25.DNF (19:24.798) 2:07.163 (2:05.920) DR 30306 (-773) SR 95 (+10)

00:30 Lexus RC F GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 5 15% -> 69% 31.281, 2% left, dirty, clean race bonus!
00:30 S19/D12/F06 19:41.622 (19:25.489) 2:06.141 (2:05.123) DR 30861 (+555) SR 99 (+4)
01:00 Lexus RC F GT3 (Mustang GR.3) pit 5, 17% -> 68% 30.698, 1% left, dirty
01:00 S18/D10/F05 19:52.448 (19:27.279) 2:06.217 (2:05.644) DR 31253 (+392) SR 94 (-5)

Running totals

Fastest run: Ford Mustang GR3 19:34.276
Best lap: Jaguar F-Type 2:05.539

Fastest race: V12 Vantage GT3 19:07.629
Fastest lap: 2:03.138

Shortest pit time: Hyundai Genesis 30.280 (48% Fuel)
Longest pit time: Corvette C7 35.318 (84% fuel)

I Improved my best lap with the Jaguar, yet the races were too dirty to get a faster time over all. I have not seen a clean race today, kinda beginning to wonder how there are still people in SR.S Matchmaking is also getting worse though. I have been starting behind a whole bunch of D/S drivers all night. A+/S to D/S rooms, and while I was closer to 80 SR SR.B drivers were mixed into the group as well. Perhaps people are starting to avoid Bathurst.

Some out takes:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Here I slow down for a track re-entry.

The car behind me flashes his light instead of using his brakes and bumps me into the track re-entry. Then hits me two more times. 3 contacts, 2 sec penalty, SR Down, -1 SR for that race from just this.


Tonight improved the record of most awful lag during a race

He did that for most of the race, jumping all over sometimes in the air as well.



The last race had this nice individual. I guess he got mad as when he started braking too early I avoided him by establishing overlap before corner entry. However he did not pay attention and drove me into the wall to receive a penalty.

The eager car behind me hit me twice as well, yet that's expected, so I got 3.5 sec behind.

I catch up to him again and figure I better hang back until the straight, however then he does this at the esses

Tries to ram me first, yet alas he ghosts. Then he tries to punt me, denied. Then he quit.
It's another yoyo profile on KP, I keep running into them all the time.


As for the cars today. Jaguar great drive. Huracan awful with the new tire model. It used to be a great car for the mountain, yet now you're continually battling under and oversteer. There is no middle ground with that car anymore.

Jag, Mustang and V12 Vantage are my favorites so far for the mountain.

I have the feeling if somebody crashes in to you, you don't get a Penalty in the race, but it effects your SR rating.......

 

[MhtyClipster]

Just a quick question what do you use for race B other than the Meta? Been using the GT-R a bit personally, just curious what you guys go for and what is competitive and not too tricky to negotiate through the Bus Stop.

 

[Herrybo79]

Just a quick question what do you use for race B other than the Meta? Been using the GT-R a bit personally, just curious what you guys go for and what is competitive and not too tricky to negotiate through the Bus Stop.

I use the Veyron at the moment, but I see that the Porsche was quicker at the Manufaktur Series. I will give him a try....

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Using the curb on the right helps your car rotate through the really narrow part. Pre 1.23 I could do it flat out in the Lambo during qualy, not sure about now though.

Thanks for the advice. I had a few miles left for the daily car yesterday so I spent it just trying to work out that sector. I only made it clean going full throttle by changing gears just as I turned in. The gear change has a slight lift that helps to plant the wheels firmly into the corner. That being said, my exit was still causing me to ricochet off of the outside wall like an albatross.

As for the racing, Dragon Trail is still a pain with 3 different people running me off at the top of the hill before the hairpin, all in the same race. You can tell they are doing it on purpose because they are clearing the crest on the outside kerbing just to shove me into the grass.

 

[rono_thomas]

Thanks for the advice. I had a few miles left for the daily car yesterday so I spent it just trying to work out that sector. I only made it clean going full throttle by changing gears just as I turned in. The gear change has a slight lift that helps to plant the wheels firmly into the corner. That being said, my exit was still causing me to ricochet off of the outside wall like an albatross.

As for the racing, Dragon Trail is still a pain with 3 different people running me off at the top of the hill before the hairpin, all in the same race. You can tell they are doing it on purpose because they are clearing the crest on the outside kerbing just to shove me into the grass.

Wheels straight across the second kerb, or a very shallow steering angle limits the amount the right hand side of the car jumps. All four wheels stay on the ground for longer, meaning you have much more control where the car is pointing on exit to avoid the wall.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

I have the feeling if somebody crashes in to you, you don't get a Penalty in the race, but it effects your SR rating.......

Yes, that's what makes it so hard to regain SR. Every little bump can cost you SR even though no penalties are issued. What seems like a clean race can easily lead to a red rating by simply getting tapped from behind or the side a few times. Since the lower you drop in SR the more you encounter the "rubbing is racing" crowd, the harder it gets to regain SR.

The ones that do generally start in the top if not on pole to get back with easy wins. Which means more over confident people in the max SR rooms that don't really know how to race from the middle of the pack other than bump along, drop again in ratings for poles and easy wins.

Not qualifying suits me to keep my fate in my own hands at the start. However that also is no guarantee as yesterday I kept starting behind very slow drivers that hardly knew the track with more very impatient non qualifiers behind me. Plus the front got more dirty as well resulting in fast people getting crashed out and trying to claw their way back from behind with me stuck in the middle... Nothing as difficult as driving behind someone swerving all over the place while braking in odd places with an impatient car coming up behind you sticking a nose in at every opportunity. Often it's better to let them go ahead to crash the slow driver, however letting someone pass on the mountain is never safe either when it's someone that only knows how to hot lap.

Yet despite all the overconfident, dirty and clumsy drivers, you also meet people that can go two wide without problems which leads to awesome battles. Last night someone tried to overtake at T2 yet didn't quite make it and we stayed side by side all the way up the mountain until he finally gave in at Sulman park. Same thing going down from the esses to Forrest's elbow, or from there all the way to Murray's corner. There are people that can race fair and contact free. Most people choose not to leave any room though.

 

[CurbHog]

Race B - New record going from SR 99 to 65 in one race
I wish I could blame anyone but myself.
I completely overcooked the first chicane and was the cause of a massive pileup. After that I was frazzled and got another penalty shortly after.
If anyone was in that race, I apologize !!

This is a strong track for me so I will get back in there to recover some SR tonight

 

[stpatty]

Tried Bathurst for the first time. Went into the pit too fast and missed. Spawned outside and can't get in. I won't be back.

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Tried Bathurst for the first time. Went into the pit too fast and missed. Spawned outside and can't get in. I won't be back.

Seems everyone has fallen victim to that problem this week, myself included.

 

[MhtyClipster]

That entry is a killer I missed it earlier too and went skidding over the grass back on to the starting straight , luckily I was going for the under cut and had sufficient fuel for one more lap. Its particular sketchy if your in a group of cars as one tap and everyone's race is ****ed up.

 

[Shottah072]

Ugh... lost 1600 DR due to a disconnect...

 

[sturk0167]

With all that dirty driving in the back I was wondering how I kept hanging on to SR 99. Well, no more.

My first race today at 7:30 pm, notorious crash hour time, delivered as expected. It was a destruction derby where I got taken out in both the first and the second lap on the downhill section. Since I cannot control my car after getting turned into a missile on the grass, I could not avoid traffic in front and ended up with shortcut and contact penalties totaling 11 seconds for that race. My SR went down 19 points to 80, I reorted 3 people at the end.

Of course then I got matched with even worse drivers and it took another 7 races to get back to SR 99, where in the last race I got screwed over again to end on 94 for the day. Just like last week, and the week before, driving standards deteriorate as people get to know the track better. I guess a lot of people start to feel overconfident in how close they can drive.

4 more cars tested today

I actually did 5 races with the Jaguar. The first race I had a car right behind me on pit entry who I did not trust, so I started braking a bit later, slipped on the curb, tapped the pit wall and had to do a lap of shame. Finished +1 lap, no time to record. I lost SR as well, as while driving around at 80kph as a ghost, I got hit... 2 sec penalty and SR Down.

Wednesday

Car used (car won) pit in lap #, fuel left % -> fuel after %, pit time, fuel left % at finish
Start position / Door number / Finish position Total time (Total time winner) My best lap (fastest lap) DR after, SR after

19:30 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 16% -> 68% 30.915, 4% left, destruction derby, taken out twice, 3 reported
19:30 S16/D07/F10 20:04.563 (19:28.279) 2:05.999 (2:05.670) DR 31389 (-412) SR 80 (-19)
20:00 Hyundai Genesis (WRX GR3) pit 5, 18% -> 66% 30.280, 0% left, dirty
20:00 S16/D06/F05 19:42.385 (19:14.030) 2:06.803 (2:04.564) DR 31568 (+179) SR 80 (--)

20:30 Jaguar F-Type (WRX GR3) pit 6, 0% -> 53% 31.174, 1 lap left, dirty, crashed on pit entry, hit as a ghost
20:30 S16/D07/F14 +1 lap (19:10.417) 2:06.982 (2:03.962) DR 30361 (-1207) SR 79 (-1)
21:00 Jaguar F-Type (Corvette C7) pit 3% -> 78% 34.101, 0% left, dirty, pinball
21:00 S16/D07/F04 19:43.864 (19:21.390) 2:05.539 (2:05.260) DR 30605 (+244) SR 81 (+2)
21:30 Jaguar F-Type (AMG GT3) pit 5, 5% -> 77% 33.751, 2% left, dirty, used as a rail by Ford
21:30 S17/D08/F03 19:50.056 (19:13.047) 2:06.689 (2:04.868) DR 31197 (+592) SR 80 (-1)

23:30 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 4, 31% -> 87% 31.573, 4% left, destruction derby lag fest
23:30 S18/D10/F07 20:17.869 (19:32.059) 2:07.748 (2:05.600) DR 31079 (-118) SR 85 (+5)
00:00 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (Mustang GR3) pit 5, 15% -> 70% 31.365, 2% left, dirty, taken out twice lap 1
00:00 S16//D05/F11 20:25.DNF (19:24.798) 2:07.163 (2:05.920) DR 30306 (-773) SR 95 (+10)

00:30 Lexus RC F GT3 (AMG GT3) pit 5 15% -> 69% 31.281, 2% left, dirty, clean race bonus!
00:30 S19/D12/F06 19:41.622 (19:25.489) 2:06.141 (2:05.123) DR 30861 (+555) SR 99 (+4)
01:00 Lexus RC F GT3 (Mustang GR.3) pit 5, 17% -> 68% 30.698, 1% left, dirty
01:00 S18/D10/F05 19:52.448 (19:27.279) 2:06.217 (2:05.644) DR 31253 (+392) SR 94 (-5)

Running totals

Fastest run: Ford Mustang GR3 19:34.276
Best lap: Jaguar F-Type 2:05.539

Fastest race: V12 Vantage GT3 19:07.629
Fastest lap: 2:03.138

Shortest pit time: Hyundai Genesis 30.280 (48% Fuel)
Longest pit time: Corvette C7 35.318 (84% fuel)

I Improved my best lap with the Jaguar, yet the races were too dirty to get a faster time over all. I have not seen a clean race today, kinda beginning to wonder how there are still people in SR.S Matchmaking is also getting worse though. I have been starting behind a whole bunch of D/S drivers all night. A+/S to D/S rooms, and while I was closer to 80 SR SR.B drivers were mixed into the group as well. Perhaps people are starting to avoid Bathurst.

Some out takes:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Here I slow down for a track re-entry.

The car behind me flashes his light instead of using his brakes and bumps me into the track re-entry. Then hits me two more times. 3 contacts, 2 sec penalty, SR Down, -1 SR for that race from just this.


Tonight improved the record of most awful lag during a race

He did that for most of the race, jumping all over sometimes in the air as well.



The last race had this nice individual. I guess he got mad as when he started braking too early I avoided him by establishing overlap before corner entry. However he did not pay attention and drove me into the wall to receive a penalty.

The eager car behind me hit me twice as well, yet that's expected, so I got 3.5 sec behind.

I catch up to him again and figure I better hang back until the straight, however then he does this at the esses

Tries to ram me first, yet alas he ghosts. Then he tries to punt me, denied. Then he quit.
It's another yoyo profile on KP, I keep running into them all the time.


As for the cars today. Jaguar great drive. Huracan awful with the new tire model. It used to be a great car for the mountain, yet now you're continually battling under and oversteer. There is no middle ground with that car anymore.

Jag, Mustang and V12 Vantage are my favorites so far for the mountain.

You can skip the Supra. It's much slower than it's stats would indicate, and the worst part; it won't make it to the end of lap 5 on fuel.

 

[6BK]

Not qualifying suits me to keep my fate in my own hands at the start. However that also is no guarantee as yesterday I kept starting behind very slow drivers that hardly knew the track with more very impatient non qualifiers behind me. Plus the front got more dirty as well resulting in fast people getting crashed out and trying to claw their way back from behind with me stuck in the middle

I love the one where you intentionally start at the back, forfeiting DR, let the other cars drive on to kill each other and then someone crashes off, resets behind you and drives through you in the rush to catch back up. DR points lost and still drop SR because you were hit from behind. Sheesh!

I am seriously starting to enjoy the SR C races though. Nearly as though I’m actually chilling out more, caring less about scores and results. If I get a tip? Well so what? Part of me feels I’m coming to accept that GT is enjoyed less as “the real driving simulator” and more as just a bit of online fun where there’s no point deluding yourself that it’s anything more...then I log back on and work my ass off again for an SR S.