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I just looked up the FIA races for today, GR1 Fuji, GR4 Brand's hatch. I might give those a try. I think they are on from 6 to 10? Is there a time slot I cannot enter due to top 24? I can't find that info on the website, just entry open 18:00, entry closes 22:24, rather odd. I do remember trying to enter a FIA race once on a Saturday and it would not let me.
Oh, I didn't know that FIA races have damage. I've never tried one of those races. From the sound of things, it's probably a bunch of dudes who take the thing way more seriously than I do.Well that was pretty disappointing. I did the GR.1 Fuji race, didn't qualify (was eating dinner waiting for the actual race to start) and started in 18th as 2 had lost connection already before race start. I did the 15 minute practice beforehand, didn't get under 1:30 lap time.
The race starts, my Audi R18 makes up some places on the straight plus someone crashed in T1 of course. So we're coming up on Dunlop, the car behind me has a 2 bar connection, either doesn't brake on time on lags into me and punts me into the car in front of me. Then in the corner he lags into me again. Then I notice my car is pulling slightly to the right, very annoying on a controller. The same car then touches grass and rams me from the side in T2. I notice that front and rear bumper and left wheel are all blinking on the display....
I try to drive the car yet it's just going much slower now so in lap 3 I go into the pit. 10 sec repair break for aero and suspension. Now I'm in dead last where I stay. I pit again in lap 8 for fresh tires and get the blue flag in lap 11. I move aside and brake early for T1 to let first through. Then go wide through T7 to let 2nd and 3rd pass safely. I stay ahead of 4th before I finish 1 lap down. I finish 16th since 2 cars disconnected including the car that hit me 3 times.
Yup, much better with damage. not.
Oh and the post race chat was some of the angriest I have seen in the game. Everyone had a blue rating, very few penalties, yet tempers were very hot. Good thing it closes after a few minutes!
Next up Brand's hatch.
BEETLE-MANIA!!!
Yeah, I said it.
Lol your first race sounded awfully lot like my Brand's race which basically ended in L2 when I got totalled, 2 rams later i got lapped by p13 by the endWell that was pretty disappointing. I did the GR.1 Fuji race, didn't qualify (was eating dinner waiting for the actual race to start) and started in 18th as 2 had lost connection already before race start. I did the 15 minute practice beforehand, didn't get under 1:30 lap time.
The race starts, my Audi R18 makes up some places on the straight plus someone crashed in T1 of course. So we're coming up on Dunlop, the car behind me has a 2 bar connection, either doesn't brake on time on lags into me and punts me into the car in front of me. Then in the corner he lags into me again. Then I notice my car is pulling slightly to the right, very annoying on a controller. The same car then touches grass and rams me from the side in T2. I notice that front and rear bumper and left wheel are all blinking on the display....
I try to drive the car yet it's just going much slower now so in lap 3 I go into the pit. 10 sec repair break for aero and suspension. Now I'm in dead last where I stay. I pit again in lap 8 for fresh tires and get the blue flag in lap 11. I move aside and brake early for T1 to let first through. Then go wide through T7 to let 2nd and 3rd pass safely. I stay ahead of 4th before I finish 1 lap down. I finish 16th since 2 cars disconnected including the car that hit me 3 times.
Yup, much better with damage. not.
Oh and the post race chat was some of the angriest I have seen in the game. Everyone had a blue rating, very few penalties, yet tempers were very hot. Good thing it closes after a few minutes!
Next up Brand's hatch.
For some reason I picked Jaguar when checking the races last Wednesday so now I'm stuck driving the F-Type. I practice for 15 boring minutes then get matched with mostly DR.A+ and DR.S again. There is only one other DR.A in the room. My punishment for doing well last week on the Nordschleife.
Qualifying starts, people are letting me pass on the outlap, then when I try to do my quali lap I get bumped off 3 times. The second quali lap goes better yet I notice my tires are quite worn already. I go in to change to soft tires as that seems to be the fashion, do another outlap, get held up a bit during my quali lap and set a 1:31 lap time. That puts me starting last, why bother!
The race finally starts and it's all going quite orderly. I follow behind the pack, not really having the speed or room to even attempt to over take. I pass one Brazilian that got bumped off the track who then forces me off the track in lap 3. Oh well, my connection to the pack lost and I'm not catching back up again.
I manage to keep the car on the road and pit halfway with me front left tire pretty much done. Then I pass a car limping to the pit for repairs. He gets out 6 seconds behind me which he slowly makes up to bump me from behind in T2, lap 11. I would have given him space to pass yet as soon as he got in range he had to pointlessly bump me, while the next car was another 10 sec ahead of me. He pushes by in T3 as door to door racing is mandatory in A+.
I make up one position in the final lap from someone limping to the finish. I finish 14th (couple disconnects again) and get 419 points. Whoohoo. My best lap is the slowest of all, no other Jaguars in the race so I'll blame it on the car
To sum up, boring practice, frustrating qualifying, boring race.
Those 2 FIA races only cost me 1350 DR somehow, basically finishing last in both races. I lost a lot more for a single disconnect on the Nordschleife. I guess I wasn't worth a lot of points in these rooms.
I've lost few thousand once, so you're still good.
i can tell they ninja tweaked the penalty system , 2 orange SR gets you a red rating everytime now
Is there a "trick" involved when you get a threatening message from a guy that actually hit you off the track twice. I honestly got upset about this way of racing so I took him out. Now he wants to report me? Do they think they can just hit people off the tracks? I'm not killingly serious as I know this is a computer game but getting these kind of messages put me off...... Cheers....---Just pi.... me off.
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Thanks Sven - GOOD to know! Cheers mate.What track is that on? Daily A or B is sometimes only worth 5 SR points max, or even as low as 4. An orange SR is -2 and you don't get the green arrow for that sector so you basically miss another point. If the track is only worth 4 SR for a clean race, 2 orange arrows will be a red rating.
If you get threats through psn messages you can report them to Sony. They will investigate, but it comes with a big warning that you can be suspended as well if they deem it was unnecessary.
Don't worry about getting reported in game, it does nothing.
Lol your first race sounded awfully lot like my Brand's race which basically ended in L2 when I got totalled, 2 rams later i got lapped by p13 by the end
@teebone I've lost few thousand once, so you're still good.
@teebone I've lost few thousand once, so you're still good.
Is there a "trick" involved when you get a threatening message from a guy that actually hit you off the track twice. I honestly got upset about this way of racing so I took him out. Now he wants to report me? Do they think they can just hit people off the tracks? I'm not killingly serious as I know this is a computer game but getting these kind of messages put me off...... Cheers....---Just pi.... me off.
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Are the races for next week already known? I know that there used to be a way to tweak the url patterns of the GT site and see what's coming next, but I don't know if that's still possible since they changed the races from daily to weekly.
Have you guys seen this yet?
Be careful out there. I can see disgruntled racers engaging in this behavior.
Mind dropping a regular url? Can't load your link for some reason..
Lol. Race B has turned into the Beetle cup. I'm a lone FT-1 getting bumped and dive bombed by beetles everywhere.
Thing is, the FT-1 race pace is great. It suffers mid corner on the hairpins which is where impatient Beetles feel the need to "ease" you out of the way.
PD: Scrap that Beetle. It'll look better as a crushed cube of metal than it does now. Makes replays look like Fortnite for cars
Edit: Last race was great. Some very close clean driving on the last lap. Heart pumping stuff.