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Invisigoth
Hey bud, you *chose* to be at the back. No matter how fast you think you are, the car in front is under no obligation to just roll over and let you by. It's *your* responsibility to make the clean pass. The slower drivers are often just struggling to keep it on the track and are more focused on that than worrying about your ego. :p
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My post wasn't really to complain, but rather to compliment Sven for what he does. What you said is, of course true. I won't dispute that. Except for the part at the end about my ego. That just bothered me. I don't come here and talk about how good I am (I'm maybe about average). Most of my posts are self-deprecating.
But, I'm sorry.
 
Hasnain282
Those do not look exciting at all, but can't knock them too much till I properly try them.
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I can, that selection is dreadful, like one of the worst selections I've ever seen, even oval races would be better than those.

Two races at Tokyo and a reverse track, just why? Good luck to anyone who wants to play Audi/Megane bumper cars at Tokyo all week, enjoy your DR resets. :irked:
 
One of those Tokyo races should be at the other new circuit with the chicane of doom. At least Maggiore is good in either direction, but the selections have been poor this month.

At least I have been having more luck on Suzuka and putting away clean races.
 
sturk0167
My post wasn't really to complain, but rather to compliment Sven for what he does. What you said is, of course true. I won't dispute that. Except for the part at the end about my ego. That just bothered me. I don't come here and talk about how good I am (I'm maybe about average). Most of my posts are self-deprecating.
But, I'm sorry.
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Yeh, I suspect Sven has a masochistic streak :lol:. It's all good :D.
 
Had two races last night in the Alfa ... started 8th in a field with two S cars, quite a few A drivers, and the rest Bs, me being one. All SR "S"s. I was 7th after the first lap with the "S" fellow behind me, and I was happy for him to go by, but there was a queue of cars in front ... got to the tricky second part of Spoon curve ... and I went wide into the sandy stuff - the S guy had plenty of room but he deftly gave me a skilful tap ... so I was back to 14th. I fought up to 10th by watching guys make mistakes, but I still had a 0.8 second time penalty, that I could not seem to lower - at all. So at the final chicane, I slowed and still nothing happened. Then I got hit in the back and onto the grass I went - I came out in 14th, got to the line, and stopped before it ... then I thought bugger this, I moved forward - still with my 0.8 second penalty. And on the results board, I had a red dot and one second penalty ... I lost heaps of DR and must have with SR. I had one more race with an easier field and came 3rd - clean race - good - but I was slower than those two in front who were running high 9's and low 10s, and I was 4 seconds in front of third. Oh well
 
I think penalties don't go down if someone is under a yellow flag? Not 100% sure of this but also had penalties i slowed for and didn't go.
 
Really enjoying gp4 at suzuka. Comfy in thr 1.12s in the race which seems at the sharp end of dr c. Managed to win a race, been barely playing/no qualy so dr has been bumping along at the bottom so felt good to actually win again. Managed a couple of podiums and clean races tonight as well so chuffed.

Hats of to the guys who are sub 1.10, my perfect lap is just over 1.10 but I cant quite get it together for a full lap and qualy time low 1.11s.
 
Sven Jurgens
Btw can someone enlighten me why I got a 5 sec penalty here. I cannot figure it out.
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I have not driven this track but maybe when you had all four wheels on the white striped area of the track, I mean that would be a bit dumb but I can't see anything else that could possible give you a penalty here other than that.

Cerebral303
I think penalties don't go down if someone is under a yellow flag? Not 100% sure of this but also had penalties i slowed for and didn't go.
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Correct, you can not serve penalties when there is a yellow shown, the time will not go down.
 
Sven Jurgens
Yuck. I had enough Tokyo this week and GR.4 is way too slow for Tokyo. Lago Maggiore is not my favorite, nor a daily B race or reverse. I guess PD wants me to play something else.

Btw can someone enlighten me why I got a 5 sec penalty here. I cannot figure it out.
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I think it's because that's when you're supposed to hit the brakes 100 feet later, slide sideways and use the othe car as a berm to bounce you through the corner. You did it all wrong!
 
ASH32
I have not driven this track but maybe when you had all four wheels on the white striped area of the track, I mean that would be a bit dumb but I can't see anything else that could possible give you a penalty here other than that.
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Those areas are fine and if it was that it would not be a round 5 seconds I think. 5 sec is a wall penalty yet I never hit any wall. Perhaps the game thought I was wall riding right before turn in, that's all I can come up with. I have driven that corner like that many times before and never had that happen. I had to scan the replay as I didn't notice it until much later.
 
Speaking of penalties...what is the advantage of scrubbing your penalties before the race ends. Aren't they just tacked on to your time? Or are there SR/DR negatives.
 
Sven Jurgens
Those areas are fine and if it was that it would not be a round 5 seconds I think. 5 sec is a wall penalty yet I never hit any wall. Perhaps the game thought I was wall riding right before turn in, that's all I can come up with. I have driven that corner like that many times before and never had that happen. I had to scan the replay as I didn't notice it until much later.
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Yes it must have decided you hit the wall then. :boggled:
 
Rexracer702
Speaking of penalties...what is the advantage of scrubbing your penalties before the race ends. Aren't they just tacked on to your time? Or are there SR/DR negatives.
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You usually lose less time scrubbing them off than the actual time that gets added on if you just left the penalty
 
Rexracer702
Speaking of penalties...what is the advantage of scrubbing your penalties before the race ends. Aren't they just tacked on to your time? Or are there SR/DR negatives.
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The times are rounded up to the nearest second after the race finish, so you could potentially receive a larger penalty if you don't wipe it out completely.
 
Ran 3 Suzuka early morning. Nothing to report. Added couple hundred dr. Not fast enough to catch lead pack...too fast for those behind...
I used the Toyota’s big brother the Lexus.
Ran some time trials and Mcclarens nice but I’d have to use asm.
Is that wrong lol?
The 86 is by far the most fun, but you have to hit everything perfect or you are vulnerable. The straight past spoon...
Gonna try cayman later...
I gotta say I have a hard time with this class in general.
 
I am not a fan of the Gr4 F-Type, but just had a brilliant race at Suzuka where there was a mixed field of 9 cars, I set the fastest slap on lap 3 and beat it again on lap 4. You can really get the power down out of the corners, the torque helps with exit speeds at the Hairpin, Spoon and early acceleration out of Casio to the main straight allowing a good average speed for the lap. The stability really lets you attack Spoon where in other cars you lose time either going slightly lateral or holding off to prevent slippage.
 
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Car Used: Volkswagen GTI VGT Gr.3

Qualified Pole Position, finished 2nd. I improved my qualy time to a 1:54.301 before heading into this race. The race went well with me and a Macanese flying a Hong Kong flag in an M3 until the pits, where I and that M3 went into the Parking Garage for new tyres and some fuel. Another GTI ended up employing the overcut strategy, and so does some other drivers. Due to the fact that the M3 wasn't fast enough to get out of traffic on his undercut lap, I was able to escape and made the undercut work...until the final lap where I went too deep into the Tokyo Shipping Terminal hairpin, allowing the overcutter to get into the lead, plus the fact that his FL is about 0.1 seconds slower than my qualy time poses a big threat to my maiden win at Tokyo South. Moving on, I was able to get his slipstream, but that was too much as we enter the esses as I have to scrub some speed before the run into the Parking Garage Hairpin. At this point, there was no hope for my undercut as he crosses the line stealing my maiden victory...
 
Cerebral303
I am not a fan of the Gr4 F-Type, but just had a brilliant race at Suzuka where there was a mixed field of 9 cars, I set the fastest slap on lap 3 and beat it again on lap 4. You can really get the power down out of the corners, the torque helps with exit speeds at the Hairpin, Spoon and early acceleration out of Casio to the main straight allowing a good average speed for the lap. The stability really lets you attack Spoon where in other cars you lose time either going slightly lateral or holding off to prevent slippage.
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Try the Subaru. The AWD lets you go full throttle at any time, and the handling is terrific.
 
I wonder if PD is going to fix the driver stats. Total races hasn't updated at all for any races on the new Tokyo track, neither my average starting / finish position. The track isn't listed in course stats, yet races finished does go up on KP. Total wins is wrong as well now as the wins on Tokyo haven't been added. My amazing qualy time isn't listed either!
 
watto79
Next weeks races are up.

A - Tokyo Expressway - Central Inner Loop - 5 laps - Gr.X Provided Car
B - Autodrome Lago Maggiore - GP II - 4 laps - Gr.3
C - Tokyo Expressway - East Outer Loop - 7 laps - Gr.4
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I'm not quite interested in the Tokyo courses as I love the spirit of real race tracks or tracks that are so good they should be real. Just like Maggiore. But wait, it's in reverse. THEY DID IT AGAIN. WHY???
 
sturk0167
Try the Subaru. The AWD lets you go full throttle at any time, and the handling is terrific.
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True, but having tried it back to back with the F-Type just now the WRX is maybe too sticky and prone to understeer and doesn't rotate on command. The F-Type isn't as sticky, but it does tackle the tighter turns better with enough grip to hold on when you need it to.
 
Cerebral303
True, but having tried it back to back with the F-Type just now the WRX is maybe too sticky and prone to understeer and doesn't rotate on command. The F-Type isn't as sticky, but it does tackle the tighter turns better with enough grip to hold on when you need it to.
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I had a go with the rexy as an experiment for one day having a go at the 1.5h enduro lobby of @Rinsky 's. His rules, aside from ABS, no driver aids. With everything turned off it rotates much more briskly.
 
I drove both F-Type and WRX with everything but ABS turned off. I would hate to think how the WRX handles with aids on.
 
Raced 2 races at Suzuka. I'm back in the Alfa. I just couldn't drive the Megane again...FWD you know? High 11 for Q got me second on the grid. Thought about backing out since I'm not too consistant in the Alfa and I want to build DR back up. But I went for it. Vette with pole and I was all over him from T1 on the first lap. Got a bit of overlap once or twice, but he was blocking and I didn't want to crash so I backed off. Hit the front straight and he pulled a gap, and continued to pull away till the end. I finished a clean 2nd with 17 seconds on third.

Second race started 4th and the winner of race 1 was back in his vette. What a different race. Had a Mustang in front of me and he was slowing me down, but all over the road so no way around. Coming through the right after the kink he got real sideways and I swerved to avoid...and spun. Next thing i know im in 16th chasing down the guy who won the first race. Finished 14th. I guess thats racing.
 
I finally got a chance to sit down and do a few laps tonight. After a dozen or so laps I managed to best my lap time on Suzuka from10.272 to 10.200 lol, so I decided to do a race after that. I was starting second and the guy in first had a time of 9.6XX, so I was hoping for a good race but he didn’t make it through the warmup unfortunately and I ended up with the Pole. There must have been some carnage back there because after the first lap everyone fell way back, I ended up crossing the line with just over a 5s lead on the guy in 2nd. It would have been a Clean Dub too, but I got my inside tires off the track a hair at one point pushing too hard, that’s the only thing I can think off because I didn’t even so much as touch another car the entire race. Oh well, a Dub’s a Dub, they can’t all be Clean ones. I got my SR back up to A too, so I decided to quit while I was ahead. :D

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I decided to give Suzuka another go. Went with the 650. Turned tcs 3 asm on and ok I surely can’t crash...can I?
After some warm up time trials gettin down to 10.7 I felt strong with my q already set and entered sport mode...
I went in and had an intense race. 16BS room starting 4. I had an Aston and Porsche chasing.
It was intense I was keeping up with three and they were nipping at my heels in 4.
No overtakes, no mistakes, no penalties.
Got me some dr points, and my fix. I was jazzed. The 650 is lovely, but I wouldn’t run it naked in this one. Best to at least go tcs for the heat of battle. I think I am going to stick with it on this track.
Sweet clean driving by all. I’m surprised how intense it can be racing like that.
Good times.
 
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