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MikeV27
Going to start practicing for Maggiore GP tonight, I’ve been loving the AMG lately so I will stick with that for the week.

The SLS in group 4 is also very good, they are a little on the heavy side but both have great default setups.
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The SLS Gr.4 is underrated. It's got excellent handling like an MR but stable. I'd say its mainly due to its long bonnet and driver sitting way back.
 
Yesterday started off alright, getting a second and a third at Le Mans, before things started to go wrong. Fuji is an SR killer for me because the penalties are extremely harsh when you barely cut a corner. Take turn 3 - in one race at least 10 seconds worth of penalties were given to me; when I barely cut the corner 3 times. I still had two wheels on the tarmac but 4 seconds every time I do that? When I made an even larger cut, wherein I had no wheels on the tarmac, no penalty was given at all. Due to a heap of silly penalties and some shoving, my Sportsmanship Rating went down to a B. It was then where things started to get serious. I managed to get a win fair and square, which surely helped my cause, yet the rating hadn't changed. Then I won the Le Mans race, and I was promoted to Sportsmanship Rating A. Now I must get it back to an S rating - somehow.
 
What a way to end the night, first rammed on the straight for no reason then get rammed repeatedly in the final Corvette curves andbumped off into a reset with 4 sec penalty and -10 SR. The races were so clean until the last 3. Especially the last one was dirt central. Don't go to bed angry, so I guess I'm doing a NGP race to cool off. Wtf.

Btw it's the Honda Beat for race A :/

And one of the mofos moved right alone, punted me off, game gives me the penalty, -3 SR, Back to DR.B. Angry to bed it is then.
 
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Apparently a Toyota TS050 that can go flat out all race is still slower at Le Mans than a Porsche 919 that needs to save fuel throughout. It kept on running out of battery, especially out of Arnage. Full credit to Telmo, he got the race time all the way down to 17:17 in our second duel, but it's frustrating for me to consistently pole but not win :lol:.
 
I was hoping it'd be the Copen. The Beat is really good for this week. Shame we can't choose it from our Garage. Would make for cool replays in our own liveries.

No Qualy for me all week. JUst want to see how each car goes. Starting with Gr.3, in the RS01.
 
CLowndes888
Yesterday started off alright, getting a second and a third at Le Mans, before things started to go wrong. Fuji is an SR killer for me because the penalties are extremely harsh when you barely cut a corner. Take turn 3 - in one race at least 10 seconds worth of penalties were given to me; when I barely cut the corner 3 times. I still had two wheels on the tarmac but 4 seconds every time I do that? When I made an even larger cut, wherein I had no wheels on the tarmac, no penalty was given at all. Due to a heap of silly penalties and some shoving, my Sportsmanship Rating went down to a B. It was then where things started to get serious. I managed to get a win fair and square, which surely helped my cause, yet the rating hadn't changed. Then I won the Le Mans race, and I was promoted to Sportsmanship Rating A. Now I must get it back to an S rating - somehow.
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SR isn't affected by corner cutting penalties.

On topic - vanilla again.
 
Pigems
If it is the Porsche for Race A the BoP gives it a 17hp boost to 124hp from 107hp. Im testing in both sequential and Normal H shifting trannys now, I just have a feeling it will be this car lol.
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Lol you thought PD would do something sensible
 
I will be glad to see the back of Fuji now :lol:!! Only because I was fastest around there in the Huracan, and that thing is a magnet for trouble unless you are out in front.

Had a few hours yesterday afternoon, a win, couple of seconds, lots of nice manners. Then the evening........ holy ****! I am amazed that people can actually drive for whole laps whilst "warming their tires", following 3 or 4 cars all doing that like demolition derby, whilst trying to keep your SR intact and the cars behind at bay, is not fun!

And WHY do the tracks change now, at the very beginning of my working week 🤬 I have to sit here all day waiting.
 
Does the Honda shift properly or is Race A only for people with a shifter this week?
 
Bivittavus88
Surely it's the clutch that makes the difference? If you've got a three pedal set up, it should be just as fast to use the clutch, and paddle shifter.
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Naw it’s the shifter, you can manually shift gears faster than the computer simulates a gear shift in a H pattern car, it’s quite an advantage in some cars.

Edit: Where good, it’s a competition car with SQ gears, no worries on shifting. :)

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Damm, top ten for race A is already down to 2:10.5-2:13.3, I didn’t test the honda last night but it’s got 40 less HP than the Porsche I tested and my best time in that was 2:11 lol, it might take a while to catch up to a 2:10 in the Honda. :lol:
 
Winnie847
.... Another thing I noticed when I was behind you for those couple laps, was that you're taking the first Ford Chicane pretty slow. I bet you could find at least .5s there. I'm always amazed at how fast I can actually take it. Brake late, like just before the kerbs start on your right hand side, and chuck it through there as straight as possible, two wheels outside the lines on each of the 2 apexes. You can come real close to cutting it without actually doing so. ...
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I've been racing the Peugeot 908 at Sarthe and where you say to brake, at the first of Mulsanne Straight's chicanes, I cannot turn the car. I end up running into the racing curbing, rather than turning enough to the right. Not sure if its me not taking the power off quick enough, or turning the wheel quicker, or what. And its that chicane where in the race where I loose touch with the fast qualifiers ie the 3:20 to 3:22 qualifier guys. I'm frustrated with my lack of technique.
 
Pigems
Damm, top ten for race A is already down to 2:10.5-2:13.3, I didn’t test the honda last night but it’s got 40 less HP than the Porsche I tested and my best time in that was 2:11 lol, it might take a while to catch up to a 2:10 in the Honda. :lol:
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Thought I'd dip my toe into Sports mode again after a couple of dismal races in the A last week and completely missing the week or two before. Practiced in Campaign in the same car, boosted to 87HP as per the new event and did well.... so I tried qualifying, eventually managed a couple of laps without spinning (doesn't spin so easy in Campaign for some reason!), noted the qually time was better than my fastest lap in Campaign and thought "yay, I'm ready".

Then I looked at the top 10 times..... gutted. How on earth do they find all that time?? Might have to miss this week too :O
 
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Pigems
Naw it’s the shifter, you can manually shift gears faster than the computer simulates a gear shift in a H pattern car, it’s quite an advantage in some cars.
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That's a little odd. Glad I picked up a shifter to go with my wheel, though.
 
Do they purposely choose the worst handling cars for race A? Once it starts sliding, good luck catching it without hitting something or spinning. Taking long sweeping turns at 50mph isn't my idea of fun racing. N100 races should be in beginner league, not Sport mode.
 
LackLucid
SR isn't affected by corner cutting penalties.
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Riddle me this then. Two races. *neither* had any contact, *no* orange SRs, yet the race with the clean race bonus netted 6 SR and the race with a short cut penalty netter 4 :p.

And on to race B to try getting some SR back for Race C. Qualified P10/15 on an all DR/D grid with the M3. Bit disappointing, but the spread between P11 and P6 was 0.6s.

Auto drive lets go with the wheels still turned and off we go. T1 was a bit chaotic but generally ok. I found a lot of people going a bit wider than I was expecting, and I found myself moving up places. I had one bad pass where the person in front went wide, and I thought I could be through before his line intersected mine. I was wrong, he turned into me and I was rewarded with an orange SR and a 5s penalty. Well deserved, so I pressed on. I gained another 1.5s clipping a corner just that little bit too close and dropped from P5 to P10 across the line. Fair enough. Saw an additional two orange SRs from being rear ended.

SR down only 2... I was expecting closer to 6 for a Race B. DR dropped about 500.

I decided to have another crack, so I did some more qualifying laps and managed to get a time that would have got me pole on the same grid. I was instead P6 to start, when the reset to Sport Mode Screen bug hit.
 
Invisigoth
Riddle me this then. Two races. *neither* had any contact, *no* orange SRs, yet the race with the clean race bonus netted 6 SR and the race with a short cut penalty netter 4 :p.

And on to race B to try getting some SR back for Race C. Qualified P10/15 on an all DR/D grid with the M3. Bit disappointing, but the spread between P11 and P6 was 0.6s.

Auto drive lets go with the wheels still turned and off we go. T1 was a bit chaotic but generally ok. I found a lot of people going a bit wider than I was expecting, and I found myself moving up places. I had one bad pass where the person in front went wide, and I thought I could be through before his line intersected mine. I was wrong, he turned into me and I was rewarded with an orange SR and a 5s penalty. Well deserved, so I pressed on. I gained another 1.5s clipping a corner just that little bit too close and dropped from P5 to P10 across the line. Fair enough. Saw an additional two orange SRs from being rear ended.

SR down only 2... I was expecting closer to 6 for a Race B. DR dropped about 500.

I decided to have another crack, so I did some more qualifying laps and managed to get a time that would have got me pole on the same grid. I was instead P6 to start, when the reset to Sport Mode Screen bug hit.
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Well, you see
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The short answer is yes.

Driving GR.4 right after GR.1 was like waiting for the car to start all race. Race B should be a bit faster, yet I wonder how race A will feel!
 
Pigems
Damm, top ten for race A is already down to 2:10.5-2:13.3, I didn’t test the honda last night but it’s got 40 less HP than the Porsche I tested and my best time in that was 2:11 lol, it might take a while to catch up to a 2:10 in the Honda. :lol:
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Yeah Race A qualifying times are insane. The best time so far in EMEA is 2:08.444! I've spun a few laps and haven't gone sub 2:15 yet. I know I haven't got turn 1 right and there's loads of time to be had in carrying speed through the chicane and up the hill afterwards that I haven't done properly, but I'm not normally 7 seconds off the pace!

I watched the top time replay expecting to see an exploit or some track limit abuse, but there really wasn't any. It's just about maintaining momentum without the car spinning out which is REALLY tricky!
 
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