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Dairyworker
I got so fed up with that combo, i just cant stand it anymore. Slowest most boring thing they have offered up in months. It killed the game for me this week tbh and if it wasnt for the nord next week i might be gone longer.

Wreckfest is the answer to gts fatigue btw lol
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have just ordered wreckfest is it any good?
 
:censored:Oh god, I always said I would never race the tokyo circuits. Aaand I should have stuck to that. 2 races tonight, first not a total disaster, missed my braking point slightly and get the deserved 4 sec penalty for hitting another car, but I rear ended him exiting the turn and boosted him 2 spots so was fine with it. Got another 4 for getting blasted into turn 1, but even around the other cars race wasn't too bad. Did take hits on both counts.

Then race 2. Okay first lap and pass lots of people screwing up, up 5 places easy and smooth. Then someone blasts me into turn 2 of all places and of course I get the penalty. Then as I unghost way off the line I get blasted into the hairpin. Recover a bit and drive between 2 cars who were super slow. Biiig problem as one keeps ramming me and the other taps my rear then the wall to screw me. After I serve that I catch them and he does it again! He finally snaps and gets massive penalties but I am stuck around lots of penalty loving psychos. Spend a lot of time trying to just avoid everyone. This lets the insane guy back up, who rams me into a wall, which gives no one a penalty (?) then punts me completely into the barriers at the final hairpin. Giving me a 5 sec penalty and him a 4? My SR is now on life support and I'm done for the week. The weekend will only be worse so I am going to have to figure out how to lap sarthe to rebuild my SR somehow.

Oh yeah, the guy blamed me for everything afterwards, you know, I was brake checking because I feathered the gas in the chicane. Joy.

You guys can have it, I have to throw in the DS4 for the weekend after that:censored:

EDIT: just to be sure that PD screw me over I have finally checked the my stats after the race my PS4 wouldn't let me enter and yeah, I am credited with last. Cue 1200 DR loss and 5 SR because I couldn't get past the matching screen. I am normally quite cruisy about how much PD can help with problems caused by playera, but sorry PD this is all your disaster. Definitely done for the week, I don't need to get punished because you make me use a server half the globe away, I make enough of my own mistakes to not need that.
 
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Also what's the go with the RS01 GT3? It's an enigma. For an MR it feels beautifully planted with a pointy turn in and minimal mid corner oversteer imo. Its lightning fast through S2 and 3 at RBR and I recall it being by far my best car S1 at Suzuka but on the straights and accelerating its ridiculously slow. Therefore over the course of a lap its probably the slowest Gr3 I find.

I really want a BoP buff on this bad boy because its a joy to drive and I feel super fast driving it, that is until the lap is done and I find I've lost like .800 somewhere.
 
Sven Jurgens
Still working on that mythical clean race bonus at Tokyo. I managed a 4th place last race, 14 positions gained, yet got bumped from behind 3 times, lost 2 SR. It's a game of tag rather than racing. I'll keep trying, but as long as the penalty system is like this it might be impossible on this track while racing through traffic.

However, back to A/S from the back while staying in SR.S all week, just one race to the 'naughty' or rather cleaner SR.S room.
32,557 A 97 S
26,569 B 92 S
24,836 B 99 S
22,889 B 99 S
16,091 B 99 S

Nr.1 problem is, car in front bumps the wall, I lift / slow down to avoid, get tapped from behind by the car behind me. Totally my fault :)
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Do you know how much DR you're getting per race @Sven Jurgens ?
 
watto79
I've been trying to get qualifying times under 2:08.0 for Race C and below 1:30.0 for Race B that has proven quite frustrating.

FINALLY managed a 1:29.9 at RBR using the Aston (never driven it before, kinda like it now). I would have had a 1:28.8 if it wasn't for 'ignoring track limits' just before the final corner.

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Just need to hook up a decent lap for Race C now. Often get the optimal down there but getting everything hooked up in a single lap has eluded me so far. I've been racing in the Cayman which has kept the fun factor up and I enjoy being the sole Porsche in a field of Huracans!
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Well done on the time for RBR! Getting into the 29's is painful enough. Low 29's/high 28's is insanely difficult. Have you tried the Huracan? It'll get you the rotation you need to get to the top times, but it is incredibly twitchy!
 
Mistah_MCA
Well done on the time for RBR! Getting into the 29's is painful enough. Low 29's/high 28's is insanely difficult. Have you tried the Huracan? It'll get you the rotation you need to get to the top times, but it is incredibly twitchy!
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Thank you :) For what is really quite a basic circuit, RBR is very frustrating to pin a fast lap time.

I did try the Huracan and could get close, but did struggle with the twitchyness. Also tried:

GTR - This was the next fastest for me
AMG - not as close but much more consistent times in general
R8 - No good for me at this circuit
911 - As per the R8

Really pleased with the handling of the Aston though. I'm playing around with different manufacturers for the next FIA seasons and Aston Martin are on the short list 👍
 
watto79
Thank you :) For what is really quite a basic circuit, RBR is very frustrating to pin a fast lap time.

I did try the Huracan and could get close, but did struggle with the twitchyness. Also tried:

GTR - This was the next fastest for me
AMG - not as close but much more consistent times in general
R8 - No good for me at this circuit
911 - As per the R8

Really pleased with the handling of the Aston though. I'm playing around with different manufacturers for the next FIA seasons and Aston Martin are on the short list 👍
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I am a lot slower but also very pleased with the Aston. I ran the Maclaren F1 GTR in the start of the week and I am almost as fast in that but the Aston is much more planted and stable. I think I can lower my times in that.
 
NoStopN
What I can't figure out is, I tried the cars that I wanted to try & it felt like the cars drove better right out of the gate. After a little tuning, these cars can't stay pointed in a straight line. I reset everything back to defaults, but still feels twitchy.
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It's the exact opposite for me in PC2. I have a wheel and the default setups are downright undrivable. It takes sooooo much tuning and adjusting before a race and even the slightliest adjustments have brutal impact on everything. It kind of ruins the game for me. I just don't believe that race cars are so difficult to drive in real life. After all, they're race cars. They're designed for going very quickly around a track.
 
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BaareCZ
It's the exact opposite for me in PC2. I have a wheel and the default setups are downright undrivable. It takes sooooo much tuning and adjusting before a race and even the slightliest adjustments have brutal impact on everything. It kind of ruins the game for me. I just don't believe that racing cars are so difficult to drive in real life. After all, they're racing cars. They're designed for going very quickly around a track.
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This is basically how I feel about PC2 as well, AC is much easier to just jump into and drive. It’s still tricky and needs some tuning, but nowhere near the levels of PC2. :)
 
Might need to chill for the night, while I'm on a high
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This one was sweet though(video wouldn't load; I'll try again later). Last lap, 3-wide battle into T2. I was in the middle between an RSR on my left and GT-R on my right. We brake and as the GT-R moves in front of me, I switch to the inside and pass both mid-corner and exit. It ain't over, as the GT-R races me side-o by side-o into T3. I stay way wide at exit and use that TC2 for all its worth!. The GT-R and RSR continue to scrap with me pulling away. :)
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Got up this morning and went right to RBR and worked on qauli times, I was starting to far back making it difficult to work to the front. Was just trying to be consistent and hit braking points, getting a good launch on exits.

Managed to get down to a 1:30.559, would’ve been 1:30.400 but second last corner I exceeded track limits. From there I was consistently putting down 1:30 laps.

Time to hop on and run some races.
 
breeminator
Several reasons I can think of:
1. It's a different person using the account (there was a post on this forum where someone talked about friends coming round and playing on his account).
2. They qualified in a different car and are trying out different cars in the race, possibly without even practising in the different car first.
3. They qualified quite some time ago, forgot all the fine details they learned of exactly how to drive the track, and just jumped straight into a race a couple of days later without practising first to get back into the groove.
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4. Drugs/Alcohol :cheers:
 
250Cal
Do you know how much DR you're getting per race @Sven Jurgens ?
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It entirely depends on matchmaking and getting screwed by the penalty system. I gain a few hundred DR per race on average but it has slowed down a lot since I reached DR.A, the +1500 bonus for 'leveling up' also means less points per race since the DR difference gets bigger and bigger compared to the average in the room. Matchmaking is mostly B/S to D/S with only a few A/S and maybe an A+/S driver in the room.

As for stats overall:
I have currently completed 424 races total on Tokyo East outer loop with 27 victories (still none this week) and 255 top 5 finishes. That includes races from the time I still used to qualify. My average finish position on Tokyo is 5.54 with average of 7.53 positions gained per race.

It's not my most popular track by far, Mount Panorama sits at 824 races completed, then Nordschleife at 715 races plus 570 races at the N24.
 
Would it be fair to say the unwritten rule around Tokyo is that the car in front, while on the racing line, has rite of way through the fast corners?

Had a week of (mostly) great racing until today. A few people thought it was okay to:
a) send a pass up the inside at the fast/blind/death chicane, and;
b) assume there is enough room to go 2-wide through the fast right-hander that follows it.

I disagreed on both of those. Just not a smart way to race here where there is absolutely no run-off.
 
O604
Only 96 more to break his consecutive clean race record. Yes I'm serious. He has a 97 race clean streak. Why? Because he can. :lol:

Yet took him a full week to get a clean race bonus at Tokyo this week. :scared:
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Yeah but this is what happened to my DR when doing that clean streak

Day, DR, SR
492 21,907 B 99 S
491 6,690 C 99 S
490 823 D 99 S
489 8,334 C 99 S
488 16,83 B 99 S
487 24,591 B 99 S
486 29,720 B 99 S
485 28,963 B 99 S
484 29,096 B 99 S

I quickly figured out that the only way to keep it going was to avoid everyone, to the extreme of coming to a full stop on the side of the road a couple times to avoid getting in between cars where it's just a matter of time until the car behind you breaks your clean streak. I passed a couple cars then when one approached from behind with traffic in front of me I would pull over to let them pass and crash again :lol: This meant losing DR on average per race, which only made the backfield harder to deal with.

After reaching 81 races (my target since it was the current record at the time) I qualified and then had a bunch of very easy clean victories until the streak finally got broken by a tap from behind. It wasn't racing before that, dodging arrows on the radar :lol: No more of that, that was pure endurance hell after a while, sweating bullets every time a car came back from behind, a full week of looking anxiously in the mirror more than at the track in front of me.

Tokyo is too much fun to hang back. Fast through the twisty section, always lining up someone to draft for the next straight. Shift early out of the hairpin to create a bit of distance, about 0.6 sec going into the tunnel to get a nice slighshot out of the tunnel and not start passing until the car reaches 270kph. If there are a few cars behind that start passing each other, swerve just a little bit to give them equal slipstream and force them to take T1 side by side, so evil and effective :mischievous:

This is the competition in the morning, doesn't look any cleaner than in the evening but actually more clumsy than bumpy.
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My fastest lap so far, so close to breaking into 2:08's. It's getting slowed in the twisty section that negates the big slipstream gains.
Always fun to the finish!
 
O604
Only 96 more to break his consecutive clean race record. Yes I'm serious. He has a 97 race clean streak. Why? Because he can. :lol:

Yet took him a full week to get a clean race bonus at Tokyo this week. :scared:
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Damn that is impressive!! That was my first clean race ever, mind you only had the game 2 weeks.

@Sven Jurgens anywhere I can go to watch some of your replays? Love to watch and learn from the best, been my strategy so far and seems to really be helping.
 
Sven Jurgens
Yeah but this is what happened to my DR when doing that clean streak

Day, DR, SR
492 21,907 B 99 S
491 6,690 C 99 S
490 823 D 99 S
489 8,334 C 99 S
488 16,83 B 99 S
487 24,591 B 99 S
486 29,720 B 99 S
485 28,963 B 99 S
484 29,096 B 99 S

I quickly figured out that the only way to keep it going was to avoid everyone, to the extreme of coming to a full stop on the side of the road a couple times to avoid getting in between cars where it's just a matter of time until the car behind you breaks your clean streak. I passed a couple cars then when one approached from behind with traffic in front of me I would pull over to let them pass and crash again :lol: This meant losing DR on average per race, which only made the backfield harder to deal with.

After reaching 81 races (my target since it was the current record at the time) I qualified and then had a bunch of very easy clean victories until the streak finally got broken by a tap from behind. It wasn't racing before that, dodging arrows on the radar :lol: No more of that, that was pure endurance hell after a while, sweating bullets every time a car came back from behind, a full week of looking anxiously in the mirror more than at the track in front of me.

Tokyo is too much fun to hang back. Fast through the twisty section, always lining up someone to draft for the next straight. Shift early out of the hairpin to create a bit of distance, about 0.6 sec going into the tunnel to get a nice slighshot out of the tunnel and not start passing until the car reaches 270kph. If there are a few cars behind that start passing each other, swerve just a little bit to give them equal slipstream and force them to take T1 side by side, so evil and effective :mischievous:

This is the competition in the morning, doesn't look any cleaner than in the evening but actually more clumsy than bumpy.
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My fastest lap so far, so close to breaking into 2:08's. It's getting slowed in the twisty section that negates the big slipstream gains.
Always fun to the finish!
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That ShadowNoob guy is very dirty. Brake checking and doing dumb stuff all around. Great races man. I saw you coming from the back. Well done!
 
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Sven Jurgens
It entirely depends on matchmaking and getting screwed by the penalty system. I gain a few hundred DR per race on average but it has slowed down a lot since I reached DR.A, the +1500 bonus for 'leveling up' also means less points per race since the DR difference gets bigger and bigger compared to the average in the room. Matchmaking is mostly B/S to D/S with only a few A/S and maybe an A+/S driver in the room.
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Yes. Getting to SR S means I'm getting matched with higher ratings which is boosting the DR Gain. I'm up to B now.

Sven Jurgens
This is the competition in the morning, doesn't look any cleaner than in the evening but actually more clumsy than bumpy.
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My fastest lap so far, so close to breaking into 2:08's. It's getting slowed in the twisty section that negates the big slipstream gains.
Always fun to the finish!
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I nudged in a cheeky 2:08.5 in my race this morning on my way from 17th to 3rd.

 
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