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Did yesterday the Daily C race twice. The first time was fine nice close clean racing with dr C-D-B and SR C-D. The second race with all drivers with a driver rating C and Sportsmanship S was like stock car racing .... I thought that S should have been beter than this ....
 
Grandea GTR
Idk if I'm tripping or anything, but the penalty mishap that's plaguing the game at the moment seems to be screwing up the matchmaking as well.

I've gotten massive position gains and final fastest laps consecutively the past few races lately, and in no way am I that fast of a driver! At all!!!
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Who you get matched against starts off with SR. Once it find enough with the same SR, it goes by DR to try matching a grid with similar DR, then it separates that down to qualifying times. If there are enough people with similar DR to you, that's who you will be matched against, regardless of your qualifying speed. If you are DR/D and have a qualifying speed similar to DR/Bs, you will still be matched against DR/Ds .. just probably pole .

Qualifying laps are done without the effects of dirty tyres, traffic and debris buildup on the outside edges of the track. Once these come into play, the faster qualifiers may not have the race craft to drive fast in an actual race. I qualified P3 the other day. Come the race, the track conditions meant I just kept dropping places, even though no one was hitting me.


05XR8
Gotta say, those Huracans in my races, are a bit in the way. I haven't seen one navigating any of the esses quickly. Those qualy times are masking it's weaknesses during a race. Again, just from my races.
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Kinda odd. Once you make the turn at the bottom of the hill into the esses you should be flat to the floor all the way to the kerb stones just before the corner that takes you to the bus stop. The Lambo is down on torque?
 
Invisigoth
Who you get matched against starts off with SR. Once it find enough with the same SR, it goes by DR to try matching a grid with similar DR, then it separates that down to qualifying times. If there are enough people with similar DR to you, that's who you will be matched against, regardless of your qualifying speed. If you are DR/D and have a qualifying speed similar to DR/Bs, you will still be matched against DR/Ds .. just probably pole .

Qualifying laps are done without the effects of dirty tyres, traffic and debris buildup on the outside edges of the track. Once these come into play, the faster qualifiers may not have the race craft to drive fast in an actual race. I qualified P3 the other day. Come the race, the track conditions meant I just kept dropping places, even though no one was hitting me.




Kinda odd. Once you make the turn at the bottom of the hill into the esses you should be flat to the floor all the way to the kerb stones just before the corner that takes you to the bus stop. The Lambo is down on torque?
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In this one, the Lambo I'm behind, set a 46.0(Edit: 45.5). Yes, many cars depend on the player, but I thought even the ones behind me would be a problem. It's only been the Vantage. Now, I'm seeing the RC F isn't that flash, if we're not on a straight.
 
What a waste of a night of racing. Decided I had been surviving race A well last night so tried to go for race B tonight. Got the Vette down to a 47.3 and headed in.

What a 🤬🤬 joke of a 🤬🤬🤬🤬:censored:race! Racecraft? Never heard of it. Started p9 or worse each race, got punted 3 of first 3 races. And big punts, like from 0.6 back at the hard right before the bus stop. I am inside? Just turn in anyway. Pulling beside on the straight? Just run me off. It was ugly. The only race I didn't get caught in the 🤬 was the one where i got from p10 to p6 lap 1 and ate it on the bus stop. On the other hand that led to 3 laps of a clean race with another driver I see regularly.

This has gone from people working to police themselves to 🤬 mad max style.:banghead::banghead:

Going to have to think about whether I race again or just do QT as every race I have been in this week has been brutal. Even if I escaped it all I have been surrounded by carnage. :crazy:

Best of luck to you all out there.

Edit: @05XR8 I have been running up the back of the lambos I have seen as well. They seem to be lacking something if I can run right on them down the straight and through the turns in that Vette.
 
Redneckchef
What a waste of a night of racing. Decided I had been surviving race A well last night so tried to go for race B tonight. Got the Vette down to a 47.3 and headed in.

What a 🤬🤬 joke of a 🤬🤬🤬🤬:censored:race! Racecraft? Never heard of it. Started p9 or worse each race, got punted 3 of first 3 races. And big punts, like from 0.6 back at the hard right before the bus stop. I am inside? Just turn in anyway. Pulling beside on the straight? Just run me off. It was ugly. The only race I didn't get caught in the 🤬 was the one where i got from p10 to p6 lap 1 and ate it on the bus stop. On the other hand that led to 3 laps of a clean race with another driver I see regularly.

This has gone from people working to police themselves to 🤬 mad max style.:banghead::banghead:

Going to have to think about whether I race again or just do QT as every race I have been in this week has been brutal. Even if I escaped it all I have been surrounded by carnage. :crazy:

Best of luck to you all out there.

Edit: @05XR8 I have been running up the back of the lambos I have seen as well. They seem to be lacking something if I can run right on them down the straight and through the turns in that Vette.
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That's what I'm saying. Supra ain't fast, but jeez, I was lagging just then in my last race. I pull over and am last. Two Lambos are fighting but still, I caught and passed them. They did set 47 second times. It was mostly A/S with 2-3 B/S.

The Vette is good though. I had about four races fighting with one. Not RC F speed, but it's got grunt. Smooth handling car.
 
williams_v_r
Race B QT: 01:46.1XX

I need a wheel right now
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i was in a couple race b's with you last night on my US account. You were leading by a couple of seconds and then 3 of us were having a great battle swapping places behind you.. until i got sent to the realm on the last lap by an over exuberant chap using me as a rail guard. Ended up dead last in that one :banghead:
 
OK, the new penalties has changed my behaviour. I ran a race B right now and a British "gentleman" tried to push me off on the last lap. From the esses all the way to the braking zone by the harbour he banged and squeezed me (TCS 2 so I survived) so knowing he would keep it up and probably send me into the wall at COD I lifted and TIP-manouvered him in the 90° turn by the water. I have absolutely no remorse for that. I will happily race clean, side by side and make room or give corner to someone with overlap but if you play downright dirty I will return the favour.
 
RacingGrandpa
OK, the new penalties has changed my behaviour. I ran a race B right now and a British "gentleman" tried to push me off on the last lap. From the esses all the way to the braking zone by the harbour he banged and squeezed me (TCS 2 so I survived) so knowing he would keep it up and probably send me into the wall at COD I lifted and TIP-manouvered him in the 90° turn by the water. I have absolutely no remorse for that. I will happily race clean, side by side and make room or give corner to someone with overlap but if you play downright dirty I will return the favour.
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RacingGrandpa
What do you feel about this? Good or bad? I think that this is the only way dirty drivers will learn, unless we have a penalty system that faults them. And that is not very likely.
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i fully agree with you . Last week i was racing with the famous french dirty driver everybody knows , he took me out on the Maggiore hairpin once. First time i thought that was a honest mistake , how naive i was.....he did the exact same thing the next race and i sent him a message through PSN after :" you want to play this way? ok from now on you will eat the wall each time i see you" . "Luckily for me" , i met him twice after that and i proceeded to smash his ass onto the wall 2 times.

So yeah now if we have to make justice ourselves at least we can
 
Is it me or is everyone suddenly fast at Dragon Trail? I turned a1:47:330 in qualifying and I'm sure I'll be outside the top 1,000 by the end of the day. My time is almost 2 seconds slower than the top 100. I can for sure pick up another few tenths but 2 seconds lol!? Is there an OP car everyone is using for qualifying or am I suddenly a middle of the pack runner at a track I used to do pretty well on?

I set my time with the Corvette...which surprised me as it's a car I don't often use.

Pigems
Lambo down to 45.398 now, I can smell the 44’s!! :D

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Optimal is actually 45.074 now. :)
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Wow, that's a quick lap.
 
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Another day and another opportunity to get 🤬 over by idiots who side swipe you and push you out of the way because you are passing them :banghead:. I qualified with the WRX and managed to improve upon my Supra time. Unfortunately during the qualifying before race matching, I couldn't throw any laps together without lifting for the bus stop.. I still can't find the line, I seem to have forgotten where it it :crazy:. The first 3 qualifying laps were also hard because I use chase mode and I kept getting distracted by my livery.. where the rear number plate goes I have a pair of angry eyes staring at me :scared:. Anyway, I started P6/16 with a pair of Lambos in front of me. I knew this wasn't going to end well.

Race starts and T1 was a nightmare. @05XR8 , I see what you mean. Those Huracans are a bloody menace! I had to break my momentum on every corner and have cars behind me rear end me because I was trying to avoid ramming the turtles with the Lamborghini badge. Added to that was the lack of race craft . No one was giving any room when there was overlap. I ended up getting pushed into the sand, and then couldn't make the corners because of dirty tyres. I ended up in last position. I finished second last because someone came off right near the end.

Edit: Since some people had suggested the 'vette was a good choice for chasing the Dragon, I did some qualifying with the Viper. For me I find i do better with the Viper than with the Corvette for Gr4, and better with the Corvette than the Viper for Gr3 :rolleyes:. I improved my times again and almost pulled off a flat bus stop. My indicators for lap times are @The_Tullster and @Redneckchef. Sadly for me, they are both putting in faster qualifying times than me, but erm, Fudsy mate.. better pull yer finger out.. with each change of car I'm inching closer... I'm coming fur ya!
 
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DigDugJones
Is it me or is everyone suddenly fast at Dragon Trail? I turned a1:47:330 in qualifying and I'm sure I'll be outside the top 1,000 by the end of the day. My time is almost 2 seconds slower than the top 100. I can for sure pick up another few tenths but 2 seconds lol!? Is there an OP car everyone is using for qualifying or am I suddenly a middle of the pack runner at a track I used to do pretty well on?

I set my time with the Corvette...which surprised me as it's a car I don't often use.



Wow, that's a quick lap.
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Dragon trail is easy once you get used to it. Also maybe the Lewis Hamilton DLC contributed to that as well. I never got it by the way. I’m at 1:46.9 with the F Type right now.
 
Holy crap, I actually beat my Target time for once(at Seaside), that never happens. :)

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DigDugJones
Is it me or is everyone suddenly fast at Dragon Trail?
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It really does seem that way. I was banking on Race B for some DR farming but it seems like everyone got gud. After a huge amount of effort, and using @Pigems lap as a guide managed to get a 1:45.8, but even that I know won't be enough to put me in the top half of the grid.

Quickly jumped on my second account to do some races from the back. First race in the Veyron picked up 6 positions. Fun race. Then for a laugh tried the Alfa 4C. I do not recommend using the 4C for this one...

@Pigems video was super helpful though and confirmed what I always end up doing. Braking too late chasing tenths. Brake earlier, get a better exit and gain shed loads of time. It's the uphill esses that are a killer to get right, and on the occasions I do the CoD says hello.
 
watto79
@Pigems video was super helpful though and confirmed what I always end up doing. Braking too late chasing tenths. Brake earlier, get a better exit and gain shed loads of time. It's the uphill esses that are a killer to get right, and on the occasions I do the CoD says hello.
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Ain't that the truth. When I try to push the Sector 1 corners too hard, my lap times are bad. This was the mistake I kept making in race last night too...I need to take the "slower" inside line on T2 and that'll set me up for good things for the rest of the lap. When I pushed it, I ended up off the track or I lost the back end...or a slower car overlapped me in the corner, and I got stuck behind them all the way until the corner before the chicane.

The other place that I'm hurting a little bit, and I should go back and take a look at some videos is the last turn. My lap times are faster when I hit the apex late, but I'm having a hard time getting the brake point right, especially in the slipstream. I'm still excited about this week though. Overall, I like Gr 4 more than Gr 3, and this track is fun.
 
After midnight racing in Asia/Oceania is rough. Race B four times. First two were disasters, started top half of the grid and finished almost last in both. Partly ragged driving (currently DR-C, most drivers in that range seem to have no racecraft), a couple of dirty drivers and a bit of me pushing too hard.
Switched from Vantage to Jag and doing much better. Q laps about the same for both cars, but the Jaguar suits the race much better. Got two consecutive 3rd place finishes, one of which came with a rather dubious CRB. I don't know that I'd have called it a clean race, but at least I was trying.
 
Had a good first race at Suzuka last night, first time I've been door number 16 in a long while. Spent most of the race by myself in 9th, got passed by a couple much quicker cars as my tires started wearing out (DS4 kills tires) but they were respectful and waited for obvious openings instead of forcing it.
 
The_Tullster
After midnight racing in Asia/Oceania is rough. Race B four times. First two were disasters, started top half of the grid and finished almost last in both. Partly ragged driving (currently DR-C, most drivers in that range seem to have no racecraft), a couple of dirty drivers and a bit of me pushing too hard.
Switched from Vantage to Jag and doing much better. Q laps about the same for both cars, but the Jaguar suits the race much better. Got two consecutive 3rd place finishes, one of which came with a rather dubious CRB. I don't know that I'd have called it a clean race, but at least I was trying.
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Maybe I should try out the Jag. Ran QT in the Lambo but are now running the Mustang. And are down to my QT in that also.
 
Wife has the week off and i didn't get up early enough lol so no racing this morning. I did however get my race A qt down to a 41.026 with an optimal thats .5 faster. Hopefully i can get some races in this week at some point. This combo feels really nice once you get the hang of it.
 
Mistah_MCA
Me: Ugh, Suzuka with Gr. 3, this is gonna be hard. Suzuka is one of my weakest tracks.

/gets 1:59.4 in 30 minutes/

Me: yo what the heck.
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Not that much progress since last time then
What car were you using?

Invisigoth
Qualifying laps are done without the effects of dirty tyres, traffic and debris buildup on the outside edges of the track. Once these come into play, the faster qualifiers may not have the race craft to drive fast in an actual race.
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I felt personally attacked by this :lol:
Jk... But this essentially my case in most races that aren't with SF cars...

I spend tons of time qualifying, so my qualy times never reflect my race pace..
 
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EinsTheOne
I felt personally attacked by this :lol:
Jk... But this essentially my case in most races that aren't with SF cars...

I spend tons of time qualifying, so my qualy times never reflect my race pace..
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I usually run a few laps then race. Then qualify again in the waiting room for next race. So I often surpass my Qt time in race, then qualify better before next etc
 
RacingGrandpa
I usually run a few laps then race. Then qualify again in the waiting room for next race. So I often surpass my Qt time in race, then qualify better before next etc
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I'm not as dynamic as you are... I have a really tight and weird schedule..

Mondays are strictly reserved for qualifying and watching live streams to see if there are any strategies involved (because I mostly do race C)...

Tuesdays are for catching up with this forum in case I've missed any messages and for practicing offline...

The rest of the week is for getting punted off at T1 and for getting depressed because I keep dropping positions and making mistakes even after that much practice...

It's fun
 
EinsTheOne
I'm not as dynamic as you are... I have a really tight and weird schedule..

Mondays are strictly reserved for qualifying and watching live streams to see if there are any strategies involved (because I mostly do race C)...

Tuesdays are for catching up with this forum in case I've missed any messages and for practicing offline...

The rest of the week is for getting punted off at T1 and for getting depressed because I keep dropping positions and making mistakes even after that much practice...

It's fun
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:D I believe you!
I haven't got any fixed times, I just race when ever I got a little time over.
And that is the reason I mostly run B.
Although race C in the later days have been no-stoppers with no real fuel saving, so I have run a few of those.
 
Even in warm up, players are practicing punting people off. They slow up and when someone is close enough, they send them into the gravel at T2/3 esses.

I saw a couple players, I hope not in this community, with P next to F next to C prefixes. Running in F-Types, nearly tag teaming players off.
 
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