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I agree the time between races is too long. Also they ought to return daily races to daily, or change every other day.
A week of the same thing is too long, people figure out where they can punt without penalty, the best spots to dive, and by midweek they have outqualified themselves.
Monday evening is fun racing, it progressively gets worse as the week goes on (talking evenings)
Thing is, if you dont at least sr down minor contact-like a point or 2 to both/all drivers then everyone uses contact to overtake, which ruins the game imo.
If I clearly win a corner, and a guy turns in on me- ok fine sr down me like a point, but if I get a micro overlap no right to the turn and am allowed to jam my nose in and move the other car to get buy that’s not racing, that’s Mariokart.
The system, when strict, seperate contact players from non contact.
Used to be lots of fast people at say B-B.
They play with contact, then you had say B-S where contact wasn’t allowed and it worked great!
This newest iteration reduces the game to what used to be a B SR.
Why force all players to dumb down and plow others to get by that’s not racing.
A strict system worked great before imo.

The fact that they can’t seem to improve it let alone make it good suggests to me that they are not putting enough resources into it.
They are probably busy on making all manner of fart can exhaust to add to the 14 types of Toyota 86 in GT7.
@NosOsH was right. GT7 might not be very good...
 
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After my first slot in FIA, got disconnected before the next two slots. Jumped in a Daily Race B. Disco'd.

Logged out. Logged in with my alt(A/S). Three awesome races. All with majority A+ and A, no players lower.
Clean races in the Genesis. So strong in the corners (should have used it my FIA race). First three gears are magical. Speed was real good at Fuji. Pulled a Mustang to the finish. Battled an M4(until I got .5 for avoiding an RCZ ahead, I ran too wide before the final corner) and blew the doors off a Huracan early on.

Used the Hyundai in Race C. Barely tyre wear during the first stint on RM. Caught the Lamps struggling before pit stops.
Harassed a TS050 and 919 before & after pit stops. A couple cars quit when they spun and rejoined behind me.:lol:Guess they didn't want to lose to a Hyundai.

Put pressure on a 919 as we left the pits.We were both in RS. Hyundai has the top speed after the start finish line. Sailed past and pulled away.
Made up a couple more spots with cars spinning off with a couple laps to go.
Caught up to dueling TS050 and 919. Nearly beat the 919 to the line, at the finish. Started 16/16. Finished 10/14.
 
Stilva
I thought I’d take the time to learn Fuji this week as it’s one of my weaker tracks to race and just do some hot laps. Then, if I felt I had a handle on things, then I’d jump into a race or two. Only problem is that I am terrible at this track. I can’t get any flow past the Dunlop Corner (turn 10). The track guides I’ve watched offer good advice, but I can’t translate it to the track. More practice is going to help obviously, so back to the grind tomorrow and we’ll see what happens.
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There have been lot's of good suggestions including Circuit Experience and you can practice Sector 3 (S3) over and over.

There are books on "getting better". There is the one on the 10,000 hours and there is Ross Bently's book on auto racing. They have a similar theme about practice. Practice needs to be inventive and different. Laps can't only be about doing the same thing over and over and hoping for something better.

Like you, I got stuck on S3 Fuji. Treat it like a separate project or task to accomplish. As @Neroglia noted it is different than S1 and S2. @OJBrit suggested the "Circuit Experience" 👍. Back to the practice thing. Real race drivers at some point just go and look at what all of the other drivers are doing - read the telemetry and apply it.

For the last section there are 5 corners. I saved my best/representative lap. For each corner and straight I wrote down the min corner speed and max straight speed for each section. Then I picked three laps from the top 10 lappers. I wrote down their data and put it beside mine then picked the best of each. That was my target. It took about 30 minutes but from the data I could see I was doing terribly on second part of the Dunlop chicane and it compromised the next section. That is what I need to work on. The top lappers are at 48.0 for S3 and I can now manage 48.2. Job done.

Now I have booked a sub 1:44 lap and in the races I can string together successive 1:44:* laps. S3 no longer worries me.
 
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Does anybody else doubt the sincerity of someone who says "I'm sorry" only after you've called them out for what they did?
If I really feel bad about a mistake that screwed up someone else's race, my apology is the first comment on the board after a race.
 
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Does anybody else doubt the sincerity of someone who only says "I'm sorry" only after you've called them out for what they did?
If I really feel bad about a mistake that screwed up someone else's race, my apology is the first comment on the board after a race.
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People often use “that was some clean driving” in sarcastic fashion, particularly fallen A plus who believe anyone who tries to race them who began behind them is a lower life form.
 
Neroglia
I think is because past Dunlop the feel of the circuit is very different, you driven half the lap of sweeping fast corners and hard braking zone and thrusted into a slow technical section that seemingly don't let you out the foot down. Chicanes are jarring as it is but this feels like a chicane that go for a third of the lap.
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I think that may be my problem. I'm coming off of the faster sectors then right into a slower technical sector. That throws me off for some reason. Usually, I just keep doing laps until it finally "clicks" and that is enough for me. However, as @Little_Guppy has suggested, I do like the idea of writing down target times from some the top 10 and seeing what needs improvement. I've done all of the circuit experience previously, but I may have to revisit it to get my head around that final sector. I honestly just want to hit my K score from Kudosprime and be satisfied. But, going forward I'll do the top 10 time thing as that would set some solid goals for each sector/turn.
 
sturk0167
Does anybody else doubt the sincerity of someone who only says "I'm sorry" only after you've called them out for what they did?
If I really feel bad about a mistake that screwed up someone else's race, my apology is the first comment on the board after a race.
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Picture them as a six-year-old... their hand is planted in the middle of the chocolate cake... maybe no one will notice if I close my eyes thinks the six-year-old.

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as far as the length of the daily race, i don't have a problem with the 4 laps. but as stated above, after a few days, the 7-8 minutes between races seems much longer. maybe instead of spacing races 20 minutes apart make it 15.
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It blows my mind how PD gets some of the easy things wrong. A C-race has a 30 minute window and can accommodate a 21 minute race. Why can't we get an 11 minute race in a 20 minute B-race window?
 
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Groundfish
People often use “that was some clean driving” in sarcastic fashion, particularly fallen A plus who believe anyone who tries to race them who began behind them is a lower life form.
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Ha, I'm all too familiar with that type, never qualifying. Same if they crash, then believe they are entitled to their position back after they end up behind you. Usually the ones that purposefully 'wrong' me during a race are the first to leave. Don't even have time to call them out, until they come back the next race :mischievous:

But yep, "I'm sorry", "Thanks for the clean race" are pretty meaningless statements. It's more often used in sarcasm than sincerity. When I mess up and wrong someone, I type it out for what I'm sorry. However apologies already start on the track, give the position back. Push me aside, pass, then flash your hazards as 'apology', sure, sorry not sorry.

Last week people were all in a hurry to leave after the race. The "congratulations" option might as well be removed, I saw it used once or twice in the whole week :lol:
 
Little_Guppy
Picture them as a six-year-old... their hand is planted in the middle of the chocolate cake... maybe no one will notice if I close my eyes thinks the six-year-old.



It blows my mind how PD gets some of the easy things wrong. A C-race has a 30 minute window and can accommodate a 21 minute race. Why can't we get an 11 minute race in a 20 minute B-race window?
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It should not be beyond the wit of the big brains at PD to space out each instance of the daily races based on how long it takes to finish the race. For example, if race B is a 4 lapper of about 8 minutes you could run one every 15 minutes to account for matchmaking and warmups.
 
foolsgold74
It should not be beyond the wit of the big brains at PD to space out each instance of the daily races based on how long it takes to finish the race. For example, if race B is a 4 lapper of about 8 minutes you could run one every 15 minutes to account for matchmaking and warmups.
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I've seen races that last only 5 minutes. Also, there is no reason to throw you back out and have to reload the track to do another race. It's the same track... Why not let you go back to qualifying or practice (with the others on the track, why not), then match make in the background and do a brief load of the new liveries and sort you in with the new group (after the new joiners are done loading the track)

So much time wasted looking at the countdown timer and loading the same track over and over!

And why no timed races. 12 minute race length, then final lap. Fast lobbies can do an extra lap.
 
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Because of the daily races I'm down to ONE bloody point
 
I had an additional victory at race A on Monday night. This time, I used a 2015 Renault Sport Clio R.S. 220 EDC.

The next night, I returned to the same race, this time in a Volkswagen Golf GTI VII. I had won it again.
 
Sven Jurgens
ut yep, "I'm sorry", "Thanks for the clean race" are pretty meaningless statements. It's more often used in sarcasm than sincerity. When I mess up and wrong someone, I type it out for what I'm sorry
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Yes. I feel that is the right way.
It is most respectful imo.
 
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Because of the daily races I'm down to ONE bloody point
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You are on day 15. The game is hard. Don't worry about the DR. Enter races and have fun. Bit by bit your pace will get better. Then your QT times will get better and the races will become more fun as you will start to run in packs with other drivers. The DR will look after itself. Don't force it otherwise the game will become a DR grindfest and that is not why you are playing in the first place.

BTW, nice QT time at the N24 last week. 9:17!!! Celebrate those accomplishments! That is much more impressive than 4128 DR points.
 
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On Wednesday, I had won at Daily Race A four times. I used the Peugeot 208 GTI on the third one and I had used the Volkswagen Golf GTI VII on the rest of them. Now I had won at race A seven times this week.



 
Main: One Race B, one Race C on the main. Race B was good in the SLophy. Started P3. Dropped a few places to P6, by Lap 2. P2 followed P1 off course after the 130R. That allowed me and the other FFs to jump from 4th, 5th and 6th(me) to 1st-3rd.
I got jumped by an EVO, when it barrelled into a TT. EVO goes wide on the final turn. I follow the TT down the straight. It runs wide and I scoop the position. P3 until the finish.

Race C in the Alpine. Started 8th from my TS050 qualy, but the Alpine was only .3 slower in FP. I dropped a couple spots on the first lap. Things settled down through to the pit stops. Slapped on the RS and kept pace with a TS050. Was able to maintain pace versus a 919 behind me. Two laps to go, it taps me by accident, but seriously, it could have waited til the straight. The 919 slows for me to recover. My tyres are worn now. I gather up and he still doesn't pass until I'm moving forward. It's behind me and I just pit. Dropped from 8th to 14/14.
Put on a fresh set of RS and just run to the finish. Moved up two spots on the last lap, as a couple of cars went off on their own. Exited quickly to start up the alt.

Alt: Ran the Genesis from the rear again. A/S room. Car is just quick. Change of direction is ultra quick. Flick the steering and the car behaves like a rally car on tarmac. Moved up to 8th. Had a four way battle. A scirocco that got booted down after the start, was able to get up to speed and fight last couple laps. We both broke away on the last lap. It got ahead through 130R, I stayed behind and shadowed until the final corner. It overran I think, on prupose to get the tow. Just held my line and got pipped by less than a tenth. 9/15

Moderate useage is working for me right now.
 
Little_Guppy
You are on day 15. The game is hard. Don't worry about the DR. Enter races and have fun. Bit by bit your pace will get better. Then your QT times will get better and the races will become more fun as you will start to run in packs with other drivers. The DR will look after itself. Don't force it otherwise the game will become a DR grindfest and that is not why you are playing in the first place.

BTW, nice QT time at the N24 last week. 9:17!!! Celebrate those accomplishments! That is much more impressive than 4128 DR points.
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I was thinking that too. I took a screenshot of my early days. I'm not all that fast, but I am DR B these days. But there was some dips in the beginning, even way past day 18.
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RacingGrandpa
I was thinking that too. I took a screenshot of my early days. I'm not all that fast, but I am DR B these days. But there was some dips in the beginning, even way past day 18.
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I just checked mine and I did the same thing, although only dropping to around 1-1.5k each time. But that's even as late as day 31, and dropped again to 2k at day 44.

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