FIA Race Discussion [Archive]

[schnick]

You can't tune it, you just have to make sure the power meets the N300 requirements, and BOP does the rest. When you join the "free practice" session you will have to choose a car. All the N300 cars show up on top, but all the cars that can be modified to meet N300 requirements are listed below and highlighted. If you select one of those it will prompt you to change the settings accordingly. In some cases you will have to use XP to "upgrade" the power options, which will actually give you the choice to tune down rather than up. I think with the SFR, as soon as you go below 300hp the red message at the bottom of the screen goes away. Once you select that power, BOP actually adjusts it to something like 247HP and fixes the weight how it wants. After that, nothing else can be changed except for TCS and Brake Balance.

Maybe I should elaborate. What I meant was do you only drop power or only add weight (if enough can be added to drop to N300) or is there some optimal mix of both? Also is upgrading the engine with mileage points and detuning optimal for the power band? Or does BOP actually nullify any advantage that might be gained from an "optimal detuned power band"? I don't recall the BOP screen showing up but I might have another look tonight and stop looking for excuses as to why I haven't gone sub 2:00 yet

 

[HERE4BEER3]

Maybe I should elaborate. What I meant was do you only drop power or only add weight (if enough can be added to drop to N300) or is there some optimal mix of both? Also is upgrading the engine with mileage points and detuning optimal for the power band? Or does BOP actually nullify any advantage that might be gained from an "optimal detuned power band"? I don't recall the BOP screen showing up but I might have another look tonight and stop looking for excuses as to why I haven't gone sub 2:00 yet

Once you drop it to N300, the BOP will nullify everything. Basically what your doing when tuning is adjusting the BOP anyway, so it doesnt matter what you set it at to get to N300 once the race BOP goes into effect it changes.

At least as far as I know.....

 

[bnight]

@bnight - No tuning possible. My time by the way is with the DS4 controller so that should be proof that the time is possible with a wheel.

I do have TC set at 0 so you might want to try that, it will take a bit of practice but the S-FR is quite forgiving once you get used to it, I don't
have any brake balance on it so not sure if that would make a difference, the other car suggested is the F50 but I don't have that one so
you might want to try something else.

Just because a car is all over the leader boards may not necessarily make it the best for your style!

Down to 2:01.900 now I made a 2:01.1 but the game doesn't save it to the server. Good thing is that I can constantly do such laps. Bad thing is that I have room for improvement but can't achieve it. See how tonight session will go.

 

[05XR8]

Got my 996 down from 2:00.848 to 2:00.608. Been trying 2nd gear and 3rd gear at the first left-right. It's where I can make more time. I've got the bus stop and everywhere else locked in.
- Oh, also broke into the 1 second mark with the Pantera. Love this car.
It'll be one of these three:

Braking and the point of brake release and starting the turn in, need that bit more concentration.

Anyway, the "real" qualifying will be interesting. Nice to see top 3 switched to the F50. Bye bye S-FR...

 

[The Cake]

question for yah,

If u dont have a lot of money and want to compete next race with the old aston martin....its 10.000.00 credits....why?? How?

 

[RZQSPEED]

question for yah,

If u dont have a lot of money and want to compete next race with the old aston martin....its 10.000.00 credits....why?? How?

Try to win it in DWG...oh wait, a BLOODY CLIO AWAITS!

 

[ShiftingGears]

question for yah,

If u dont have a lot of money and want to compete next race with the old aston martin....its 10.000.00 credits....why?? How?

it will be provided

 

[RZQSPEED]

it will be provided

Nope, you must own it, due to it saying "Car from Garage" instead of "Specially Provided Car"

 

[Rangeraus]

Nope, you must own it, due to it saying "Car from Garage" instead of "Specially Provided Car"

That... would be more than a little stupid.

 

[The Cake]

it will be provided

If its provided u cant practice with tyre and fuel wear...

 

[ShiftingGears]

Nope, you must own it, due to it saying "Car from Garage" instead of "Specially Provided Car"

Really brainless stuff from PD. Specially provided cars are a feature used to save players 35000Cr to compete in race A but apparently not for a 10M car (read: most of the player base cannot afford it) for the FIA series. I would love to have someone from PD walk me through the logical process they followed to make that decision.

Unless of course they have done something sensible and enabled specially provided cars and garage cars in the same race (which would be a great feature without it being conceivably taxing to implement).

But I doubt it.

 

[vvise]

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Have races changed or is it my eyesight? Or a load of hot air I'm blowing out?

 

[Patclash]

Hey guys, they changed the schedule ? ???

https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gtsport/sportmode/schedule

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Thanks for the heads up! Guess I'd better get online tonight and get my first races of the year done.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Stealth changing dates is just soooooo naughty.

 

[SpecMiata-JSW]

Wow, looks like I'm starting my racing season cold! LOL, that's a surprise!

 

[OutlawQuadrnt]

The man who drives a Subaru in real life now drives for them in the virtual world. Both lack straightline power and Group 4 will probably be survival mode because of the tire wear. Let's see how I struggle!

 

[Silver_Wolf]

I must confess that I hope these dates stay as the regular days, Tuesday and Friday are perfect for me!

 

[SpecMiata-JSW]

I must confess that I hope these dates stay as the regular days, Tuesday and Friday are perfect for me!

Me too, I like it better than Wed/Sat, but this was a funny way to learn about the schedule change.

 

[Tassie_tiger]

Are you sure they've changed dates?

It's now early morning the 30th here, and I don't think there were any FIA races last night.
It still says "Event Date: 30/01/2019" here, as it's always done. (Oceania)

 

[HERE4BEER3]

So, this will be my first attempt at a FIA race since PD allowed multiple entries. I much prefer the current last entry counts version as opposed to the best finish of all attempts version. But I still miss the realistic, heart wrenching, one shot, one chance version we started with(until I get wrecked and finish last of course)

Anyways, I'm curious how many people take advantage of being able to retry. So on Wednesday's race I will take a picture of the results of my lobby and compare it with the finals standings the next day, just to see how many people from my one lobby retried and if those that did ended up improving their score or not.

I will race the 6PM CT time slot,the 3rd of 5, so it won't be the most accurate since I might be against people that are already retrying from the 2 earlier times, but whatever, just a fun little experiment I feel like doing.

Let me know if you retry just for the sake of doing it or only if you get a terrible finish for reasons out of your control.


EDIT:

Me too, I like it better than Wed/Sat, but this was a funny way to learn about the schedule change.

Wait what? GTS App still shows dates for Wed/Sat, and I was playing last night and didn't see a notification.

 

[MPincombe]

Sort your **** out PD, how can you **** up stuff so much? Great game, absolute mongs behind it

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Are you sure they've changed dates?

It's now early morning the 30th here, and I don't think there were any FIA races last night.
It still says "Event Date: 30/01/2019" here, as it's always done. (Oceania)

Well I am on GT Sport site just now and it shows the 29th for me in the UK.

 

[NaketWookie]

yeah, mine too.
Germany, just came home... "Start Today"

????

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Hopefully PD will clear this up soon! I keep my fingers crossed they say it's Tuesday/Friday from now on!

 

[Patclash]

Maybe a hack of granturismo. com ?

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Maybe a hack of granturismo. com ?

Someone who is playing needs to check the game and see if the event is open on the game Sport Mode. It seems they updated the whole
calendar so if it is a hack it's been done well..

 

[Tassie_tiger]

Well I am on GT Sport site just now and it shows the 29th for me in the UK.

Hey, I could be wrong.
But where are the Oceania drivers talking about their first round races if the schedule has been changed to the 29th?
As I say, it's now the 30th.

I don't know for certain as I didn't have GT running last night.
But all the schedules I look at on my PC still say opening on the 30th, ie. 15 hours from now until first race.

Is no-one actually on GT at the moment that can confirm races start in a few hours instead of relying on the website?
Here in Oceania, in game, the first race hasn't been run and is tonight.

 

[SpecMiata-JSW]

A buddy in our Discord channel checked in game, and it starts today. Game on!