FIA Race Discussion [Archive]

[JEverettL]

I had a horrendous Manufacturers race. First of all, the lobby was split perfectly between A- and D-rated drivers! Although it turned out none of the D-rated drivers were alt accounts, and were about 5s off the pace, I just blew it. My Citroen's tyres died on L6, and it was just too much. I must have spun off 5 times, twice into the barriers, and of course there was no reset like I'd get if, say, I'm recovering from a spin onto the run-off at T1/2 in Suzuka. I ended up 10th after beaching it on the infield of the banked hairpin and being unable to keep the car pointing the right way.

I can sympathize with you. My Manufacturers race sounds about like yours. There was a Citroen in my race and after maybe the 4th or 5th lap it was ice dancing. There was an R8 that was having an equally difficult time. So between the three of us, we occupied 17th, 18th, and 19th place. I would've had better luck parking the 458 and walking across the finish line.

 

[vvise]

Really hoping to drop down into 2nd split tomorrow, need another +2k result. Originally thought Mustang would be pretty good at St. Croix but I'm not sure anymore.

 

[SpecMiata-JSW]

Really hoping to drop down into 2nd split tomorrow, need another +2k result. Originally thought Mustang would be pretty good at St. Croix but I'm not sure anymore.

If you follow my lead of sucking wind in the top split, then we'll both be in 2nd split soon enough.

 

[Pelikan]

Really hoping to drop down into 2nd split tomorrow, need another +2k result. Originally thought Mustang would be pretty good at St. Croix but I'm not sure anymore.

I will be back in town and racing tomorrow. Maybe that will help lol. JK, but seriously.

I have had a few practice sessions and I need to consistently scrub off 5 seconds and I will be happy with wherever I finish.

 

[05XR8]

911 Cup at Catalunya tonight?

Closest I got to the bottom of the top 10, is in the '17 R35, 1:58.100. Did a 58.4 in the F40, but I found it a bit slidey for me. Not even going to try the Porsche.


Edit: Just ran a 57.975 in the Atenza road car. I'm fine with that. Should be interesting with tyre wear.

Edit2: How sweet was that! Awesome race against an X-Bow. It had speed on the straight, but my Atenza had brakes, handling, mid-corner speed and early throttle pick up. Just like in Race C. Even with that tyre wear, the Atenza felt the same as when I started. Smooth and consistent.
My lap 5 time was due to passing the 911. Plus, I was battling the X-Bow every lap, swapping positions until X-Bow ran out of tyres(maybe?) from Lap 5. I caught and passed a 911 that didn't pit and just got on the tail of one, at the end.

Not a bad lap time, considering the 911 is the META and those are fast players.

Edit3: Atenza is consistent. I'll take that over speed. dead serious tyre wear has no effect on performance. The car just stays the same from start to finish. Gives so much confidence lap after lap. Watching other car's behavior due to wear, this thing just attacks.

Started last with no time due to 0.5 second penalty for track limits.

 

[05XR8]

MAN! I forgot to grab the place finish from this race.

Dude trying to call me out as wtf is my problem?
I started down the order in front of a Beetle. During the first lap, it tries a divebomb. No contact. When it goes to pass me at the fast right-hander before the bridge section, it bumps my left side before the fast chicane. No need for that as I gave room(I'm actually hugging the armco line for that whole section). Then, he wants to stop in front of me, as I gather myself. I hit it in back. It goes off. No penalty for me. For the remainder of the race, I'm fighting for 11th-15th.

Only penalty I get, is for too much inside curb. I serve it and finish. Hope that player is gtp member.

 

[Barry R]

Originally it looked like a 911 event at Barcelona, but im now considering the Atenza or the X-bow. Ive been lazy this week and not practiced (bar a few laps in the 911 on sunday). Looks like ive 90 mins practice before race 1 tonight. Thanks for the heads up with the Atenza!

 

[05XR8]

Originally it looked like a 911 event at Barcelona, but im now considering the Atenza or the X-bow. Ive been lazy this week and not practiced (bar a few laps in the 911 on sunday). Looks like ive 90 mins practice before race 1 tonight. Thanks for the heads up with the Atenza!

Not being funny, but you've gotta be up the front if you value winning. HAve fun.

Just so you know, an X-Bow won that race, with an F40 2nd and another X-bow in 3rd.

 

[stpatty]

I've just had a practice in both the X-Bow and the 911, and the Porsche is undrivable. The left rear is done after about two laps. The X-Bow is a disaster when it's tuned to N500 and it's horrible here, but the tyre wear doesn't slow you down as much. Easy choice for me.

As for St. Croix, I know there are some people on here who like it and some people who are driving cars where they can get a result, so good luck.

 

[Tidgney]

Right time for some more Manufacturer series and to my surprise the Audi R8 is absolutely rapido here! Lets see what we can do!

 

[vvise]

Lightning in a pickup truck for Nations

 

[GT5Apex]

well..... the first manufacturer race tonight was pretty exhilarating. My qualifying runs got compromised so i started 2nd last on the grid which was annoying since i knew that i could challenge for pole. In the race i managed to go from 2nd last to 5th, so that was a pretty decent recovery.

 

[Barry R]

I found nations tough going tonight, not my cuppa tea at all. Qualified 13 and finished 9. Got pinched at turn 1 between 2 cars and got a 3 sec penalty.. looking back at it I should of backed out of it as it cost me a few places. 1 race is enough for me. Saturday looks more fun

 

[Famine]

I've just had a practice in both the X-Bow and the 911, and the Porsche is undrivable. The left rear is done after about two laps.

The 911 is fine, get some front brake bias on it and coast into some of the faster braking zones and you'll be good. I made up six places in the last two laps of mine.

Some very odd penalties and not penalties though. I got 0.5s in qualifying for running wide in the second sector S despite losing 0.6s in that corner and not exiting the kerb, and then 1s in the race for running wide in the bend ahead of the final chicane despite not exiting the kerb... meanwhile a guy passed me in turn two on lap one entirely on the green run-off with no penalty.

Actually I really only finished where I would have qualified if not for that dumbass penalty.

 

[DK]

Qualifying ruined by a dumbass in a KTM. He held me up in S3 and capped it off by cutting across me out of the last corner to knock me into the pit wall and ruin my next lap.

 

[stpatty]

Didn't expect Nations to be a no-stop, so I started 14th and finished 17th.

Highlight of the race however was a Spanish guy in that angry frog Toyota thing. At the hairpin on lap 2 he hit me and put me off, coming from quite far back. I was going slow enough that if I tried to keep it from going off the track I probably could have done, but I would have slid about and lost more time than I did. I got the SR down.

Next lap the opposite happens, he's stuck behind a guy in a Porsche and I bump into him. He goes off, I get 4 seconds. He then spends the rest of the lap ramming into me (three times) and anyone else he can manage. He lost it moving across to the right for the final chicane and drove into me as I was going past under braking and put me off the track. He rammed about three people off the track coming round the final corner, and he didn't brake for the first corner of the next lap, presumably aiming for me but instead ruining the Swiss guy next to me. He then quit. What a strange sequence of events.

Anyway, further to Famine's above claims about the 911, I genuinely have no idea how it could be possible to no-stop that race, even if you were using a wheel. Awful. Thankfully St. Croix will be better for me in the Nissan.

 

[8l23ub]

Nations at my most hated track, but with limited oppertunities for road car races I dived in, for some reason I had number one on my car, had an average qualifying lap of 1m59 (had mid 1m57's in lobbies) but started seventh. I knew there was no way I was going to manage a no-stop in the Porsche so getting up to fourth place at the end of lap two was pretty good, planned to stop at the end of lap four everything was looking good(ish) when I slid off into the sandy stuff at the final turn on lap three. Had a horrible lap four on toasty tyres and pitted from seventh, rejoined in sixteenth and despite the thirty seconds spent in the pitlane, got back to finish in ninth place twenty three seconds behind the winner and even gained about 120 points of DR.



Possibly two road car events left in this series and Barcelona out of the way, only Monza will stop me 👍

 

[Barry R]

Didn't expect Nations to be a no-stop, so I started 14th and finished 17th

It was always a no stop mate, it was just a matter of not spinning the wheels up or going sideways... Tyres weren't to bad at the end

 

[Famine]

Anyway, further to Famine's above claims about the 911, I genuinely have no idea how it could be possible to no-stop that race, even if you were using a wheel. Awful.

I didn't have that much of an issue with it.

Thankfully St. Croix will be better for me in the Nissan.

I'll take "things you shouldn't have said" for $500 please, Alex

I got tapped off once and fair smacked into the wall on the outside of the last corner once too. Of course if I hadn't binned it on my Q lap, I wouldn't have been there, but even so, the McLaren was mince, particularly on the brakes.


I'm also getting bored of being the top-ranked DrA driver in races with the McLaren in which I could beat a lot of the field in equal machinery but can't possibly win in the McLaren, and then bottom-ranked DrA driver in Nations races where I can't possibly beat the field in equal machinery.

 

[watto79]

Thankfully St. Croix will be better for me in the Nissan.

I just did the 9pm manufacturers finishing 2nd to a GTR. Couldn't get near them. Definitely a strong car here!

 

[Kiki_Haoru]

Can't believe how dirty drivers were today. I've had a nice first race in which I stopped once. As a result, I got down from 9th at the start to 11th at the chequered flag...

Second race, my quali was ruined by a Spanish guy who had decided his quali was done so he would start messing with other players... Started 19th, no stopper (front bias 2 and TCS at 2... That's bad...). Finished 11th.
The Spanish idiot (sounds redundant in this game) finished dead last while he had started in 6th

 

[Hasnain282]

I just did the 9pm manufacturers finishing 2nd to a GTR. Couldn't get near them. Definitely a strong car here!

Yeah I had trouble keeping up with one in a practice lobby

 

[stpatty]

I didn't have that much of an issue with it.

I'll take "things you shouldn't have said" for $500 please, Alex

I got tapped off once and fair smacked into the wall on the outside of the last corner once too. Of course if I hadn't binned it on my Q lap, I wouldn't have been there, but even so, the McLaren was mince, particularly on the brakes.


I'm also getting bored of being the top-ranked DrA driver in races with the McLaren in which I could beat a lot of the field in equal machinery but can't possibly win in the McLaren, and then bottom-ranked DrA driver in Nations races where I can't possibly beat the field in equal machinery.

Furious tbh, my optimum time in qualifying would have put me 3rd on the grid

I had the same problem I usually have with the Gr.3 GT-R, in the opening lap the tyres seem cold. I don't know how else to describe it but although it's a slidey car, it's just impossible to get on the throttle without losing time as the back comes out. I don't even remember what happened in that race, I think I just drifted wide somewhere and went off.

The grip problem is much worse in actual races than it is when I'm practicing in a lobby, so I don't know what's going on. Better luck at 11, hopefully.

 

[MIE1992]

I wonder how it could be structured so that there's more potential rewards than simply seeing what nation/automaker was best for a given FIAGTC stage? Here's my idea: For a given stage, there are rewards for various groups other than the smallest potential area, so if you're the best in your county, that won't net you anything special, but for everything above that, you can get various bonuses.

So, let's use an example. If I, representing my county, end up being the best in my state, all other players that are registered in that county will also get a bonus. If I'm the best player in the nation, being from that same county within my state, players also registered within my state will obtain a bonus as well, but players in the same county will get an even larger bonus. And so on. What do you think? I think this particular model I've written would be for the Nations Cup, but I don't know if applying it to the Manufacturers Series would lead to it differing that much.

Maybe it could still apply on a similar basis, being county/state/nation/region/world, but the bonus would only apply to players who've also registered with that automaker, just as it does now.

 

[stpatty]

I was on pole.

I had led for the entire race.

I went in too deep trying to defend at the second last corner.

I finished 4th.

I feel sick.

 

[bloodyboyblue]

No idea what happened in my Nations race. Only XBow against 18 911s and a Viper, qualified 17th.

First lap I was just driving along and suddenly everyone around me drove off the track, I assume I was lagging or something, I thought I was disconnecting, but after about 15 seconds it popped everyone else back onto track, and I was still racing the same person I was before I lagged for 16th, but the rest of the pack had disappeared 6 seconds up the road. I don’t know why such a huge gap opened up, and what happened in that time. It’s annoying. Since I spent the whole race gaining a second or more a lap on the Porsche pack, and got up to 12th by the end but if whatever happened didn’t happen on lap 1 I probably could’ve gotten to 7th or 8th.

 

[vvise]

all network tests are fine on the ps4 but the game can't connect to psn?? im stuck in offline mode.

Panic reboot everything and got online and connected with a minute to spare...

 

[Pelikan]

Let's see how the Mustang does at Sainte-Croix:

 

[RACECAR]

So, Nations went better then expected:

 

[Rods]

Manu was way too messy for my taste. Five laps and a lot of punts and rubs later, I had nothing to show for.

Nations was cool and went better than expected, picking up a lot of places from tire management alone. I guess this is the first time I truly enjoyed racing in Barcelona!