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Lost the lead to a punt down the same corner - no penalties given. Was hit so bad, I fell to 20th. Next lap, got a penalty after being collected by a spinning car.

Pitted, waited for the race to end. SR dropped to 69 pts.

I'm definitely not racing tomorrow. I'm reconsidering wether I should take part in the remaining FIA races this (re-pre) Season.

EDIT: The punter actually won the race, which is twice as irritating.
Was there any apology post race lobby or straight noped out?

I mentioned this in daily race thread but I've been super lucky in mid DR B races including the 3 nations races I did. Outside of L1/T1 it was super respectful.
 
Lost the lead to a punt down the same corner - no penalties given. Was hit so bad, I fell to 20th. Next lap, got a penalty after being collected by a spinning car.

Pitted, waited for the race to end. SR dropped to 69 pts.

I'm definitely not racing tomorrow. I'm reconsidering wether I should take part in the remaining FIA races this (re-pre) Season.

EDIT: The punter actually won the race, which is twice as irritating.


I am reconsidering also. It seems for me it’s either punt or he punted with the group I get matched with a lot, tbh I’ve had more pain than joy in FIA.
Like I said, when I do enter it’s gonna be dive first ask questions later unless I recognize the person.
Rules are rules.
In the FIA lobbies I’ve been in people’s behavior is so predictably bad. I’m over 40k and 99!
Maggiore I respectfully followed a guy five laps until he finally made a bad exit mistake so I won the corner (big banked right.). His response was to try to punt me into the sand! Luckily he was unsuccessful but it’s like dude I could have punted you whenever I wanted the last five laps wtf?
 
Does anyone know the race details for todays manufacturers race - laps, tyres & tyre wear and fuel would be great. Thank you
 
Servers back up with 2 minutes to spare.


Mixed race
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Missed the race start as maintenance was still happening. Well done
I did three Custom Races. Ran the RMs to Lap 7 and switched to RH. What'd I do? Complete opposite! :dunce:

Tried to sit behind a C7, but looking at this replay, the M4 that was behind me(on RH), went for the pass at the hairpin and the Cayman tries to go even more up the inside of the M4. I get bumped.
Then, next left-hander ahead, I leave room for the M4 again and the M4 plows into the corner under brakes. We make contact and I lose three spots and have to manage my tyres til pit stop. One and done for the night.
Started 10th finished 14th.

The track sign is fitting.
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Done my practice session in the morning - will not touch the wheel till 30 min before the race. Manage to get the timetrial time to 2.08.8 and 2.09.5 in online lobby. Not my best, I think I can shave at least 0.5s but started again to overdrive the car and make stupid mistakes - so it is the moment to stop.

Hopefully it will be a good result, should not be hard to improve the 50 points that I got at Lago Maggiore.

See you on the racetrack!
 
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Has been a difficult first 2 races so far this season. Not sure the viper is suited to any of these tracks!

1st race started 13th on Mediums and on lap 9 was going to pit. I was running in 8th and on the fast left hander at the end of the lap I put 2 wheels on the kerb and ended Up doing a 720 spin and rear ending the barrier. Limped into pits. Finished the race 12th (13th but someone had tire penalty).

Went again next race which i don’t do often. Started 12th and this time on Hards. Pitted lap 4 and got divebombed and knocked off on the chicane just before coming into the pits and lost time getting back onto the track. Not much happened after that and finished 10th. My fastest lap was one of the slowest :lol:

So far can’t really say I’m enjoying the season!
 
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Has been a difficult first 2 races so far this season. Not sure the viper is suited to any of these tracks!

1st race started 13th on Mediums and on lap 9 was going to pit. I was running in 8th and on the fast left hander at the end of the lap I put 2 wheels on the kerb and ended Up doing a 720 spin and rear ending the barrier. Limped into pits. Finished the race 12th (13th but someone had tire penalty).

Went again next race which i don’t do often. Started 12th and this time on Hards. Pitted lap 4 and got divebombed and knocked off on the chicane just before coming into the pits and lost time getting back onto the track. Not much happened after that and finished 10th. My fastest lap was one of the slowest :lol:

So far can’t really say I’m enjoying the season!
Good thing it's only "Exhibition". ;)
 
Well last night was a shambles 3 times I put it on pole 3 times I was punted at turn 1

in the 3rd race thou I was particularly proud of myself a particularly salty Italian who for the previous 3 races had caused massive penalties and damage for all in the lobby decided that he was going to ram everyone who came in to his strike zone he had already taken my friend out deliberately so I took it on myself to take this guy out of the fellow 18 drivers hair and literally became a rolling road block and gave the pack a 20 second lead all the time he ramming me bouncing off walls getting engine damage.
And at the end of the race my SR was still 99 yet he got a full DR reset and he took major offence in chat box after where the whole lobby piled it on him
 
Well last night was a shambles 3 times I put it on pole 3 times I was punted at turn 1

in the 3rd race thou I was particularly proud of myself a particularly salty Italian who for the previous 3 races had caused massive penalties and damage for all in the lobby decided that he was going to ram everyone who came in to his strike zone he had already taken my friend out deliberately so I took it on myself to take this guy out of the fellow 18 drivers hair and literally became a rolling road block and gave the pack a 20 second lead all the time he ramming me bouncing off walls getting engine damage.
And at the end of the race my SR was still 99 yet he got a full DR reset and he took major offence in chat box after where the whole lobby piled it on him


I’d love to see that replay! :lol:
 
I took it on myself to take this guy out of the fellow 18 drivers hair and literally became a rolling road block and gave the pack a 20 second lead all the time he ramming me bouncing off walls getting engine damage.
And at the end of the race my SR was still 99 yet he got a full DR reset and he took major offence in chat box after where the whole lobby piled it on him
While you used it in a justifiable way, it's not good that the game permits you to choose to take out another driver in that way, causing them to get a DR reset, while you stay at 99 SR.
 
Started 5th and ended up 3rd. The race was fairly clean and i enjoyed it.

Despite selecting the NSX which was my first time driving it i managed with fuel saving to finish and ran out of fuel meters before the line.

it was a race of attrition and fuel saving while capitalizing the problems and wall crashes of others.

 
While you used it in a justifiable way, it's not good that the game permits you to choose to take out another driver in that way, causing them to get a DR reset, while you stay at 99 SR.

Well, it was the driver that did it to himself:
hair and literally became a rolling road block and gave the pack a 20 second lead all the time he ramming me bouncing off walls getting engine damage.
 
Well, it was the driver that did it to himself:

at no point did I punt him off in the race or put him in the wall I simply slowed my pace enough and gave him the option to race clean or hit me off and at every opportunity he chose the dirty option to hit me hence why my SR stayed at 99 and he got a DR reset bare in mind I put myself on pole and it was him that barrels through everyone at turn one like it was a demo derby destroying 18 other people’s races because he thinks that’s the appropriate way to race.
 
Was there any apology post race lobby or straight noped out?

I mentioned this in daily race thread but I've been super lucky in mid DR B races including the 3 nations races I did. Outside of L1/T1 it was super respectful.

Absolutely nothing, he just said I wasn’t fast enough, or something like that. I didn’t hang around long enough to see if he said anything else.

I am reconsidering also. It seems for me it’s either punt or he punted with the group I get matched with a lot, tbh I’ve had more pain than joy in FIA.
Like I said, when I do enter it’s gonna be dive first ask questions later unless I recognize the person.
Rules are rules.
In the FIA lobbies I’ve been in people’s behavior is so predictably bad. I’m over 40k and 99!
Maggiore I respectfully followed a guy five laps until he finally made a bad exit mistake so I won the corner (big banked right.). His response was to try to punt me into the sand! Luckily he was unsuccessful but it’s like dude I could have punted you whenever I wanted the last five laps wtf?

Nothing against your logic there, but it’s really not for me. I guess I’d rather sit out the next few races.
 
Last night tried a FIA race again and ofcourse it was a big disappointment. My start was very bad, my fault and I ended up at the back of the line. No problem, race on. After three laps I managed to raise to 8th place. Then came T1............. and you know what happened next.

I just hate it! While being very serious and trying to make the best of it, this behavior is common in Daylies and FIA's. They just don't care and I strongly think that they have a lot of fun while being savely in their homes behind their screens. They ruin a lot of peoples races and they still can go on with it. With more than five million players we cannot expect all players to be nice and fair, but the system doesn't help us either. I think it's very hard to create a system that serves us all, but this system is just utterly BS. I don't blame PD for it, because at least they try their best. The fact is, that a lot of drivers are just gamers and nothing more than that. Gamers with a bad attitude ofcourse. The kind that always look for tricks, shortcuts, codes, hacks and weaknesses of the system. So whatever penaltysystem will be introduced by PD, they will always be a pain in the ass for everyone. The problem is, that GT offers us great races on a scale that no other game does. But that greatness is also a weak point. What to do? I honestly don't know. I'm thinking about switching to other games / sims that I own, but it does not feel rigjt. GT is such a great game and I am with it from the beginning. If I had the opportunity to take part in creating the penaltysystem, I would introduce a disqualification for every punt from behind and after a few followed by abandon the player. It doesn't matter if you do it on purpose or just by accident. That's the only way they will ever calm down.
 


After yesterday I am still angry. I am angry at the players and also at myself. I’m angry and bitter at the standards in what is supposedly the top one percent.
I’m angry that AFTER 24 MONTHS we now sit WORSE OFF than at the beginning.
 
After yesterday I am still angry. I am angry at the players and also at myself. I’m angry and bitter at the standards in what is supposedly the top one percent.
I’m angry that AFTER 24 MONTHS we now sit WORSE OFF than at the beginning.
I'm thinking of trying Wreckfest, where at least it would be a level playing field, as there would be nobody telling you that you can't do what everyone else is doing, and the game permits.
 
Shambles. Managed to understeer off in the esses on both qualifying laps, started 18th and last. There was a reasonable group ahead of me and I was on pace with an 86 who ended up 5th. We were both on hards. Lap 2 I get divebombed by a Mitsubishi(!) into Spoon and it's race over. Plus the race was won by a 4C by 17 seconds which seems to have been happening to me a lot recently, and it's really annoying.
 
Server issues still a problem and some seem to take advantage of it to behave like idiots. I'm now going to have to do a Race B to try to recover SR after going from B/S to B/B in that one race!🤬

Report later (probably with the video evidence).
 
Manufacturers first slot.

We'll just say I had a bit of a catastrophe! Was on for a great qualifying lap in clean air then off at 130R, qualified 11th as a result. Had a brain fart and decided it would be a good idea to run on hards for three laps (was pretty confident that I could stay in the tow of the Jag ahead) rather than try and make up some places on mediums. I now know that when you start 11th you start on the outside of the left hander at the Casio Triangle, in 1st gear, on cold, hard tyres... that was the first of three spins! So four offs in total, three spins and two pit stops. Eventful but not where I want to be!

17th

May consider trying again, might just bin off the season and do some dailies for a few weeks! I'm throwing in some really good laps but making too many mistakes at the moment
 
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