FIA Race Discussion [Archive]

[NosOsH]

Just placed 3rd in the nations in an A/S lobby
8 seconds behind CRT_Daniel who is fassst.
Got almost 1300 points up to 1800 now. Room to beat that i hope in the next week, bring her up to 2400 maybe??
Pretty happy with that as im def no alien.
Puts me ranking pretty high in Vancouver CA region .

 

[MIE1992]

State or county, then town you live in.

But how would I view those stats individually? Though after a bit more research, it looks like "domestic stats" just refer to my nation as a whole. So what about my state and hometown?

 

[DriftMethod]

I tried the IMPREZA Gr4 in Manufacturers Cup............NEVER AGAIN
That car have no straight line speed it's unreal ! even with the slipstream i hardly catch a Toyota 86
These seasons are going to be very looooong for me with that car

High speed tracks like that or Monza will be tough. It will be more competitive at others. The next race at Dragon Trail Gardens will be better.

 

[guy a]

But how would I view those stats individually? Though after a bit more research, it looks like "domestic stats" just refer to my nation as a whole. So what about my state and hometown?

On the manufacturer site go to the stats at top of screen...

 

[MIE1992]

On the manufacturer site go to the stats at top of screen...

...and? I don't see anything other than the domestic ranking.

EDIT: Nvm, I found something in-game.

 

[Pfei]

I tried the IMPREZA Gr4 in Manufacturers Cup............NEVER AGAIN
That car have no straight line speed it's unreal ! even with the slipstream i hardly catch a Toyota 86
These seasons are going to be very looooong for me with that car

I just finished 13th with the WRX after qualifying 14th. Mixed A+ and A lobby. Given how slow this car is I was happy to take 576 points and finish as the leading Subaru. This was the worst possible combination for the Scooby. Have faith, keep cool... Things will get better.

 

[bloodyboyblue]

I just finished 13th with the WRX after qualifying 14th. Mixed A+ and A lobby. Given how slow this car is I was happy to take 576 points and finish as the leading Subaru. This was the worst possible combination for the Scooby. Have faith, keep cool... Things will get better.

I got 11th from qualifying 9th for 730 points, I didn’t have any problem with speed, could keep up with pretty much everything, I mostly had problems with the fuel mileage and tire wear. Killed the front tires and couldn’t corner as well as anybody else in the 2nd stint, dropped from 8th to 11th. And of course the track is the worst.

 

[05XR8]

...and? I don't see anything other than the domestic ranking.

Ranks by age as well.
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[Mistah_MCA]

Manufacturer Series - Tokyo Expressway: East Outer Loop - Viper Gr. 4

Qualified in 9th place (out of 20). Main goal was to finish in Top 10.
Tried to drive as carefully as possible, especially in the chicane halfway through the course. Fortunately, after hours of doing the Free Practice on that track, I had no problems with it and sometimes benefited me. I'd sometimes close the gap through that part.
In the end, I finished in 4th place, and that is a huge victory to me.

 

[mthomas_95]

Cling on to 2nd in EMEA Nations after needing a recovery drive from 6th to 2nd at Yamagiwa, after my controller decided it wasn't going to let me change down the gears in time for the chicane on my last quali lap! Had great race pace but on one of my weakest tracks I'll take a podium after dealing with some interesting driving in the opening stint.

Also nice having a more respectable score on the board now for Manufacturers after my multiple deaths at Suzuka

 

[mclarenLB]

Suspicions confirmed, why is the world like this

 

[Keith2324]

This is my first time driving in the FIA events. Is there something special I'm supposed to do to get my qualification times saved? The game isn't keeping my times.

Keith.

 

[MIE1992]

This is my first time driving in the FIA events. Is there something special I'm supposed to do to get my qualification times saved? The game isn't keeping my times.

Keith.

You don't qualify before the event like the Daily Races, but rather during, in its own segment.

 

[RACECAR]

Gonna be doing the final Manufacterer race in about an hour, here's my stats after the first race Wednesday:

I'm also apparently the highest ranked person (out of three) in my region. Go dallas

 

[ScottPuss20]

There needs to be EXTREMELY HARSH penalties for ANYBODY who gets in the way of a qualifying lap. I got blocked by 2 cars and had to abandon my lap in the Nations Cup. What's worse is that of one the guys who blocked me hit me off the track. I started 15TH, probably MY WORST POSITION ever. I was livid that I had to start soo far back, and it was an absolute **** fight at the start of the race. Cars braking to early, pushing, shoving and penalties. I copped 8 seconds on the first lap alone and nothing was going well. Still, I made my way up to 8th place and gained valuable points.

 

[05XR8]

Yeah, should be s video about giving way during qualifying. Some racers tried to make space between one another. Others must have thought we were racing the last lap.

 

[Keith2324]

You don't qualify before the event like the Daily Races, but rather during, in its own segment.

I did that but it didn't keep my time and put me at the back of the field.

 

[OutlawQuadrnt]

There must be a curse about overpracticing before a race. For Tokyo, I had a mid 2:07 optimal with tire wear in my lobby. Then right before I came out of the pits to qualify, I realized my wheel wasn't on. By the time I turned it on, I came out last in line. Worse, I was suddenly screwing up every single flyer and only got a 2:09 flat. Starting in 9th was yet another disaster. No chance at all for a win and so it's damage limitation in my Jag. Again!

What happened during the race is... well, it's much better just to upload the video once it's ready. By some divine miracle, I ended up getting 2nd at the line completely out of gas! Props to the one driver that was hooked up right behind me that worked with me to slice through the traffic. That really helped. 👍

With that emotional high, I jumped right into the Nations Cup with barely any practice. This time, qualifying went the complete opposite direction. I got super fortunate that I caught a car's draft during my flier and jumped up to 3rd place. 2nd and 1st had the edge on me on pace and there was enough battling behind me that I didn't have to worry about defending with my VGT. I was able to keep 3rd and was only about 3 seconds behind the leader.

Overall, I think that's the best weekend I've ever had in terms of points scored. Still need to work on getting better but this is a good start.

 

[Seikenfreak]

My first FIA race in like 6 months. Figured it'd go poorly but was actually quite fun. I think the higher tier lobby was full up so I, and one other A+ person, were in this group which was a mix of As and Bs I think? Had some good passes back and forth with ORMA_Trajano. Think I only did as well as I did because this is one of my better tracks. I could usually pull off a top 10 time on Kyoto back in the day but certainly can't now lol I guess everyone just got fast as hell while I was gone.

I really dig the fancy new intro. Gives me like an NBC Sports Olympic coverage vibe Would've been neat if they found a way for the presentation to use the actual participating cars.



Didn't bother with the Tokyo course. Gr4 is my favorite but that track is stupid. Leave it for casual fun in private lobbies and stuff.

 

[RACECAR]

Did the GR.4 Race. Chaos as predicted, but more so with people who have a terrible feel for Brakes then intentional wrecking (that and the Ping fairy making a visit). In a nutshell, me during the whole thing:

 

[HellzFire]

For nations i went with the Lancer against the Supras! Decent pace and race.




Manufacturers race went a lot better than i expected. Very hard room, but somehow got a very low scoring because there was some As there

 

[Seikenfreak]

Watchin hellZfirE's Nation Race, I didn't realize you could still cut the chicane like that. I thought the devs made a pass at some point tightening up the corner restrictions.. Is everything the same but La Sarthe is just super dumb?

And I hope they just add separate Gr4 and Gr3 championships at some point.

 

[Pfei]

I got 11th from qualifying 9th for 730 points, I didn’t have any problem with speed, could keep up with pretty much everything, I mostly had problems with the fuel mileage and tire wear. Killed the front tires and couldn’t corner as well as anybody else in the 2nd stint, dropped from 8th to 11th. And of course the track is the worst.

In both Manufacturers races I was able to go max fuel mix with one stop. And today in Tokyo I didn't change tires. Wear was surprisingly low for the 4WD WRX. Maybe I was just being a little too conservative after my Suzuka disaster of bad qualy and stupid mistakes in the race.

I was only able to keep up on the straight when I was glued to someone's bumper.

 

[Balwerk]

Get lucky finish in 4th, DR.A racer creeping me about 4 last lap get spin and get penalty in inner area chicane when almost finish I notice racer in front of me just lose his fuel so yeah I push myself while erase the penalty time. Finish just above that racer about under 1 sec.

Other side get DC in manufacture cup

 

[Alpha Cipher]

Watchin hellZfirE's Nation Race, I didn't realize you could still cut the chicane like that. I thought the devs made a pass at some point tightening up the corner restrictions.. Is everything the same but La Sarthe is just super dumb?

And I hope they just add separate Gr4 and Gr3 championships at some point.

What cut? I didn't see him cut anything

 

[Seikenfreak]

The chicane at the bottom of the hill. Same way its always been. You can run like 3/4ths of the car onto the grass on either side it seems like, as long as you keep two tires on the rumble strips. If you get your turn in and speed right you can almost straight line through it. Not saying just hellZfirE was doing it, everyone was I was trying to avoid it because of penalties during all my practice/racing and such but I could probably pick up another .250 by getting back into the groove of doing it.

I always hated it though because you have to run it that way if you want to be competitive in the top group, but if you hit it wrong, the rumble strips will send your car flying out of control. Very hard to do it consistently. In Gr4, some cars handle jumps like that better.

So spots like that annoy me. The last chicane on Nurburgring GP is another one. Yet on La Sarthe, there are spots where you roll your tire over a white line a little and you're penalized.

 

[RACECAR]

Well, there is a number I wasn't aware of

 

[Alpha Cipher]

The chicane at the bottom of the hill. Same way its always been. You can run like 3/4ths of the car onto the grass on either side it seems like, as long as you keep two tires on the rumble strips. If you get your turn in and speed right you can almost straight line through it. Not saying just hellZfirE was doing it, everyone was I was trying to avoid it because of penalties during all my practice/racing and such but I could probably pick up another .250 by getting back into the groove of doing it.

I always hated it though because you have to run it that way if you want to be competitive in the top group, but if you hit it wrong, the rumble strips will send your car flying out of control. Very hard to do it consistently. In Gr4, some cars handle jumps like that better.

So spots like that annoy me. The last chicane on Nurburgring GP is another one. Yet on La Sarthe, there are spots where you roll your tire over a white line a little and you're penalized.

Ohhhh

 

[sundaydriving]

There needs to be EXTREMELY HARSH penalties for ANYBODY who gets in the way of a qualifying lap. I got blocked by 2 cars and had to abandon my lap in the Nations Cup. What's worse is that of one the guys who blocked me hit me off the track. I started 15TH, probably MY WORST POSITION ever. I was livid that I had to start soo far back, and it was an absolute **** fight at the start of the race. Cars braking to early, pushing, shoving and penalties. I copped 8 seconds on the first lap alone and nothing was going well. Still, I made my way up to 8th place and gained valuable points.

Qualifying is where you can easily spot which players are sportsmen and which ones are anything but. I've seen a handful of players in the last few races move out of the way with plenty of time to spare. Sticks out in my mind given how rare it is, but they're not the problem though are they. Most players dont have the awareness, I certainly don't all the time, and I'm certain some slow coachers dont have the inclination to let you past as you might out qualify them. Even if you think you've left a big enough gap in front at the start you can still catch slow section coasters further around the lap.

I guess it does to an extent randomise the grids a little and I'm not exactly sure thats a good thing.

 

[kjeldsen]

I mentioned how someone murdered a bunch of players game on the first day of the FIA season, sadly my replay messed up (thanks again PD for a crappy system with limited space?), so i only have a low quality stream from the live broadcast that i could not post at the time (wasn't ready on yt)



I simply do not get this insane rage **** that some gamers show online, we should stick together and watch each others back instead of trying to destroy everything when we mess up.. argh