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That's it, I'm done with this nonsense. Punted into next week twice on the first lap which gained me 6 seconds of penalties. Both punters drove away with zero penalties, I honestly don't understand why people still play this sham of a game
 
That's it, I'm done with this nonsense. Punted into next week twice on the first lap which gained me 6 seconds of penalties. Both punters drove away with zero penalties, I honestly don't understand why people still play this sham of a game
I play to watch the replays. I don't save the bad ones unless I have to prove a point. Stay up!

Edit: Oh yeah, about the Mustang. I'm finding, if fuel isn't an issue, the car is quite good. If fuel is a concern, it becomes a struggle.
 
So it sounds like one should start last on grid with medium tires, pit after 1 lap, then do 2 stints on softs and try to undercut the rest of the field? lol

Lose 12s with pitting but gain 3s on the outlap so a 9s loss to me may be worth the time advantage of fresher softs.
 
I play to watch the replays. I don't save the bad ones unless I have to prove a point. Stay up!

Edit: Oh yeah, about the Mustang. I'm finding, if fuel isn't an issue, the car is quite good. If fuel is a concern, it becomes a struggle.
thanks for the encouragement but that race really was the final straw. I will never buy another polyphony game again. What kind of system actually rewards dirty driving? no system at all would be better than the current farce
 
Well that didn’t work.

got robbed of a second lap in qualifying after blowing T1 on first lap and then crossing the line just as the timer was clicking 0:00, denied a second lap.

starting from almost last, tried 2M4S4S, I don’t think the second stop was worth it, fought too much traffic anyway. Held up last two laps by a very wide Canadian.

Was in a modest lobby as far as DR rankings go, so Lost DR and only a handful of FIA series points for 13th place. Not satisfying.

on the bright side, wasn’t pummeled at the start! (No one behind to hit me)

Will run a 5/5 race next time. And will make sure I don’t blow it on qualifying lap.
 
What. A. Mess. Chose the Cayman for the race and qualified 7th due to being stuck behind people on my first flying lap and binning it on T1 on my second flying lap. Come race start, someone dive-bombs the group and I'm backwards in 19th with a 3 second penalty. The rest of the race was like playing bumper cars with people moving over in braking zones, going two, three, even four wide through corners, and just driving badly. My SR dropped from 99 to 79 from that race. I finished 13th in the end. I'm not even going to try again, I can't risk dropping my SR more and getting a DR reset. I'm just going to grind out some Dailies to bring my SR back up.
 
Qualified 4th for Nations. Not dirty but very sloppy. Knocked off 3 times. Worked back up, knocked off again...... Quit on lap 8.

Parts were fun. 4-5 cars racing cleanly. But it 's gets stupid falling to last on the 1st turn, 3 times in 1 race.
 
Well, what do you know? The 2-stopper worked! Although, the pit time in the race was significantly longer than in my practice lobbies. That was annoying but it didn't seem to make that much of a difference. And I do think some of it is I got lucky. I qualy'd P8 but slid through the chaos of T1 and came out in 2nd. From the looks of it, that means I avoided a bunch of chaos in the midfield. I did lose several positions on my first pit but was able to significantly out brake most of them, as it seems like they were still on RM.

When all was said and done, I finished P5. Ahead of all the Slophy's except for the guy who won, who pretty much ran away with the thing. He wasn't all that much faster than me but way more consistent and his 1-stopper gained him good time on me. The guy who finished P4 was a bit bangy and I got mixed up with him a few times. I actually saw him bump somebody off on the straight before the final chicane. It made me happy that I let him go early on. But when we got mixed up again on the final lap, I felt like my tires were in better shape. I got to the inside of T1 before him but he turned into me slowing me down. I got to his inside again in the Mercedes Arena, again we make contact but I make it out before him and create some distance before I almost completely bin it on the T7 hairpin. I manage to keep it on the track and he makes it by me. I'll have to look at the replay but it honestly felt that as I was straightening out my car, regaining control he tried to swipe me as he went by. I dunno, maybe I'm just feeling touchy about things.

Anyway, one of my better FIA finishes in a while! Now, I got a work meeting to log on to...

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Qualified 4th for Nations. Not dirty but very sloppy. Knocked off 3 times. Worked back up, knocked off again...... Quit on lap 8.

Parts were fun. 4-5 cars racing cleanly. But it 's gets stupid falling to last on the 1st turn, 3 times in 1 race.
I would likely fall into a similar lobby as you. Is this race even worth it?

For reference, I enjoyed very clean/competitive racing at Tokyo last Saturday with P2 and P3 results which was surprising.
 
You know what, I'm looking forward to the Manufacturers Race tomorrow. I do enjoy Lemons.

I've was doing a practice lobby with some mates tonight. They're A rated and I'm B (I am 1,000 points from A) and normally quicker than me, but it seems like I have the edge on this track for once.

Unfortunately, it seems like the race will be a zero stopper on hards, which is annoying slightly. I'm only using about 12% of fuel per lap.
 
If anyone has scouted out the jag on lemans I would love to know if it is a straight no stopper on hards. I know the car is decent on gas but I have zero time to test tonight as i still have to trundle along in a race C to nurse my SR back to life before the start. Want to have a good race even if my results suck after the debacles I had last night. Like the Nations at Sardegna. Good race mostly, fun swapping spot, and finish was my own mistake, but all in all enjoyable.
Here's to a restart on that tonight.:cheers:
 

Got the win and no cheating required this time! Debated between the 4C and the Trophy but eventually went for the Alfa. Got bumped as the slipstream train almost stopped on the out lap just before the chicane and somehow i was assessed a penalty, no worries just reset to the pits do another out lap and get clean air, caught up to a slower car for a weak tow on the second half of the lap and put it on pole, something went wrong in the train, knew it was going to be hard with a few strong drivers close by but they ended up making mistakes and I pulled off the win. My pole time wouldn't have held up in any other slot and my overall pace probably wouldn't have won either but that's racing. Now I get to be a regular in the Oceania nations cup top 16 mid pack.

I've almost given up on manu, no point in running the Renault at Le Mans and my points aren't good enough for top 16 either.

On the whole lifted DR cap thing, my guess is that over the course of this season the top drivers will gradually increase their DR therefore the points on offer in FIA rounds will increase slowly over time as well, which means taking part in later rounds with a DR still good enough for top split is more important as "banker" points become slightly less important.
 
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Well, what do you know? The 2-stopper worked! Although, the pit time in the race was significantly longer than in my practice lobbies. That was annoying but it didn't seem to make that much of a difference. And I do think some of it is I got lucky. I qualy'd P8 but slid through the chaos of T1 and came out in 2nd. From the looks of it, that means I avoided a bunch of chaos in the midfield. I did lose several positions on my first pit but was able to significantly out brake most of them, as it seems like they were still on RM.

When all was said and done, I finished P5. Ahead of all the Slophy's except for the guy who won, who pretty much ran away with the thing. He wasn't all that much faster than me but way more consistent and his 1-stopper gained him good time on me. The guy who finished P4 was a bit bangy and I got mixed up with him a few times. I actually saw him bump somebody off on the straight before the final chicane. It made me happy that I let him go early on. But when we got mixed up again on the final lap, I felt like my tires were in better shape. I got to the inside of T1 before him but he turned into me slowing me down. I got to his inside again in the Mercedes Arena, again we make contact but I make it out before him and create some distance before I almost completely bin it on the T7 hairpin. I manage to keep it on the track and he makes it by me. I'll have to look at the replay but it honestly felt that as I was straightening out my car, regaining control he tried to swipe me as he went by. I dunno, maybe I'm just feeling touchy about things.

Anyway, one of my better FIA finishes in a while! Now, I got a work meeting to log on to...

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Yeah, people will try to be sneaky, without being sneaky, but obviously sneaky.
In that same race, the GT-R that kept pinching me inside, fell down the order toward the end of the race. It was on fresh tyres for the last lap and made huge ground on an RCZ into the final chicane.
The RCZ stayed a bit wide and with GT-R's acceleration, was able to take the inside line. As they both enter the corner, the RCZ knew what time it was. It braked very early and the GT-R tried to anticipate leaning on the RCZ to shorten the corner. It backfired and the GT-R sails straight off into the gravel, while the RCZ gingerly negates the corner and keeps the position. 👍

I kept rewinding that bit.:lol:
 
I’m using the Mustang if I enter this.
Maybe my luck here will change in a BIG STABLE FAST car. Last 3 times I’ve tried it I’ve gotten bullied...
I’m gonna try it, bad thing is I’m at 91 SR.
Maybe start from the back and gain some spots T1-4 Lap 1?
 
Well, I did only 1 race today. Had car #20, qualified 19th, finished 15th. It was actually a pretty close race though; I was only 19s behind the winner of the race despite finishing 15th. My Cayman wasn't a match for the 4Cs and Slophies though. Polesitter was a WRX that finished 5th.
 
2 disconnects on Nations tonight. One on lap 6, the other on lap 9. I’ve never had disconnects that late in a race before. Bummer. Will try one more time at 10:20.
 
I had a fun race coming back from 17th after getting smashed off in third lap one turn 3.
The Cayman behind me was smashed into me by a green trophy driven by a lowlife cheat-replay shows no brake-guy was fast just openly decided to act like a piece of garbage.
So much for pole position.
I guess damage on light means unless you ram a wall head on at 150 the car will be fine lol.
Recovered to seventh by the end. Forget points like in 130’s
It was actually really fun working back up.
1 stopped her.
Mighta been nice to see what racing people my speed would have been like. Gotta say I’m glad I don’t take these serious at all.
 
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Man, it was a rough night for me at the Nurb GP GR4 race. I went with the 86 after some test laps showed it to be the most consistent for me, just a little slow in the straights, but good everywhere else.

After getting stuck behind people trying to spin out and keep me from passing in qualifying, I dropped from 7th to 19th Qualifier on the final lap when everyone went faster, I didn’t.
Then someone was mad at me, don’t even know why, said he’d report me. Um, if that makes you happy.

In the race I climbed thru the field by staying out of trouble, starting on mediums and coming in on lap 6 for softs, In 11th place, attempting a 1 stop. By lap 10 I was 9 with 8th, 7th and 6th right in front of me. All slower, likely on mediums, but I could not get by clean until the final right turn before the straight leading to the chicane of death. I passed 8th and got along side 7th On his right heading into the chicane, unfortunately the driver in 7th wanted to keep the spot and shoved me off into the grass, not leaving a car width for me. I was sliding around on dirty tires trying to gather it up as 4 or 5 cars closed in on us, well on me, my race hung in the balance... As the driver who shoved me off drove away into the distance. I managed to hang onto 9th.

...then after the race someone told me I was dumb. I guess he felt I should pull over and let everyone pass rather than trying to salvage my race? Smh

FIA races are so much fun. I’m not doing the late race, i’ll deal with 9th knowing I was likely a top 3 contender based on lap times If I had a better start.

Too much BS.
 
Well the Nurburgring GP just isn't my place. Struggled in all three attempts at the Nations Cup race, each time in the Megane Trophy. Second race was actually the best, had 10th in hand, on the last lap, but some poor slob trying to compensate for his failings IRL ruined what had been a really really fun and clear lasts few laps amongst a decent cluster of us.

EDIT: had 9th in hand, cost me 35 points and more like 400 DR points.

Cost me 30 FIA series points and a few hundred DR. The guy called me an idiot and said that he was on Softs, so he was entitled to our spots... nice logic, *******. Fact was, I was also on Softs to end the race, it's just that I chose to race clean, not punt people aside to get by. Should be banned from B and above lobbies, people like him.

The real bummer was, I was just thinking "man, this is really fun, all five of us are dicing it up within inches, for two laps now, but very clean-- and I can't believe it"... when the Mustang driver's testosterone took over.

Broke my streak of increased DR at nine days... it had to end somewhere, but it's a pity it ended because of the usual idiots racing like cavemen instead of fair sports. Video for anyone that cares or by some miracle wonders if these idiots really ruin people's races. They do. So that was my chance at recovering my DR after a rough first race, and in trying to do better in the third, I of course struggled, starting the downward spiral.

I don't think starting on the M's was best for the Megane. It's just so hard to keep up on the straights, that any problem coming off the turn leaves you exposed... I maybe should have tried the Porsche, but the Renault was just so easy to drive (slowly, albeit).



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Packing up the RSR for Lemans now, hopefully that goes better.


PS: Tried to recover some lost DR at Big Willow, after putting in a pretty decent quali time (for me), only to be matched with A/A+ guys... not my day. Did manage a 4th place to recover some, but it could be two straight days down the DR roller coaster, depending on what happens in France.
 
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Did a practice race for tomorrow with the 911, I was insanely lucky to have been behind a fast guy in an Aston Martin who essentially towed me along the straights for the entire race. Without a draft, it's going to be rough, although I was able to make up time on the braking zones and corner exits. I just can't fight back against the straight-line speed.

Does anyone have a reference point for braking into Arnage? I seriously couldn't find anything to brake on for that corner after the 15 or so laps of Sarthe I did this evening so it meant I was always either too early or too late on the brakes there. I also found that, when in the draft down the Mulsanne Straight, for the first chicane, the two marshalls in orange that appear before the photographer Lester is a good braking point.
 
Guys, any tips for a newcomer in Nations League/Manufacturer League?

Played many hours on Daily Races, left GTS a few months ago and thinking about trying again, this time "more seriously".

Must say: I don't think I know how both championships works.

I am pretty new too.
My main, overall tip is to just take it easy at first to get the swing of everything. Don't try to be the quickest or best, have fun.
At first I was entering every single race with the car that the quickest racer was using. It was too overwhelming and I wasn't having fun.
Pick a car that is easy to drive for you. Don't be too proud to use the driver assistances that are available, even if they do slow you down a bit they will probably make you more consistent.
At first use automatic shifted gears. We can all go much quicker on our own, but in the traffic/melle it will be one less thing to think about.
 
Here we go. Qualy on RH. I'm just going to run those all race.
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An RSR just jumped up to 3rd.

Edit: THAT'S CRAZY!
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P2 was about 11 seconds ahead. Me, the Jag(finished 7th) and the F1 were stuck like glue from about Lap 4.
I got a run on the Jag and stayed in my lane. The F1 had been bump drafting me for a couple laps. So, I mess up at the second chicane. They both motor forward. I catch up, as the Jag is struggling.

Then, the Jag goes wide at the final turn. F1 pulls away and I move to 3rd.
I catch the F1 and we pull away from the Jag. Coming to end of Lap 6, the leader pits with "M" tyres. I'm thinking, "What the heck?". Next, the F1 pits! It's has the "M" tyres as well! No WAY!

Other cars tour the pit with "M" tyre too! P2 exits pits and I maintain that gap for the last lap. Pulling away out of turns.

P2 posts that he thought I had Meds still on because of my corner exit speed. I just typed "Took it easy".

Before the start, someone posted, "Remember to use Mediums". I already knew the requirements, but I still went back to the tyre requirements and it only reads "H". I think that threw players.

Anyway, the track limits are finicky. Looked like everyone behaved. Good stuff.
 
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2 disconnects on Nations tonight. One on lap 6, the other on lap 9. I’ve never had disconnects that late in a race before. Bummer. Will try one more time at 10:20.
Ive had first 2 races disconnect while matching error ne 21009009, being haopening alot lately.
 
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Awesome race! :) Did throw away 2nd though!

Qualified 5th and was going to run Hards the whole race but forgot to change tires in the lobby after qualifying! Car in front botched his start so I was into 4th and then 3rd place got an early penalty so it ended up 3 of us breaking away from the pack pulling out a big gap. 3rd lap a Jag leading made a mistake and dropped away leaving myself and a Porsche. I got into the lead and stayed there with the Porsche just within slipstream range for the next 3 laps.

I pitted end of lap 6 and the Porsche stayed out so was on Hards the whole time, using my draft to keep up. I came out 3 seconds ahead of 3rd but I stupidly braked too late on the very first corner on cold Hards and lost the time gap. He caught me in my draft down the back straights and got past.

Very happy with 3rd though :)

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