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Here are my best results from the first 2 rounds. A few mistakes in both, but mid to high A lobbies, and loads of great fun, clean racing.

Round 1:


Round 2:
 
ST Croix is perfect for Sport Mode. Flowing, fast and wide. The chance for being punted will be:

- the left-hander before and after the long straight
- the hairpin before the bridge( the blind crest looks like it will catch people out)

Other than that, I feel it will be good racing on Wednesday
 
As of last night there was roughly 10 people in AU/NZ who set practice times with the DB3S. Not very promising, but at least they picked the only decent st croix layout for manufacturers.
 
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100% skill based victories only :lol:

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2,096! Not quite my highest score ever (highest was 2,117 back in the 2018 official season), but this may be the only time I can say that I actually beat two world finalists, one of whom made the overall podium, and a former GT Academy winner, all in one race.

Alfa overpowered? I have no idea what you're talking about, Gran Turismo Sport is a completely fair and balanced game!
 
Lost Sheltie
I made a right mess of both races last night.



For the Nations, I knew the track a bit better, but that didn't stop me making a complete hogs ear of qualifying. Binning it at the Cutting on my 1st quali lap, and then at The Chase on the 2nd. Ended up starting dead last and so began my fight back. Had a few decent overtakes, a couple of people in front crashed, and managed to work my way up to 8th by the end of the race. Tbh it was a lot of fun, so decided that was enough for the night. Probably could have gotten more points if I had tried again but I was a bit tired :)

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I finished just behind you in this one. I was pretty impressed from your advance from last place to 8. I had stopped in round 5 and had much better tyres and gained over 3 seconds in the last turn. I was happy with 9th and did not want to push to much and cause a collision. I had quite a few incidents in the race that I was not happy about.
In the Final FIA season I was happy to come in the manufactures just in behind you.
 
Okay video post later but my Saturday experiences were not good.

Went into Nations Cup Race at 19:00, had an okay qualifying session and started grid on 8th place so thinking okay this is possible to
score a reasonable result at Mount Panorama.

Top of the hill on Lap 1 and big accident going through the chicane section and I end up incurring a 3 second penalty and in the wall so
give up mindset is in full force and I ran around limping in 12th place for a finish.

After race frustrations set in and I think to myself I am not standing for this result so I enter the next race at 20:00.

Qualifying begins and I'm not even trying to post a time and I qualify in pole on the grid to start the race.

The race begins and I speed off and have a good 1st lap but appears there was chaos at the top of the hill as I gain five seconds down
the back straight and proceed to spend the rest of the race in 1st place and win for the second time this year in an FIA race.

I didn't pit, everyone went for it on Lap 6/7 but I stayed out, had no tires left by the end but had a 22 second advantage reduced to 7
seconds so I was in control throughout.

Manufactuers Race was epic fail, disconnected so unable to complete on Saturday.

Video of the good race later!
 
I'm taking a pass on the Nation race Wednesday, so I'm going to get my feet wet in the Manufacturers Series instead. I'm not spending 10 mil on a car for one race.

I love St. Croix, beautiful track. I managed to get a 2:18.8, with an optimal of 2:18.5. Not bad I suppose. I'm giving Volkswagen a go this time around. I love the Scirocco, it seems to be the GR.4 car I am fastest with when I run time trials and I opted for the GTI VGT instead of the Beetle.

I've also been getting back on my wheel, but as of right now I'm still 1 second faster with the DS4 and consistency is still an issue with the wheel. It's not so much the wheel but the peddles. I find with the peddles I can't get the fine touch, it seems the throttle only has a 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% threshold. If I lift ever so slightly it drops to 75% whereas with the DS4 I am able to lift slightly to get 90% throttle.

Tonight I'll be running tire and fuel simulations in a lobby if anyone cares to join, free run only. Just look up lobby at St. Croix B II and it will be called Manu Practice(Free Run Tire&Fuel Simulation). Probably from 4:45PM Central until 6PM, then probably another session from 9PM to 10PM

I'd like to know if tire wear is that much better with the wheel as I've heard, then it might make sense to make the transition if I'm only 1 second slower but don't lose as much time from tire wear. I'm interested to see the result.

As it turn out I've been using my wheel wrond all along to. I had FF and sensitivity turn way up instead of turn way down. Much better now as far as steering is concerned.
 
When I was racing with SNAIL, if anyone foolishly picked a high value car, they were usually asked to reconsider. I hope this is Polyphony corporate learning that same lesson this week. I can't race. I don't have the car. I don't have the time, and even if I did, I wouldn't waste it grinding to get one car to be in one race.

Polyphony: This would be a great chance to give away a high end car to promote your racing series and instead you decided to reduce the already low numbers by hoping to force us into buying a car. No matter what: the first example (giving away a car to encourage participation) would immediately boost numbers in the FIA Series (the reason GT Sport exists, right?) and the second (pay to play) can only lower numbers further.

The problem isn't: how hard will they grind to get the chance to be the best. The problem is being able to buy the car for real money. I've shut that feature off, anyway.

Well, preseason, so I hope a lesson is learned.
 
HERE4BEER3
I'm taking a pass on the Nation race Wednesday, so I'm going to get my feet wet in the Manufacturers Series instead. I'm not spending 10 mil on a car for one race.

I love St. Croix, beautiful track. I managed to get a 2:18.8, with an optimal of 2:18.5. Not bad I suppose. I'm giving Volkswagen a go this time around. I love the Scirocco, it seems to be the GR.4 car I am fastest with when I run time trials and I opted for the GTI VGT instead of the Beetle.
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If it's of any help I did some tests in the Ford Mustang yesterday and tyre wear on Hard's were good for about 7 laps and the mediums about
4-5 laps so I am thinking of a Hard > Meidum late stop strategy.
 
darth_tails
If it's of any help I did some tests in the Ford Mustang yesterday and tyre wear on Hard's were good for about 7 laps and the mediums about
4-5 laps so I am thinking of a Hard > Meidum late stop strategy.
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how about fuel? i tested it yesterday and i had to refuel for 1,8 additional laps in my mustang.
the Merc SLS or Audi TT just refueld for 0,3 laps so i had an much longer pitstop ( aprox 7sec more)
i see no chance for a good race if i loose 7 sec in pitstop. my laptime is
competitive 1:18:990 FW low A

tire med / hard seems ok for me
 
speedoli
how about fuel? i tested it yesterday and i had to refuel for 1,8 additional laps in my mustang.
the Merc SLS or Audi TT just refueld for 0,3 laps so i had an much longer pitstop ( aprox 7sec more)
i see no chance for a good race if i loose 7 sec in pitstop. my laptime is
competitive 1:18:990 FW low A

tire med / hard seems ok for me
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As far as fuel went I was good, did 7 laps with no fuel map and then took 4 laps of fuel and mapped it on Stage 3 which did
me to the end of my practice session but will be testing fuel tonight!
 
Ja, 7 laps works with the mustang, but the other cars got fuel for 8,5 laps. the race is 9 Laps so we have to refuel more and loose time in pit. seems bad BOP in the fuel economy for this race. in the race before ( last saturday) it was no problem. maybe you find a fast strategy for this 9 Lap StCroix Gr4. Race.
 
Finally got a few vids done.

Really upset at myself for wasting a rare good qualifying at Bathurst. Looking at the other rooms that day, I could've easily scored much better points.



Instead, I wasted my efforts at Alsace getting poor points. This was the last race that highlighted how awful the WRX is at passing. Oh, and the pit road design bit me and I got the worst points.



Bonus video: A fun FIA practice race for St Croix. The leader had hards and so it made it easier to cling on. Still, watch how easily I get passed even while drafting someone else! Good grief, how am I supposed to get any good result with this car? Did I mention I get awful fuel economy? :irked:



Bonus video 2: Something I might have to start doing after my FIA races with Slowbaru to vent.

 
speedoli
Ja, 7 laps works with the mustang, but the other cars got fuel for 8,5 laps. the race is 9 Laps so we have to refuel more and loose time in pit. seems bad BOP in the fuel economy for this race. in the race before ( last saturday) it was no problem. maybe you find a fast strategy for this 9 Lap StCroix Gr4. Race.
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Just try short shifting it a little bit, you will have enough fuel for 12-13 laps, especially in a car like the Scirocco, you don't need to wind the gears right up to the limit to get a good amount of power. You should EASILY complete the race while staying on fuel map 1 while doing this, and all without losing power.
 
I'm actually tempted to say it's better to just all out rev the 4C and take the 3 second refueling time. The amount of speed you lose short shifting that car is colossal over the course of a race.
 
Dodge Lamb
I'm actually tempted to say it's better to just all out rev the 4C and take the 3 second refueling time. The amount of speed you lose short shifting that car is colossal over the course of a race.
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In the 4C I would tend to agree, but to save the missing 0.5L of fuel that is missing, would you not only need to short shift 1 or so laps and carry on as usual? Now, if I am not mistaken, you race in the top lobby, at which point losing any time what so ever probably makes a major difference. I am still a few levels down from that, so I would definitely go for your advice over mine lmao.
 
PerformLAB1
In the 4C I would tend to agree, but to save the missing 0.5L of fuel that is missing, would you not only need to short shift 1 or so laps and carry on as usual? Now, if I am not mistaken, you race in the top lobby, at which point losing any time what so ever probably makes a major difference. I am still a few levels down from that, so I would definitely go for your advice over mine lmao.
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You have to shift at the end of the gear indicator to save enough fuel in the 4C. Optimal speed requires you to rev quite a bit over the redline. The difference in speed is quite noticeable when you spend a whole lap short shifting as opposed to revving out in that car particularly. It was way worse in the official season last year because of how slow short shifting makes it.
 
Race Entry is open for ST.CROIX.
I just turned of my PS4 and restarted. Hope I don't get booted.
 
Even I feel I finished last, ST. CROIX is the best track for Sport Mode. I said it is one of PD's best ever creations for the franchise. Perfect.

Started 6th. Finished 5th. Ran long to end of Lap 6. Changed to RM and filled from 1.8 left to 3.0. Full throttle start to finish. Not the best fuel mileage, but speed and handling did its job.

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