FIA Race Discussion [Archive]

[theschledy]

Wow, just wow, at an incident in Oceania manufacturer top split. I can't post a link to it because the streamer's comments could be seen as defamatory, and under UK law, if I provide a link, it's legally the same as me making those comments myself. But if people search, I'm sure they can find it.....

I need to know more! Lol. Can't seem to find anything.

Separate note, I saw an interesting change atop the NA leaderboards (don't wanna say too much just in case it's nothing) I wonder what happened there.

 

[stpatty]

Practice is going well, yes

 

[stpatty]

Started 12th at Bathurst. The top 12 was actually fairly consistent pace-wise for the first three laps. Then on lap 4 I go wide at the right hander as you start going up the mountain (track limits, I did this once in practice and I've no idea how that lap differed from any of my others). Then at the end of that lap there was a pile-up at the left hander going on to the back straight. I slowed before it but I still managed to boop an AMG enough to spin him and get an extra three seconds.

On lap 6 or 7 or so I went three wide into the Chase with another GT-R and a Peugeot VGT. I was behind them and backed off, then as we turned right I followed the Peugeot to the left but the other GT-R went too wide through and bumped me off, he got 2 seconds.

I nearly got another track penalty in the same place as my first. Someone stopped on the left hand side of the track there and wasn't moving. Over the next two or three laps he just rolled down the hill, and wasn't ghosted. I've never seen that before. I thought my internet was dropping out and panicked, but it was all fine.

I ended up 9th. 8th was just in front of me and I sort of bottled passing him on the last lap. My tyres were a bit off (S-M/S/S) by then though and since I haven't raced in a while I didn't want to push it.

However the award for the worst experience at Bathurst this evening goes to this guy. Prepare your Omega Fs, please:

The guy that won had an Auricom livery on his car, so that's all good.

 

[breeminator]

So, how many people didn't realise the races are an hour earlier, and missed the first slot?

 

[ivann]

+1 people

 

[Adam Barber]

Nation's didn't go well today but manufacturers went much better dispute a rubbish qualifying as always I managed to gain 8 positions to finish 9th with a 5m/4s/1h/4s. Wanted to spend as little time on the hards as possible with the Aston. Made good progress as the start on the mediums as well and really enjoyed having to use all 3 compounds in the race, made for a nice mix in strategy aswell.

 

[Pigems]

For those wondering, it doesn’t matter how you split the tire combo, Medium fronts and Hard backs, or the other way around, it still counts.

 

[praiano63]

Nice clean nation and manu races on my french quebracoco_84 account , very fair players tonight , i enjoy it a lot , it was a fantastic combo on both tracks. Mamufacturer i did M/H 4 - S/S 5- S/S 5 . It was perfect with my citroen.

 

[Benay79]

So, how many people didn't realise the races are an hour earlier, and missed the first slot?

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!

only had/have time to do the middle slot. Missed it. All that practice for nothing

 

[Adam Barber]

So, how many people didn't realise the races are an hour earlier, and missed the first slot?

Definitely prefer them an hour earlier TBH

 

[Velhadas]

Is there any way to see what tires the other guys are using apart from when they pit? I don't want to be fighting a guy on softs when I have hard tires.

 

[stpatty]

From 14th to 4th in Manu for 1343 points, my highest ever. I was in 3rd until the final lap when an AMG passed me (and nearly ran me off the road defending shortly after where Miaybi rejoins Yamagiwa)

Absolute F in qualifying. I was fuel burning before my second flying lap and ended up crossing the start line 1 second too late. I was going M-H/S/S/S regardless, and I was fairly unscathed through the first few laps. During my first soft stint I was back and forth with a Borderlands-themed AMG who was slowing me down, eventually I got past and they ended up dropping off by about three seconds.

I made my way up the field and was 5th when I came out for my final stint. 3rd pitted a lap later and I had an AMG in front of me who I knew had been out longer. I was pushing him close and I ended up off the track at the small S bend in the Miyabi section. I'm going to watch it back but I'm fairly sure I was as close to the right of the track as possible. (Ed - I watched it back and this was nonsense, I cut way more to the left than I realised. We were side by side though and I was on fresher softs to his mediums. I couldn't have got out of it)

Don't know what would've happened if I hadn't **** the bed in qualifying, but I wanted a high score from this race and I got one.

 

[tonyNOS]

Did RM/RH + RM + RM, unfortunately between confusion and bagarre i did 5 lap RM/RH, 5 lap RM + 4 lap RM and fuel plus, ready away, I arrived along the first corner, and 2 second penalty for my mistake.
It is now official that despite driving an Alfa Romeo every day and twice a year I go on the track, on gt sport I don't know how to drive it.

 

[KepleroGT]

The Manufacturer was really exiciting. Qualified 6th with a pretty solid lap, but I started on the hybrid RM-RH and I almost kept up with the guys ahead. Pitted at lap 3 and unintentionally went for 5 laps instead of 4 on the softs. Lots of battles with lots of drivers, long story short I'm 1st with a 1s advantage at the last lap, I lose it and the guy behind overtakes me at the Yamagiwa-Miyabi merge, in the next corner I touch him a bit and he spins all over the place. There was another guy coming up behind so I didn't wait too much and kept on going. At the end I won the race, 1.5k points, I texted him to apologise and he accepted it.

Nations was a total disaster. I was caught up behind a really, reaaaallly slow driver. I was half a second faster than pole, then on the straight I tried to overtake him on braking but he braked as hard as he could so I went off and qualified 16th. The drivers there were really slow and I rage quitted at around lap 3 because I had lost 10 seconds already to the leader.
Reminder for me to never ask for a tow again

 

[VulcanSpirit]

So, after finding out too late that the FIA slots had all moved an hour forward, I ended up missing the first Manufacturers slot of the night and settling for the 9:00 race. Qualifying was a total botch job. Had really good tow behind a pair of Porsches on my first lap, but launched up the kerb at the end of the high-speed S's and smacked the barrier left-rear first. Soldiered on to complete the lap with suspension damage - a 2:24.911 - but got denied a second lap after coming up to the line just after the timer expired. Ended the session 18th and feeling very shaky, my chances of getting a decent starting position having suddenly vanished.

Decided to abandon the strategy I had initially worked on in practice lobbies, starting on Hards before gradually taking on softer compounds. Got involved in some close and at times really fiercely-fought battles within the tail end, but couldn't gain much ground with faster drivers and pit stop cycles at play. Picking up a 0.5 second penalty for running onto the grass at the second left-hander didn't help matters; neither did being squeezed out onto the kerb and the grass on the final lap while battling a Renault and a fast-charging Rizla BMW. In the end, I could only get up to 14th place for 681 points; not a bad charge, but not a rewarding one, either.

For the record, the tyre strategy I ran was 2H, 6M, 4S, 4S; refuelled to 85% on Lap 8 for a near flat-out run in my final two stints.

There was some pride salvaged for Dodge, however - a second Viper joined me for this lobby, qualifying 5th and finishing a considerable distance ahead in 3rd. Fair play to him for showing what it can do at the hands of a true A+-quality driver.

Doubt I will be doing the 23:40 slot; feeling fairly tired at the moment and don't want to make myself feel worse if a second attempt turns out to be just as poor. Still, pending any physics/BoP changes in tomorrow's update, at least Monza should be an ideal match for the Viper.

 

[praiano63]

Is there any way to see what tires the other guys are using apart from when they pit? I don't want to be fighting a guy on softs when I have hard tires.

No , but if the guy is in front of you , it means he qualify faster . If slower , big chance he have a harder compound than you

 

[breeminator]

1st slot - missed because I didn't realise the times had changed by an hour.

2nd slot - qualified 5th, got swamped by very aggressive driving early on, ended up nearly last.

3rd slot - was on for a qualifying lap that would have been 1st or 2nd, but despite having left a couple of seconds gap to the car ahead at the start of my lap, I'd caught them up 40 seconds into the lap. Couldn't get past them, so went from 0.6 up on my 1st lap at the 40 second mark to 0.1 up at the end of the lap. That put me 6th on the grid. Resolved to hold my position better than in the previous race during the first lap or two, but the whole race had a lot of pretty dirty driving, including at one point someone blatantly rear ending me out of the way to pass me, despite it being clear I was faster than them at that point in the race (I had just passed them cleanly on the previous corner). There was a LOT of that on display during the race. The race was largely a traffic jam from start to finish, but somehow I managed to get a clear track at some key points and was able to extend one stint as I could see I was growing the gap to the car behind. Whether I could salvage some worthwhile points all came down to my final lap which was a 1 lap stint on the hards. They might be slow, but they were faster than whatever the 2 cars right in front of me on the track had on, and there was some very intense battling on that last lap. I felt I kept it completely clean in managing to pass the two cars in front of me by the end of the lap, to scrape 4th place for a net gain of 240 or so points, which might yet turn out to be crucial in the fight for a top 10 spot in the Honda ranking. It's annoying that the winning time was slower than I've routinely been doing in practice, but there's little chance of doing that time unless you can get pole and open up a gap. Lap 2, for example, was 3 seconds slower than I'd have done with a clear track.

 

[Kevstah2004]

Still not early enough for European users imo, 5pm-12pm,
most people are either having their tea or knackered.
Why can’t we have 12am-4pm instead when where wide awake and refreshed after dinner/lunch.

 

[Famine]

So, how many people didn't realise the races are an hour earlier, and missed the first slot?

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!

only had/have time to do the middle slot. Missed it. All that practice for nothing

Definitely prefer them an hour earlier TBH

So, after finding out too late that the FIA slots had all moved an hour forward

1st slot - missed because I didn't realise the times had changed by an hour.

Just for reference, the race times are still at exactly the same time they have been throughout the Exhibition Series. What's changed are our own clocks. Those of us in the UK are now on GMT, after moving back from BST (GMT+1) at the weekend. Other European countries have also moved off their summer time too.

There's a reason GTPlanet always gives times in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time; like GMT, but for nerds), and this is it.

 

[Granadier]

Just for reference, the race times are still at exactly the same time they have been throughout the Exhibition Series. What's changed are our own clocks. Those of us in the UK are now on GMT, after moving back from BST (GMT+1) at the weekend. Other European countries have also moved off their summer time too.

There's a reason GTPlanet always gives times in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time; like GMT, but for nerds), and this is it.

Something something get rid of daylight savings time.
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Back to regularly scheduled FIA discussion. Bathurst is brutal. Started 7th and finished in 14th after 15 seriously punishing laps. What a track.

 

[TRL_holl01]

Wow, just wow, at an incident in Oceania manufacturer top split. I can't post a link to it because the streamer's comments could be seen as defamatory, and under UK law, if I provide a link, it's legally the same as me making those comments myself. But if people search, I'm sure they can find it.....

Was it the incident between myself and Sidawg? I completely ****ed up, and had a huge mental lapse in concentration.

Instead of focusing on the braking point, I was doing the number crunching on his pit strategy, and weather or not I was still leading the race in theory, and I completely missed the corners braking and ran into the back of him. I was going to let him through but because I got a 5 second penalty, I just served it later in the lap.

Definitely a regrettable and embarrassing incident, alot of it was to do with lack of sleep, which really isn't and excuse, as I should have simply not raced..

The second time slot was incident free.

 

[GTWolverine]

Much better than I could've hoped for in tonight's Manufacturer's cup. Yamagiwa has always been one of my favorite tracks in this game, but for some reason the combined course has usually been disappointing for my results (probably because it has more tight corners, which seem to be where using a controller hurts me the most). I had car number 17, and qualified 14th, so at first glance I appeared to be outclassed, but my qualifying time was less than 1 second off of 3rd place. I also planned to to 3-stop (with my first stint on Meds on the front and Hards on the rear, and the remaining 3 stints Softs all around). I was hoping that mixing my tires up in the first stint would pay off, and BOY DID IT!

I worked my way up into the top 10 before my first stop, courtesy of everyone around me having the same rough idea of putting on harder tires to start the race, plus a few cars running off track. I decided to make the first 2 stints 4 laps because I didn't want to pit too early and get caught behind slower traffic. I did 3 laps apiece on my final 2 stints, and finished 6th, after a hard-fought battle for 5th, and with 4th and 5th in my sights. I ended up being the 2nd-highest Corvette in the race, after qualifying last of the 'Vettes, and bagged 1,183 points.

 

[praiano63]

My best result ever on my french account. 2 good races today .

Well , i did not have the same success on my praiano63 .... due to the visit of an old friend and a lotsssss of beerssssss ... Sorry if my driving was a mess at Bathurst tonight , i think i did not hurt anybody at least . Finished 13th He's a really good friend indeed , good friends deserve the best .

 

[HellzFire]

On Manu, after getting destroyed by the Meds/Hards stint 1 combination on race 1, I went for it on race 2 and it's just too OP lol. Still not as OP as the merc tho, close enough.

 

[stpatty]

1st slot - missed because I didn't realise the times had changed by an hour.

2nd slot - qualified 5th, got swamped by very aggressive driving early on, ended up nearly last.

3rd slot - was on for a qualifying lap that would have been 1st or 2nd, but despite having left a couple of seconds gap to the car ahead at the start of my lap, I'd caught them up 40 seconds into the lap. Couldn't get past them, so went from 0.6 up on my 1st lap at the 40 second mark to 0.1 up at the end of the lap. That put me 6th on the grid. Resolved to hold my position better than in the previous race during the first lap or two, but the whole race had a lot of pretty dirty driving, including at one point someone blatantly rear ending me out of the way to pass me, despite it being clear I was faster than them at that point in the race (I had just passed them cleanly on the previous corner). There was a LOT of that on display during the race. The race was largely a traffic jam from start to finish, but somehow I managed to get a clear track at some key points and was able to extend one stint as I could see I was growing the gap to the car behind. Whether I could salvage some worthwhile points all came down to my final lap which was a 1 lap stint on the hards. They might be slow, but they were faster than whatever the 2 cars right in front of me on the track had on, and there was some very intense battling on that last lap. I felt I kept it completely clean in managing to pass the two cars in front of me by the end of the lap, to scrape 4th place for a net gain of 240 or so points, which might yet turn out to be crucial in the fight for a top 10 spot in the Honda ranking. It's annoying that the winning time was slower than I've routinely been doing in practice, but there's little chance of doing that time unless you can get pole and open up a gap. Lap 2, for example, was 3 seconds slower than I'd have done with a clear track.

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Did you have a run in with the AMG in 6th who got a penalty? He was the guy who passed me for 3rd on the last lap of my race and cut me off right after. It's quite amusing that he tried again and ended up in a lower lobby.

Still not early enough for European users imo, 5pm-12pm,
most people are either having their tea or knackered.
Why can’t we have 12am-4pm instead when where wide awake and refreshed after dinner/lunch.

… and at work

Not to mention that Europe doesn't only mean countries in GMT

 

[watto79]

Nations
No work to worry about so thought I'd give the 5pm slot a go (because I HAD remembered about the clocks changing ). I was seeded with door 1 in a 1.8k lobby, which is lower than I normally see but is okay. Anyway, I need to worry less about the competition and more about my own ability to do 15 laps of Bathurst without major incident.
Qualified 4th (happy with that), race starts and T1 has a somewhat major incident behind me that gives me a cushion to not worry about cars behind. T2 sees a somewhat major incident ahead of me, resulting in my squeezing my way into P2 before we head up the mountain. The concentration needed for this track is unreal but I did pretty well! Dropped back down to 4th in lap 2, and get my head down to my strategy of 5S/5M/5S. All rehearsed and so I can end the race on the faster tyre.
That's all well and good until the first pitstop (tiptoeing my way through that nightmare pit entrance) only to select soft tyres again
Ballsed up my strategy so I just have to revert to finishing on the medium tyre. On my outlap I catch someone who is on lap 6 of their medium tyres. Heading down the long downhill straight they signal for me to pass them, and they back out of the right hand kink to let me go. Hats off to them for playing the long game and not fighting for position at every corner when we're on different strategies.
Anyway I get to the last stint, miraculously up to P3. My only issue was the gentleman who waved me past is now on the soft tyre and hunting me down. Fortunately they get caught up in a minor battle that saved my position. But still, started the last lap with a 2 second gap only for them to finish right on my bumper.
I REALLY enjoyed the race, but even only 15 laps left me exhausted from the concentration. Not the highest scoring lobby I usually race in but I'll take the points and enjoy the rest of my evening!

 

[breeminator]

Did you have a run in with the AMG in 6th who got a penalty? He was the guy who passed me for 3rd on the last lap of my race and cut me off right after. It's quite amusing that he tried again and ended up in a lower lobby.

I haven't checked the recording, but I think he was actually one of the cleanest drivers in the lobby. IIRC I had to pass him several times due to falling behind again after pitting, and felt we both kept it clean.

 

[Winnie847]

Amazing battling with Gouletzky and Dibblr last night at MFG. Would’ve liked to finish better but I’ll take a top 10 in top split any time even if it was a weak final slot. Had I not botched my first attempt where I qualified P2, I could’ve had over 2k points but in hindsight this was a much better race. I should’ve used less fuel, and I missed a braking point once and barged a guy, but let him pass immediately after. Without those errors I should’ve had P7, but I think it’ll still be enough for me to take the win for BMW, since hardly anyone chose it this season. This truly was a race of strategy, and everyone was holding someone up at some point it seemed. Great and respectful driving overall from everyone around me.

 

[CurbHog]

Happy Halloween
I thought that last night race could become a horror show, but it went better than I thought.
I had 18 on the door and after the traditional poor qualifying, I was 13th on the grid. My goal was 8th place because that is where I would start to get more points to count to my best 5 races.
My strategy was to do mixed tires in first stint (I wonder when they will plug that loop hole) and then doing softs on the following stints.
I ended up 8th after a two stop race. Not too bad. Some good overtakes as well as people were doing many different strategies.
Watch it here:

 

[pantherjag]

Seems next FIA season starts 9th November with Gr2 at maggiore

Went onto official site to check settings for round 10 of nations and its skipped to next season round 1(manu still has details for this season round 10)

Full championship schedule for next nations season is up to see although cant look at detailed settings.

Tried to link but not working, maybe someone could screenshot and post before disappear as no doubt an error that those details are on there