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The 1H/6M only works if you get lucky with traffic and are in a lobby of around our level (I'm up to 38k after three finishes of 2nd, 4th and 3rd). I got lucky with traffic pretty much everywhere on my runs. With it being a long track, and being slipstream heavy, you can count on some carnage in the first lap, then isolated incidents later as people misjudge slipstreams. Then again, seeing @Tidgney do top split you see there are morons at every level, so it's pretty much a lottery everywhere.Raced on hards, no stop: awful; saw @stpatty do well with 1H/6M
Raced 1H/6M: okay, got whumped by six 6S/1H drivers
Raced 6M/1H: came second (3s lead became a 7s deficit) to a no-stop hards driver
I give up.
Edit: Nearly at 35k now though, so yay.
The 1H/6M only works if you get lucky with traffic and are in a lobby of around our level (I'm up to 38k after three finishes of 2nd, 4th and 3rd). I got lucky with traffic pretty much everywhere on my runs. With it being a long track, and being slipstream heavy, you can count on some carnage in the first lap, then isolated incidents later as people misjudge slipstreams. Then again, seeing @Tidgney do top split you see there are morons at every level, so it's pretty much a lottery everywhere.
I'd love to see a modified version of this as a Daily Race C combo. 6 laps, med/soft, bump the tyre wear up by one or two to give a legitimate choice in strategy. A fun evening for me.
I noticed the GT-R walking away from me(in the Mustang) at Interlagos. In the corners(entry, mid, exit)! How is that?Ye there's people doing all sorts at all levels. I'd still argue 1 shot would stop quite a lot because you won't have people playing 8 hours in a day... and then they also know its there only chance. People will always make mistakes mind you, and I think there is a solid grey area when people think somethings dirty and its just a mistake and someone hitting you many times etc.
Also, what on earth is this BoP at the moment! A GTR went from the back to the front in top split and then proceeded to break away. Then I check Suzuka in Nations and GTR is top in that to...?
Is there a way to watch a PSN friend’s FIA race live, like you can a private lobby?
Maybe they'll do another BoP change when the new Mazda Gr. 3 car is introduced. Wishful thinking I know, but if there's a time to do it in the middle of a season, it's at that point. I'm in the same boat with Chevy (Chevy is the only manufacturer ranked worse than Jag in North America, and they're also both near the bottom globally). I'm not really contemplating switching, but man the Gr. 4 car could do with a decent power increase (or weight reduction, but that's even less likely). I've been getting decent results in the Gr. 3 car though.Too bad that Jag kinda sucks and I might jump ship and lose all these points.
Back where I started for this season, McLaren with the F1 GTR as my Gr.3 car. I struggled massively with the F1 in 2019 because it's off the pace nearly everywhere (PD pls buff). Except for one track: La Sarthe 💡
Entering the second slot race in my F1, I was greeted by a top split lobby with 389 points on offerI ended up qualifying 6th with a 3:53.773, which could've been better because I was a bit too close to the car in front, but good enough nonetheless. A Ford GT, three Supras and a Huracan qualified in front of me.
P7 was in the 911, which is relatively weak here, so by the first Mulsanne chicane on lap 1 I had already broken the slipstream and was out in front with the 5 cars in front of me. The first lap was uneventful, until TRL Adam in the Ford GT went deep into the Ford chicanes and picked up a 1 second penalty. He fell into the pack behind after serving it, while Fire in the Supra had pulled out of slipstream range. Fortunately for the rest of us, he got a 0.5 second penalty at Dunlop chicane on lap 3 and we closed in again. Meanwhile, the GTR behind me had broken away from the group and was now in my slipstream. Two of the cars in front lost out in an incident at Arnage, which promoted me to P3, but Fire was out of slipstream again. Both him and the Supra in front of me got penalties at Corvette though, so when they served them on the Mulsanne straight on lap 4, I went up to P2 and was very close to Fire. Only half a second behind exiting the second chicane, and I took the lead at half distance under braking for Mulsanne.
What followed was two and a half laps of defending for my life from the pack of 5 cars behind me. The F1, being very slow in the corners and extremely fast in a straight line with very good traction, is a really frustrating car to be stuck behind. The Supra could get alongside on the long straights, but as soon as he pulled out of the slipstream, I got back in front and he was forced to back out. I didn't put a foot wrong the whole time, but obviously the defending slowed everyone down. I was running a second off the pace, so by the final lap, more cars behind had caught up and there were now 9 cars in the lead pack within less than 3 seconds
Fire got another 0.5s penalty at Dunlop chicane but was closer than ever into the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight, and this time sent it up the inside to take P1. When he served his penalty, I led again and Giorgio in the Lambo took over P2. I missed my braking marker coming into Mulsanne for the final time, which allowed the Lambo to get fully alongside and take the lead, but the F1 is so OP in a straight line that I was once again in front before the kink. Then there was another incident at Arnage and suddenly I was 2 seconds clearAll that was left was to drive the rest of the lap as cautiously as I possibly could, and bring the McLaren home to take the 389 points and 40 global manufacturer points for my first win in top split (and possibly my final race on the pad)!
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Leave the Big Boi alone plz it was complete dog meat in every round last seasonYe there's people doing all sorts at all levels. I'd still argue 1 shot would stop quite a lot because you won't have people playing 8 hours in a day... and then they also know its there only chance. People will always make mistakes mind you, and I think there is a solid grey area when people think somethings dirty and its just a mistake and someone hitting you many times etc.
Also, what on earth is this BoP at the moment! A GTR went from the back to the front in top split and then proceeded to break away. Then I check Suzuka in Nations and GTR is top in that to...?
Next rounds of Manu and Nations look good. I remember Sardegna B gr3 was in dailies a long time ago, good strategy was fuel saving no stopper. But I dont remember tyre and fuel multipliers, were they same as now?
Edit: I just realised how stupid I amFIA races are much longer than dailies so it will be different strategy for sure, not even mentioning that there will be mandatory tyres
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Another tough one at La Sarthe yesterday... Is it just me or is Manufacturers more competitive than Nations? I really struggle to get good results these days. I took four stabs at it, best I got was Q10P7.
I have steadily increased my DR while focusing on FIA only, and now feel that if I don't prepare really well, I go backwards in the race. I might change my approach to less races but better prepared. I gotta say though, on the last race it got really close and that was great. So I still think it was the right call to try and place my DR accurately, but even a podium seems out of reach.
Now onto the "rant" section. I'm surprised I didn't see more complaints about the penalty system around La Sarthe. I'm usually ok with it, but that was not cool. It's like they put Oprah on the steward board. YOU get a penalty, YOU get a penalty, EVERYONE gets a penalty.
I prepared a few videos, here are just 4 examples below where I think I didn't deserve them. Below the vids I'm including screenshots of the fastest lap in the rankings, WAY abusing track limits and no penalty. That really needs to be addressed. Both regarding consistency, and better calculating. Again, if you can please tell me what you think but those penalties below are not deserved, and they add up! And most importantly they take the focus away from racing to "track limit" anxiety.
Why?
Why??
Why?!
Whyyyyy!
And the screenshots:
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