Gran Turismo 7 Custom Race thread

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I don't know if it's a change to Sophy, or a change to the cars, or something I did, but HOLY SMOKES Gr3 with Sophy is so good now!

Let me set this up. This is the 6th round of a championship. Bottas leads, Antonelli is 2nd, and Bortoleto is 3rd. I'm 4th and going into this race, I've struggled. I've had a 2nd place finish, but they rest were around the top 5 (4th to 6th). I had a losing streak to end my last Gr3 series. To say I was hungry for a win is an understatement.

It's only 10 minutes. I prefer races of 30 minutes or less.



Not to toot my own horn, but I do ok in Sport Mode. My win percentage is now better against real people than it is in the Sophy races.

Note, I have all the penalties set to strong (except for wall collisions).
 
Totally agree, I have been hammering the gr3 races recently in custom races, it definitely improved my sport mode credentials. Just did 2 races then against sophy. They keep you on your toes attacking from behind. Finished p4 and p7, both races I spun off though. Intermediate race 1, professional race 2, there was definitely a difference in difficulty between the two using my garage set up.
Voodoovaj
I don't know if it's a change to Sophy, or a change to the cars, or something I did, but HOLY SMOKES Gr3 with Sophy is so good now!

Let me set this up. This is the 6th round of a championship. Bottas leads, Antonelli is 2nd, and Bortoleto is 3rd. I'm 4th and going into this race, I've struggled. I've had a 2nd place finish, but they rest were around the top 5 (4th to 6th). I had a losing streak to end my last Gr3 series. To say I was hungry for a win is an understatement.

It's only 10 minutes. I prefer races of 30 minutes or less.



Not to toot my own horn, but I do ok in Sport Mode. My win percentage is now better against real people than it is in the Sophy races.

Note, I have all the penalties set to strong (except for wall collisions).
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Voodoovaj
I don't know if it's a change to Sophy, or a change to the cars, or something I did, but HOLY SMOKES Gr3 with Sophy is so good now!

Let me set this up. This is the 6th round of a championship. Bottas leads, Antonelli is 2nd, and Bortoleto is 3rd. I'm 4th and going into this race, I've struggled. I've had a 2nd place finish, but they rest were around the top 5 (4th to 6th). I had a losing streak to end my last Gr3 series. To say I was hungry for a win is an understatement.

It's only 10 minutes. I prefer races of 30 minutes or less.



Not to toot my own horn, but I do ok in Sport Mode. My win percentage is now better against real people than it is in the Sophy races.

Note, I have all the penalties set to strong (except for wall collisions).
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Is this with your suggestion of 400/600 alls cars and adjusting the power?
 
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Doing some more work on my IGTC series and did a 10 lap test race at Bathurst. Was quite the experience for me, really hard to pass. Started P16 and finished P14. I did notice that a couple cars broke free at the front and sped away, and there was one car at the back that dropped way off the field for some reason. The reason the two cars at the front pulled away was due to the Audi in P3 holding the rest of the field up, and there was pretty much no passing going on.

Looking at the replay, the Audi coming up the hill after The Cutting is REALLY slow. Like 10-12 kph slower than the other cars in that one particular spot. Double checked the BOP I had set and everything is good. Maybe someone else here can confirm that? Lambo at the rear was also good on BOP but just slow.

Edit: I'm going to try using the power restrictor to limit their power instead of the ECU and see if the different torque curve helps.
Edit 2: That actually worked great for the Audi's, but the Lambo is still slow. Not going to put much effort into this since I don't plan on running the full races until January and Spec IV might shake things up anyway.

My goal with this series is to do a full 5 race season with shortened versions of the real races:
  • Bathurst 1.2hr
  • Nurburgring 2.4hr
  • Spa 2.4hr
  • Suzuka 100.0 (100 minutes = 1.6 hours)
  • Last race TBD
I want to do those and a simulated 2.4 hours of LeMans with the Hypercars at some point before I shut down my PS5 in February to go on a big road trip and won't be able to play again until the end of next year.

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CodeRedR51
Doing some more work on my IGTC series and did a 10 lap test race at Bathurst. Was quite the experience for me, really hard to pass. Started P16 and finished P14. I did notice that a couple cars broke free at the front and sped away, and there was one car at the back that dropped way off the field for some reason. The reason the two cars at the front pulled away was due to the Audi in P3 holding the rest of the field up, and there was pretty much no passing going on.

Looking at the replay, the Audi coming up the hill after The Cutting is REALLY slow. Like 10-12 kph slower than the other cars in that one particular spot. Double checked the BOP I had set and everything is good. Maybe someone else here can confirm that? Lambo at the rear was also good on BOP but just slow.

Edit: I'm going to try using the power restrictor to limit their power instead of the ECU and see if the different torque curve helps.
Edit 2: That actually worked great for the Audi's, but the Lambo is still slow. Not going to put much effort into this since I don't plan on running the full races until January and Spec IV might shake things up anyway.

My goal with this series is to do a full 5 race season with shortened versions of the real races:
  • Bathurst 1.2hr
  • Nurburgring 2.4hr
  • Spa 2.4hr
  • Suzuka 100.0 (100 minutes = 1.6 hours)
  • Last race TBD
I want to do those and a simulated 2.4 hours of LeMans with the Hypercars at some point before I shut down my PS5 in February to go on a big road trip and won't be able to play again until the end of next year.

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Great idea, and will be very interested to see how you get on with these.

I was thinking about doing the same - I've already done some small scale Spa and Nurb GT3 races, and it can really immersive and fun.

On the plus side, the fact that it's possible to make these races so accurate is fantastic - for me, it's the best feature of an already great game...

On the minus side, it is unnecessarily hard and time consuming to do it - esp. if you don't already have the cars in your garage to do it - needing to buy 7 Supras just to have an accurate JGTC race is a pain, and adjusting liveries and settings for, say, a Spa 2025 race followed by a Spa 2026 race is a chore that could be make alot easier by a few easy tweaks that the game is well capable of.

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On Bathurst, I find the AI gets the downhill section so wrong it's almost funny - but I like it because it's a chance for me to make ground when I'm not as quick on other parts of the track; also, starting the race at night is very challenging but good fun.

Good luck with the series!
 
will see what reggie on a harder difficulty will do at monza next week since the 1st turn is the yellow flag capitol
 
The AR’15 has to be the most difficult car I used to keep up with GT SOPHY. No matter the track, the stock settings give understeer, oversteer, aero wash, the car rolls in the corners, breaks traction easily. Gotta be good to it to stay with SOPHY.

 
pabloprp69
Is this with your suggestion of 400/600 alls cars and adjusting the power?
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Yes, except that since the update 400/600 breaks some of the midengined cars. The 458, for instance, loses it everywhere if you mess with the downforce.
 
Touring Mars
and adjusting liveries
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Most of my liveries I just grab something created by someone else that looks nice and is able to be edited. Then just change the number plates, windshield banner, tire stickers, etc to fit my needs. Most of them don't take very long.

But yes, super annoying to need to purchase multiple cars to run multiple liveries.
 
Touring Mars
On the minus side, it is unnecessarily hard and time consuming to do it - esp. if you don't already have the cars in your garage to do it - needing to buy 7 Supras just to have an accurate JGTC race is a pain, and adjusting liveries and settings for, say, a Spa 2025 race followed by a Spa 2026 race is a chore that could be make alot easier by a few easy tweaks that the game is well capable of.
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I only do 10 cars and 2-car teams. That reduces the time and effort to get the full field.
 
CodeRedR51
Most of my liveries I just grab something created by someone else that looks nice and is able to be edited. Then just change the number plates, windshield banner, tire stickers, etc to fit my needs. Most of them don't take very long.

But yes, super annoying to need to purchase multiple cars to run multiple liveries.
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All liveries actually can be edited even if it says “unable to edit”. There’s a way around it that I discovered.
 
Yeah, when saving it as your own you can unlock the livery.

Regarding SOPHY, this kind of hasn’t helped.

Sony AI also trained GT Sophy to exhibit greater levels of sportsmanship, finesse, and temperament, balancing its racing behavior to create a more dynamic experience for players of all levels.
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Gran Turismo Sophy™, Five Years On: From Nature Cover to Open Frontier

Discover the evolution of Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), from an ambitious 2020 research project to a permanent AI feature in GT7 played by millions.
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Now, as shown in many of our videos, SOPHY behaves well and sometimes not. It’s like it’s been shown to be something it’s not. It’s then taking that information and trying be like Reggie, when Reggie is uncomposed.
 
05XR8
Yeah, when saving it as your own you can unlock the livery.
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I feel like when you go to do your edits it defaults the car back to a plain paint with no decals.

Edit: Confirmed, when you click on the decals section it warns you that you will lose the design, and then it defaults to the original paint color with no decals.
 
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ice311man
Add the livery you want. Hit the save button once it loads up on your car. Then hit the load button and go to my items and select the livery you just saved. Now it’s available to edit.
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Brilliant.
 
UzumakiNagato
That's weird, but isn't this happening because you turned the boost off actually?
Maybe if you set up on weak they will keep their pace a minumum, even tho I think they will still slow down..

For the refuel problem, it is known that road cars consume more fuel than race cars.
So what I suggest to you is when you set up a race involving road cars with race cars, is to set up tyire degration above fuel consumption. And to have the speed refuel set up high like 14l per second. So that fuel will not be the reason why the gap between road cars and race cars widens.. Tyire degradation will.

Also, Reggie drives road and race cars differently, I noticed that on my 90's DTM recreation.. (Alfa VS 190E, Sierra Cosworth, M3 E30), they have different racing line..

Another point for your JGTC field, I got the BoP of last year's december thanks to Konsta.
This BoP was cooked by Polyphony themselves for the daily race at Suzuka.

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I never tried it for my custom races so I don't know if it's still good..
Besides, the last 1.71 update changed every road cars downforce points, so I don't if it will be quite good nowadays :\
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I need to ask, what program are you using for this layout?? Or is it something in-game that I'm unaware of?
 
the one make gr.3 vgt race at grand valley gave me a run for my money won by .363 of a second 3rd was .670 of a second had a yellow flag from an ai losing grip on a turn
 
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Sinyster
I need to ask, what program are you using for this layout?? Or is it something in-game that I'm unaware of?
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No, I think the person who uploaded this simply compiled all the car setups to make it easier for us to read.
I gave credit to Konsta in this post but I dont know if it was actually him who set up this configuration. 😅
 
UzumakiNagato
No, I think the person who uploaded this simply compiled all the car setups to make it easier for us to read.
I gave credit to Konsta in this post but I dont know if it was actually him who set up this configuration. 😅
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ah gotcha! Just saw the top-down view of the cars and since that's not the norm, I was immediately curious
 
How do you guys set up wet races, trying to practice for nations Cup, worked a treat for round 1 at interlagos
 
UzumakiNagato
Guys, that 6h of Sardegna WEC was one of the best enduro race, i've ever had 👀
And I did a bunch of them..

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Yes I didn't win but it's okay 'cause the sister car won the race, right? 😅
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I don't like staying with an L, so I did retried that WEC 6h of Sardegna.

This time I took the dub but it surely wasn't an easy one...

Made only 1 mistake in the entire 6h race that cost me like 5s, apart from that it was a clean race from my part.
Not the same can be said for my opponents (collisions due to the pit exit), getting hit right after exiting the pitlane is like getting a DT penalty because they have to pit again to repair the car lol

At the end, only one car had similar pace and strategy as me, the BMW #20, he tried to finesse me before the last pit stop by not changing his tyires and came out of the pit in front of me (he was behind me)..
I outmaneuvered him by double stint'ng my mediums + short fuel at the end (it's cool when the refuel speed is really slow, you can put the exact amount you want)

Porsche did finish stronger at the end, but it's only due to mistakes from Ferrari AF Corse and Toyota + better fuel save from the 963s..

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Finished the race with 0% of fuel on the start/finish line, and of course, Kevin Estre right behind me 😂

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What I take from these multi-class races is being able to be consistent in terms of lap time despite the traffic, and the ability to know exactly when and where to go for the overtake, it is the feeling of you gliding between the cars..

That is the best reward you can get from these races. 😌
 
Always avoided wet races like the plague, great fun this with gr1. Had a blast since I started yesterday, I've not been using fuel. Other cars seem to pit at good moments.
Best so far is p2 on intermediate with bop on.
 
So glad SOPHY can use the ELANTRA TC. Tough race with the ELANTRA having the stronger BoP. All Gr.4 FF cars in all colors add up to 19 in total. My Manu Mazda3 makes it a 20 car grid.

25 minute races.

First race it started P3 and ran away from the field. Took me nearly eleven minutes just to catch the TT. Made no ground on the ELANTRA after that.
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Second race was reverse grid with the ELANTRA starting P18. It surgically moved up the field. I got stuck a few times. Finally gaining ground on the penultimate lap. SOPHY wasn’t slowing down. I was a bit wild to make up time. :sly::cool:
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