Gran Turismo World Series discussion (2026 Manufacturers Cup: 14th - 28th Jan)

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Hey you guys, here are my edited highlights from my Suzuka race for the GTWS Exhibition, I really enjoyed the pace the Porsche and R34 Skyline gave me on the straights, but my Honda seemed superior on corner handling, it was a much better race than I anticipated and shadowed the earlier Daily Race we had a few weeks back. Couldn't help but get first lap bumping and shennighans, but overall top notch racing and a good result, and solid consistency helped me get podium there thanks to NSX's GT500 solid pwoer and handling. Onto the Round 3 now!!

 
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Not much to write about from last round. I had little desire to do the full season with these combo selections, so originally was only going to do Rd. 3, because Group C ftw! But I decided to try last round since I generally get around Suzuka pretty well, and the prospect of varying weather sounded fun. I did the first 2 slots, and both were bone-dry. Qualified and finished 7th in Slot 1 for 207 points after gaining 2 spots from mistakes in front, only to lose 2 to Lamborghinis driving by my GT-R GT500 like I was standing still. It was still a slightly interesting race because I had to hold off one of the cars that made a mistake earlier after he caught back up to me (in another GT500 GT-R), but couldn't get the gap under 1s.

Slot 2 was 8th to 8th for 206 points, again gaining a spot to a mistake by someone who qualified up front, only to lose it to another Lambo blasting past on the front straight. This time I was at the back of a 3-way battle for 6th for most of the race, but unfortunately for me, in spite of the 2 in front of me fighting hard, neither one was dirty or made a mistake :lol:.

Overall I was kinda disappointed because my pace relative to my friends list (and my usual strong pace at Suzuka) indicated I should've been fighting for a podium, or at least a Top 5.

Now I just need to have a mistake-free Slot 1 tomorrow, since they decided to make Slot 1 at 9pm for some brilliant reason...
 
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Moose78
This combo was a time trial a few weeks (months?) ago. If you are just looking for tips on how to get around the track faster, you should be able to find some guides.

Here's @Tidgney's:


There doesn't look like there will be much in the way of strategy for this round. With 2x tire wear and 2x fuel, I'm guessing this is just going to be a no-stop sprint.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I'll be setting up a Custom Race soon to give it a go. It's nice to be able to finally be able to practice outside of Free Practice for a change.

Edit (update): Yep. No strategy needed. The tires and fuel easily last to the end of the race.

Also, for all you other Canadian drivers on the thread, I made this:
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Feel free to use it, if you like. Shared with the tags #canada #mapleleaf #nations.
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I did a custom race today. I can confirm that it is a full out sprint no strategy to worry about. Left rear tire was a tad under half the lifespan left. So no real tire worry to speak of. Fuel no problem at all.

I am still doing mediocre in this combo. I just hope that many other of my fellow GT2 drivers will struggle with the chicanes and the Lesmos just like I do.

I also worry for a wreck fest especially in lap one.

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Wilsonson
I am still doing mediocre in this combo. I just hope that many other of my fellow GT2 drivers will struggle with the chicanes and the Lesmos just like I do.

I also worry for a wreck fest especially in lap one.
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I reckon you're far from alone. My best is a 1:25.9 but most of my laps are high 1:26s or 1:27s because of the chicanes. I'm seriously struggling to get those down consistently, and I'm in GT1. :scared:

Also very much fearing the Roggia chicane on lap 1. I've tried a few public test lobbies and they were all a mess. I see this race has custom slipstream so hopefully that'll make it slightly easier. The dirty air with real slipstream feels horrible.
 
Do you guys fondle with brake balance today? Sometimes i have problems at Monza with the rotation.

edit: plus: ABS weak?
 
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I reckon you're far from alone. My best is a 1:25.9 but most of my laps are high 1:26s or 1:27s because of the chicanes. I'm seriously struggling to get those down consistently, and I'm in GT1. :scared:

Also very much fearing the Roggia chicane on lap 1. I've tried a few public test lobbies and they were all a mess. I see this race has custom slipstream so hopefully that'll make it slightly easier. The dirty air with real slipstream feels horrible.
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Your post gave me something to think about. If you just fly past the Roggia on the right on the first lap, how much of a penalty would you get? 3 seconds? Wouldn't you lose more if you just raced on the track with everyone else? I just can't imagine the chaos there would be, with a rolling start, a long straight before the first proper corner, allowing everyone to catch up on the slipstream. It would be a bloodbath!
 
Pakiti
Your post gave me something to think about. If you just fly past the Roggia on the right on the first lap, how much of a penalty would you get? 3 seconds? Wouldn't you lose more if you just raced on the track with everyone else? I just can't imagine the chaos there would be, with a rolling start, a long straight before the first proper corner, allowing everyone to catch up on the slipstream. It would be a bloodbath!
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I could be wrong but I don't think that's possible. I got reset back into the chicane when someone pushed me into the barriers, which you'd also need to somehow find a big enough gap to go through.
 
Zorz
I could be wrong but I don't think that's possible. I got reset back into the chicane when someone pushed me into the barriers, which you'd also need to somehow find a big enough gap to go through.
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I still want to try this maneuver, just out of curiosity. It's good that I have three attempts:lol: I remembered that George Russell did something similar in Monaco this year when he cheated Alex Albon.
 
Pakiti
Your post gave me something to think about. If you just fly past the Roggia on the right on the first lap, how much of a penalty would you get? 3 seconds? Wouldn't you lose more if you just raced on the track with everyone else? I just can't imagine the chaos there would be, with a rolling start, a long straight before the first proper corner, allowing everyone to catch up on the slipstream. It would be a bloodbath!
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I did a race this morning, ghosting saved some of the carnage, but 3 cars that did go off track due to contact all got reset back on to the track before the chicane.
 
Pakiti
I still want to try this maneuver, just out of curiosity. It's good that I have three attempts:lol: I remembered that George Russell did something similar in Monaco this year when he cheated Alex Albon.
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I accidentally did this when I outbraked myself at the first chicane in the F3500 daily at Monza a while back. I was on pole, and even after being reset I think I still exited the chicane in 3rd because I just ghosted back through everyone that was tripping over each other in the chicane. I might've been able to keep the lead had I just not braked at all.
 
Wilsonson
I am still doing mediocre in this combo. I just hope that many other of my fellow GT2 drivers will struggle with the chicanes and the Lesmos just like I do.

I also worry for a wreck fest especially in lap one.
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If you are consistently able to hit 1:27s, you should be good on pace in GT2, I think. I did a couple lobby races yesterday with a similar pace against mostly B/S drivers in the Americas and Europe and I was comfortably ahead of most of them on pace.

Lap one is always dicey at Monza, especially in the lower ranks. Thinks bunch up in the first turn in ways that are hard to predict. When we had the SuperFormula cars there in an earlier Nations Cup season, I remember dropping to the back off the start to avoid the carnage, and it worked out fairly well -- Q8 to P6, according to my records.

Best of luck to everybody who has yet to race today!
 
Pakiti
I still want to try this maneuver, just out of curiosity. It's good that I have three attempts:lol: I remembered that George Russell did something similar in Monaco this year when he cheated Alex Albon.
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My trick doesn't work (When I try to go around it even slightly, the car resets.
 
Just did the 12 PM EDT GT2 slot in North America. I'll spare you the details, because it was just horrible, and not just because my brake marker for the chicane has disappeared for qualifying and the race. I'm going to try again in the 3PM slot. Hoping that goes better...

BTW, if you are using the start of the girders behind the fence between the 200 and 150 board as your marker for the chicane -- if you watched Tidgney's lap guide, you know the ones -- be aware that they won't be there in the race. Better find something else.
 
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Dear Polyphony, please stop doing rounds like this. They're horrible.

Started P7, broke around the 200m board for the Roggia chicane and that still somehow wasn't enough. Ended up knocking someone into the barriers and getting a penalty for it. Struggled through the Lesmos which dropped me several positions, then all the way to the back after serving the penalty.

Picked back up to P11 by lap 11 mostly due to other's mistakes, then went wide on the Lesmos and took myself out. Ended up finishing P15.

I really strongly believe the game just isn't built to handle rounds with this much aggression, and the pros only get away with it because they're that damn good. Having 16 people bombing into a tiny little chicane at 200mph+ within a few seconds in a car like this is just asking for trouble as the margins are razor-thin.

Then trying to drive the 962C at Monza fast requires aggression. It's all aggression on aggression. :yuck:

Edit - Upon checking the replay, the guy who started behind me in P8 tried braking at the normal place for the Roggia chicane on lap 1 whilst doing 210mph. Needless to say, definitely not getting it stopped. Somehow he thread the needle and launched himself into the barriers for a rapid reset without hitting anyone. :eek:
 
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Zorz
Edit - Upon checking the replay, the guy who started behind me in P8 tried braking at the normal place for the Roggia chicane on lap 1 whilst doing 210mph. Needless to say, definitely not getting it stopped. Somehow he thread the needle and launched himself into the barriers for a rapid reset without hitting anyone. :eek:
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210, with full fuel load, on cold tires...
 
Went in after work with three practice laps. Somehow qualified 2nd. A bit of squabbling in the first few laps (bonus points when one guy slips past you on one corner then slows you up at every corner on the rest of the lap, leading to someone else behind catching you up)

Ended up 5th and was pretty stable there. French guy behind caught me up and I went defensive into the second chicane, think I broke too early and he did well to avoid crashing into me or spinning out.

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Apology accepted after the race so everything was fine. I agree with the comments about the combo, doing a sprint race in a car like this works for about 100 people who play this game. For everyone else it's a lottery.
 
9pm GT1 mid-A lobby EMEA

Door number 1, usually not a good sign...But!

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Qualified P4, pace was very closely matched.
Got the cleanest run through the chicane on lap 1, took the lead and had an amazing close and fair duel with the Romanian for the entire race. Brought it home for my second win this season (can't believe I'm writing this! 🤯) and 194 points.
 
I don't know why I'm torturing myself like this. Just went again, another awful race.

Started P11, managed to survive the chicane this time but suffered greatly at the Lesmos trying to keep it clean because it's hell trying to tell where the track is at such close range. I couldn't really tell where anything was. Visibility in this car in VR is bad for such an aggressive track as Monza. Really, really bad. You literally have to turn your head 90 degrees to see the wing mirrors. I'm relying exclusively on what I can see in the radar out the corner of my eye, which is a bit awkward in cars this fast.

That dropped me almost to the back, but staying in the game and not making mistakes somehow pulled me all the way back up to P7 by lap 8. Then it all came crumbling down.

A couple of German drivers about 7-8 tenths back had bumpdrafted themselves along down the start straight, and that completely caught me off guard. They'd worked their way up to about 210mph against my 200mph and had caught up heading into the Roggia chicane, with both going for it. I was not expecting them to be there and I barely avoided turning in for the first. That then messed up my line through the chicane, and I ended up bouncing over the kerb and nudging the other into the gravel. Just... blergh.

That then brought me back into contention with the people who'd crashed out earlier who also made aggressive moves that I had a nightmare trying to track. Ended up cutting the left kerb at the Roggia chicane on lap 11 and that just sealed my fate. Ended up finishing P12.

Also didn't get (or lose) any SR as I clipped someone at the Roggia chicane late in the race. I just want a clean run... 😭
 
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I'm calling it quits after 3 fun yet ultimately underachieving races.

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First race Q5/P7. Still searching for pace.
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Second race Q8/P7 despite finally getting into a groove in free practice and getting my PB down to a 26.1 on a miracle lap.
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In the qualifying for the 3rd race it finally clicked and I got pole. The pace was much better than in my other races though. People were quick.
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Miraculously I made it through della Roggia unharmed. P2 was in my slip all lap. In lap 2 they made a move into della Roggia. We went through there side by side. Beautiful. But my exit was very poor and they took P1.
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At the approach to Ascari a green car was right at my bumper to the last second and forgot to take slip stream excess speed into account. They punted me into oblivion.
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Magically I came out of this P4. Slowly accelerating down the back straight towards Parabolica a yellow Spanish nation's cup winner livery had already passed me on the outside when they got sent into the shadow realm for revenge due to badly pushing the other guy into the grass just seconds before. On the very inside and ahead of the pack I kept p4.
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In lap 5 I had caught up to the very quick driver in third place. After they compromised their entrance into Ascari I got a much better run and passed them on the outside.
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These two in the picture bump drafted down the straight with the red car attempting an inside dive into della Roggia. The car overshot somewhat and then tried to save it like this. How they didn't get a penalty here is beyond me. Due to a poor exit by me they kept p3.
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They seem to be the della Roggia wizard because they didn't get a penalty for this one in lap 7 either. Maybe slowing down hard enough does the trick, I don't know.
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The remainder of the race was pretty uneventful. Missing some apexes and picking up a .5 second penalty at della Roggia twice kept me just out of slip stream range. P6 never got into my slip either though.

In lap 12 I had finally caught up to the red car and passed them through Curva Grande (Biasonno in my track map above for some reason). However I completely messed up the exit of both della Roggia and Lesmo 1 which gave the place right back.
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P2 would have definitely been possible. It was a very fun race with some exceptional driving standards from some of the drivers at least. 99 points in the bag are alright. And I rather just spent half an hour in this post rather than try and get penalties at della Roggia again.
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Well what a chaotic Race at Monza this appeared to be. It took me 4 tries/races to get an even race finish and even then my DR & SR suffered the consequence and pogoed like a mofo all over the place. Each race had its fair share of nutty drivers and bumpers cars pushing you to the gravel pit poor behaviour. It was an atrocious choice by PD and the race just doesn't work with this Group C car. It's a very odd choice, it should have been a GR.3 race moreso. But alas it's over now and I can move onto Round 4!!!

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After missing the second round, this one is nothing to write home about.
I took it on the fly, doing practice laps only 15 minutes before matchmaking, did manage to clock some 27 laps, but ofcourse not in qualifying :lol:

Being labelled no.2 in the lobby (mid B range, 95 points for the win) I qualified 8th, not too bad given the lack of practice.
I was lucky enough to survive the first lap with practically no harm, did pick some places after those not as lucky.
In the middle of the race I was as high as 4th (but not really in a position to fight with the front pack, pace-wise I was loosing to them), when someone punted me to the gravel at Ascari.

Lost several places, but in the course of the race I did manage to recover slightly to finish 6th.

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Realistically I could finish 5th without the gravel trip, nothing more was possible here for me.
 
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I ran the 3 PM EDT GT2 slot in North America to make up for my earlier disaster of an attempt. In door #11 of an all B/S lobby with 117 points up for grabs. I qualified with a time of 1:27.514, which landed me Q6.

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I managed to survive lap 1 this time, only losing a single position to a driver who made a wild dive into the chicane.

My luck didn't last long, though. Going into the chicane on lap 2 with a group of other cars and the diver alongside me, I got distracted and missed my braking mark -- possibly because it isn't there anymore, but I digress. I took avoiding action to keep from hitting anybody, but that put in the reset zone. I reappeared in P10.

Once I got back up to speed, I found myself side-by-side with another driver going into Lesmo 1. He casually pushed me into the sand and drove off into the distance. Down to P12.

From there, I went to work trying to come back. I was helped by lots of drivers crashing and getting penalties. My pace was decent, too -- at least for a North American B lobby.

By the final lap, I'd managed to claw my way back to P5 and I was on the bumper of the P4 car. At Parabolica, they defended the inside. I went for a switchback, but on the exit, they unexpectedly clung to the inside line and gave me the faster exit on the outside. It was a drag to the finish.

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P4 for 102 points and almost enough DR to cover the loss from my earlier attempt today. My best point total so far. That's good enough for one day. Driving that race was only seemed to get me angry.
 
I finally got a good run. :bowdown:

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It was a lower level lobby than I usually get, which I'm assuming is because it's the last slot and my SR still had a dent in it from the first two races.

P3 is still worth 226 points though so I'm more than happy, especially after the utter nightmare today's been.

Survived the start cleanly, picked up positions from mistakes and then broke away with the leaders. I was briefly in the lead for a while, but didn't get far enough away to break the draft and they came back past on the main straight.

I can go to bed happy now. Hooray! :lol:




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The guy 2nd on the left in this photo and I had a similar experience from this race 😬

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It was a tough one, hit twice from behind by the same player who I assume had forgot which button he had mapped for the brakes and one reset where I braked too late and had to avoid innocents. The pace was rubbish anyway, it's not a controller combo with the high kerbs and chicanes where you need fast changes of direction but I was miles behind another pad player so that doesn't work as an excuse. On to the next one!
 

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