Gran Turismo World Series discussion (2026 Nations Cup: 11-28 February)

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Sorry, yes, I meant DR - am DR B but got signed up for GT1
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It must be GT2. GT1 is for A & above in DR ratings.

I'm currently in low DR A category so got put up in GT1. Thing is I'm just an average DS4 racer. In my humble opinion, I'm at best DR upper B material but because I love Tokyo & on average I'm coming in top 5 there, my DR went to A. I didn't touch Race A or B at all this week.

GT1 league will be tough for me to extract the best out of my skills but I'm game for it. At least, I'll gain the experience of taking part in a true competition & racing among much better drivers than myself. I look upto drivers with mid DR B rating all the way to the high end as I know they're better than me.
 
I noticed something interesting at Road Atlanta. I usually use 0 TCS, but recently I saw advice about using 1 or 2 TCS to conserve tires, and I used that in the races. But during testing at Road Atlanta, I couldn't break 1:20.5, and the average was 1:21. So, after trying 0 TCS, my time immediately jumped to 1:19-19.5.

In this championship, I decided to choose a McLaren, which I previously thought was very strange, but now I think I understand it better – it has tremendous downforce, but only at high and medium speeds and very little at low speeds, making it difficult to control in slow corners. This creates a real disconnect: a super-stable car for most of the distance, but in certain sections, it tries to kill you. It reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's words about downforce: it's an invisible elephant, you can't tell when it's there and when it's not. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me and it's just the way MR cars behave and I've become more aware of how to control them?
 
Pakiti
I noticed something interesting at Road Atlanta. I usually use 0 TCS, but recently I saw advice about using 1 or 2 TCS to conserve tires, and I used that in the races. But during testing at Road Atlanta, I couldn't break 1:20.5, and the average was 1:21. So, after trying 0 TCS, my time immediately jumped to 1:19-19.5.

In this championship, I decided to choose a McLaren, which I previously thought was very strange, but now I think I understand it better – it has tremendous downforce, but only at high and medium speeds and very little at low speeds, making it difficult to control in slow corners. This creates a real disconnect: a super-stable car for most of the distance, but in certain sections, it tries to kill you. It reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's words about downforce: it's an invisible elephant, you can't tell when it's there and when it's not. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me and it's just the way MR cars behave and I've become more aware of how to control them?
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I've driven the McLaren cars in Daily Races. No doubt the car has good speed & downforce, what I felt lacking was it's braking power. You ought to see the livestream of some top rated drivers on Youtube who try out different cars in the daily races. One of them even gives feedback at that time & lets You know advantages & disadvantages of that car. This specific driver has a channel named Calster 25 on Youtube. I see his & a few other streamers who give valuable feedback regarding the smallest bits of car behavior.
 
Uday9479
I've driven the McLaren cars in Daily Races. No doubt the car has good speed & downforce, what I felt lacking was it's braking power. You ought to see the livestream of some top rated drivers on Youtube who try out different cars in the daily races. One of them even gives feedback at that time & lets You know advantages & disadvantages of that car. This specific driver has a channel named Calster 25 on Youtube. I see his & a few other streamers who give valuable feedback regarding the smallest bits of car behavior.
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My gold standard is @Tidgney (I know you're on this forum, so I'm incredibly grateful for your advice in the Time Trial Guide. It's fair to say your advice laid the foundation for my understanding of driving). Thanks for the tip about the Calster 25. I'll definitely check it out, as I definitely have issues with almost every corner on this track, despite my phenomenal 1:19.008 time. I regularly get a penalty in Turn 3, often get a penalty or oversteer in Turn 5, and often spin out in Turn 10B, for the very reason I believe I described earlier: lack of downforce at low speeds.
 
Pakiti
My gold standard is @Tidgney (I know you're on this forum, so I'm incredibly grateful for your advice in the Time Trial Guide. It's fair to say your advice laid the foundation for my understanding of driving). Thanks for the tip about the Calster 25. I'll definitely check it out, as I definitely have issues with almost every corner on this track, despite my phenomenal 1:19.008 time. I regularly get a penalty in Turn 3, often get a penalty or oversteer in Turn 5, and often spin out in Turn 10B, for the very reason I believe I described earlier: lack of downforce at low speeds.
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Tidgney is the first streamer I look upto when it comes to lap guides as he releases them first online. Calster often tops TTs & why I relate more to him as he's a controller player + he gives real detailed feedback during his lap guides or cars which are available as options in the daily races of Gr. 3.
 
Uday9479
I've driven the McLaren cars in Daily Races. No doubt the car has good speed & downforce, what I felt lacking was it's braking power.
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The lack of braking performance isn't tooooo horrible here other than the big break at the end of the lap, but, speaking from experience, the Spa round is going to hurt.
The top speed is actually pretty good in the 650 and it gains even more with a draft, but it seems like you have to brake 30m earlier than anyone else meaning using those advantaged and turning them into overtakes is kinda tricky.
 
TBR 427
The lack of braking performance isn't tooooo horrible here other than the big break at the end of the lap, but, speaking from experience, the Spa round is going to hurt.
The top speed is actually pretty good in the 650 and it gains even more with a draft, but it seems like you have to brake 30m earlier than anyone else meaning using those advantaged and turning them into overtakes is kinda tricky.
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The long straight gives the 650 a good advantage given its top speed, so I would say the problems should be more with defense, at the end of the long straight, you need to take a certain inside line, too often I was knocked out into the gravel there when I was going on the outside.
 
Tally Ho old chaps, I've made my pick, Aston Martin it is, when it's time to hit the Ring, those Germans won't like it up 'em.

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Blade_Rudder
Check on your console. I’m confident everyone has evening races available. GT2&3 will also have morning and afternoon races too.
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You were right!
I live in a -3 GMT time zone so when I converted the time slots they published for GT1 (17:00 -19:00 - 21:00) I thought it wasnt for me because Im not at home in the afternoon

However, on my console the time slots marks 21:00 23:00 and 01:00 wich is perfectly fine for me! (at least the first two slots)
Uday9479
Thank You to both for a quick response. I'm wondering if choosing Audi as my Manufacturer choice was good or not. I love the Peugeot RCZ as well which I feel would be as good of a choice to the Audi R8.
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It depends entirely on your driving style.
With the last bop update I think the R8 will do well but is a tricky car that demands some smoothness with the throttle on the lower gears.

Audi is also my choice for this year. I like MR cars and I find the R8 has a good balace between power and handling.
 
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MetalApe
Tally Ho old chaps, I've made my pick, Aston Martin it is, when it's time to hit the Ring, those Germans won't like it up 'em.

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Welcome to the Aston Martin team! I'm signed with them for GT2 in North America, so we won't be competing against each other for standings. Thank goodness. I'd have no chance.

I've been driving the Vantage in daily races for the past few weeks to get some practice in it. I've really been struggling to compete with it, though. I think most of that is because the recent dailies have had strong METAs and it is just difficult in general to do anything different. I'm hoping once we get into the Manu Cup races that will change a bit. I'm expecting there will be a greater variety of cars in the lobbies and only a small minority in the META car for each race. We'll see.

Regardless, it's nice to see somebody else here trying out this less popular make. Good luck in your races!
:cheers:
 
Some interesting data published on twitter (yes, I refuse to name it with its "new" stupid name) by GT Engine.



  • 22.560 players have chosen Manufacturer so far.
  • Almost 50% of the player base is distributed in 4 manufacturers (Ferrari, Porsche, Lambo and BMW)
  • Ferrari and Porsche seems to be the safest choices according to what people choose.
 
I've decided 2 things so far for the upcoming GTWS seasons:

I'll not be on Team Toyota for the first time in going on 3 years. Not sure who I'll join, possibly Ferrari.

My DR is very close to B, the time slots for GT1 aren't ideal for me with my work schedule and I don't really belong in DR-A lobbies, I'm going to run a few daily races to drop to GT2 / DR-B.

Other than that, these seasons have become sort of mundane. Better than the dailies, but definitely needs to be freshened up a bit.

Good luck to all, hope to see you out there.:gtpflag:
 
Predictably a lot of new Ferrari drivers because of the shiny new toy. I signed with them once again, excited at the option of utilizing a car that didn’t shred tires like my rusty and trusty 458.

Did some tire testing last night and to my surprise, the 458 was not only faster in my hands than the 296, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected on tires either. Currently sitting on a 1:17.911 right now. The first sector of this track is brutal!



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I saw on Twitter (yes, I am still calling it with the old name too) this picture above showing Cars ranking as prediction of which car will be the best performer for GTWS 2026 season... it seems that I have done the wrong choice picking the Renault RS 01...

I don't know how the above ranking has been calculated, which are the criteria used, and so on.

I just know that I have changed the wheel (moved to Fanatec) and this time I am finding quite comfortable in driving the Renault.
It is quite tolerant and forgive quite quickly all my mistakes and, when I reach the rpm engine peak it still keep pushing further a little bit more and not cutting brutally the power as it happens on other cars. So if I forget to change gear is still moving on.

So I present here below my personal livery for this season and it is the first time that I have created one for the GTWS (@Imbissbrunto I know that it is too much basic compared to your liveries but I was looking for a "seventies design").

I have still some sponsor negotiations on going, so it is not 100% complete.

Tonight I will do some tests to understand which strategy to adopt.
With 22 laps and 2 compound there isn't so much to play around, I haven't still no idea if undercut or overcut will be feasible and how to get out from the traffic.
I doubt to start in high positions, most probably below P10/12, so I could start with soft in any case and pit soon to be alone on the back...

Did anyone thought about that?

Cheers and good luck to everybody!

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VTEC Driver
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I saw on Twitter (yes, I am still calling it with the old name too) this picture above showing Cars ranking as prediction of which car will be the best performer for GTWS 2026 season... it seems that I have done the wrong choice picking the Renault RS 01...

I don't know how the above ranking has been calculated, which are the criteria used, and so on.

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That probably applies mostly to high DR levels. If you're an average player you can win in most of the cars if you drive and strategize well. I won a race in a Beetle! Just pick something you enjoy driving, that's the most important.

Nice livery 👍

(Looking again, it's a prediction of which manufacturers are likely to make it to the Finals, so irrelevant to 99% of the userbase)
 
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Moose78
Welcome to the Aston Martin team! I'm signed with them for GT2 in North America, so we won't be competing against each other for standings. Thank goodness. I'd have no chance.

I've been driving the Vantage in daily races for the past few weeks to get some practice in it. I've really been struggling to compete with it, though. I think most of that is because the recent dailies have had strong METAs and it is just difficult in general to do anything different. I'm hoping once we get into the Manu Cup races that will change a bit. I'm expecting there will be a greater variety of cars in the lobbies and only a small minority in the META car for each race. We'll see.

Regardless, it's nice to see somebody else here trying out this less popular make. Good luck in your races!
:cheers:
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As a thank you for all the amazing work you do on strategies, for the American rounds I shall be running a special livery.

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I've also been going with your plan of picking a different manufacturer each time. I went back and looked at my history before picking Aston. I'm sticking with the British theme for the main championship, with mixing all sorts into the exhibition series.

2022/3​
Ex4​
Toyota​
GT3​
2023​
Ex1​
Subaru​
GT2​
2023​
Ex2​
Porsche​
GT2​
2023​
Ex3​
Mitsubishi​
GT1​
2024​
Main​
Jaguar​
GT1​
2024​
Ex1​
VW​
GT1​
2024​
Ex2​
Ford​
GT1​
2025​
Ex1​
BMW​
GT1​
2025​
Ex2​
Honda​
GT1​
2025​
Main​
McLaren​
GT1​
2025​
Ex3​
Alfa Romeo​
GT1​
2026​
Main​
Aston Martin​
GT1​
 
I rolled some dice (well, some Excel formulae) and made my own Nations Cup:

R1: Eiger Nordwand - Kei Car at 400PP/63hp
R2: Autodrome Lago Maggiore GP - Gr.2 Selection (F1GTR/CLK/GT-ONE) Specified Cars
R3: Yas Marina - Vision Gran Turismo at 800PP
R4: BB Raceway - Gran Turismo Racing Kart 125 Shifter
R5: Trial Mountain - US/Road Car at 650PP/650hp
R6: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve - Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition (may as well let them keep one)

Haven't done any balancing, or distance/strategy tests because... why would I, but I'd be tempted by that lot a whole lot more than the real thing and I don't even like Gr.2s or the X2019.

Also, if you've not tried stock karts at BB over a silly number of laps, you've missed out.
 
Famine
I rolled some dice (well, some Excel formulae) and made my own Nations Cup:

R1: Eiger Nordwand - Kei Car at 400PP/63hp
R2: Autodrome Lago Maggiore GP - Gr.2 Selection (F1GTR/CLK/GT-ONE) Specified Cars
R3: Yas Marina - Vision Gran Turismo at 800PP
R4: BB Raceway - Gran Turismo Racing Kart 125 Shifter
R5: Trial Mountain - US/Road Car at 650PP/650hp
R6: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve - Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition (may as well let them keep one)

Haven't done any balancing, or distance/strategy tests because... why would I, but I'd be tempted by that lot a whole lot more than the real thing and I don't even like Gr.2s or the X2019.

Also, if you've not tried stock karts at BB over a silly number of laps, you've missed out.
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I'm so in on that collection!!! :gtpflag:

But don't wait for me at the last race. That's just too hard for me. :scared:
 
My first series I went with Porsche, not that bad ended up in the top 10, any recommendation? I see a lot of Subaru and Ferrari?
 
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It was too easy) You can roll any combination of track + car on the dice and it will turn out better than the nations cube offered to us.
Famine
I rolled some dice (well, some Excel formulae) and made my own Nations Cup:

R1: Eiger Nordwand - Kei Car at 400PP/63hp
R2: Autodrome Lago Maggiore GP - Gr.2 Selection (F1GTR/CLK/GT-ONE) Specified Cars
R3: Yas Marina - Vision Gran Turismo at 800PP
R4: BB Raceway - Gran Turismo Racing Kart 125 Shifter
R5: Trial Mountain - US/Road Car at 650PP/650hp
R6: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve - Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition (may as well let them keep one)

Haven't done any balancing, or distance/strategy tests because... why would I, but I'd be tempted by that lot a whole lot more than the real thing and I don't even like Gr.2s or the X2019.

Also, if you've not tried stock karts at BB over a silly number of laps, you've missed out.
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It was too easy) You can roll any combination of track + car on the dice and it will turn out better than the nations cube offered to us.
 
MatriceQc
My first series I went with Porsche, not that bad ended up in the top 10, any recommendation? I see a lot of Subaru and Ferrari?
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It’s always the most fun to go with the car that you have the most fun in, IMHO. From a preference point of view, I rarely race anything that doesn’t have a prancing horse on the hood, but when I have strayed in the past, it was for Subaru. And the issue I have with the Subaru cars is the same issue I have with the new 296…….. T U R B O — L A G.



Having said that, I reckon the Porsche is the most user-friendly car in the fleet. It’s pretty damn good at everything
 
Since a handful of these races look pretty good (even if some are pseudo carbon copies of previous events), I've gone with the following accounts:

1) US1: Nissan
2) US2: Ferrari (for the 296)
3) EMEA: Nissan
4) AO: BMW (for the Z4)

I'm in a league now so that's taking up my GT7 time. Hope to do a couple of the WS events, one being Nord. But, will have to play it by ear. We shall see.
 
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VTEC Driver
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I saw on Twitter (yes, I am still calling it with the old name too) this picture above showing Cars ranking as prediction of which car will be the best performer for GTWS 2026 season... it seems that I have done the wrong choice picking the Renault RS 01...
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Citroen in and Subaru out would both be big shocks. I'm not going to pretend I'm super plugged in to what is Gr.3 meta right now so I might have missed something, but that surprises me as a prediction.

Especially with the calibre of driver Subaru tends to attract.
 
Famine
I rolled some dice (well, some Excel formulae) and made my own Nations Cup:

R1: Eiger Nordwand - Kei Car at 400PP/63hp
R2: Autodrome Lago Maggiore GP - Gr.2 Selection (F1GTR/CLK/GT-ONE) Specified Cars
R3: Yas Marina - Vision Gran Turismo at 800PP
R4: BB Raceway - Gran Turismo Racing Kart 125 Shifter
R5: Trial Mountain - US/Road Car at 650PP/650hp
R6: Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve - Gran Turismo Red Bull X2019 Competition (may as well let them keep one)

Haven't done any balancing, or distance/strategy tests because... why would I, but I'd be tempted by that lot a whole lot more than the real thing and I don't even like Gr.2s or the X2019.

Also, if you've not tried stock karts at BB over a silly number of laps, you've missed out.
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There are over 550 cars in the game. A six-race series features one car featured twice, a pair of cars which are basically the same, one car class which is already used in the other championship and a class where only one or two cars are likely to be viable, and they're all a pain in the arse to drive. What's the point.
 

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