A 5 min qualy in wet conditions will be absolute pandemonium. It will be fun too & real test of skill + patience. Nonetheless, I'm excited for Dragon Trail.
That’s what we were just discussing. GTStats are suggesting dry quali and R05 for the race, but it isn’t guaranteed to be accurate. It makes sense though
I haven't tried it yet either, but it certainly sounds that way from @Uday9479's description.
Hi bud, thank you for the kind words. I always race with TCS 0 and I was also using weak ABS, which I think made the biggest difference to my lap times. I also used +5 BB for better rotation. There is a nuance with the Renault since the last update, where it was rotating more than it used to.
I don't compete seriously but @tmtk motivated me to give it a try again. So I saw your training lap times and was deeply impressed. As you know I am slower and lower rated but among my fast friends you were in front.Hey thank you Gorefast! But don't watch it 😅 I made a mistake in first lap, lost control, and caused the abandonment of PinkPuppyChump(if you are in the forums i'm really sorry, I never realized until I watched the replay).
How was it for you?
Interesting. If it takes that long for the track to dry, I wonder if there is even any point to pitting for softs. It seems like it would be hard to make up for the time in the pits over 4 or 5 laps.
Not at all. I did a quick test earlier in the morning -- just a few enter-exit-reenter cycles in Free Practice. The weather pattern on the radar was exactly the same every time. I believe we are in for a scripted weather race like we had at Red Bull Ring last season.
Yeah. I expect so. That was the situation at Red Bull Ring last season, too. Even with the same weather pattern, what we see in Free Practice doesn't match what we'll see in the race. I feel like we are going to be relying pretty heavily on our Asian and Oceanian counterparts on race day to see what strategies work best.
This makes a lot of sense.
but I prefer to have more slots at disposal if they ask me.
I ended up not doing a race on my main account because the 11pm GT1 slot was the only time I’d be able to play. I was falling asleep by 10:30 last night so no way I was going to attempt it. The 3 slots thing is awful.This makes a lot of sense.
Elite players need a league apart from the actual GT1 if that is the cause of the just three slots for GT1
Im a low A+ (my DR fluctuates between 57k and 63k since years) and when I get paired in top split with DR players of 100k and S/S world tour finalist the pace difference I see is mental.
We are not talking about tenths here, they are easily 1 second faster per lap than me. It really is another league.
At the end of the day, in that kind of races I gain DR no matter what position I finish
it's easy to lose sight of the fact that A+ alone is worth is TWICE as much DR compared to literally one's first race as DR E (aka zero) to A+. It's 50k DR to hit A+; A+ alone is 100k DR (from 50k to 150k).This makes a lot of sense.
Elite players need a league apart from the actual GT1 if that is the cause of the just three slots for GT1
Im a low A+ (my DR fluctuates between 57k and 63k since years) and when I get paired in top split with DR players of 100k and S/S world tour finalist the pace difference I see is mental.
We are not talking about tenths here, they are easily 1 second faster per lap than me. It really is another league.
At the end of the day, in that kind of races I gain DR no matter what position I finish
Good thing I don't have an ego or it would've been taken down a few [hundred] pegs.
Does anyone even know if in GT7 the real driving lines even impact where it's drying? They marketed it like it was real with the first trailers but if i look at grinding races like Tokyo i alway wonder if the drying line isn't in fact fake as the cars don't exactly drive where the typical line dries up first. You know what i mean. I always tend to "artificial b*s*".
It’s all a bit weird when it come to wet, saturating vs drying in the game.
I believe what you're describing is correct. Like, if you turn on the driving line in game there are a handful of turns across multiple tracks where that line is inaccurate vs how people really take the turn. However, that is the line that dries the quickest regardless of where everyone is actually driving.
I've never actually tried this, so I can't talk from experience, but I do seem to remember somebody here mentioning in passing that they were going to try it, or maybe even did.
Once that rain stops on lap 10, I'd be very surprised if there's any moisture on the dry line by lap 15. It's going to dry much faster in race conditions with 16 cars on it than running alone in free practice. I'd hazard a guess at the dry line being completely dry by lap 13, possibly even lap 12.
I updated my earlier post, but ICYMI, this definitely works. I left the car parked on the track for 50-some minutes and when I came back the track was completely dry.
