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

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So far I'm fastest with the Ferrari by a significant margin. Tire wear is 100% identical to the Porsche as well, so it looks like I'll be one of a few non-Porsches in a field full of them. The 992 just understeers as soon as you touch the throttle, which is great for stability, but it feels like it has TOO MUCH grip in the rear (which makes sense since that's where all the weight is). The 296 by contrast needs a bit of finesse to avoid spinning out in the slower corners, but in race conditions with the added fuel weight it becomes almost perfectly neutral.

I hope this isn't one of those situations where I end up having to switch to the Meta after finding out that the car I prefer is actually hopeless in real races...
 
Had a blast in Saturdayā€™s race

Almost perfect, just a couple errors here and there and slow pace in the first 2 or 3 laps, but was a satisfying result and 190ish points coming home

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I was surprised to see I was so close to the top and at the same time so far in terms of lap time, those World Tour folk are truly built different

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Meh.
I don't get along with NGP much but decided to run anyway. My lack of practice showed. P11 of 13 and the 2 behind me were held up on their laps by being behind me. Pretty uneventful race. 2 people spun and 1 semi barge passed me after a mistaken dive bomb by the other driver. That was it. Most of the pit strategy ideas came to nothing unless you were in a really close direct battle. My 296 got shredded by the Porsches at the chicane every lap for several tenths.

Best of luck to the rest of you, I was out of my depth for this one.
 
So about Nurburgring GT race. I used Porsche as Ferrari was too unpredictable for me. In practice I managed to go mid 1:58 with stable 1:59's and 2:00's.

In qualifiers I did just terrible and 2:03 so even for C lobby (degraded from B after some rage quittings earlier) it was 13th position.
Race itself was dry as some of you in earlier comments predicted, I pit stopped twice (7th and 14th lap) and changed tires twice as well. I believe if you're good driver and know how to conserve your tires one change might be even better. Thankfully race was with no major accidents, some expected yellow flags in the beginning, and I managed to go with steady pace, around 2:00 per lap in average I think.

Finished 5th but two lads forgot to pit for 2nd time so I ended up 3rd:) It was rather low scoring lobby as I got only 33 points but I'll keep it and be personally happy with another podium place.

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It's one of those races where I wished I'd skip instead.
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Qualified with a 1:58.052 at P13 which isn't great. And just as I was about to get into the 'train' to make some moves, a chain-connected bumped nearly ended me with a crash. Managed to recover, but it my chances to gain positions died there. Even with the pit intervals at laps 7 and 14 (with lap 14 being with no tyre change, which I regretted shortly after), I ended at the same position as I started with 109 points to bag.

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To me it felt like a slouch to the point I done the same lap time twice in Laps 3 and 4? Anyway it too felt like torture knowing where your limit is as you watch yourself being stuck on one spot. All because everyone got too giddy at the start. That or it was the effect of me just practicing only today. But even under free practice I did a decent time that could have gotten me at the mid-pack.

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Just make this season end a bit faster already...

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I had a feeling I'd struggle in this one when the schedule first went up, and I was not wrong. I do not like the Nurburgring GP circuit. Never have, and never will at this rate. On the plus side, I'm usually miles off the pace here, and for once I actually got down to some appropriate lap times. Problem is, my consistency is poor.

Qualified P9 (which surprised me) and then went backwards over the first few laps, dropping down to P12. The last of those overtakes annoyed me a bit. A Swede had gotten alongside me coming out of the Mercedes Arena due to fighting ahead and was on my right for turn 4. I made sure to leave space on the inside, he just put his foot down to take the normal very wide line that goes past the white line as though I wasn't there and almost pushed me onto the grass.

About halfway through the race I made a big mistake and spun the rears up coming out of Kumho-Kerve which sent me onto the grass and dropped me down to P14, then gained a position back and finished P13 because someone ahead quit.

I wish it wasn't necessary to abuse the track limits at the tight chicane so aggressively to be competitive. I don't know how people get through there quickly over and over. I'm almost always hanging on for dear life with the car sliding around like crazy. Every time I got there on those first few laps, I'd struggle to get through then have the car behind right up my bumper heading down to turn 1 which led to dive after dive.


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Not going again. This will have to be my drop round, unless something goes really badly in the second half.
 
Just saw that this race is Gr.3 and contemplate to try one in an hour. So 2 stops and only one tire type? Nothing special to consider strategy wise?

I'm only able to get in front of my PS5 minutes before the race. That's why i ask.

Thanks!
 
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Just saw that this race is Gr.3 and contemplate to try one in an hour. So 2 stops and only one tire type? Nothing special to consider strategy wise?

I'm only able to get in front of my PS5 minutes before the race. That's why i ask.

Thanks!
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Fuel will last no problem, it seems to be safer and quicker to change tyres twice as the drop off is substantial, especially if you haven't been able to practice. I went 6-7-7.
Totally dry race.
 
Compared to Saturday, this felt like a carefree drive through the country...

GT2 - North America - 12 PM EST - Ferrari 296 GT3 '23 - Door #4 - 107 points available - Q3 (1:58.417)
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I don't generally do well at Nurburgring GP -- middling at best -- so I had pretty low expectations for this round. It seems the DR hit I took for Saturday's race put me in pretty soft competition. The Q3 starting position came as a surprise.

I survived the first lap, which let me breathe a sigh of relief.

The Q2 driver went into the sand at the Schumacher Esses on lap 4, which promoted me to P2. There was a Porsche close on my tail, though, so I knew I had to keep up my pace (such as it was).

Despite driving a Ferrari, my strategy plans were the most conventional as could be: 6-7-7. I was the only one to pit on lap 6. I came out behind a Porsche (surprise, surprise -- so many Porsches) who was noticeably slower, but I couldn't find my way around them. I had to wait until they pitted on lap 8 to start getting back up to pace.

The Q4 Porsche came out of the pits just in front of me at the start of lap 9 (pictured above). Happily (for me, anyways), they picked up a 3-second pit-line penalty re-entering the track, so I easily took back my position from them. When all the pitting was done, I found myself back in Q2.

The Q1 driver was way faster than me, so I had no hope of a win, but I did manage to pull away from the Q4 Porsche for a P2 finish. That gave me my first three-digit point haul this season of 102, and a 4.9% improvement to my DR B to 70.5%. CRB, even.

I couldn't be happier. Won't try again. I wouldn't want to jinx it.

I'm looking forward to Rd.4 at St Croix-B in the F3500-A. I did some preliminary testing for it on the weekend and regardless of how my pace ends up ranking, I really like driving this car there. Should be fun.
 
GT3 - EMEA Region - C lobby - 8PM GMT - Porsche 911 GT3 R '22 - Door #1 - Qualified 3rd - Finished 2nd place!

Well this was a much better race than expected and quite fun to play around The GP version of the track!

Overall a good practice session while watching Calster's YT guide to the track and understand his good braking points for the track.
Qualifying was solid and managed to get into 3rd place so I had the front pack to chase which was only 2 cars.

Onto the race, a good start and was chasing the 2nd place spanish racer in also a 992 car, and slightyl bumping and fighting a bit agreesive to get into 2nd place. I did halfway through lap 1, I was 2nd plae, then i fought back and los tit again after the spanish driver making a massive divebomb on lap 2 and just getting it done and i backed off to aovid a bash out spin.

Then kept chasing the front pack racers, and was pushing it so hard and contnue to maintain a solid time and consistency thru each lap. I noticed that the 1st place guy pitted early on lap 6 and I chose to contnue chase the 2nd place guy and stay out till lap 7 to pit. Switched over RM tyres and then ran out to chase into 5th place to keep going, watchign the 1st place german guy join me on the 1st corner exiting the pit lane.

I managed to get into 4th place and hold it until lap 14 where i pushed up to 3rd and managed to stay out for an extra lap to push up to 2nd place and hold my lead for a good 14secs to keep my pit into the next lap feel more wider so only 1 car passed me. The german driver passed me and he now had a 7sec lead on me, so it was for me to maintain my 2nd place till the end.

It was so solid and kept the spansih guy at bay with a decent enough gap to hold on. Overall a good race and but it really just felt lieka Porsche GT cup race and there ws no veriety around, but a good finsih so lets go to Round 4!

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EMEA GT3 - 19:00 - Q9 P6

After Canada race where arrived P9 starting as last one without no qualify timing, this time I found a more reasonable race with GT3 cars.

I went for Porsche because comparing to Ferrari it is more easy to drive.

With a best time of 1:58.5 I qualified with a time 1 second slower so P9.
The start was clean with no dive bomb but at T3 th situation was a little bit chaotic and I think to have touched a Porsche driven by an Italian (sorry for that I brake but I think to have been pushed too).
However I was door to door with the other Porsche but he accelerated too much and spin.
The race for the rest was clean with all the top 10 drivers doing the pit at the same moment: lap 7 and 14.
One driver in front of me took a 3 second penalty entering the pit and once he was out he disconnectedā€¦ I donā€™t understand why to leave without hope to recovery.

I kept lapping consistently at 1:59 lower for the majority of the laps and at the end I found myself in P6.
I donā€™t know what exactly happened to reach such result because I was just focused on carefully taking my best trajectory lap after lap and didnā€™t watched at all the timing of the others.
The only thing noticed at lap 19 was that the follower driver was at 12 seconds far away and then I finally relaxed.

Next race is with the F1ā€¦ and I could skip it as I did with the first one.
No willingness to race with such monsterā€¦
 
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I wish it wasn't necessary to abuse the track limits at the tight chicane so aggressively to be competitive. I don't know how people get through there quickly over and over. I'm almost always hanging on for dear life with the car sliding around like crazy. Every time I got there on those first few laps, I'd struggle to get through then have the car behind right up my bumper heading down to turn 1 which led to dive after dive.
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I agree. I really hate the chicane at the end of the lap (really hate tight chicanes in general but this one takes the cake). I wish they'd use the layout that's part of the N24 as it's much faster and easy to be consistent.

Anyway, Nurb GP track is one of those places where I'll run TC 0 but flip it onto TC 1 just for that chicane. If the racing is tight and I can't turn it on and off easily (aka leaving the radar up at all times) I'll just leave TC on 1. Kind of annoying that in a 1:5X min lap I only want TC for about two seconds but that chicane has been the death of me (or killed an otherwise good lap) more times than I care to admit.
 
Man I'm just not having a lot of fun right now. Although if I'm being honest the boring combos, terrible track limits, and lack of other stuff to do in the game are only a small part of it. Mostly it just feels like everyone else has gotten better and I've gotten worse. Probably just takes more daily races instead of only showing up for GTWS but I just have too much other stuff to do, work, friends, hobbies... Sigh. I don't even have the Power Pack to distract me since I'm not buying a PS5 just to play one expansion pack.

I didn't finish last though! Not going to chance another slot because I probably would next time. Make sure to change tires twice, everyone.
 
GT1 US first slot, low A lobby, 159 points for the race, door 10

I hate this track, I really do, I don't know what is it, but it's just not right...
Over the 20 laps race, twenty times I dreamed of turning left before the last corner (would be so much more fun!).

And yet...

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Get outta here, how? And why?

I don't know, I just wanted to finish it and get it behind me already. My race fastest lap was 0.3 better than my qualifying lap :lol:
Some people spun, some, with superior pace, I let go. Basic 6-7-7 strategy, nothing to it. At the end one driver was catching fast, but I managed to come out of the last turn in front, just.

Should be P6, but well, some people just don't read the rules...

Gonna miss the Saturday round, going out of town.
 
That was an alright start for me to this season's nations cup.

After missing round 1 and not bothering with round 2 since i don't like the red bull x2019, i was looking forward to this round.

I did hop in the first GT1 slot (5pm UK), but that never went well. I chose the Lambo for that race and my qualifying was meh, and during the race i picked up multiple off track penalties at the Schumacher S, which dropped me to last, so i decided to quit and do more practice.


I then jumped into the final GT1 slot of the day at 9pm(UK), and for this race i chose the Ferrari since it was the car i was faster in, and thankfully the race went pretty well. The lobby was filled with 14 Porsche's and me and another person in the Ferrari.

My qualifying was once again a bit meh... but thankfully my race pace was alright. At the start of the race i gained a place after a Porsche went wide at the exit of the Mercedes arena. Then i lost a place at the start of lap 2 but i immediately gained it back at T1 after the person cut the kerb a bit too much, which bounced their car across the track. Then for the next couple of laps i slowly closed the gap to the fellow Ferrari in front of me.

I entered the pits at the end of lap 6, and that allowed me to gain on some of the cars in front, because a lap later, when the other Ferrari left the pits, i was right on their tail. Also at the start of lap 8, i moved into P10 after making a move on a fellow UK driver into T1. Then on lap 9, i moved into P9 after the other Ferrari served a penalty. Then on lap 11, i temporarily moved into P6 after some cars pitted.

On lap 13 i received an off track penalty at the Schumacher S, which was annoying. Then at the end of lap 13 i entered the pits for my 2nd pitstop. Then at the start of lap 15, me and the other Ferrari were side by side into T1 as it was just leaving the pits, and thankfully i managed to stay ahead.

Then during the next couple of laps, i pulled away from the Ferrari, and at the start of lap 18 i was now on the tail of an Italian in a Porsche. We had a really good battle for the majority of the lap, but unfortunately they managed to stay ahead. The battling allowed the other Ferrari to catch back up, but thankfully they couldn't get close enough during the last 2 laps to make a move.

In the end, i finished P8, which i'm pretty happy with, and it was a really fun race overall.

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Put in a lot of practice and did two EMEA alt account races in an attempt to find some kind of pace here. Got to the point where I could consistently lap in the high 56ā€™s during free practice.

First slot Americas in a 309 point lobby. Threw all that practice away when I got a penalty at the Schumacher esses during qually and landed DFL on the grid. Was able to eat my way up to 11th to finish with a couple penalties and lots of mistakes. Fun race, challenging track to get right. Wish they would wrangle in the track limits a bit.





Forgot to turn on my GoPro at the start. Hereā€™s my helmet cam footage from the first pit stop on
 

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