Gran Turismo World Series discussion (2026 Manufacturers Cup Exhibition 2: Aug 22 - Sep 12)

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Uday9479
AMG will have some advantage & all of that will be in S1 which is uphill but fast. AMG would've been my choice if not the Audi. I love the AMG '20. It's a little bulky no doubt but real fun to drive with amazing exhaust sound to match.

Where can I find this detailed info for myself (the graph)? I've been sitting in DR A for a while now because don't want to risk my DR with daily races. Plus, this week's dailies are not my cup of tea.

It's not just lap 1 but all laps You need to be fast but careful going through the bus stop. Also, T1 needs to be nailed every lap due to a long & fast section that's uphill.
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That one is from Digit's site DG Edge. Cool place, go sign up, and claim your username. You can see where you place in the races and time trial, and filter it by car, country, and many others.
www.dg-edge.com

DG EDGE | Gran Turismo 7 Community, Leagues & Stats

The Ultimate Hub for the Sim Racing Community: compare your Gran Turismo 7 times, find setups, get updates, and interact with other players
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That one is from Digit's site DG Edge. Cool place, go sign up, and claim your username. You can see where you place in the races and time trial, and filter it by car, country, and many others.
www.dg-edge.com

DG EDGE | Gran Turismo 7 Community, Leagues & Stats

The Ultimate Hub for the Sim Racing Community: compare your Gran Turismo 7 times, find setups, get updates, and interact with other players
www.dg-edge.com www.dg-edge.com
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I've already signed up there. To view the graph in particular, do I need to claim my username specifically? A very handy website no doubt.
 
Uday9479
I've already signed up there. To view the graph in particular, do I need to claim my username specifically? A very handy website no doubt.
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Go your page on the site, and on the right side, right under your DR and Sportsmanship rating, it should have a tab "Check DR Stats"
 
Finished every race in the championship!
It was the most relaxed and boring race, but I still enjoyed it. I think I've fallen in love with Watkins Glen since that race; it's a really cool and dynamic track.

I qualified in 8th place, a decent time for me. At the start, the driver in the 296B was very aggressive and tried to pass me on the inside, but I managed to brake and he overshot the turn. On that same first lap, he tried to do the same at Turn 9, but I braked again and he overshot me again, apparently getting a penalty. It all looked like a deliberate attempt to cause an accident. I don't believe a B-level driver would do such a stupid thing unless they were trying to squeeze me out. I drove alone for the remaining 16 laps and finished in 8th place.

There was another odd thing: I got a 3-second pit lane penalty. I was practicing the exit in training and there the autopilot turned off when the wheels were already straight, but in the race it turned off a little earlier, in the turn, because of which I crashed onto the line and received a penalty, which overall did not affect anything.
 
Tricky decision today with the Porsches, 10 practice laps with each has my ultimate fastest time with the GT3 R at 1:47.4, 0.250 faster than the RSR. However my average lap time over the 10 was around a tenth and a bit say 0.125 faster with the RSR. So I think the GT3 is a bit quicker but maybe harder to control? Ultimately it may come down to which is better on tyres and fuel etc
 
Started the race in 8th position after a BMW slowed me during quali,(not his fault,i didn't take enough space before the laps), started the race on hard tyre, gained some positions thinking we were on same strategy but then I realized everyone was on the medium, after the stop I pushed like crazy and overtook a lambo in the last lap for the third position, first time racing in Watkins glen, such a nice track
 
EMEA GT2 - Q10 P6

This the result of the second race because the first one was a collection of all possible mistakes. With that experience I done the second one with a completely different approach.

Left the box as last car I managed 2 laps without traffic and my time 1:47.8 was close to my best performance.

For the second tentative I started with medium differently from the first one.
I used them for around 10 laps and decided to change just for safety because the tires were beyond the 30% and lapping 1:48/9 consistently.

Last 7 laps on medium and I found myself in P6, so the overtakes have been build in the first phase.
I could also take P5 but to force an overtake I touch the wall on the main straight and lost time enough to miss the possibility to overtake at the end of the main straight.

This is the end of the championship and I have understood that if I want to improve my performance I have to dedicate time on learning the tracks and not just to do a few laps before racing.

I am a lower B driver with 340 hours of driving experience… and the majority of those done to grind money to complete the car collection… very far from you guys competing in the championship.

Not sure to do the Nations competition because I don’t like at all the F1 cars not having enough skills for those.

Thanks to you all guys to have been a nice companion along these races and particularly to @Moose78 for the detailed strategy information before every race and to @dazdilly75 for having pushed me to keep going despite the bad races done.
 
Taken from PD's website pertaining to the Manu event:
- 'Points are determined automatically by the average Driver Rating of all players matched in that race and their final race position.

(If a competitor enters more than one race in the same round, only the points earned in the last race entered will count toward the competitor's individual ranking for that round.)'

- 'At the conclusion of the Online Qualifiers, a manufacturer team's final score in each region will be calculated from its best five rounds.'

What PD should've done with the first point is instead of counting the most recent race result, they should've said that the race with the best result at the end will be counted. This would've enticed/attracted users to take part in maximum slots for the races. Thus, increasing the participation numbers. Because the last race result counts, if someone (even myself) get above average result in race 1, then that user may not take part in race 2 or 3 for the fear of finishing worse. Had it been as per the suggested idea, the user would definitely try to take part in more races irrespective of what the results would be.

Regarding the second point, the best 5 rounds are calculated based on best position achieved or highest points total in descending order? Sometimes a P6 would earn a user more points than a P5 based on the grids of those races to assign points.
 
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EMEA GT2 - Q10 P6

This the result of the second race because the first one was a collection of all possible mistakes. With that experience I done the second one with a completely different approach.

Left the box as last car I managed 2 laps without traffic and my time 1:47.8 was close to my best performance.

For the second tentative I started with medium differently from the first one.
I used them for around 10 laps and decided to change just for safety because the tires were beyond the 30% and lapping 1:48/9 consistently.

Last 7 laps on medium and I found myself in P6, so the overtakes have been build in the first phase.
I could also take P5 but to force an overtake I touch the wall on the main straight and lost time enough to miss the possibility to overtake at the end of the main straight.

This is the end of the championship and I have understood that if I want to improve my performance I have to dedicate time on learning the tracks and not just to do a few laps before racing.

I am a lower B driver with 340 hours of driving experience… and the majority of those done to grind money to complete the car collection… very far from you guys competing in the championship.

Not sure to do the Nations competition because I don’t like at all the F1 cars not having enough skills for those.

Thanks to you all guys to have been a nice companion along these races and particularly to @Moose78 for the detailed strategy information before every race and to @dazdilly75 for having pushed me to keep going despite the bad races done.
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Good job bro! Be proud you repped Renault well and did your best. There are much easier/faster cars to drive in GTWS, but it's all about challenging yourself. I'm not particularly strong at Watkins Glen, so my last race will be to just try and improve my lowest score of 148. Looking to nations, I'm also not sure I'll be taking part, but if I do, it may just be a couple of races.
 
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Manu Cup Race 6
Interesting day out as I had a mare in qualifying and ended up 13th so started on RH. Managed to get up the grid then spun and back to 13th. Stuck with it and finished 2nd.
I watched it back and my word I do make some errors but learning all the way

Enjoy and like 👍🏻 if you enjoy my race.

 
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US GT2, slot 2 (first went bad), mixed A/B lobby, 151 points for the win, door 8

Really nice time in qualifying (46.4) gave me 5th slot on the grid.
I was sticking with my strategy of starting with hards, despite it backfired on me the first time around.
Being on hards I had to do the first turn much slower than the medium runners and some of them caught me on the power esses. Driver behind bumped me from behind before the chicane (probably no ill intentions) and I just missed my braking point overshooting the chicane in the process. Half a second penalty. Cool, that dropped me down the order even before the first lap finished.

Spent the rest of the hard stint fighting for 8th with other hard runner as it turned out (driving Lexus). My own carelessness on lap 10 made me earn another half a second (just before pitting), I had to concede the position to the fellow hard runner.

After the pit stop cycle I was 8th, running just behind the Lexus, we caught up with the now hard runners. Now that we're on mediums they were easy pickings. Just before penultimate lap I was 6th, but suddenly someone from the front pitted for the second time (probably forgot to change compounds). So I brought 5th to the finish line.

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In such strong lobby that is quite a feat! At least for me...
126 points and a clear improvement over my worst score (93 at Deep Forest).
Maybe without that lap 1 punt a podium would be possible, but, nah, I won't be trying again...
I am at my limits as it is...

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EMEA GT1 A 22:30, Q - 5th, R - 3rd.

Ever since I started practice at Watkins Glen, I felt more at ease driving here when compared to previous 2 rounds at Nurburgring & Spa. So before the race, I was relaxed but also had thought, I'll give all in race 1. If something goes wrong, I've got 2 more race slots to score good points.

I was in an all DR A rated grid. I was expecting a qualy result in top 7 as I got accustomed to the flow of this wonderful track. So as qualy comes, I put in my 2 laps. My best qualy time of 1:46:151 came on my 1st attempt. It was good enough to place me 5th on the grid.

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Cometh the race, I opted for the RH-RM strategy even though I was starting towards the front. I realised in my practice & lobby races that RM on an emptier car gives better pace, stability & helps in consistent times. On lap 1, I gained a place as a driver ahead went wide in the bus stop. I was able to lap consistently in 1:48s till lap 9 where at the end of it, I decided to pit. It was the planned strategy already to lap at end of lap 9 for RMs.

Before I made the pitstop, I realised drivers behind me were jostling for positions which helped create a gap to me. I was shocked to see that half the grid went for RM-RH strategy which I think isn't the better option.

After the pitstop, I had pace & was able to create a stable gap to the group of cars behind me. Even though I rejoined in 7th, 4 cars ahead of me made pit stops the next laps elevating me to 3rd. These were the same group of drivers who kind of slowed themselves down by fighting every corner. Anyway, I kept a calm head & made sure not to make any mistake to get half second penalty.

At the end, I finished in P3. I was amazed at myself not just for the P3 but not even once did I run wide or misjudge my turns into the bus stop chicane. The R8 felt like a dream here, so stable over the kerbs & in the medium speed corners.

Scoring 151 points is my highest tally & my 2nd podium of the Manu event. A lovely way to wave goodbye to the event. :gtpflag:

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One-and-done for me with a decent end to the season. I'm accustomed to starting and finishing towards the back at Watkins Glen so this has been a very good day for me today.

I qualified P6 with a 1:45.965 in a really tight qualifying. Pole position was in a league of his own with a 1:45.191 which was almost 6 tenths clear of P2, but P3-P8 were separated by less than a tenth.

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I started on the Hards and was just thinking I need to try hold on at the start. My consistency at Watkins Glen is not great, and I found myself down to P7 by lap 3 and then P8 by lap 4 due to a Ferrari and Dodge respectively, but it turned out the Dodge was on Mediums.

The group ahead started dropping me a little whilst I had a Honda nipping at my heels, but I was back in the Ferrari's slipstream by the start of lap 7 after they slowed down a bit. I tried fighting with the Ferrari, but that didn't work out and I fell back again, before taking my pit stop at the end of lap 8.

I came back out in P14 and my out lap wasn't great. Just too restrained. I was back on top of the Ferrari during lap 10 whilst he started trying to fight with the Dodge, now on Hards. The Ferrari eventually got past on lap 12, and when I tried making a move on the Dodge at Toe he slammed the door shut on me. All their fighting and then my attempt had allowed the Honda right back up on top of me after I'd gapped him a little during the pit stops.

I tried attacking the Dodge at turn 1, but that didn't work out as it gave me a poor run up the Esses, and the Honda got a good one. Down in P9. The Honda got past the Dodge on lap 14 with a very aggressive dive at Toe, but they made contact. It forced the Dodge into picking up a track limits penalty so bit of foul play if you ask me. That track limits penalty then let me past without issue on the next lap.

From there I figured I'd be finishing P8, but the Honda wasn't done. The group up ahead was falling back due to being on Hards (or in the case of a Peugeot who pit really early, extremely worn Mediums) so there was a lot of fighting taking place. On lap 17, the Honda made a dive into Inner Loop and took out a Nissan in the process. P6.

Whilst it's not my best result this season, that's easily the most competitive race I've had during it. P1 was off doing his own thing whilst the rest of us were fighting, but it was pretty close the whole way for the rest of the top half of the grid.

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Another P6 to add to my collection this season (that's the third one) and another 213 points which is a nice replacement for the 137 I got at the Nurburgring.

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Genuinely getting sick of the lack of report options in this game.

The penalty system is a disgrace, step 1mm over the track limit & it's a guaranteed penalty but a guy with a penalty puts me in the wall in the last corner to steal position & it's no big deal.

The amount of disgraceful behaviour in the tournament racing is unbelievable. People outright t-boning me 3 times in a single race & getting no penalties.

They really need some sort of referee system badly. People that can queue up as a steward for races & earn money/rank or whatever.
 
Just qualified 6th and finished 6th at Watkins glen. GT2, DR-B in the Peugeot RCZ.

Pretty clean race overall. I did 9 on hards and 8 on RMs. Should have pitted a lap or 2 earlier as I still had quite a bit of the RMs left at the end of the race.

Didn’t get much time to practice so wasn’t expecting much, I’ll take it.

See y’all at the nations cup.
 
Well that went far better than i could have hoped for. Admittidly it was a GT3 lobby as my ranking on the other account was not great.
Qualified P1 with a 1:46.9 which was not great but still, happy enough.
I really had no option but to start on the mediums and hope that i could make some kind of a gap before the hard stint. I had done no simulation runs so i had no idea how the Merc would use it tyres. Anyway, it was a pretty clean run and i went 8m9h. Came home P1 by 12 seconds. That result has that acc back into DR B so happy days 😉.Will be swapping now to the Despicable acc in GT2 and for this i have gone with the GTR
Edit, i changed my mind and decided to not push my luck too much 🤣🤣
 

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Manu Cup Race 6
Interesting day out as I had a mare in qualifying and ended up 13th so started on RH. Managed to get up the grid then spun and back to 13th. Stuck with it and finished 2nd.
I watched it back and my word I do make some errors but learning all the way

Enjoy and like 👍🏻 if you enjoy my race.

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1. Very bold actions against that dangerous guy, he was driving like he was alone on the track, he could have easily knocked you out.
2. Don't you use radar on the minimap? It's a useful thing; on the first lap, we clipped a Lancer, and there could have been a spin. Radar helps a lot in this regard.
3. What a disappointing penalty on the third lap, it's a shame.
4. I was literally watching him press the gas before the spin on the third lap, and I was surprised how he didn't spin out from such a sharp throttle press, and a moment later, he did.
5. I liked the battle with fsbobby.

An intriguing race, from 11th place on lap 6 to second place at the finish!
Of course, most of the positions gained were due to mistakes by the competitors, but driving fast and not making mistakes is the key to success. Congratulations!
 
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Here is today’s debrief.
Q9 with a 1.47.7** in a mostly DRA lobby and all SRS
When I saw that it was mostly A driver I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Starting in p9 I decided to go for the Hards first. It started well but a tap from another Porsche sent me wide and I was down to p13.
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I decided to simply keep my head down and focus on my pace. We eventually got to the point where my hard were of similar pace than used medium and I could start overtaking. Here are a few moves I made:
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I then got behind a black and light blue Porsche that decided to fight with the leader who had pitted. I when in the pits at lap 10 and I managed to undercut the Porsche.
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I also picked up a place when someone when off and I started catching the guy in p8 and overtook him on the in inside of turn one.
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I then kept p8 until the end and got a healthy 114 point which is 19 more than I got for my p1 last time out. Now I just gotta hope it is enough to get me higher in my regional standings.
I’m happy with this result has I’m just a high B driver and was up against low to mid A’s.
I can’t wait to get to know the GT3R more for the next season.
 
Zorz
One-and-done for me with a decent end to the season. I'm accustomed to starting and finishing towards the back at Watkins Glen so this has been a very good day for me today.

I qualified P6 with a 1:45.965 in a really tight qualifying. Pole position was in a league of his own with a 1:45.191 which was almost 6 tenths clear of P2, but P3-P8 were separated by less than a tenth.


I started on the Hards and was just thinking I need to try hold on at the start. My consistency at Watkins Glen is not great, and I found myself down to P7 by lap 3 and then P8 by lap 4 due to a Ferrari and Dodge respectively, but it turned out the Dodge was on Mediums.

The group ahead started dropping me a little whilst I had a Honda nipping at my heels, but I was back in the Ferrari's slipstream by the start of lap 7 after they slowed down a bit. I tried fighting with the Ferrari, but that didn't work out and I fell back again, before taking my pit stop at the end of lap 8.

I came back out in P14 and my out lap wasn't great. Just too restrained. I was back on top of the Ferrari during lap 10 whilst he started trying to fight with the Dodge, now on Hards. The Ferrari eventually got past on lap 12, and when I tried making a move on the Dodge at Toe he slammed the door shut on me. All their fighting and then my attempt had allowed the Honda right back up on top of me after I'd gapped him a little during the pit stops.

I tried attacking the Dodge at turn 1, but that didn't work out as it gave me a poor run up the Esses, and the Honda got a good one. Down in P9. The Honda got past the Dodge on lap 14 with a very aggressive dive at Toe, but they made contact. It forced the Dodge into picking up a track limits penalty so bit of foul play if you ask me. That track limits penalty then let me past without issue on the next lap.

From there I figured I'd be finishing P8, but the Honda wasn't done. The group up ahead was falling back due to being on Hards (or in the case of a Peugeot who pit really early, extremely worn Mediums) so there was a lot of fighting taking place. On lap 17, the Honda made a dive into Inner Loop and took out a Nissan in the process. P6.

Whilst it's not my best result this season, that's easily the most competitive race I've had during it. P1 was off doing his own thing whilst the rest of us were fighting, but it was pretty close the whole way for the rest of the top half of the grid.

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Another P6 to add to my collection this season (that's the third one) and another 213 points which is a nice replacement for the 137 I got at the Nurburgring.

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I was in the RCZ. Pitted for mediums at the end of lap 6, hoping to stay out of traffic as much as possible. It worked, but the last 2-3 laps I was sloooow.
Was down to P6 I think on the final lap when that Honda kamikazed himself and that poor P4. So by pure luck I could walk away with a very nice P4.

Edit: P1, alien in the wrong lobby? Didn’t he end the race like 15 sec ahead of P2?
 
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I was in the RCZ. Pitted for mediums at the end of lap 6, hoping to stay out of traffic as much as possible. It worked, but the last 2-3 laps I was sloooow.
Was down to P6 I think on the final lap when that Honda kamikazed himself and that poor P4. So by pure luck I could walk away with a very nice P4.

Edit: P1, alien in the wrong lobby? Didn’t he end the race like 15 sec ahead of P2?
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11 laps on mediums is some going, fair play 👏👏👏
 
Just did my race, chose the GT3 R. Qualified 2nd with a 1:47.065, pole got 47.030. Started on mediums, rubbish start down to 5th on opening lap. 2-4th were in a massive battle and that let me inch forward. The pole sitter had a terrible in lap and also got penalties so I could jump him in the pit when I came in lap 9. Came out 3rd with pole sitter and another GT3 who qualified 6th right on me. Couldn't hang with the other GT3 and dropped to 4th, then had a massive battle with pole sitter in clean air each side who would gain 1 second in his M6 in the first half of the lap then I'd pull away a second in the second half. Was largely clean took a couple of rams to the back which I held.

The other GT3 was pulling away about half a second a lap. Guy who was winning made a massive mistake in the first corner of the last lap but managed to recover and stay 3 seconds ahead but dropped to 3rd. I finished 4th as the M6 made a mistake on the last lap and took the pressure off. The 'Winner' never pitted, or at least didn't change tyres so everyone got promoted and ended up with 3rd, total race time of 31:31.

Been some mad races. Missed the first, then have finished 3rd, 13th, 9th, 13th and 3rd.
 
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Cliph_Pang
I was in the RCZ. Pitted for mediums at the end of lap 6, hoping to stay out of traffic as much as possible. It worked, but the last 2-3 laps I was sloooow.
Was down to P6 I think on the final lap when that Honda kamikazed himself and that poor P4. So by pure luck I could walk away with a very nice P4.

Edit: P1, alien in the wrong lobby? Didn’t he end the race like 15 sec ahead of P2?
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Ah, hello! I had no idea you were on here. Well done holding on with those Mediums. They must have felt awful after 11 laps! :eek:

And yeah, that BMW seemed well out of place in that lobby.
 
Zorz
Ah, hello! I had no idea you were on here. Well done holding on with those Mediums. They must have felt awful after 11 laps! :eek:

And yeah, that BMW seemed well out of place in that lobby.
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Yeah, occasionally and mostly related to manu and nations. I rarely post though.
We’ve been in the same cup lobbies quite often for quite a while if memory serves!?

Edit: yeah, horrible. Car turned like an oil tanker last laps 😊. Stupid strategy really, unfortunately my brain really favors stupid ideas 😂
 
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