Gran Turismo World Series

[A1an]

Reading through the comments I was thinking about trying for a one stop, but I just don't know if it's viable for me.

I think the key is how good a driver you are, because if you one stop and spin at any point you will have lost the time a second pit stop would have taken, some of the corners on this track are a bit weird and easy to spin or get spun out, in my testing I went off in each car as I was really pushing.

If you are good and in a rank where people are not trying to take you out all the time a one stop is likely the way to go.

 

[Wilsonson]

I did a race at lunch today.

There was at least one driver quitting after repeatedly spinning and some others that had massive problems at the end of their 1-stop stints. I personally barely made the 9-10-11 work but I'm bad with tires.

This was a 110 points B/S GT2 lobby.

 

[bliprunner]

Well I made the one stop work with a 14/16 strategy, making up 7 places. Unfortunately I was punted to last on lap 1 so that only got me P8 at the end...

Qualified 5th with my banker lap again. The grid start made lap one chaotic and sadly myself and another driver got fired off at the hairpin through no fault of our own.

Committed to a one stop at that moment and it payed off with some decent overtakes, plus waving past a few front runners I wasn't racing. One of those ironically was the Ferrari who caused the hairpin shunt, maybe an innocent mistake, I definitely encountered a few hard blockers and one push to pass cheat.

Shame because overall it was a decent race and I'm relatively proud of the one stop, I only tested 15 laps beforehand but noticed a few YouTubers had a decent amount of tread left at the end, so figured 16 laps for the final stint might work.

On to the next... and good luck if you are still to race, careful on lap one!

 

[Zorz]

That's not a particularly fun race IMO and the grid start was rough. For anyone who's still to race and has been practicing for the 1-stop alone in custom races - doing it in the actual race is a lot harder. I barely had anything left on my front left at the end of each stint and my pace suffered for it. I'm guessing the track temperature is higher than in the settings I was practicing with, or just the dirty air was that detrimental, or both.

There was a Belgian in my race who seemed to be an imminent hazard to anyone near him as I saw 3 incidents that he caused within the first 5 laps. To avoid naming and shaming I've set it so his name is hidden in the videos below.

I qualified P13 with a 1:45.842. I got a good start due to being in the Ferrari, managed to judge it right to slow down for the bend with the group in front and then...

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...giving me front and rear damage. I then crawled along on the right towards turn 2, and really unsettled the car taking it that tight over the kerb, dropping me back down to P13.

I try to settle in, but then when I get to turn 12 on lap 3...

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Definitely not happy at that point as that left me something like 4-5s off the back. I tried to see the positive in that at least it would mean I have clean air to save my tyres in peace, but not really what I had in mind.

On lap 5, I then get a couple of positions back because...

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From there I eventually caught up with a Spaniard in the Lambo and tried to just follow, temporarily running up as high as P5 being offset against the 2-stoppers. The tyre wear was horrible though, and I voluntarily just let anyone who came up behind me through. I did not want to fight at all, I just wanted to get through doing my own thing.

I came back out of the pit stop in P13 and once again just tried to follow the Spaniard around and protect my tyres. I was back up in P6 by the time the second set of pit stops came around and from there it was just trying to hold on as long as possible with dying tyres. I eventually crossed the line in P9 which was a big surprise after the utter disaster the first few laps had been. I then was very confused when the game suddenly displayed P8. Checking back on my recording, the Russian who finished a couple of seconds ahead of me vanished during the results screen where the cars are auto-driving around.

P8, 189 points. Considering where I started and what I had to deal with, I'll call that a victory. I think I'll just take that. I was sweating buckets in my VR headset during this one even with a fan on me. I don't really fancy doing it again!

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[tmtk]

Again, after extensive testing with both Ferrari and Huracan I'm clearly in the Moose club and then some, because with my gorilla inputs front left is gone on lap 11 with the rest laps until stop in the range of 1:55s.
So two stop strategy is the only way for me: going as much error free as possible and hoping that low B lobby is not populated with tire preservation masters.

Chose Ferrari because of my many Manu seasons experience with them and I truly felt the 458 is turning better than the Lambo.

GT2, first US slot, lowish B lobby, 88 points for the win

I managed to snatch the pole by a whisker (3 thousands) with time of 1:46.6, a whole flotilla of Huracans behind me.
Started well and as expected gained few tenths on the Huracans by the first corner.
First laps I was alone with a gap of 1.5-1.9 seconds to the following car, but swiftly one Huracan started to break from the bunch and slowly but surely gaining on me. I was faster in sector 2 and first two corners of sector 3, but what they were doing in the rest of sector 3 was astonishing because they were gaining 3-4 tenths regularly.

So by the lap 7-8 the Huracan was on my back with about 0.5 seconds gap, they even tried to pass me at the first corner but it was too far away. With full fuel tank my front left was very much used, so I decided to pit on lap 9. The Huracan stayed out.
Fortunately I exited on empty track, within a lap caught and passed someone struggling with used tires. The leading Huracan pitted on lap 11 and got caught up in the traffic on the way out, that gave me 2-3 seconds of calm. After few laps they started to gain on me again, my advantage slowly bleeding out.

I pit on lap 19 for the last set of softs and the Huracan (now about 2 seconds behind) pitted after me.
Bad luck for them on the exit as more traffic came after I went out. Suddenly the chasing Huracan dropped in the group (something must have happened there) and I slowly built my advantage over the bunch.
When the chasing Huracan emerged in the second place I had 6.5 seconds advantage and 7 laps to go. You might think, that is enough, but I saw bigger gaps vanishing in a strip of clipped grass, so I was 100% focused on doing the best lines I could.

The advantage was getting smaller but in the point of 3.5 seconds and just ahead of the last lap I think the Huracan surrendered and I arrived first on the line with over 4 seconds.
Most drivers at the front were on 2 stop strategy, the few one stoppers were further back with quite poor pace.

A hard fought win and 88 points are very good after Red Bull disappointment, let's see how I will fare with the formula on Saturday...

 

[MetalApe]

Now that was a race and a half! Qualified P10, not a great lap, but my best would still have only put me 8th, so not a disaster.

Awesome launch from my Ferrari, up to to P5, but on the outside, into turn 1. When some numpty breaks way too late and stuffs it down the inside taking out a quarter of the field. I came of worst, getting bumped again as I was getting out the gravel trap. Down to last, with a gap to the rest of the field.

I was planning on two stopping, but that's not going to work from the back, so decide right now I'll see if I can stretch the tyres for a 1 stopper. Just made it to lap 15 with a very worn front left, losing a lot of time at the end of the stint.

I come out in 10th, this time I know I need to do a better job of managing the tyres or I'll be toast at the end. For this second stint I really concentrate on protecting the front left, cruise around the right handers, short cutting across the grass to ease the corner angles, taking lines that work the front right harder, saving the front left.

Come lap 21 everyone ahead pits, I'm up to 4th, and amazingly the tyre saving has really paid off, front left is no more than 20% worn. I've got a gap to 5th. I never really expected to hold off all the pursers, I would have been happy with 7th or 8th, but over the following 10 laps the gap barely closed. Three laps to go I realise my rear left is worse than my front, so switch style to push the front end and take it real easy on acceleration.

It works, I didn't just keep 4th, the gap barely came down. Not a bad result considering I'd have been very happy with a top 5 even before dropping to last at the start.

Spoiler: Pictures

 

[Famine]

Another💥downside💥to💥the💥one-stop💥is💥all💥the💥imbeciles💥smacking💥into💥you💥in💥every💥heavy💥braking💥zone.

As it was though another driver seemingly got fed up of the two bigger offenders that I saw and took them both out on laps 28 and 29. So I ended up going from 8th (qualy wasn't bad) to 5th in the end, after making one stop on lap 15 in the Lamborghini.

Looking at the lap times, had I been unhindered on the first stint and not repeatedly humped by cretins, 4th was possible, but not without my beige-Huracan tailgunner


My two best GTWS places and scores since SSRX and they've been back-to-back in Lamborghinis.

 

[A1an]

I started 7th and that is where I finished!
It was a proper dirty race, most were in the Lambo then the Ferrari and two in the Audi, the grid was pretty mixed up but the Ferraris went to the front the first lap, I got punted off on about lap 8 from 5th down to second from last 15th, I carried on until the end of lap 9 and just pitted, there were some others pitting as well, then overtook a few that were one stopping, but in the end as I made my way back to 7th I finished in front of two that I know were on a one stop as I overtook them as they were going into the pits.

The final 10 laps my front left tire only had a sliver of white left showing, this wasn't the case the first ten laps though and I did consider trying to go on to see if I could one stop, it may have been possible until I finished and my front left was dead.

I will stand by what I said earlier, if you are in a top rank and are a good driver that can look after the tires and keep the car on the track a one stop is the way to go, but everyone else it has to be two stops and I say this because you are more likely to run out of grip in the final laps as you will be really pushing for the flag.

I don't think the non UK drivers liked my livery either!

 

[Wilsonson]

Just had the worst race of my life. Qualified on pole. P2 gets a miracle start (in the replay it looks like a glitch) and passes me cleanly before T1. I am so distracted that I completely forget to break, avoid them by jerking left and spin into the gravel.

My nerves lay bare after this. I made numerous more errors including another spin coming out of T1 and slightly getting on the grass, albeit my tires were pretty back already then.

Worst of the bunch however was that I again forgot to break, this time into the elevated second hairpin and with 3 cars right in front of me. I punted one of them into the shadow realm. They took forever to get out of the gravel until I could finally give the position back. They quit a couple of laps later. I ruined their race.

Finished P12 of 13 finishers a whooping minute behind. All this despite being off the fastest lap only by a tenth or so. But besides my mistakes my consistency in the other laps was terrible as well.

 

[MetalApe]

P2 gets a miracle start (in the replay it looks like a glitch)

My launch from P10 to a brief P5 at turn 1 felt like one of those. Was false start turned on for GT1?

I expect it to warn us if the false start option is enabled, I was holding the car on the brakes anyway just in case. A car just ahead moved early, then slowed, but that was enough to trigger my automatic reflex to release the brakes and launch the Ferrari off the line. I was expecting a false start penalty to appear, but it didn't.

Looking back at the replay it appears that reflex reaction meant I accidently timed the start to perfection. Combined with the Ferrari being good off the line that gave me a blinder off a start. I didn't see a penalty applied to the early starter, but he slowed as though there was one.

 

[Mumster]

Wonder if the Audi is worth trying. It seems pretty good on tires.

 

[ZEE]

SO here we go the all mighty Autopolis and what a fascinating race this was! Now we seemed to be gettin into the stride of this championship!

GT2 League - EMEA Region - 8PM Slot - B/S Rank Lobby - Ferrari 458 Gr.3 - 76 Livery - Door no.13 - RS tyres - Sunny forecast - Grid Start

So I started practicing to get some hot laps in and acheive a decent 1:47 times after i bought a Ferrari for this race as the NSX wasnt quite getting good pace on this track so I thought to switchover! It proved vital as this car performed real well overall.

Qualifying was not bad managed to get an ok tiem that lead me into 8th place overall to stat the rae and I was set to try and achive and aim high in this round.

Onto to the RACE!

The race started off well, a grid start so timing was key and push off i did, once green lambo did. flas start and caused an accordion of cars to wishy wash all over behind me. Into Turn 1 and bumer cars ensued as no one left space and it was liek go karting all over! Trying to break free form that traffic and push the Ferrari 458 through turns 2 + 3. I was running up 7th place anf moving up.

Had some nice battling with a tons of Lambos in my race.
A real stupid german drive rin a lambo in silly childish superman livery (see pic) decied to be a mroon and use shady techniques was always trying to firstly, bump me from behind on lap 2, then on lap 7 or 8 he pitted me to the gravel making me lose 2 places. I kept chasing him at 8th place as some drivers bailed the lobby and it was still frantic. Chasing the leaders I kept my pace and gained a few psoitions fore my first pit.. I chose to do a 3 point strategy with 10-10-10 as I didnt think the Ferarri woudl last and it didnt on the way i pushed the car. Many others did this too.

Out of the pits 1st time and all was good, then chased a Lambo to try and get back up to 3rd, I manged to chase and get up to 2nd place, and then as we came in on lap 20, I was chasing a green Lambo, and he drove down the narrow entrance to the pits with the dumb chicane and met Barry R, so he luckily ghosted so I went through and gained a place. Out the pits and then i get hit with a 3sec penalty, WTF? After checking the replay i fear i may have run over the entry line on the pit entry but not sure how the stupid game judged it.

So as I reached the slow down point, I lost 3 places thanks to that aweful penalty and back to 9th. Tried my damnest to push and chase the three lambos tha passed me, but some pitted and one crashed out, so I was 7th again. Quick last pit before I gave chase a last time, and manged to gain a few postions up to 6th then 5th when a beligum driver crashed on the grass, allowing me on the second to last lap to get 5th place. I held that until the fnish line and was very happy, i was gunning for 3rd but this race was overly long for no reason.

A welcome Rank boosting and overall good point for this round. Look forward ot he F3500 they so cool cars! ROUND 4 LFG!

Spoiler: Cool race photos - Round 3

 

[afc5150]

Whew! That was a sweaty affair.

Left work 15 minutes early and was ready to go with 4 minutes to spare.

GT2 slot 5 - 134 point lobby, door 9

Went Q9 to P5 despite being punted off by the same dude twice, changing my strategy from a 2 stopper to a one stop due to the aforementioned punts.

I was running as high as 3rd with 2 to go but with my fading tires I was caught at the end by 2 drivers on the penultimate lap and had to settle for 5th and 112 points.

Pretty happy with that actually, better than I expected with the pressure on only being able to do one slot.

Nice boost of DR as I finished ahead of the 3 DR-A drivers in the lobby now just a sliver off A myself again.

 

[A1an]

Another💥downside💥to💥the💥one-stop💥is💥all💥the💥imbeciles💥smacking💥into💥you💥in💥every💥heavy💥braking💥zone.

As it was though another driver seemingly got fed up of the two bigger offenders that I saw and took them both out on laps 28 and 29. So I ended up going from 8th (qualy wasn't bad) to 5th in the end, after making one stop on lap 15 in the Lamborghini.

Looking at the lap times, had I been unhindered on the first stint and not repeatedly humped by cretins, 4th was possible, but not without my beige-Huracan tailgunner


My two best GTWS places and scores since SSRX and they've been back-to-back in Lamborghinis.

It is quite a bad track for that, I was right on the tail of a Lambo going into the first corner, I switched at the end to the inside at the last second and the Lambo turned in on me, I mean there was a gap and I was able to make the turn but the other driver went off as we hit, I stopped until they got back on track (cost me 14 seconds) so they kept the place, i kept my distance for the rest of the lap, but they kept out breaking themselves and I had trouble not to hit them again as they kept cutting back onto me on the apex, but on the last lap I did the old switcheroo into the first corner and they went to shut the door on the apex expecting me to be there, but I wasn't and they went off just enough for me to get a couple of seconds ahead.

As I said in my previous comment, it's a bad track for dirty/bad drivers because of the design and layout, it seems to encourage a certain types of drivers to be bad.

Just had the worst race of my life. Qualified on pole. P2 gets a miracle start (in the replay it looks like a glitch) and passes me cleanly before T1. I am so distracted that I completely forget to break, avoid them by jerking left and spin into the gravel.

My nerves lay bare after this. I made numerous more errors including another spin coming out of T1 and slightly getting on the grass, albeit my tires were pretty back already then.

Worst of the bunch however was that I again forgot to break, this time into the elevated second hairpin and with 3 cars right in front of me. I punted one of them into the shadow realm. They took forever to get out of the gravel until I could finally give the position back. They quit a couple of laps later. I ruined their race.

Finished P12 of 13 finishers a whooping minute behind. All this despite being off the fastest lap only by a tenth or so. But besides my mistakes my consistency in the other laps was terrible as well.

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Shame, the thing is if they quit they do huge damage to the ranking points, it is better to just keep going and make the best of it and see how you get on, others will spin off etc and others in a battle will slow each other down etc.

I get very frustrated when I get hit etc but they would have seen you stop so they keep the place (I posted just now about someone I hit in this race by accident) I just keep going and treat it as a learning run on the track to try and improve myself in real race conditions.

🫂

 

[MIE1992]

Q14/P12. Idk how I was a whole lap behind P1 though. I didn’t see a way that I could’ve only pitted once versus twice. Could’ve simply been a tough lobby because I still got to nab 74 points for this round!

 

[Mumster]

GT2 is dirty. Just got 4th 2nd and 3rd ran off the track multiple times and rear ended me. B rated races are so miserable people are so lame.

 

[tankuroded]

Nations standings and cutline as of round 3:

EDIT: Romanization correction: ゆきゅそ should be Yukyuso.

 

[Famine]

Blaze it.

B is dirty. Just got 4th 2nd and 3rd ran off the track multiple times and rear ended me. B is so miserable people are so lame.

This isn't the Daily Races thread.

GT7 Daily Race Discussion

With the new game coming out today, which Daily Races will you do first? What will they be? What would you like to see done with the dailies in GT7? I can’t wait to see how PP’s shake up the Gr system, and the tuning. Happy GT7 day everyone!! 🍻

www.gtplanet.net

 

[Moose78]

I ran the first GT1 slot in North America (9PM EDT). Driving the Ferrari from door #4 with 159 points up for grabs.

Qualifying was a surprise. Not that I put in an especially great time -- only 1:46.979 -- but that it put in Q8. I'd really expected to be much further back.

The Ferrari is great off the line. I'd jumped ahead to P5 by the time we reached T1, but I took the outside line and let a few cars back through.

I had decided to try a 1-stop and I knew I was going to need let the 2-stoppers by as I dialed back to tire-saving pace. It took a couple laps, but eventually I was able to settle in and run my race, somewhere around P12.

Cars started pitting around lap 7 and I picked up spots as they did. When I finally went into the pits on lap 15, I was in P5 with a 20-second gap to the leader.

I kept plugging away at my tire-saving pace, letting the faster running 2-stoppers by as they caught up to me early in their stints and even managing an overtake as one of them struggled towards the end of their second stint.

I'd made it up to P6 at one point during the final 10 laps, but got overtaken by a pair of faster 2-stoppers, one of which was soon thereafter punted off the track by the other, leaving me in P7.

A couple other drivers attempted to overtake me, but despite me leaving them lots of room on the inside line to get by, they both got the corner wrong and went off the track, leaving my position safely intact.

In the end, it was a pretty leisurely drive to a P7 finish for 119 points and a small boost to my DR. Best result so far this season.

I enjoyed that race more than I expected to. The slow-and-steady nature of the 1-stop strategy took a lot of the stress out the race, and let me relax and enjoy it. Good times.

 

[Wilsonson]

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Blaze it.

This isn't the Daily Races thread.

GT7 Daily Race Discussion

With the new game coming out today, which Daily Races will you do first? What will they be? What would you like to see done with the dailies in GT7? I can’t wait to see how PP’s shake up the Gr system, and the tuning. Happy GT7 day everyone!! 🍻

www.gtplanet.net

He may have been talking about driver rating B lobbies rather than the daily race B.

 

[Famine]

He may have been talking about driver rating B lobbies rather than the daily race B.

In GTWS, lobbies with predominantly DR B drivers are called GT2.

 

[Mumster]

In GTWS, lobbies with predominantly DR B drivers are called GT2.

Yes I meant GT2

Sorry for the wrong terminology. I edited my post. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Zorz]

Anyone tried the F3500-A yet? That thing is crazy. So hard to drive!

I've managed to get down to a 1:34.8 for now in free practice but I feel like my consistency is non-existent.

Fully expecting Saturday to be unyielding carnage, especially with the grid start. 😵‍💫

 

[Moose78]

Anyone tried the F3500-A yet? That thing is crazy. So hard to drive!

Not enough to finish a lap. When I logged in for my morning session I realized I hadn't done a livery for the car yet and spent most of my time tinkering on that. I did get into Free Practice for a few minutes, though, and I have to agree, that car is insane there. I took a couple runs a lap but went off the track on both, so I gave up. I'm hoping once it is in race conditions with some fuel weight it will be a little easier to control, but I think you're right, there will be carnage.

 

[Yard_Sale]

Not doing any sport mode races outside of GTWS has really started to hinder me in these mid-range A+ lobbies. Despite Autopolis being one of my favorite tracks, I’m not very good at it, and my 1:55.3 FP time that predictably translated to a 1:55.8 qually time proves that.

Q’d 13th on the grid (and my FP time would have only been good for 10th, so I wasn’t too bummed). False started the flag drop but by the second corner, I still found myself in 13th after a few guys got punted in T1. 2-stopped my way to a lucky 8th. Took 212 points and ran, as I saw a DR loss in my future if I tried again.

Lap 2, T1 around the outside move

Was able to duplicate the same move later in the lap, which was probably my only two fun overtakes the entire race

 

[MIE1992]

Whoa! Even though I missed that first round at Road Atlanta and only placed 12th yesterday at Autopolis, I'm actually now ranked 3rd among my state's GT2 drivers! Seems like being the best in CT for GT2 could indeed be very doable for me. I'm not even 50 points off from the leader, and only a single point off from second!

 

[stpatty]

utter toilet

I was #16 in a 195 point lobby which is about 10 points higher than usual. But that's not even an excuse. I qualified 16th, 2.4 seconds off pole and ended up averaging that over the race, judging by how far off the win I was. Finished 13th. One guy quit, one spun out and one was a Ferrari who got punted to another dimension at the hairpin and still ended up 2 seconds behind me. I finished about 30 seconds slower than @tmtk, for reference.

Considering how bad I was (I'll not even tell you what the tyres were like, but I did 9/10/11 laps and I shouldn't have pitted on lap 9) I clearly just fundamentally don't understand how to conserve tyres, or drive an MR car. I didn't do that much practice but I thought I was being as kind as I could to the tyres - not accelerating aggressively while still turning, being as smooth as possible. Instead I'm still slower than the guys at the front doing a 1 stop. Madness. At least I looked good

 

[Famine]

I finished about 30 seconds slower than @tmtk, for reference.

I was 25s slower and thought I had a good one...

Edit: Actually, to be fair, had I not been repeatedly rear-ended on the first stint I'd have been at least 12s up on that. Running clean-enough air the second stint I had every lap in the 1:49s bar the last two, and an accidental 1:47 early on.

 

[tmtk]

Damn, I steer with d-pad and X/Square for gas/brake, so I can't do any part throttle through corners (or part brake for that matter), I coast a bit and when I feel it's safe I slam the gas 100%.
My tires are screeching on EVERY corner, so I would expect to be at the very bottom of tire saving leaderboard.

Also did 9-10-11 strategy and on lap 8 and 9 the right corners were a bit problematic pushing me wide off the line, later when the fuel load eased the 11th lap of third stint wasn't that bad as lap 9 of the first one.

 

[stpatty]

Damn, I steer with d-pad and X/Square for gas/brake, so I can't do any part throttle through corners (or part brake for that matter), I coast a bit and when I feel it's safe I slam the gas 100%.
My tires are screeching on EVERY corner, so I would expect to be at the very bottom of tire saving leaderboard.

Also did 9-10-11 strategy and on lap 8 and 9 the right corners were a bit problematic pushing me wide off the line, later when the fuel load eased the 11th lap of third stint wasn't that bad as lap 9 of the first one.

First stint I had a bit left on the front left. Second stint I had nothing. Last stint I had about 1 pixel. I'm on a wheel so clearly I'm doing something very wrong.