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Tazzy-91
Sorry to be a pain but does anyone know if suzuka is Gr3 or Gr4 this week coming??
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Idk, my guess is that they will use Gr. 4 cars since they used the Gr. 3 cars this week for the B and C slots. But, I could be wrong. We will not know until tomorrow morning.

Hey Glen, did you go to your party yet?
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The review that nobody asked for.

Glens opinion on the physics...

8.5/10

Where to start?

I think they took us all a bit by surprise. Dynamically the cars felt a lot different and in odd ways, more rear grip, more weight transfer and more focus than ever on braking.

They also coupled this with chassis geometry changes again making the cars feel like they had more mass.

Everyone's journey and mileage varies on these things and I think the road cars feel better for the changes in grip/traction and body inertia.

The race cars are a bit hit and miss in that I'd expect GR3/4 cars to have much firmer rides. I have a theory that the body movement was part of improving a VR players sense of lateral and dive G forces.

Overall I don't think the physics are better or worse just a shake up of the characteristics in car handling they had.

From a racing perspective slides are much easier to catch but the flip side is you have to do it much quicker than before. Catching slides with power is a lot harder now.

Anyway this is my hung over 2p thoughts

Edit: @Chris30 I did thank you it was a great celebration for my mother in law and I had way to much to drink 😝
 
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Sometimes I feel like I need some alcohol to get my stress away from some of these intense races at Trial Mountain. I don't want to overdo it and do too many of them, I am at a high-C so I'm trying to protect my rank from dropping down. I agree Glen, the rides do feel firmer and more stable IMO. Idk about the rest of you, but I think PD and their staff upped their game on this.

I haven't even messed with Bathhurst this week, I'm not really a fan of the whole course. So, I'm skipping the races there.
 
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newmedia_dev
The review that nobody asked for.

Glens opinion on the physics...

8.5/10

Where to start?

I think they took us all a bit by surprise. Dynamically the cars felt a lot different and in odd ways, more rear grip, more weight transfer and more focus than ever on braking.

They also coupled this with chassis geometry changes again making the cars feel like they had more mass.

Everyone's journey and mileage varies on these things and I think the road cars feel better for the changes in grip/traction and body inertia.

The race cars are a bit hit and miss in that I'd expect GR3/4 cars to have much firmer rides. I have a theory that the body movement was part of improving a VR players sense of lateral and dive G forces.

Overall I don't think the physics are better or worse just a shake up of the characteristics in car handling they had.

From a racing perspective slides are much easier to catch but the flip side is you have to do it much quicker than before. Catching slides with power is a lot harder now.

Anyway this is my hung over 2p thoughts

Edit: @Chris30 I did thank you it was a great celebration for my mother in law and I had way to much to drink 😝
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I'm really enjoying the new physics but of course I changed everything else about my racing at the same time with the switch to VR. You may be onto something with improving it for VR players. I don't know what it was like before the update but in VR it just feels so natural now; its completely intuitive. We leads to the changes in braking and handling. No longer can you barrel into a corner and expect to turn. This now rewards easy off, letting cars balance settle and then turning in. I'm also finding with certain cars that you get big rewards for turning in with around 5-10% braking as well. Now in 2D I find that hard to do as flatscreen now feels unnatural to me, but in VR again it feels intuitive to allow the car to settle like that as you can see it in the body movements and it seems to replicate real life.

Overall as I got used to it I'm finding the update to be positive. Now if only they had added in-race splits to the VR HUD.
 
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GOTMAXPOWER
As ever Bathurst was good fun, the Lambo is a lovely little car since the update. Most of this weeks video is crashes, I got to see and participate in many of them 😃

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Reversing down to Forest's Elbow is a classic!
 
GOTMAXPOWER
As ever Bathurst was good fun, the Lambo is a lovely little car since the update. Most of this weeks video is crashes, I got to see and participate in many of them 😃

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Cool, I'm gonna watch your video tonight. However I'm not digging Bathhurst this week, sorry. That downhill section is too intense and I always mess up somewhere in that area. Maybe next time I'll take a shot at it.
 
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GOTMAXPOWER
As ever Bathurst was good fun, the Lambo is a lovely little car since the update. Most of this weeks video is crashes, I got to see and participate in many of them 😃

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Now we know why you are A+ year 3000 strat 🤣
 
TheNormsk
Reversing down to Forest's Elbow is a classic!
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There is no other option, the road is too narrow to do a 3 point turn! 😅

Chris30
Cool, I'm gonna watch your video tonight. However I'm not digging Bathhurst this week, sorry. That downhill section is too intense and I always mess up somewhere in that area. Maybe next time I'll take a shot at it.
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It's a love/hate kind of circuit. I always use ABS on default here since it's a lot more friendly than weak, otherwise the same principal as being caught up in a bank heist applies, "make no sudden movements and nobody will get hurt".
 
GOTMAXPOWER
There is no other option, the road is too narrow to do a 3 point turn! 😅
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GOTMAXPOWER
There is no other option, the road is too narrow to do a 3 point turn! 😅


It's a love/hate kind of circuit. I always use ABS on default here since it's a lot more friendly than weak, otherwise the same principal as being caught up in a bank heist applies, "make no sudden movements and nobody will get hurt".
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Yeah the bank heist thing is a good analogy. I guess any races I do there I'll have to keep my distance especially near the downhill part. Getting penalties and hitting other drivers is far worse than just taking it slow and keeping away from the pack. I am gonna participate in the Eiger races next week and get a feel of the track while racing with online friends/competitors.

@TheNormsk lol, I know the feeling there, being stuck after making the turn.

Idk about Suzuka this week, we'll see how I feel. Sardegna-Windmills will be a new twist, hopefully those races will be exciting.
 
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Rounding the week out, hang over curry in coming and a manu cup week that I spent more time practicing on I'm happy where I landed. I love racing at TM and I'm also really comfortable with it which helps.

I think I managed a respectable showing with @Nebuc72 in another random car not beating me by the margins he normally does.

Overall a nice week, smiles and cries as always but that's racing.

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I said this, brake in a straight line!

 
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I managed to help myself to 5 wins today, admittedly, it followed what can only be described as pinball GT7!!! had some horrendously poor lobbies and ended up slugging it out in C 😳, but wins are wins.

Glad to see the back of trial mountain, maybe next time with gr4 and reverse 👍
 
My alter ego is having a far better day than I am 😅😅😅 Couple more wins in the bag and that includes 1 at TM which I am notoriously bad at. Father_Dougal80 's stats are looking very healthy so far 👌

I finally switched to the 911 and immediately knocked over a second from my best Mustang QT at Mt Panorama.Still only a 2:03.7 but still a big difference. The tip for the brake balance @newmedia_dev made a massive difference to the porsche, it's a different beast altogether now. Thanks 👍 Funnily enough I watched Digits latest video earlier on and he was running exactly the same
 

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Tazzy-91
My alter ego is having a far better day than I am 😅😅😅 Couple more wins in the bag and that includes 1 at TM which I am notoriously bad at. Father_Dougal80 's stats are looking very healthy so far 👌
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Awesome news about your wins, I'm still happy about mine I got Tuesday. I worked hard to earn it too, :)
 
Maybe if any of you routinely do this, you can explain it to me. I don't understand.

I was at race B, this morning, where I am not very good. :indiff:
A guy passed me, who I knew was faster.
I think he fell behind me because he was involved in a crash. Anyhow, I was fine with just letting him go by.
Then, as we're approaching a hard braking zone after a long straight, he pulls right in front of me. :scared: I see it all the time.
Of course I don't want to risk running into him, so I go low and end up passing him.
Why not just stay on the inside and brake a bit earlier, forcing me to take the long way around?
 
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I started the week at DR E. I aim to finish the week at DR B. The only reason I’m not there yet is my own shoddy driving 🤦‍♂️

I’m either finishing top 3 or I crash myself out (usually in the first esses of TM). Then it becomes a race from the back….

I’ve got to learn to stay on track :D
 
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Mission accomplished. My goal was to get from DR E to DR B in one week. Actually I didn't start the week that way but as I started to see results in the VR and finding cars I liked, I gained a new love for Trial Mountain and decided to see if I could get to B. Honestly, before the VR I preferred the reverse version of the track but with the newly found depth perception and perhaps the physics change, I found all the twists and turns seemed much more reasonable. Still, I had a few ups and down (ahem five) in the week. As a result it took 21 races to get there including 3 DR E races where the DR does not count (I did two DR E last week for the requisite initial 5).

The last race was a mix of B and C racers and I was in 7th to start. I was thinking that might be trouble but as I am finding that as I can race to my QT pace now, it actually wasn't that bad progressing up the board to finish 3rd. I think a lot of these racers fall into my old m.o. which was QT by chasing a ghost and then not being able to drive to that in race. That's my advantage now, but now I am in B I'll have to come to terms with starting more mid pack if I'm not going to chase that rabbit.

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I'm done for the week. That was a lot of racing. The VR is still so cool I want to do more but I really should do real things in reality for what is left of the weekend. :lol:
 
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I don't think there will be that many participants in Eiger because it's narrow and some downhill sections are real tricky. At least we have a real rally car to race at Sardegna this week.
We are dealing with Group 3 cars again. Yippee! (For Suzuka)

So what rides are you guys going to use? I'm breaking out the Porsche!
 
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Chris30
I don't think there will be that many participants in Eiger because it's narrow and some downhill sections are real tricky. At least we have a real rally car to race at Sardegna this week.
We are dealing with Group 3 cars again. Yippee!
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I'm loving driving at Eiger so far, had a grandstand view of @GOTMAXPOWER v's @Tidgney this morning as they went past on the way to a 1-2
 
Which car you need to use at daily race C? I cannot see it properly on my screen on the GTSH page. It looks like a formula / open wheel car?

Took some time to get used to the new physics. Did a lot of the licenses. Didn't actually unlock the master licenses before due to my utter failure of coping with the dirt physics. Since the update I can drive slightly better on dirt. So had some fun with the master licenses. Almost done with that.

Maybe now back to some sport mode racing this week. Don't know if I own the car for daily race C. Let's see tonight if I maybe have some time to try things out.
 
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@MetalApe that's great. Maybe I should get brave and try it. After all it's only 7 laps. I'll just have to be careful with my speed through Sectors 2 and 3.
 
Goanaut
Which car you need to use at daily race C? I cannot see it properly on my screen on the GTSH page. It looks like a formula / open wheel car?
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It's the Honda RA272, the old 60's F1 car.
Chris30
@MetalApe that's great. Maybe I should get brave and try it. After all it's only 7 laps. I'll just have to be careful with my speed through Sectors 2 and 3.
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Give it a go, I was worried I was too slow through the hairpins, but then you find everyone else is just as slow. Although maybe I'm loving it more than others because it's a great combo for playing in VR.
 
MetalApe
I'm loving driving at Eiger so far, had a grandstand view of @GOTMAXPOWER v's @Tidgney this morning as they went past on the way to a 1-2
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That race looks so good visually with the old cars on the old style road, there were some nice classic liveries on the grid too. It would be nice if it was a little longer though.
 
I changed my mind, I'm going for it. Plus there is a 600% increase in rewards, so big amounts of money up for grabs here. I'm doing well so far.
 
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