GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[Voodoovaj]

I was so far off I didn't even bother, lol. No matter what I did I was just in the freakin' way.🤣

Tried running more laps and baked-in some tips and guidance from here but made zero progress. Actually, zero would've been preferred. Once the frustration set-in the laps were just getting longer and longer. Called it and didn't look back.👍

Hoping this is a better week...

Well, I have to say, the search for pace was not straight-forward. I found that the input my PS5 was using was not as free of delay as I had first believed, and everything was less optimized compared to my PS4. I turned off all the TV effects (all image improvement features) that could cause a delay between the PS5 output and what I was seeing on screen. I went so far as to turn off the HDR (more so because I didn't like the image quality, which I found to be too dark).

Once everything was optimized for frame rate, as I have it with my PS4, I managed to get my times down. Still, there is some differences in the physics. it might not make a big difference over a lap, it does over the course of a race. I can feel it when I play.

Hopefully the next update makes the two versions more equal.

 

[mellofello9]

Managed two wins so far on the Nurb, my first two on this track as well, the Mazda isn't a bad wagon. Thought I was a bit harsh with the Lexus at the end but the replay made it look fairly clean, what'd you reckon?

Love it...clean race with a great ending, will watch again! Nice drivin'.👍

The Mazda is a lot of fun to drive. I think we had the tuned road cars at RA (could be wrong) and that thing dominated there. Haven't tried it at the Nurburgring yet, might have to fix that.

EDIT
@Voodoovaj had no idea there was such a disparity between the two platforms. Keeping in line with my own age, my PlayStation is an antique. Hoping to move to a PS5 Pro in the new year so thanks for sharing...well, as long as I don't get Jelly of the Month'd this year.😁

 

[newmedia_dev]

First race of the day, and I'll be honest here my QT put me on pole and P2 had a QT time 1.2s slower than mine.

 

[Barney Da Dog]

Oh that is annoying as my piloting skills are pretty rusty for the GR2 stuff so I've just been focusing on QT for B with the aim of grinding out a few results to get back in to A again. Doh!

May have to switch tact and focus on C!

Your QT would have you top half of the grid on B I'm sure 👍 I'm not great around Trial Mountain so never do well there - I like the track, but never gain any ground in races.

Edit!! @newmedia_dev I knew you'd be top half of the grid!

Edit 2!!
I did a couple more C races and while they weren't bad (2nd and 3rd) I was a long way off the leaders. I then noticed during the next race I wasn't quite getting 100% throttle - had to push hard on the pedal to get it. Went to look at the calibration, and sure enough I was only getting 98% throttle at normal pressure - weird!
Re-calibrated and won the next race (thanks to the leader crashing though) but I was now entering 130R at 164mph, where it had been 160mph previously.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Your QT would have you top half of the grid on B I'm sure 👍 I'm not great around Trial Mountain so never do well there - I like the track, but never gain any ground in races.

Edit!! @newmedia_dev I knew you'd be top half of the grid!

There is a yin and a yang to all this though....

I'm in heavily mixed lobbies now with aliens and try hards....

In 2 days time this while all stabilise but there is a reason god damn it Glen that you don't race on Mondays, just QT!

 

[sturk0167]

Race B is one of those weird ones, where the people who line up in front of me are often not very good at racing me.
Q time heroes, who have lousy decision making when another car fills up their rear-view mirror.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Race B is one of those weird ones, where the people who line up in front of me are often not very good at racing me.
Q time heroes, who have lousy decision making when another car fills up their rear-view mirror.

Absolutely, and on the flip side I qualify a lot better than a lot of people and have a full S rating and get pummelled in to a wall by 2 slow QT guys with B SR

It's Monday though and TM brings out the sweaty ones early

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Not sure if I'll participate in this week's dailies beyond putting down some QTs.

Race A: NSX Type R - 7:28.193 Two massive accidents worth at least 20 seconds.

Race B: NSX Gr.3 - 1:53.655 First half is giving me fits

Race C: NSX Concept-GT - 1:51.910 Somehow more grip than I expect and less grip than I need 😅

 

[jrbabbitt]

First race of the day, and I'll be honest here my QT put me on pole and P2 had a QT time 1.2s slower than mine.

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My win i posted earlier was same with the QT that put me on pole and then I just ran away....still somewhat surprised that I got a clean race! I have a habit of sliding off a bit that would invalidate the CRB...

 

[newmedia_dev]

My win i posted earlier was same with the QT that put me on pole and then I just ran away....

What time do you have?

 

[jrbabbitt]

What time do you have?

My QT was 7:20.something in the '02 NSX

 

[Rossell2]

One very productive evening later consisting of 4 wins and a 3rd place, it's only fair the last race was a crap fest. Three circuit excursions, one 360, and a very angry Belgian:

 

[skandiamannen]

1.50.6 in the 911 on the Mountain. Again the BB dance has started, -5 to begin with, now at 0, but trying to get +2 to work. +5 is instant death. Will see if I can get to +3 before the week is over. I have an optimum at 50.3, but if I can get the +5 to work, 49.x should not be impossible.

Edit - on the alt account

 

[afc5150]

My SR took an absolute pounding at the SSRX GTWS race on the weekend because apparently bump drafting isn't a thing. I dropped from full S to low A in just one race!

Soo off to daily race A and a couple of recovery races at Fuji to find myself even further down to mid B-SR. Yikes!

Now we have my beloved Nurburgring in daily A, no DR at stake. Hope this week goes well.

I did 2 races with no qualy around 5 am this morning going with a Q11 to P5 and a Q8 to P2. So far so good and my SR is back to low A, still work to do.

I just laid down a qualy time of 7:03:2xx in the LFA and we'll see what Monday evening prime time brings.

Edit - 5:40 pm race, pole by 6 seconds over 7 qualifiers. Won by 4 seconds. SR-mid A.

Edit 2 - 6 pm race Q2 to P1 because the guy ahead served a half second penalty. I'll take it. SR is now almost full A.

 

[Mc_Yavel]

Not a bad start of rhe week. Manage to be on podium racing from the :Ack on Race A and C. Lots of people don't have a time yet on Race A so half the grid have no time.

Almost got a win on The Nord but some driver don't yield easily.

 

[Bonetti]

Trial Mountain can be a pain to drive side by side without being thrown in a wall. Today I had a good fight driving this Big Poppa guy, almost a whole lap we were side by side with one another. Always a nice feeling when a fight like this ends without someone getting screwed (he beats me in the end).

 

[kjeldsen]

One of my favorite combinations is back and when you race with someone as clean as this dude it becomes magic..

 

[Goanaut]

I only have a grand total of 200 sport mode races, but this week is the first time I experience this 'meh' feeling often expressed in this thread about track and car combo's that keep coming back. Generally I like the thrill of DR being at stake so I skip race A mostly. The other two races we have seen before. Maybe if my QT is quite okay I will give race B a go. Else I will wait what next week's got in store.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

7th to 2nd in one corner 😅

I hid the names to save a couple of friends the embarrassment!

 

[MIE1992]

Maybe it’s just what the course was for last week’s Race B, but I think I’ll just stick to improving my DR through various championship rounds instead of daily races. Even if I was able to get into DR A, I really prefer the wider availability of entry times for the championship rounds as well.

On that note, I’m very much looking forward to trying Race A this week!

 

[Voodoovaj]

Love it...clean race with a great ending, will watch again! Nice drivin'.👍

The Mazda is a lot of fun to drive. I think we had the tuned road cars at RA (could be wrong) and that thing dominated there. Haven't tried it at the Nurburgring yet, might have to fix that.

EDIT
@Voodoovaj had no idea there was such a disparity between the two platforms. Keeping in line with my own age, my PlayStation is an antique. Hoping to move to a PS5 Pro in the new year so thanks for sharing...well, as long as I don't get Jelly of the Month'd this year.😁

Oh man, I feel bad for those stuck with the PS5 version. Especially this week with the Nurb Race A. ON PS5, you can't even breath on the curbing or the car ends up bounding like and east LA Impala

 

[afc5150]

Oh man, I feel bad for those stuck with the PS5 version. Especially this week with the Nurb Race A. ON PS5, you can't even breath on the curbing or the car ends up bounding like and east LA Impala

That's weird. I pound those curbs like it's my job and it feels no different than it has in years at this track.

 

[Rossell2]

When you get hit off track early on by the first place car and then after a failed block by said car on the straight you then punt them off in a fit of red mist only to watch the replay and find the first hit might have been an accident 😕

 

[mellofello9]

That's weird. I pound those curbs like it's my job and it feels no different than it has in years at this track.

I've found it depends on the car/kerb. On the PS4 it seems kerbs are WAY more active than they used to be. It was noticeable when they changed the physics a couple releases ago but it wasn't invasive. Not the case now.

IMHO, it's evolved into a combo of improved/updated kerb physics slamming into whatever weird bouncy-bug they got going on with the suspension settings. Tolerable in road cars but gets progressively worse as you go up the car classes, with Gr.1 and 2 being the pinnacle of 'wtf'-y behavior. Not sure where the SF's fall in this (don't drive those much) so could be wrong on the 'pinnacle' bit.😁

That's just what I've noticed/experienced of late.👍

 

[newmedia_dev]

When you go from full SR and 3 CRB in a row get rammed, slightly show the rammer you are holding your line.

Lose 3/4 of your SR bar and 5 second penalty. I'll hold my hands up and say I could have given him more room but this was not racing ending contact more "I'm on the apex and leaving less room than I could have"

Yet another race guy spins, doesn't ghost hit him by accident "clean race bonus" this system is bloody awful especially if you play this game a load

 

[Chevy Heavy]

Well, I have to say, the search for pace was not straight-forward. I found that the input my PS5 was using was not as free of delay as I had first believed, and everything was less optimized compared to my PS4. I turned off all the TV effects (all image improvement features) that could cause a delay between the PS5 output and what I was seeing on screen. I went so far as to turn off the HDR (more so because I didn't like the image quality, which I found to be too dark).

Once everything was optimized for frame rate, as I have it with my PS4, I managed to get my times down. Still, there is some differences in the physics. it might not make a big difference over a lap, it does over the course of a race. I can feel it when I play.

Hopefully the next update makes the two versions more equal.

This sounds like it could be a tv issue more than a PS5. All 4k HDR tv's aren't created equal. Is your PS5 plugged into a 2.1 HDMI port? What is the unput lag time of your tv? Does your tv have a Game Mode? If you're having to turn off a bunch of features to get the game to run better, it may be time to upgrade your tv. Read more about it here https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/ps5 . If this isn't the problem than I would say it's just a matter of adapting. But I can't see a case of the PS5 inducing more input lag than a PS4.

 

[Rossell2]

Very crashy evening this evening.

Race 1 started on pole, and after getting knocked off early on got back into a four way fight at the end and got second back but very ill tempered in places.

Race 2 was the one mentioned earlier. Feel quite guilty about that race, took the win, but less said the better.

Race 3 was determined to do a much better job so decided to take the Porsche which I had no experience in whatsoever. Had a race long fight against a Lexus eventually taking the win which was a nice tonic.

Race 4 I decided to try the Lexus. I really want to win in this car but this race isn't the one, it just does not handle to my tastes. Race long battle with a Mazda eventually stuffing it at the end and taking the Mazda out on accident. From playback he wasn't exactly clean either but gave me some in the comments.

Race 5 went back to the Porsche. Had a lovely race long battle with a Jaguar, taking third.

 

[EmSixTeen]

Do you need to have a tune for the Ring race? I see that it’s not BoP and I really cba with figuring out what car and tuning it, but maybe I’m misunderstanding.

I don’t know how the A/B/C race system works in these Daily Races though, I’ve only done 9 or 10 races. Reading in here it looks like A is never for DR or something?

 

[skandiamannen]

Advise please: I'm still at 1.50.6 in the mountain, but great sector 1 and 2: 0.29.7 and 1.08.7. Comparing with ghosts it seems I loose it all in S3, and more specifically the last two turns. Also in races I notice that I'm always caught up on the start/finish straight.

I'm in the 911 - any advise? How are you managing last two turns? Brake marks, turn in marks, BB adjustments... anything you would be willing to share? What's the secret I don't know?

 

[mellofello9]

Do you need to have a tune for the Ring race? I see that it’s not BoP and I really cba with figuring out what car and tuning it, but maybe I’m misunderstanding.

I don’t know how the A/B/C race system works in these Daily Races though, I’ve only done 9 or 10 races. Reading in here it looks like A is never for DR or something?

You do not need to do the tuning for race A, it's already done for you. Your only car options are pre-tuned road cars. Most of them are pretty closely matched with my go-to being the LFA or the 911. None of them truly suck, though.

Dr is off this week for race A, again, and it looks like that might be a permanent feature. Races B and C are both Dr/Sr on with no tuning. Both are BoP races with brake balance/TCS being the only things that can be changed. Race B will typically be the 'sprint' for the week with race C being the longer event that includes a pit stop. Sometimes they throw tuning in the mix but it's been a while. If they DO offer tuning as an option, most folks in here share what they are using for set-ups so it's a great place to start.👍



EDIT
@skandiamannen something feels off this week at the mountain. Can't put my finger on it but the cars feel sketchy/unstable. Didn't check the track temp but I've been struggling as well. Not much help, sorry, just a bit of co-misery on offer.

Beyond that, I usually start with what @Tidgney recommends and then season to taste, if you will. For the last left, he drops anchor just before the second blank barrier wall on the left. Watch his guide a page or so ago, you'll see what I mean.