GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[brockie]

Great night of racing last night, super clean respectful driving and great side by side action.

Felt like British touring cars!

I’m not so great at RBR and certainly have no pace in a gr3 here but the gr4 works well

Now for some Xmas shopping today 😁

 

[pcmfocus]

Morning session over 2 races third an 6th that last 1 was a long battle ends up au rouge in my favor

 

[newmedia_dev]

This is mildly annoying....

 

[Voodoovaj]

I finally got myself back to A/S

I skipped the fuel during my stop, since that the radar said heavy rain for the bulk of the race. Given that the Ferrari is really good at fuel economy, I figured I could make it work. I was panicked for a bit because one guy was right on my tail, and made it past me nearing the end of the race. But, he made a stop with 4 laps left, and I cruised home with an 11 second lead!!

 

[newmedia_dev]

because one gay was right on my tail

Might wanna edit that 😝

Great work mate!!!

 

[Voodoovaj]

Might wanna edit that 😝

Great work mate!!!

lol, umm, ya sorry about that. Edited

 

[Charmantha]

Congrats on the P5 finish...I'll take those all day long.

As for the oil, this is always a fun conversation. There are folks in both camps (yes it does/no it doesn't) so the best advice, IMHO, is to change the oil and take it out of the equation. 👍



EDIT
Wash the car while you're there, too... 😁

Don't forget the sticker, which says-this sticker adds +10 bhp-
Knowing gran turismo since being a child, i am sure the oil change "still" improves performance.
In one GT edición, when you bought a new car and went to the workshop for an oil change, without the car ever seeing tarmac, it gained something like 10-20bhp.

I raced B and C.
I would have enjoyed race C more. But in B lobby i am not competitive in spa. First race, lap 1 because of giving way to a faster one, i touched 1mm of curb, spin onto grass and downhill. Chasing the field for 19 laps. Worst - whenever i came close to someone, they quit the game 😢
Race B - 1,38.001
WRX, not a good time either, i dropped to DR C, but i kept my sR S all the time.
AND, even though I'm not fast on both tracks, my second Spa race looked awesome in rain, the puddles, the spraywater from the tyres, reflections in puddles. This was so cool 👌. And race B, yeah, it is a given, that it's a rough race, but it's definitely not a meta race, my last 5 races, had maybe 4 evos, the field completely mixed, i like that. Oh, and i got into a unfortunate line on the last two right handers, needed to break a bit before last corner, a lancer crashes into my back, i got immediately a3sec. Penalty, i swear on my little doggy, he was also upset about it.

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Thought about doing Race B. Decided to improve my driving in wet weather conditions with Race C instead. The massive SR boost I got yesterday helped seal the deal. Improved my QT in the NSX Gr.3 by a fair amount, with a 2:18.493.

Race 1: Started P1 (15th Pole). Built a small gap when it started to drizzle on Lap 6. Most cars went into the pits immediately. I pit at the end of the lap, but it was slicker than I thought, and I bottled my pit entry, collecting a 3.0 second penalty. Serving the penalty braked me into the barrier. It was all downhill from there. The weather map didn't look bad, but Intermediates might have been the wrong choice of tire, as I struggled for grip and kept losing positions. I stuck it out, but the track stayed pretty wet (2/3 Moist Meter) until around Lap 18. Finished a lonely P5, 50.334 seconds behind the eventual race winner. Ego took a hit, but I gained a bit of DR, my SR got boosted to full, and I collected Cr.688,700.

Race 2: Started P7. Dry race. Two massive solo spins on Lap 1 and 4 at Stavelot and Campus, respectively, put me in last place for the majority of the race. People quitting left me with a lot of clean air to shut up and drive. Pit at the end of Lap 10, and had decent pace. Caught up with the mid pack towards the end, and passed one of them serving a penalty. Finished P10. Slight ding to my DR, but no SR hit, and pocketed Cr. 515,500.

Race 3: Started P5. Another dry race. Lots of hard - but fair - jockeying for positions early on. Was doing well until Lap 14, when I had a brain fart off at Pouhon. Spent the rest of the race trying to make up ground and put some distance between me and a BMW. Finished P8. Slight bump to my DR, no hit to my SR, and Cr.556,500

Rough, but fun day. I expected to do better in the two dry races, but got in my own way. No worries. And though I don't really need it, I'm not going to turn away Cr.1,760,700.

 

[stpatty]

I've been disconnected or done something stupid at Spa more often than I finished a race this week, so I had a go at Austria instead. A race that's basically a one make, in a car that's a tank, on a track with huge braking zones after long straights. Lovely. Hopefully something better is on offer next week.

 

[Chris30]

I've been disconnected or done something stupid at Spa more often than I finished a race this week, so I had a go at Austria instead. A race that's basically a one make, in a car that's a tank, on a track with huge braking zones after long straights. Lovely. Hopefully something better is on offer next week.

Those disconnections are always annoying, especially if you're performing well in a daily race. I'm skipping Spa this time, too long of a track and some corners are very precise and tricky to handle.

 

[mellofello9]

I've been disconnected or done something stupid at Spa more often than I finished a race this week, so I had a go at Austria instead. A race that's basically a one make, in a car that's a tank, on a track with huge braking zones after long straights. Lovely. Hopefully something better is on offer next week.

Sorry, this sucks in every regard. Have you checked your side of things for the disconnections? @Famine compiled some great information here around all the 👍 and 👎 for maintaining a stable connection for races.

Good luck!

 

[Nebuc72]

Those disconnections are always annoying, especially if you're performing well in a daily race. I'm skipping Spa this time, too long of a track and some corners are very precise and tricky to handle.

You literally don't have a PlayStation Chris, I think that's a more significant blocker to doing the Spa race!

 

[Chris30]

You literally don't have a PlayStation Chris, I think that's a more significant blocker to doing the Spa race!

It got delayed and it won't be delivered until Monday afternoon, the Spa races will disappear by then, so again I'm stuck. (the ps5 Slim Console). It was expensive too including the 2-year warranty.

 

[Goanaut]

Only had time to do 3 RBR races this week. I was right to stop racing last week just before reaching DR A. I was now in my normal DR B habitat, starting and finishing midpack. If I got DR A lobbies the racing would've been lonely at the back.

In several cases I could overtake people on the start/finish straight because they were battling side by side through the last corner and lost speed because of it.

I was also the victim of this once. Someone dived down the inside at the penultimate corner. We were door to door into the final corner with me on the outside. Instead of turning right the other car just continued straight into the runoff area.. I just drove on because I deemed it poor judgement to try an overtake in that section. But had terrible exit speed because and got overtaken by others also.

On the upside, I experienced almost no hopeless divebombing into turn 2 / 3.

 

[stpatty]

Those disconnections are always annoying, especially if you're performing well in a daily race. I'm skipping Spa this time, too long of a track and some corners are very precise and tricky to handle.

I think most of them were on my end, I'd been having some connection problems outside of that over the past few days. Still annoying.

 

[Moose78]

I've been running Race C this week. I've done 10 races so far. Seven dry. Three with rain.

I find myself hoping for rain at the start of every race. My dry track pace is awful -- especially when I'm in mixed A+/A lobbies (I'm low A/S), which many of the dry ones ended up being. I start near the back, lose places to the drivers who haven't posted a qualifying time, then gain some back as drivers ahead drop out of the race.

I only really have any competitive pace when the track is wet. Did a Q12 to P4 in one, and P8 to P3 in another. The other one was marred by some dry track incidents that I couldn't overcome, despite making gains on the leaders.

I'm slowly bleeding DR, but collecting lots of credits, so I guess it all works out. Good times.

 

[Voodoovaj]

I think the rain/rain tires/tires are a little broken. Just my opinion, but I just finished a race where I stopped 4 times and still ended up on the wrong tires.

Like everyone I start on RMs. I see that some light rain is coming according to the weather radar

Issue 1 - Apparently, the lightest colour on the radar can mean anything from "too dry for IM's" all the way to "too wet for IMs", which is kind of useless. I have never seen more than 3 colours on the radar (the three lowest levels), but I have driven in monsoon conditions, so I wonder if they haven't messed this up. A little more information would be useful. Let's face it, in real life, you have a crew helping you decide.

Stop 1 - End of lap 6, I change from RM to W because the rain is starting to fall and as noted above, I find the radar to be a complete liar. in the past week, once the rain begins, it tends to get heavier, and IT DOES, but wrong choice none the less. The Ws were degrading FAST and they were obviously slower than the IMs.

Stop 2 - End of lap 8 - Ws were absolutely destroyed by the lack of water so I stop for IMs. The weather radar colour has not changed.

Stop 3 - End of lap 13 - Those IMs are completely destroyed by the lack of water, but the radar still says it's wet, and it is still raining a little. I can't make it to the end of this set, so I get new IMs.

Stop 4 - End of lap 18 - The IMs were completely destroyed by the lack of water. Weather radar says there's rain, buy the sky is clearing and, as mentioned, my tires are a disaster. There was 2 laps to go and a drying track so I went with what seemed like the logical choice, full RM

WRONG

It was like driving with RM in full wet conditions and I couldn't navigate any corners. So I retired. I wasn't going to make it around for yet another change.

This entire time, the radar only went from "clear" to light rain. The sky seems like a better indicator of weather than the radar, which is fine...realistic. The thing is, those inters should last just fine if you cool them off in the deeper water. If the track is too dry for inters, but too wet for RM, what they heck choice are we supposed to make?

I wasn't the only one caught out. There were yellow flags all over the place.

 

[newmedia_dev]

The better indicator than the radar is the track water depth meter.

Below the first line is Slicks between the 1st and 2nd line is IM and above the last line where it will go blue is W tires.

Surface water depths will fluctuate depending on puddles/standing water you hit.

Edit:

The radar is also delayed in updates where as the moisture meter updates in real time as to what's actually on the track.

 

[Voodoovaj]

The better indicator than the radar is the track water depth meter.

Below the first line is Slicks between the 1st and 2nd line is IM and above the last line where it will go blue is W tires.

Surface water depths will fluctuate depending on puddles/standing water you hit.

Edit:

The radar is also delayed in updates where as the moisture meter updates in real time as to what's actually on the track.

This is where they fall short. The weather radar SHOULD be tied to the water depth. 3 colours. 1 color for "dry enough for dry tires", 1 for "wet enough for inters", and a third for "wet enough for wets". I say this because the only use the radar has is an an advanced warning on what's to come, but if you don't know what's actually coming, then it serves little purpose.

 

[newmedia_dev]

This is where they fall short. The weather radar SHOULD be tied to the water depth. 3 colours. 1 color for "dry enough for dry tires", 1 for "wet enough for inters", and a third for "wet enough for wets". I say this because the only use the radar has is an an advanced warning on what's to come, but if you don't know what's actually coming, then it serves little purpose.

I think it's just mixed things, weather radar shows potential intensity/cloud. This is just historically what has happened as the cloud moves.

The depth gauge shows the exact conditions that you are driving on.

They do two separate jobs and you can only drive to what's actually on track. Anticipating rain is a strategy skill, couple that with the fact that the circuits are very large and that weather can fall only on part of the track even under heavy cloud cover.

As a rule of thumb drive to the depth gauge and watch how quickly it fills, there have been some races where it's raining but slicks were the right call but psychologically when we see that rain on our visors we start imagining the loss of grip.

 

[bone_tone]

It's been very different at Spa this week with the rain - sometimes, with the depth gauge showing just above the first line, the IMs have been fine, sometimes you've needed full wets! Neither the radar nor the depth gauge have been much use really.

Having said that, wet or dry I've finished last in every Spa race I've done this week!

I'm fed up with being put in a Gr4 car, when everybody else is in a Gr3 🤣

 

[newmedia_dev]

Having to repair my SR as Daily B is really sensitive to rear contact which dropped to A and then B on Friday night (not really sure why being honest as I either just brought it home or was leading/top 3 🤷‍♂️

But my god I wish I'd of done A sooner, I love this combo so so much and using it to repair my SR so moving to the back, apparently a lot of people are doing that or the A+ guys flexing a bit. But the quality of racing is superb and when the result doesn't matter you can just enjoy the race.

What a fun fun race!

 

[MIE1992]

Not sure if I'll have time to actually try out Race C - my sister and my niece were visiting this weekend, so I understandably thought that spending time with them was the better idea. Plus I met with a female friend yesterday before seeing Jim Jefferies with my dad, plus it was a somewhat busy workweek, too. Sure, I love the idea of longer races, and I like it when they have credit bonuses even more, but I just can't say that this was a particularly good week for me to try some Daily Races. (Though I have been doing quite a bit for the online time trials!)

Next week - Watkins Glen (full), Kyoto - Yamagiwa & the worst track in the game

More specifically:

Race A - Watkins Glen (Full), SH available, BoP is on but settings are available. (Maybe brake balance?)

Race B - Kyoto Yamagiwa, RH available, BoP on.

Race C - Nurburgring 24h, 2x fuel and 3x tires, RM and RS available, BoP on.

I will note that Race A and B only have fuel/tires on 1x. I can't say I'm not down for some road cars at the Glen, either.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

This week at Spa has been a mixed bag, the wet races are always phenomenal (although perhaps a bit too long, it seems they're pretty strung out with laps to go so everyone is driving around without anybody to race against). The dry races on the other hand are usually really dull and you don't know what you're going to get until you've already signed up for an hour, I haven't quit any races but the temptation has been there.

Still the fun moments in the rain made up for those dull dry races, here are my highlights from the week:

 

[Mc_Yavel]

Spa race looked awesome in rain, the puddles, the spraywater from the tyres, reflections in puddles. This was so cool

This! You might appreciate this couples of shots I did to give a rest to my wrists. 50 mins long races squeezing the controller hard to not die is a bit too much

I've been running Race C this week. I've done 10 races so far. Seven dry. Three with rain.

I find myself hoping for rain at the start of every race. My dry track pace is awful -- especially when I'm in mixed A+/A lobbies (I'm low A/S), which many of the dry ones ended up being. I start near the back, lose places to the drivers who haven't posted a qualifying time, then gain some back as drivers ahead drop out of the race.

I only really have any competitive pace when the track is wet. Did a Q12 to P4 in one, and P8 to P3 in another. The other one was marred by some dry track incidents that I couldn't overcome, despite making gains on the leaders.

I'm slowly bleeding DR, but collecting lots of credits, so I guess it all works out. Good times.

This resume my experience this week too. Less than half the races with rain. Racing to nowhere on dry races. The positive is my pace on the wet, not fast but steady always on track. Only one race I spun 2 times.

My best overtake on wet.

 

[jrbabbitt]

This! You might appreciate this couples of shots I did to give a rest to my wrists. 50 mins long races squeezing the controller hard to not die is a bit too much

This resume my experience this week too. Less than half the races with rain. Racing to nowhere on dry races. The positive is my pace on the wet, not fast but steady always on track. Only one race I spun 2 times.

My best overtake on wet.

I love seeing the tracks in the rain
....

 

[brockie]

Decent week of racing for me in race B, started on the genesis, couldn’t break my 1.37.000 all week, until yesterday and only by a tenth but it was enough to help me bag 3 wins yesterday.

Good racing Friday night, but harder out there Saturday night and yesterday was pretty clean.

Oh and ordered my self a gtdd extreme, been weighing up whether to buy a ps5 pro or vr but settled with a new wheel since I had this thrust master

Hopefully this week will be a good too

 

[ElectricNaz]

Managed to get my time recorded for the leaderboard 😍😍😍😍 (took screenshot before I exited)

Got in there before work, and had two race wins from 2nd on the grid already because the leader took a penalty each race. Now work gets in the way of racking up some more early wins!

 

[Fezzik]

The worst has indeed happened - Red Bulls at N24. No way in hell I’m doing that. Most people will probably be doing the Gr3s at Kyoto, but the Watkins Glen race with the Radicals is more my thing.

 

[Gurzu]

Hi guys, unfortunately my brake pedal isn't working. Basically, when pressed at 100%, it "vibrates" between 100% and 60% randomly (seen in the calibration section). In long hard braking zone, like Bus stop at Spa, it's like launching the coin and bet (hope) for the right outcome, wich 50% of the times it isn't.
I then took the time to finally get some replays on YouTube. Here's my "proudest'" (more than those dominant wins alone) race at HSR with the R92, chasing a dirty driver that made me spun at first lap in a mixed DR A+/A lobbies where I was the only DR B driver in the first 10 at start. Enjoy.