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I gave only 1 hr practice to Big Willow Friday nyt, getting a '30.1 with an ideal of '29.7. I believe that a '29.4-5 was in me, but Suzuka somehow captured me. @NAXEHT I'll chase you another time. Then I switched to my main account to get some "Japanese" pace in the McLaren. Saturday was all from the back on alt account except for the last race, after setting a '00.7 to start from pole and get some DR back. Sunday were just all day DR gains, starting from either pole or 2nd row, managing to get the QT down to '00.4. Some people in DR B lobbies couldn't really "digest" a "not at all meta" car being way faster than them in the meta, so there were some despicable manœuvres due to wounded egos. 🤷‍♂️ Didn't switch to the meta btw. In the end I just been hooked to the McLaren all day long. The best 650s was btw 1.3 sec slower than the meta, but I found myself faster than basically anyone in S1 🤔. The main losses were actually at hairpin's exit and triangle's one.
This week I don't see myself racing, seeing the ridiculous combos PD did chose to give us.
Wishing everyone a splendid week.
 
Definitely looks like a damp squib this week. Shall focus on trying for gold in the licence tent.
Enjoy if you race and hopefully see a full track or 2 next week 🤠
 
I enjoyed NSX vs Grand Valley a huge amount the previous time it appeared. Nonetheless, I am disappointed to see it return.

It's made doubly awkward for me, coming off the back of a no DR week, stuck in B/B and I know for a fact it's going to be messy, even starting high up the grid.

I'm going to give it a couple of shots, but I just bought Hades 2 and the stagnation of Daily Races (lack of variety and fairness) is really beginning to make me think that online gaming isn't the one for me.
 
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@benjoi84 nice to see you out there mate! That was a good race, glad I was helping you brake in places 🤣

Do you not use TC when launching? I saw you get bogged down on start.

I literally hit a 2.04.9xx 1 sec before the race! Didn’t show though, I’m loving this race, real handful around GV that car, but weak csa doing the trick!

We got ourselves a race here
 

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brockie
@benjoi84 nice to see you out there mate! That was a good race, glad I was helping you brake in places 🤣

Do you not use TC when launching? I saw you get bogged down on start.

I literally hit a 2.04.9xx 1 sec before the race! Didn’t show though, I’m loving this race, real handful around GV that car, but weak csa doing the trick!

We got ourselves a race here
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I'm so sorry man, it wasn't an authentic overtake attempt I just lost my braking point 🤣

It was my first race of the week, and the grid start without the false start check caught me out. I was waiting for the lights! I assure you my launch has improved in the following races.

Bring it on.
 
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You have a race every now and then when every major crash or clash, is down to you whether your driving is rubbish or wrong place, wrong time. This one felt like that. Fairly normal, then an ill timed attempt on a 911 and suddenly, poof!
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Really hit your apexes in clean air. The second i saw you get a run on that 911 i thought, don't half heart it mate, just tuck in behind annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd you half hearted it and got gobbled up.

I tried 6 cars last night, nothing got within a second of the 992, i'll try the beetle tonight then some races and see how she goes.
 
NevilleNobody
Really hit your apexes in clean air. The second i saw you get a run on that 911 i thought, don't half heart it mate, just tuck in behind annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd you half hearted it and got gobbled up.

I tried 6 cars last night, nothing got within a second of the 992, i'll try the beetle tonight then some races and see how she goes.
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To be fair to him, he was the only one who was racing, not sure what the others were doing 😁

That’s an advert for avoiding brands! People jumping up the inside and all sorts else.

I’ve tried the R8 and it’s not the group for the track, gr4 at most should be used but that’s just my opinion
 
brockie
To be fair to him, he was the only one who was racing, not sure what the others were doing 😁

That’s an advert for avoiding brands! People jumping up the inside and all sorts else.

I’ve tried the R8 and it’s not the group for the track, gr4 at most should be used but that’s just my opinion
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Yeah that's what I said would happen last week, inside barges. TBH I think Brands is ripe for a Caterham/SUper 7 style car, light, small, chuckable, decent grip and not too much aero.
 
NevilleNobody
Yeah that's what I said would happen last week, inside barges. TBH I think Brands is ripe for a Caterham/SUper 7 style car, light, small, chuckable, decent grip and not too much aero.
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That radical circuit experience is good fun, anything small not too fast would do the trick

I’d like to see mini touring, lupos, Clio but in full race spec 😁
 
I did 6 races C, despite them being a bit vanilla. What's interesting to see is that although my dwelling place seem to be sub-20.000 DR points lobbies for at least a year now, I have become quicker. The last (and first) time Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve was a group 4 daily race C I clocked a 1:45:1. The world record was a 1:42:8. Now I have a 1:44:6 on the board, while the world record isn't much quicker than last time: 1:42:7 (all times with the Alfa). So I definitely am closer to the top.

You have to translate this into race pace of course. I started from around P6 most of the times (and one time from the back), and I have driven in the lead as well as P16. I could keep up with the drivers around me, and the first races were neat. I finished in P4, P5 and twice in P6, one of which was from the back of the grid. Mostly clean racing to be seen. The P4 race was interesting. I started in P3 and found myself in P1 at the end of lap 1. But I also saw someone that started from the back behind me after just 3 laps. He won by some margin so wasn't really a low DR B player probably. But this race was super clean and everyone gave each other space, very nice.

After a few races I started to make a little more mistakes so I found myself midpack. My worst mistake was completely missing my T3 braking point because someone in front was taking a strange line and I was distracted: I crashed head first into the barrier. :D In the last two races I was punted and bogged until I was P16. I became quite annoyed, but kept on going. In one of those races I saw someone exploiting / shortcutting the chicane before the hairpin again, only to revenge punt someone in that hairpin. People were blocking each other all the time. I revenge punted someone into the pit lane barrier after he had hit me 3 times and just continued driving. I didn't get a penalty. These last two races saw me finish at P8 and P9, both of which gained me DR. So 4 out of 6 races were clean. Alright. after those last dirty ones I decided to do something else with my day. Maybe I will try again Thursday.
 
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Barney Da Dog
I do like a bit of Brands, especially in the 458.
But a bottle of wine has emptied itself somehow and I'd better not drive.
It's taken 3 attempts to type this

maybe race tomorrow
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Thanks to you and your wine, on a whim I switched to the 458, and took a lights to flag victory. Cheers!

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I feel you, I just can't bring myself to fire up the ps5 this week 🙉😫...and i love Brands Hatch. Too much of the same thing for too long🙉View attachment 1552137
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Yeah I really enjoy Brands in any form. It has good flow, and at least in GR3 it makes it a bit more edgy,

Rossell2
Thanks to you and your wine, on a whim I switched to the 458, and took a lights to flag victory. Cheers!
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Awesome! 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷😎
 
Whether it is a lazy summer or going through growing pains, my DR finally got the smackdown with a dreaded 2k point reset sending me back to DR C. I couldn’t find the proper lines to hook up at Nür GP even in the meta Atenza last week, repeatedly finishing P10, or worse. It was probably a subpar performance at the last Nations race ending P10 of 11 finishers that sent me back to DR C.

Nursing my wounds, I am crawling my way back into good graces. Even if it is clubbing seals of sorts, I notched a decent win in the NSX with fastest lap, going P3 to P1. My rough edged Brazilian competitors seemed to treat the race as a drifting challenge. Once I had a passing opportunity, I never looked back and won with 6 secs. to spare.

It will take some introspection to see what I am screwing up on technique to stay consistently in DR B, but a win is a decent place to start the climb back.

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Barney Da Dog
I do like a bit of Brands, especially in the 458.
But a bottle of wine has emptied itself somehow and I'd better not drive.
It's taken 3 attempts to type this

maybe race tomorrow
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I love Brands - I've been spoilt as I had one of my other favourites, Willow Springs, last week. There's something about these tracks with a hint of jeopardy that works for me...

Kept off the wine yesterday, managed two wins out of three races 😁
 
I've good pace at Brands, can race with anyone in DRB, not been paired in DRA yet. QT I think I could find another half second, it's just a matter of staying on the road. Likely no racing tonight as my 10 yr old has a viewing night at his astronomers club.
 
Bondwhar
And then me! 😱
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Mmm, don’t think I’m near you sorry to say 😂

I’ve actually dropped to BB doing brands and grand valley this week, I think the general frustration is with everyone
 
Wiled away an evening on Brands, I don’t get the opportunity to spend much time on Sport mode these days but I’ll always make time for Brands!

Did a few races in the BRZ to buck the 911 trend - if you get the corners bang on, it’s far more nimble than the 911, but it’s so twitchy on corner exit and so slow down the straights that you have to be so committed on the brakes (which I don’t have the talent for lol) to get anyone under braking.

Switched to the 911 and instantly went half a second quicker. Have a theoretical best of 1:25:1, can’t string together anything better than a 1:25:5 - good enough for a few second places but win number two still eludes me!

Good racing at Brands if you can escape the idiots mid-pack, Druids on lap 1 is always good for some moron launching it from three postcodes back.
 
Did 2 more races C in the Alfa. I tried to focus on consistency and avoiding penalties. In both cases I started P4, and in both cases I ended up on the podium: a P2 and a P3. In the first race P2 and P3 got penalties so I could overtake them. P1 was half a second quicker than me, but I managed to gap the people behind me early in the race. In the second half of the race P3 slowly closed me down, but there weren't enough laps anymore and he got penalties again, giving me breathing space.

In the second race the pole sitter, and winner of last race, made a mistake promoting someone in the Atenza and me to front runners. I think the Atenza guy was maybe slightly quicker than I was, but I could hang on due to slipstream. I just stayed with him and bumped him if I came close enough, trying to escape the pack. The polesitter fought himself back, was clearly quicker than us but sometimes got penalties, dropping him back again. In lap 9 he attempted an overtake at the chicane (corners 8 & 9) and I just let him have it because the pack was 3 seconds off anyway and I didn't want to risk losing a podium position. If he drove a little bit more careful with the track limits he would've won again easily. But now the Atenza guy won because he, like me, didn't get a single penalty. The three of us thanked each other for clean racing. A very nice experience overall. While in the back someone got called out by 4 (!!) different drivers about being dirty.

The corner 8/9 chicane is the hardest one to do consistently for me. If I take it like the YouTubers take it in their lap guides I get a penalty 2 out of 3 times. So in these 2 races I kept the car somewhat more on track so my right tires went over the first sausage, but you can get all kinds of bouncy experiences this way... Trying to floor the throttle just before hitting the sausage so my right front pointed upwards helped a bit, but it's still not so easy to repeat lap after lap.
 
Well I hope everyone has got some racing going on, this is the first day in I don’t know how long that I don’t race early AM or lunch, was just hoping the TT might be something but that’s Fuji,

Hope Monday things will improve 👀

😁
 
brockie
Well I hope everyone has got some racing going on, this is the first day in I don’t know how long that I don’t race early AM or lunch, was just hoping the TT might be something but that’s Fuji,

Hope Monday things will improve 👀

😁
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Logged on this morning, saw the new TT, thought I’ll do the gold the day before ends, ps “enter rest mode”
 
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Logged on this morning, saw the new TT, thought I’ll do the gold the day before ends, ps “enter rest mode”
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Pretty grim right now eh? I think it’s been coming for a while, the kids are now off so happy to miss the lunch ones,

Got my garage to sort Saturday so that should see the weekend out 🤣

Next week though.

Pumped for it 💪
 
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brockie
Pretty grim right now eh? I think it’s been coming for a while, the kids are now off so happy to miss the lunch ones,

Got my garage to sort Saturday so that should see the weekend out 🤣

Next week though.

Pumped for it 💪
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Yeah it is, and honestly I think it’s deliberate for reasons, probably spec 3.

What I do find interesting is they know this will be peak player engagement for the younger demographics with the school holidays across most of the world or at least larger player base areas.

So some of the selections I appreciate aren’t fresh for us or a bit meh, they also aren’t the highlight the pinnacle of GT or GT sport mode either which is sorta odd.

Also I’d imagine mid November to early 2027 will see a considerable drop because let’s face it GTA 6 has a pull no other game can match in that window or probably ever atm.
 
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