My time doesn't really count here. I only did a handful of laps after the change at 1:30am in the morning. I originally tried the AMG SLS which was fun, but then saw the 650S trending on the leaderboard and instantly got new fastest lap.
For what it's worth, quitting means you lose a chunk of SR. Quitting every time you get a poor SR match will very quickly ensure you never get a good SR lobby again.OK, so we all go into turn 1 at Mt Panorama... some tit goes off circuit... bounces off another car... ends up on my front bumper and then proceeds to exit the track, stage left. Result, I get a 5 second penalty because of the stupidy of that moron who thought he could win the race in turn 1
And how about the 1.5 second penalties dished out if you hit a wall on top of the mountain? Not to mention the fact that if you need to extricate yourself from a difficult position (3 point turn - or more) you will get 1.5 sec for each hit of the wall. I saw someone with 4.5 seconds because of that very situation.
Oh, and why are we put in with B, C or worse SR rated drivers from the group above if there are not enough entries from our own DR group? It's nothing but a **** show so from now on, I will quite whenever that happens - it's not worth the effort or fun to play with a bunch of dirty muppets.
PD are having a laugh. Seriously, I don't think they have any idea of how to fix the bl**dy mess they've created.
I feel your frustration, I had similar a few weeks back a Suzuka. Lap 1 turn 1, driver in front turns to much at T1 is completely on the grass on the inside of the turn scraping along the barrier, then blindly lunges back on to the track at the apex of T2, just as I arrive having taken the correct line, making contact with their front left wing. Result - I get a 4 second penalty. Their penalty for unsafely re-joining the circuit - nothing. Why the system didn't ghost them as soon as they left the track, I'll never know.OK, so we all go into turn 1 at Mt Panorama... some tit goes off circuit... bounces off another car... ends up on my front bumper and then proceeds to exit the track, stage left. Result, I get a 5 second penalty because of the stupidy of that moron who thought he could win the race in turn 1
And how about the 1.5 second penalties dished out if you hit a wall on top of the mountain? Not to mention the fact that if you need to extricate yourself from a difficult position (3 point turn - or more) you will get 1.5 sec for each hit of the wall. I saw someone with 4.5 seconds because of that very situation.
Oh, and why are we put in with B, C or worse SR rated drivers from the group above if there are not enough entries from our own DR group? It's nothing but a **** show so from now on, I will quite whenever that happens - it's not worth the effort or fun to play with a bunch of dirty muppets.
PD are having a laugh. Seriously, I don't think they have any idea of how to fix the bl**dy mess they've created.
Every time I try that I get rear-ended. It’s great for time trial, but if I try behave sensibly in these sprint races I get murdered by people who don’t acknowledge other driving styles other than hot lapping, and certainly don’t acknowledge other cars on the track.
Race A this week is amazing fun and an easy way to pad your SR. I was all the way back up after a few races.
Same for me on every point! I thought I’d practice for GTWS instead, but that’s a no-strategy sprint as well. Just a bad week altogether.
Of course you’re getting bored. We all are. PD refuses to keep things interesting every week. Maybe they’re trying to corral people into the World Series events this week, but those are even MORE boring than the dailies! I swear they’re collecting data and trying to find the point where we all quit.
I am actually surprised by the lack of carnage from that first corner. Honestly though, every race I have had there has been extreme clean, fast paced and close. Perhaps a little hard to overtake in some sections but I've really been loving it so far.
Was poking around running some laps at B and C last night and thought "Hey, I have a Merak sittin' in the garage collecting dust, why not put some miles on it?" Wow am I glad I did, the car is amazing to drive. It doesn't add up, though. 216HP saddled with more than 3,000lbs should NOT be this much fun to drive. There's got to be some violations of basic physics hiding in there. 🤣
Good advice, for sure. Almost all the cars that were overtaking me were FR cars, mostly Genesises and AMGs.
I've been sticking with the 911 everywhere/exclusively as a personal choice thing (focus on one car and suck less with it, is the goal) and was surprised at how stable it is at Bathurst. Not sure if that's just from driving it so much, though. You can't go full dumb with the throttle coming down the mountain, but that holds true for most cars here.
well, you had lots of practice on the track
Seriously, you shoudl give it one try, iirc you had a good time in the tt, it will place you in the top half of the grid. The key there is drive clean. I've had two CRBs and, not a coincidence, finished P5.
I love the sound of the Z4. It's always nice to see it getting used.
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Dude - you use the G29?!?!?! If you do, holy monkey you should be proud of just how good your skills are!! I used the G29 for about 6 months and best I could do is hover around the 800 - 1100 rankings, depending on the track and car combo. I only started getting into the 500's since getting the DD Pro so again, impressive stuff 😎Just to recap, when I started posting on this forum I was to be honest pretty rubbish over the last year or so I've learnt a lot from everyone that posts. Fast or slow it doesn't matter if we share.
So I took a step looked at my race numbers. And a few things fell out of this for me. (I almost exclusively do TT or daily races now)
That I have improved quite considerably at GT is quite a shock to me personally, I always used a wheel with oldskool PC racing (GTR2 or GTL anyone or random Live For Speed)
My GT was always controller.
Even with sport I can show a few races of me playing at my dining table with gclamps holding an old kitchen door front to the table so I didn't damage the table and also give the G29 something thin enough to clamp to. Pedals were wedged against 2 chairs to the wall under the TV...stable was not my set up.
A play seat later (ball ache dragging that out of the way every night to spend family or wife time....ball ache dragging it back out...but I did it
Learning a lot from you guys and the streamers and drawing on my own driving experience I invested in a few things (Ali tube rig a few better wheels over time)
I started to really enjoy my racing, daily A was ranked then and more junior cup focused for a while before becoming the thing it is now. Started doing daily B it was a struggle for a couple of weeks to quite honestly just be any good but practicing CE's and time trial I got better at controlling my car...then I did a few of the interesting daily C's (gr4 at willow in the TT fuel saver anyone?
I have all this gear, I love to drive and drive fast I did TT's, races and really enjoyed a very large majority (4,400 of them!)
Why am I waffling on about all this? If you made it here it's because.....
I'm sitting here wondering how I can go faster, how many more laps am I gonna do before I get the perfect one.
Glen, you are 533 in the world. Get a grip this time last year you were 25,533 each week.
So the point of my diatribe is merely that it's hard to recognise how far you've come if you don't stop and think about it. I wish I had when I'd improved earlier.
Its just a journey, and for what it's worth 533 I'm still a B rated driver with over half of my finishes clean races and 1/4 in the top 5 🤷♂️
@GrumpyOldMan
Edit: for grammar and punctuation
To quote a line from a Billy Joel song, "That hasn't happened in a long, long time."No I use a DD pro, I used a G29 to get to a top 2/3000 time. Had a TGT 2 for a while and that got me 145th in the Veyron at Fuji and moved to a DD pro a couple of months ago, just as my driving time spiked and decreased for life reasons.
