GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[Famine]

BS rated drivers are, without a doubt, the dirtiest drivers in GT7.

I would love to know what goes the minds of these stupid people. Not only do they ruin my race, but they usually ruin their own too. Sheer stupidity! At this rate I'll be back down to group C by the end of the week

Soooo... you're also B/S?

 

[LANDO]

Soooo... you're also B/S?

Me too, but he has a point. The race is cleaner on first positions in C than on mid positions in B. That’s my feeling.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Managed to get 30mins after work today to do a few more learning laps of LM backwards….

And with an optimum almost half a second faster.

Will see how the racing goes….

Edit:

I am sandwiched between my Maltese friend and his alter ego “Malta Man”

Edit 2:

As is always what happens, you go a columbo “just one more question lap”

Annnnnnnd I escaped the techno Saab Maltese sandwich.

 

[Famine]

Me too, but he has a point. The race is cleaner on first positions in C than on mid positions in B. That’s my feeling.

If he has a point, it's that the dirtiest drivers are B/S, not that B/S drivers are the dirtiest. These are different things.

But then even that's not accurate, even if it's no longer a sweeping statement (and potential self-burn.

I'm a B/S driver. I'm neither dirty nor an exception.

 

[TechnoIsLove]

Managed to get 30mins after work today to do a few more learning laps of LM backwards….


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And with an optimum almost half a second faster.

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Will see how the racing goes….

Edit:

I am sandwiched between my Maltese friend and his alter ego “Malta Man”

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Edit 2:

As is always what happens, you go a columbo “just one more question lap”

Annnnnnnd I escaped the techno Saab Maltese sandwich.

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Nice time mate - not bad for a communist! Not bad at all.... 🤣 😎

 

[Gurzu]

It's official... BS rated drivers are, without a doubt, the dirtiest drivers in GT7.

I would love to know what goes the minds of these stupid people. Not only do they ruin my race, but they usually ruin their own too. Sheer stupidity! At this rate I'll be back down to group C by the end of the week 🤬

And, if you don't beleive me, go and see Tidgneys 'Plebs of the Week' videos.

Allow me. I've spent most of my (quite short) "career" as DR BS and I totally understand your frustration, but I'd like to rephrase it for you.
"In DR B - SR S lobbies you can find, among a multitude of fine, clean an fair drivers, a "loud" minority of very bad/dirty drivers."
In a total of ar. 1.2 milion players you have approximately the following population: 47% DR E, 28% DR D, 12% DR C, 10% DR B, 2% DR A, 0.7% DR A+, 0.004% DR S.
A DR B rated drivers is among the 13% fastest drivers, or he is faster than the 87% of all players.
It depends on how you look at it, but its just cold statistique. Don't take in count the interchange between categories due to rank up or down of players, eventually one end up in his "natural" category. Neither care of psychos. They really are a small minority and there are in all categories except DR S, I suppose.
Inherent of the DR B category are "naturally" fast drivers, some of them very fast. Why so much nastiness?
Because in that 10% there's still a lil 0.2% of drivers convinced that they can outbrake a guy 1 sec faster than them, diving from behind with a gap of more than 0.5 sec, or trying to overtake from the same gap at Bus Stop's chicane at Watkins Glen.
In higher categories there's way less drivers with that kind of optimism, let's say.
The big difference is, eventually, a matter of "decision making".
Where and when fight for a position, place the car, leave room staying far from troubles, push hard or being conservative. Personally, I trashed a lot of races (mostly starting from pole) due to bad decision making. Sometimes even if punted, I think I was somehow part of the problem. Focusing on that particular area gave me a sort of calm whilst driving (no more overdefense that may lead to punts, neither revenge punts if victim of it, in particular) to the point that I now totally forgot the last "rage fuming" race I had, giving always the benefit of the doubt to everybody.

 

[newmedia_dev]

To this whole B/S thing and ignoring it’s the largest cohort and convergence of speed vs ability among the population of GT Sport players.

It all depends on the mind set of the lobby.

Below is one of last weeks races at Interlagos which can be called a place where people chance it in all the wrong places or send it at every part of the infield.

Not a single person in this lobby or the two after IIRC lost SR (lobbies tend to group a little for a while) and it was for a B lobby very fast.

It helps to be a little reflective of one’s own pace, positioning and general racing as well although sometimes that can be hard but it’s a great life and learning skill that will help you go faster, avoid these incidents and generally enjoy the game a little bit more.

 

[NevilleNobody]

End of the day, GT is a game designed to be essentially ones first venture into sim racing. There's going to be things like catch-up, lax damage, accelerated wear rates etc. because it's not trying to be real life in these places, it's just trying to be a racing game.

There might come a time where you out-grow what it is trying to do, and you want reality instead of a video game. That is fine! But I think that point comes alongside a realisation that GT isn't what you're looking for anymore. If you are truly bothered by accelerated slipstream etc. then I think you are past that point.
GT7 hasn't been what I was looking for when it comes to online racing for a long time - I don't like any of these things either, I can tell that it's artificial, I can tell and think that it promotes bad driving. But you just move on. Growing to be grumpy about it isn't going to change anything.

I play other games, and I stick to GT7 for what I like about GT7. It's just that that doesn't include online racing anymore.

The kicker is accessibility though. I suspect a good portion of the middle aged players have kids etc so really don't want or can't run a PC gaming system alongside their PS5. Also the "jump online and you are in a closely matched race in minutes" is a big sell for someone as busy as I am. I cannot see myself dedicating to something like iRacing until the kids leave the nest.

 

[Zero2Oblivion]

Me too, but he has a point. The race is cleaner on first positions in C than on mid positions in B. That’s my feeling.

Remove the rating and you're closer to the truth of why it's important to set a qualifying lap.

The front of the pack normally always breaks away because the mid-pack is where all of the fighting and accidents happen. This is normally the case regardless of lobby rating.

Start at the front, hope you make it through the first few corners unscathed, and it's usually a relatively clean race. Start in the mid-pack and you're going to have a lot more cars around you, which increases your chances of accidental contact.

 

[Rossell2]

It doesn't help on race B that the S bends are a magnet for accidents.

 

[newmedia_dev]

decision making is the weakest trait of a GT 7 player followed closely by control fidelity.

They absolutely walk among us and breathe the same air but they are not like us, they are morons of the first class.

Depends on the lobby but also the individuals have to take responsibility for themselves.

And breathe, we might go again or we might just call it there for the week. Gold on all the TTs respectable times for each of the races not really a lot to come back for this week now.

 

[Tuono_GT]

Soooo... you're also B/S?

Yup, I’m afraid so 😁

DR-B…. SR-S

 

[newmedia_dev]

Holy love of god what is in the water or the moon tonight.

I’m definitely out this week.

What’s the point of being a b/s driver in the top 400 globally and still being rammed and out braked by people with QT times that are literally seconds behind me.

This is not fun, I get the track is awkward but it flows. I just can’t do morons anymore. And honestly I think most of them think they are “racing” videos in coming :/

Edit:

For the second race in a row I go from full SR and 2 quits because I was rammed from pole to a quarter of A SR. The penalties, the match making the car balancing, the rankings in this game are all broken.

Economy is solid though….you gotta drive to earn “yo in it”

 

[NevilleNobody]

In the minority here but feel LM reverse is probably the worst track i've ran in GT7, it feels so unnatural, almost like it's backwards from it's original design.

 

[benjoi84]

I probably won't be diving into Sport Mode this week, but when watching Tidgney's race guide for Race C, I'm instantly transported back to one of my favourite combinations in GT7 so far; when they did Group 2's at the same layout.

Feels like those days are long gone.

Edit: @NevilleNobody I reacted laughing face because of the uncanny timing of our posts

 

[Rossell2]

Said to myself beforehand I'm going to concentrate and make this a good clean race. Of course that didn't happen.

 

[Stilva]

Going with the Red Bull Ring this week. I haven't driven under the new BoP and the GR.4 cars feel way slower. I went with the meta G70 and set a lap time before I raced of 1:38.6XX.

I start P5 on the grid for my first race and it was really boring. I get to P3 in the opening laps and sit there until the end. P2 touches the grass before the final 2 corners and I take over. I finish there with clean race bonus.

My second race has me in P7 and it didn't go well. I get an off track penalty for trying to avoid carnage on the opening lap in turn 2. I think I had 6 off tracks total. I could not accomplish much with all the penalties. I made a dumb attempt at a lunge and sent a driver off track, I let them take off first and apologized post race. In the end I finish P9, so not a total disaster.

Lots of drivers holding their brakes in the corners and me having some near misses. The pack racing may be a factor in that with everyone so close together.

 

[TheNormsk]

I just did my first races since the 1.59 update. I did three races for daily race A in the Karts. Best result was the last coming in second, but that was so close to a win as well. Lots of trading back-and-forth for first, second and third spots.

However, I see what people mean by the slipstream or rubber band effect now. The acceleration you get up to the car in front is kind of insane. It’s like you’re going to turbo boost mode. While it created interesting races I’m not sure I like it. Sure it helped me get up and pass to get the lead but then of course it helped the people behind me come up and passed me as well.

I like it when I benefit. I don’t like it when I don’t.

 

[brockie]

Well it’s shaping up to be a funny week all in all, my cars’ being repaired so my lunch time races are out, kids have football this week so I’m getting home late and not getting up early early and racing,

Lake Maggiore reverse I have to say isn’t the best, it’s too fast for most drivers, I managed a race yesterday morning and got all the way up to 3rd from starting 8th and some bickering Porsches put paid to that 🤨

Did have a good race c however, started 10th and finished 4th - this 12lap sprint might help me get through the week,

I’ve family up this weekend so won’t be much going on at then, but light at the end of tunnel is that Monday is bank holiday in the uk so fingers crossed the dailies are good to us and I can get ahead.

 

[TheNormsk]

I tried some QT on daily race B. I don’t know what it is at the moment; either the group 3 cars or this track in reverse or combination of the two, but I’m just finding it undrivable.

I’m having this issue with a lot of game at the moment, but this combo really shows it. I’m finding cars are very understeery and will then snap into violent oversteer with just the blip of the throttle. I’m finding I it very frustrating.

I just tried about 10 laps and I only completed one. Called it quits there.

Perhaps try group C, or just go back to GT5….

 

[Gurzu]

Shaved 1 tenth from my QT at RBR. More important, my ideal went down to '37.2 (witch could put me inside the 250 fastest times). I almost "unlocked" 1st corner, reducing the huge amount of penalties. Now the problem is the "hateful" last corner. I mean, like at Watkins Glen, it's easy to reach it with an advantage of even 0.3-0.4 sec and lose everything there. 🤬
I'm happy already cause, normally, I don't improve my times on Tuesday, just the consistance around the time set Monday.

 

[TheNormsk]

Have a bit of a QT session at RBR. I always used to hate this track but learnt to like it in the TTs (my highest ever ranking was here).

I’m still not sure about races though. They’re usually crash fests here.

Still for first session I was beginning to gel with it.

 

[TechnoIsLove]

Edit:

I am sandwiched between my Maltese friend and his alter ego “Malta Man”


Edit 2:

As is always what happens, you go a columbo “just one more question lap”

Annnnnnnd I escaped the techno Saab Maltese sandwich.

@newmedia_dev - So about that "Saab Maltese Sandwich" you mentioned you were happy to get out of yesterday.... 🤣

Read em' and weep 😜🤪

Will admit it took me about an hour of fiddling with the wheel settings to get the balance right but... it was worth it!

* Instant Update *

You're no longer in the sandwich, kicked out completely now like a block of stale cheese 🤣 🤪 🧀

** Update for the Update **

Went even faster on Main and beat the time I set on 2nd account 😊 But was too tired to bother with a screenshot 🤣

 

[Gino Caberlin]

It's official... BS rated drivers are, without a doubt, the dirtiest drivers in GT7.

I would love to know what goes the minds of these stupid people. Not only do they ruin my race, but they usually ruin their own too. Sheer stupidity! At this rate I'll be back down to group C by the end of the week 🤬

And, if you don't beleive me, go and see Tidgneys 'Plebs of the Week' videos.

I’m lucky (or unlucky) to be B/S. It happens that I am more or less in the middle of the ranking.
I often compete in Gr.4 races because it better reflects my level of skill.
In 90% of the races I take part in (lately at the RBR), there are drivers who for their driving style constantly point me and claim that to pass them is an acquired right.
I resist in all lawful ways and when I do I am accused after the race to be a dirty driver. I was even accused of being a terrorist (sic!).
Well, this means to distort the spirit of competitions.
If many of these drivers think that being faster than 0.1 seconds gives them the right to pass without a minimum of resistance, they are definitely off track.

 

[newmedia_dev]

On the road to fixing my SR again (quits hit really really hard these days)

The plus side of having a top 600 time and B/A is that my pace is fairly good and consistent

I’ll take back to back wins