GT7 Daily Race Discussion
- Thread starter Pigems
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- Pennsyltucky
- mellofello9
So they work, good to know.😁
Won't disagree with you at all, they can be blinding. But I'm also pretty confident that's the goal. Bright paint, weird messages, offensive stickers, it's all just on-track psychological warfare. If someone misses the apex because they chuckled at the "Baby on Board" bumper sticker on my Gr.3 Beetle, mission accomplished.🤣
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- 3,933
- Canada
The lambo feels great when you nail it but i cannot feel the front end, no idea what my front tyres are doing. On the flip side, just starting to learn how to carry speed in the G70. I seem to have good pace through the first chicane and through the right/left/right after the back straight but I am losing time on entry and exit onto said back straight.
Sounds like me in the G70 (although, probably a lot more than you). Losing a lot of time in the final esses. Just can't seem to nail the perfect entry and always have to lift off, which is costing me a good second or more.
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Been trying that today but, I don't think I've been lifting off enough and carry too much speed into the right hander, making me lift off some more, which is a killer, because if you change down to control it you lose time or if you stay in 5th you lose acceleration on the exit!
As they say, "practice makes perfect".
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You seem to get a lot more grip lap 3-7 if you don’t over heat the tires in QT in race the weight really makes it more about early turn in and timing when you lift (if you need to)
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- TechnoIsLove
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“Three body problem”
My optimums are starting to get to .8s but honestly the racing is so awful I’m getting to the passed caring stage. I am only an A driver in these 3/4rd split lobbies and I’m 220th in the word so you’d image my pace is fairly good but nope still bloody people with the ability of a cabbage but are some how A rated can’t anticipate the car in front of them braking.
I’ve been in 4/5 of Rory’s races today but just meh :/
- 1,226
- UK
Amazingly close to the fastest of the fastest times dude, awesome.
Are those recent purchases having an impact? LC and QR?
I saw on the fanatec site they doing cheaper refurb’d parts now so I’ll pick up a QR2 as soon as I can
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- Canada
This is fact, unless you stumble across a really good dance partner or two folks seem incapable of allowing for you to, i dunno, slow down.
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- Azriel222
- Darken Azriel
I've got an optimum of .6 but the rule of the universe holds that a great lap will always be ruined by the last turn
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- Lugano
@NevilleNobody, @Ruufio It"s a matter of "line" and trust on what the car does. One (very reliable) way is to slightly lift entering the 1st right of the sequence and keep it flat out for the 2 (left and right) following, putting the 5th gear just before approaching the left one. It's almost at mid way up hill between the two apex. The car has a stange way to get grip there. It first grips when turning left, then there's a lil weight "adjustment" and it grips again after that. It gives the illusion to go wide, but it's needed just trust leaving the car do the job, cause it will eventually keep the line. It's like if the car's turning in two distinctive phases, with the steering wheel fixed at same lock angle. Same happens on the last right of the sequence. The trick is to not react at the "false loss of grip" increasing steering lock, it slows the car and brings you off line. As long you're used to the entry with the lil lift and your exit speed is always ar 211-3 km/h, you can start avoiding the "entry lift". You'll put the 5th before up hill, but, as long you're in line, you'll could keep flat out till the finish line. Exit speed becomes ar 215-6 km/h. Remember, every lift up hill kills instantly your speed, almost like if you were trail braking.
That poor ant, she's now feeling kinda important.🤣
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- TechnoIsLove
"I am only an A driver" he says.
- Dude, let's be honest, you're damn fast!
- You have thousands of daily races behind you, meaning it can go bad just as easily (if not more) as it can go well. For you to be on the positive side of the meter, you need to accept that you are top level and build on that. I am also an "A" btw and have been stuck in this tier for 3 years.
- The gaps between this group and top split are much, much tighter than say, the actual F1 qualy lap times! That is using "cheap" sim rigs on a virtual device with cars and a game which do not come close to F1. Again, says a lot of positive things about most of all of us here.
- Do the math, for example, I am 0.4s slower than the guys occupying the Top 15 ~ Top 30 slots, over a 2 minute lap and with many variables. You being 0.1s behind me, @Darken Azriel etc means f-all, 1 perfect corner and we could easily make up 0.2 - 0.3s over each others' times.
- I cannot believe I wrote 4 points actually being positive and encouraging to you.
- To restore the balance due to the above praise, nah nah nah nah nah you are slower! 🤣 🤪 💪
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- bone_tone
Had to give race A a try, as I love Goodwood circuit. Trouble is it doesn't seem very popular, as only one of five races had a full lobby of 12 drivers.
That meant I was up against A+ and A drivers, but I did managed to finish in the top 4 in the races where I stayed on track! 😂
Had one of those alien no QT drivers in two races - he managed to go from last to first before the end of lap 2, went past me like his Corvette had another 2 litres.....
That meant I was up against A+ and A drivers, but I did managed to finish in the top 4 in the races where I stayed on track! 😂
Had one of those alien no QT drivers in two races - he managed to go from last to first before the end of lap 2, went past me like his Corvette had another 2 litres.....
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- real-NRG-DORI
Running the Lambo, but not very happy with it, going to try the gt-r tonight
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Honestly unless you are really comfortable with the GTR and with only the top one being fraga, think about just learning the G70. It’s not the best car but it’s the fastest outside of the top 100, the GTR needs the same as Lambo which is loads of precision especially with braking.
Just consider it.
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- real-NRG-DORI
I will for sure! Was thinking about that also! I enjoy a good non-meta car either way
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- TechnoIsLove
Yey! I finally had some good karma 🥳 😎
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What's the best way to report a dirty driver? Do you use other or harassment of other players? Does anyone think it's useful to even do? Someday I hope I can get out of C lobbies and eventually make my way into B and A. Hoping the carnage goes down. Seems strange to have absolute carnage in a race, and then 5 or 6 of the rammers DNF. That's another question, can you report them when they finish as DNF ?
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- Rule 12
- GTP_Famine
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- Pennsyltucky
- mellofello9
You can report them in-game but it is kinda pointless. They can dull-out suspensions of various lengths (days to weeks/months, I believe) but it doesn't keep the player from setting up another account and getting back in there anyway. While it is super frustrating, the best thing you can do is know who they are and avoid where you can. Retaliation only hurts you and doesn't matter to them. 👍
I've seen a couple folks raise the question around DNF's but I'm not sure I get it. The quitter sacrifices more DR/SR to finishers and they were well in the rearview anyway. Why does this matter? I get the sportsmanship angle and that you just shouldn't, but these are the same people willingly ramming you off-track...pretty sure etiquette doesn't make their list of concerns.🤣
- 88,987
- Rule 12
- GTP_Famine
You can't report people for driving standards. Basically all that can be reported is liveries and chat comments.
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- Pennsyltucky
- mellofello9
Curious...when some streamers talk about reporting people specifically for driving like jack-holes, what are they referring to? Is it one of those things where they're just using the same reporting system but hoping for different results? Or, are there conduits available to them -vs- what we get?
- 88,987
- Rule 12
- GTP_Famine
Depends on the streamer. One who's been a GTWS finalist? Sure. One who hasn't? Nope.
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Thanks for the answers, more or less just frustrated, having just lost P4 in current race C, p5 caught up, my fault mostly. I see them in the rear view, decide to let them pass as we approach the braking zone, and they decide to rear end me, and then side swipe as well. I survived and managed to hold p5. The DNF's was just part of the question about reporting dirty drivers. Say 3 out however many DNF's were just wretched, and then just quit, can you report them. I'm assuming that PD would review the race, but seems difficult to do from their end so it all seems rather pointless.You can report them in-game but it is kinda pointless. They can dull-out suspensions of various lengths (days to weeks/months, I believe) but it doesn't keep the player from setting up another account and getting back in there anyway. While it is super frustrating, the best thing you can do is know who they are and avoid where you can. Retaliation only hurts you and doesn't matter to them. 👍
I've seen a couple folks raise the question around DNF's but I'm not sure I get it. The quitter sacrifices more DR/SR to finishers and they were well in the rearview anyway. Why does this matter? I get the sportsmanship angle and that you just shouldn't, but these are the same people willingly ramming you off-track...pretty sure etiquette doesn't make their list of concerns.🤣
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- Pennsyltucky
- mellofello9
Think of the firehose of complaints they'd be fielding, reviewing and making determinations on...that'd be massive. And would still only be one side of it because there'd be challenges to decisions, etc. I don't see a cost-effective solution for them on that one. Doesn't mean you CAN'T complain, just makes it akin to throwing pebbles at a mountainside.
Back to this DNF thing, and I mean this seriously as I don't understand where you/others are coming from on this, why would you report someone for quitting a race? IRL, hit a wall and you're out. Drank too much the night before and yarfed in the cockpit? Good time to call it. With all the options to NOT finish available, and it's commonplace nature, I'm confused as to why this one agitates so. I can't see what they're denying you, I guess.😇
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Welcome aboard, by the way! Sorry, slower mentally than my QT's and just noticed the post count. 👍
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I think at least for me on the DNF reporting, it's a hope that they would see them constantly ramming and ruining peoples races, not even necessarily even my race, and suspend them so that can't continue to get their kicks out of doing it going forward. At least for awhile that is. You were right about not trying to get even, tried last night........lol, turns out I'm not any good at intentionally wrecking someone.
