I would be placed 7th on your friends list. My name would be visible online, which might have made me famous. 😔 .... I also felt great when i ran my 1:34.501. Only 1.5 behind @Barney_da_dog that's pretty good for me. Now i am put on grid with the worst scum from dr. B (DR B SR D) and DR C. That means in lap 13, i start celebrating a possible finish on p5 and imagining how many points i gain from beating a B driver until i get pushed off track by someone who didn't even made a pit stop and will still be last with me in front of him. Cause going off track means it's over, sometimes I don't even know the shortest way back to the track. And the frustrating thing is, i had really clean races, even with the SR IDGaF guys, but one ignorant person is enough, that was in two races meaning about 50 minutes of my day wasted and left frustrated.
I'm still fine with the Citroën but i have to admit, turning feels exactly like this- imagine you are at a beautiful beach, fine sand. You brought a shoebox with you. Press on top of that shoebox, so it's stuck in the sand maybe one centimeter deep (height of a thin burger patty, for the imperial system user). Now turn the shoebox left and right while your hand is still holding it from the top, that's exactly how the Citroën turns, which is bad, but it works for me somehow. (controller user)
It's good to forge your own path when it comes to improving but always look at what the really fast ones do, try to understand why they do each things and how and that is how you eventually get faster - it's what I did! I was always good at racing games (GT1 veteran lol) but the last racing I did before GT7 was F1 2020 and on a controller.
When I hopped onto GT7, I was around 4s slower than top 200, then eventually got consistently within the top 1300 after a couple of months. I switched from controller to G29 and boom, at first, lost around 1s on average from my controller times but eventually, I gained a second and was then consistently in the top 700.
A year later, I upgraded to the DD Pro and 3 months ago, the QR2 and load cell and went from consistent top 400 to floating between top 150 (rarely) to top 250 but still get it wrong on occasion, as this week clearly shows 🤣 And I got here not on my own, but with help from some great people here (definitely, 100% not referring to
@newmedia_dev btw) and watching the elites, like
@Tidgney or Super GT, for example. And Tidge's in-depth guides are incredibly helpful.
You can still be fast on a controller, I think a few of the top 50 are just that! Watch and race against replays to see what they do different and the guides on YT (again, Tidge videos) as he goes in detail for every friggin corner of every friggin race every friggin week 🤣 That's dedication and something all people who want to improve appreciate, myself included! Feel free to add me on PSN is you want, same username as here 😜
On a separate note,
@Barney Da Dog - in the words of Brian O'Conner, "I almost had you" 🤣
