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I managed to improve by 3/10ths at Trial Mountain, not alien pace but about 360th so very decent.

I have uploaded a split screen replay of both VR and Bumpercam side by side (it’s not massively perceptible but the sync difference is about 2/10ths as I did it on my phone)

I can share the in game replay if anyone wants a slower ghost to follow.

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Car: M6

BB +3
ABS default
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NevilleNobody
The replay is a bit tricky as I am stressed and on used rubber but yeah you're right regardless.
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I swear by @Gurzu ‘s qualifying tips from a few months ago, use a top 10 ghost at 0.5 away you so much of what they do, never fails to get me some extra time, might help you out last corner?

Why don’t you try getting used to no TC? It might be hampering your acceleration
 
brockie
I swear by @Gurzu ‘s qualifying tips from a few months ago, use a top 10 ghost at 0.5 away you so much of what they do, never fails to get me some extra time, might help you out last corner?

Why don’t you try getting used to no TC? It might be hampering your acceleration
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I echo this although I use the ghost closer now and reset sectors, the reason I use the ghost a little closer, .2 is two fold

1. It’s extremely good practice for racing to not hit the ghost and be close to them, because in race they won’t be ghosts!

2. It helps me look through corners while still making sure I’m keeping up and not catching them in corners.

A tip for those that use ghosts, the aim is not to beat them, it’s to find a flow/rythym where you sort of keep pace with them, if you aren’t an alien and you are getting ahead of the ghost there is a more fundamental thing to look at.

Bear in mind the top 10 ghosts are usually a second or 2 faster for a reason and if you can catch them with an offset ahead either you are an alien or your not gonna match the pace through out the lap.

Ghosts aren’t targets they are there as fast safety cars, keep up and don’t get a head and you times will drop.
 
brockie
I swear by @Gurzu ‘s qualifying tips from a few months ago, use a top 10 ghost at 0.5 away you so much of what they do, never fails to get me some extra time, might help you out last corner?

Why don’t you try getting used to no TC? It might be hampering your acceleration
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I rather suggest 0.1 sec delay from ghost usually. 0.5 is lil too much. 😉
Starting from 0 to get the idea on how to launch the lap from last corner and learn sector 1, then 0.1 to get in "touch" with the alien for the entire lap, then 0.2 to shave those last few tenths (there's always few corners where I find my self slightly faster than the ghost I'm following). I never use reset, cause it helps me to improve better and faster in the last sector, where the alien is lil farest. So in "the right lap" I know that I'm improving cause I'm catching up with the guy in the last few corners.
Edit: The use of TC is, for me, depending on the level of tyre saving I need for the race and a sort of life insurance when using a snappy car that likes to spin on kerbs.
 
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brockie
I swear by @Gurzu ‘s qualifying tips from a few months ago, use a top 10 ghost at 0.5 away you so much of what they do, never fails to get me some extra time, might help you out last corner?

Why don’t you try getting used to no TC? It might be hampering your acceleration
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@NevilleNobody 100% this. Race B this week is a great example. I use the Citroen with +5 BB. You put your foot to the floor at the apex, and the tire spins rotates you for a perfect exit.

TC is great for people learning the game, but it's always going to slow you down. Even IRL, TC in racing must allow for a certain amount of wheelspin, otherwise you lose time.
 
ShiftingGears
Interlagos races are always weirdly processional, very hard to make up time from the rolling start
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I think there's just too much grip in Gr4, especially with the mediums, so driving errors are rare. Red Bull Ring was boring last week, a close 'racing' procession with no strategy to spice it up a little bit.

I'm enjoying Trial Mountain - a track I usually avoid, but it's becoming quite enjoyable now.
 
ZEE
A highlight of my great daily race C the other day at the Mountain, was a very fun, engaging race and managed to achieve a podium at 1st!! top notch!!!

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Mate I tried watchin g it but man, the music is so distracting. In saying that, the quality of the video is amazing, i swear I am doing something wrong as mine always looks so flat, yours has proper colour and contrast.
 
@Gurzu described it perfectly. I saw it in your video, how at least 3 cars were way too fast and stayed outside (oy
newmedia_dev
I managed to improve by 3/10ths at Trial Mountain, not alien pace but about 360th so very decent.

I have uploaded a split screen replay of both VR and Bumpercam side by side (it’s not massively perceptible but the sync difference is about 2/10ths as I did it on my phone)

I can share the in game replay if anyone wants a slower ghost to follow.

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Car: M6

BB +3
ABS default
TC 0

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Thanks for writing your bb and set up, cause i like to switch cars till i find one that feels good, and knowing a tendency how to set it up is a real help.

I still try to make the gen x work on trial mountain. But I just can't get into a"flow * i am driving like it is a one of those learning the track test. I only think till the apex or sometimes i caught myself, thinking of something completely different. But it's only there, interlagos is fine.
By the the way, the SlS amg gr4 is about 6kmh or 4 miles /h slower than the mazda3 gr4.. It's a bit odd cause my Sls sounded Like a mad polar bear, whilethe mazda fitted in my engine compartment or even the glove box and was not to be heard.

I was always driving bumper cam, but I learned to use chasing cam, because the friends i used to race on split screen, were always making jokes, how they picture me, strapped to the bonnet.. The last time i saw one of them is at least 5 years ago, but i am still at chasing cam.

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Hi everyone. Didn't do a lot of racing these last months, because I was a bit tired of poor driving standards and I wanted to complete another game (Baldur's Gate 3).

I took a liking to the Youtube channel of Luc Nodaro. Really great information about trying to be calm and develop race craft. With some of his video's under my belt, I decided for some Trial Mountain action yesterday and this morning.

My pace wasn't on par with mid DR B lobbies. I recently stopped using some driver's assistance (apart from abs and sometimes tcs 1) and I'm still rediscovering how to drive. I was 20 - 50 seconds behind the leader, and quickly dropped to DR C. This matched my pace a lot better.

Luc Nodaro's tips are working for me I think. Don't go for every possibility, but only overtake if you're sure you can pull it off. Be patient otherwise and make friends along the way. It's still irritating to see not everyone works this way though. Sometimes you just can't help being in the middle of a group of cars (for example in lap 1). If I'm being patient and a gentleman, someone behind me just puts a nose in at an high risk place, or just bluntly punts me off. No one waits up after they run you off track, that's too bad.

I did 8 races. 5 of them I was P12 or worse because people punted me off. I also had a P7 and a P8 finish. My best race was a P2 finish (from P6 start) when something happened behind me that caused a little 2~3 seconds gap. I was on P2 and kept bumpdrafting P1 and together we fled the pack and had a lovely race. He drove quite erratically (extreme oversteer snaps in many corners) so I was waiting for an almost inevitable mistake, but he constantly saved it and kept P1. Still a very, very nice race where I was super happy with P2 and was in the flow state. I hope I can experience this type of racing more, but you can't always rule out ambitious divebombers ofcourse.
 
NevilleNobody
Mate I tried watchin g it but man, the music is so distracting. In saying that, the quality of the video is amazing, i swear I am doing something wrong as mine always looks so flat, yours has proper colour and contrast.
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Thanks neville appreciate the feedback, i will turn off the music next time, I have yet to adopt commentary too maybe that might be worthwhile in doing? voiceover maybe?

I be more than happy to discuss my edits, video encoding and prep for YT over dms if need be, should you need help?
 
So I post a lot of lap videos or moaning about penalty videos or bad racing and that’s kinda my brand.

Put sometimes the penalty system works pretty well.

Some context, I started pole and let P2 through at the chicane as he is definitely faster and we seemed on the same page of let’s fight later, but run now.

He clipped the grass on lap 3, I did a synchronised avoidance sympathy crash and ended up at the back.

And here I find my self in GT chainsaw massacre and I’ve seen more ghosts now that I’m a believer!

Honestly, A lobby bad drivers and a Mediterranean guy for “reasons” full throttles himself on to a wall to get a pen and engine damage 🤷‍♂️

This was an A/S lobby but I suspect a very low split one.

 
Barney Da Dog
I think there's just too much grip in Gr4, especially with the mediums, so driving errors are rare. Red Bull Ring was boring last week, a close 'racing' procession with no strategy to spice it up a little bit.
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The penny just dropped with me on this and so true, too much grip, no mistakes, makes perfect sense!

I’ve had some good races this week at interlagos but I’m thinking tonight will be to start racing on Monza, see what that’s like

Edit. Don’t think I’ll be doing anymore of Monza, it’s a long track in that car and if you get behind, boy are you behind 😁 but I did get a win at interlagos, trusty G70
 
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Daily Race Report 🏁 Started P5 and finished P2 today! 💪 It was a really fun race against some faster drivers, and I managed to stay consistent and clean the whole way. Super happy with the pace and how much I’m improving lately. Step by step, getting closer to the top! 🚀
 

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Barney Da Dog
I think there's just too much grip in Gr4, especially with the mediums, so driving errors are rare. Red Bull Ring was boring last week, a close 'racing' procession with no strategy to spice it up a little bit.

I'm enjoying Trial Mountain - a track I usually avoid, but it's becoming quite enjoyable now.
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I have had a bit more success with the Cayman, started out using the meta Citroën GT but I've never got on well with wide ting
 
brockie
So what’s everyone using as strat on trial mountain?

Would medium until lap 7 be the way to go?
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Start mediums, even if you are in the top 2, change to Softs Lap 7 in to 8 if you go earlier the grip just falls off I’ve tried:

Started on Softs change at lap 5 in to 6 finished 7th and sweating/panicking

RM but the early pit 5/6 in to 6/7 again dicey at the end

Optimum is the 7 in to 8 strat medium to hard Soft.

Although one thing I am going to try is in my last race mixed A/A+ I felt really really comfortable and in the zone flow with the mediums, I toyed with the idea of running them 10 in to 11 just to see as they felt good in that race
 
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newmedia_dev
Start mediums, even if you are in the top 2, change to Softs Lap 7 in to 8 if you go earlier the grip just falls off I’ve tried:

Started on Softs change at lap 5 in to 6 finished 7th and sweating/panicking

RM but the early pit 5/6 in to 6/7 again dicey at the end

Optimum is the 7 in to 8 strat medium to hard Soft.

Although one thing I am going to try is in my last race mixed A/A+ I felt really really comfortable and in the zone flow with the mediums, I toyed with the idea of running them 10 in to 11 just to see as they felt good in that race
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Thanks mate, I’ve been doing a few race C and it’s always fun doing gr3 trial mountain, there is a challenge there for sure! Nice lap time you have there too, that’s awesome. I must admit, I just cannot stomach the distance and I don’t know why,

Race B on the other hand, I feel like I have my mojo back, the racing at BS is really clean and I’ve got a bunch of wins, this G70 is eating the Citroen for breakfast 😁 but when it’s close, it’s real close,

Getting back to the top of B hopefully for next week and try stay there
 
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Opinion.

Been having a real blast at interlagos today, good bunch all racing well, this is last lap, I started 6th, 1st place really pulled away for the first few laps but seemed to have lost 2.6secs by the time this video came, close last lap, no negative comments at the end but still, opinions 😁

 
I ran several Daily C this week trying to get into a few more dailies again qnd was stunned by the matchmaking and the driving standards. Things would swing so drastically from race to race. Lots of people starting on RS, even from p16 and then just launching it everywhere with no expectation someone might be on mediums qnd there's loads of carnage with SR B drivers, next race there's still the RS issue but the driving is better and great racing. This all in DR A and A+ lobbies.

Did have 1 troll that I saw in 3 races. Put me in the wall on lap 1 every race, but at a different point. The final race I was able to save the car a bit so was coming back at the end. He swerve blocked me heading to the tunnel turn, shoved me over into the wall on the back straight so I now know he's dirty on purpose. I line up a run on him into the final chicane where I can either send a block pass on the left that will put his rights on the grass so he can't spear me on the right turn. But thanks to someone else doing the backwards across the line thing we had a yellow flag coming to the braking zone so he just slams on the anchors before I realize so that I pass him and get a 3 second penalty. People like that don't want to race, they just exist to troll people. At least I now know to never bother trying to race him clean and just wipe him out first chance I get for a while.
 

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