GT7 Daily Race Discussion

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With the wife away I could get downstairs early and give race c a crack. Started with the GTR and immediately felt this was a combo where one would just keep finding time. After 10 laps I ran a 55.7, optimal low 55. Decided to do 2 races, one was a podium where I was the fastest but was bunped off early, other was mess. Both B rooms.

I felt there was more in me so decided to try the Lexus. It immediately felt even better, ran a 55.6 and decided to push. Was on pace for a 53.9 and binned it, but did manage a 54.1. I think that's tough to beat in B rooms and should be competitive in A rooms. Link to my lap below.

So the physics, for these cars I really like the change. I can lay on the throttle with more confidence and can catch a slide much easier than before. The FFB on my DD Pro feels excellent, much better than before. Not sure what group 3 or 4 feel like but in these gt500 cars I really like the change, especially the weighty feeling of the car rather than it floating.

 
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I expected to be slower than most at St. Croix but not 5-8 seconds off the leaders in DR B. I finished 1:34 behind P1. Going to study the replay and see what I am getting wrong.

I don’t know how y’all are managing 1:53s when the best I cracked on RM was 2:04 in the meta GT-R.
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Tried to share my reply for you to use but it's not working on PS for some reason so here it is for you to check out if you can maybe pick up a few things to get some extra pace.



NevilleNobody
With the wife away I could get downstairs early and give race c a crack. Started with the GTR and immediately felt this was a combo where one would just keep finding time. After 10 laps I ran a 55.7, optimal low 55. Decided to do 2 races, one was a podium where I was the fastest but was bunped off early, other was mess. Both B rooms.

I felt there was more in me so decided to try the Lexus. It immediately felt even better, ran a 55.6 and decided to push. Was on pace for a 53.9 and binned it, but did manage a 54.1. I think that's tough to beat in B rooms and should be competitive in A rooms. Link to my lap below.

So the physics, for these cars I really like the change. I can lay on the throttle with more confidence and can catch a slide much easier than before. The FFB on my DD Pro feels excellent, much better than before. Not sure what group 3 or 4 feel like but in these gt500 cars I really like the change, especially the weighty feeling of the car rather than it floating.

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Love that livery mate!!!!!

Yeah I agree it seems like the more you race the more bits of time just drop off, are you sticking with the Lexus now? I'm a slave to the META.

I think you've summed up my feelings there, I tried Gr2 at Fuji pre update and was like driving on an ice rink, but this has been really enjoyable.

I need to put some work into S2 and S3 here, S1, S3, S4 I lose around one to one and half tenths to Tidgney's guide but I lose nearly a second through S2 and S3, just so hard to get a flow through those sections, I'm not using anywhere near enough track in those sections, Think if I can crack that I'll sneak into the 52's.
 
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Was on pace for a 53.9 and binned it, but did manage a 54.1. I think that's tough to beat in B rooms and should be competitive in A rooms
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I think it will rather most likely be a '52-'52.5 in A rooms to be competitive and '53-'53.5 in B rooms. By the end of the week I assume those times will go down by about 0.8 sec ar.
On the physics I agree with you; it's way more easy (I'd say natural) to catch a snap oversteer. Moreover the stupid "pendulum effect" is disappeared and, when punted, it's less likely to get stuck facing the opposite direction of the track (at least in Yas Marina for what I could see during the weekend). Also you can drive-turn the car playing with the throttle, thing that was almost impossible before or just possible in long fast corners.
 
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Doesn't mean you can't have fun tryin', tho. In order to have fun, you can't hate the race. Getting frustrated exacerbates that death spiral, lol.

Seriously, you can be crazy fast and attain some serious car control via any input device. That's the 'magic' GT brings to the table. Ask some folks around here. I think @Voodoovaj and @GOTMAXPOWER (if wrong, my bad😁) are both on controllers and @Tidgney runs laps on controller and wheel for some of his stuff. 👍
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Yeah I'm on controller, there are quite a few of us in A+ on pad but that itself is still a huge way off the level you need for GTWS, Calster and Lamb have both qualified for the live events on pad so it is doable (or was with the previous physics at least) but they have to be more perfect than players on the toy steering wheels because the hardware is tying on of their hands behind their back. Calster streamed whilst he was doing the qualifying championship which showed the number of hours you have to put in even if you have the skill.

@Andyxdr Take it in baby steps, don't worry about trying to break world records straight away, as long as you're a little closer to the front than the week before you're heading the right way.

This is a cool site, I'm not sure how they get the data but you can compare your qualy laps against the top no matter how far down the leaderboard you are to see where the time losses are: https://gtsh-rank.com/daily/
 
GOTMAXPOWER
Yeah I'm on controller, there are quite a few of us in A+ on pad but that itself is still a huge way off the level you need for GTWS, Calster and Lamb have both qualified for the live events on pad so it is doable (or was with the previous physics at least) but they have to be more perfect than players on the toy steering wheels because the hardware is tying on of their hands behind their back. Calster streamed whilst he was doing the qualifying championship which showed the number of hours you have to put in even if you have the skill.

@Andyxdr Take it in baby steps, don't worry about trying to break world records straight away, as long as you're a little closer to the front than the week before you're heading the right way.

This is a cool site, I'm not sure how they get the data but you can compare your qualy laps against the top no matter how far down the leaderboard you are to see where the time losses are: https://gtsh-rank.com/daily/
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Thanks.
 
After spending two days flogging the proverbial dead horse that is the Raybrig NSX Concept, I think today will finally be the time to try out one of the other GT500s if I'm to extract real pace in Race C.

I adore how the Honda handles, and I managed to squirm a few positions through the superior manoeuvrability through sectors 2 and 4, but nothing as dominant as the extra straight line speed offered by my opponents. Time to bite the Lexus/Nissan shaped bullet.
 

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