GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

[half_sourly]

The results for TT159 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in the Chevrolet Corvette CX.R Vision Gran Turismo Concept are over here. I have updated the opening post with the index of all TTs and the second post with the community scoreboards. A reminder that each driver's results for every TT is in the Excel file attached to the latest results post.

Here are some interim statistics for TT160 at Sardegna - Road Track - A in the Renault Sport Clio R.S. 220 EDC Trophy '16.

Spoiler: GTP Scoreboard

 

[crome]

4 TTs at the same time, is that a first ?

Don't know, but my plug-in is really pushed to the limit right now (since it also displays the previous one for a few more hours)

 

[half_sourly]

4 TTs at the same time, is that a first ?

No, we had it before. Between 15 Aug and 22 Aug 2024 there would have been 4 live TTs.

Number	Start date	End date	Track	Car	ID	Tyres	Title
98	08-Aug-24	22-Aug-24	High Speed Ring	Porsche 917 LIVING LEGEND	10334	RH	N/A
99	15-Aug-24	29-Aug-24	Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit	Renault Sport Clio V6 24V '00	10335	SH	N/A
100	14-Aug-24	31-Aug-24	Spoiler: trigger warning for controller users WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Mercedes-AMG GT3 '20	10248	RS	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Virtual Championship Hot Laps
101	02-Aug-24	01-Sep-24	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Honda RA272 '65	10265	RH	Honda Racing eMS - GT Fastest Attack 2024 - Challenge Class

EDIT - similar in 2023

 

[Gomario JSP]

No, we had it before. Between 15 Aug and 22 Aug 2024 there would have been 4 live TTs.

Number	Start date	End date	Track	Car	ID	Tyres	Title
98	08-Aug-24	22-Aug-24	High Speed Ring	Porsche 917 LIVING LEGEND	10334	RH	N/A
99	15-Aug-24	29-Aug-24	Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit	Renault Sport Clio V6 24V '00	10335	SH	N/A
100	14-Aug-24	31-Aug-24	Spoiler: trigger warning for controller users WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Mercedes-AMG GT3 '20	10248	RS	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Virtual Championship Hot Laps
101	02-Aug-24	01-Sep-24	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Honda RA272 '65	10265	RH	Honda Racing eMS - GT Fastest Attack 2024 - Challenge Class

EDIT - similar in 2023

@half_sourly that's just to soon buddy 🤣🤣

 

[ElectricNaz]

Seeing as today I'm in some sort of weirdly good form (after my Chevrolet attack on silver earlier, everything else seems incredibly easy to drive in comparison), this is my attempt at Suzuka. I don't know why today has been a good day, but I'll take it!

 

[Tidgney]

Tried the Porsche first and this is a FANTASTIC combo in my opinion! Really fun to drive, especially in VR!

 

[Famine]

4 TTs at the same time

Well, ****.

I have a double template and a triple template but... yeah.

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial: Four Cast​

There’s a bumper crop of Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial events right now, with the latest new event in the regular cycle making its debut alongside two special events — making for 8m credits available over the next couple of weeks...

 

[NAXEHT]

Welp, made it into gold another 200km last night.

I continued going for another 200km which, with hindsight, was completely pointless as I never went faster than a 6.3XX after getting the 6.072.

This car is just exhausting to drive and I think it fried my brain to the point where I could no longer improve. Doing 200km and not getting even close to my best time caused quite a crash out. That's the closest my controller has been to getting launched out the window since GT7 came out.

Seems like we both prefer to wait until the end of the trial to do our laps and posts. On opposite sides of the globe and somehow sharing the same GT7 struggles, although you generally seem to do things a couple of tenths faster than me

Thanks for sharing these, I was reviewing the replays prior to my laps. Wasn't able to load your ghost unfortunately, wasn't showing the replay next to your name on the leaderboard and I couldn't find an option to download the ghost anywhere. Typical Polyphony I guess.

Also thanks for the motivation! I know I can generally get within a tenth or 2 of your times, so knowing you had a sub 06 gave me the motivation to try and get close to that.



Although the lap itself was fast, I feel there's plenty of time on the table. I've definitely gone faster through S1, and I could've hit the apex for the turn 4 right hander a bit better. T5 & 6 were actually quite good which is probably where I made up a significant amount of time. Corkscrew was not too bad although I think the landing and exit could've been very slightly better. But then I completely missed the apexes of both Rainey curve and the penultimate corner, so I think there's probably quite a bit of time left on the table in those 2 corners.

Ultimately it didn't matter since I wasn't improving at all after this lap anyway, if anything I was getting slower.

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All that is left is to wait and see if any aliens come in at the final hour to shift the gold time down. As I was setting my laps last night, the aliens actively were improving their times at the top, so the gold time has shifted since yesterday in case anyone didn't notice and was on the edge of gold.

Well done on putting it all together in the end!

About the ghost — sorry, I took it for granted that you knew how. The replays on the leaderboard are only those that have been top 10 at some point (and not improved to a position outside of top 10 afterwards). To load another ghost not available on the leaderboard it has to be shared (like mine was) and from your POV added to your collection. When it’s added you can enter the TT session, go to ghost settings in the pause menu and load ghost from collection.

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Gr.3 at Suzuka is very uncreative and uninspring. The 962 at Monza looks promising, however.

 

[Jeje6410]

First test in Suzuka :
Get gold in 2'00'845 with Beetle. Maybe I will try this TT with M6 Sprint later...

 

[NevilleNobody]

Two interesting ones, 967's are a cool car to hustle about in and Group 3 Suzuka is a real test to see where I am on a wheel as Suzuka was my worst track with a D-pad. This will tough I think, I am still not great around Suzuka but did just managed to gold the Super Formula TT a few months back.

 

[zjn]

No, we had it before. Between 15 Aug and 22 Aug 2024 there would have been 4 live TTs.

Number	Start date	End date	Track	Car	ID	Tyres	Title
98	08-Aug-24	22-Aug-24	High Speed Ring	Porsche 917 LIVING LEGEND	10334	RH	N/A
99	15-Aug-24	29-Aug-24	Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit	Renault Sport Clio V6 24V '00	10335	SH	N/A
100	14-Aug-24	31-Aug-24	Spoiler: trigger warning for controller users WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Mercedes-AMG GT3 '20	10248	RS	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Virtual Championship Hot Laps
101	02-Aug-24	01-Sep-24	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Honda RA272 '65	10265	RH	Honda Racing eMS - GT Fastest Attack 2024 - Challenge Class

EDIT - similar in 2023

Hey @half_sourly would you like to share the whole list of TT with start/end dates?
I have some notes with timestamps in my notebook about changes in driving habits and/or rig layout but cannot link them to actual TT.

Thanks in advance

 

[Wilsonson]

Wurst is more of a derogatory term where I'm from

💩 not 🌭

Also "wurst" can mean "irrelevant" 🤷‍♂️

irrelevant – Wiktionary

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Spoiler: Irrelevant synonyms

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Back to topic. Semi hyped for the 962C @ Monza. Really like the track and car.

Q: What would you like for dinner?
A: wurst

 

[half_sourly]

Hey @half_sourly would you like to share the whole list of TT with start/end dates?
I have some notes with timestamps in my notebook about changes in driving habits and/or rig layout but cannot link them to actual TT.

Thanks in advance

Here you go.

 

[zjn]

Here you go.

Thanks a lot

 

[Jeje6410]

First test in Monza :
Thanks a lot @Pesselles for your ghost..🥰🥰
Get gold in 1'26'435

 

[NevilleNobody]

Gave both a quick whirl, maybe 5 or so laps. The Porsche is weird, it actually feels ok just reluctant to turn, gold may be a stretch on this one. May need to watch more fast laps as I am just .... slow. Currently safe silver but gold feels a ways off.

Suzuka is knife edge stuff, I am at 3.02% so need to find about 4 tenths to be safe and that's possible but will probably se me chuck my toys outside the pram a few times.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Quick go in the 962 at Monza this morning - lovely combo!! Into the 25’s…just, but only at 2%. More to come

 

[half_sourly]

Don't you just love a symmetrical time? Ooh, arr.

 

[ZEE]

Well gave suzuka a shot and got shot up by the RCF gotta practice some more I am very rusty lol.

 

[Lomic]

Spoiler

No improvement on fastest lap today at Sardegna. 0.005s slower than yesteday.

Better medium though, despite two invalidated laps that lowered the average a good bit.

Found a faster way to take T13, just need to do it consistently (not like in lap 10...)

 

[ZEE]

I also tried the Porsche 962 at Monza but only got 1 decent lap in!! It a trikcy bugger to slow down on the chicanes once 200mph comes up!

 

[daabulls]

Suzuka Gr3? What is this, Daily Race C? But I can't complain since there are 3 others to choose from and they're all pretty good.

 

[Metalgear9493]

Don't you just love a symmetrical time? Ooh, arr.

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You got too much time on your hands🤣.

 

[2cam16]

Had a quick try at both new ones. The Porsche is fun. Gr.3 will take too much time to figure out which works the best so I just went with my M6 Sprint.
Gran Turismo® 7_20250911141426 by 2cam16, on Flickr
Suzuka Circuit_ (17) by 2cam16, on Flickr
Gran Turismo® 7_20250911141915 by 2cam16, on Flickr
Autodromo Nazionale Monza No Chicane_ by 2cam16, on Flickr
Will come back to them next week.

 

[linksracer]

About the ghost — sorry, I took it for granted that you knew how. The replays on the leaderboard are only those that have been top 10 at some point (and not improved to a position outside of top 10 afterwards). To load another ghost not available on the leaderboard it has to be shared (like mine was) and from your POV added to your collection. When it’s added you can enter the TT session, go to ghost settings in the pause menu and load ghost from collection.

I indeed was not aware of that. Normally I just grab the #1 replay and use that so I've never tried to get one that was shared outside the leaderboard.
I did go into Ghost settings but only had a cursory glance through, so probably didn't see the option to add one from collection. Good information to know for next time!

 

[Carlos Fandango]

Great session in the 956 tonight… 35 laps in total and almost called it a day at 30 laps after picking up 6 tenths from this morning, but then gave it another quick go (just too much fun), and found another tenth. Early days, but 44th is quite exciting!!

 

[newmedia_dev]

Don't you just love a symmetrical time? Ooh, arr.

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ooohooo a time palindrome!

 

[Gomario JSP]

Morning folks,

Great times already on the board,

As mentioned yesterday i'm taking a little step back on the playtime, during the day and evening it's family time the wife and the daughter need attention to you know 😂 😂, so as many of you know already by now i mostly have my runs early in the morning before work, but....... our starting time at work shifted a bit and my workdays are 7 AM - 3.30 PM right now ( summer-work-time, winter it's 8:30 AM - 5 PM because of the heatwaves )
That means if i want an hour playtime on a normal day my alarmclock says 5:30 AM and after some time you get to feel that if you are 43 😂😂, so with these TT's now i am happy to turn it down just a notch, weekends are fine and a will runs some laps but i think i'm changing the alarmclock for a while, i'm getting old folks! 😂😂

That said, i wanted to clear all TT's this morning so 5:30 it was...

Monza :

Great sound, great track, great car, iconic
Little too agile on high speeds and to little downforce on the slower corners.
Roggia the chicane is a hit or miss, smelling curbs means airborn, realy not forgiving right there.

Lesmo 1 is such a weird corner, sometimes the car just over-rotates and you have to do your best to not meet Barry R on the inside, other times it just won't turn.

Lesmo 2 is better and you can get away with a descent amount of curb sometimes, but haven't found the sweetspot yet for all 3 of them .

Ascari, well... is think i find the the most epic corner of the whole game, such a blast!, it always feels verry slippery, definately not the easiest but man i love it when you hit it just right!

Save gold with a 25.9 so alarmclock-save 😂

Suzuka

It's not my thing, i ran the Sprint model M6 to begin with and immidiately remembered why i don't like these cars,
They feel heavy, the M6 feels very heavy!
It's not a bad drive but just not my cup of thee, it's controllable and predictable but i don't know..... i haven't got a feeling with it.

Save gold though with a 59.8 so alarm-clock save again!😂

So as for the 4 events right now i'm happy to take a little step back, need sleeeep 😂

 

[Lomic]

I indeed was not aware of that. Normally I just grab the #1 replay and use that so I've never tried to get one that was shared outside the leaderboard.
I did go into Ghost settings but only had a cursory glance through, so probably didn't see the option to add one from collection. Good information to know for next time!

You also have the option to go to the showcase -> content search -> replays, filter on track and/or car and you'll find plenty of best lap replays of current TTs, with lap time visible, so you can pick a ghost that is slightly faster than you, which is sometimes more convenient to progress than current WR (for me at least I benefit more from a slower ghost that I can follow closely)