GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

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This afternoon I had my last session on this track. I found car handling strange over the last few days. I drove 1:39.29x without any assist but my last two PBā€™s I drove with CSA STRONG. Go figure!

Itā€™s time to start a new TT tomorrow.


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linksracer
Tried to do some extra laps after setting this .641, but I completely lost the plot, probably getting too tired.
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I kept finding the car becoming wildly different midway through a session...and then it would seemingly revert back to a state I could go fast with. I had one lap Monday night where it legitimately would not stop sliding all lap, and the next lap it was fine. Annoyingly, but unsurprisingly, my time (which was good for 90th) immediately got bumped out of the top 100, and is still sitting at 106th...but given how I acquired the lap, I felt it best not to bother wasting my entire night chasing what would not be attainable again.

I mowed the lawn on another 90 degree day, then had a Hot Dog & Beer Pairing, so I'm tired and just want to go to bed...so I went to Interlagos with the DB11! :lol:

The tires are absolutely horrific, but I was able to do a 1:40.349 the first time out with very little focus and a mild headache. Optimum was only a .209 tonight, but I'm sure I wasn't really doing all the right things (yesterday afternoon was stressful enough at work that I didn't even do a TT because I was so wiped...it's still somewhat translating to today), and I only watched @Tidgney 's video right before to refresh myself from when I watched it a week ago and proceeded to not even try out the TT until tonight haha.

I shall improve, I'm sure.

Probably.
 
Ah, summer with its medley of aperitifs on the terrace, barbecues with friends, village festivals and above all the football world cup... serious competitors to reserve time behind the wheel.

I would have liked to pay a more vibrant tribute to the Gord, who allowed many talents to blossom in my country.

PB at 59.934... if I had attached those two together, I could go down to 58.728.
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And finally, L-shooter broke the wall of 57.xxx and f?!#%+d my DG score šŸ˜…
 
NicoGmbh
Ah, summer with its medley of aperitifs on the terrace, barbecues with friends, village festivals and above all the football world cup... serious competitors to reserve time behind the wheel.

I would have liked to pay a more vibrant tribute to the Gord, who allowed many talents to blossom in my country.

PB at 59.934... if I had attached those two together, I could go down to 58.728.
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And finally, L-shooter broke the wall of 57.xxx and f?!#%+d my DG score šŸ˜…
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So this is why we have Kimi on top of F1 leaderboard and won 3 Le Mans in a row? Now it all makes sense to me.
Don't mind the sobbing and crying you hear coming from the corner, that's definitely not me knowing that 20 years ago Italy won its last knock-out match in a World Cup
 
NicoGmbh
@IngWeltschmer

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That's true though. 2010 no victories at all in a ridiculous group stage, 2014 we won against England but failed to qualify for knock-out. Which means that the last victory in a knock-out game was against our "beloved" cousins of France in 2006 in Berlin exactly 20 years ago. (Sorry, now I'm going to take a shower. Not because of the heatwave, but just so that I don't notice my tears any more)
 
IngWeltschmer
That's true though. 2010 no victories at all in a ridiculous group stage, 2014 we won against England but failed to qualify for knock-out. Which means that the last victory in a knock-out game was against our "beloved" cousins of France in 2006 in Berlin exactly 20 years ago. (Sorry, now I'm going to take a shower. Not because of the heatwave, but just so that I don't notice my tears any more)
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Not to mention the mother of all dives to win against australia in the first knock out game in 2006 ;)

Gave the Aston a whirl last night, TBH it feels pretty good to drive and sounds great, gob bless V12 engines. I am very close to gold but having trouble locking the rears on corner entry, not sure if driving more smoothly works better or driving even harder as some seem to be doing on replays?
 
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I guess we got another Spa TT because the Mercedes one ends before the F1 weekend. At least it is always super easy to get gold at Spa.
 
Well, tried throwing the DB11 around again last night. Not much more improvement but some. I have S1 down, can hit .200 often. Occasionally a .150. And S3 is okay, all depends on that exit speed. But that God forsaken S2 last half is killing me in this car. Looking at sector times and am actually losing more than .500 there. Two places mainly, T10 and 11, T 9 is hit or miss. I did figure out what I am doing in T10 but fixing it is taking work. I'm entering too tight in fear of the car spinning out on the entry being wide. You know what I mean. šŸ˜‰ so I cannot get the burst of acceleration needed to capture the time. I was feeling like I could get that elusive top 50 here, but the DB11 seems to be uncooperative in this goal. Maybe a couple wall jams at 150 mph will change it's attitude. šŸ¤£

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NevilleNobody
Not to mention the mother of all dives to win against australia in the first knock out game in 2006 ;)
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Don't know what you're talking about... (I remember our newspapers being a bit criticizing, calling him "shrewd" since the AU player could not disappear and he just walked into him knowing he'd tramp and fall)
Anyways, that generation got robbed by the biggest scandal in the history of WC ever, look at Italy-Korea...

But maybe we should get back on track now, like literally
 
Hi Guys,

A quick visit on the forum!
Sorry I am not that active but life is still freaking crazy, working around 11 to 12 hours a day so the 5 o clock buzzer isn't realy that fun anymore šŸ¤£
Good to see you all hammering those laps!

I have golded all safely so i can leave on holiday saterday morning šŸ˜
Off to the land of @Jeje6410 , sun, sea and baguettes!

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Au revoir! šŸ˜šŸ¤£
 
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NevilleNobody
Not to mention the mother of all dives to win against australia in the first knock out game in 2006 ;)

Gave the Aston a whirl last night, TBH it feels pretty good to drive and sounds great, gob bless V12 engines. I am very close to gold but having trouble locking the rears on corner entry, not sure if driving more smoothly works better or driving even harder as some seem to be doing on replays?
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I only did a few laps on day so might be misremembering. But I believe that breaking lightly and just letting it roll before smoothly getting back on throttle worked really well on the non hairpin corners.

Definitely left many tenths on the table from some potential optimum but it was a safe gold. Also I'm just not good enough to easily get close to my personal ceiling.

And unlike most here I personally lack the motivation to put in the hours. You grinders here are the true beasts and the real heroes. Inspiring.
 
Wilsonson
And unlike most here I personally lack the motivation to put in the hours. You grinders here are the true beasts and the real heroes. Inspiring.
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Each to his own but grinding for endless hours to get in the top 100 or whatever, man, tough sledding unles you're one of the freaks int he top 10. I get my gold and vanish off to race.
 
Couldnā€™t even muster 100 kms on the R8 Gordini at Horse Thief Mile. Didnā€™t like it at all and generally struggling with motivation for Gran Turismo right now... On paper a pretty cool combo but in my opinion it felt like crap on SS, shouldā€™ve been on the CM tyres it comes with or CS at most. Probably the least time Iā€™ve spent on a TT in more than a year. Anyway, a 0ā€™58.516 it was.



NicoGmbh
First try and GTP top 10... come on šŸ˜„
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Well, sure. Just about. Still felt like **** though. :lol:
linksracer
Asked myself the same question when I gave it a go last night, thought this would be comfort soft at most.

Must be driving a different car to everyone else, cannot stand the way it handles.
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Concur a 100% with you, man. As is often the case. :)
rheinaoi
  • Someone at PD needed to test higher grip compounds on skinny, small wheels. We are the lab animals / aliens.
  • Someone at PD is trolling us by giving us conditions where a car with basically no power and all its weight over the driven wheels can still break traction
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Yeah, perhaps!
PowerJunkie
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Well, it is a tuned race car. If you haven't already, go to the garage and read the facts on the car, very interesting.
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Sure but still felt really strange to drive. Iā€™ll have a look at the car collection info though, thatā€™s a good tip to slowly tick off all the ā€œunreadā€ cars. ;)

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650 Gr.4 at Spa. Can you even come up with a more uninspring combo? You could brew and drink up a coffee by the time youā€™ve passed Eau Rouge and Kemmel. We couldnā€™t even get nighttime which couldā€™ve been a slightly redeeming factor, instead this combo just makes you wanna uninstall the game.
 
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