GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

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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.
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Same approach for me but I can totally understand those who just want to improve and/or rise up the leaderboards and make the TTs their home.
 
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I’m back, DB11 and Gordini times.
 
Spa...feels like Deja vu? I wonder why...

First session out in the McLaren - the car isn't bad at all, very very stable and easy to control. 2:31's just eluded me tonight (though an optimum of .888 certainly means they should be feasible), with my best being a 2:32.068 (aside from the 2:31.941 I did run that one of those stupid bollards invalidated - I consider that theft). Towards the end, it was starting to get weirdly understeery and I was missing markers, so I called it quits for tonight when I somehow blew Turn 1.
 
More laps in Brazil. Gained a bit and squeezed into the top 100 with P96, but that won't last long. There has been no indications I can get much faster, so I think I'm done here.
Did a few laps at Spa to get a feel for it. I get its been overused, but damn, it's the most enjoyable of the three for sure. Had some fun with it. Only got to 2.33.060, so I'm off by over a second 🤣 but it was fun.

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Gomario JSP
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 🤣
Good to see you all hammering those laps!

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

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Au revoir! 😁🤣
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Welcome in France my dear Jomar and happy holidays 🫶🫶❤️
 
Why do they use RH tires even on time trial? Dont they trust the physics to work with RM tires?! Same with other time trials - no one would take cars like the recent Aston Martin to track with such terrible tires that they use. Propably wouldnt even be legal to use those tire in a high performance car..😂 to me this is classic case of unneccessary japanese game design sadomasokism.
 
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This is weird. Both easy and hard at the same time. Easy to handle but hard to not lose tons of time.

The Gr. 4 Aero ist weird as well. Need to slow way down to make a corner but it seems to hook super well when you accelerate very early. Totally unintuitive.

And I have a hunch that short shifting is important. Is that right? And what would be the point at the indicator? (Sorry haven't check guides or replays yet)
 
Yup, @Tidgney mentioned that in his video, and, for most of my session, I mis-remembered it as shifting at the downshift gear indicator, not the actual one to the left. Even that small of a change (and thus shorter shift) was noticeable in the higher speed sectors, especially the 5-6 change.
 
Two brief initial runs with the Aston and the Merc GT3 done, mostly just to make sure I'll be able cash in the credits rewards - will revisit both to get closer to the 2% of the WR laptime as both are far from optimized yet.

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The McLaren feels odd as I'd just been doing races all week in group 3 so it took time to recalibrate. Got into safe gold in 7 or 8 laps but its, I dunno, a weird car, you need to slow more than you think to make the corner.

Someone above answered my question on the aston correctly, I drove more smoothly rather than trying to miscle it around and I found a second of lap time for safe gold.

Odd tidbit, for the three current time trials I am at 2.5pc, 2.5pc and 2.53pc.
 
It’s been some weeks since I’ve been on GT. So I had a bit of a session to catch up on all the three current TT’s.

The times are not spectacular, but are respectable enough for me.😁 they should all be safe gold now.

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Thanks for all the advice regarding shift points. Immediately managed safe within 2 laps. Then pushed some more and improved a bit. I'm weirdly inconsistent in some parts though. Some times the cars just doesn't turn and understeer wide. Other times I break at the exact same spot and make it fine.

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I remembered that the Mcclaren Gr4 requires shorter shifting. I’m in vr though so not sure where that was.

I was shifting where the center red 4 shift lights are lit in the dash before it goes into white (?) and flashes at you.

Does that sound right?
 
I will never understand why PD lowers the PP of the cars like in this McLaren event. What's the reason?
 
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I remembered that the Mcclaren Gr4 requires shorter shifting. I’m in vr though so not sure where that was.

I was shifting where the center red 4 shift lights are lit in the dash before it goes into white (?) and flashes at you.

Does that sound right?
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This where i shift sometimes 1dot higher if iam to late 😅

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Back at it with the Aston since it ends only a few days from now. Best I could do tonight was only ~2 tenths better, and still out of the 1:39s, with a 1:40.129, but optimums of a 1:39.893.

Not entirely understanding what I am missing here, besides it seemingly being a complete tossup on whether or not the car turns how you want it, and whether or not it hooks or spins.

 
With some effort managed to improve to a 41.4 with the Aston, and it felt at the time like the sort of laptime I would peak at - however as it placed me at the high end of the 900s on the leaderboard, opted to try for at least 41.39x or something to secure a top 1000 spot.

Then experienced the rare occurrence of the The Lap(tm) where suddenly all corners came together and instead of finding a couple of missing hundreths, cut down the entire laptime by around 3,5 tenths and threw myself into the leaderboard 500s.

defo not beating that any further, good moment to move on

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