GT7 Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[GTvsForza]

Sunday Cup Classic - C3 Convertible 🔰

Japanese FR Challenge - HiAce 🔰

American Clubman Cup - C8 🔰

U9 One-Make - 🚫

WTC900 - GT-R GT500 🔰

Got High Cam S for FK8 Civic from 4⭐️ Daily.

Power Pack Challenges will be done tomorrow.

 

[evldave333]

Went a bit eat my dust with some of my car selections this week... the Yang Wang was better to photograph than to drive pity it was not the faster variant would have been really visceral on that Sarthe back straight.

 

[CostaCorsa]

May – Week 2
There were interesting races this week. And this week I used:
Gamepad | Automatic transmission | Race Difficulty – Hard

#5 | World Touring Car 900 | Autodromo de Interlagos
SF19 Super Formula / Honda ‘19 | PP 900 | RS tyres | FM 1 | 1 pit
After trying different cars, I came to the conclusion that the SF19 is best suited for this race. In the first try, I drove without pit stop on RM tyres and fuel map 5 and I won. In another one try, I used RS tyres, fuel map 1 and I won again with 1 pit.

#4 | Special Race – Yangwang U9 – One Make | 24 Heures du Mans Racing Circuit
Yangwang U9 | PP 767 | RS tyres
I must say that the U9 handles better than the SU7. Having quickly overtaken all my rivals, I was confident of an easy victory, but on the second lap my pursuers reduced the gap from 10 to 5 seconds.

#3 | American Clubman Cup 700 | Watkins Glen Long Course
Eckert's Rod & Custom Mach Forty | PP 700 | RS tyres
I had no problems in this race. Mach Forty was faster than any other.

#2 | Japanese FR Challenge 450 | Autodrome Lago Maggiore - West
Toyota Sprinter Trueno 1600GT ‘83 | PP 450 | CS tyres
It’s been the hardest event of the week. I only won because I cut corners wherever possible. Didn’t use NOS. The rivals are clearly using cars with a larger PP.

#1 | Sunday Cup Classic | WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
Toyota Sprinter Trueno 1600GT ‘83 | PP 350 | CS tyres
In this race, I used Trueno again. It was quite difficult to win, the gap from Giulia was only 1 second.

I got 500,000 Cr. for the completed weekly challenges, but I got a MAZDA 787B engine for the daily races.

 

[ROCKET JOE]

Can't believe it, it's finished already. With the races being easier than I thought they'd be, I had an astonishingly quick walkthrough. Thankfully - really short of time atm. 4 starts for 4 immediate clean wins, only the U9 event needed a second attempt. Thought I can have some proper side to side racing with the lead car, however, approaching Mulsanne corner the guy saw a gap that wasn't there and there went the CRB. So off for a second run ... Sidenote : I found the U9 a bit disappointing tbh, I had expected a bit more explosiveness but maybe that's asking too much from a 2.5 t car.
Guess there's not much more to be mentioned, maybe the fact that I really love these tiny Japanese sportscars ( and the Jeep as well ) with their quite unique behavior and that the Audi RS 5 most likely is from another universe. What a rocket !

Race 1 at Laguna Seca - Toyota Sports 800 '65 / CM / 74 hp / 636 kg / 350,00 PP / CRB ✅

Race 2 at Lago Maggiore - Honda S800 '66 ( Honda swapped ) / CS / 130 hp / 758 kg / 449,95 PP / CRB ✅

Race 3 at Watkins Glen - Jeep Willys MB '45 ( Dodge swapped ) / SM / 628 hp / 978 kg / 632,55 PP / CRB ✅

Race 4 at Le Mans - Yangwang U9 '24 / SS / 1.286 hp / 2.385 kg / 691,05 PP / CRB ✅

Race 5 at Interlagos - Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM '19 / RM / 838 hp / 991 kg / 887,85 PP / CRB ✅

8 RM - 4 RM one stop strategy

🙋‍♂️

 

[A1an]

Really cool car and livery!

Thank you.

 

[rikunarok]

[Sunday Cup Classic]
This event is completely nonsensical if this car, the epitome of a classic car, isn't participating.

[Japanese FR Challenge 450]
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[American Clubman Cup 700]
How cool am I to deliberately use an EV...?

[Special Race]
Can anyone provide me with a decent Challenge?

[WTC900]
Using an MP4/4 instead of an F3500 makes me seem like someone who knows what they're doing.

 

[Famine]

This event is completely nonsensical if this car, the epitome of a classic car, isn't participating.

As a pre-war model, the 8C is a vintage car rather than a classic.

I suppose it could come under the classic banner in a more nebulous sense of "literally anything older than 20 years old", but it's not a particularly helpful definition as that would cover everything from the Benz Patent Motor Wagen to the Mercedes GL500. Historic wouldn't be much better as it still leaves a full 100-year spread from 1886-1986 as things stand at the moment.

Given that opponents are all 1960s-1980s (and only just at that), I think I used a tweaked, 350PP Land Cruiser '74 originally, then a stock Golf I GTI at 370PP.

 

[RCKakashi14]

Continuing my "No ABS" practice this weekend:





The Mazda 787B. Surprised me a lot how well it behaves WITHOUT ABS. Dare I say it even rotates better without it, had to set the brake balance to +3, and it solved my understeer woes.

I still have a long way to go in mastering braking without any ABS assistance, but the experience was way more fun!

In general, it is easier to do so in race cars with copious amounts of downforce than on road cars.

 

[Fuzzi0n]

In general, it is easier to do so in race cars with copious amounts of downforce than on road cars.

It's not too bad in the older road cars that wouldn't have had ABS in real life, usually their brakes are so weak it's easy enough to modulate and not have big lock ups even on CM tyres. Anything newer that would have it, or the race cars that do I tend to run ABS anyway because a lot of those cars just don't work well without it. The biggest issue I have on race cars without ABS at least on controller is that I usually have to run 4-5 brake bias, but that means I end up with too much rear brake strength in certain cars with 4WD stuff being the worst. It's a shame we don't have an option to adjust that like some sims do with rear brake valve/pad options.

 

[RACECAR]