GTP_WRS Week 52 : F IS For Fast
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- South Florida,
- Chadwicksracing & Racecleanstupid
Well, its like any other Time Trial, perfect this perfect that. Blah Blah...I got acclaimed to the car this evening, and the next session will be more practice. I was using P1's ghost to set a bench mark for me. (Just a side note, he has two wall touches, which is why his last turn was so good.
Without the racing line, its been a bit of a challenge, but I am training myself to setup braking points, and I am finding that I am just as fast with a racing line.
First go tonight = 1'15.497
T1 = 30.885
T2 = 52.683
I mean this when I say it, if someone could run a perfect lap, then P1 on the leader board would be dethroned. He has a lot of flaws in his lap. But its freaking fast, other than the wall touch on the last turn.
Without the racing line, its been a bit of a challenge, but I am training myself to setup braking points, and I am finding that I am just as fast with a racing line.
First go tonight = 1'15.497
T1 = 30.885
T2 = 52.683
I mean this when I say it, if someone could run a perfect lap, then P1 on the leader board would be dethroned. He has a lot of flaws in his lap. But its freaking fast, other than the wall touch on the last turn.
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- Zodac_sphere
When we do an Arcade event with S2 tires, like this week, we normally run offline (as not to give away our lap time).
Offline arcade racing is done while being logged off from the PSN (playstation network).
When you do your official run be sure to be logged into the PSN.
This will record the time of your completed lap along with your lap time.
um, but it just overwrites the practise times or do you mean if you had 4 tyres off and it counts online or something like that?
if thats the case how do you know you won't run off the track a little and set a PB on the official lap anyway?
I have a question for all the competitors.
Can/should we all agree to do our practice laps online as not to (possibly) give away our actual submitting lap time?
We can discuss practice times so maybe it doesn't matter which way we run, online/offline........?
i would agree to this, i mean, why so serouis?
Offline arcade racing is done while being logged off from the PSN (playstation network).
When you do your official run be sure to be logged into the PSN.
This will record the time of your completed lap along with your lap time.
um, but it just overwrites the practise times or do you mean if you had 4 tyres off and it counts online or something like that?
if thats the case how do you know you won't run off the track a little and set a PB on the official lap anyway?
I have a question for all the competitors.
Can/should we all agree to do our practice laps online as not to (possibly) give away our actual submitting lap time?
We can discuss practice times so maybe it doesn't matter which way we run, online/offline........?
i would agree to this, i mean, why so serouis?
. I don't expect to finish near the top, but just wanted to participate 
- 94
- NicoTexas - GTP_NicoTexas
Just gave it a try and it's tricky... Especially after laping with the Golf on Suzuka.
By the way, there is too much French guys in the top 5...
By the way, there is too much French guys in the top 5...
- 809
- GTP_AtomicZombie/Nuclearfire
first practice session
lap time: 1'16.948
lap time: 1'16.948
- 833
- Burnley UK
- GTP_PendleDuke
Ran a few laps of this last night, and I found it to be an interesting and entertaining challenge 👍
1'15.624
1'15.624
- 3,971
- driehuis (nl)
- GTP_Steven
Good think everybody understood it'd be best to post laptimes and no splits 👍
Still, I will only include laptimes into Luxy that are posted in this thread, NOT by picking them up from the online listings. I hope that's ok for all of you.
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Funny because now I can enter laps for Luxy directly from PD screens. Too bad the list is too short and the list isn't sortable, because then I'd be without a job
Still, I will only include laptimes into Luxy that are posted in this thread, NOT by picking them up from the online listings. I hope that's ok for all of you.
Board initialised.
01GTP
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If we all practice offline then the online leaderboard would give away our (most likely) official time.
If we all pratice online it may mask our official time.
The last time we ran this format my official time was about .3 seconds slower than any practice time.
If this happens again for me, all I have is my replay for proof and it will not record my online info (time when completed and lap time).
Most people will probably have they're best time as the official time, but not all of us.
This is why we need to submit at the end of our official run.
As stated earlier, an online leaderboard time may be dirty, though if I have a wall touch I will slow down and get ready for a new lap.
I'm sure our competitors think the same way and will not complete a dirty lap just to record a faster time.
The serious tendacies come from the long time secret in the WRS of not knowing someone's final lap time.
Obviously the early submissions may be a different story. We'll see.
I'm here to have fun with our competitors so I'm sorry for being serious but I just wanted to clear up some confusion on my part about this new format.
- 35,055
- Addison,Texas
- GTP_RACECAR
Ok, the 90 minutes thing confuses me. Do you run laps around HSR for 90 minutes or do have to do this within 90 minutes before the deadline? Sorry for the stupid question, I'm just so to the original format so this kinda confuses me.
Also, how do I adjust the weight to the settings on the first post when I can't even access the quick tune settings?
Also, how do I adjust the weight to the settings on the first post when I can't even access the quick tune settings?
- 3,118
- Sunnyvale, CA
- GTP_Vaxen
I'll try to clear it up.
Step 1: run as many practice laps as you like, online or offline. None of these will count.
Step 2: send a PM to me, indicating that you are starting your run. You will have 90 minutes from the moment you send this PM to do the following steps
Step 3: do your official laps. These must be done while ONLINE.
Step 4: before your 90 minutes is up, save your best lap, and verify that it is a valid run
Step 5: send your PM to me with your official time. This second PM must be received within 90 minutes of the PM sent in step 2.
For your second question, you will not be able to adjust the weight for this run.
I hope that is clear! If there are any further questions, feel free to post here or ask via PM to one of the stewards.
- 692
- RIP Shuffle Racing :-(
- GTP_OnlyMe
LOL, did two practice-sessions on the Reverse track, only to find out this morning that the track was changed to the forward version 
Just did my first 15 practice-laps. Time so far:
1'16.767
Oh, for the record: I liked HSR Reverse better
Just did my first 15 practice-laps. Time so far:
1'16.767
Oh, for the record: I liked HSR Reverse better
- 3,164
- AMSTERDAM
- spyrrari
First short-ish practice session...
T1:0'30.797
T2:0'52.422
Laptime:1'15.223 3rd on the online rankings for now.
Not so difficult combo,although the last corner is obviously very tricky to get right without touching the wall...having much more fun with this car than with the CitroenC4 for sure...!!
spyrrari.
T1:0'30.797
T2:0'52.422
Laptime:1'15.223 3rd on the online rankings for now.
Not so difficult combo,although the last corner is obviously very tricky to get right without touching the wall...having much more fun with this car than with the CitroenC4 for sure...!!
spyrrari.
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- NicoTexas - GTP_NicoTexas
I managed to do a 1'15.977.
But I need a lot of practice before to be able to break easily that time again
But I need a lot of practice before to be able to break easily that time again
- 3,164
- AMSTERDAM
- spyrrari
- 833
- Burnley UK
- GTP_PendleDuke
Chasing Spyrrari's excellent ghost dragged me to a 1'15.544 tonight 👍
- 16,271
- Boise, ID
- GTP_EDK
Per the thread rules in the original post, OK to post your splits. They could be useful for those who would like to know WHERE they are losing time, not just IF they are losing time.
That has to be the way it works. We have no way of knowing whether laptimes on the leaderboard are practice laps or official submissions, clean or dirty.
Also, keep in mind, this is just one event type. An event like this one has been run before. And if this one goes well, will probably be run again.
But the majority of races will adhere to past WRS guidelines.
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- Zodac_sphere
31.073
53.152
1.16.2??
53.152
1.16.2??
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Spy, I was looking at your last fastest lap, and I like that line you took into turn 3. Thanks in advanced. I will use it, because entry is very important for setting up a good drive off.
I improved to 1'15.375
I improved to 1'15.375
The Outlaw
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- Bay Area, California
- GTP_timeattack
I just did a few more laps for the hell of it...I actually don't mind this combo too much other than the lack of feel for the front tires. The car does have the perfect amount of throttle oversteer for this track, so that's one thing that makes it quite entertaining when you do nail everything right.
I had taken .130 off my previous PB by T2 (about 5 times now) only to tag the wall at the last turn
They should call that damn turn SHATTERED DREAMS for falks sakes! Every time I have a good lap going I'm either way too slow through there or end up just grazing the damn thing.
I had taken .130 off my previous PB by T2 (about 5 times now) only to tag the wall at the last turn
They should call that damn turn SHATTERED DREAMS for falks sakes! Every time I have a good lap going I'm either way too slow through there or end up just grazing the damn thing.
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- 2,376
- Stockholm, Swe
- GTP_Anghammarad
Doing a wall tap in the last corner on the runup before you start your flying lap to get better initial speed at the start line? That's amoral, right?
The Outlaw
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- Bay Area, California
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I would certainly think so 👍 Just because people don't see it doesn't mean it's not cheating
I always try to avoid a wall tap on the start of the lap as it usually will give me a penalty 9 times out 10 anyway
And I don't think the wall tap necessarily improves your exit speed much if at all...just improves the transition speed from entry to exit so you can get on the gas just a bit sooner and make the total time from entry to exit shorter. But on your outlap you don't really care about entry speed, so you can sit up top close to the wall to maximize your exit (without touching the wall of course).
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- 472
- Holland
- GTP_CICO
Just did a first practice. 1'15.748 I think. I am hope to get under the 1'15.500.
And I noticed that if you start the run that you can get a near perfect run threw the last corner to the startline, just go full throtle when its says start and you have a pretty good run up.
And I noticed that if you start the run that you can get a near perfect run threw the last corner to the startline, just go full throtle when its says start and you have a pretty good run up.
- 16,271
- Boise, ID
- GTP_EDK
This question has come up a lot of times in the past. It mostly involved corner cutting at the start of the run on other tracks on GT4. I would put this in the area of something that goes against the spirit of the rules. Our intent here is to regard clean driving, above all else.
Now, I'm not saying that if you accidentally tap the wall on the prior lap that you need to just hit reset. But if you are working to intentionally gain an advantage by building up more start line speed on your hotlap by wall riding the last corner of the prior lap, that should be avoided.
