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I was doing the Manufacturers Cup today at Suzuka and signed with Nissan. Unbeknownst to me, the GT4 was an absolute dog to drive.
I could do 2:08.1's in practice fine, but when it came to quali, pace began to drop off. I could barely do a 2:09.3 even with semi-fresh tyres. The tyre wear is absolutely horrid. I placed myself in 4th for the race, and made my way up to battling with the poleman by the end of the lap courtesy of T1 horror. By lap 4, I was well on the back of the leading car still. After that, literally everything started to fall apart. Out of nowhere I was 1 to 2 seconds off the pace, started understeering and oversteering horribly, I couldn't catch up through the esses and I was 1-2 seconds off the delta of the leading car. My car practically became a mobile chicane. I continued to try to keep the car on the road, and I did, but it was incredibly sluggish and time-consuming. After about 5 laps of running, I pitted onto medium tyres and started to regain pace for a few laps, before dropping off immensely once again. By midrace I had dropped down to P4. The car ahead of me who was 7 tenths slower in quali than me was gaining 5 tenths per lap on me in the race. It's crazy. It's like I was driving in a Haas. He ended up making a mistake at Spoon, making me right up the back of him. I eventually went to undercut him for hard tyres on lap 12, and came out 2-3 seconds ahead of him. By the end of the race he was 1 second behind.
I don't know if it's me or the car, but driving 4WD's around Suzuka is mind-frying me. I opened up my steering rotation and tried to use the least steering input I could, but there was no difference. Still sluggish as ever. Does anyone else who drives the Nissan GT4's have this problem? I regret choosing Nissan now as not only do I have to deal with the Haas-like GT4 car, I also have to deal with the no rear-grip GT3 car which is sluggish on the straights and is sluggish in the corners. Probably the worst GT3 and GT4 cars that you could get IMO.
I could do 2:08.1's in practice fine, but when it came to quali, pace began to drop off. I could barely do a 2:09.3 even with semi-fresh tyres. The tyre wear is absolutely horrid. I placed myself in 4th for the race, and made my way up to battling with the poleman by the end of the lap courtesy of T1 horror. By lap 4, I was well on the back of the leading car still. After that, literally everything started to fall apart. Out of nowhere I was 1 to 2 seconds off the pace, started understeering and oversteering horribly, I couldn't catch up through the esses and I was 1-2 seconds off the delta of the leading car. My car practically became a mobile chicane. I continued to try to keep the car on the road, and I did, but it was incredibly sluggish and time-consuming. After about 5 laps of running, I pitted onto medium tyres and started to regain pace for a few laps, before dropping off immensely once again. By midrace I had dropped down to P4. The car ahead of me who was 7 tenths slower in quali than me was gaining 5 tenths per lap on me in the race. It's crazy. It's like I was driving in a Haas. He ended up making a mistake at Spoon, making me right up the back of him. I eventually went to undercut him for hard tyres on lap 12, and came out 2-3 seconds ahead of him. By the end of the race he was 1 second behind.
I don't know if it's me or the car, but driving 4WD's around Suzuka is mind-frying me. I opened up my steering rotation and tried to use the least steering input I could, but there was no difference. Still sluggish as ever. Does anyone else who drives the Nissan GT4's have this problem? I regret choosing Nissan now as not only do I have to deal with the Haas-like GT4 car, I also have to deal with the no rear-grip GT3 car which is sluggish on the straights and is sluggish in the corners. Probably the worst GT3 and GT4 cars that you could get IMO.
