Quickest way to get into Sport Mode?

[Jamie Bbbbb]

Hi guys, I just started GT Sport. I really want to get into Daily Races as soon as possible. What is the quickest way for me to acquire a suitable car that I can use every day?

Oh and just as I side note, I did an open lobby N500 race in my Citroen GT. I came third and nearly everyone else was using the 911. BoP was on. Does BoP completely neutralise performance or was I at an advantage/disadvantage?

 

[Tekku]

Hi guys, I just started GT Sport. I really want to get into Daily Races as soon as possible. What is the quickest way for me to acquire a suitable car that I can use every day?

Campaign mode. You get a free car whenever you complete a full tier of the different activities. Circuit experience for the shortest tracks might be the easiest and fastest one. You will also get a free car whenever you fill the mileage quota for the day, and it's easy to do so in the campaign mode.

Some of the daily races have one make rules though, so you don't have to buy the car in order to enter as it's lent to you.

 

[Deadheadbill]

Campaign mode. You get a free car whenever you complete a full tier of the different activities. Circuit experience for the shortest tracks might be the easiest and fastest one. You will also get a free car whenever you fill the mileage quota for the day, and it's easy to do so in the campaign mode.

Some of the daily races have one make rules though, so you don't have to buy the car in order to enter as it's lent to you.

Yeah, I would do the 1st couple lines of driving school challenges as they are super easy and will give you a car each. While you are doing those you will get your daily car, then I would jump into the track challenges. Probably focusing on the tracks for the current dailies at first at least.

Also, many of the dailies are not garage cars so you can do them whether you own the specified car or not.

 

[LukeMT1112]

Forget daily races. You'll start in poll, get rammed off at the first corner and spend the rest of the race chasing back your 1st place only got get rammed again and again. The ghosting and penalty system is absolutely disgusting. These rammers seem to suffer no ramifications for their poor racing form, yet i get tapped on the tail, spun around twice losing 9 positions and STILL get a 24 second penalty.

 

[daan]

Forget daily races. You'll start in poll, get rammed off at the first corner and spend the rest of the race chasing back your 1st place only got get rammed again and again. The ghosting and penalty system is absolutely disgusting. These rammers seem to suffer no ramifications for their poor racing form, yet i get tapped on the tail, spun around twice losing 9 positions and STILL get a 24 second penalty.

* Other, much better, experiences are available.

I've not seen any of that. Yes, I've been hit. Yes, I've been punted off. But that's racing. The majority of my races have been quite excellent.

 

[LukeMT1112]

* Other, much better, experiences are available.

Please enlighten me. I'm so over it. I assume matchmaking goes on your SR/DR rating, and because of all the other races using each other as brake walls i can never seem to move up in ranks to better drivers.

I just started in poll with a 3 second lap time on 2nd and was second last before the dipper on the mount panorama track. My first rage quit.

 

[daan]

Please enlighten me. I'm so over it. I assume matchmaking goes on your SR/DR rating, and because of all the other races using each other as brake walls i can never seem to move up in ranks to better drivers.

I just started in poll with a 3 second lap time on 2nd and was second last before the dipper on the mount panorama track. My first rage quit.

I'm SRS/DRB, and do N300/Gr4 races. Haven't touched the Gr3 daily races.

 

[LukeMT1112]

I'm SRS/DRB, and do N300/Gr4 races. Haven't touched the Gr3 daily races.

I'm in Gr4 atm. Havent seen anything lower. Are they the 'one make' races?

They need to fix the penalty system. Its hard to differentiate between defensive and overly aggressive driving, i get that, but they should definitely give total ghosting on the first 2 corners. I've not started a race out of the top 5 recently, yet i always catch up to where i was only to get rammed off and finish in the last handful every race.

 

[daan]

I'm in Gr4 atm. Havent seen anything lower. Are they the 'one make' races?

They need to fix the penalty system. Its hard to differentiate between defensive and overly aggressive driving, i get that, but they should definitely give total ghosting on the first 2 corners. I've not started a race out of the top 5 recently, yet i always catch up to where i was only to get rammed off and finish in the last handful every race.

Yes, it was the Genesis yesterday, and the RCZ, Clio, TT etc previously. Drive around at the back for a few races to get your SR up to A or S, and then start taking part in races.

Any thread here about "who is at fault in this incident" gets at least 2 differing opinions. How is a computer system supposed to work it out?

Ghosting should only occur for lapped cars, and for cars that are sideyways across the track.

 

[LukeMT1112]

Yes, it was the Genesis yesterday, and the RCZ, Clio, TT etc previously. Drive around at the back for a few races to get your SR up to A or S, and then start taking part in races.

Any thread here about "who is at fault in this incident" gets at least 2 differing opinions. How is a computer system supposed to work it out?

Ghosting should only occur for lapped cars, and for cars that are sideyways across the track.

Or cars that dont brake for corners and rely on ramming you to slow down, but anyway. Good idea on the hanging at the back to get rating up. I shall do that.

 

[Deadheadbill]

Drive around at the back for a few races to get your SR up to A or S, and then start taking part in races.
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I see this strategy bandied about a lot and I disagree. I am SR "S" and I never once purposely ran at the back of the pack just to improve my SR. I did spend a fair amount of time back there anyway, but that is another story.

I find that it is really easy to get your safety rating up simply by... racing safely. The whole SR is based on averages, so if you have more sections in the safe column than in the penalty column at the end of a race, your SR will go up. I have a gut feeling that many of these "I can't get my SR up" racers are simply putting their finishing place above SR when they make the moment to moment decisions in a race.

Again, before I get the "Punter this" and "divebombers that", it's based on averages so if you run a clean race you see an increase regardless of your competition most of the time. There will be that occasional exception.

 

[LukeMT1112]

I see this strategy bandied about a lot and I disagree. I am SR "S" and I never once purposely ran at the back of the pack just to improve my SR. I did spend a fair amount of time back there anyway, but that is another story.

I find that it is really easy to get your safety rating up simply by... racing safely. The whole SR is based on averages, so if you have more sections in the safe column than in the penalty column at the end of a race, your SR will go up. I have a gut feeling that many of these "I can't get my SR up" racers are simply putting their finishing place above SR when they make the moment to moment decisions in a race.

Again, before I get the "Punter this" and "divebombers that", it's based on averages so if you run a clean race you see an increase regardless of your competition most of the time. There will be that occasional exception.

I dunno man, I'm certainly not the fastest but I'm a fairly clean driver. I appreciate skilled racing over fast racing any day, otherwise id be playing need for speed. It's always taps from the rear that ruin me. I even had a racer today swerve from the far right side of a fairly wide straight to the left to try and knock me off the track. He wasn't blocking me as he was far to slow to react, he was going for the contact. There needs to be either more ghosting for erratic movements or a better/harsher penalty system.

 

[Deadheadbill]

I dunno man, I'm certainly not the fastest but I'm a fairly clean driver. I appreciate skilled racing over fast racing any day, otherwise id be playing need for speed. It's always taps from the rear that ruin me. I even had a racer today swerve from the far right side of a fairly wide straight to the left to try and knock me off the track. He wasn't blocking me as he was far to slow to react, he was going for the contact. There needs to be either more ghosting for erratic movements or a better/harsher penalty system.

I get what you are saying, but again it is based on averages so even with a couple of contacts per race your SR should still go up. That is just what worked for me. Your mileage may vary.

 

[daan]

Or cars that dont brake for corners and rely on ramming you to slow down, but anyway. Good idea on the hanging at the back to get rating up. I shall do that.

After having just done the bathurst race, another tip would be to avoid tracks with walls. Instead of car infront getting it wrong and going off into gravel or grass, at a track with walls they hit the wall and then you hit them.

 

[ASH32]

After having just done the bathurst race, another tip would be to avoid tracks with walls. Instead of car infront getting it wrong and going off into gravel or grass, at a track with walls they hit the wall and then you hit them.

So avoid all ovals, that's an obvious one, then avoid Bathurst, Dragon Trail, Tokyo, Alsace and the Ring as that's too narrow as well. Then you have the GP course to maybe avoid as that has three clear cut use another car as brake opportunities and suddenly you are fast running out of usable tracks. Only Suzuka, Brands, Brazil and Maggiore seem to give you a chance of a good, fair race and even then there are corners on them all where the idiots will attempt a pass that's never going to go well. I've even watched the aliens get punted off, even with their pace they can't avoid it, so what hope does the rest of us have.

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Hi OP. Don't listen to this guy. He's obviously had a few bad runs and is taking his frustration out here.

Online racing means you have to have a zen-like state of mind and the ability to let go of a race and it's incidents as soon as the chequered flag waves.

I'd encourage you to enter the daily races, but make sure to run some practice laps first. Also, use the radar on the multifunction display. Watch your opponents. If they don't look like they know what they're doing, keep a good distance and only overtake if they mess up.

Basically, drive your car like you have to pay for the repairs. Eventually your safety rating will increase to levels like A and S, and you can start pushing in races.

Remember: you need to learn how to drive in traffic. People here telling you to hang around at the back are doing both you a disservice, and the community, because their advice will boost a bunch of people to SR-S who don't deserve to be there and who don't know how to run safely in traffic.

Forget daily races. You'll start in poll, get rammed off at the first corner and spend the of the race chasing back your 1st place only got get rammed again and again. The ghosting and penalty system is absolutely disgusting. These rammers seem to suffer no ramifications for their poor racing form, yet i get tapped on the tail, spun around twice losing 9 positions and STILL get a 24 second penalty.