Round 2 Thoughts On Track/Car Combo

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So much for Madrid in a GTR, they through us a curve ball haha.

They gave us a track that absolutely no one will know which I think is awesome, then an R34 Nur on comfort mediums. I think Indy is going to separate the good from the better. There are so many places to lose and gain time on that track, and with comfort mediums I can already see frustration and long nights haha.

What am I saying? The other track is a tight twisty road with no room for error and a GT500 car! lol

This round is going to be...gnarly.

R34 GTR V Spec II Nur - Comfort Mediums - Indy Road Course

Xanavi Nismo GTR - Racing Hards - Toscana (Tarmac)
 
GT Motion
So much for Madrid in a GTR, they through us a curve ball haha.

They gave us a track that absolutely no one will know which I think is awesome, then an R34 Nur on comfort mediums. I think Indy is going to separate the good from the better. There are so many places to lose and gain time on that track, and with comfort mediums I can already see frustration and long nights haha.

What am I saying? The other track is a tight twisty road with no room for error and a GT500 car! lol

This round is going to be...gnarly.

R34 GTR V Spec II Nur - Comfort Mediums - Indy Road Course

Xanavi Nismo GTR - Racing Hards - Toscana (Tarmac)
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Well said, and thanks for listing the tire combos. I am glad they decided to use a JGTC 500 car, that should be a ton of fun coupled with the feel of the "racing" slick tires. Looking forward to putting in a long night tonight, when I get home from work! (counting the minutes....) :crazy:

Nick
 
Toscana is tons of fun. Beautiful road. Indy Road, on the other hand....gonna be a big catch up for anyone like me who didnt compete in last years TT. :scared:

Love both cars, which is a huge difference from round 1 :D
 
I turned on the system before heading to work to see what they were. First thing I said was "are you freaking kidding me!?" Seriously, comfort mediums?
 
R1600Turbo
I turned on the system before heading to work to see what they were. First thing I said was "are you freaking kidding me!?" Seriously, comfort mediums?
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The car actually still fairly easy to control, but its going to be a mindphuck to figure out when you are losing time because of the grip through a turn.
 
I drove the R34 before I went off to work... boy oh boy, you better love understeer. Lol.

The GT500 was a blast though. I did that track first just so I could say I was number 1 for like 2 seconds. I foresee Indy being the Cape Ring of this round, basically how you do there will determine if you move on.
 
I just drove both tracks and this round is going to be fun. I mean that literally, that Tuscani track is amazing, so much fun to go blasting through those country roads, feels like when we used to do canyon runs in exotics, except now I am in a race car. :)
 
It´s just a dumb way of making the competition.

Round one was all about Cape Ring and just going through the motions on the other two, and now this.

SuperGT times will be withim a second, so people will only play it there if they want to.

It will be all about Indy and the Confort Tires.

I´ll never understand the love some have for those Confort Tires. In real life conditions, those things would blown up after overheating in a few laps, because they are not made for racing.
 
fasj6418
It´s just a dumb way of making the competition.

Round one was all about Cape Ring and just going through the motions on the other two, and now this.

SuperGT times will be withim a second, so people will only play it there if they want to.

It will be all about Indy and the Confort Tires.

I´ll never understand the love some have for those Confort Tires. In real life conditions, those things would blown up after overheating in a few laps, because they are not made for racing.
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I went to Buttonwillow raceway with something equivialent to comfort tires when I had my 240sx. The edge of the tire near the sidewall started chunking away leaving gaps of missing rubber from the tire falling apart lol I agree they wouldn't last.

The thing about being on comforts though, is the car slides and moves easily without you really noticing and it costs time. That's why I was saying that determining when you do and don't have grip is going to be a mindphuck because you can't really feel it, you just have to kind of figure it out from lapping over and over. That's the only thing I don't like about comfort tires is it disconnects me from the car even more. If I can feel the car losing grip and I know when I do and don't have good grip coming out of the corner I can adjust, but since this is a video game I have little to no feel of when the car is losing grip on comfort tires, I know its going to be annoying, just like Tsukuba was. I know some people on here like comfort tires but that's just because they have a feel for the digital grip, some of us have a hard time feeling that through a video game when the car is on shotty tires.
 
Overall I'm pretty happy with the events and especially stoked that neither one is testing throttle application.

Indy: This R34 has always had a lot of grip even with comfort mediums wheel spin is at a min. With the shortened time frame it's an advantage to have run the other Indy time trial. This lap is going to be about carrying speed into the corner without over-shooting it, point the car and accelerate hard. High 1:48s?

Toscano: Leave it to PD to screw things up this much. First off it's a new track making my "they won't give us a new track" prediction 100% wrong, thanks. Second, the first competition with a proper car and tire but at a fake loop of a tarmac rally. No curbing, rumble strips, no markers, etc. It's going to be tricky to put together a great lap with the inconsistency of having to put 4 wheels on the dirt without hitting the invisible wall. Learning the track and dealing with the sun will be the biggest problems. 1:44s maybe faster?

Overall: It's nice that the tracks are similar times. I think the gaps at Toscano will be larger than people think, a result of it not being a proper circuit. It seems that Indy is testing getting into the corner and mid-corner (since they already tested throttle application at Tsukuba) while Toscana is mostly testing learning a new track with blind corners and dealing with difficult light conditions.

Good Luck All
 
I just did a few laps on each, its going to be a fight this week because both tracks seem like they will be easy to lap over and over again until you nail that perfect time.

I think 1:49s maybe a 1:48 at Indy, and 1:44s or 1:43s the best at Toscana, and thats only if people start pushing extremes like drifting out as far as possible putting four in the dirt etc. If everyone keeps it on track it think 1:44s will be the fastest.
 
n3eo
Overall I'm pretty happy with the events and especially stoked that neither one is testing throttle application.

Indy: This R34 has always had a lot of grip even with comfort mediums wheel spin is at a min. With the shortened time frame it's an advantage to have run the other Indy time trial. This lap is going to be about carrying speed into the corner without over-shooting it, point the car and accelerate hard. High 1:48s?

Toscano: Leave it to PD to screw things up this much. First off it's a new track making my "they won't give us a new track" prediction 100% wrong, thanks. Second, the first competition with a proper car and tire but at a fake loop of a tarmac rally. No curbing, rumble strips, no markers, etc. It's going to be tricky to put together a great lap with the inconsistency of having to put 4 wheels on the dirt without hitting the invisible wall. Learning the track and dealing with the sun will be the biggest problems. 1:44s maybe faster?

Overall: It's nice that the tracks are similar times. I think the gaps at Toscano will be larger than people think, a result of it not being a proper circuit. It seems that Indy is testing getting into the corner and mid-corner (since they already tested throttle application at Tsukuba) while Toscana is mostly testing learning a new track with blind corners and dealing with difficult light conditions.

Good Luck All
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It's like they're putting us through their own license tests all over again :D Both tracks are interesting, and shouldn't get old even after 50 laps or so (not that I have the time to do that :crazy: ).
I can definitely see a 1:43 coming at toscana, especially from those guys who've been driving the crap out of the JGTC cars.
 
Forcednduckshn
There is a snow storm coming tomorrow...."Work from home" day for me. 💡
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Man I was all sorts of contagious today ;) For the betterment of my coworkers I sacrificially opted to stay home today :D
Snow storm tomorrow hopefully is a biggie....but no power outages please...
 
notmychoice
Man I was all sorts of contagious today ;) For the betterment of my coworkers I sacrificially opted to stay home today :D
Snow storm tomorrow hopefully is a biggie....but no power outages please...
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Your power is going to get knocked out at the end of the week and you are going to miss the cut by one spot.
 
GT Motion
Your power is going to get knocked out at the end of the week and you are going to miss the cut by one spot.
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You are a horrid little man. :( Good news is that if power goes out for me in virginia you can bet that the entire NE is gonna be powerless too :D
 
Forcednduckshn
Want me to write you a fake doctors note?

(Anything to help a fellow GTP'r) 👍

Dr. Forcednduckshn, Phd at your service.
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Problem is it's a new job, so I haven't been working here long enough to have paid time off. Given that I'm making not much more than minimum wage, every dollar counts. :nervous:
 
R1600Turbo
Problem is it's a new job, so I haven't been working here long enough to have paid time off. Given that I'm making not much more than minimum wage, every dollar counts. :nervous:
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I'm kinda in the same boat as you. Got to pay the bills. On another note. I hate the combo. At least the GT-R feels way better than the 370z. But5 the tires still suck. The tracks are wide open too. A little harder to see the racing line.
 
At first, I was skeptical about how toscana would be, but I actually enjoyed it when I gave it a little time this morning. I also really like Indy road as it's going to require some ridiculously smooth driving to pull off the fastest laps.. The track itself is mediocre if you ask me, but the challenge/combination is cool.
 
My problem with Indy is it feels like last year all over again. Surely they could have come up with something different?
 
Indy road course keeps freezing up at the final straight. What the up with that? I cleared the cache already and has happened 3 times already. Anyone else getting this problem?
 
The cars are on the wrong track! It is totally backwards. The race car isn't on the race track, and the road car isn't on the normal road. :dunce:
 

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