Thanks for the early notice Radliff. @JDMKING13 , you have bumped into the top 12 drivers and are not guaranteed you grid spot for Friday night. No need to show for the Pre-qualifying session. Remaining drivers should be in the pre-qualification room by 8:30pm est. View attachment 1458528
Yeah all my system is wired on a beefey UPS who can give me about 30 to 45 minutes of power (never tried at the moment). It’s mostly useful in case of a little flickering so my Internet connection dont go down. Actually, I have a smaller one on my Internet router and modem (in another room) and a more big one for my sim rig to protect all my equipment.
The county roads around here are horrible. She went to a ladies bible study at a friend's house and there was a foot tall ridge in the middle of the road that she somehow managed to hit. Never mind that there was ten feet on either side that she could have driven over.
The county roads around here are horrible. She went to a ladies bible study at a friend's house and there was a foot tall ridge in the middle of the road that she somehow managed to hit. Never mind that there was ten feet on either side that she could have driven over.
Good stuff. You are outside the top 12 drivers confirmed and will need to qualify for one of the four remaining grid spots. Raul will have the Pre-qualifying room open at 8:30pm est. The 10 minute session begins promptly at 8:40pm est. The top four times/drivers will be directed to proceed to the main race room at 9pm est. Hope to see you then. Good luck.
Grid Business
Good afternoon to everyone who will be attending tonight's opening event at Daytona International Road Course. We have 19 drivers confirmed for this event. The first 12 that confirmed for the opening event are already guaranteed their grid spot for tonight. The remaining 7 drivers are invited to enter the Pre-Qualification room at 8:30pm est, hosted by PSN ID: RJC76 / @Noob01_lmdead. Please be sure to enter the room and forward your spec sheets to my PSN ID: NOVA-0479 before the pre-qualifying session starts. The pre-qualifying session will begin at 8:40pm est. Be sure you are greened up and ready before the session begins. Once the session starts, it will not be re-started for any reason...no exceptions. At the end of the 10 minute qualifying session, a screenshot of the results will be captured and forwarded to my psn, and the host will direct the 4 fastest drivers to proceed to the main race room at 9pm est. For the complete pre-qualification process details, see the tab below.
For the first event of this series, the top 12 drivers to confirm attending are guaranteed their grid spots for Event #1. Every event thereafter, the top 12 drivers in overall points standing will be afforded grid priority and first right of refusal for the next event. They simply need to confirm at any point up to 8pm est on the Thursday before our Friday race night to claim their grid priority. Drivers in the top 12 in standings that cannot make an event and confirm absent will forfiet their grid spot(s) to the additional confirmed drivers in the order in which they confirmed.
For the final four grid spots:
-If we have only 4 drivers confirmed/available by 8pm est on the Friday race night, those four drivers will simply procede to the race room at 9pm est to fill out the grid and the race night will proceed as normal.
-If we have more than 4 drivers confirmed/available by 8pm est on the Friday race night, those drivers will be required to run a formal Pre-Qualification session to establish the final 4 spots and remaining reserve priority for that night's event. (If confirmed drivers in this group choose to rescind their confirmation rather than attempt to qualify for the final 4 spots, and only 4 drivers remain, those 4 remaining drivers can procede to the race room at 9pm est as no run-off is then necessary).
If the Pre-Qualification is Necessary:
-@Noob01_lmdead / PSN ID: RJC76 will be our dedicated Pre-Qualifying room host with @Bologna_Duc / PSN ID: Bologna_Duc as our back-up host for this session. Be sure to have both of them on your PSN friends list to have access to their room. They will not be on track during this session (unless they are outside the top 12 in standings and are part of the run-off group)
-Pre-Qualification Lobby will be openened at 8:30pm est on our scheduled race night. Lobby settings will be set to the same as the main race lobby, except for the change to 10 minutes for the Pre-qualifying session. All confirmed Drivers (or last minute available drivers) will have 10 minutes to enter the room and forward their spec sheets to my PSN ID or to the series PSN group chat.
-Pre Qualifying will start promptly at 8:40pm est for a 10 minute qualifying session. (Again, if only 4 drivers are present at 8:40pm est, this session can be cancelled and those 4 drivers can procede to the main race room at 9pm est)
-The host will collect a screenshot of the qualifying results to be sent to the series group chat, and the top 4 (or more if needed to cover for very late last minute drops) will be directed to procede to the main race room when it opens at 9pm est.
-This Pre-Qualification room will then be closed, and all drivers that made the grid are to procede to the main race room when it opens at 9pm est.
-The main race lobby/room will then procede in it's current format of 15 min warmup/sending specs, 15 min Race 1 qualifying session, and then the 30 min race 1. Drivers that race the pre-qualification are expected to send their spec sheet again once the main race room is entered.
ALL drivers on the main race room grid should submit their spec sheets to my PSN: NOVA-0479 between the time that the room opens at 9pm est and the start of qualifying at 9:15pm est. (Drivers that were in the Pre-Qualifying session should submit these spec sheets again to the group psn or my psn before qualifying begins at 9:15pm est)
I'd ask all drivers to make sure they are running a wired connection in any way possible and to clear their network cache before entering the race room to avoid any issues. It seems the online lobbies run based on the slowest running system and/or internet speed in the room....basically throttles everyone down which appears to cause the instability we have experienced in the past. Let's try to head off any of these issues and optimize everything on our own ends that we can to help. For those with faster internet service speeds (over 200mbps+), it seems there are less issues with stability. For those on slower internet speeds or forced to run wirelessly, their network appears to be affected more when other in the household are online and pulling from the service speed. See this link to optimize your network priority for the gaming, and try to reduce internet usage (if possible) elsewhere in the house when racing.
Gran Turismo 7, it seems, follows in the fine traditions of GT Sport, GT6, GT5, and even GT5P in being a bit sensitive to network environments. A connection that's fine one day (or hour) might be ropey the next, and while there's a lot of things that might be out of your control, the best way to...
www.gtplanet.net
Get them final practice laps in, and be ready for tonight.
Reminder to all drivers:
The first twelve confirmed drivers are holding 1 of 12 guaranteed grid spots, and we have 25 drivers on the PS5 roster, 19 for tonight. Please notify me as soon as reasonably possible if you are unable to make the event. The latest acceptable notice without any recourse is 9:10pm est. If any confirmed drivers drop out last minute, the next fastest driver from pre-qualifying will be invited to the race room.
Drivers Briefing
A few reminders for Daytona International Road Course:
1.) Be mindful in the opening laps. Be patient, and avoid contact/incident at all cost. Incidents that result in an issued caution, in the opening 2 laps, will come under automatic review for any possible infractions and penalized as necessary. Please be patient, brake earlier, and respect your opponent driver's space/line...they are not brakes or guard rails.
2.) Tight Sections and Chicanes: There is no written rule for these sections, but I'd ask all drivers to exercise caution and good judgement through these sections. Know when you have lost the position when approaching these section, and be considerate enough to back out to avoid the risk of incidents. This series will continue to induce some very close quarters racing, and one slow up, or mistake could result in yourself, both, or many drivers losing position....don't be that guy. If both drivers are dead on, side by side, proceed with caution, and hold your lines. Just be warned that attempting to go side by side in these sections cleanly will slow both of you down and almost guarantee a loss of position(s) from other attacking drivers. BE CAREFUL and AVOID CONTACT.
3.) See this Event Details and review for driver specs, race details, and allowable track boundaries for Daytona RC.
MAJOR WARNING FOR DAYTONA RC: BE AWARE OF THE INVISIBLE WALL TOWARD THE INSIDE AT ENTRY TO TURN 1. IF YOU GO TOO LOW/SHALLOW ON ENTRY, IT WILL GET YOU.
Final Reminders:
-Please be sure that everyone is on a wired connection to their PS5 (in any way possible)
-Clear cache before entering the race room Lets try to do the best we can to reduce the jitters within the lobby.
Any drivers that are noted or noticed to create continuous issues will be asked to retire for the event.
Thanks for the notice. The four remaining drivers on the confirmed list are now guaranteed a grid spot in tonight's event. No need for the Pre-qualifying session tonight. All drivers noted confirmed to 16 should enter tonight's main race room at 9pm est. Thabks everyone.