Time Trial Discussion

[newmedia_dev]

And here I thought the British were well versed in sarcasm. All in good fun mate.

Of course I have bills. It’s not like I’m a cat or something.

Not like you are actually fast either?

You know how sarcasm works, people have to understand the context the moron that delivers it isn’t that important for sarcasm to work? Watch some Jimmy Carr top tip.

 

[Iamnotacat]

Not like you are actually fast either?

You know how sarcasm works, people have to understand the context the moron that delivers it isn’t that important for sarcasm to work? Watch some Jimmy Carr top tip.

Chill glen

 

[newmedia_dev]

Chill glen

Fair enough, but not this thread, it’s a good thread don’t spoil the mood is all I’m saying.

Come join I know you are quick enough

 

[Lomic]

Spoiler

Much better ! In safe gold now, and optimal in the 2:06s

Best lap have not one best sector 😅

Following @Pesselles' ghost but still doing a lot of mistakes. At least I saw that I can be more aggressive on some turns.

 

[Gomario JSP]

Sorry @Gomario JSP but I can't believe to be in front of you

View attachment 1478314

Congrats mate! I wish I could say that I didn't try 🤣🤣, I realy did try hard 🤣
Luckly done with it now..... and I hope mr Taylor leaves P1 alone overnight.... cause I ain't got that much room left like you 🤣🤣

Good job! 👌💪🙏

 

[bigfluffy888]

Posted an improvement with the Honda NSX Concept, with a 1:40.401. Got a bit more confidence in sector 1, and ended sector 2 with a 53.6xx. Video link below. More time is hard for me to find here, this might be my limit.

 

[Dan_Tes]

Times up at Laguna Seca!

This would have been a monster had I not missed my breaking point up to the Corkscrew, pooped myself and money shifted into god knows what gear but the rest of the lap was bang tidy

Now let’s never speak of this trial again…

 

[daabulls]

Turns out I'm going to miss the Laguna gold by .02 Tried grinding it for a while and it wasn't happening.

 

[linksracer]

Welp, made it into gold another 200km last night.

I continued going for another 200km which, with hindsight, was completely pointless as I never went faster than a 6.3XX after getting the 6.072.

This car is just exhausting to drive and I think it fried my brain to the point where I could no longer improve. Doing 200km and not getting even close to my best time caused quite a crash out. That's the closest my controller has been to getting launched out the window since GT7 came out.

You put your thoughts (which I share completely) to text just a little while before I do, it’s quite a funny phenomenon actually. We seem to attempt the TT’s at similar times/days, struggle and get annoyed in the same way (and be on controller ;-)).

Seems like we both prefer to wait until the end of the trial to do our laps and posts. On opposite sides of the globe and somehow sharing the same GT7 struggles, although you generally seem to do things a couple of tenths faster than me

I’ve shared those two 05 laps on my profile (tags #gtp #schlafhund #naxeht), hopefully a controller ghost could maybe be of assistance? I wish the very best of luck to you, really hope you can make it, man!

Thanks for sharing these, I was reviewing the replays prior to my laps. Wasn't able to load your ghost unfortunately, wasn't showing the replay next to your name on the leaderboard and I couldn't find an option to download the ghost anywhere. Typical Polyphony I guess.

Also thanks for the motivation! I know I can generally get within a tenth or 2 of your times, so knowing you had a sub 06 gave me the motivation to try and get close to that.



Although the lap itself was fast, I feel there's plenty of time on the table. I've definitely gone faster through S1, and I could've hit the apex for the turn 4 right hander a bit better. T5 & 6 were actually quite good which is probably where I made up a significant amount of time. Corkscrew was not too bad although I think the landing and exit could've been very slightly better. But then I completely missed the apexes of both Rainey curve and the penultimate corner, so I think there's probably quite a bit of time left on the table in those 2 corners.

Ultimately it didn't matter since I wasn't improving at all after this lap anyway, if anything I was getting slower.

All that is left is to wait and see if any aliens come in at the final hour to shift the gold time down. As I was setting my laps last night, the aliens actively were improving their times at the top, so the gold time has shifted since yesterday in case anyone didn't notice and was on the edge of gold.

 

[Iamnotacat]

Posted an improvement with the Honda NSX Concept, with a 1:40.401. Got a bit more confidence in sector 1, and ended sector 2 with a 53.6xx. Video link below. More time is hard for me to find here, this might be my limit.

Really nice lap bro. Now I know what I’m doing this weekend, finding the 0.160 seconds to my rival 😈

 

[Wilsonson]

What are folks here using for Brake Balance on the NSX at LM?

I noticed Tidgney is using +5. I am on -2 because turn 2 and the turn uphill are giving me some oversteer grief. I don't need anymore rotation there lol

In my opinion +5 BB is an alien thing. They all use it for the extra rotation in all but the most extreme cases. For a mere mortal like me the added instability under breaking is making things too difficult though.

For me it's the same reason why I often use TC in higher powered cars. I sacrifice some speed but don't needlessly throw away good laps all the time.