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Back to Fuji again today. It took about 10 laps to finally start getting a better understanding of the track/car combo. It felt much better than last night and can be faster.
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Of course I had a poor sector 2 compared to my previous laps...:irked: I finally got a good run through the final turn for once, though it is still a mystery to me.
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Hopefully @Gomario JSP doesn't get too mad...:lol:
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When I look at some scores in my leaderboard, I wonder if we all use the same car with the same BoP on the same Fuji... :odd:

No improvement for me, despite tens of painful laps, mostly in a range of 1:34.2... to 1:34.8...

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The only positive points are those "sub 1:34" optimals...

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But currently, I'm still 0.5 sec from gold and I need a full sec to be safe in the yellow territory.
And I really don't see where and when I'll save all these tenths.
 
Pesselles
When I look at some scores in my leaderboard, I wonder if we all use the same car with the same BoP on the same Fuji... :odd:

No improvement for me, despite tens of painful laps, mostly in a range of 1:34.2... to 1:34.8...

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The only positive points are those "sub 1:34" optimals...

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But currently, I'm still 0.5 sec from gold and I need a full sec to be safe in the yellow territory.
And I really don't see where and when I'll save all these tenths.
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Got my optimal down to a 33.9 as well, that’s all I have to show for a 45 minute session.

Standard red livery wasn’t working. Need something new, something orange.
 
Evilmuffin
Finally a decent lap. I still hate each and every single corner on this track tho :grumpy:

ps LOL 1st sector

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Well, I enjoyed being the top piece of bread in our trio sandwich for a few hours at least. Back to being the meat, albeit by only that .001 margin over @Gomario JSP. I fully expect to be the bottom bread by the time I wake up tomorrow. :P
 
Here's further 1.5 hours with the soundtrack of Nikola Tesla's wet dream:

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Just when you think "that's it, no more!", you get that nice exit from the corner to overtake your ghost and red lapping it on the blue tarmac, so...
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Plan minimum (top 10,000) is done, plan optimum (top 50 of the LB) is still far away...
 
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Better yet. It's starting to feel better for me. Honestly drives like the old GT500 Supra a little bit. That mid range pull to the screaming top end is phenomenal if not really hard to tame. I wish it turned in just a little harder. Of course that would make it even tougher to keep the rear end behind you...

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Optimals are consistently .3-4 better than I'm running for every session I've had. I think I'll just keep plugging away until I feel at my limit. Fun car. Fun track when it's fun. Frustrating as can be when it's not working. 😂
 
I've been quite silent in the thread lately but I was following it and it is great to see so many people progressing in here! TTs got a bit stale for me and I only set 'safe gold' times slightly over 2% off the top time usually.

Today though, after several months of debating if it's a good idea I got a used Next Level Racing Wheel Stand 2.0, wiped dust off my old G29 laying in the corner and for the first time played GT7 on it, as I never had a good way of setting it in front of my TV. I guess it is time to see if it will be fun enough to justify spending energy on setting it all up before playing. If not then I guess the stand will get 3rd owner :dopey:.

I fired up GT-One TT for testing, that I set 1:32.767 on a controller before and only got within 1.5 s of it after around 15-20 laps. That will be a steep learning curve 😅. Would you guys have any general tips or settings you use to make the transition a bit easier?
 
Baka_Marimo
Definitely have a couple more tenths in me, especially after watching the #1 replay and realizing I should be shifting much later. But I won't be touching this TT again, unless my time falls out of gold range. For that to happen, the world record would have to drop to a 1:30.832.

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Welp, I kinda saw it coming, so half a day after making this post I went against my word and improved my laptime preventively. I took it down to a 1:33.268 and I am now again sitting just within gold range. I can probably do a 1:32, but that would require one hell of an effort. The world record would need to drop to a 1:30.550 for this new time of mine to fall out of gold range, so let's just hope that doesn't happen :scared:

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