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Yeah looks like shortcut penalty is off, you might have that reset car option in the assist settings turned on?
Yeah seems that the first part of S2 is kind of save yeetable but the corner @Barareklam points out is a little tricky 😁
It seems sector 2 has different rules. What is getting me is the inconsistency of it. Sometimes I appear to cut more and go flying through. Other times, not so much and I’m reset. The last example of the three in the video is the most perplexing.

GT7 | Grand Valley South TT | Sector 2 keeps resetting me!
 
Predictably given the nature of the track, I just cannot get close to gold with the Lancia. I don't do well on the sort of apexless curvy tracks, I find Alsace a mystery and just cannot gel with Grand Valley. In saying that, it is probably the best of the GV layouts. I ran down to 1 second off gold and tbh no idea how to improve.
Like the Nurburgring with the Swift, 4th gear is your friend. Stay in 5th after first hairpin. 3rd gear for the tight left hand hairpin.
 
Resets aside, I think I redeemed myself 😁

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GT7 | Grand Valley South TT | +0.98% 1:11.444s time | 287th global


That was fun! Thanks to @Gomario JSP For his YT lap run. I took a look at the gearing choices coming out of the corners and shaved a sizable chunk of time off. Thanks again.
 
Ah yes, I’ve heard people talk about these ā€œtenths, they are like quantum particlesā€ we spend magnitudes of money making the smallest things go fast! I’m an almost middle aged man how much would we have to spend to accelerate me! 🤣
I'm already middle-aged mate but I've tapped into the Higgs field recently to extract those final few tenthsšŸ‘Œ
 
Morning folks!

Started the weekend with some backpain and coffey and a Lancia this morning, great combination, and now I have sore hands too from absolutely yeeting that monster around the Valley...🤣

I think I ran around 10 PB's this morning and slowly won a few thousands at the time.

Sector 2 is absolutely fire with this thing and you can yeeet it like crazy due to complete abscence of any tracklimits 🤣🤣

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Valid yeeeting

I got rather consistent In the end with the majority in the .2xx and .3xx

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But finally had a few good sectors together

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Quite happy with it cause I'm struggling a bit with the understeer, don't know if that's a pad thing.....it's probably just me 🤣🤣




And the ingame chase of Damian

Have a great weekend!

Try easing off the throttle slightly (really slightly, like 1%, when understeering to get a little bit of slip angle. The car rotates more with less boost pressure - so listen for the turbo hiss and you'll start noticing when this happens and how little you need to feather off throttle. Sometimes it's enough to create a few miliseconds of turbo lag. This helps me especially in T1 and exit of first chicane whe I go too wide or experience understeer.
 
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Yeeeett !!

Man i love sector 2 🤣🤣
Still made some mistakes so a sub 11 is possible for me I guess.... sticking it all is quite hard!

And man.... how is everybody so fast at the top???

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Resets aside, I think I redeemed myself 😁

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GT7 | Grand Valley South TT | +0.98% 1:11.444s time | 287th global


That was fun! Thanks to @Gomario JSP For his YT lap run. I took a look at the gearing choices coming out of the corners and shaved a sizable chunk of time off. Thanks again.

šŸ™šŸ™ glad I could help a tiny bit in some way, nice lap buddy! And a nice time 111444 😁🤣
I desperately wanten a 1.11.111 but didn't work out 🤣🤣

and....wow...that looks awesom in VR! Even the replay is immersive , well done!
Try easing off the throttle slightly (really slightly, like 1%, when understeering to get a little bit of slip angle. The car rotates more with less boost pressure - so listen for the turbo hiss and you'll start noticing when this happens and how little you need to feather off throttle. Sometimes it's enough to create a few miliseconds of turbo lag. This helps me especially in T1 and exit of first chicane whe I go too wide or experience understeer.
That's great advice!, I'll try to look at that if my mind muscle connection wil leave me some room šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ™
 
Lulz. The track resets for this GV TT are more jarring than actually hitting hard barriers. I pucker up on instinct knowing I'm about to collide...but, oh. I'm stationary in the middle of the track instead. 🤣

Also, a little random on what is and isn't allowed. I'm like, "oh, I can't do that? But the other off-white-line excursions are ok?"

But really fun combo tho, the miles and time fly by. šŸ™‚
 
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It seems that the main reset areas are in the sector 2/3 section near the tunnels I’ve found.

Only had one reset and it’s really disorientating in VR going from full acceleration in 3rd gear to being Star Trek transported!

The amount you can cut at the bottom of the hill is just a head messing 🤣
 
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