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A couple of extra tenths have been found
. I don't think this will hold for top 100 so I may have to revisit. The first tunnel is probably the trickiest corner for me. Naif exits it insanely well.
I swear he got the luck of the gods getting that turn in, and throttle!Naif exits it insanely well.
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I think that’s me done at KDP, the kerb lottery is not something I enjoy playing over and over and over again!
I’m not really motivated to try the Alfa either, doesn’t feel like Group 4 would suit Trial Mountain so that might be it for a few weeks for me!
Smokin' lap though! Thanks for putting up, it's helping me a lot. I use your ghost most the time. 😎
Oh I know what ya mean! 😎 I'm getting better with the final sector panic. LOL I do like this track, it has a nice flow. It was fun in GT1.Cheers mate! Trial Mountain is a track that I know very well, gelled with it since it's release. I used to panic during the final sector on a good lap, especially exiting the right after the flat kink section. That corner has a completely blind exit due to the inside wall.
But it becomes unblind when you lap the track over 500 times, If you know what I mean.
Final session in the Z-Tune last night, was looking like I was going to fall out of the top 100, so I put one final session in for safety. After an hour and a half I found this lap, 1:43.430 which nestles me in around some other seriously quick GTPers. Was questioning if I was going to be able to beat my previous time as the session was not progressing too well, was struggling to get laps underneath a 43.7 and a large majority of the laps were being invalidated before evening reaching the end of Sector 1.
Actual lap felt pretty scruffy, somehow my S1 was the fastest I'd seen, despite bouncing around a bit from taking too much kerb through the first right hander and then getting a small slide in the following left. The long left hander felt a bit slow, but apparently was reasonably good. Chicane was almost perfect, took a bit too much kerb in the second apex which unsettled the car a bit. The exit of the hairpin left involved a bit of a power slide, not sure if that helped with rotation or just cost a bit of time. Following the downhill right/left I was up by 2 tenths on a .619 which made me a bit nervous so I missed the braking point into the final corner, took multiple stabs at the brake pedal when I realised I hit the brakes too early, so probably lost a bit more time there. Optimum at the end was a .38X, which indicated to me that there wasn't much time left in the lap.
Shame they picked Kyoto for the Z-Tune, this is really not a car you want to be abusing the kerbs with, which is unfortunately what you have to do to be fast around here. Its tracks like this that make me wish PD had a 2 wheels on the track policy, instead of 2 wheels on the kerb for track limits.
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Took this shot of the middle apex of the chicane to show just how close I was to invalidating my fastest lap. You can see the gap under the sideskirt where the kerb ends in between the front and rear wheels. At separate points the front and rear wheels were 100% off the track, luckily not at the same time.
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Added the TV camera replay this time to try and capture the extent of the track limits abuse, but I think the camera angles it picked don't show it too well.
When such a situation arrives, try playing with the sensitivity & assists. For long now I've had TC set to 0 but here in this TT I set it to 1. It's very handy in the first sector & last one. Check with CSA set to Weak as an option too.So, after the 2:03,0 yesterday i thought i could improve that. Never got under 2:04. Most laps where even worse. Checked all controller and aid setting. Everything is alright but my skills it seems.
What do you do in such a case? Getting grumpy, question every life decision and never touch the controller again.![]()
Thanks but my current goal is getting better generally. Not especially golding the TTs. So Aids off it is for me at the moment. Still, i got it yesterday, not today.When such a situation arrives, try playing with the sensitivity & assists. For long now I've had TC set to 0 but here in this TT I set it to 1. It's very handy in the first sector & last one. Check with CSA set to Weak as an option too.
Also it makes a difference mentally. If You've had a tiring day & then try to play this it won't help.
Slow ass Gr.4 to follow up is just depressing, seeking to get rid of that very quickly sometime soon. Step up the game, Polyphony!![]()
Slow ass Gr.4 to follow up is just depressing, seeking to get rid of that very quickly sometime soon. Step up the game, Polyphony!
I love most if not all Japanese older road cars. It's just that the CS or any Sports tyre variant shakes my confidence wide. Will try this TT but will get back to Trial Mountain TT because of RH tyres + Trial Mountain has a flowing format which never gets old.Slow ass Gr.4 to follow up is just depressing, seeking to get rid of that very quickly sometime soon. Step up the game, Polyphony!
🤣🤣🤣 Maybe next time... perhaps... 🤣 🤣
Don't worry I can lose all of that time in the first sector alone 🤣.Not sure whether this is an issue or not, but I've reported it to PD. You may see times suddenly drop by .5-.7 seconds on this weeks time trial as you can do a massive run and jump start through the cones. Could be a bannable offence or they may do nothing so just a heads up with it if anyones putting in any serious effort. I'll put something at the end of the video to explain. Definitely works though as I would have smashed my record and got a 25.6/.7 but stopped before doing it as I wasn't sure of the legality of a "Running Start".
What helped me several times was watching replays from the top times/drivers. Not all of them a doing/driving the same and sometimes i found ways/tricks that suited me better then that what i saw in Tidgneys vids.So, after the 2:03,0 yesterday i thought i could improve that. Never got under 2:04. Most laps where even worse. Checked all controller and aid setting. Everything is alright but my skills it seems.
What do you do in such a case? Getting grumpy, question every life decision and never touch the controller again.![]()
Oh nice, a Nissan that will definatly drive better than that GT-R! Oh, wait ...