GT7 Online Time Trial/Lap Time Challenge Discussion

[NAXEHT]

Not perfect but it’ll do. Again the start was too slow, just a .400 at the first split when I’d been doing low 300’s frequently. Felt mentally quite calm and locked in without overdriving/pushing which was rewarding, had pretty decent consistency for a while and improved yesterday’s 2’14.522 to a .460 with some minor improvements to .455 followed by .442 and finally the .382. The aforementioned three laps prior to the .382 really should’ve been the one but made some silly mistakes in the final two corners ending the hope of reaching a proper low 14. History repeating.

Always a pleasure to drive at Bathurst. While I get and can respect the Bathurst 1000 reference I think we could’ve had a more entertaining car and cooler time settings though. Felt kinda generic and nondescript to be driving a slow Gr.4 machine midday again. We could've had the Camaro ZL1 instead (wadey80 got tons of great relevant liveries that would've been optimal)! In this Mustang we were roughly 8-9 seconds off.

@linksracer Sorry to knock you down a notch there on home soil, mate...

 

[linksracer]

@linksracer Sorry to knock you down a notch there on home soil, mate...

Fantastic lap there, looks like you had a phenomenal run down the mountain and exit from Forest Elbow. I was half a tenth up at the end of S2, but by the end of S3, you were a full tenth ahead Always some close competition between us

 

[MMX]

Damn aliens knocked me out of my already iffy gold. 166 miles tonight, and this is all I could do, with numerous breaks. I'm getting too old for this. lol

Optimals deep in the 1.49s, but I just can't put in a complete solid lap.

 

[ZevZoq]

My optimals were saying a 48 was there for me so I went in for more tonight and sure enough...

 

[Gomario JSP]

Gomario, do you use motion steering? And for anyone that does, try turning steering sensitvity turned up to 10, with the Mazda, if you don't run it that high. I usually run -2, with everything, but if I'm struggling, or can't seem to improve, when I can tell there's more time in it, I'll try the opposite end of the spectrum, and once in a while end up somewhere in the middle. 10 seems to work really well for the Mazda in this TT. I'm at 1:49.1xx, right now with sensitivity at -2. I set it to 10 and can see a noticeable improvement, especially catching slides with the MX-5. I've not run a validated lap at 10 yet, but have crossed the line in the 48's a few times, in just 10 laps since trying it.

No i'm just a stick abuser, tried motion a few times cause it looks like it's doable and fun if i'm looking at @Barareklam his insane results with it, but keeping the car straight .... , not for me!

Would have been un-Australian of me to do anything less than 500km around Bathurst in a Mustang, so I did 800km just to be safe...

Very happy to have finally got under a 14.5, so many of my best laps were lost to tiny wall scrapes, killing laps that were looking to be .4s and .3s. And if I made it across the mountain in a reasonable time, I then had the whole of Conrod Straight to contemplate how I was going to stuff the lap at the Chase and Murrays, which also happened frequently.

In the end, there is definitely another tenth or more in the lap. Lost 0.05 in the first sector on my optimum of a 21.27 and then had a bit of a shimmy trying to get the power down on the exit of The Cutting. But the rest of the lap is near enough optimal. Across the top of the mountain was as perfect as I was going to get it, and The Chase and Murrays were solid.

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And of course, it would have been even more un-Australian to leave Bathurst without doing a celebratory burnout.
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Never been particularly good at Deep Forest, so I'll be aiming for top 500 or so.

Very nice result there! congrats!

 

[Lomic]

My optimals were saying a 48 was there for me so I went in for more tonight and sure enough...

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Could you at least wait that I improve a smidge on your previous best lap time ? Now in the 48s ?

 

[Barareklam]

 

[DDK-Racing]

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[DDK-Racing]

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[nickf1gr]

Oh please.... we will watting two months to race in a nice track..... December please come sooner!!!!

 

[Gomario JSP]

Well another run in the NSX prob.
Not looking forward to this one tbh, might gold and run this.

 

[newmedia_dev]

Errrr yeah, not gonna lie or kid myself. 5 laps was enough for me, I’m out on this one now.

In VR it feels really frantic (probably just not used to the speed and such down force so that’s a me thing)

Really early tips I can offer are coast and use that downforce instead of point and squirt. I struggled with over turning the car and not carrying as much speed as is easily possible.

Good luck everyone and have fun!

 

[Barareklam]

Gomario, do you use motion steering? And for anyone that does, try turning steering sensitvity turned up to 10, with the Mazda, if you don't run it that high. I usually run -2, with everything, but if I'm struggling, or can't seem to improve, when I can tell there's more time in it, I'll try the opposite end of the spectrum, and once in a while end up somewhere in the middle. 10 seems to work really well for the Mazda in this TT. I'm at 1:49.1xx, right now with sensitivity at -2. I set it to 10 and can see a noticeable improvement, especially catching slides with the MX-5. I've not run a validated lap at 10 yet, but have crossed the line in the 48's a few times, in just 10 laps since trying it.

I am on motion steering, if you are curious you can see some of my video where I also show how I am tilting controller.

HighlanderLast

Gran Turismo 7 on DualSense with Motion Control, /#gyro #controller #motioncontrol #motionsensor #gt7 #granturismo7 #dualsense

www.youtube.com

 

[nostradavor2]

Errrr yeah, not gonna lie or kid myself. 5 laps was enough for me, I’m out on this one now.

In VR it feels really frantic (probably just not used to the speed and such down force so that’s a me thing)

Really early tips I can offer are coast and use that downforce instead of point and squirt. I struggled with over turning the car and not carrying as much speed as is easily possible.

Good luck everyone and have fun!

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almost the same.. I don't know this track since I'm new to gt7.. started first lap at 1:48 and did this at lap 8... How much more I need to knock off for 🥇?

 

[half_sourly]

The results for TT167 at Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit in the Ford Mustang Gr.4 are over here. I have updated the opening post with the index of all TTs and the second post with the community scoreboards. A reminder that each driver's results for every TT are in the Excel file attached to the latest results post.

Here are some interim statistics for TT168 at Deep Forest Raceway in the MAZDA SPIRIT RACING ROADSTER 12R '25.

Spoiler: GTP Scoreboard

 

[Tidgney]

There's definitely a theme going on with which time trial we do based on a daily race. Nurburgring 24hr ended up with a nurburgring GP time trial, autopolis short ends up with an autopolis full circuit time trial. So I suspect they are doing some of these really on the fly at the moment. Even so here is the guide. Went faster in VR initially but built my speed back up. I jumped back on during upload for 15 minutes and improved again so my fastest lap at the moment is quicker than the video 👀 .

 

[Gomario JSP]

So...... i'm third on our board.....yet.... placed exactly P100 ....
that's insane or is it just me??

 

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

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