What did you do in GT7 today?

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Finally beat the Clubman Cup+ at Tsukuba. I'd tried a ton of different cars, all tuned differently; but I just couldn't get the win. Then I watched a video on it and the person said that he noticed the AI cars would change depending on the car he chose and the tune he used. So he tried a stock Focus RS. I had a Focus RS, so I put on Sports Soft tires, brake balance, and entered. I got a good start off the line, got into 1st coming out of the turn on the back straight on lap 1 and held the position; finally got the win. I had some trouble from a damn Beetle with what I assumed was a Porsche engine in the back. That thing was scary fast. In a previous race, I got passed by an RX-7 with what sounded like the 787B engine in it. It sucked getting passed so easily (I was in a modded MR2 at the time), but I think it's cool that the AI cars will also use cars with swapped engines.
 
Today I sat down and thought about the most ridiculous fun car I could use to win my staple grind event, the Le Mans 30 minutes. Browsed my garage and found my Pontiac Firebird. Then I remembered there is an engine swap for it.... :sly:

So I built a 699PP Pontiac 1978 Trans-Am for this race. :lol:

This is the setting I came up with.
Interestingly the car handles much MUCH better than you'd expect, it can keep up with the AI Group-4 cars even in the corners, despite it having no front downforce. It has lots of mechanical grip with this setup, raising the rear helps a lot with the cornering, I just gave it enough rear downforce to keep the rear end from getting light in corners and crests, but not so much it would take away front grip.
Also, the car behaves really well, it will drift and power drift but it is very controllable and easy to recover, there is no ''snap'' to its oversteer, even in the wet.

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The race went really well, for a while, the car does 310 km/h on the straights and even though it has terrible fuel consumption and I had to coast a lot I did a 4:10 (racing hards) and subsequent laps were not much slower. That's enough to build a comfortable lead even if you have to pit thrice.
Unfortunately the race turned EXTREMELY wet and it was a spin-fest, I turned into a carousel twice and lost a lot of time because the wet-o-meter turned deep blue and it was like ice and I could not get the car out of the grass without spinning a couple times more.

But I still won by a couple seconds, using racing only racing hards and wets with h-pattern shifting, wheel, clutch and no aids.

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So there you have it, my most ridiculous car to win the 30 minutes of Le Mans with! I can wholeheartedly recommend the engine-swapped Firebird for fun races, the car is actually really capable, well mannered and has good cornering!
 
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I did the Le Sarthe WTC 700 race to give me enough Cr. to buy the Pennzoil Skyline (at last :D)...

I won the race but it was messy and weird, considering it's a staple grind race for me. I use the 458 Italia Gr.3 with RH at exactly 700.00 PP. I stole a march on the opposition by pitting at the end of Lap 2 as it started to rain, but found myself stuck behind a massive queue of slow-moving cars that hadn't pitted. They simply would not let me past, and I ended up crashing into a backmarker heading into Mulsanne and spinning out. Then, to add insult to injury, I was penalised 3.0 s for "Ignoring Yellow Flags", even though I didn't notice overtaking anyone; but twice in the same incident I practically had to come to a complete stop to avoid either crashing into a dead slow AI car or passing one. I ended up with 6.0 s penalties and there went my clean race bonus, but I got the win easily.

I was faced with a weird situation though... I decided to pit at the end of Lap 5, knowing that this might make Lap 6 the last lap of the race. Fortunately, the AI pitted as well, but it turned out that none of them ended Lap 5 before I exited the pit, and so by the time I hit the Dunlop bridge, the entire rest of the field were chequer-flagged; and I had to do an entire lap of the circuit alone in order to claim the win and 550,000 Cr.

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I then confidently took my new Pennzoil Skyline JGTC to Suzuka for the GT3 Cup 730 PP race and promptly got my arse handed to me... I reckon I just need a bit more practice, but I was really struggling against the AI there for some reason.
 
I went online today and saw this, how do I change the colour of writing for my room name
 

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Daily race A Is just a ****fest of ramming. Don't think I'll bother with Sport mode any longer. Utter waste of time and effort imo.
Daily race B isn't all that much better.
After 10 races, I'm outta there
 
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I then confidently took my new Pennzoil Skyline JGTC to Suzuka for the GT3 Cup 730 PP race and promptly got my arse handed to me... I reckon I just need a bit more practice, but I was really struggling against the AI there for some reason.
Which level of AI are you up against? Regardless, those older cars should struggle against newer machinery.
 
I have officially achieved gold in the Nordschleife Circuit Experience. Beat it by a couple of tenths. It feels so good to finally have all gold in every CE, especially the Green Hell.

Unrelated, I bought the Lamborghini Veneno with an invitation I recently acquired from a ticket. Tuned it to 700PP and easily beat the Le Mans WTC700 race.
 
Today I banged my head against the wall trying for the CE gold at Watkins Glen. 4 tenths off, no matter what I do.

Might be able to get Brands once I get used to the stock Radical - half a sec off after only a couple of attempts.
 
Which level of AI are you up against? Regardless, those older cars should struggle against newer machinery.
Medium, I think... I was constantly running wide at 180R, so I reckon a switch to RM or RS should do the trick.

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I just golded two S licenses that I couldn't get with the controller, and also an IA licence test at Le Sarthe.

The best one was the F1 car at Laguna Seca. My best time with the controller was only good enough to sneak a Bronze at 1:14.xxx.

My first attempt with the wheel was pathetic - 1:18.xxx and a total fail, but my next attempt was much quicker, a 1:10.xxx. Bouyed by this and with much more confidence in braking late and taking corners at high speed, I somehow pulled out a 1:07.0xx on my 3rd attempt, good enough for a gold - I can't believe it, and it was epic fun as well.
 
Today I sat down and thought about the most ridiculous fun car I could use to win my staple grind event, the Le Mans 30 minutes. Browsed my garage and found my Pontiac Firebird. Then I remembered there is an engine swap for it.... :sly:

So I built a 699PP Pontiac 1978 Trans-Am for this race. :lol:

This is the setting I came up with.
Interestingly the car handles much MUCH better than you'd expect, it can keep up with the AI Group-4 cars even in the corners, despite it having no front downforce. It has lots of mechanical grip with this setup, raising the rear helps a lot with the cornering, I just gave it enough rear downforce to keep the rear end from getting light in corners and crests, but not so much it would take away front grip.
Also, the car behaves really well, it will drift and power drift but it is very controllable and easy to recover, there is no ''snap'' to its oversteer, even in the wet.

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The race went really well, for a while, the car does 310 km/h on the straights and even though it has terrible fuel consumption and I had to coast a lot I did a 4:10 (racing hards) and subsequent laps were not much slower. That's enough to build a comfortable lead even if you have to pit thrice.
Unfortunately the race turned EXTREMELY wet and it was a spin-fest, I turned into a carousel twice and lost a lot of time because the wet-o-meter turned deep blue and it was like ice and I could not get the car out of the grass without spinning a couple times more.

But I still won by a couple seconds, using racing only racing hards and wets with h-pattern shifting, wheel, clutch and no aids.

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So there you have it, my most ridiculous car to win the 30 minutes of Le Mans with! I can wholeheartedly recommend the engine-swapped Firebird for fun races, the car is actually really capable, well mannered and has good cornering!
Totally forgot I can bump the power by installing that engine. Now, it’ll finally be competitive in my TCM class. Thanks for this post.
 
Medium, I think... I was constantly running wide at 180R, so I reckon a switch to RM or RS should do the trick.

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I just golded two S licenses that I couldn't get with the controller, and also an IA licence test at Le Sarthe.

The best one was the F1 car at Laguna Seca. My best time with the controller was only good enough to sneak a Bronze at 1:14.xxx.

My first attempt with the wheel was pathetic - 1:18.xxx and a total fail, but my next attempt was much quicker, a 1:10.xxx. Bouyed by this and with much more confidence in braking late and taking corners at high speed, I somehow pulled out a 1:07.0xx on my 3rd attempt, good enough for a gold - I can't believe it, and it was epic fun as well.
Yes, a wheel makes a world of difference! Great pace in you too. I'm wondering if you've seen your DR increase since using the wheel too?
 
Totally forgot I can bump the power by installing that engine. Now, it’ll finally be competitive in my TCM class. Thanks for this post.
I don't even remember how much you can tune the original. How much power could you get out of the stock engine?
 
So I built a 699PP Pontiac 1978 Trans-Am for this race. :lol:

Unfortunately the race turned EXTREMELY wet and it was a spin-fest, I turned into a carousel twice and lost a lot of time because the wet-o-meter turned deep blue
Out of curiosity I followed your example and used your settings and you were right, car is a blast to drive, but also I have never experienced a full monsoon style rain ever before and much less BLUE on the wet meter until now with this car and your tune!

I have done this race countless times; with rain, with no rain at all, rain the entire time, a slight drizzle, but never before have I got the severe rain with a full blue meter as with this car and tune!

Used only IM and had to cruise at 90-95 mph at most on the mulsanne on fifth gear and still was losing traction!

I want more!! 🤣🤣🤣
 
LOL I'm having so much fun with the engine swapped tuned Pontiac Firebird, it feels illegal.

I did a couple 700PP GT4 races and the Firebird will absolutely MURDER any GT4 car to death, even when I use lean setting 4 and short shift like crazy. The beautiful thing is, even when I short shift a lot the engine has enough torque to make it not matter much in speed.
Also the car drives like it has front downforce even though it has none, it has tons of mechanical grip.

Look at that, a 6:56 lap around the Nordschleife on racing hards and manual + clutch + H pattern shifter no driving aids. And that with only 130 rear downforce and sub 700PP.

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Also blasted the AI in the 700PP GT4 races despite having to worry about fuel consumption.

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Out of curiosity I followed your example and used your settings and you were right, car is a blast to drive, but also I have never experienced a full monsoon style rain ever before and much less BLUE on the wet meter until now with this car and your tune!

I have done this race countless times; with rain, with no rain at all, rain the entire time, a slight drizzle, but never before have I got the severe rain with a full blue meter as with this car and tune!

Used only IM and had to cruise at 90-95 mph at most on the mulsanne on fifth gear and still was losing traction!

I want more!! 🤣🤣🤣
Jinxed it. :lol:
Once the wet-o-meter goes blue hope is gone, its like driving on zero-G, you will float around and your only hope is to somehow make it to the pits for heavy wet tires. Its totally bonkers, no driving skills in the world will keep you from spinning around and god forbid you spin into the grass, it will take you forever to get out of it while spinning in circles.

But for fun spec the other cars in the replay, once the wet-o-meter goes blue the AI spins around like gyroscopes, total madness ensues.
 
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Jinxed it. :lol:
Once the wet-o-meter goes blue hope is gone, its like driving on zero-G, you will float around and your only hope is to somehow make it to the pits for heavy wet tires. Its totally bonkers, no driving skills in the world will keep you from spinning around and god forbid you spin into the grass, it will take you forever to get out of it while spinning in circles.

But for fun spec the other cars in the replay, once the wet-o-meter goes blue the AI spins around like gyroscopes, total madness ensues.
Gotta give it to PD this time, rain was actually falling sideways like a true microburst! And the AI cars all going like a pace lap with an imaginary safety car in front 😂😂 replay of course was saved for posterity!!
 
Gotta give it to PD this time, rain was actually falling sideways like a true microburst! And the AI cars all going like a pace lap with an imaginary safety car in front 😂😂 replay of course was saved for posterity!!
Once I took pics of a replay of a very wet race at Le Mans, this was the exact moment when the wet-o-meter turned from light blue into deep-blue. :lol: Funny thing is if you are on slicks and it goes from light blue to deep blue its like the water on the track suddenly turned into ice, the difference is so sudden you have no idea what's going on and you already exploded off the track into the gravel pit.

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Did a few races on Fuji and Suzuka racetracks. Got Gold on FUJI CE as I do love that track, so twisty and technical. I finally battered the Expert drifting misson, took me long enough but I perserved. :cool:
 
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Did a no-stopper on the WTRC800 Sardegna race using the CLK-LM.

RH tires
FM 6 for 14 laps
Short shifted when the RPM gauge just started to show red
Used 1 gear higher than normal when going into and out of turns (i.e., if normal use is 2nd gear, then I used 3rd gear, instead, etc.)
FM1 and normal shifting on the final lap (just for a full speed run)
Fuel was at .5 when I crossed the line
 
So far just purchased a few of the cars missing from the engine swap list. Just a few of the Nissan's left to get.

Later I'll be logging on to get some practice with a wheel, while racing Daily B from the back to rebuild SR.
 
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On the GTP account, I pretty much forgot how to drive the Tokyo wet race as I got a 5-second wall-hitting penalty on a no-stop "clean" win. The 3-star Wheel of Despair gave me the low-cash 10,000-Cr. option. I did get the 4 180SX's in the UCD for engine purposes though, widening out 2 of them.

On the Plus account, I struggled to find the right strategy for the Red Bull Human Tragedy. I eventually bought RS tires for the BRZ GT300 and went with a 3-stop strategy (start on RS, pit lap 11 for RS tires, pit lap 20 for Wet tires as the rain started to come down, pit lap 27 for RS tires as the track dried). The 4-star Wheel of Despair gave the lowest-possible 10,000 Cr.
 
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Today I banged my head against the wall trying for the CE gold at Watkins Glen. 4 tenths off, no matter what I do.

Might be able to get Brands once I get used to the stock Radical - half a sec off after only a couple of attempts.
I tackled the Watkins Glen CE for the first time last night and also got stuck, but I was even closer...

I got Silver on my first try, and got to within one tenth of Gold relatively quickly, but then I got stuck. I managed a 1:47.160 (0.060 off :ouch:) and then I got 1:47.156 :irked:...

For once, I took the advice of those helpful hints that seem designed to irritate you, and 'took a deep breath' (well, went to the toilet...) and figured out that I needed to be far more consistent with Turn 1. For me, Turn 1 made most of the difference between a good lap and a great lap. I was braking too early and dropping to 2nd; ended up braking hard at the 300 mark and staying in 3rd gear, and that eventually worked. I also switched to taking a few corners in higher gear, including the last turn which I was also dropping down to 2nd for, but eventually got the gold by staying in 3rd for most corners.

As per usual, when I do eventually get it, I get it by a decent margin and ended up with a 1:46.7xx.

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As for Watkins Glen, what a circuit... I love how smooth and flowing it is, and despite reservations about the Genesis, the CE was a huge amount of fun.
 
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