What did you do in GT7 today?

[maplejuana]

Welllllllllll, my Logitech G29 arrived a day early! WoooHooo!!! I hooked that bad boy up and started my PS5. Ya know, you read posts and watch videos that say things are different with a wheel. You don't expect to be overly difficult, and it's not however WOW, what a difference between wheel and controller... 🤣🤣

It's like I have to learn to drive in game all over again. Seems to me that cars are snapping easier, I literally feel the car slip in the wheel (which feels Soooooo strange, yet Soooooo fricking cool!!), so it's something that I'm going to have to get used to.

Anyway, ran some races at The Glen, had a great time with DRWF, spent some time trying to get the feeling of the wheel and pedals, and it's always fun with DRWF!

Still, really need to figure out the snapping issues. Happens on every car coming out of a corner and hitting the gas. It's gotta be me, can't be the game. Maybe I just need to ease into the throttle a little more vice putting the hammer down like I would with a controller.

I love mmy wheell!! got it in April!!

 

[CQR Deuce]

Got down to 1:21.225 just .020 from achieving gold in the hot lap challenge. 😆 Will hopefully have another go before it ends.

 

[BangsMcCoy]

Today I accepted that I will never Gold all the missions - I simply cannot drift.

Make sure you have all assistance turned off and especially you’re set at TCS0 and the counter steer assist turned off completely. If you’re using DualSense controller turn the accelerator trigger force/tension up to high setting so it’s easier to manipulate and control the throttle. The first few times I drifted it seemed impossible because I had TCS2 and countersteer assist at weak and once I turned them off it was way easier to hold a drift.

 

[Fezzik]

Make sure you have all assistance turned off and especially you’re set at TCS0 and the counter steer assist turned off completely. If you’re using DualSense controller turn the accelerator trigger force/tension up to high setting so it’s easier to manipulate and control the throttle. The first few times I drifted it seemed impossible because I had TCS2 and countersteer assist at weak and once I turned them off it was way easier to hold a drift.

Thanks, but I have made peace with my ineptitude.

I shall just concentrate on the actual racing stuff, the reason I bought the game in the first place. Had another daily race podium in my Mustang. Lovely machine.

 

[Marts]

Got a Discord race at Fuji tomorrow night using GT2 cars, so tried a few laps using the 6 available, Honda NSX concept gt, Honda NSX GT500 '08, Lexus RC-F Gt500 , Lexus SC430, Nissan Gt-r' 08 & '16. The NSX concept was quickest over 10 laps, so took it for a spin to Spa. Was winning until 15 seconds from the end, when I, unprofessionally, stopped & waited for the timer to finish, turned away for a second & Portillo nipped past with 2 seconds left 😔. Bummed.. Lesson learned.
3 star ticket of dispondency revealed height suspension for a Jaguar F-type worth 5300 credits.... Cosmic.

 

[Live25]

Me at Sarthe today:

Thought I'd start with a simple test of the D-type that turned into the nightmare-type. Took 2 runs (and a few tweaks in between) at Sarthe, but managed the win. I'll save the rant, but it can get really frustrating at times. It's a good car and a fun drive...I'd know for sure if the game would just let me drive it.

The mythical A220 by Pra. First off, that car was super cheap, I honestly had no idea and figured $2-3M, so I was pleasantly surprised. D. Weather showed up again, but the A220 cares not for such things as it is a beast in the rain. It makes me wonder if that’s the real reason its so vaunted at Tokyo.

Took one of Jeje’s tunes next as he is apparently not getting much feedback and considering taking a break. I would highly recommmend checking him out, especially as he does a lot of race cars that are very popular in the community, I know I’m a fan of his street tunes. Tooled around in his R33 and had a great race, easy Sarthe-winner with really nice fuel economy.

There may be another race left in me today, stay tuned for edits!

Took Banter’s ‘02 swapped-RX-7 for a few turns. Kind of an ‘idiot-proof-‘ setup if you ask me and I managed a 6-lap rate at FM1, but couldn’t hit the claimed 0-stop. Note, these are not critiques, it is a remarkably steady, consistent racer. It was very nice with 1.5 bars of water on the final 2 laps and I managed to stay right about 4:30 on both laps!

 

[Arnie777]

First time in a long while since i ded more then 800kms in a day. Tuned up a porsche and the merc c63 to 700 pp race cars, did Sarthe with them both. Then did my first ever costum race. 2h around the green hell. Lots of fun, will be doing mire cosum races in the future. Finally figured out how to take race pictures, so im now only 32 shots away from platinum. Finished the day driving my glorious f50 for an hour on Spa. Its been a good day on gt7!

 

[Eggstor]

On the GTP account, I decided to tune the NSX Gr.B for Sarthe, starting with @madmyk's 700-PP tune. I took off the mid-range turbo for fuel economy, dropped the final gear ratio down accordingly (2.786), lowered the car for straight-line speed and to reduce the oversteer-inducing rake (145/150), upped the anti-roll bars as I don't like rolly-polly race vehicles (6/5), evened out the expansion damping and camber to further reduce oversteer (34/34 and 0.9/0.9), and adjusted the differential to just about take out the lift-throttle oversteer (8/10/24 front, 10/20/30 rear). After some testing to get to these settings, I pulled off a relatively easy win on a 1-stop/FM6 strategy in the dry despite spinning twice. Next time, I'll knock the rear LSD acceleration sensitivity down to 19, which knocks the PP down from 675.23 to 670.12.

The 5-star no-cash roulette gave me a Gr.4 Huracan. Given it's the fastest of the 1-stop/dry cars at Sarthe, I wonder if I can get it to a no-stop race.

On the Plus account, rather than work on Fishermans Ranch CEs, I did the two Dragon Tail layouts. The 4-star Wheel of Despair gave the usual lowest-possible 10,000 Cr.

 

[unfairlane]

Bought ten 1965 Mini Coopers, preparing a swapped widebody heat tuned to match wide swapped Beetles

 

[Talon16]

Ok @Talon16 , so I finally got a feel for what you were talking about with the slide, throttle, and the apex. It really is a feel thing that I had to find doing practice laps. It's very much like was discussed in my TC0 thread. In fact, almost identical in terms of throttle control and keeping a little bit open through turns, etc. I found myself actually adding throttle when I started sliding and felt how the weight shifted and how it caught the slide. Mind blowing!

Contrary to what you suggest about shifting up and off the throttle, I found myself overcoming the understeer problem by shifting down to help the nose come around, and then shifting back up. I think everyone knows this approach, and for me it works well. I'm not sure how much time I'm losing by dropping a gear going into a slow turn, but I feel like I save time by avoiding the understeer so it's a wash in the end (I hope).

So after some races today I was able to finally snag a P2 finish. I was behind, of all things, a BRZ who no-stopped like me. I'm now loving the 911! Thanks for the tips!

Yea, maybe I didn't explain very well. Keep it in the lower gear to help the turn-in. Once the car turns in, at about the apex-ish, that's when you upshift and apply light throttle. I found if you keep it in the lower gear and accelerate out the car will understeer quite a bit, but if you up shift it lessens the throttle sensitivity (in a manner of speaking) and the car will understeer less and you can give it a little more throttle.

 

[Force-Feedback]

Gave 'race b' a go for the first time in my life. Standard GR4 stuff, even bought a new GTR for the job, no qualifying time.
Started 14th, finished 7th. Saved an awesome clip on my phone of someone attempting the 'on i'm going to throw my race by ramming you in a corner, only to have him miss me and take himself out in true shingo style! Almost took myself off by laughing so hard!

 

[Bullwinkle]

Yea, maybe I didn't explain very well. Keep it in the lower gear to help the turn-in. Once the car turns in, at about the apex-ish, that's when you upshift and apply light throttle. I found if you keep it in the lower gear and accelerate out the car will understeer quite a bit, but if you up shift it lessens the throttle sensitivity (in a manner of speaking) and the car will understeer less and you can give it a little more throttle.

I started a new thread about this issue of gear selection and cornering, but so far you’ve given me the best advice here!

By the way, I was a completely different driver by the end of the week. Thanks for the encouragement! I’m trying to learn better race craft this week in Race B as I learn how to defend my position cleanly and also not back down too soon. So much to learn!

 

[snowman_pr]

This afternoon I've been practicing for whenever we'll be able to sell cars. And since Kaz loves realism, I want to make great ads for my vehicles, starting with this one:

Toyota Tundra TRD Pro '19 with Lexus Racing engine

• Great for outdoors activities
• Fully equipped and trail tested
• Never crashed (Carfax available upon request)
• On Sale now!!

 

[GTvsForza]

I see lifted trucks for sale all over the place in my town

 

[Sunzi]

I did some Sport today.

Managed to register a bronze time for the Fuji Time Trial. I think there's a little more to squeeze out as I'm still able to improve some sectors but then lose time on sectors I've already done well. I'm in the top 5.20% so want to push for a silver at least.

Won Daily Race B!

Had some good Daily Race Cs but kept getting punted off from strong positions (leading once, second another time) by over-zealous CLK drivers. I've been using the MOTUL NISMO GT500.

Will have a few more goes of C as I like Gr.2 and Deep Forest. Don't want to use the CLK but it's ability to go 10mph (at least 185mph) quicker than the others I've tried make it very strong, especially on the long straight.

 

[Eggstor]

On the GTP account, I did the no-stop version of Sardegna with the Tomahawk S, coming within 10 seconds and 2 spots of lapping the field. The resulting 3-star Wheel of Despair gave the lowest-possible 5,000 Cr.

After that, I decided to try my luck at the online Time Trial. As of this typing, my time is 8.58% off the record, so hopefully that will be a quick 250,000 Cr. in a few days.

On the Plus account, I continued to delay the last of the Americas dirt track CE's, doing Fuji, Broad Bean and Mount Panorama instead. The 4-star marathon roulette, for once, paid off big, to the tune of 1,000,000 Cr.

 

[Bullwinkle]

This afternoon I've been practicing for whenever we'll be able to sell cars. And since Kaz loves realism, I want to make great ads for my vehicles, starting with this one:

Toyota Tundra TRD Pro '19 with Lexus Racing engine

• Great for outdoors activities
• Fully equipped and trail tested
• Never crashed (Carfax available upon request)
• On Sale now!!

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“Never crashed” is absolutely hilarious, as the truck is flying through the air with ruined fenders! 🤨

It should read, ”Never crashed (on accident).”

 

[Eggstor]

“Never crashed” is absolutely hilarious, as the truck is flying through the air with ruined fenders! 🤨

It should read, ”Never crashed (on accident).”

@snowman_pr could have said, "Never crashed (as far as Carfax knows)."

 

[snowman_pr]

“Never crashed” is absolutely hilarious, as the truck is flying through the air with ruined fenders! 🤨

It should read, ”Never crashed (on accident).”

Exactly! No accidents at all 😁

@snowman_pr could have said, "Never crashed (as far as Carfax knows)."

In Dennys Haybert voice, I was in good hands 🤣

 

[MrHorsepower]

I did my typical farming on Spa 1h, Le Mans 30 min and Sardegna.
After Spa I got a 6 star ticket (daily workout) luckily I got 1 million (there were 2 VGTs, coins and the 5 gold bars)
Bought a second A220, my aim is to tune it for the 1h of Alsace mission

 

[GTvsForza]

More GTS Enduros:

• 911 at Dragon Trail and Le Mans

Got 30k from a 4 Star. The Le Mans race was clutch, only won by 7 seconds compared to the 50 seconds at Seaside.

Once I have enough, I'll do the Red Bull Enduros

 

[CQR Deuce]

Hopped back in to the hot lap challenge to satisfy my OCD and get gold. Finally got down to a 1:21.0 was up 3 to 4 tenths on that multiple times but proceeded to drive like a newborn baby in the last sector. 😥😥

Got the gold though and 2mil I guess but now my OCD really wants a 1:20.xxx 😂😂

 

[Timm Sheehan]

Heard the Nord was coming next week for GR.4 so ran several practice laps today and got the best time I have ever done 7:46.316.

 

[CarreraGT]

Fuji 800 and Spa 24 hr (60 minutes). Both awesome races with a combination of day, night, wet and dry. Particularly satisfying switching to slicks early on a drying track and trying to stay on the dry line!

The weather / circuit effects in GT7 are awesome

 

[seadog777]

Tried as hard as I could to get clean race bonus at Watkins Glen. Put the AMG CLK-LM to fuel mix 5 so no need to pit and get the penalty I pretty much always get, even though I now know how I should avoid it. Stayed as far away as I could from kerbs and other cars. Still didn't stop a very minor tap into the back a car that suddenly lurched in front of me.

Failed. I have no idea why the CRB is so elusive at this track.

4 star ticket gave me a Mazda Gr.3. Nice, I don't often get cars.

 

[BangsMcCoy]

Tried as hard as I could to get clean race bonus at Watkins Glen. Put the AMG CLK-LM to fuel mix 5 so no need to pit and get the penalty I pretty much always get, even though I now know how I should avoid it. Stayed as far away as I could from kerbs and other cars. Still didn't stop a very minor tap into the back a car that suddenly lurched in front of me.

Failed. I have no idea why the CRB is so elusive at this track.

4 star ticket gave me a Mazda Gr.3. Nice, I don't often get cars.

Dang that’s weird, I almost always get the CRB there. Even though it’s a somewhat low payout I run there regularly because it’s a fun track and doesn’t take much time. I’ve never made a pit stop there though.

 

[Marts]

So yesterday, the Discord group race at Fuji speedway turned out to be a belter. GR2 cars only. Less than a second between 1st and 3rd. Pity it wasn't me 😒. Finished 5th out of 6. The grid start caught me out. Full rpm had me straight into the wall. Schoolboy error. The speed of these guys tho. They were doing 1:33 under BoP. My fastest lap in time trial at full power was 1:33 in the Lexus SC430. Dunno how they do it. Wish I knew tho.
Today, bought the Alpine racecar from Mr Hagerty. Took it to Le Mans. Finished 3rd after running out of fuel at the last chicane, no rain, so only 1 stop for fuel, FM6 all race. Thought I'd cracked the fuel saving too. Dunno how to upload a video to GT Planet, so here's a link if fancy a watch.
Ttfn

 

[seadog777]

Dang that’s weird, I almost always get the CRB there. Even though it’s a somewhat low payout I run there regularly because it’s a fun track and doesn’t take much time. I’ve never made a pit stop there though.

I've run it maybe 15 to 20 times and not got the CRB once 🤣
At first it was because I was getting pit lane penalties (didn't know why but a poster on another thread cleared that up with great help)

Once I'd sorted that out I've had about 4 or 5 races without pitting (that pit lane entrance is pretty narrow!) but still only get Cr. 200k - no CRB. Can't be going off the track because it will slap a penalty on you PDQ if you do that. Sometimes a minor tap into the back of a lurcher, or getting tapped from behind - all minor, but still no bonus!

Sardegna or LeMans will give you CRB after multiple pile-ups. 😎

Never mind, Watkins is a lovely track and fun to race on.

 

[Meythia]

1h Kyoto 550 with a Tesla, what a strange, silent experience.
The track suits the car somewhat, because there isnt much high speed involved.
Also noticed the pit stops are extremely quick, though I dont see any quick charging stations around.

 

[kjb]

I bought the Alpine 220 and tried it in Tokyo and get stomped so I need to try Praiano's tune for it. I tried out a few different cars in Sardgena but so far no luck for me. So far I haven't liked the fuel milage so I am thinking whenever I play again I will use Mazda Vision GT. Also I really suck at that track I so I probably will try for gold at Sardgena CE since that should help me with the track.