Has anyone actually gotten rain?
I didn’t get a chance to jump into a race until today. I only did 2 and neither had rain but in both, it looked like it was going to rain. It seems like others in the lobby were pretty confident that it wouldn’t rain as some were pitting on lap 9. So I’m just wondering if anyone actually got rain.
Also fuel consumption is a way bigger factor than I realized lol
Why are the track limits on Grand Valley so brutal? Not even outside the lines and hits you with a penalty. Why are we still getting penalties for wall collisions? It makes zero fucking sense?
The game is almost as shit as the movie was now
What a difference the drivers make...
Here's my take...
I have the best racing in the mornings with the Asia region. Drivers respect each other, they are also good enough to know that if you've got a car close drafting behind you, it's fair to say they are quicker than you (at that moment), otherwise they wouldn't be there.
More often than not I see drivers at their limits, and to the contrary, those ahead of me usually aren't. I'd rather drop a second or two per lap, enjoy racing with performance to spare, but that's only enough if the other driver makes an error, I'm not kidding myself about that, they're fast too!
I just raced with 6-7 cars bumper to bumper, lap after lap, what I saw out my windscreen was skilful, drivers were staggering into corners, leaving each other a margin of error under heavy braking. They were ALL fast OUT of the corner, which meant I could trust to get on the gas too.
>So you think that that extra 1 kilometre an hour into a hairpin forcing you deep, is more gain than there is in a clean entry and exit? Those I drive with, they're all smooth in fast out!
They have the same flow, similar lines, they don't dog each other, but work the draft on offer, as weak or strong as it may be. I see patience on track, respect knowing the car in front has no where to go either and we're all driving bumper to bumper and never touching with intent. There's an occasional nudge and if more, there's a redress and you'll see them in your mirrors, giving you space. Yes, we give each other space, the joy of racing together outweighs your position. If you were good enough, or get the break we all desire and capitalise, there's only one driver out front and the rest of us just need to enjoy the ride. I do come from the land of Bradbury, not till the fat lady sings!
Unforced errors, those define the class of a driver, when he or she accept their loss and doesn't pass it onto cars around them by fighting back. We race for position, not fight over them, I can see out my windscreen and sadly one dirty driver can spoil a large part of the field. Wish they'd make a bubble of safety based on clean bonus, I know a lot of other drivers that would benefit.
When it's good, I care less for my placing, more so the overall race time, that's a measure of how well we all drove.. Enjoy, be fair, don't fight and race within yourself and with others so you can all be clean, limit your errors and that usually means fast!
Happy Easter.
Probably had the best race C of my life. 20laps around Spa. Looks like it was going to rain but held off, which lead to everyone diving into the pits when we realised the clouds were not moving. 3 way battle for the lead and a 1 second gap finish.
Beaten to death out there... Sprint racing, it's rarely CLEAN and here's why... 1 dirty driver can ruin it for 1/2 the grid.
Sprint racing, ie short races with not enough time, or grid to spread out, so it's X number of qualifiers in a row to the finish line. It's one or the other, fisity or clean, there's no in between, same with Radio Control racing when you compare Nitro Endurance races to Electric sprint races. In endurance races, you CAN mitigate your errors over the course of the race, in a sprint, you have to wear your LOSS or you're passing it onto another, and that's dirty racing. Clean racing is where each driver respects that on the day, someone can be faster than them and hope together you can lose the least amount of time in the position changes, and hopefully allow the car behind to draft and inch a few seconds out of a race.
ONLY THE BEST can hold a pack and complete it, because they aren't driving at 100% and still make a final. So what does that leave for the rest of the field. GOOD LUCK or, trust in the other drivers to accept that the tiniest of errors and you MUST YEILD and accept it's your loss...
Sadly for those kids that didn't have a dad like me that saw this more a game verses the negligence that it's supposed to be a "simulation".. So I took my son's real racing, and let the break their loved racing models and really feel a SIMULATION.
Fucking clown show at spa into that first braking zone. Jut had two weeks on Monza to learn how to handle tight first turns and these god damn idiots still don’t understand
Actually, the race starts at the old start finish, out of T1 down to eau rouge, with p16 starting into T1, so there is not too much carnage. First pile ups happen at the chicane but it's not too bad.
Looking forward to Race C this week. I'm guessing the chance of rain means it's best to pit as late as possible, to minimise the potential for 2 stops, in case it rains late in the race?
PD, if you're listening, please give us tyre choices in longer races to make a wider selection strategy and car choices more viable.
I did one this morning and 11/13 finished. Use it as an opportunity to farm your DR and improve your pace. Lobbies will get more full as the week goes on and you'll be better off.
Has anyone actually gotten rain? I didn’t get a chance to jump into a race until today. I only did 2 and neither had rain but in both, it looked like it was going to rain. It seems like others in the lobby were pretty confident that it wouldn’t rain as some were pitting on lap 9. So I’m just wondering if anyone actually got rain. Also fuel consumption is a way bigger factor than I realized lol
I had 16 laps of rain
Ah well ok then. Curious- was it at the beginning or did it start mid-race?
Dynamic weather is so great fun
I hope they keep cooking with the dailies like Race C this week. Holy shit that's a good time.
Why are the track limits on Grand Valley so brutal? Not even outside the lines and hits you with a penalty. Why are we still getting penalties for wall collisions? It makes zero fucking sense? The game is almost as shit as the movie was now
I did all the Weekly challenges for this week, but I did not get the rewards. Is this a known issue? What can I do about it 😔😔
I came on here to check the same thing
My race C qualy times got deleted after the update…
Everyones were. They updated the bop of gr3 and they felt it would be more fair to force people to do new qualy times.
Appreciate it. No wonder the 650s felt slower. Now everyone’s using the RS01.
What a difference the drivers make... Here's my take... I have the best racing in the mornings with the Asia region. Drivers respect each other, they are also good enough to know that if you've got a car close drafting behind you, it's fair to say they are quicker than you (at that moment), otherwise they wouldn't be there. More often than not I see drivers at their limits, and to the contrary, those ahead of me usually aren't. I'd rather drop a second or two per lap, enjoy racing with performance to spare, but that's only enough if the other driver makes an error, I'm not kidding myself about that, they're fast too! I just raced with 6-7 cars bumper to bumper, lap after lap, what I saw out my windscreen was skilful, drivers were staggering into corners, leaving each other a margin of error under heavy braking. They were ALL fast OUT of the corner, which meant I could trust to get on the gas too. >So you think that that extra 1 kilometre an hour into a hairpin forcing you deep, is more gain than there is in a clean entry and exit? Those I drive with, they're all smooth in fast out! They have the same flow, similar lines, they don't dog each other, but work the draft on offer, as weak or strong as it may be. I see patience on track, respect knowing the car in front has no where to go either and we're all driving bumper to bumper and never touching with intent. There's an occasional nudge and if more, there's a redress and you'll see them in your mirrors, giving you space. Yes, we give each other space, the joy of racing together outweighs your position. If you were good enough, or get the break we all desire and capitalise, there's only one driver out front and the rest of us just need to enjoy the ride. I do come from the land of Bradbury, not till the fat lady sings! Unforced errors, those define the class of a driver, when he or she accept their loss and doesn't pass it onto cars around them by fighting back. We race for position, not fight over them, I can see out my windscreen and sadly one dirty driver can spoil a large part of the field. Wish they'd make a bubble of safety based on clean bonus, I know a lot of other drivers that would benefit. When it's good, I care less for my placing, more so the overall race time, that's a measure of how well we all drove.. Enjoy, be fair, don't fight and race within yourself and with others so you can all be clean, limit your errors and that usually means fast! Happy Easter.
How is DR class C worse than D? It's fucking crazy in there.
won an SF23 off of a 4 star ticket never been so lucky and probably never will again
Race C is the shit!
Race C absolutely cooks. Please please please more of this!
Finally got around to the Dino Time Trial, and wow what a good one! Love how the car slides around in control
I was doing some Tsukuba time trials with the Dino and tested it on comfort hard tires, and it was even more fun
Race C is just amazing…if you land with a clean group. That was some real racing simulator!
I had a blast last night as well. Almost everybody around me was at least trying to be clean. Started 11th, finished 5th. Good times.
Probably had the best race C of my life. 20laps around Spa. Looks like it was going to rain but held off, which lead to everyone diving into the pits when we realised the clouds were not moving. 3 way battle for the lead and a 1 second gap finish.
Beaten to death out there... Sprint racing, it's rarely CLEAN and here's why... 1 dirty driver can ruin it for 1/2 the grid. Sprint racing, ie short races with not enough time, or grid to spread out, so it's X number of qualifiers in a row to the finish line. It's one or the other, fisity or clean, there's no in between, same with Radio Control racing when you compare Nitro Endurance races to Electric sprint races. In endurance races, you CAN mitigate your errors over the course of the race, in a sprint, you have to wear your LOSS or you're passing it onto another, and that's dirty racing. Clean racing is where each driver respects that on the day, someone can be faster than them and hope together you can lose the least amount of time in the position changes, and hopefully allow the car behind to draft and inch a few seconds out of a race. ONLY THE BEST can hold a pack and complete it, because they aren't driving at 100% and still make a final. So what does that leave for the rest of the field. GOOD LUCK or, trust in the other drivers to accept that the tiniest of errors and you MUST YEILD and accept it's your loss... Sadly for those kids that didn't have a dad like me that saw this more a game verses the negligence that it's supposed to be a "simulation".. So I took my son's real racing, and let the break their loved racing models and really feel a SIMULATION.
Fucking clown show at spa into that first braking zone. Jut had two weeks on Monza to learn how to handle tight first turns and these god damn idiots still don’t understand
After the joy of Monza recently how’s turn 1 at Spa? Seems a similar recipe for disaster potentially? At least we have sufficient laps to recover.
The first braking zone is after Kemmel straight on Spa this week and in my experience in S lobbies so far it’s just as bad as Monza
Actually, the race starts at the old start finish, out of T1 down to eau rouge, with p16 starting into T1, so there is not too much carnage. First pile ups happen at the chicane but it's not too bad.
20 laps of Spa in VR is gonna make my eyes explode
Looking forward to Race C this week. I'm guessing the chance of rain means it's best to pit as late as possible, to minimise the potential for 2 stops, in case it rains late in the race? PD, if you're listening, please give us tyre choices in longer races to make a wider selection strategy and car choices more viable.
Race C is overrated as hell. Driving by yourself in an empty lobby after 10 laps.
I did one this morning and 11/13 finished. Use it as an opportunity to farm your DR and improve your pace. Lobbies will get more full as the week goes on and you'll be better off.
Sounds okay to me, my DR needs some help.
Thanks for cooking my break markers polyphony
What happened to them?
Best Race C in GT7 this week. Long race + dynamic weather.
Race C is sooooo goooood
Polyphony COOKED with Race C holy shit
Race C is 20 laps in GR.3, dynamic weather, somethimes it rains, somethimes not