Week 37 Daily B: Mount Panorama Circuit GR.4

I haven't raced this event (and I don't plan to) but I'm not surprised its a shit show.

I ran last week's manufacturer's cup in Gr.3s at Mount Panorama and it was brutal in spite of benefiting from arguably the ideal event format: a qualifying session held right before the start affording for only one flying lap and a long-ish race who's part of a series; points championship style. Incentives well aligned to promote good racing.

- qualifying that tests drivers ability to perform under pressure, in conditions close to what they'll face at the start of the race

- race length that allows enough time for drivers to exercise some patience and impulse control

- race result representing only a fraction of the ultimate goal -ie: championship standings, further relativizing what consists a good performance

Regardless, it took me several attempts to make it through that race in a manner I found satisfactory. Not because I came across dirty or merely careless drivers, but because the track layout is so very challenging. The section going up and down the hill leaves no room for error and if a driver makes a mistake in close proximity to other cars, innocent parties can easily get collected in the incident.

Is it any surprise that setting the starting grid according to lap times realised who knows when, in who knows what car; then having drivers compete in a sprint race that has no relevance beyond itself; on a notoriously difficult track to simply drive, let alone overtake on, turns into the mother of all fuster clucks?

No. No, it is not.

Give it a try then, I'm 2 hundredths slower.  Be daring, try something other than the meta

Not sure about that, top1000 (thousand!) global ranking is 100% ELANTRA...

Agreed. I don't play GT7 to safely drive affordable and dependable grocery getters.

But the Gran Turismo series was conceived from day one as a means to market automobiles to young people. The car manufacturers want to build brand loyalty as early as possible and video games are the perfect medium to do it. Whats unfortunate is Hyunday being lazy and instead of developing an actual real world racing program that would produce exciting cars worthy of featuring in the game, they try to buy their way into the conversation to shill their soccer mom wagons. VGT cars are kinda of the same thing. I don't like them much either because they're used to let manufacturers have a (fictional) car in categories they wouldn't otherwise. But I'll give them a pass as they're a nod to the wild prototypes manufacturers show off at the big car shows. In the end PD is only taking the money they're being offered. And without that revenue stream, who's to say Sony wouldn't try to extract that money from the playerbase somehow? 

Myself, I just ignore the cars I find boring. Its not like I'm racing top split where every 1/1000sec counts. My challenge is making fewer & smaller mistakes than my competition. I can do that while driving whatever car gets my blood pumping. One of the perks of being in the lower ranks.

This game might be cooked least amount of fun I've ever had playing this game hope that Hyundai check was big

push game' ffb to max...

This.

Should make for good racing

Much better than Red Bull to be honest, the latter's layout is lame as hell.

Plus walls and even more rammering...

Minus the penalties