Daily Race Discussion

Woah! Chris with the wisdom dump FTW.

Let me go full on Buddha for a minute and see how it goes over; it is pointless to dwell on the past or to fret about the future because nothing exsixts apart from the present. In performance driving terms that would translate to forgetting about the mistakes we commit as soon as they happen. Literaly leaving them behind us as we speed down the track. Also not wasting our attention thinking about entire laps or even whole sector times. All we need to focus on is the immidiate issue of, say, the upcoming corner. 

When I time trial I try to ignore the updates the game gives me about my lap times while I'm driving. My priority is to follow the racing line as precisely as possible and consistently hit my markers until my tires are trash. Counterintuitively, its always the laps that feel slow that end up being the fastest.

RH tyres means you can't overdrive the car. you can brake close to the same point as MED and SOFTS how every you have to hold the brake longer and trail brake alot. Be gentle with the throttle, ease it on don't stomp on it. controllers wont be to bad with the throttle smoothing and all the other little assists built in but you CAN NOT overdrive the car on hards. Drive laps like your going to pick up bread then isolate 0ne corner (don't start with the first ones!) isolate that corner say turn 6. try to carry speed through it and do that again and again until you can do that one corner with speed 90% of the time. now continue driving like your going to get bread all the time consentrating on the race line drive that line every lap slow and just stay on the line. Now isolate another corner and do the same again. now you have 2 corners you can do consistently with pace on the race line. continue this process for 100+ laps and then you will find were the limit of the tyres are and the car. if you just rush out every lap and try and brake hard force the car around the corner, sometime you will do ok and the others garbage and NEVER EVER learn what it was that worked. Do this first! drive 20 laps on the race line its going to feel weird but its what you have to do. then build your speed. stop this crazy AARRHHHHHH fast fast fast driving. take the time before you even think about joinig a race to lean the car the tyres and the track. you do this you will have far better control of your car you will be less flusted and relaxed and have more time to react to the kaos and recover when things go sidways. iv raced this track since Gran Turismo (NO NUMBER AT THE END) on PS1. im still leaning the finer details. best way to get fast SLOW DOWN!!!!

Venho notando que, como sendo um circuito muito técnico e que exige bastante perícia do piloto, o que acontece é que, na maioria das vezes, não é maldade quando você leva uma traseirada; simplesmente, foi uma pilotagem que o adversário não soube executar e sobrou pra você. Mas, isso não quer dizer que tem muitos pilotos que estão trabalhando muito sujo durante as corridas.

Providing tips is difficult, I may not be the right one for this, but I can tell you what I do. I have two main accounts, one is registered here, the other not. This other one is my "challenge account", currently using everything Corvette related. My idea was to get used to the Gr.4 and Gr.3 Vettes, so that I can feel comfortable at any track. Normally I set up custom races using my Corvette Challenge account, mimicking the daily race with the AI using the meta car, Sophy if available. Two-chili difficulty, boost set to weak (for disabling rubberbanding for the AI cars, which doesn't work if you are in the lead). By this I get a feeling for my race pace and strategy. After a couple of custom races, I switch to sport mode and do my first race starting from the back. Racing human players is obiously not the same as racing against AI or Sophy AI. After one or two races I will set a qualifying lap time, and go again.

If I feel comfortable enough, I switch to the account registered here, doing my qualy lap, then go racing. I try several cars, and this time, at the time of writing this, I was fastest with the Corvette, slightly quicker than with the Audi.

I don't mind finishing last because of my car choice or because of my lack of racing skill, but at least I want clean races, and that people don't behave like morons.

Yesterday I saw a guy on pole position falling back to P16 on purpose, then munching his way back to the front, using every elbow he had at his disposal, finishing on P3. I mean, he was quick, had very good pace, maybe an A/A+ driver in disguise, but wtf?

and yeah i did really terrible in the last brands hatch race i absolutely hate the car i used i shoulda used something else

that car is stning i just think the 922 is overrated sometimes and i'm D/S i don't know i've been here for a year so yeah by the way have you got any tips for me?

I'm B/S rated, and I just realised I got it wrong with the DR loss. 1,400 points not in eight reaces, but in five or so, since I did five races on each account, and only one is registered here.

This is me: https://www.dg-edge.com/players/TCR_710-Cap_VR
Qualy time on the other account is a 1:53.9xx.
I wish the top players would use this car, I would like to know THEIR lap time with it.

Staying out of way is not always possible, you can't just wave by everyone.

I need to improve my qualy time, in order to start futher forward. Problem is, I REFUSE using the meta...
I was quite confident in the Audi, I will try the old 911, and the other yank tanks. Saw a Viper and a Mustang getting along nicely.

For starting at the back, I think as the week progresses, this will happen anyway... HA!

In my very first race on the other account, I started from P16, finished on P9, with no practice at all. Too bad I didn't save the replay for sharing on YT...

hey man what's your rank have you considered starting back or maybe just staying out of their way lettig them go 

yeah my user for gt7 is SkinnyWheels btw

Circuito e auto un'ottima combinazione che ti prende curva dopo curva

i did race it from the back

It doesn't look Iike you set a qualifying time for the DYNAMIC WEATHER NIGHT RACE we had five weeks ago. PD repeats situations which achieve high player activity. Anyone who didn't participate has no room to complain. Perhaps you raced from the back of the grid with no Quali time set, I shouldn't assume. But remember that data is king. Not opinions. Participate in the race scenarios you want to see more of. And sit out the ones you don't. It's really that simple. 

I had ten races there today, five on each account. Only TWO of them were okay-ish, the others all ended in disaster. In one of them I made unforced mistakes, but the other seven races were just... unbelievable, when it comes to driving standards. I'm not saying that everyone is dirty, I found a couple of nice drivers, but the majority is pushing, leaning and what-not. No one gave back a position. And lots of drivers missing their braking points. I mean, in slipstream you can't brake at your qualifying brake marker, right? So many didn't get that memo. I mean, I understand that you can't avoid everything, even when strictly applying the four rules. Even with a VERY careful and conservative driving style, you get pushed and punted etc., how can you stay there in a good mood? So many silly moves, such as three wide into the final chicane? Or trying to pass on that segment from T1 leading up to the tunnel? And when you then watch the replay, the all of a whole x-mas tree blinking, every possible assist active. I mean, I'm not a driving god, I'm using the Corvette, my qualifying time is on my account, it's not the best, but in the race I can keep up with most drivers using the new 911 (btw. I saw another Vette and a Mustang doing VERY well at Trial Mountain). And what's the point of using the meta with every assist on?

What makes me really angry is the vast amount of DR you lose, and you gain so little when you finish on P5 or P8 (when on both occasions starting on P11 and P12). Ten races, in two I gained less than 200 points, and in the other eight I lost close to 1,400. Yes, I can do the math, this is okay for eight races, but I think PD should find a way to let you keep your points when the downfall (loss of positions) was caused by other drivers. And in my first race I started from the back, finished on P9. I think I should have been awared a couple of points. Nope.

I like this track so much, but it got ruined this week...

Yeah, I'd like that too. But I've only been playing GT7 since early june. Maybe thats why I'm not in a complaining mood. I find this game awsome! Seriously, just the driving physics keep me completely captivated. When I find myself in last position(and its happened a lot, let me tell you) with no realistic chances to catch the driver in front, I keep driving for the sheer fun of it. The vehicle dynamics are just that satisfying to me.

I think we have to recognise also that we're probably part of a very small minority. That most GT7 players aren't all that knowledgeable when it comes to race strategy, period. Even in fixed weather conditions. Hell, how many times have you seen some poor sap earn a 1 minute penalty for not having swapped tires during the races that feature mandatory pit stops. How would those drivers fare if you throw in dynamic weather and fuel management? Not to mention the huge skill gap in the driving. Its a miracle any newcomer finds the will power to soldier through the steep learning curve of sim racing. Put yourself in the shoes of the average player that has a hard time simply controling the car. The player who doesn't quite understand all the unspoken rules of condunct we're expected to drive in accordance with. Do you think that player will have a better time if PD makes the races more complicated? Of course not! So these players won't take part in the hardcore races if they happen.

I was in only my second week of racing sport mode when race C featured Le Mans endurance with all the bells and whistles. I was not interested in driving those high downforce cars but I had to give a try to see. I was right about the cars. At that point in time, I was not ready and I couldn't appreciate them. But the pit strategy, the full day/night cycle and the dynamic weather blew my mind. I kept coming back for more, again and again. Its in one of those raaces that I won my first race. Still my only win. You know how? We must've been 9 to take the start, for a race on a track 13.5km/8.5miles long. How sad is that? Frankly, even in a full lobby, this track is too long. Anyway, by the end of the first lap we were 4. I was last, about 30 seconds behind 3rd place. the leader had trully checked out. At some point after the sun set the cars in 3rd and 4rth left the lobby a few seconds appart. They must have collided and lost the will to race. The leader was almost 1:30 in front of me. He slowed down to let me catch up but in the darkness I never saw him and instead of joining him for a bit "racing" he got dropped by the really slow driver he had waited up for so he also left the lobby. I can't blame him. I did finish the race all by myself even if I found the car really difficult to control. Told you I really like how this game feels. So that's how I won my first GT7 sport mode race. Not very glorious is it?

Polyphony Digital has to do a lot of hand holding in order to not alienate the majority of GT7's player base. For an online game to thrive it needs lots of players. And since most players are casual it limits what PD can get away with. Now here's the part I can't wrap my head around: why split the global player base into three areas? What's the advantage? Wouldn't it be good to lump everyone into a single player pool and have the matchmaking system do its thing? I have an account for each of the three areas and I haven't had any major network problems. Maybe PD figures some players have less than adequate internet connexions that wouldn't work in a global player pool, I don't know. But I have no doubt that PD doesn't want to see low participation numbers because it leaves the impression that the game is dying when you join a lobby with 6 or 8 players.

i agree with you just its always sunny i'm kind of sick of the same daily races

yeah but like they could take advantage of their very good rain or physics or do a night race or maybe add rain at the nurburgring you know

Rain? In Spain? At this time of year? Not realistic. I think what you mean to ask for is the MP4/4 at Suzuka in october with torrential downpours. We could all cosplay as either Alain The Professor Prost or Ayrton Goes for the Gap Senna. Pick your favorite.

But I get it, yeah. Must get boring to start on pole and win every race after a while.

I'm having a lot of fun today in the americas' lobbies.

I had been preparing by doing 11 lap race simulations in Gr.3 cars though. Before this morning I had never driven the Gr.2 cars outside of what the single player campaign asks of us before sport mode gets unlocked. I'm pleasantly surprised with the drivability of these cars. In my experience, most sims that feature high aero downforce cars fail the playability test miserably. GT7 appears to have nailed it. I'm now curious to see how the Gr.1 cars, F1 and the prototypes are like to race.

Ok but as you said, it was 5 WEEKS AGO. And it was correct me if im wrong, first? race we had like this in 2026. We are getting the same stuff nonstop all year in C (Sunny weather, non-creative strategy). What we want from GT is to give us every 2-3 weeks MAX something we will ALL love (long race, dynamic weather, every race different). I mean dont get me wrong this week's daily C is not THAT bad, Gr2 with tire management (you will have problems ONLY if you're pushing it every corner all race), chicane layout. But for SOME of us it just looks the "same" as other daily c's we had in the past. But thats my opinion.

we just had dynamic weather in daily-c five weeks ago 

Dirty drivers will feast this week 

Probably the best week of racing I've ever had! Aside from too many races ruined by extremely impatient or dirty drivers, this is the first time I've felt competitive in C-lobby. Just wish i could figure out how to get through t2 a bit quicker, was losing all my time in that corner. Drove the VW Beetle and found it to be super stable and way less oversteery than the BRZ. 

'til next time!!

Porque não pneus médios?????? 

i honestly hate trial mountain but i thought the supra would be a meta here

why can't gt7 do like rain races or something like that and challenge us