Well, I was planning more of a joy ride in arcade mode. If it drives anything like the Assetto Corsa one, I wouldn't really jump into a GR.1 race right away. What kills the AC one is the sound mixing, it almost sounds like the old Need for Speed Hot Pursuit games where all cars sounded the same with a little distortion in between.



I guess I'll have to make do with the Vulcan for a bit.

Lol, I snagged it for 1.75m. The R92CP was 2.5m at the time, which I also snagged.

It does cycle as well since I was able to snag the Superbird this time around. I think it came out during the first week of launch.

Dumbass Fraga spun me out on a straight in Spa!

So I tried to wide body Testa… no luck

Forgot to mention, you can’t wide body Testa, but you can wide body Aventador, wtf w that BS?!?! At least Aventador is decently easy to drift. You can’t fully do RWD. Closest is 5:95, so you gotta fully commit to the corner or it’ll understeer, but overall fun drift car.

Probably because Ferrari, even in games, allows very little things to be done to their vehicles.

Lamborghini on the other hand, don't give a F.



To be honest, I'm even surprised Toyota allowed their vehicles to be used for this game. They've been acting like wimps recently regarding their vehicles used for racing games. Guess it makes it okay if it's on a track instead of the streets.

Catastrophe for me at Spa also. GT500 GTR on hards, stock except mid-turbo. I turned the difficulty to hard to make it interesting.. didn't expect the AI's fast pace in the rain. I was able to get into the lead by around 3 laps and made a healthy gap before first pit. Timing was great as the tank was going empty just as the rain came. And it POURED.

My lead went from 14 to 6 sec between pit stop and 3 laps of slow pace on wets. No idea how they found the grip they did. Eau rouge and maybe the back straight were the only places I could make any time on anyone.

I hit a puddle and spun on the back straight at around 30 mins and it was over, never saw the lead again. I managed 2nd because the one guy made an extra stop.

I did the race a few times on easy with the same car/setup and had zero offs. Maybe not AS rainy. Definitely could have won if I managed to stay on the road.

I'll try it again later today. I'm comparing the McLaren to the R34. It's funny how it is using 1 or 2 psi for the turbo whereas the R34 is at least 24 psi.

@ichitaka05, any advice for drifting? You seem to enjoy it lol. I just want help for the Mission drift challenges. I'm stuck on the 2nd one with the Mustang. I am not good and cannot gold it for my life.

It sounds awesome. But I don't have any races for which to use it!

I got the R92CP as well. That's good to know. Hopefully the F1 will be back soon!

That guy is aggressive. Messes with me alllll the time.

I've been running everything in the game on Hard so I don't know otherwise, but I had a very entertaining and difficult win at Spa last night. For the last stint I went with full wet tires, which I realized after 2 laps was the wrong choice. My very big lead started to evaporate, which was fine I could manage the bleeding with the time left. However, over half the field of AI were working on unlapping themselves from me since I was nursing my tires. Big problem there is they'd be all over my ass through the sections on which they're really fast...but still slow through Eau Rouge and a few other spots. So I kept repassing them, and then yielding back to them. And they didn't give a damn about keeping it clean. Super frustrating to be dodging lapped cars when 2nd place was less than 7 seconds behind me. :mad0260:

Yes! This caused a few of my offs. Unfortunately most were just me overdriving trying to make up time. I don't usually do that, but then I almost never drove that hard in the wet in any game until now.

Yeah this game forces you to drive aggressive by design it seems. (Starting a half a lap down to begin with and only a few laps to work with). Although I did notice some of the bigger (maybe newer) races are much more closely spaced. Like the big dollar race at Tokyo Expressway is a rolling start but double-wide staggered just like a real grid. It made me very excite. I don't think I have a good car for it yet though.

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I didn’t know there was a drift mission in the game lol Before I left for work, I did quickly do that mission. Took me 2 try to get gold & 5 try to get the drifting I was satisfied w lol

I did save the reply & shared it, so you should be able to see the replay. Mostly faint to get the car sideway, let the gas to get control & rest was power drift. If you just want to pass, you could prob enough points w just power drift midway through the corner. Don’t need to speed into the corner, either way Mustang got enough power to do burnout from stop anyways.

^Yes that's me on your friends list, lol. Took me about an hour to the (silver) score you see. I'll watch your reply later. I lift abruptly to get the slide started, then try to hold with throttle. But the front either washes out on me or the car comes around completely.

Yeah, I find drifting rather difficult as well, but I did read/hear that it's pretty hard to on a controller.

Hmmm, decisions decisions. Buy this F1 or wait for the street version?

Yeah, that's what happened on the 1st try. That's why side brake is a bit tricky on that car. To make thing worse is, car isn't setup for drifting. Result is literally do or die drift lol

Also a lot of ppl are used to seeing those crazy vid of smoke everywhere drift in real life AND GT that ppl think smoke = drifting. Technically in GT, you still can get points without getting all smoky tires. GT look for the angle of the car, distance between the car & inner corner and speed. Like yesterday's Aventador more than half of the drifting was non-smoke drift. Even then I still got like +50k points in Trial Mountain.

So just keep those 3 main things and you'll pass w flying colors.

I'm opposite. I can drift around on a controller, but wheel is freaking hard! Especially w TM wheel. They like to auto correct, even though I have it off. So I'm literally fighting GT for autocorrecting AND TM autocorrecting.

I'm debating as well. I like em... but I rarely use that car, so feel lil waste to buy em. But If I gonna be like Pokemon Rule, gotta catch em all lol

Drifting goes against my natural instinct to correct the car sooner. I have a hard time with it.

I'll try that advice for drifting. Also while on the Mission topic...how TF do you knock over all 8 cones with the Miata in less than 12 seconds? Kaotic has done it...so please tell me! lol

One of my issues with GT is it seems more and more motorsports leaning with each generation. However I enjoy the game more for street cars (modified or preferably stock). But, more and more of the events (especially online) are slanted to Gr_ classified race cars. I dream about driving a Carrera GT or F40 in real life. However I do not dream about driving a Carrera GT with stage 3 weight reduction, aftermarket high rpm turbo and a rear wing. :sigh:

So with that being said, I would probably get more use from this McLaren GTR than the street car. Though I fully admit to occasionally spending hours in the game just doing time trial with various STOCK street cars around the 'Ring.:thumbup:

I bought it and now am back to grinding at LM and Spa in preparation for the road version and the LT race car. LOL.

Yeah, I was having trouble at first and took me many tries. iirc, you have to grip from the start (to get onto the square), and then yank the handbrake and do a race style (not show style) drift to be able to knock all the cones down in time.

^^is it a great driving car? How's it sound (lol). Good for Gr races?

^drifting you say? Welp...:brokenheart:

I'm kinda same as well. All the GT series, I just finish up to certain point aka buy a car that makes me enough cr. Buy shit ton of same cars to make it specific to grip, drift or rally. From there, I buy more same cars for shits and giggles or forget which one I needed, so buy again and mod it again. iirc I bought near 10 FR-S, 20 86, 18 BRZ and 40 Gr4 86 in the GTS :bellyroll:

Great at braking and accelerating. Doesn't have the top end that the R34 has, but really good on tires. Fuel consumption seems better than the R34, but I keep rage quitting the 1 hour Spa race due to the AIs becoming more aggressive now for some reason, so I'm not 100% on that.

I'm still tuning it since I keep getting mid corner to corner exit sliding, whether I'm on or off throttle.

Sound-wise...I'm going to get flamed for this, but I actually don't like the way it sounds.

Not bad. I got 3rd in today's daily race A, which is a BoP race of the GR86/BRZ. I think you guys will enjoy it. It is at the Suzuka full track on sport hard tires.

I’ve completed all the drift mission. Bitch one was Gone with Wind, so I saved & shared the replay to help ya out. Last one w Formul D BRZ was easy, so didn’t save the replay. Just hold the gas & it’ll just go through the corner.

Update, managed only 2nd with the McLaren. It's a pretty demanding/unforgiving car. I spun at least 4 times, which caused me the lead, and also prevented me from getting the lead on the last lap when I was a couple seconds behind first.

imo, not worth its price tag, but should be a car you collect. LOL

Did you fiddle with the LSD?

IMO most of the mid-engine cars in this game are not very forgiving. Which is pretty annoying because they're not THAT bad in real life.

Yeah, I lowered the initial and the acceleration settings a little. My issue with it is the second you touch some grass or a tall curb, it'll just do what ever it wants and is very hard to regain control.

^I find that issue with most of the race cars, at least in the rain.

I was able to set up the LSD nicely I think, for the F1, in that it understeers a little bit but I adjust the line by lifting to get just a touch of rotation. That being said, I just spent a miserable hour in the Spa race coming in dead f*cking last place. In fact I parked the car for the final 30 seconds by the final chicane so I wouldn't have to do another lap. The rain in my race was more severe than usual and at one point when I should have gone for Wets I chose Intermediates instead. I also found that as the track dries out this car seems to have more accelerated rear tire wear (than the Aston I usually use for this race) and when you get to 50% tread in the rear the car is close to undriveable. (for me at least). I also didn't get the CRB because I passed under yellow (after having passed the incident, dammit). aaaaaaaaaack

I actually did notice that too that it's much harder to drive with more tire wear, compared to say, the R34.

Same happened as well, I got more downpour in that race, but comparing dry traction and one bar wet traction.

I'll just continue using the R34.

I'm going to try the McLaren on all the medium/short length 800PP WTC races that I haven't done yet, but for now I will be sticking with my Aston Martin for money making on Spa.

Finally completed the races. Now left w License & Missions.

Now, I was checking which cars allowed wide body vs which ones don’t. Countach doesn’t allow wide body make sense… but 308 GTB, F8, F12, 458 & even LaFerrari allow wide body, but not Testarossa? Wtf

Even wide ass Carrera GT & CTR3 allow more wider fenders! GT WHY?!?!?!?!?

I finished all the races, I think, yesterday. Didn't get 1st in all, but all but one I got some kind of podium finish. One race I got 4th.

So I tried doing the circuit experience. I did Tsukuba a while back, so I tried LM. Pretty dang hard, especially since I'm not used to Gr1 cars and all of their grip. Maybe I'll try some shorter tracks first, or tracks with Gr2 cars or lower. LOL.

Last night at 1145pm I ran the route X at 240mph to get my daily ticket. Then I switched to No Man's Sky to send my frigates out on missions. At 1210am I switched back to GT7 and did a few races I didn't have 1st in to get todays ticket, lol. (I have a wedding to go to today). Don't judge me though I saw 2 other people on around the same time, and maybe they were just up late playing but it had me all like are they also... [emoji848]

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CE’s are sort of hit or miss with how hard they are, but all tend to require no messing around I’ve found so far. I’ve only done a few since the physics fix, also went back to see if I could be faster in ones I’ve done with corrected physics. Seems like the race cars are easier/safer but overall slower due to tendency to understeer.

Lots of people are crying that especially race cars are too easy and numb now… honestly I don’t care so long as road cars stay the way they are now. They were JANKY before and they’re a lot of fun now, and pretty realistic too I think.

I sort of wish I tried Nordschleife CE before the fix. Had heard it was super hard, only GT challenge harder was the Vettel X challenge in GT5 (which I never tried to gold.) The first sector in Nord CE took me almost as much time as 80% of the other sectors. 4 or 5 I got gold on first completion. I would have gotten gold on first 1-lap attempt except I stepped out into the grass on the LAST TURN and lost maybe 0.3 sec, missed it by 0.1. :bonk: It was ok, made a lot of errors and would have probably done another lap regardless. Got gold handily on second attempt. Cool 6 mil.

But it actually looks like the how real race cars are now, like how they take the last sector at LMs at crazy speeds. I don't think I could have taken a Gr1 at those speeds before the update.

I can't really speak of how Gr1 cars were pre update, but to me, they are still a handful now.

Maxed out the collector level. Weird how it just stops at level 50. Guess you don't have to collect every single car to max out.

I was gonna say what’s the max level…

I'm sure it is 50 since I'm no longer accumulating points now.

Does going widebody make a car handle better? (via more tire grip). I haven't looked into that, though naturally it SHOULD.

I tried CE on Le Mans yesterday. Thought it would be easy since I run LeMans all the time. And it mostly was. But, holy crap you can take that last section fast in the Peugeot! I golded each section but not the whole lap yet. Because it could take a while. You make one tiny mistake and forget it, 3 minutes lost. So a little tedious. Especially annoying if you trip up close to the end.