GT Sport Season 15 Division 2

Wow, did everyone in Div 1 do a pitstop?

Matt, Simon, AmazingHour, Ranger & myself pitted & everyone else did the no stop.

Didn't run out of fuel, didn't want to split GT and Ursine, to keep him closer in the championship. Never know, GT might break a leg.
I just slowed too much looking for a safe spot to park.
Would have been an interesting bus stop had I kept going.
Congrats to GT, Tubby and Hat.

Ah, too many mistakes including a 360 spin on the green slippy stuff and a weird moment where the car pitched right at the bus stop. Might have given @TUBBSTER22 a run for his money otherwise, but even without the mistakes, I don't think I could have kept up with @gtkingx

@Apex_64 you weren't driving a bus so that was not a good spot to stop!

I won’t lie mate, that would have been a close race between us. I probably don’t deserve 2nd place but I will take it. Div 2 this season is really fast and I’ve got a lot of respect top drivers in this division. I’m surprised I can actually keep up!! Lol
Well done again to GTKing and sorry again for L2 T1.

@SPye2_WAU after chatting last night about controllers and tyre wear issues, have you ever considered getting a Fanatec Csl Elite Mclaren GT3 V2 wheel? They have analogue paddles so you can use without pedals. Just a thought
https://fanatec.com/au-en/steering-wheels/csl-elite-steering-wheel-mclaren-gt3-v2

Youd also need a wheelbase to put that on, which puts the total investment at about $1000 !

Isn't the intent of sim racing to ruin us financially and socially, so this seems like a pretty good deal, right?

I know, Ive paid Fanatec and Trak Racer more than that, absolutely love their gear though.

I have the clutch paddles on my Fanatec wheel and they do work very well as accelerator and brake. It's fairly hard work on your hands and forearms to use them for long periods but if he can manage that then it's definitely a viable option

A wheel is not an option for me.

I managed to complete my race without pitting but the lap times were terrible. I say that I should've pit but if I did I'd say that I shouldn't have so I'm damned either way. Thankfully, there were a few positives to come out of this one:
-I got through a league race with manual gears for the first time
-I was able to conserve fuel
-I got into the top 10 somehow
-Didn't make any catastrophic errors
-Learnt how not to drive a car with heavily worn tyres
I kept missing my braking points as the tyres went off, which further contributed to my woes. I had to turn in really hard to avoid going off the road and scrubbed them badly. Not good when you want to do the race without pitting. If I'm to do something like this again I'll need to pay close attention to the braking distances as the tyres wear down. But if the pitstops were shorter I wouldn't need to worry about this.

Has anybody been with GTking and Keeden at the same time in a lobby/race?

Not a groundbreaking observation, but we need to rethink divisions for next season if we have someone in Division 2 running very competitive (or race winning) Div 1 race times. Especially when there are only 8-9 regular starters in Division 1 this season

Basically get rid of all the divisions and fill rooms from the top down (shudder at the admin involved) with everyone in the league ranked within the same table. Higher points for split 1, 2 etc, but with some crossover (e.g P3 split 2 = P13 split 1, or something along those lines.

@Hatfield if/when I can make it, I don't mind racing in Div1 from now on if that suits you. Been coming last in Div2 anyway, and i am used being a grid filler in Div1.

It's difficult to know, last season I was in div 1 and spent several races doing laps by myself and the back getting further behind each lap. This season the car has suited me and I've done very well. Next season they'll probably pick some high downforce piece of rubbishroflmao that I can't drive and I'll struggle to keep up in div 2

It's probably fair to say I likely wouldn't have done that race time in the div 1 room either given i'd likely have had battles and destroyed my tyres, whereas after Hat made his error and spun, I was just running laps by myself so it was easy to stay fast and smooth

I'm open to moving up for the remainder of this season though, running laps by myself is pointless whether I'm at the back or the front

That's what we tried in S13 wasn't it?