Gran Turismo 7 Regulation Settings Discussion

Great points being raised and i see validity in:
- brake balance on (widely adopted)
- tire wear over fuel burn. Encourage 2 stop races to allow strategy to have more emphasis and provide opportunity. 1 stop doesnt really mix the field much, just adjusts timing of field change-change back.
- i like the night races but it is much much better with VR over flat screen. Not something everyone has so understand caution applying night races
- dynamic weather and rain is a must. Id encourage a few events with this.
- enduros need to be mid season.


Big shout out to admins putting in the time and effort behind the scenes to facilitage this.

Perhaps we could also form a working group of div 1-4 drivers to run some races and test some changes. Id be open to assisting there.

I'm not sure relative lap times and performance under race conditions are that reliable a measure though, as stuff happens in races, fuel saving / tyre wear / slipstream / dirty air all play a part. That's why I reckon measuing optimum lap time under time trial conditions over, say 3 tracks with the seaon car with no slipstream/battling etc will give a better measure of potential performance for the season. After seeding based on optimums it is then up to the driver to get the strategy and consistency right for the races.

I just set medium and heavy rain in a 20min race and it didn't rain. Also joined another lobby with a 20min race and it had s03, r06, r06 and c03 and again it sprinkled for a minute but stopped and never really rained. Safe to say rain and intensity is never guaranteed even when selecting rain, something we could use for next season.

Any thoughts on bringing the Joker system in for drivers?
I know we used it for teams championship, but might spice things up if each driver has one Joker to play during the season.

Sure, but everyone has the same chance to play their Joker.

I think adding an extra element of luck into a drivers championship isn't the way to go. It was hard enough picking jokers in a team of 8-10

Reposting my thoughts on a 1b championship here

As it stands I don't think there's any point to labelling a division as 1B for future seasons. Division 1B is the second division, it should just be called Division 2. Points don't carry across from Div 1B to 1A, and the only way the label of Div 1B makes sense is if the finishing positions of 1B merge races count towards the 1A championship when they occur (to the detriment of any 1A drivers they beat).
It makes no sense otherwise as it also looks better when selling rooz to people to say they can start in Div 4 as it highlights the league's depth rather than basically conceding that we can't fill the top 2 divisions in the name

I agree, but having a 1B room separate from 1A entirely doesn't make sense to me. If we weren't hampered by 16 player lobbies and we could have both in one room I'd be on board, but otherwise it is essentially a Div 2 room anyway

I remember when 1B was a way for fast humans to compete for something while running around with the aliens

My suggestion would be to use optimal times from these qually sessions rather than fastest lap, as this gives a better idea of overall potential of the driver even if they can't nail that one qually lap in a short season with possibly not too much practice.

Agreed. That's what Tidgney does with his car reviews when comparing cars in class. He does 10 laps then records the optimal time for comparison.

It would require each driver to screen shot their timing data from the HUD but they can be done and posted into the PSN chat for the room. How does that work for the VR crew, is the data still available to you on your monitor?

The only "compromised" part for VR is the in-game HUD. Everything else appears as per the regular game.
The split timings as part of the sub-menu are still available in VR (along with BB, TC etc.)

From memory taking a screeenshot from VR is a PITA as it brings up menu window.
But please correct me if I am wrong because it has been a while since I had to do that.
I am more confident that I had no idea what I was doing than the first statement in my post..

Run in practice mode, 1x fuel 1x tyre, static conditions. At end of 15 minutes finish the lap you are on, park up, screenshot optimum time, send to room psn chat. For Div 1, maybe 3, 2 or 1 bonus championship points up for grabs for top 3 optimum (or lap) times