Round 6: Interlagos - Custom Weather - Sunrise 6x - 27 Laps - 26/03 [RS and RM REQUIRED] WELCOME to Season 4 for Gran Turismo 7!! As always please take a couple minutes to read the following so you have an understanding of what is expected on race night. If you have any questions, or want clarification on any of the rules or regulations please ask! ROOM OPEN : Room captains may have practice rooms open beforehand but should have the official room up by 8pm AEST. Please be on time, or let the room captain or div thread know if you may be late. If all agree, the room may wait for you, Within reason. Please remember we have drivers from NZ, and later starts mean a much later night for them. SIGHT ISSUES: Before qualifying, exit to lobby and spend 30 seconds in spectate mode, scroll through the list of drivers on track and make sure that you can see their car. If you can't see somebody (and they are confirmed as being on track), exit the lobby, re-join, and check again.Type the number of cars you can see in the lobby chat and cross check with other drivers to ensure clarity. QUALIFYING : 8:15 pm AEDT for 10 mins. Feel free to run practice laps prior to qualifying, The host will trigger a 'Room Reset' closer to the commencement of Qualifying. Once 10 mins of session time has elapsed, finish the lap you are on and stop the car off the circuit somewhere near the start of the lap. PITS ARE OPEN DURING QUALIFYING RACE START TIME : 8:25 AEDT LAG ISSUES / ROOM RESTARTS : This is up to the room host/captains. If there is a Disconnection (or cars stuck on grid) at race start, it is sporting to try to get them back in, which may mean a new room to be set up. I would suggest only having 1 restart if required due to DSC, due to having to set up the room from scratch and also having to set timed laps in order to set the grid. Please be as reasonable as you can with this.... TURN 1 LAP 1 : The old saying goes, you can’t win the race on lap 1, but you can definitely lose it. Please be mindful of other drivers on lap 1 coming into turn 1, and for that matter, the entire race. It can be very demoralizing to hot lap on your own for 45 minutes as I'm sure many of you are aware. TRACK LIMITS : As we are running with 'track limit penalties" OFF, we will run with our usual Raceonoz track limit regulations. This means you MUST have at least 2 wheels on the ripple strip OR white line that defines the track limit. If you do make a mistake and have to run outside the limits, be aware that you are not allowed to gain any advantage, position or time wise. Track Limits protests may be launched by any active driver in the race. Track Limits will be monitored at Turns 2-5, 7, 8 and 12. CONTACT : Is to be avoided at all times..... If you make contact with someone and gain an advantage, YOU ARE EXPECTED to give the spot back. Occasionally, Gran Turismo track limits may teleport a disadvantaged driver backwards on circuit to ‘reset’ them, if this occurs at the hand of another driver, IT IS EXPECTED that the driver at fault will wait and redress the position. Side by side 'rubbing' is racing is allowed and promoted within reason, but all drivers are expected to give racing room. For clarity surrounding racing room, please feel free to PM @Viperzed Show each other RESPECT! It is difficult enough to drive the car at the limit on your own, without someone squeezing you within a millimeter of the grass. So be patient and show respect to your fellow drivers. If you are redressing contact, please do so out of the way of other cars, off the racing line, or if there isn't much room, off track. PIT ENTRY/EXIT LINES : Pit Line Penalties are ON so you will be penalised in game if you cut any part of the entry or exit lines. Please be aware of cars exiting T3, Stay hard left. BLUE FLAGS : Please observe blue flags, and move out of the way of faster cars if you are being lapped. Failure to observe blue flags WILL result in a penalty STEWARDS GROUP AND RACE PROTESTS : This season, the Head Steward will be @Viperzed. If you have reason to protest, please SAVE YOUR REPLAY, and then let him know via a PM. DO NOT BLOW UP IN THE FORUM OR IN THE ROOM CHAT. There have been multiple incidents where the replays from drivers have been different, so its true that sometimes things are not as black and white as they may seem. You have until MIDNIGHT, Monday night to register your protest via PM. Stewards may ask for video evidence from both drivers or room captains to make any decision. SAVE YOUR REPLAY : If the room host can ask all drivers to save their replay would be good before exiting the room.....once they exit out and the option goes, it cant be retrieved! PARKING UP : If you are unable to continue to race, please enter the pits and leave your game paused without selecting tyres so that your car stays parked in the pits. Parking up off track activates yellow flags in the sector, and even though penalties are off, we have reports of penalties occurring for passes happening near the parked car. Quitting off track results in a sometimes race ending lag spike and may be punished in extreme scenarios. ATTENDANCE: Could all drivers please inform Room Captains or make a post on the division thread if they do not intend on racing on Sunday night, Room Captains/ Lobby Hosts are advised not to wait for anyone who has not communicated their intentions. If you do not post in your room thread or psn chat that you cannot attend, a spot may not be held for you for the following weeks race. TRACK SPECIFIC - Interlagos The home of the Brazilian Grand Prix! Interlagos is a medium speed, flowing circuit with many a passing oppurtunity and some challenging sets of corners. Be careful not to get greedy mid corner, set yourself up for exits and be mindful of what is lying ahead. Tire wear will be brutal if you're not careful. The tire allocation for this round is RS and RM, both REQUIRED.
I'm not gonna be there tonight unfortunately. Hope you all have a good race, Interlagos should be fun. I'll see everyone next week.
@Viperzed where the white line is on the track side of the ripple strip, at least two wheels have to be on the track side of the white line correct?
The rule is "Two wheels on the white line or ripple strip, whichever is further out". Not sure which applies in this instance.
Any idea on how to set BOP for custom race? If not was it 300bhp and 990kg? Been trying to practice with event settings but BOP is greyed out
@Matthyus Are you able to please upload Q and results from our chat thread? What hosting site do I need to use to get them to show up here?
Make sure that when you copy the link, it is in Direct mode, not link. Also make sure that you select the 'picture' icon on the bar above this typing box (the one next to the smiley face) to insert the Direct link into the typing box.
Yeah, I can't wrap my head around it, keeps posting blank stuff. Shame I can't upload the images straight from my phone, is there a reason why that can't be done?
Pretty happy last night. Lots of positives. I did some practice during the week (30+ laps) with the intention of getting a higher start position than normal. I knew I could get a 1:39, just had to replicate it in qualie. I did twice actually and got my equal highest start I've ever had. I started 5th in round one. That was my main goal of the night. Achieved. My 2nd goal was to keep as many of laps similar times as I can. My first 10 laps were all within the same second and I was in 4th on lap 10 I think. Goal achieved. I then had a brain snap and forgot what corner I was on and tried to go full ball around one I shouldn't have. lol. Lost 3 places from that. I also must've cu the pit line on entry because I got a penalty. All my medium tyre laps were similar times as well. Really happy overall, maybe without my 2 blunders, I might've finished a spot or 2 higher, maybe not. Happy anyway because I can see improvements more clearly and regularly. Two 7th place finishes in a row with chances of being higher. Normally I'm 10th, 11th or 12th. I want to get to a point where I'm finishing around 5th. I now believe I can do that.
Can't be much happier with my result last night. Qualifying: @incey came flying out of the blocks and set a quick time early on, I slowly inched my way closer and closer as the session went on but ultimately finished 5 hundredths behind incey, although we had quite a significant gap to 3rd place. For the race my idea was to drive conservatively and try to win via strategy so at the start i avoided battling incey so we could build a gap and keep those behind off our slipstream. I knew trying to overtake and get ahead of incey would be no easy task so i just utilised his tow when i was close enough and when we both pitted on lap 13 i had a fuel advantage. I probably didn't need to refuel but i did splash a little bit into the tank albeit slightly too much than i wanted so me and incey came out of the pits ghosted on top of each other. We had a small battle which i came out on top from and incey didn't seem as comfortable on the mediums so i was able to create quite a solid buffer and ended up taking a somewhat comfortable race win.
