Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190226000100/@comment-26070006-20190304073732

AnAvg wrote: Enoregi wrote: ME7 wrote: Enoregi wrote: Hey, can you save gold on suspension and brakes, if you choose to full upgrade for this trial? That's a great thought, so I looked into it. Both Brakes and Suspension also inrease your grip. Group A won't be possible. maybe group B, but I doubt it. If they only effected brakes then for sure. In the end, it Depends what group your shooting for. I'll try to find out if the car can handle it. It can't. I tried many times. Without these upgrades you will have to lift the gas in turn 3. Losing ~0.4 second of your lap time. Wrong 😃 @enoregi @anavg @me7, I am at 42.063 mid-Rank B without that last Suspension upgrade on my TOYOTA CAMRY! I do not lift at all. I'm 0.056 away from Rank A - but that's 1100 racers ahead of me, and since I'm # 1400 worldwide, that means Rank A must only contain 300 players! I bet it's top 0.1%.

This is my first time ever hitting Rank B and I am ecstatic that I might get Rank A and 300GC if I buy the last Suspension upgrade! Bc my real problem is too much speed coming out of turn 4 and either losing rear grip or hitting the wall.

@AnAvg honestly Turn 3 is one of the easier ones for me, I never lose grip there even at only 1.22g. I start far to the right where the track goes up an incline at the start of the corner, then gennnntly steer in as hard as my tires will allow down to the rumble strip but I usually don't even touch it. Then you should have perhaps 1 sec of straight between 3 & 4 which allows you several options to set up your line for the real challenge: Turn 4.

What's SUPER WEIRD is I'm not that great, I usually hit Rank C if my car is upgraded enough, otherwise Rank D. In Career TTs however, I've noticed 2 years ago that for some reason CIRCLE TRACKS ARE MY JAM!! When I ran a Richmond TT, I got a Group A without even trying hard!! I was shocked and astounded bc for any other TT I've ever done, I have to spend a lot of time w/trial & error until I memorize every optimal line for the whole track. But I repeated the same thing on Indianapolis Speedway!!

What's most perplexing is the fact that these ovals are the absolute simplest tracks, so you'd think you'd need every single little trick in the book to even get Group B much less A!

I'm baffled and I still don't know the explanation! It feels like "Wow what is everyone else doing wrong that's keeping them from running the same times I am?"

Back to this weeks WTTT: ''Getting to 42.09 only took 3-5 tries. Getting from 42.09 to 42.06 took 50-100 more attempts!''! I think I really need that last Suspension to get Rank A and I'm gonna try it because I bet that's what will let me power through Turn 4 finally in the optimal line I want, without losing the tail or hitting the wall.

I have road raced my personal hot rod street car on a 4 mile IndyCar road course 2 different years for a total of 400 miles combined, so I have some real racing experience, and I've grown up with a record holding small 1/4mi steep banked circle track in a neighboring city, maybe some of that rubbed off on me?