How many hours have you put into Gran Turismo Sport already?

[DonFerrari]

ithis said:

SvennoJ said: 

It is addictive. Best way to learn the tracks and raise your SR ranking is to skip qualifying and stay behind. Then when you're comfortable with the track you can run 1 or 2 qualifying laps and do a race for real. That way you get the most out of your time. It will keep your DR rating low yet there's nothing to gain by raising it. It only effects how many points you get in the FIA championships, points which are meaningless so far. XP / Money is still determined on finish position no matter what rank you race in.

I'm not sure I agree with that since if I don't know the circuit at all I tend do be all over the place, so I use the qualifying to know the track+car (as I said, not much time). Plus it's nice to not be the last. As far as I know, you can do qualifying multiple times now, just have to exit to save the new time.

But on the other hand, my worst race was going from 7th or so to 18th (last). I swear, I was the designated pinball ... ball in that race. Builds character (haha, at my age??!!). At least my controller survived, not sure what my neighbors thought thou.

I don't seek the fastest cars, nor do I buy new ones at all (although I should as I don't have a gr.4 yet).  I am bad enough that improving my driving has by far much greater effect on my times than a faster car. A more stable car that is harder to knock off the line is a better choice, but then I want to avoid contact, so it's not actually helping me if I am the Goliat on the track (I presume there are cars that are more stable than others).

I love how the cars feel different even without a wheel, although I ain't a big fan of the McLaren 650 gr.3 spinning like a cardboard box every time a front wheel gets inside the vibrator in any kind of bend at very slow speeds (although the solution is simple, don't cut the corner too much).

I even like the traction control mechanism of cutting drastically the power to the wheels on exit, because the way to avoid that is to be smoother and to use the whole width of the track, aka be a better driver (still talking about the McLaren 650 gr.3).

The caveat is that I drove very few cars on very few tracks in very few races, so my sample is small, and perhaps I will change my mind. But for now, it's very good at drawing you into the online racing world. I have been waiting for this structure for online racing since GT5.

Yes, skill improvement will help more than car enhacement, even more because the performance gap is limited.

There are difference on the stability of cars, be it from the manufacturing, build, tune, etc... some cars I can drive with only low ABS and everything else off (including traction control) and others will be undriveable to my skill without all turned on at least.

If you have to choose on stability and easyness to drive... 4WD, 4x4, FF, MR, FR (the most prone to tail out). Use shorter cars, they are more nimble and easier to do turns, if you go for the lenght one they will be sturdier and more stable but also hard to turn. Also always go first for less weight than more power, it make it easier to drive, faster to stop and acelerate.

And also the softier the tyre the better your time.