Me too, I had my rival set as the world #1 at the time
Scraped under 1:10 for top 3% when I did the lap, a few tenths to come off that if I can combine my best performances for each bend into a single lap. It’s going to be a bit like the IndyCar oval event where a small amount of time makes a big difference to leaderboard position.
The current World #1 time has to be some sort of glitch. Shows using automatic and TCS, yet it’s nearly 2 full seconds faster than the World #2 time. I’ve been ahead of it between 2 and 4 car lengths entering the last part of the esses carrying maximum speed and in the optimum gear at full throttle, yet somehow the World #1 ghost looks as if it is shot out of a cannon once passing the final curb and disappears ahead of me almost out of sight. It looks fairly sloppy as well not even taking the best line thru turn 1.
I’ve watched the replay, that is the glitchiest glitched time time that’s ever been glitched. The car jumps from 156 mph to 208 mph coming out of the esses and slowly decelerates from there.
Oh, not the glitchiest - someone has a time of 6 seconds for COTA GP according to one of the career races I ran the other evening. Needless to say that’s quite some distance ahead of second place on that LB. Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone handy to grab a pic of it.
Oh yeah, I saw the time of someone who’s probably a lot closer to me on the leaderboards than the top of it of two seconds faster than FRC level players, just wanted to see the where/how. It was an interesting watch, though.
So true. Just looked at the rival LB and realised the glitch guy is the same name as the one I’d seen on COTA. Guess he’s making a not-so-subtle habit of it.
This event is ridiculously tough for me. I cannot beat Mechberg cleanly without dirtying the lap. On clean laps he’s always a hair ahead of me and then pulls ahead on the turn after the straight. Having a hard time knowing what gear to be in for turn 1 (using 2nd) and the hard right sweeper after the long straight (usually 3rd and then upshifting into 4th). Also, it seems fastest to not shift into 6th on the long straight.
Edit: I passed Mechberg’s time and the next guy above. How are these guys getting decent times running full auto and all assists on? I’m running everything off except for having no clutch.
Does your speed on 5th have time to get higher than the top of 4th? I found that the speed I lose by hitting the limiter is roughly the same that I lose when shifting up, and I’m still not really getting above 260km/h. So right now if I’m really careful with the throttle I can JUST keep it under the limiter for a couple seconds before the turn comes up.
My first turn still kinda sucks, but I think I’m getting the next couple curves down pretty good now.
I am hitting 163mph, (262.3kph) before braking at the end of the straight. I’ll have to try staying in 4th and see if it makes a difference to my split time.
Currently my best lap time is 1.09.903 after about 50 laps. I think I’ve got a few more tenths in me but I think the 1.08’s of the top guys is beyond me.