1430: Gran Turismo 7 PS4 \\ 919 vs SF19 time trials @ Blue Moon Bay & Laguna Seca!
1Maybe finally found my groove in Gran Turismo 7: Time Trial runs pitting the Porsche 919 Hybrid (Gr.1 car) vs the Dallara SF19 ("Super Formula," Japan's take on F1*, but where the cars are all made from the same parts--so for instance all teams used the Dallara SF19 chassis until the series switched to the Dallara SF23 in 2023); I'd thought the SF car would take it easily but the 919 pushes it pretty hard! And they're both real fun to drive. : )
Also tried the BAC Mono and Ferrari FXX K '14 in there at first and they're both real fast--especially the FXX--but their handling isn't in the same league, and I couldn't keep them competitive. (And the Mono's cockpit puts a pulsing red RPM bar right in the center of my view, gahh. (Forza Horizon 4 version of the Mono doesn't have that (and also drives ridiculously well HM).))
With the 919 vs the SF19 though I'm having a ball driving on tracks I thought I had no interest in, this is great! = D
0:00 - BAC Mono buying & tuning
5:45 - Blue Moon Bay - Full Course
6:27 - BAC Mono '16 time trial
10:23 - Porsche 919 Hybrid '16 time trial
15:06 - Ferrari FXX K '14 time trial
20:01 - Dallara SF19 (Toyota) time trial
31:10 - 919 again
38:10 - SF19 again
45:00 - 919 third time
48:23 - Mono again
52:09 - Blue Moon Bay - Infield A
52:45 - Mono (BMB-IA)
57:21 - 919 (BMB-IA)
1:07:27 - SF19 (BMB-IA)
1:13:28 - Laguna Seca
1:14:40 - Mono (LS)
1:17:00 - SF19 (LS)
1:24:02 - 919 (LS)
1:32:38 - SF19 (LS again)
1:42:30 - wrap!
I thought I was done with GT7, having failed to find a way to enjoy it running time trials as I'd intended, but the loosey goosiness of Forza Horizon 4 made yearn for GT7's smooth minimalistic precision--and I thought hey wait, I never did try an F1 in GT7... Well, GT7 doesn't have an F1 exactly (it's got a fantasy 80s F1 homage in a Gran Turismo brand concept car), but it does have the Super Formula cars. They're only $1M each--which is relatively inexpensive for super high performance cars in the game; there's also I think it's a Honda race "menu" that gifts you the Honda, I think, but I'm a Toyota loyalist for some silly reason (I had a 2008 Camry ; D that I drove until I could no longer afford to maintain it and donated when I moved in 2018 =p), so I paid for the Toyota-engine version (the series' engines, either Toyota or Honda, are regulated to an identical 543 HP).
I've gone back to face buttons for gas and brake, this time following the TrackMania Nations Forever arrangement of [] for gas and X for brake--and shifting up/down with L2/R2. I'm now steering with the left analog instead of motion controls both because it's more standardized across the other racing games I'm playing (currently Trackmania, TMNF, and FH4), and it just felt easier to get to grips with when I came back to the game.
Since a magical all-nighter with Metropolis Street Racer back in the day on Dreamcast I've thought that getting into the zone with a game's Time Trial mode would be the way for me to get into racing games; since that long-ago time I've never quite been able to recapture that feeling; I tried a few other Gran Turismo games too over the years but just didn't find a way to click with them after finishing the initial grind--but now with the SF19 and 919, I'm having a blast in Gran Turismo! = D
(* On Super Formula vs F1 etc, https://us.motorsport.com/general/news/how-fast-is-an-f1-car-compared-to-indycar-wec-super-formula-and-more/9599541/ has a massively in-depth comparison boiled down between a heck-ton of racing series, boiled down to a ranked table of comparative track speeds plus a single sentence explanation.
According to https://traxion.gg/gran-turismo-7-car-groups-explained/ , GT7's Group 1 ("Gr.1") is "modern-day LMP1 cars, Group C monsters and futuristic Vision prototypes." LMP1 was the top class of "Le Mans Prototype," the car type used in "24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA SportsCar Championship, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype ). "The LMP1 category was retired at the end of the 2020 season, replaced by a new top class of the endurance racing: Hypercar" for which see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_Hypercar .)
(I checked F1 games and they're an EA annual franchise.)
6/4/23
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