whats the best way to improve your driving skills is it just practice? joined a server last night for some online racing i was about 8 seconds off the pace, it was really good fun pushing myself. hope to join everyone on a dedicated server soon
They may not use a book but they would have instructors and as they advance a team of people analysing their driving to find flaws and places where they could push more. Raw talent doesn't cut it in todays world.How many champions in real life have ever read a book on driving faster?
I have read so many 'good driving' articles over the years and it made little difference to me. I think only by analysing your own driving via replays, telemetry and comparing yourself to other people, can you understand how to be faster. A worse driver isn't aware of the mistakes they're making, otherwise they'd be a better driver. A book doesn't know the mistakes you're making, or the physics of the car, game or sim you're using.
How many champions in real life have ever read a book on driving faster? I'm sure racers only need subjective experience and objective analysis to get better.
Also in sims and real life, driving fast is about minimising a loss in speed and weight transfer. However in a sim or game you can't feel anything other than faked steering weight (not even that if you use a controller) so it's completely different.
Watching other fast guys also helps a lot. One example would be how I dealt with turn 15 (the hairpin) at vallelunga, I was doing the normal thing of going wide as possible and trying to straighten out the corner as much as possible. But I watched someones replay where they basically slowed the car down to nothing turned the car around and accelerated without going to the edges of the track, it worked, I Guess because it takes advantage of the braking and acceleration of a race car rather than relying on the grip of the tyres through a corner.
Great post Ken, and it's even more valid after you passed me on lap 2 at MonzaMy 2 cents from a mid pack perspective
It's hard to explain now but I was trying to do the traditional thing of straightening the corner by taking a wide line in but it turned out it was a pointless endeavour, the corners so slow you gain nothing by it.I don't think it was the grip, rather that you found out how to apply the accelerator much earlier and quicker?
The problem I have, is that videos and articles on driving faster are produced with no knowledge of the mistakes you're making.