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
Thanks for the headsup, i really appreciate. Just asked for a place on the list. See ya ThursdayWell, on top of everything that's been said, you could also attend Assetto Corsa: Premium Driver Academy this Thursday. Since you have Premium membership already, you're just a click away from joining. 90 minutes of going over basics and exchanging knowledge with Bram, who will also be supervising the "execution of lessons learned". Two seats still available.
To those posters above I did understand how the techniques should be applied, but they didn't help me. Analysing my driving or comparing myself to other drivers works for me, and you learn more about a car or track every time you drive.
The problem I have, is that videos and articles on driving faster are produced with no knowledge of the mistakes you're making.
There is, I think, a placebo effect when reading or watching techniques. Perhaps in an effort to go faster you analyse yourself, change things and concentrate more. However if you're faster it wasn't anything you watched or read that made you faster, you helped yourself.
I guess If you're a beginner and you don't know about being setting up a car, being smooth, traction circles, weight transfer, etc it would be a good idea to learn that stuff.
On the subject on going faster... What percentage of going faster a component of knowing how to setup the sim car's engine, suspension, breaking, etc. Personally, I don't know anything about setting up a sim car, I am a recreational racer who really likes these sim racing titles.
Very, very, very, very, very, small percentage until you're already fast in the car. It doesn't matter how good the setup is if you can't drive the car, I usually don't touch setup or only make minor changes until I feel pretty fast.On the subject on going faster... What percentage of going faster a component of knowing how to setup the sim car's engine, suspension, breaking, etc. Personally, I don't know anything about setting up a sim car, I am a recreational racer who really likes these sim racing titles.
Very few cars in AC need setup changes to be driveable. For the most part you need to worry yourself with being smooth and accurate in your driving, and once you can run the same fast lap over and over, then move on to setups. And I can't stress it enough- Be smooth, smooth, and did I mention smooth? When I finally stopped driving sloppily with rough inputs, I could watch as the time disappeared lap by lap. That's my own opinion, at least...But seriously, there has to some part of the car setup that can help even the most novice of sim racers.
Yes/No. For example, I changed the camber by 1 or 2 degrees in Forza on Xbox 360, and it made all the difference. For me, that small change worked with my drive style. So in this case the setup helped, as a result, I was faster than I would have been otherwise.
The race line is not dynamic, so the braking points are different between cars. If you want to use the visual racing line, only use it as a guide for the ideal track line to follow. Then you adjust the braking to the car and your style.Is it just me or is the raceline in AC really wonky at the moment? I turned it on for a lap or 2 but found it be really off (again, could just be me I'm no Andretti at the moment) - mainly with braking/accel points so i've gone back to practicing without it.
The Video was quite helpful by the way. Looking forward to applying some of it. They also explained overtaking etiquette nicely.
Do not try to bend a spoon...that's impossible.
You just destroyed my whole philosophy of life