Any tips for night racing?

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So I have a league race soon that are Megane Trophy cars at Spa but with a twist... track time is set to midnight. I dont have much experience racing at night because I've kind of abandoned offline and nobody likes racing at night online for some reason (or atleast they do but its dirty) anyway, I was wondering if you guys could give me some tips to race at night sucessfully. Thanks :)
 
Watch out for those glowing curbs (rumble strip?) and look for those signage in the side of the tracks that tells you its a "braking spot". Memorize those spots.
 
Go offline, set the track to midnight and practice.

I have noticed racing at night online that headlights from the car behind do not show up in the mirror, which makes it very hard to gauge where the car is behind with the mirror. The only way to see the lights and car is to use reverse view, not the best option.

I hope PD fix this.
 
honestly being nightime doesnt really make a difference, you can see just fine...its just stupid though that the only car with headlights is your car, meaning that light projection is only for the car youre driving....totally stupid
 
alex1369
If you know the track by day, you will know it by night..
If not practice
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That's not true lol I know every corner on Nordschleife and could drive it easy in my head but at pitch black where your full beams don't even help at all it's haaaaard, but when it's darkish, setting the exposure setting to max in GT6 can help a bit.
 
Practice would help (I must admit I've done not many night races) but you're lying if you say it's not hard when you can't see _anything_. It's ok when it's very dark, and you can sort of see rumble strips etc but when your screen is just BLACK and you are driving 100% blind it doesn't really matter what track it is does it, you could be anywhere as far as you know lol
 
I just got done doing the same race (different cars) for a league that I am in. Like some of the guys are saying, it will come down to muscle memory. Brake indicator should also get you somewhat close to where you want to start braking. It usually comes up a little early for me. While I was racing, I did say to myself that I should have turned up the exposure before the race started. :lol:

Some tracks are "easier" than others at night like Daytona for example.
 
One of the ways I practice for a night race is to set the time transition so that you practice in the day and then through dusk amd into night. Just don't set the time change too fast as it will throw you into night too quickly. This allows me to pick braking points and then slowly adjust them if any aren't visible in the dark.
 
Night racing is not much different than day.

When a real race driver learns the track, they establish a rhythm. Only paying attention to a certain few track markers for indication of braking, turn in, apex, and turn exit.

As a race driver is making about 1000 decisions per minute on track, they need to reduce distractions and ironically the track is one of them.

Turn out the lights and really only very few things change, the grip is reduced due to temperature, and a well rubbered in track can actually become very slick as that rubber cools, especially unpredictable off the driving line.

Try and identify those markers you can see both at night and during the day, establish your rhythm.

The same thing applies to being in someone's spray in the rain or having a foggy windshield...

It's quite common how many drivers end up with very limited visibility in races.
 

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