Bad Racing Habits

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I find myself being over-confident , over-aggressive, and end up making more than 1 critical mistake per lap, resulting in lost time, than if I learn to ease up a little.
 
Trying to watch the cars behind me is hard, especially online, I always wipe out... I also sometimes don't take the "proper" racing line when passing.. even though I try not to.
 
Downshifting too early is a habit that I carried from GT3 all the way to GT5.

I also have a tendency to brake late, to the point where I would rear end somebody or go off the track.

Another bad habit of mine is not braking when I'm about to go off the track. I always think that braking will negate my steering (which is not true in my cases, as I use ABS).
 
Mac K
Trying to watch the cars behind me is hard, especially online, I always wipe out... I also sometimes don't take the "proper" racing line when passing.. even though I try not to.
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Looking at how many people said this, makes me think i have some natural skill to be able to keep track of literally everything going on all around me.
But i still try and spin cars across finish lines, which has resulted in the loss of an x2010 race. Lol just drove into a wall!
I also Never take the gt racing line, convinced that my own is faster, which annoys the entire online world. Lol because its slower!
I have only won a few online night race at le mans so far, so obsessed i am with repeating my NASCAR victories. Then getting very angry when people ram into me from the side on mulsanne chicanes, and no amount of "i didnt see you!" Gets through. :-P
 
Too aggressive on the throttle, need to be a bit smoother.
Braking can be too late on occasions leading to either going off the track or slamming on the brakes big time.
My overtaking, although improving, still needs to be cleaner.
Too many lapses of concentration, especially when leading.

I have been working on improving my driving/racing techniques, but it is slow progress...
 
Treating opponents like walls. And powersliding for no reason at all when I'm in my "blue zone".
 
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Too aggressive on the throttle, need to be a bit smoother.
My overtaking, although improving, still needs to be cleaner.
Too many lapses of concentration, especially when leading.
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These. :guilty:
 
Shifting too late.
Skidding through corners and ramming cars from the sides.
Braking too late and ramming cars from behind.
Braking in a corner when I can go through it at full speed.
Drafting right before a tight corner
Downshifting too early
Using tarmac outside the race track itself(like the tarmac to the right of 130R at Suzuka)

I think that's pretty much it.
 
Need to calm myself more during hot races.
Need to learn not to draft before going into corners at speeds im not used too.
Learning to let people overtake me without causing slight touch
Need to be aware of my surrounding taking my driving lines.
 
Grinding the Dream Car Championship & Crashing Heavily into the Jaguar XJ9 '88 LM Car & forcing it off the track - Soley to try make it not finish 2nd
 
Getting on the throttle before I should in a long corner. This is my main time killer.
 
Threatening to kill the ai driver that always passes me on the last lap on Aspec's formula challenge....it does no good but I feel just a lil' better :)
 
Dropping the pace off massively once in the lead and then crashing from not paying enough attention. This is a killer for me, if I don't keep putting in the fast(ish) laps then I'll crash from complacency.
 
- flooring the throttle to soon after tight corners
- drinking and smoking while driving (online)
- beeing to nervous when im in the lead and chased or following another car for a while -> me hits da gras, the dirt or zeh wally :)
- not caring about most of my cars (oilchange, tyres, settings etc...)
- driving without a helmet or other protectors
- having a kitchen chair as a racing seat (atm - going to change) :)
etc... :p
 
Guys, I'm a decent racer, I think, but I have ALL of the above mentioned bad habits.
Most of them lay dormant, but always pop up every now and then :)
Maybe they can be traced to losing concentration, which is in the bottom of everything.
I guess I'm just human :)
I think even F1 drivers have all of them more or less (apart from the one with the flashing light... hehe).
 
Doing epic skids across the line. Do it all the time. That and change up to the highest gear on the final straight.
 
I almost always jab the throttle halfway through a turn. I know that I have to be gentle and that being too rough with the throttle will push me off my line one way or another, yet 8 out of 10 times I'll be just about to clip the apex, then just apply full throttle for no reason... Only for about a second or less, but even so, I don't know why I do it.
 
If any of you have seen Top Gear then you must have seen James May 'race'. I race exactly like him (captain slow). I literally can't race to save my life, I'd like to blame my wheel but the truth is I drive like a moron.
I can't hold a racing line to save my life, I tend to follow the person ahead and bump him/her. I get distracted very easily especially with my new wheel, messing about with setting on the fly. I look back for no reason even if I'm at the rear of the pack, however since finding out that the D pad has directional vision I look left and right get disorientated and veer of the track. I somehow manage to get oversteer with any car, I'm able to slide around with a Civic of all things.
My confidence is really low, if I somehow manage to get the lead I'll lose it by constantly looking behind. If I feel that the person behind me is faster than me I'll slow down to let them pass. Only problem is I move out of their way, which they obviously don't expect so the end result is unintentional blocking >_>
I'd like to use the excuse that I'm a long time (GT1) pad user, but to be honest I've been able to get similar lap times when playing alone with either, sometimes better with wheel.
My wheel does on occasion like to pull to the left.
I think that covers most of it.
 

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