Best Driving Tips for NooBs?

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I don't know squat about racing except what I've learned in this game - but here's what seems to get me around the track. I'm sure a lot of this will be obvious to most of you

Smooth is fast
outside - inside - outside
fast - slow - fast
hit the apexes
how you exit is more important than how you enter a turn
don't hit the power on exiting a turn until you are sure you won't have to break again
on most turns breaking too much too soon is much better than breaking too little too late
a little well timed acceleration can help with understeer
Racing against similarly powered cars promotes good race habits, racing overpowered cars against competition promotes laziness and bad driving


Feel free to add on.
 
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Sell GT5.





obviously a joke! :)
actually a very good thread! people have to learn basics if they want to drive online!

Peregrinus
Racing against similarly powered cars promotes good race habits, racing overpowered cars against competition promotes laziness and bad driving
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Im considering making a racing school to teach people racing techniques, passing techniques, finding the right driving line, etc. etc.
Would you be interested in that?
 
Practice. Its all you can do to get better. Try to learn one car first, and master it before moving on to the other 1000 cars. Im not the best driver either, but I can keep up.
 
chippy1000
Also, braking in a straight line is a very important.
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this depends on diving tehnique.. sometimes I brake wrong for a reason, so my car start to drift a little and I get perfect ange for fastest turn in sharp corners. Like in Rallies. But agree it will work for rookies! This thread is teaching them how to drive. Im starting to create difficulties for them.. lol sorry! :)
 
Peregrinus
Sure - how would it work?
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I started a thread a while back but nobody else was interested.
I just bumped it, I'll post a link to it in a minute...
 
Braking in a straight line is often the best solution, however with careful use of trail braking and the shifting of balance of the weight of the car can be just as/more effective for countering understeer/oversteer issues to help you increase speed through corners.
 
Peregrinus
Auto still - which ironically I never do IRL driving. But I'm on the controller so manual seems like it'll hinder more than help.
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OK, because something to keep in mind is that if you shift up while turning, your car will start to understeer, and if you shift down, it will start to oversteer.
But, I may be completely wrong with that, just something I noticed.

If you want to practice your throttle control, I'd suggest the Nurburgring in a Ruf Yellowbird. The ultimate throttle control test.
Just make sure you have TCS and ABS as low as possible.

The racing school thread is just a couple below this one now. FYI.
Check it out, post, if you're interested, we can set something up.
 
Manual gears is one of the most important parts of car control, it massively influences both understeer and oversteer, as you have said.

Learning to use manual gears with a pad will improve your driving and your laptimes.
 
Practice good racing etiquette.
Races aren't won in the first corner.
Do not follow directly behind someone entering a high speed corner, rather just stay to the inside or outside of said car.
If wiping out do not try to save it by immediately jumping back on the track as other opponents will most likely be passing at the same moment, slowly remerge from the left to the right.
Productive passing.

Although it is good to know the racing fundamentals you also need to be conscientious of the others people on the track with you.
 
Bigbazz
Manual gears is one of the most important parts of car control, it massively influences both understeer and oversteer, as you have said.

Learning to use manual gears with a pad will improve your driving and your laptimes.
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Even I, a massive manual transmission fan. Use Automatic on SixAxis.. its just feels very very wrong and unreal.. it gives none of the hepl for me when racing.. but as im drifting alot, I cant drift with automatic.. so there is no choise to make.. have to press buttons and drifts are very good even with pad.. yet I cant make myself to play with manual when racing.. anyway Im picking up my wheel tomorrow.. so I dont need to learn on the pad. :) cant wait to be honest to try out my wheel, since I have real car I will learn fast how to shift gears LOL .. :)

EDIT: Buyed DFGT, now its manual for me :)
 
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I'm not a pro by any means but I have done a fair bit of racing in real life in all sorts of cars and play a lot of sim racers so my two best pieces of advice are:

1) Be smooth - with steering, throttle and brake application
2) Do everything in a straight line - Especially with RWD cars, it pays to brake, accelerate and shift in a straight line as much as possible.

Other than that, practice makes perfect and watching real racing on tv helps to learn the quickest lines and overtaking techniques etc.
 
A driving tip and a general GT5 trip: never underestimate the importance of the less-powerful, less-grippy cars.

Such cars are great for learning cornering techniques and learning tracks, because while the braking points might move around when you have a faster or slower car, they'll all be in roughly the same places regardless of your wheels. Most importantly, having cars that are forgiving and that you won't immediately stuff it in trying to tame them is utterly vital for building confidence, honestly your best resource as a sim driver.
 
chippy1000
Also, braking in a straight line is a very important.
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Sorry, but this is not true... trail braking (braking right to the apex, reducing the brake pressure as you turn) is almost always faster as it enables you to 1) brake later and 2) keep more weight over the front tyres, reducing understeer and thus helping turn in.

The best single tip I would give anyone is to control your entry speed. Why? Beacuse if you do you'll get much better exit speed, and this is the key to running quick laps.

When racing on-line I see so many people trying to carry too much speed on the way in to the corner, which creates understeer meaning they need to apply more lock... which in turn, stops them getting back on the throttle and ruins exit speed.

If you learn to get your entry speed right, you can use less lock and this in turn enables you to get back on the throttle much earlier and harder... and exit speed is far more important than enrty speed.
 
nismo33
Thats debatable. 1st corner on fuji & you're in the lead & everyone behind you rams you off track. Game over
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That's because the other people seem to think the same thing. Try stain behind the crowd and pass'em as they all slide off.
 
One more thing: buy a kart. Use it. Karts are perfect for training yourself on cars you will face later: cars with lots of grip and a really high power-weight ratio that will go completely bonkers as soon as you lose a little control.
 
Gold the License test and the challenges.. Watch the Video examples..

It's amazing what you can learn by mastering these Challenges and licenses.
Then listen to the car.. turn off the music and turn up the effects.. listen for the tyres..
don't drive everything with race softs on.. you wont get a feel for the car.. imho they are too grippy and as a result you don't get as much feedback from the car. it will just let go.. learn with tyres other than the race softs..
Dont overpower the car.

learn about weight transfer ...
 
My tips for people new to sim racing using a controller ( I don't like using the term "noob" )

1. Remap your controller so R2 is gas, L2 is brake. Might take you a bit to get used to it, but your better off. You will learn control like this.

2. Do not use any driving assist! It is tempting but you need to be able to feel what the car is doing if your going to learn control.

3. Use manual gears, auto is slower in regards to laptimes. But manual gives you control of shiftpoints which is huge if you want to be fast.

4. Be smooth when applying brakes and accelerating. As well as steering inputs. This is VERY important.

5. Practice, practice, and some more practice. Did I mention practice? Any sim racer rewards the person who puts in the effort and that is best thing about games like GT and Forza.

6. You won't learn much from racing the AI. You need to race online against people faster than you.

Hope this helps someone out there. I could write more but I think that is enough lol.
 

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