Hi All,
Having raced my Yella Tuned Viper for some time now especially at Suzuka i have finally maxxed out the car with the best Time of 2.08.55. During a Race you constantly strive to be quick but also consider your driving to avoid unwanted excursions intentional or not but be aggressive at he sme time to be competitive.
During a race i can really focus to catch the car in front and apply pressure and sometimes the car in front will try too hard and lose time for over driving. However as you get closer and closer you then have to adapt very quickly to avoid hitting your leading opponent in the rear end as different cars have different braking points. Theres nothing worse than holding a good position for a while to be caught by another car only to be tagged and shoved off the road. From experience the car chasing sometimes slows to allow you to regain the position he/she feels they have taken from you unjustly as do we all but overall it breaks your rythm and that of the car your leading or chasing not to mention the 3 or 4 places you end up losing.
This has lead me to be very very mindful of cars leading me when i catch them particlarly braking a touch earlier and this makes for fantastic racing and the other cars respect your driving knowing your not a **** with a heavy right foot and no consideration for other drivers.Example - Flying down the back straight flat out and drafting the car infront knowing the big (180) LEFT hander is approaching but you also know you need to kiss the apex in order to carry good speed to then brake for the chicane. So instead of taking the risk of passing via the draft i backed off just enough to allow for braking upto the chican and passed beautfully on the inside, no knocks, rearenders just clean racing that had me pumped. The other racer (forget the name) was then on my tail for the reaminder on the race and passed me at the very same spot an took the win. Coming second actually didn't bother me too much because the other car fully deserved the win but it was the racing that gave me the buzz - in my eyes this is the way to do it close nip and tuck all the way. Of course things are bound to happen but with a bit more of a racing brain and to be patient enought to grab your chance outways the risk of losing 4 or 5 places and pissing someone else off at he same time. Racing this way has produced for me some truly geat races and victories.
Sorry to waffle on but wondered what you all think !!?
Having raced my Yella Tuned Viper for some time now especially at Suzuka i have finally maxxed out the car with the best Time of 2.08.55. During a Race you constantly strive to be quick but also consider your driving to avoid unwanted excursions intentional or not but be aggressive at he sme time to be competitive.
During a race i can really focus to catch the car in front and apply pressure and sometimes the car in front will try too hard and lose time for over driving. However as you get closer and closer you then have to adapt very quickly to avoid hitting your leading opponent in the rear end as different cars have different braking points. Theres nothing worse than holding a good position for a while to be caught by another car only to be tagged and shoved off the road. From experience the car chasing sometimes slows to allow you to regain the position he/she feels they have taken from you unjustly as do we all but overall it breaks your rythm and that of the car your leading or chasing not to mention the 3 or 4 places you end up losing.
This has lead me to be very very mindful of cars leading me when i catch them particlarly braking a touch earlier and this makes for fantastic racing and the other cars respect your driving knowing your not a **** with a heavy right foot and no consideration for other drivers.Example - Flying down the back straight flat out and drafting the car infront knowing the big (180) LEFT hander is approaching but you also know you need to kiss the apex in order to carry good speed to then brake for the chicane. So instead of taking the risk of passing via the draft i backed off just enough to allow for braking upto the chican and passed beautfully on the inside, no knocks, rearenders just clean racing that had me pumped. The other racer (forget the name) was then on my tail for the reaminder on the race and passed me at the very same spot an took the win. Coming second actually didn't bother me too much because the other car fully deserved the win but it was the racing that gave me the buzz - in my eyes this is the way to do it close nip and tuck all the way. Of course things are bound to happen but with a bit more of a racing brain and to be patient enought to grab your chance outways the risk of losing 4 or 5 places and pissing someone else off at he same time. Racing this way has produced for me some truly geat races and victories.
Sorry to waffle on but wondered what you all think !!?
