Can taking a break from GT5p help ?

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Well in my case - heck yes! Unable to play for the last few days (damn commitments) came home today and fired up the PS3. Jumped in my EvoX-tuned and got my S-7 and S-10 . Thought S-7 maybe a fluke so tried S-10 and got a 2nd on my first try-stared at the screen mouth wide open!!!:boggled: Now before the forced break I had been struggling with these events, 6th or 5th regularly. Maybe a break can help?💡 What do you guys think? Just interested...
 
Breaks really help for me.
People get frustrated sometimes when they race. After they take a short or long break to collect themselves, they might be able to concentrate more. My point of view and experience
 
I used to get that with previous GT's when I was mainly hotlapping - you get in a mindset and you keep making the same mistakes on a track, over and over. Best to take a couple of days off then go back. I've seen me beating a record withing 2-3 laps which I'd wasted several hours on before, after a couple of days or even weeks away.
 
Trying to memorize how to drive the corners faster is going to slow you down. If you just DRIVE you´ll eventually get there. So, just relax your shoulders... :)
 
I guess the same can apply to 'online' as well. Have been in 'the zone' since playing today. Worried about joining 600pp races, shaming the GTP name,too slow-noobish you see.:nervous: Game though. Goodish car? Not first place stuff, forgiving to learn in 600pp though.:) Advice pro's!
 
ForrestBean
I guess the same can apply to 'online' as well. Have been in 'the zone' since playing today. Worried about joining 600pp races, shaming the GTP name,too slow-noobish you see.:nervous: Game though. Goodish car? Not first place stuff, forgiving to learn in 600pp though.:) Advice pro's!
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Doesn't matter what your level of ability - there's always worse drivers out there! Make room for faster guys to pass and don't try anything stupid just to get in front - you'll do fine :)
 
Thank you for the confidence builder, may you pass me many times., and may I pass you once or twice.:bowdown:Cheers.
 
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Doesn't matter what your level of ability - there's always worse drivers out there! Make room for faster guys to pass and don't try anything stupid just to get in front - you'll do fine :)
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So if say your in 3rd place and a guy comes up behind you the correct thing to do is move out the way and let him pass? Thats not racing, the thrill of the race is to catch the car in front and overtake him racing not being a wimp.

I don't block or ramming but surely if you are racing for position you are entitled to hold your line, especially if you are in front no?
 
Crowsy
So if say your in 3rd place and a guy comes up behind you the correct thing to do is move out the way and let him pass? Thats not racing, the thrill of the race is to catch the car in front and overtake him racing not being a wimp.

I don't block or ramming but surely if you are racing for position you are entitled to hold your line, especially if you are in front no?
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Well, keeping in mind he was advising someone who is new and doesn't feel to sure of himself, I would always recommend this.
In fact, if I feel that I'm losing control of the car or I'm new to a car and still getting to grips with it, I will more than likely forfeit a place to avoid uneccesary collisions.

Also, there are certain corners that when someone is alongside you, its best for you to concede the place, e.g. 130R (Suzuka), the bend just before the Hairpin (Suzuka), quite a lot of Fuji's corners.
 
Even a daily break helps immensely. I think the body has to process and archive long training sessions, which takes some time.

As an example, working on golding the time trial challenges. I'll use B-3 here as an example.

Day 1 - First serious attempt at a good time. Run a few laps, shave a few seconds off my initial bronze time. Watch some gold run videos to see where I'm slow, and I come back and hit as close as 1:15.500 after some more laps.

Day 2 - Within a few laps, I'm consistently running under 1:15. Within a few more, my best run puts me at about 0.5 seconds away.

Day 3 - On my first lap I break my previous record, and it's not technically a hot-lap even, because you can have a higher speed through the first straight on your subsequent runs. I come as close as 0.08 seconds away.

Day 4 - I'm consistently running 0.1-0.2 seconds away. Within 7-10 laps, I run a 1:13.898. Gold medal.

What's interesting is the plateau you reach each day. When I came within 0.08 seconds, I ran probably another 30 or so laps and couldn't improve on that, and could barely match it more than a handful of times. I would run a number of laps that gave me improvements of 0.005 seconds, but nothing substantial.

So I think the breaks, for whatever reason, allow the training session to really effect you and when you come back, you're learned and ready to improve further.
 
Well, keeping in mind he was advising someone who is new and doesn't feel to sure of himself, I would always recommend this.
In fact, if I feel that I'm losing control of the car or I'm new to a car and still getting to grips with it, I will more than likely forfeit a place to avoid uneccesary collisions.

Also, there are certain corners that when someone is alongside you, its best for you to concede the place, e.g. 130R (Suzuka), the bend just before the Hairpin (Suzuka), quite a lot of Fuji's corners.
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If someone is definatly faster than me I will hold my line and give them every chace to overtake me. For the sake of a clean race I will concede a position rather than cause an incident. If I can keep up with them after the pass then all the better. I would call it racing smart, not as a wimp.
 
Taking a break from the game really helps to get rid of frustration.

In the case of online mode, breaks really help in relieving headaches and high blood pressure. After a terrible night of being punted and disconnected, I took a three day break from the game. Getting away from the idiocy of some online races helped me focus on other things, and when I came back, I was fine.
 
ForrestBean
If someone is definatly faster than me I will hold my line and give them every chace to overtake me. For the sake of a clean race I will concede a position rather than cause an incident. If I can keep up with them after the pass then all the better. I would call it racing smart, not as a wimp.
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Thats what I was saying. I would not feel confident moving out the way as I'm likely to spin out or take someone else out which is not the the thing to do. If your confident of just moving out the way then fine but I have a couple of times and it resulted in a mass pile up.

I will stick to holding my line and leave it to the better drivers to overtake.
 
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Thats what I was saying. I would not feel confident moving out the way as I'm likely to spin out or take someone else out which is not the the thing to do. If your confident of just moving out the way then fine but I have a couple of times and it resulted in a mass pile up.

I will stick to holding my line and leave it to the better drivers to overtake.
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As an experienced (not neccessarily fast) driver, i much prefer if someone slower just holds the line and at least makes me do the work, its more fun for the experienced driver to navigate traffic, as long as you're not outrageously slow like say 50pp below the limit in an expert race.

Many drivers even hit people across the line when theyre trying to give someone the win, as they don't want to be gifted the position.
 

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