A lot harder to get a bronze than most online time trials. Guessing I'm just not as good handling hypercars- my best was a 3:47, 6 seconds off the pace...
I'm still 3.XX seconds off the top time, so high-downforce cars are things I tend to more try and manage versus really excel with, but what I can say is: a lot of it has to do with actually slowing down too much. It's counter-intuitive and really hard to tell your brain to do the opposite of what makes sense in a car without a million pounds of downforce, but the faster you go, the
less it'll understeer. Obviously, it's a balance - you can't just not brake at all, but you need to carry speed in order for downforce to still be there to turn, otherwise the car'll just understeer.
They don't really like trail-braking, either, since they have some fairly large brakes. In most cases: do your braking (not as much as normally makes sense), let it roll until you can "feel" it's going to make the turn, and then get on it, and it should stick and go round.
Have you watched
@Tidgney's video? Always-excellent brake markers, but also you can watch his braking inputs and you'll see what I mean. It's a
lot of brain-retraining, always takes me a while to figure out.
Also, do you have any driver aids on? If ASM is on, definitely turn that off and turn CSA on Strong. TC definitely is killing time here, but TC1 can get your a solid, successful lap. Anything more than that I think will kill far too much time (with CSA on, TC can be lower or off - just watch throttle input going through the Corvette curve - it tends to spin the car at full throttle).
- would really like to get into the 24's but not sure whether that's going to be possible with my skill level (and heavy right foot). Also went back and had another go at the Merc event at Spa and picked up a couple of tenths with a couple left on the table.
