I’ll do Monza, then I need to go to bed
• Parabollica, 1st time - not sure if you were trying to do a proper line here or not, because it’s before the lap, but...you let off the brakes before you reached the apex. By getting fully off the brakes, you lost front end grip, which caused understeer. This caused you to have to coast for 1-2 seconds on a corner where you do NOT want to be coasting. The understeer and coasting forces you to delay your throttle application, which you then pay the price for all the way down the front straight.
Parabolica has an early apex. You want to adjust your initial braking point such that you can trail brake all the way to the apex. Keeping the weight over be front of the car though turn in helps eliminate understeer. Trail braking deep into the corner also allows you to use more of the corner to slow down, which means your initial braking can be deeper into the corner. Once you reach the apex, you want to get back in the power ASAP, but in a smooth and progressive way so as not to upset the balance of the car.
• 1st Chicken (Finnish for chicane
) - again here, you do almost all your braking in a straight line, and are coasting from turn-in to the first apex. That’s all space that can be used to finish slowing the car down, allowing you to stay at top speed on the straight for a fraction of a second longer. Your line through the chicane is pretty decent, you monster the first curb and keep mostly clear of the second. Your initial throttle input is ok as well, but your secondary throttle input when you go from partial to full throttle is far too aggressive. You’re going full throttle at the flick of a switch, and it’s causing significant wheel spin - something that you pay for all down the next straight.
Furthermore, in the braking zone, you can be downshifting much much faster, to make much more use of the compression braking from the engine. As long as the revs arent bouncing off the limiter as you downshift, fire off those downshifts as fast and as soon as you can. Eg you were braking in 6th gear for a solid 1-2 seconds longer than you should. Because so much slowing down happens in those first initial split seconds, you can drop down to 5th roughly .5 seconds after jumping on the brakes, and you won’t hit the limiter and you won’t lock the rears.
• Varienté della Roggia (2nd chicken)
- could be faster on the downshifts, allowing deeper braking.
- again you coast from turn-in to first apex, which means you could actually be braking even later (combined with the downshifts as well)
- you hit the yellow sausage curb at the second apex, which really upsets the balance of the car, which causes you to delay your throttle application. Try to emulate your 1st chicane line in this second chicane.
- again here, your secondary throttle application is waaay to aggressive. You punch it to full throttle which causes wheelspin, which is enhanced because you have a left rear on the outside rumble strip. You definitely want to use this outside rumble strip to increase the width of the road on corner exit, but you need to be smooth and disciplined in your throttle application. Otherwise, any time you might gain by expanding the corner exit is lost due to the wheelspin.
• Lezmo 1 - without nitpicking, your braking and turn in, as well as initial throttle input is ok. Again though, you jump straight to full throttle, which causes all the weight to shift rearwards and lifts the nose. This causes understeer, which is why you ended up almost dropping it in the dirt.
• Lezmo 2 - nothing major here, but certainly some “advanced techniques” which could help here, like pitch-and-catch aggressive turn-in technique, as well as rolling higher apex speeds and using every inch of available road. These would be smaller micro gains where you could find time, whereas some of the other corners you could be gaining chunks of time.
• Varienté Ascari - same advice as before with the braking zone. Later, harder downshifts, deeper. You do a better job here of trail braking to the first apex, but you still do some coasting, which could be eliminated.
- through the 2nd and 3rd apexes, you could be going to full throttle much sooner (as long as it’s progressive). I haven’t done GT3 cars at Monza in GTS, but in both pcars and real life, in full quali trim on a rubbered in track, that 2nd apex should be taken at full throttle. In race trim (eg heavy fuel, or worn tires), that 2nd apex can require partial throttle, but in almost all conditions, you should be full throttle well before that 3rd apex. You also have a lot of useable space on your right as you exit the complex. You can use this extra space on the corner exit to carry more speed out of that 3rd apex.
• Parabolica, second time - much better job of braking deeper into the corner compared to the first time through. However, the way you get on the throttle at the exit is text book “what not to do”. You jump to full throttle, it massively upsets the balance and causes wheelspin. Wheelspin with an unbalanced car usually causes oversteer, which you got and had to correct.
The exit of Parabolica combined with the length of the front straight is the longest full throttle zone on the circuit, meaning that getting a clean exit out of the corner is one of the most important aspects of getting a good lap time around Monza (also how you set people up for overtakes into T1). The mistake you made on the exit of Parabolica, you payed for that mistake the entire way down the front straight. Remember that acceleration is an exponential function, so mistakes made in acceleration zones cost you massive amounts of lap time.
Anyways, I need to get to bed
Been away for the weekend visiting my folks, tomorrow I get to go home and vid out for the most of the day
. Btw, props for putting yourself out there like this, not many people would have the courage to be so forward in asking for criticism.
Thanks again
