How do you close the gap?

[SimRaceDriver]

IF I were good enough to make top10s, I'm not sure I would shoot myself in the food and share the tips so other people can take my spot, any who I suck and don't have any tips, sorry

What if you were a top rated driver - and there were those who would pay a small nominal fee to get 'tips', 'tricks' and/or 'techniques' on how to improve their lap times? Would you then reconsider?

 

[Earth]

Hi, please bare with me as this is my first post.

A few months ago I used to get good top 100 times, but now I've dropped out of each 100 and am desperate to get back in.

I took my fav car (GT LM Spec II test car) for a spin at Eiger forward, and got 1'10 on my first try,switched immediately to manual, and got 1'09'5. Crapy first two laps, but then after 10 laps i couldn't improve...a shock to me when I found out on the net (I have no ethernet, only HSPDA modem cannot sign in to PSN, please help) the first time is at 1'05! .

I always dreamt of getting a no.1 time with the GT LM, but I guess it has dissapated. I used to get 1 second behind the no.1, now i pretty much suck. Plus the sixaxis has no ingame clutch! why?!

Please help/ give me tips for a top 10 time, Thanx in advance.

Well first thing I should tell you that the people who usually make up the top 10 have enormous amounts of experience in GT5P. They probably have well over 1,000 hours invested in perfecting what it takes to be fast in GT5P not to mention countless hours in other GTs or racing simulators. They have figured out what it takes to be fast in GT5P, from how the physics respond to weight shifting to how to get your front tires more grip by throttle control.

It's like wondering why you can't draw a portrait as precise or good looking as someone who has been doing it every day for years.

If you have not invested a similar amount of time in GT5P it is unrealistic to expect to match or beat them. This is why I personally do not even try. I also don't try to match these times because usually they are on the edge of control and very close to crashing. Of course pushing a car that hard in an online GT5P race would be too risky thus rendering such laps useless. Pushing a car that hard and that close to the limit or wall in real life would pose too much of a risk. Another reason why I do not try to match these times and one of the reasons why GT times are faster then real life times.

But as for your question, how to close the gap to the top times, the answer is not just to practice more. If your doing everything wrong simply practicing the wrong way more and more will do you no good. If you watch a top 10 replay pay attention to when they get on the throttle, when they brake and when and how much they turn the wheel. Tires have a grip limit and turning the steering wheel or using the brakes and throttle affect that limit.

Also racing line is very important. Missing an apex by just two feet can cost you valuable tenths of a second.

But my advice to you is, if you can get within one or two seconds of the #1 time then your good to go. In real life qualifying a driver hardly if ever gets all sectors of a track perfect, they usually leave some on the table. I was looking over the Le Mans qualifying sector times and the 'ultimate lap' as defined by the combination of the best sectors of the pole winning driver's 30 or so qualifying laps was over a second faster then the official pole winning time. In GT5P a driver can do lap after lap after lap until he finally strings together perfect sectors which of course won't happen in real life or in your average GT5P online race.

Once you get within a second or two of these top times the next thing you should worry about and probably the most important thing is your consistency in running these lap times