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The intention of this thread is to list some quick car driving tips to get GTP newbies up to speed. For detailed tips, they should refer to the iRacing forum. So the goal here is for us to collect quick easy-to-read info extracted from the "master" iracing thread.
I've seen people just give out quick 1-2 line tips thats help me tons more then all the long reads at the official forums
Skip Barber:
Mazda:
TBD
Legends:
Advanced Car Tips?
Acura HPD:
TBD
I've seen people just give out quick 1-2 line tips thats help me tons more then all the long reads at the official forums
Skip Barber:
I've been thinking of it recently as a sort of reversed V8. In the V8 if you want the back to come around, you put your foot down. If you want traction you back off the throttle.
In the Skippy, you back off when you want the rear to come round, and plant your foot when you need traction. Which means when you go into a corner hot, your normal instinct to lift gets you in heaps of trouble.
Do play around with the settings, they can make a surprising amount of difference. Put the brake balance forward if you haven't already, that'll take some of the snappiness out of the braking and let you touch the brakes mid-turn. Then play with the rear bar. Stiffer bar slides more easily but also more predictably. Softer bar gives you better traction, but when it lets go it's much harder to catch and recover.
Mazda:
TBD
Legends:
Legends...never brake. 4th gear. Never shift out of it.
If I feel like I can take a guy sometimes I just brush the brakes to pull the nose in to get an earlier drive out of the corner. But as a rookie, you just need to focus on getting out of rookie. But don't do it so quickly that you don't learn to drive.
Use the driving line to help (you can do so in the rookie series). Turn in and let off the throttle at almost the same time to help the rear end turn, then coast through most of the corner and feed the throttle back in on exit.
Most importantly with the Legend, do everything smoothly. Roll onto and roll off of the throttle. Its tires are really hard so you don't have much traction to work with.
Advanced Car Tips?
Acura HPD:
TBD
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