What are your driving strengths and weaknesses in GT5?

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strength = nurburgring

weakness = any track other than nurburgring (i had not ran a different track online in months until last night when i had to try motegi -- then back to nurb)
 
Strength:Not many, im pretty competitive, and good at holding a driving line.

Weakness:Terrible at car tuning.I also notice i tend to skid into turns even when I'm braking. its aggravating, but with a little concentration i should be able to correct it.
 
Strengths:
Does having mastery over the X1 count as a strength?
I can drive cleanly
Weakness:
I cannot tune a car to save my life
 
Strengths: Always find a slip stream, try to be clean, pic a variety of cars, am good at finding a good race line and setting blitzing qualifying laps and have a sound knowledge in car tuning (more so drift and drag)
Courses: la Sartre, cape ring, nurburgring

Weaknesses: Can't drive any tire under sports soft on a fast car, when I start losing, I start drifting

Courses: eiger nordwand (any), cote d'azur (it's fun but I suck at the last few corners, especially in a tight race..)
 
I forgot a weakness.

Im very patriotic, so i find my self racing using slow American cars to try and prove a point when i should use a nicer foreign made car.
 
Strength:
Hmm, I don't know if I have any (:lol:), so I'll just say 'Rather Clean Driving'
Weakness:
Braking too early at tricky corners (e.g. S curve @ Suzuka)
Braking too hard
Don't know how to turn into a corner at the proper angle
Usually go (very) far away from the corner just to prevent car contact :p
 
Strengths:
Good consistency. Can visualize a corner and build myself up to optimum line very quickly. Fairly good at certain aspects of tuning. Can race aggressively but clean. Very good in wet/night conditions. Good at measuring risk/reward. Fantastic at rallying.


Weaknesses:
Completely useless at all other aspects of tuning. Tend to enjoy driving cars that aren't really good for racing. Poor at shifting based on hearing. Not the best at spatial relationships between cars. Absolutely-without-fail terrible at the Nurburgring. Cannot get the hang of super high downforce cars.
 
Strengths:
Half-decent at adapting to driving any car on any track at reasonable speed. Usually quite calm.

Weaknesses:
Don't know much about tuning and have not bothered to try and learn. Not that good on low speed corners, more of a problem in another sim. Not much experience racing / playing online so pace is poor against more experienced drivers.
 
Strengths:
- Staying on the right side of the marigins. If the option is to go safe or go fast I go safe. It's especially good on tracks like Nürburgring where you run the risk of losing a lot of time if you crash. It doesn't give too many wins, but most of the time it's enough for a top three position. This also means that I don't try to overtake at the same moment as I catch up with someone, I wait for a good opportunity.

- Being on the hunt. I'm fastest when I'm hunting someone in front of me. I get more focused and plan my driving better, getting better lines through corners etc.

- Blind corners. I have a good sense of corners and can visualize the fastest line through a section pretty well.

Weaknesses:
- Who would ever want to be king? I often tend to get a bit nervous when I'm 1st, going too hot around corners, losing focus and overshooting braking points etc. I prefer staying in 2nd place until the last corner, if I can.

- I don't trust my competition. If someone is right behind me I have zero trust in that person being a careful driver (I wonder why...). So I often make moves to decrease the risk of getting punted off the track. Braking early, going slower, leaving lots of space for overtaking (although on the wrong side of the track, but hey! you can't get everything!)

- Suspension tuning. I just buy the fully customizable suspension without changing any of the settings.

- Manual transmission. I can drive manual in time trials and free runs but in a race I prefer automatic as it's one less thing to focus on in the heat.

- Steering wheel setup. My current setup sometimes put me in trouble as the steering wheel might come off in the middle of a race...
 
I don´t have any special stranghts and weaknesses. I´m just average driver.

But this are my personal strenghts and weaknesses:

Strenghts:
+New Track pace is good. For example first race (3 laps) at Spa with FGT´s I did a 1:43.6xx and a 1:42.5xx (first lap standing start can´t tell).
+Shuffle-races: If there is no Rabbit car and Superb driver combo I am almost always in the Podium
+Pretty good base setups for every sort of Car (RR, FWD, AWD etc)
+ Hard but clean driver. If I smack someone off Track I wait, if I spinout I´ll enter Track in a safe manner etc.
+Tire-wear for longer races although driving with DS3

Weaknesses:
-apart from a base setup I can´t really tune a car to get better (Timewise).
-I tend to watch too much in my mirrors when someone is up my rearend or slightly closes the gap (nervous ??)
=> I loose my focus on my Race and that causes the other one to close even quicker
(but that´s not happening all the time just know and then)
- the quicker the car, the slower I am
=> My reactions aretoo bad ... I can be decently fast with F1´s and FGT but thats it just midfield.
 
my strengths

Car Control, i can easily stay calmed and keep my car in the leading position even if someone is ramming me and trying to push me out of the track, sometimes even with 1 or 2 tires on the grass

Strategic driving, i love confusing the car in front of me or the car behind me, especially with extremely late braking or early breaking and constantly changing my driving line

Weakness

Endurance, i cant run for more than 2 or 3 laps, i'm not patient and i take bad decisions when it comes to pit strategy
 
Strength :
Drive for fun, prefer to be consistent and clean, fair driver, gives way for other to pass if slower on straight. I can drive any car on comfort medium and no aids at all, albeit at a slower pace, but at least gentle enough not to spin out, off track or crash to random objects. Never use any aids, including brake assist. Accurate throttle and brake control, but finding it hard to be competitive with lack of willpower to get a good tune.
Good at getting the most of the tire on longer races - tire wear on.
Can brake as late as others with brake assist on, although sometimes lag interfere, hence I always drive rather conservatively, and clean as possible.
Not easily agitated with poor driver behavior on online rooms, not there to win but for fun :)


Weakness :
Dislike racing tires both medium and soft.
Lazy in tuning department, much prefer to race or drive stock or mildly tuned cars, even when opposition are faster. Not so smooth with the steering due to analog stick. Prefer to race online with comfort when others use sports tires :(.
Lose more than winning on online rooms, mostly due to slower car-mild tune, bad connections or being rammed.
The longer the race, the more I prone to mistakes, mostly due to my dog or family member distractions.
 

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