What's your racing style?

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What's your racing style?

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Most of the time I'm concentrating on being clean. But when racing the AI I have to admit that the red mist descends at times. Especially when they brake mid-corner... :)
 
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Truthfully, online I try to stay at a consistent 85% and capitalize on everyone's mistakes.

The majority of the time, even in a quality room, I don't have to attempt a pass. Just running close to another driver will cause them to lose their cool. Then they'll go too deep on the brakes or too early on the throttle and blow the exit.

That's why I loved shuffle racing. Just keep calm while everyone else looses their 🤬 minds.
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This 👍👍👍 I've even taken to just letting cars by and watching them fly off two corners later. :lol:
 
It depends on race distance for me. If it's a short sprint race (3 laps or less on most tracks or 1 lap on Nürburgring), I treat it like qualifying and am very aggressive (last second passing, fast blocks, hard breaking, always apexing, etc.) I also do a tailgating method (stay right on their rear bumper and don't pass) on drivers to make them panic and hopefully make a mistake in sprint races. In longer races, I keep a calm pace at the beginning, and then go all out like a sprint race at the end. I do this because I do not do as well when fighting in a big pack into the first corner as others do. By also keeping a pace and staying calm, I conserve tires and use less fuel to gain an advantage on the more aggressive drivers. At around halfway or the final quarter, I go into sprint race mode and do everything to get up front. Though I might not always win, I still finish high up the standings by doing this strategy.
 
I am involved in the SNAIL racing league so being fast is key but more so being a clean driver. My racing preference is clean, fast racing.
 
Obviously it depense on many things what style to use for a certian race. Usualy I do endurance races up to 300km.

I fund it's best to take it easy in the first stint as usualy you will not get any big advantage in the first laps. After the pit stop(s) I try to do as many qualy laps as possible on fresh tyres, thats where you find most time against others I fund.

In a shorter sprint race there is no time for tactical driving, you must go all out from the get go. But usualy you need to be on your and cars limit every lap if you wont to finish infront.
 
MrUnknown
I'm like an Absol...
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Ok, I must confess I did google that.
It appears that you then are super lucky and able to sense even subtle changes in the sky. (Comes in handy regarding stars effect I pressume)
Oh, and if I understand correct. Generally a catastrophy.
 
Akvarius
Ok, I must confess I did google that.
It appears that you then are super lucky and able to sense even subtle changes in the sky. (Comes in handy regarding stars effect I pressume)
Oh, and if I understand correct. Generally a catastrophy.
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Well...

More like that...

Everyone tends to spin out in front of me and I, safely, evade with no single scratch...


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Yeah...
 
Steady pace. I only drive like my life depended on it on special occasions like in a couple of mini endurance events, but I mostly avoid it. I prefer enjoying the ride.
 
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No time for breaking ;) !!!
 
I try to lower my lap time every lap while running as clean as I can. Clean passing but aggressive clean passing. Like real racing.
 
I try to do realistic racing scenarios so i smash other ai cars on purpose to send them into a spin or a wall whilst doing commentary
 
Marqus
This 👍👍👍 I've even taken to just letting cars by and watching them fly off two corners later. :lol:
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I'll need to try and keep this mentality if/when I have a real race online again, because I usually try and overtake (or even just follow the racing line), and end up being slammed into the sandbar in the first 3 corners by someone who thinks they have enchanted brakes.

Really annoying when for once, I was having a 16 player race on someone else's lobby that I had been wanting to do (and trying to suggest to randoms) for weeks (350PP, FF, Matterhorn Short Course) and I was wrecked with no hope of returning to the race on the first turn.
 
Although i don't play GT anymore, your question applies on racing games in general, so here I go:

- Pace early and charge late

Racing is quite the learning process, and although i know the layouts of tracks in general i always need to refresh my memory on where and how to nail the apex the best way, and how it relates to the braking/ throttle/ steering inputs of the car i'm driving, so it takes a couple of laps before you get into a faster rhythm that way, but then i am able to charge harder as i know what i'm doing lap by lap.
 
I tend to keep a steady pace in the early stages by latching on to the pace of the faster cars ahead of me. Then I try to attack in the later stages when I smell a chance of good results.
 
I'm aggressive, but I stalk the others, finding their weak points, and exploiting them. And then after slowly picking them off (if I'm on pace) I try to charge to the front at the end.
 
My racing style is non-existent at the moment. Until they update, I refuse to play. When I am playing though I race passively trying not to cause any wrecks and disrupt the fun.
 
Since I usually do short sprints of about 5 or so laps in the GRC, I race like I ring lap, really fast.

On longer enduros with weather, I try to deduce the weather pattern on the track as soon as I can so I can make a strategy.
 
I always try keep a steady pace, specially when I'm fighting for positions, and then drive as fast as possible to close the gap to the next car...

But when I'm on a 4-5 lap sprint race, I push as much as I can, I don't care if I'm at 1st place already
 
I just go as fast as i can without overcooking it and going off-track. If there is a faster driver behind me (mostly thinking online play here) then i'll be quite passive at let them get past me with ease, but if i think its a fairly even battle, i will try and defend my position.
 
I'm disappointed there isn't a "slow as 🤬" option because that would describe my driving style. I'm too nervous to drive fast because I'm afraid I'll wreck into someone or lose control of my car.
 

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