Which part of a track do you always mess up / struggle with?

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So had a quick look and couldn't see any real thread discussing this. Thought it would something pretty interesting. Judging by the variation in the tracks you hate / love threads then I imagine it will be pretty dichotomous.

So i'll start:

Track: Fuji
Section: Final 3 bends, never get my line right. Always run outwide onto the green tarmac on the second to last corner then for the final turn i either break to early or get on the gas to early and end up having to led off or go onto the run off! NEVER GET THIS RIGHT CONSISTENTLY 👎
 
Track: Cape Ring.

Corner: The sharp 2nd gear corner before the jump. I either get distracted and drive way too close to the wall; or I slow down too excessively, and take it far too slowly. :p
 
I'm right there with you on that section of Fuji. Seems like I'm always falling behind on the insuing straight from struggling through that section especially the last turn.

A few more:
Michelin Curve at Nurb GP. Also the following turn. Both are momentum turns so keeping speed and not going wide are my usual struggles.
Tsukuba-Last turn. The sweep. The initial turn in and then throttle application to exit.
Laguna-Turn 3. Entering too fast, going wide on exit. Slowing too much and losing exit speed.

I do love practicing all those tracks. Feels so satisfying to nail those sectors.
 
The suicide chicane on the back straight of Daytona road course. I either brake too early and have to crawl up to the chicane, or brake too late and... well... have to crawl to the ambulance helicopter.
 
VDC sector of Grand Valley Speedway.. Trying to 'grip' through that sector causes me to lose a stupid amount of ground..

I don't know why I can't get it, I've ran that track so many times and I'm still no faster through there.
It's my biggest failure as a driver and it drives me nuts..
 
Apart from the last sector at Fuji there isn't really any track I particularly struggle with. However the stupid Eifel tracks with the banked corners that are higher at the apex than the outer edge do my head in.
 
m8h3r
Apart from the last sector at Fuji there isn't really any track I particularly struggle with. However the stupid Eifel tracks with the banked corners that are higher at the apex than the outer edge do my head in.
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Haha still remember the first time I hit that without driving line on.

Just go over this hill nice and quickly presuming it was just banked up, got over the crest and thought JESUS CHRIST that's steep and then flew into the barrier :scared:
 
Track: Special Stage Route 7

Section: After going in the tunnel and you'll still go fast a few meters where you'll slow down to turn properly to the way back where you started. I had a hard time with this one when I got a DFGT for the 1st time, when I slowed down then braked and the car starts to go out of control w/o any reason but that wasn't the case for now.
 
Jeez.... To me it would be Cape rings loop. I always go outside of the line at the end, this is the contrary when drifting.
 
Klostertal (Mutkurve) - on the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Roughly near the half way mark, it's an uphill high speed left hand blind sweeper;
Get it wrong and it'll bite hard; get it right at high speed and you will be rewarded
 
For me: Corners.
Track: Any

"I do NOT have a problem driving GT5!
It's just others get in my way around corners!"
 
Monza

first corner

everytime i try to brake at that corner when my car is going 160-200 mph,i always hit the wall with no driving line on.
 
As much as I love Grand Valley Speedway, the last corner can be deadly if you don't take it at the correct angle and speed.

You get it a little bit wrong, you go off and get pulled towards the tire wall and your lap (and the next one) is ruined.
 
Denz3b
The last one at Fuji. Don't think I've ever taken that perfectly in my life!
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I always enter that corner on the outside and then dive in on the exit around halfway into it. Works for me everytime.

For me, the toughest corner is that Arnage corner at Le Mans. I can nail Indianapolis perfectly but for some reason I can't find the proper time to hit the brakes coming into Arnage, so I always end up braking early and losing time or a position or I brake too late and slam into the wall.
 
The corner that gives me the most trouble is at Le Mans at the entrance to the Porsche curves, where the circuit transitions from the public road to the dedicated track. I either don't carry enough speed in, or in effort to widen out the entrance, I drop the left hand wheels onto the grass.
 
I've had a big struggle getting the turn-in point for Bergwerk right consistently.

I also have a little trouble with the double-apex right-hand turn between Kallenhard and Wehrseifen. I'm almost always clean, but it also always seems like I either have to brake halfway through the turn to stay on course, or I finish it so easily that I could have carried another ~5 mph speed... never seems like I get through with maximum speed.

I have trouble with pretty much the entire infield on the Indy road course. I don't care much for it, it just doesn't seem to flow at all.

Sarthe at night, I can handle almost all of it, but I can't pick up the braking point or turn-in point to enter the Porsche curves. I did the 24 with the driving line on, but tried a couple of night laps with it off... each time, I ended up way into the gravel trap.
 
This isn't much of a problem for me anymore but we all have failed to take Monaco's or Cote d Azur's chicane properly.
It's somewhat hard to take depending on the car and speed that you're carrying as the weight of the car will definitively shift forward as soon as you step on that brake. (Try it using the Ferrari F1 car with NO aids, best driving I've had)
But when you take it as intended, oh boy.. I feel like Monaco's King, the late GREAT Ayrton Senna (may your soul rest in peace good man, and hopefully the Good Lord has some Karts up there.)

Ps: please excuse my English, thanks.
 
Montegi road course. I miss several braking points on a lap by lap basis, ending up in the kitty litter every time.:banghead::banghead: I really need to drive it more to get it right!
 
YankeeRanger
is it wrong that i think nürburgring is easier to drive on than la sarthe? O.o
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Not at all... I actually find the ring the easiest to drive on, because of the sheer number of laps I've done on it in the last 8 years xD
 
I don't have many problems in GT5, but the main one is always Cape Ring's jump; a reason why I never race the full circuit. :( All of the other corners are brilliant, but that one single jump ruins the racing.
 
Turn 6 - the right hand corner before the "U" turn wich heads up to Schumacher-S then at the Nurburgring F1 track, its so bumpy there, no matter wich car, the car jumps crazy there and forces me to brake much earlier otherwise im in the gravel. I like the flow, but i dont think its that bumpy in real life.
 

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