I know how you feel. This season was the first time I played with the TC as well. Last season I just played with the default settings from what I can recall.
This season after a night spent practicing with Eccles, TC was a topic that came up and he suggested trying to take it down to TC1. Which I thought felt great for the most part. I briefly tried 0 during some practice for Bathurst, but I changed it back because it was so difficult for me as it was I didn't need to worry about it stepping out.
I ran TC0 during this race though and like you, my first start on 0 saw me slide out sideways, thankfully I corrected/back off enough I didn't lose it completely but it set me back a bit. A few stuff ups saw me spin out like you say, whereas TC1 would've kept me on track more than likely for at least 1-2 of those spins.
The part I hate is when you've spun out it doesn't want to spin up to correct it and you have to 50 point turn out of some walls/areas to get going. (easy enough to spin when you don't want it to but hard as hell when you do want it to - I know it's probably my bad driving/lack of skills but still frustrating!).
One thing that was really interesting to me in this race was just seeing those D1 drivers and their blistering pace. Not only that but seeing their lines and turn in points etc was quite educational.
I don't race with others often enough, usually it's just our weekly race meets, so I don't get to pick up these things but seeing one of the guys' lines for the turn after the bridge I was like... whoa... they're on another level. The positioning on the track was so far over to the right I didn't even think it possible before. So I started to practice it throughout the race and sometimes I'd hit it pretty good (or good for me), other times I'd over/under shoot it. Would be good to have this kind of thing a bit more as practice for the main events
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