How do you drive on Australia's roads?

I've been coming under a little bit of flak recently from my driving instructors (a.k.a parents) about my driving style, how I accelerate far too quickly and heavily out of corners, roundabouts, traffic lights, and how I don't "shuffle" my hands while turning. I also have a habit of travelling around 20km/h above the speed limit. And that got me thinking, with racing all in our blood, do the other ROOZ fellas drive like this? Keep in mind, I've only completed 66 hours on my L's. I've still got PLENTY to learn!

Cheers, Jono.

Mate, I leave all the racing and speeding to our virtual environment, where you can get away with hitting anything and anyone and an apology will do.
I follow the rules.

yeah not a good idea to take anything you learn from racing onto the road.

I do all you do but the 20K's over the limit bit (costly one that one) but it comes from knowing the limit and staying well below it. It takes many years to really get used to the real road so don't rush it and learn the hard way, it can cost you more than money. Shuffle your hands is outdated now and driving instructors actually encourage you to steer how you most feel comfortable. Accelerating out of corners is the way to go but just enough throttle to maintain grip/feel, letting off out of a corner makes the car unstable and is an accident waiting to happen. Just got to learn the right approach speeds to a corner and the rest will fall into place. Take it slow and get a lesson or 2 or 3.

I'm investing in proffessional lessons which I'll be undertaking soon. My mother got done last year for doing 10km/h over the limit by sneaky cops hiding in the bush. Next time I drive I'll be keeping a closer eye on the limiter, my speeding is getting dangerous. I also need to learn to ignore bastards who tailgate, that's very dangerous.
I didn't know that shuffling is now considered outdated, I steer as a race driver does. (like at Monaco for example.)

I suppose it is a good thing I live just 5 mins from Eastern Creek Raceway! Always terrific to head down there on a Saturday arvo for a kart race or two.

Thanks for the feedback, being a safe driver is much more important than a fast driver!

As I'm still on L's as well, my instructor told me to shuffle, felt better than trying to keep on turning with the arms, especially in a normal car, on a road, not like in a race or whatever.
I had my lessons in an auto, but only because I wasn't ready to go in a manual around Bondi/Woollahra (this was months ago), fairly heavily built up and crowded.
I do manual around some docks near Botany, much quieter round there.
One guy I know offered me a drive in his car which had a racing clutch, my dad refused before I said anything though lol.
But yeah, no correlation between GT (ESPECIALLY GT of all racing sims) and IRL driving.

Could be worse, I could be driving like I was in Grand Theft Auto...

Or something like NFS lol. I tried to con my dad into buying a better racing setup with clutch and stuff for IRL driving but didn't work lol, so working on that myself atm.

basically, drive like they tell you to drive to pass your P test then learn to drive whats more comfortable once your on your own.
I did my test in Auto and I have only ever owned 1 manual car and that was for around a month, im pretty comfortable driving a manual but its not big deal to me either way, if you do your test in auto your allowed to drive manual in NSW once you get your greens.

In NZ if you do your test in auto only aloud to drive auto. but if you do test man can drive both. My son got his in man and wrote his car off about 3 weeks ago (He was driving on gravel though) got him a new old car the other day. I suggest you do a defensive course, well worth the money, shouldn't be too expensive anyway.

Keep the pressure on sim better then no s

isnt it funny i always said im not going to be one of those p platers who turns into the hoon that lasted for maybe 3 weeks lol so next thing you know im racing the pulsar around my rural roads thinking im the and ironically i end up in the back of a volkswagen toureg doing about 15km/h the point im trying to make is one can drive fast and think they know what their doing but in the end it was the total opposite that caught me out a motorway consentina at a roundabout turning lane everyone elsed checked up i didnt...... bang goodbye pulsar and the worst thing is the sheer sound of "crunch" and how abruptly the car stops will forever be a lasting reminder so N64 i would take it easy untill you know what your doing and as for shuffling the wheel you may aswell move your seat 300 notches forward have your nose to the windscreen be holding the wheel at 11 and 1 o'clock and drive around doing 25km/h LOL

Personally I think shuffling hands is dangerous. Only do it when neccasery otherwise don't at all. As for speeding, try to never do it on the road lol. Already lost my licence twice because of speeding (upset an XR6 turbo driver in my Honda though so it was worth it haha) and only had it for 3 n a bit years, woops. 4 points on your P's sucks too.

EDIT: Did you tell your parents you play Gran Turismo =p

I got my first speeding ticket now, 2 years into having my blacks lol.

damn CLK is much faster then the crappy cars I was used to before.