From someone with very minimal actual experience in race cars I can say that sim racing does condition your body and mind to a certain degree. I got the opportunity in the USA a couple of years ago to get behind the wheel of a full blown NASCAR at the 1.5 mile Las Vegas speedway (see profile pic). I had never even sat in a real race car before and within a few laps was running at speeds up to 150MPH around the track, every other guy there had real world racing experience but I had the second fastest lap of the day just under a tenth off the fastest lap and about 4 tenths off my instructors time. I was shocked by this, when I was in the car everything felt very natural and familiar (apart from my brains trying to squeeze out through my ears from the G forces, oh and having to change gears with my right hand) I found myself I the same kind of zone mentally as when I am sim racing. I'm not trying to say that just because you can do one you can do the other but it made that transition much easier for me. I also got to flog a tuned Audi RS5 around Sonoma Raceway in California recently and had very similar results. If anything I think it helps to give you the self belief that you can go fast in real life, that you can push the loud pedal a little sooner and push a little closer to the wall. Obviously there are some very experienced guys here that do race in real life that may see it differently but from a total real life racing NOOB that's how I see it.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's a practise race at 7:30 tonight! I'll have a lobby up from 7:30, with a 45min practise, then 10min quali, 5min warmup and then a full race distance around the Big Willow! All welcome!
So I check this thread after a week hoping for some tips n tricks for tonight but I have had to wade thru 2 pages of ppl having sand in their vaginas before thankfully Spectre posted the goods. My coffee's now cold
All of my Videos are in the OP for that very reason Might start adding others so it can be as easy to find as possible
Sorry for taking longer than expected, turns out a 7 minute video takes longer to upload than a 3 minute video. Who'd have thunk it I've been destroyed by Hay fever so if my voice sounds off, apologies! Anyway, heres the lap around my all-time favorite circuit! Aaaaaaaand whilst i'm posting in here, this happened to me on Lap 9 of Willow Springs, has this ever happened to anyone else? Automatic Clutch was on and the shifter (I use H-Pattern) went into 4th as it should, i have no idea why it went to neutral and took a hammering of third and second gear to get it out of neutral
Can you post the sector times up would be good to know which sectors need more practice. At the moment I have done 6.52 Sector 1. 1.49.865 Sector 2. 3.31.431 Sector 3. 1.31.677 I have a feeling a lot of time I'm losing is sector 1 no idea how you run at that pace and control the car bouncing through the 1st set of corners.
That was epic thanks beau, can see where I'm losing a lot of time. I've only managed to complete 2 valid laps. Need to find 10seconds somehow and keep it on the track.
Geez a 6:4x! I did a 6:50 and I thought that was a great lap! You've proven me wrong again Beau. Damn you!
Stop it I was happy with 7.30 so I only have to find 2 sec a klm. No problem I can that. Just give me a couple of months.
Haha quite a response to that lap!! I have over 11,000km on that circuit on this game so i'm very well rehearsed for this round haha! I'll have a room hopefully on Friday and saturday to try and help out some people struggling learning the track or finding some seconds because i think there could be some brilliant racing around here if everyone knows the layout. This track is my No.1 in the world so i dont mind helping out long into the night if some people just want to throw laps down on saturday night
Wait a moment, we're actually doing the whole 'ring in a season? Awesome! I've even somewhat practiced this in the past few months (Best lap of 7:22 needs work I guess)
