Beginner: a Guide to turning??

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Hello, I am a beginner to gran turismo 4, I've only played the others occastionaly with friends, and am having trouble doing any better than a bronze in the licensce testing for some of the cornering. I try following their instructions and putting on the racing line, but I either have to come to a near dead stop to control the turn, and go shooting off the track at the end of the turn.

Is there a good order and timing of break, turn, accelerate?
 
Well, it's not the way i turn but the correct way to turn is this:
Brake (to around 50 mp/h for most turns), Turn, Accelerate out of the turn, Maintain racing line.
^THAT'S THE CORRECT WAY ^, but my way is to brake, turn and accelerate all at the same time, LOL
 
Well, it's not quite that general. The thing is, if your allready bronzing the liscenses, then moving up from that point is mostly about practice. I can preach technique all day, but in the end you have to learn it for yourself. The one thing I will tell you, is to turn off the line display. stop paying so much attention to that and you will free up a good amount of brain power for the problem solving involved in nailing that perfect turn.

But like the previous poster i'm going to go and post annother blanket statement about cornering. The fastest way through a corner typicaly is to lose your speed coming in, ie slow in, fast out. Start from the outside curbing, and break late, continuing to break as you turn in deep into the turn. This should cause the rear end to rotate setting you up to accelerate and apex (touch the inside curbing) just past the center of the turn. From their if you apexed late enough, it's all gas and gears till the next turn and the cars slowly increasing radius turn should dump you out along the outside curb.

Now, not all cars, will behave this way. Some cars oversteer under trail breaking and some dont. Some just plow off the course. some cars, like FF's, understeer under acceleration, so you will have to be less agressive with the throttle. And a different line may benifit you in either of these situations. Also, some corners tend to like different lines. and every car is different on every corner of every track. memorizing this behavior is what racing is all about. although then you have those rare few people who manage to figure out the whole "medium in, fast out" thing. then your really cooking. but thats for another day.

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Oh, and welcome to GTP.
 
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