Bum clenching corners

[IAMDOODLEBUG]

Something light hearted for the afternoon - was just contemplating the most tense corners during sport races and two immediately came to mind. Sheene at Brands nearly always results in me closing my eyes and praying as I drift out after the apex! When you are on the limit, you play a deadly game of "how quickly can I get back on the throttle without going wide at the top", the wheels teetering and flirting with the edge of the asphalt. Bad enough during a hotlap, worse when in traffic as visibility is non existent! The other corner which comes to mind is the chicane at Dragon (obviously!). Taking it flat is thrilling! In traffic it is even more bum clenchingly mental, as you never quite know if the guy in front is going to nail it or screw it right up!

 

[banckzy]

Something light hearted for the afternoon - was just contemplating the most tense corners during sport races and two immediately came to mind. Sheene at Brands nearly always results in me closing my eyes and praying as I drift out after the apex! When you are on the limit, you play a deadly game of "how quickly can I get back on the throttle without going wide at the top", the wheels teetering and flirting with the edge of the asphalt. Bad enough during a hotlap, worse when in traffic as visibility is non existent! The other corner which comes to mind is the chicane at Dragon (obviously!). Taking it flat is thrilling! In traffic it is even more bum clenchingly mental, as you never quite know if the guy in front is going to nail it or screw it right up!

I'm not familiar with names so what is Sheene? I tried googling but i just get pics of a guy on a motorbike...

 

[TheNorfolkDad]

Was always the corkscrew at Laguna Seca for me, as you could never tell how other cars were going to take it, gutted it’s not in the game but hopefully will be in the future.

The final few turns at Suzuka do it for me too.

 

[mikevillena]

Personally, I wear Depends undergarment just in case....LOL . Imagine what it's like driving a GT3 car at Brands full tilt!

 

[Stotty]

The 3 fast rights on the back side of Brands (Westfield, Dingle, Sheene)... it's the combination of fast entry (will I run wide on the exit?), no run off (if you do run wide), and the risk of oversteer getting on the gas on the kerbs.

One of the few sections on any track I approach significantly more conservatively in a race vs qualifying.

 

[Scaff]

Something light hearted for the afternoon - was just contemplating the most tense corners during sport races and two immediately came to mind. Sheene at Brands nearly always results in me closing my eyes and praying as I drift out after the apex! When you are on the limit, you play a deadly game of "how quickly can I get back on the throttle without going wide at the top", the wheels teetering and flirting with the edge of the asphalt. Bad enough during a hotlap, worse when in traffic as visibility is non existent! The other corner which comes to mind is the chicane at Dragon (obviously!). Taking it flat is thrilling! In traffic it is even more bum clenchingly mental, as you never quite know if the guy in front is going to nail it or screw it right up!

I find Sheene curves in GTS utterly bloody boring, a far cry from how it should be.

The Dragon Trail chicane I would agree, as the AI doesn't have a clue how to drive it and often neither do humans on-line.

 

[IAMDOODLEBUG]

I'm not familiar with names so what is Sheene? I tried googling but i just get pics of a guy on a motorbike...

Haha it is the last of the right handers at the back of the track, before the final left and right onto the straight.

 

[Scaff]

I'm not familiar with names so what is Sheene? I tried googling but i just get pics of a guy on a motorbike...

This bit....



...dingle into Sheene, slight right then unsighted tight right.

 

[IAMDOODLEBUG]

I find Sheene curves in GTS utterly bloody boring, a far cry from how it should be.

I must say I can't recall it being any different to PC2 or Assetto, in fact if anything I find it to be scarier as most cars in GTS have a propensity to drift wide at times. Maybe I wasn't being ballsy enough in the other two Sims though!

 

[NommyNom]

Dragon Chicane was the first to pop in my mind but you mentioned that. Next would probably be the downhill turns in both directions at Alsace finish line (watch the dive bombers), foxhole at the ring, those two square right handers at Suzuka before going under the bridge, brands hatch turn 1, interlagos turn 1, they're great parts of the track though, just a bit nervous especially in traffic

 

[GT5_komp]

For positions 3&4. Two abreast, tyres worn on lap11 of 12, being on the outside around the larger long right hander before pit straights on Willow ( yesterday C race ).

 

[vvise]

Westfield, Dingle, Sheene. Those are honestly my fav three corners in GT:Sport right now. They flow so well, almost like a faster Degner.

For me it's the final long sweep at Willow. Touch the dirt on the outside and you're gone, cut too hard and clip the apex a bit too much, or just go in unbalanced and it spits you out too.

 

[Scaff]

I must say I can't recall it being any different to PC2 or Assetto, in fact if anything I find it to be scarier as most cars in GTS have a propensity to drift wide at times. Maybe I wasn't being ballsy enough in the other two Sims though!

The camber is wrong and the lack of surface detail and bumps in GTS robs it of a lot of the challenge, as does the failure of the steering to unload and load up as it should as you go over the rise. Braking for it is also far easier in GTS, as cars are a lot more stable under braking that in AC or PC2 (and don't get unsettled during downshifts either if you get the timing wrong).

 

[banckzy]

Haha it is the last of the right handers at the back of the track, before the final left and right onto the straight.

haha yes that is a sweaty one.... the NGK Chicane at Nurb GP (I think its called) is a bum clencher... right near the end of a lap after bombing down that straight

 

[Miguelinho]

Sulman Park at Bathurst in Gr3 cars. Only the biggest of balls can take it flat without slamming into the wall.

 

[J_Cornelius]

Turn 9 on Big Willow, especially on sunset when you can't see the Apex (and also the deadly exit, right before the last straight).
Turns 6 to 8 of Bathurst, the tricky uphill exit then the wall. I love taking them one flat out, skimming the wall.