Crumbling under pressure

[Cammiepop]

Does anyone have any stories about how they lost a race purely due to pressure?

I've not had many wins on Sport mode, but the moment I'm in the lead I'm usually driving much more tentatively! I remember at the Lake Magiorre circuit being on track for 3rd or 4th (out of 20) and feeling good, a little low on fuel so I decided to back off and take the last two laps easy. Coming out of the hairpin I completely spun the car and watched everyone go past. That was really gutting!

 

[ASH32]

I'll have lost many times due to pressure, not that I can remember a specific occasion. My problems are mainly because I think the guy behind is just going to punt me off at any moment. Unless I know they are a good driver, then I don't expect a punt and actually drive better under pressure. Not that they don't sometimes get past anyway.

 

[JacksHerer]

I'm more like a dunked rich tea biscuit, I can hold together for a bit, and then fall apart.

 

[Robben]

I pressed the PS button three times in two races on Tuesday night due to pressure and sweaty hands

 

[Cammiepop]

I'll have lost many times due to pressure, not that I can remember a specific occasion. My problems are mainly because I think the guy behind is just going to punt me off at any moment. Unless I know they are a good driver, then I don't expect a punt and actually drive better under pressure. Not that they don't sometimes get past anyway.

Oh god I know that feeling....the dread! Especially on the last lap when they know you won't have time to catch back up and they can push you off and sacrifice some SR.

I'm more like a dunked rich tea biscuit, I can hold together for a bit, and then fall apart.

Yep like me then

I pressed the PS button three times in two races on Tuesday night due to pressure and sweaty hands

You press the PS button in an online race???

 

[Robben]

You press the PS button in an online race???

Yeah disaster

 

[Sharpie]

Got to be cool like a swimming pool.

 

[TheNorfolkDad]

No chocolate digestive option bad poll is bad.

Just kidding, I’m a far better driver when someone is behind me than when I’m behind someone, I never know how to anticipate them so always lose time on corners.

9/10 I’ll win when I’m in front but divebombers catch me out that one time from ten

 

[Stotty]

Depends who's following me.

Rarely do I feel any pressure caused by the worry of someone hitting me... most of the time I know the people I'm racing and have raced them many times. At the top end of S/S you very rarely get anything more than a bit of accidental 'rubbing'. So generally no, I don't feel pressure.

However, I'll occasionally end up in a race with the very fastest Aliens, and in these races, if in front, I do sometimes feel a bit of pressure - this comes from knowing if I drive to the best of my ability, and don't make any mistakes, it will be very difficult for them to pass me... the pressure to perform.

 

[Cammiepop]

No chocolate digestive option bad poll is bad.

Just kidding, I’m a far better driver when someone is behind me than when I’m behind someone, I never know how to anticipate them so always lose time on corners.

9/10 I’ll win when I’m in front but divebombers catch me out that one time from ten

Added the option

 

[ColinNZ]

I don't succumb to pressure; I apply it (mainly because second is about the best I can do).

 

[Cammiepop]

I don't succumb to pressure; I apply it (mainly because second is about the best I can do).

That's where I'm more comfortable, pushing someone else until they make a mistake.

 

[Lost Sheltie]

Depends on the track. Defended for 3 laps yesterday on Lago Maggiore and managed to keep a faster driver behind me for the entire time (a very fair russian driver), but put me on Dragon Trail and I am going to crash into that bloody chicane if I am under any pressure at all.

 

[JacksHerer]

Yeh pushing from behind feels more comfortable than being pushed from behind {insert childish giggle}

 

[Woodybobs]

I crack like an elephant bird egg.

 

[lombardo]

With 27 pole positions but only 13 wins, it's fair to say I'm showing symptoms of serious crumbling

 

[Blacki2k2]

As i started in Sport Mode, and get some pressure from behind, i was mental damaged, forgot how to drive, and go off track. Pressure was to big. Now i would say i'm really cool and mostly i don't make any mistakes. Just driving the rounds without thoughts what can happen.

The last races on GR.1 Dragon Trail was one of this race with high pressure. Started from third and gained first place right at the firs S corners. Staying on first place for all the 4 laps, and the second and third places make a huge pressure on me. Staying cool and just drive is the way to not fail

 

[Robben]

Yeh pushing from behind feels more natural than being pushed from behind {insert childish giggle}

 

[Cammiepop]

As i started in Sport Mode, and get some pressure from behind, i was mental damaged, forgot how to drive, and go off track. Pressure was to big. Now i would say i'm really cool and mostly i don't make any mistakes. Just driving the rounds without thoughts what can happen.

The last races on GR.1 Dragon Trail was one of this race with high pressure. Started from third and gained first place right at the firs S corners. Staying on first place for all the 4 laps, and the second and third places make a huge pressure on me. Staying cool and just drive is the way to not fail

Watched the whole thing, a flawless victory! Shame about the low resolution of the video, but well done. I'm honoured to have raced against you and beaten you once or twice :3

 

[Blacki2k2]

Watched the whole thing, a flawless victory! Shame about the low resolution of the video, but well done. I'm honoured to have raced against you and beaten you once or twice :3

Nice comment, thx! As i can see, you're at B/S atm, so i started with a second account and im short before B/S. Maybe we see us in the next races :-)

 

[Cammiepop]

Nice comment, thx! As i can see, you're at B/S atm, so i started with a second account and im short before B/S. Maybe we see us in the next races :-)

I'm almost A

http://www.kudosprime.com/gts/stats.php?profile=3890621
Your stats Blacki2k2.

 

[Blacki2k2]

Did we some races? I remember your name, but i don't know from where...

 

[Cammiepop]

Did we some races? I remember your name, but i don't know from where...

Tuamee94 made a private lobby room...we raced at Monza in Gr.1. You were leading all 5 laps and on the last lap on the 2nd/3rd to last corners you went into gravel

 

[Blacki2k2]

Tuamee94 made a private lobby room...we raced at Monza in Gr.1. You were leading all 5 laps and on the last lap on the 2nd/3rd to last corners you went into gravel

Ahhhhh True, now i can remember. We had do some races in the lobby. Yeah, that was cool. Not the last lap, but the races in general. Cool and fair races. This is a rarity in the lobbies.... Nice to c u here :-)

 

[Tekku]

Yes, it gets my adrenaline going like nothing else. Sometimes i cramp up because my body is so tense.

 

[NJ72]

I'm actually pretty cool under pressure from drivers behind me. I find I make more mistakes when I'm being held up than when I'm defending. That said, it mirrors my real life racing; I'm quite good at driving defensively (based around the F1 rules of holding your line etc rather than just blindly blocking people), but I'm a a bit more nervous about hitting people when I'm behind them.

As such I tend to follow the car in front, and spend more time watching them than the track and make a mistake that way! Off the track I go and watch them disappear in to the distance...!

 

[KK78]

I've crumbled a few times, now I try to focus on the road ahead and not repeatedly check the rearview mirror (bonnet cam) and the time board to the left like some paranoid crazy man. I've had 18 poles and 9 wins so it's fair to say I've bricked it a few times, most notably on Monza recently where on the last lap, with a 3 second lead I ran wide on turn 5, dipping a rear tyre in the gravel and slowly, monumentally, doing a 180 to face the oncoming racers, finished 7th 🤬🤬🤬

 

[Robben]

I've crumbled a few times, now I try to focus on the road ahead and not repeatedly check the rearview mirror (bonnet cam) and the time board to the left like some paranoid crazy man. I've had 18 poles and 9 wins so it's fair to say I've bricked it a few times, most notably on Monza recently where on the last lap, with a 3 second lead I ran wide on turn 5, dipping a rear tyre in the gravel and slowly, monumentally, do a 360 to face the oncoming racers, finished 7th 🤬🤬🤬

Ouch

 

[Cammiepop]

I've crumbled a few times, now I try to focus on the road ahead and not repeatedly check the rearview mirror (bonnet cam) and the time board to the left like some paranoid crazy man. I've had 18 poles and 9 wins so it's fair to say I've bricked it a few times, most notably on Monza recently where on the last lap, with a 3 second lead I ran wide on turn 5, dipping a rear tyre in the gravel and slowly, monumentally, do a 360 to face the oncoming racers, finished 7th 🤬🤬🤬

Surely if you did a 360....you were facing the right way

 

[1MSC]

I just try to breath and drive like Massa, in the middle of the track if the following car is on a faster pace