Couple of notes for tomorrow's race fellas. Rome is a tight track in places and mistakes that take you into the guardrail cost you a ton of time and will gather others with you and slow them down as well. So here are three things to keep in mind for tomorrows race:
They look wide in the picture but when racing at speed you need to use all of the track to keep up momentum for the following straight. While it's GTP legal to attempt a pass into here, it will for sure be a slower way through the corner for you and your opponent compared to just following someone through and drafting them on the next straight. It also has a high probability of knocking one or both of you into the guardrail. So let's all try to keep our heads tomorrow and go through here single file until the end of the race at least.
Straight After The Esses
Again, it looks rather wide here, but in Open Lobbies, a common trick here is to run up the middle of the road and move around slightly to prevent someone from passing. Let's not see any blocking on this straight and try to keep to one side or the other.
Final Corner
There are basically two racing lines through here. #1 is the one I often use online, which involves starting the corner on the darker pavement on the inside, drifting just outside of it mid-corner and cutting back inside at the exit. #2 takes a wider entry and cuts to the inside at exit. This is the one I saw NC using in our practice runs.
Either one is fine, but what is not fine is to late brake and cut to the inside unless you see the person ahead of you losing control. Under GTP rules, once someone has turned into a corner they are allowed to take the racing line of their choice unimpeded by you, so unless you are alongside at entry, follow through. There is enough draft here that you can get a run up the front straight and pass someone to the flag.
Based on our practice runs there should be some great racing here, but this combination of track and car is all about momentum and you should be thinking of this the whole race if you want to achieve the best finishes you can.
Good luck tomorrow!!!!
My line is like this, I usually at 81 to 82 mph on the on the right side on the uphill before the long left sweeper( final corner ), apply slight brake only, the speed should hover around 75 to 77+mph and gradually decreasing to allow the car to maintain the line ( just outside the white lines in the middle of the road ). Once halfway, aim at the inside apex at the end of the sweeper, slight lift of the throttle is all that is necessary, speed should stay above 70+mph and reaching around 74mph when close to the guard rail on exit
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To quote the Great Orangutan: ““I’m sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you’ve got even half a scrotum it’s not going to happen.” Wait, that didn't make sense......
