You’re lost.
You revived a worthless thread.
It's far from a worthless thread and nothing in the AUP bans people posting in old threads.
You are mistaken because you ignore weight shift.
When you turn into a corner you are not on the gas, but the brakes.
Lol that’s just to start but great work using a mistaken understanding of basic driving to imply the physics are broken.
Weight shift in GTS has issues, that's actually rather easy to see.
I’m like maybe .4 off worlds best times in some of this game with everything default tcs 3.
Why?
Because Ross Bentley!!!!!
which has little to do with supporting your argument.
You can cry all you want about what you misunderstand or learn basic fundamentals.
Do not attack other members, ad-hominem attacks are not permitted under the AUP.
All this physics crud lately. Pc console ACC none of it matters it’s a video game.
It’s a mere facsimile of real driving.
The entire sim community would be a better place if no one ever mentioned tge words physics or tire model ever again!
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It's been a topic of discussion in the sim racing community since it existed, if you don't want to discuss it then don't. Every sim around has issues with its physics, as such they will be discussed, and that includes GTS.
This is a great book to help understand the physics in play in race driving in simple laymen’s terms.
It’s truth translates not only to real world but also to racing sims very closely
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It's a very basic book in terms of racing physics, spending as much time talking the mind-set of racing and the business aspect as it does physics and vehicle dynamics. Which is not a surprise as Bentley is best known as a performance coach in those areas.
Nothing wrong with that, but it far more a basic introduction to vehicle dynamics that a definitive piece on it, I would suggest moving onto
Goin' Faster by the Skip Barber Racing School next and then
Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by Milliken and Milliken (which is the definitive reference source on the subject).
As an example of Speed Secrets limitations, lets take a look at what it covers on FWD cars...
Less than a page, and is so basic as to not even cover the techniques unique to FWD race cars, let's take the line "Definitely, you can't be as harsh with the throttle to help overcome an error, as this will usually overload the front tyres.", which would be fine for racing a FWD road car (and not even all of them). However you take almost every FWD race series on the planet and they are deliberately set-up to be driven hard on the throttle, with almost no front ARB (or it removed entirely) to initiate massive amounts of lift-off oversteer and extremely aggressive LSD's designed to allow the throttle to pull the car around the corner. The technique to quite literally to initiate rotation under braking using the lack of rear grip, rotate the car (often on three wheels) and drag it around the corner using the throttle and LSD. Make a big mistake or get tapped into a spin, guess what you do to recover from that 'mistake', point the front wheels in the direction you want to go and bury the throttle (which has also been a FWD rally technique forever).
In this video Phil Glew covers exactly how you use this technique in FWD race cars (which he has raced) to overcome the natural tendency of FWD cars to understeer by doing the exact opposite of what Bentley suggests. It's important to note that Bentley isn't 'wrong', rather that it's a massive simplification of an entire area of racing driving technique.
Oh and if you want an example of what GTS gets wrong in terms of physics, then FWD race cars are one.
