Dion and Curtis, you guys are both right.
Too bad it took me so long to figure it out.
And Dion, that was exactly what I was trying to say.
Right now, I know that the correct line should come first. Even if you don't take it at the highest speed possible, you are still going to exit the turn faster than you would if you overshot it.
The only problem I have right now is that I am not consistant with my braking points. And the faster the car is, the harder it is, for a simple reason: since a faster car (race car) generally has better braking and better acceleration, if you brake a tad too soon and then start accelerating the same tad too soon, you are going to go out of track at the exit. If you brake a tad too late, you missed your apex. The faster the car goes, the smaller the braket for a good braking point is. Hitting the brakes in that braket is the hardest part. And that's where coasting comes into place. Coasting is really hard to master, because you are always tempted to think this: "if I am coasting it means one of these two things: I brake too soon, or I accelerated too late". It's hard to get that out of your head. Coasting helps a lot with fast cars. But you are always tempted to think that if you were either 100% throttle or 100% brake all the time, you would be going faster. Not true. Unless you hit those braking points on the dot. Which is even harder.
So basically it's a cat trying to chase its own tail. It's an endless loop. It's an equation without a solution. It's the obvious reason why slower cars are easier to run. If you are going slow, the braket for your braking point increases enough for you to actually see it and talk to your brain and tell it that it needs to tell the finger to press the brake button.
Anyway, I could go on talking about this for hours. But the only point I am REALLY trying to make is this: Experience will fix everything. Two months ago I didn't even know what hitting an apex or missing it could do to a lap time. Two months from now (hopefully) I will know how to find my braking points and hit them CONSISTANTLY lap after lap after lap.
Right now I can do a good lap, mainly out of luck, which I can never repeat, no matter how hard I try. Whenever I will be able to lap within 0.1 of my best lap time at EVERY lap, then I will start getting better than what I am right now.
Anyway, it's late, I drunk too much (like every other time when I go out shooting pool and drinking beer), and I need to go to bed.
Hopefully 1% of the stuff I just said makes sense to somebody...
...else, just skip this post and pretend nothing happened
Later.
The Wizard.
i know...
it makes the game ten times better as well which is always good.
wtf????
