Speed is what eludes me - I look at the times of the people on my friends list, 2 to 3 seconds faster than mine, then I see that even they are still 3 seconds slower than the top world times!
That's so true. But I will tell you from my experience with Race B this week that it's possible to learn
some things, if you pay enough attention. By the way, my point in sharing these is not to tell anyone how to drive the track. These are just my experiences of learning some things that worked for me - and I learned them by paying careful attention to other people's replays (which is my point here).
For example, at Catalunya,
going through T12, I learned (via watching other replays) that I want to come to the point where I start accelerating out of the turn at no more than 58mph. If I'm faster than that, I can't accelerate full throttle, and have to nurse it so I don't go off track. (In the R8)
I was going too fast through the turn, which made it impossible for me to get a good exit. When in a race, it feels
way counterintuitive to slow down that much through that turn, but it works.
I also learned that for T13, I absolutely
had to be as far left as possible before the turn. I know this should have been obvious, but I realized as I approached the actual turn, I started drifting to the right. This caused me to take the turn too shallow, and I regularly had to slow down during the straight between 13 and 14 or I'd go off track. When I realized that, I picked up time immediately.
There's more stories like that, but the point is, the differences between what I
was doing compared to what I try to do now don't seem like much, but they really make a difference in lap time.
What also frustrates me is that those friends often post really fast laps on day 1, and I then spend the week getting closer by 0.1 seconds per day 😂
I know, right?
