"Dive-bombing" implies hitting the corner at too high a speed, and bouncing off another car to make the turn. And my feeling is, unless it was a honest mistake of not braking early enough, this is unacceptable. If you have to use another car to slow you down, then you're doing it wrong.
What I'm talking about is reaching the corner first, on the inside and under control. Most often this results in some sort of contact. But if I make the corner sticking to the berm on the inside, and don't exit it in a way that forces the other car off the track, then it's his fault for leaving the opening, in my opinion. Am I wrong? And yes, I know there are nuances, but I think the distinction is pretty clear.
By the way, "Something called racecraft. People should learn it..." is basically the same as saying "git gud". Not helpful in the least, and to me, it comes across as sounding condescending and elitist.
My opinion on the dive bomb is that if I can out brake someone to their driver door BEFORE turn in begins, then the spot is mine and I need to hold tight to the corner to not push into them. If i cant get to the driver door, then the position is NOT mine, and I back off.
This is probably conservative, but I try to race with the mindset that I'm in reality and that crashing is going to cost me money and possibly injury. I personally think if everyone maintained that mindset, we would have some clean racing.
NOTE: I did not watch Grumpy's video, so this is just a general opinion and nothing to do with whatever happened there.
This is the go-to move for a lot of people who can't do much else. But even though it keeps happening to me, I've come to see it as part of the craft that I need to learn. I'm really amazed by the people who can do it cleanly, although it depends on the lobby. If it's a B driver I tend to think of it as "dirty," and when it's an A+ driver I tend to think of it as "wow, he's better than me." Of course, during a race I don't know what they're rated, so I'm usually thinking "Dammit! Not again!"
But I definitely think that this is one of those things that I'm going to have to learn if I want to be competitive.
Edit: I forgot Ronald one thing: part of the reason why this move leads to so many incidents is because we can’t actually see what’s going on beside us. I wonder if PSVR2 will add a level of awareness to side-by-side maneuvers?
Why would you reverse LM?????????? Insane.
Wouldn't it be fun if it was
actually raced in reverse . . . as in, everyone driving their cars in reverse?!
The approaching red Alfa's move had so much Wile E. Coyote energy I had to share it
Super-Genius!
Ok, so for all the folks who have been talking about wheel settings: I don't think the controller sensitivity has anything to do with wheels. It's only for wireless controllers as far as I can tell. So only the FFB Torque and FFB Sensitivity settings at the bottom of that menu affect the wheel. As far as the sensitivity goes, from what I can tell, it affects how much you feel the road and how much wiggling the wheel affects the car. For instance, the chicane at Nurburgring GP went a lot easier for me when I turned sensitivity to 1 because the wheel didn't wiggle when I went over those curbs, and so the car didn't respond to the wiggles as I tried to control the car. It sorta smoothed the whole experience out (less sensitive).
On to on more issue: I've been running Race C this week and my best pace is in the 911. I had some great races with
@KosmoKazi but I'm not quite ready for prime time yet. I kept binning myself on the CoD. Usually it was the last lap with me saying "Just relax, and get through it one last time. Don't crash, don't crash, don't . . . AGH! I crashed!" But it was some good racing! He proved that my 9/1 (medium/hard) strategy could work. Thanks, Kosmo, for the good racing and for making an effort to put our little kerfuffle behind us! I hope to learn more from you.
What I want to ask is this: how are people so dang fast in the Nissan?! I want to get more competitive and of course the Nismo is the meta in most weeks. I want to be able to drive it, but I'm a full 2 seconds slower in it. I can do the Jaguar almost as well, but the cars that the "professionals" use (Nismo, M6, AMG, etc.) I just don't seem to be good enough in. Can someone help me figure out some things to get better at it? Some advice other than "git gud" would be much appreciated.
