Hi guys!!
WTAC Week 23
Twin Ring Motegi - Road Course / Forward
Professional
R1 / R1
I'm sorry to hear about your PSP red ice! Although I would recommend learning the Analog nub, it is quicker in GTPSP to use the Analog over the D-pad. It will take you a while to get used to it, but it is worth it in the long run. I would advise sticking to week 24 just with the analog nub and see how you go.
Now, I've just watched your Toyota Lap. Motegi is a tricky track to get right, I've never felt fully comfortable with the track myself, but I'm learning. Here's my advice for you to try out. I don't mean to offend, just offer some advice in where I think your going wrong.
The biggest problems I saw on your lap were the S-bend combination corners. The reasonably long and fast S-Bend about 2/3rds of the way around, and then the final S-bend/Chicane leading onto the main straight.
What you need to do is take the first corner slower and position yourself to take the 2nd corner faster. So for the 1st S-bend, you needed to tuck yourself into the apex, nice and tight and hold the inside curb all the way around the left hander, from there you are in a good position to sweep right and come across the apex, lifting for only a second and powering out.
The 2nd S-bend at the end of the circuit (victory corner I believe) you cut into the first corner far to early. You should follow the tire marks all the way around, this way you will be as far left as possible for the quick right. The straighter you can make a corner, the faster you will be.
At the moment you are entering the S-bends 10km's (roughly, just as an example) faster than I would. So that will get you about 10km's faster than me through the first corner, you second corner though is the other way around, and I will exit 10km's faster than you. That means down the long straight that follows, I'm 10km's faster all the way down, if not more. Thats a lot of time your losing by compromising your exit on the 2nd corner.
The way to setup for a cornerm or a combination of corners, is to figure out what is going to give me the fastest exit speed for the next straight. The longer the straight, the more important it is to get a fast exit. Sure you could go faster through the corner, but a corner only lasts a few seconds, while a straight can be 10seconds long. If I'm going to be 10km's faster per second, would you rather it be the 2seconds in the corner, or the 10seconds down a straight.
- and unfortunately at Motegi consequences are huge !!! I would say Hairpin and Victory Corner are the two I still don't get...
