Lotus Elise Club Cup - Saturday Racing - Race 2 Feb 18th - SIGN UP NOW

[AnTiheLT]

Pfft, obviously I'll win

Hopefully you will have a much better internet stability for this race, compared to the 1st race on Tokyo

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

Fixed.

I joke.

Seriously, anything can happen here. I watched the replay of last seasons race and I got incredibly lucky with where I was given overtaking oppertunities, and my pit strategy was the real reason I won.

Yeah, it's surprisingly heavy on tires this track. Last season I pit early to try and make some places and I think I came out 4th (?) after everyone else had pit, but my tires were getting worse and worse. By the end I was struggling to keep the car straight.

 

[Carbonox]

You know, last year (or last season, however you say) was extremely close. I qualified 9th but was only 0.6 seconds off the lead lap, which was Carracer or DaxCobra. Unfortunately, the 0.6 seconds per lap was too much, and I finished 8th, having the infamous ballasted car... :|

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

You know, last year (or last season, however you say) was extremely close. I qualified 9th but was only 0.6 seconds off the lead lap, which was Carracer or DaxCobra. Unfortunately, the 0.6 seconds per lap was too much, and I finished 8th, having the infamous ballasted car... :|

Racing driver's excuses, you know it actually helped the weight balance.


And you'd say last season generally because the last season also ran through the beginning of this year. 👍

 

[Phouchg]

I really suck at passing people.. someone should tutor me in how to pass.. i'm losing so much time behind slower cars after my slow starts ^^

 

[Carbonox]

Racing driver's excuses, you know it actually helped the weight balance.


And you'd say last season generally because the last season also ran through the beginning of this year. 👍

It would have if I had moved it to the rear

 

[DaxCobra]

I really suck at passing people.. someone should tutor me in how to pass.. i'm losing so much time behind slower cars after my slow starts ^^

I'll teach you!

 

[Phouchg]

I'll teach you!

Yes please! I'll probably start practising tomorrow by the way.. finally have caught up a bit in my studying..

 

[DaxCobra]

Yes please! I'll probably start practising tomorrow by the way.. finally have caught up a bit in my studying..

Ok.

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

I really suck at passing people.. someone should tutor me in how to pass.. i'm losing so much time behind slower cars after my slow starts ^^

If you're truly faster focus on getting the best exit, that way you can literally just drive past them going into a straight.

Slipstreaming on a straight and taking the inside line is the easiest way and at a track like Tsukuba, pretty much the only way.

I wouldn't advise trying to outbrake someone unless you're absolutely alongside as many people try to "outbrake" you from behind which just ends in a divebomb.

I always find dummying can work well- you get alongside/almost alongside someone going in to a heavy braking zone (turn 1 at Nurb GP for example) and instead of braking late brake at your normal point- generally they'll try breaking late and run wide giving you a run at them out of the corner.


👍

 

[Matty]

Guess who just got lifetime premium

 

[DaxCobra]

Guess who just got lifetime premium

Uhhhh....

Brad Pitt?

 

[Matty]

Again, no.

Hopefully you will have a much better internet stability for this race, compared to the 1st race on Tokyo

Ah probably. I normally have but didn't that day. 👎

 

[Matty]

Oop's double post.

 

[Akmuq]

I really suck at passing people.. someone should tutor me in how to pass.. i'm losing so much time behind slower cars after my slow starts ^^

Well at Tsukuba it's impossible to get alongside someone unless they make a mistake so concentrate on annoying the guy in front of you hoping they go deep into a turn or something, you could out-brake them but that might really piss them off especially if they're battling with someone else.

If you're truly faster focus on getting the best exit, that way you can literally just drive past them going into a straight.

Slipstreaming on a straight and taking the inside line is the easiest way and at a track like Tsukuba, pretty much the only way.

I wouldn't advise trying to outbrake someone unless you're absolutely alongside as many people try to "outbrake" you from behind which just ends in a divebomb.

I always find dummying can work well- you get alongside/almost alongside someone going in to a heavy braking zone (turn 1 at Nurb GP for example) and instead of braking late brake at your normal point- generally they'll try breaking late and run wide giving you a run at them out of the corner.


👍

I have a different kind of dummy, when I make a move to the inside/outside, and a quick move to the other side to catch out the guy in front, I think Mansell was famous for it? Might have been someone else.

An other is if you're alongside them on the outside, brake really late and take loads of speed to the apex and have a slow middle part of the corner and a fast exit, works extremely well at a place like the chicane at Monaco or the final turn here, which is also a really good place to overtake if you get the line right.👍

 

[Matty]

Or, Brake early and take them up the inside at the exit of a corner. Works well on Turn 1, 3 and 6 here.

 

[Akmuq]

Or, Brake early and take them up the inside at the exit of a corner. Works well on Turn 1, 3 and 6 here.

Well, the last corner is kinda good for that, I remember getting Furi there at the end of a race in the V8 Challange and I think it was Dax in the Vtec Tsukuba massacre for the win at the end(could have been neljack).

 

[Matty]

I'm basically just naming the hairpins here

 

[Phouchg]

Wow thanks for all the great overtaking tips I usually use the one marunda was talking about.. braking my normal point and letting the other one out brake him/herself.

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

I that used on Carb at Nurb into the middle hairpin. Got half my car inside him and instead of braking late I took my normal braking point and Carb didn't.

Unfortunately I couldn't quite duck inside.

Well at Tsukuba it's impossible to get alongside someone unless they make a mistake so concentrate on annoying the guy in front of you hoping they go deep into a turn or something, you could out-brake them but that might really piss them off especially if they're battling with someone else.

The best place to overtake at Tsukuba is the last turn- if you can get a good slipstream down the straight it's a relatively easy pass.

 

[Phouchg]

The second to last corner is the most important, if you don't get that exit perfect someone is gonna slip past you down the straight.

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

Yup, it has a nasty bump in it on the inside which can throw the tail out if you go in too tight.


And I now have confirmation that my grandparents are visiting on Sunday so I can race.




Also I got to wondering: Those with steering wheels, do you left or right foot brake?


EDIT: I'll have a practice room up at 4pm GMT if anyone wants to? 👍

 

[Phouchg]

I definitely left foot brake.. don't see the point in right foot braking when i only have two pedals

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

I thought most people would say that.

I right foot brake- can't get on with left.

 

[DaxCobra]

I am forced to right foot brake with my clutch.

Not that I mind..

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

I am forced to right foot brake with my clutch.

Not that I mind..

I want one.

 

[Phouchg]

I have no problems att all braking with the left foot, it's like driving a gokart

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

It's ok, I can left foot brake and I do for some corners in order to keep the nose tucked in- turn leading onto the long "straight" before the chicane at Nurburgring GP). But I just find it a lot more comfortable to right foot brake- I also feel I have more control over the brake modulation.

 

[Phouchg]

When i first got my wheel i thought about right foot braking but my pedals just kept moving around when only used the right foot so i decided to use the left foot now it would probably be better since my pedals are more stable but don't feel like it now.

 

[FordMKIVJ5]

When i first got my wheel i thought about right foot braking but my pedals just kept moving around when only used the right foot so i decided to use the left foot now it would probably be better since my pedals are more stable but don't feel like it now.

I've only ever used my pedals with the stand so they don't move.

And if you're used to left foot braking there isn't much point switching. 👍