Mastering Maggiore

[TheGeologist]

Maggiore is my favorite track that PD has ever created. It is so smooth and realistic looking that I actually thought it was a real track.

Unfortunately, I am not good at Maggiore. After running several laps today, I have managed to get my best time ever as a 1:58.1xx. I want to pick up the pace more to attain my first win at the track. Please note, I have excluded lap two for a cut penalty, so the clip jumps right from lap 1 to 3.

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How can I improve my time at Maggiore?

 

[Sharkart_Kun]

Maggiore is one of my favorites too! It's one that brings me some great results too.

A couple of things I noticed that would get you more time:

At turn three you should lift before the apex to keep the car to the left, putting the left wheel on the kerbs, so that you can trail brake the car onto the kerbs at turn 4 (you went too wide there) and be able to accelerate earlier (keeping the sttering input as straight as possible for max. acceleration, as there's an elevation change after turn 4).

After exiting turn 5 you should aim to get your car really close to the kerbs outside (on the left) and then over the kerb on the inside (on the right).

The "esses" entry seemed really good to me! Well done, cause nailing it really makes a lot of time on that big straight.

Now the exit after the banked curve: You need to accelerate a little bit earlier to get the left wheel close to the outside kerbs, try it on a higher gear to avoid spining out.

 

[mthomas_95]

A lot of laptime loss there is just confidence, especially in the last sector you lose a lot of time not using the full width of the track on entry and exit. Traction Control also kills your apex speed through the esses and that then costs you time all the way down the back straight.

You can shift down a lot faster as well, get that engine braking kicking in so you can brake a bit later and get more rotation on entry. I make my last downshift just before turn in, on your fastest lap you did a downshift at Turn 5 after the apex.

 

[Venster]

As above turn 3 lift in the middle of the turn and stay more right and turn into turn 4 earlier. You can get on the throttle earlier but be careful as you go over the brow as it will lose the rear end.

Turn 5 turn in slightly later so can drift out to the right kerb to put the power down earlier.

Turn after the fast s, turn in slightly later to again straighten up your exit a bit more to get power down quicker.

Last three corners, braking too much into the first one, drift out more to left hand kerbs, second one no need to brake so much, turn in early and lift maybe a tiny brake input but down shift to third. Last corner I would stay in 4th brake then coast around the first half power down second half.

I’m not an expert or an alien by any stretch but that’s what I would do, hope it can be of some help.

Edit - as @mthomas_95 says about traction control and braking, better qualified than me as he is an alien!

 

[vxr58]

I would personally go wider into turn 3 so that you come out straight and on the left then turn early for 4. You can definitely carry more speed through certain corners also.

Agree the track is great in a suitably fast car.

 

[vxr58]

Racing Gardens 2 was an eye opener today, in how important track knowledge and experimentation is. Was a tenth off the leaderboard (v. early in the day) but after 2 races I was taking different lines and was beating my qualifying time in race