Mistakes: Restart or just carry on hot lapping?

[craste]

When you make a mistake do you hit the restart button or just carry on?

Or do you press the re-wind button? (Only joking about the re-wind button)

 

[maximumattack]

Just keep on going

 

[Dravonic]

It depends. If I spin out I just restart but small mistakes I just carry on. Won't be able to beat my best lap but I can practice the later sections of the track.

 

[paskowitz]

If I make a mistake before the main straight, which then would affect my top speed, then I would restart, otherwise I keep going.

 

[CodeRedR51]

If I make a mistake before the main straight, which then would affect my top speed, then I would restart, otherwise I keep going.

Ditto.

 

[hardvibes]

I'm not used to this track, I spin out at corner #4 60% of the time so I just restart. If something goes wrong near the end I just keep going.

 

[Adam41]

practice the later sections of the track.

That's what I should do.

99% of the time I restart. I shouldn't because I practice so much on the first half of the track that when it comes to the second, my ghost replay will pull away. The corner after where it restarts you, I enter there on a restart at 70mph and brake down to around 60. When it comes to a hot lap, I'm entering the corner at 75 and I go in too hot It's like my fingers are moulded to press the brake and steer a certain amount.

 

[Niko_9]

Restarting only when I am out of the road

 

[esonique]

If I make a mistake before the main straight, which then would affect my top speed, then I would restart, otherwise I keep going.

Ditto +1

 

[kohanson]

I'll restart if my mistake was made at the start or I go into the grass patch ..

 

[cletus 669]

Just keep on going

👍 At least until learn the track and phisycs better.

 

[Owen.C93]

I try different lines to the corners and see where I can keep the throttle on. I try to restart every now and then though so the replay isn't 155 mins long before I see an awesome save I just did.

 

[Ludus]

I usually restart if I mess up bad, or just turn off the ghost so it doesn't make me feel like I suck.

 

[Dave A]

If I make a mistake before the main straight, which then would affect my top speed, then I would restart, otherwise I keep going.

Same here, if the mistake will affect my next lap I restart. Otherwise I just carry on and use the rest of the lap to get myself back into the rythem and as practise.

 

[DaveS1138]

If I'm still on the road and facing the right direction I will carry on.

If I'm off the track or facing the wrong direction (which is a fair number of my laps at the moment ) I'll restart.

 

[Andrew C]

Why would you restart? You have an infinite number of laps. You can just keep on going and get your time back.

 

[Scoop2004]

I restart if the lap is lost, ESPECIALLY if the next lap is invalidated. Whats the point in driving for 3 minutes and not posting a new faster lap!?

 

[MannyMoenjack]

If I'm in the grass or sand I reset. I have no patience trying to manuever on something with the friction coefficient of wet ice!

 

[Glubags]

Restarting too often will usually sabotage you... you'll have the first part of the track down pat, then lose it somewhere near the end because those braking and turn-in points aren't fresh in your brain.

 

[Kryz11]

When you make a mistake do you hit the restart button or just carry on?

Or do you press the re-wind button? (Only joking about the re-wind button)

If I make a HUGE mistake on first or 2nd lap and when I get a carry over lap penalty (meaning 2 laps wont count) I re start.

But if it's only single mistake, or one lap that wont count, I keep going.

Seems like after a lap, the tires heat up and more grip added. So even if I re start with fresh tires because I go in grass or gravel and they get dirty up, it wont matter because I woud have to do over one full lap to heat them up really good.

 

[webbo]

If i make a mistake in the first 3 or 4 corners in the sense of spinning out i restart. If its only a minor problem ill carry on just to practise the rest of the track.

 

[Jump_Ace]

Restarting too often will usually sabotage you... you'll have the first part of the track down pat, then lose it somewhere near the end because those braking and turn-in points aren't fresh in your brain.

True, just keep in mind where you mess up at since you may not carry the same speed entering the turn(s). I usually only start over if its a big screw up.

Jerome

 

[Imari]

I'll restart if I'm waaaay off the track and can't be bothered driving back, or if I'm sick of the music and want a new song. If you want a seriously quick time you need to be quick over the whole lap, not just one corner at a time. That takes practise, and your practise is much better if you don't keep taking breaks or allowing yourself easy resets. Not knocking resets, but psychologically you learn better if there's a penalty to making mistakes.

 

[Seismica]

Anybody done any red <1'37 laps in the tuned or <1'49 laps in the stock?

I beat my time by 0.8 seconds on a red lap (I clipped the wall on the main straight. Didn't slow me down much, but i decided to keep going...). But then the lap after i beat my best time (discounting the red lap) by 1.2, and that led to my best time so far. Still need way more practice though.

 

[Owen.C93]

I can't even get below 1:40 in tuned. I think I will try and get my lines better adn wait until Christmas for when I get my DFGT.

 

[Tenacious D]

What Imari said. This demo requires patience and practice, lots of it, which I've been doing about as consistently as my exercise lately, but let's not go there...

Unless you go two miles off the track or have mastered the demo (which aren't many of us), you really need to do as many complete laps as you can to keep shaving tenths of a second off your time consistently. As the piano teacher says, practice, practice, practice...

 

[Ludus]

And this is just one car, I can't even begin to imagine how long it's going to take me to master as many cars as possible in as many tracks as I can.

 

[Imari]

And this is just one car, I can't even begin to imagine how long it's going to take me to master as many cars as possible in as many tracks as I can.

I don't imagine I'll ever be as fast with any other car as I intend to be with this one. When would you even consider playing with a single car on a single track for an entire month?

 

[webbo]

What Imari said

 

[Zimmerd]

I just go on...
I practically never hit the restart button.