I struggled a lot at first with the Porsche 959 ’87 @ Sardegna Windmill challenge, but after watching numerous replays and running dozens of laps I’ve boiled it down to the few critical things necessary to get gold:
1) Play around with your rumble and force feedback settings. You need to be getting useful information from the wheel in all of your races, but it is particularly critical in rally where the terrain and traction can vary so much. Try adjusting your settings to get rid of the “noise” (the unnecessary rumbling and force feedback) until all that is left is useful and relevant information about the grip, the traction, surface characteristics etc.
2) As always, make use of ghosts, but in this particular time trial I think it’s really beneficial if you try following as many different ghosts as possible. On this track, with this car, the racing lines and the gear choice and the braking points vary HUGELY from one top-driver ghost to another. With a variety of ghosts you can try out different solutions, take bits and pieces from different drivers and distill it down to what works for you.
3) Try and enjoy the time trial, you learn better when you are having fun. And the key thing to enjoying this particular time trial is to be bat-**** crazy, insane, bonkers, completely unhinged, mad as a March hare, nutty as a fruit cake, cracked, crazed, totally bananas, off the chain, off the rails, squirrely, psychotic, out to lunch, stark raving max, demented, deranged, fruit loops, loco en la cabeza, sitting in your cockpit with drool running down your chin while you recite the list of all the capital cities of Europe over and over without stopping except to howl at the moon and to occasionally pour cooking oil on your head which you believe is the pope anointing with holy oil and confirming you as the second coming of Jesus Christ. If you enjoy this trial, they need to put you in a padded cell at the loony bin.
