Time Trial Discussion

[half_sourly]

Guys, how does the game let you understand if you are overusing the steer, meaning rotating the steering wheel more than needed?
I guess that the steering wheel gets lighter, but G29 is light on its own, so I'm not sensible enought to estract info there.
If tire screeching sound another hint?

Is there any other techique I should inspect?

Thanks

This doesn't answer your question directly, but as a rule of thumb, you very rarely have to turn the wheel more than 90 degrees left or right. So unless you are in a hairpin where you might go to 120 degrees or so, you know you are turning too much if you are over 90 degrees.

Tyre screeching just shows you are losing grip. That could be because of braking in a straight line too much (front or rear tyres, or both, sliding), or turning while either braking more than you should, or having too high speed. Both tend to lead to understeering - where you turn less than you intend to and the front yres drag across the track rather than going around the corner. Turning the wheel more then just makes it worse; the answer is to go slower around that corner. You'd also probably hear (rear) tyres moaning on oversteer, but that is a more obvious thing to spot.

 

[zjn]

This doesn't answer your question directly, but as a rule of thumb, you very rarely have to turn the wheel more than 90 degrees left or right. So unless you are in a hairpin where you might go to 120 degrees or so, you know you are turning too much if you are over 90 degrees.

Tyre screeching just shows you are losing grip. That could be because of braking in a straight line too much (front or rear tyres, or both, sliding), or turning while either braking more than you should, or having too high speed. Both tend to lead to understeering - where you turn less than you intend to and the front yres drag across the track rather than going around the corner. Turning the wheel more then just makes it worse; the answer is to go slower around that corner. You'd also probably hear (rear) tyres moaning on oversteer, but that is a more obvious thing to spot.

Thanks @half_sourly, for turning I'm not reaching those 90° you are speaking about.
The point there is that I don't even know if far I am from optimum, and in which direction I'm far. Since that whole thing also involves speed, racing line, weight transfers, to name a few, I'd like to improve my self-consciousness of where I am in looking for the proper slip angle.

Under braking I'm starting to put more attention to the red/white color of the brake input given in realtime in the hud. I noticed that when there is about 50% red and 50% white the brake action is not efficient (possibly ABS working too much?), and it happens when, for example, I'm not perfectly straight, or when I'm braking on a less grippy surface (ex, Redbul ring turn2 curb). On the other side when the red piece of the bar is smaller (20% o less), the brake action is more consitent and efficient.

 

[P-Courty]

Guys, how does the game let you understand if you are overusing the steer, meaning rotating the steering wheel more than needed?
I guess that the steering wheel gets lighter, but G29 is light on its own, so I'm not sensible enought to estract info there.
If tire screeching sound another hint?

Is there any other techique I should inspect?

Thanks

If you are on a G29, then the best way to get the strongest feeling force feedback from it is to turn the force feedback torque and force feedback sensitivity up in the race controller settings menu and then only adjust the controller sensitivity setting down to suit your driving.

You get get a better feel for it then, once you are used to this, start to adjust the force feedback torque and force feedback sensitivity to suit your driving style better.

Force feedback torque = force feedback whilst cornering

Force feedback sensitivity = force feedback during driving straight and at turn in

Since the physics updates I've had the following:

Controller sensitivity = 4
Force feedback torque = 8
Force feedback sensitivity = 7

The only downside with the G29 is the rotation speed doesn't really help when trying to catch slides, and understeer is a bit of a hit or miss feeling.

That's why I'm now upgrading after the feelings from it in the AMG VC.

 

[Stormbreaker]

Decent lap considering that i'm not really good with GR.4 cars 👌🏻

 

[LSFDRX]

I thought I was going to spend most of my time at Maggiore last night, but the quick gold I got in the S2000 was too close for comfort.

Going back to the S2K was a cascade of improving returns. Initially I wasn't super into it, but as I continued it just kept getting better and better. The CS tires allow for so much movement and slip which is super fun to manage in the Honda, and maximizing times at GV proved to be really fun and rewarding. After seeing that many of you were staying in third gear where I was using second the times just started dropping.

Ended up pretty happy with this one even though, as always, I know where there's still time out there.

STILL haven't started Maggiore yet! Soon...

Happy lapping... and mooing, or whatever else you all are getting up to!