Your worst driving habit(s):ouch:
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Rotary Junkie
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- Canton, MI
- RJs_RX-7
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- Finland
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NTSC is harder.
I've heard the opposite, but no matter.
My #1 bad habit has been recently ,
that 90% of the time when I do drag runs I'm looking back..
(the lights flash so strong that I can't focus on revmeter
I'm also quilty at Revenging to AI , Looking back , Getting distracted
by wiew during race and doing victorious spins at finishline.
Usually when I'm tired I forget to change gears up and down.
Oh, one more.. I allways during a long race keep checking the clock constantly.
mcsqueegy
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Yeah, for mission 34 the performance of the SLR is better in NTSC, and it evens out a little apparently.
Anyway, my habit is: If i'm winning an enduro by a large amount, I set up staggered tyres and start drifting. It's great fun sometimes. But one tyre level too many and you're screwed.
Anyway, my habit is: If i'm winning an enduro by a large amount, I set up staggered tyres and start drifting. It's great fun sometimes
. But one tyre level too many and you're screwed.
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- Bromley
- V16T91
- E0nLeader
Yeah, for mission 34 the performance of the SLR is better in NTSC, and it evens out a little apparently.
Anyway, my habit is: If i'm winning an enduro by a large amount, I set up staggered tyres and start drifting. It's great fun sometimes
Hell that must be annoying. I'm often a B-Spec when it comes to Endurance races.
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- Land of the smelly onion
I do the 180 at the finish line, of course.
A couple odd habits I have is to get 2 wheels into the grass/dirt on the inside of a turn and immediately look back to see what kind of dust cloud I kicked up. Ultimately resulting in me going off the track or hitting something, 80% of the time.
On tracks that have the braking markers/flags right at the edge of the track, I just have to mow those down on the first lap, before realizing I might need those next time by.
Secretly hoping I screw up the AI driving too, but that doesnt happen.
And finally, on the tracks that haves cones, like Sarthe, and Infineon, I just have to hit them on the first lap and see where they ended up on the second lap. Especially on Sarthe, nailing the cones at 200+mph.
A couple odd habits I have is to get 2 wheels into the grass/dirt on the inside of a turn and immediately look back to see what kind of dust cloud I kicked up. Ultimately resulting in me going off the track or hitting something, 80% of the time.
On tracks that have the braking markers/flags right at the edge of the track, I just have to mow those down on the first lap, before realizing I might need those next time by.
Secretly hoping I screw up the AI driving too, but that doesnt happen.And finally, on the tracks that haves cones, like Sarthe, and Infineon, I just have to hit them on the first lap and see where they ended up on the second lap. Especially on Sarthe, nailing the cones at 200+mph.
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- Parnelli_Bones
DC9990
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My worst habit is probably lunging down the inside from about 400m back =]
I seriously try stupid attemps. Most pay off beause AI brakes way too early & I always brake late anyway. But there are time when I just plough straight into their door.
Second is getting bored of thrashing ai so I give them a certain amount of laps advantage. Great challenge but if I was too big headed about the advantange I have to start again.
Another is refusing to pit until my fuel is on its last drops. No matter what the tires are like I dont know why I do it either
I seriously try stupid attemps. Most pay off beause AI brakes way too early & I always brake late anyway. But there are time when I just plough straight into their door.
Second is getting bored of thrashing ai so I give them a certain amount of laps advantage. Great challenge but if I was too big headed about the advantange I have to start again.
Another is refusing to pit until my fuel is on its last drops. No matter what the tires are like I dont know why I do it either
PARAGON GT
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I have a bad habit of breaking late at the end of the straight on Sarth I and II.
It's like I'm in a daze by the time I get to the end of it, so I end up braking late, blowing through the cones barely coming to a stop before the sand and barriers. Then I have to make a hard 90 to the right to get back on the track again.
Same thing happens just down the road at I believe Indianapolis. Except there is no where to go but the beach when you goof that one up.
It's like I'm in a daze by the time I get to the end of it, so I end up braking late, blowing through the cones barely coming to a stop before the sand and barriers. Then I have to make a hard 90 to the right to get back on the track again.
Same thing happens just down the road at I believe Indianapolis. Except there is no where to go but the beach when you goof that one up.
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I do the 180 at the finish line, of course.
A couple odd habits I have is to get 2 wheels into the grass/dirt on the inside of a turn and immediately look back to see what kind of dust cloud I kicked up. Ultimately resulting in me going off the track or hitting something, 80% of the time.
On tracks that have the braking markers/flags right at the edge of the track, I just have to mow those down on the first lap, before realizing I might need those next time by.
And finally, on the tracks that haves cones, like Sarthe, and Infineon, I just have to hit them on the first lap and see where they ended up on the second lap. Especially on Sarthe, nailing the cones at 200+mph.
I love hitting cones too. I have to do it for some reason. It's fun to see how far you can move them throughout the race.
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- Alabamamania
Braking too early, and then re-accelerating, and then missing the same apex by many car lengths by running wide. This usually happens to me for hairpin turns.
Failure to memorize nearly all the 'Ring after the Karussel is next on my list: I go off the road at least 6 times in any car with more than 200hp for that half of the track.
Failure to memorize nearly all the 'Ring after the Karussel is next on my list: I go off the road at least 6 times in any car with more than 200hp for that half of the track.
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- GTP_MadMax
Something to add to my bad habit list:
cones.. cone throwing championships at sarthe 2 just for fun.
and when ever splits/drag race: 0.xxx's read : 313 , 427 , 666 , 007
I start to think about where are they familiar from
-> lose consentration most of the time and smile wide.
cones.. cone throwing championships at sarthe 2 just for fun.
and when ever splits/drag race: 0.xxx's read : 313 , 427 , 666 , 007
I start to think about where are they familiar from
-> lose consentration most of the time and smile wide. 
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I'm doing the same at Circuit de la Sarthe.. I always try to reach as much speed as possible without thinking when to brake
And then, as you said, I have to make a hard 90° turn to the right in order to stay on the track 
Excatly what I'm thinking.. I always hit them (except for trying to make a new fast lap
) and want to see how far I can move them throughout the race and sometimes braking hard to look after them in order to hit them again ..Best wishes,
S-Line Audi Fan
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-cutting those hedges at Trial Mountain (too fast on that one before the finish line and I even manage to crash into the ROOF) and spinning out sometimes
-As the screenname (which I made years ago <_<) may hint, forgetting that GT does not equal Initial D, and getting frustrated when braking late and understeering in the SS AE86 (and that also may explain taking that gutter in the right-angle corner before that tunnel, long straightaway, and U-turn)
.... - and I think if anybody else is an Initial D fan, they find themselves frustrated when they can't pull off a Ryosuke Takahashi on their opponent and slip into their exact line/rhythm. Hence the heavy-duty makeout sessions with the wall.
- bouncing off the walls on Costa D'Amalfi
- Lack of patience with making money
- Annoyance with the selection of tracks in given categories of races
-failing to control my crippling laughter at half the posts in this thread (like kekke2000's)
-cutting those hedges at Trial Mountain (too fast on that one before the finish line and I even manage to crash into the ROOF) and spinning out sometimes
-As the screenname (which I made years ago <_<) may hint, forgetting that GT does not equal Initial D, and getting frustrated when braking late and understeering in the SS AE86 (and that also may explain taking that gutter in the right-angle corner before that tunnel, long straightaway, and U-turn)
.... - and I think if anybody else is an Initial D fan, they find themselves frustrated when they can't pull off a Ryosuke Takahashi on their opponent and slip into their exact line/rhythm. Hence the heavy-duty makeout sessions with the wall.
- bouncing off the walls on Costa D'Amalfi
- Lack of patience with making money
- Annoyance with the selection of tracks in given categories of races
-failing to control my crippling laughter at half the posts in this thread (like kekke2000's)
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I Usually Forget where the square or o button is and use the AI for my brakes. I like playing soccer with them and they're the ball, It's VERY FUN! I Pushed A cone around trial mountain and got 3 minutes. That's Awsome. Beat that!
New Habit: I Go to " The Ring" and get my minolta to red. Then i drift around and use the JGTC cars as my "helpers". It's very fun drifting in a red tyred LMP =)
New Habit: I Go to " The Ring" and get my minolta to red. Then i drift around and use the JGTC cars as my "helpers". It's very fun drifting in a red tyred LMP =)
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my biggest bad habit would probably be braking too hard into a turn, then half way through it be inside of the apex, and going like 20 mph. then i just gun for the exit and play catch up. =]
but i got my DF today, still getting used to it.
but i got my DF today, still getting used to it.
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- TheBigMan045
- TheBigMan045
Worse habit would be losing concentration and upshifting waaaaayyyy too early eg. GSXR/4 upshifting at 7000rpm. or wrecking the tyres on a qualifying lap by doing burnouts (really easy in FWD cars, especially my Spoon Civic)
- 4
yeah i started on a different memory card when i got my df, i got a civic for the FF and civic race. i had to get used to the lump of power in the high end, but not over-rev. haha
- 2,063
Worst driving habit? Hmmm ... probably driving one handed, with a glass of wine in the other .
Threading Tiergarten at 180mh+ in such a fashion, kicking down the gearbox shifter with the glass, is a pleasant indicator of how far I've come with this driving semi-sim (considering I couldn't even get round corners when I first started with GT1).
. Threading Tiergarten at 180mh+ in such a fashion, kicking down the gearbox shifter with the glass, is a pleasant indicator of how far I've come with this driving semi-sim (considering I couldn't even get round corners when I first started with GT1
).
- 4,015
- Null Island
I have an annoying habit of:
-misjudging rather easy corners.
-getting overconfident.
-getting bored easily during endurance races.
-misjudging rather easy corners.
-getting overconfident.
-getting bored easily during endurance races.
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