Need help with restarts again

[JetlinerX]

Thanks! Yeah I think being aggressive is my main issue, but I mean, I just feel safer out front. xD

Anyway, thanks for the help guys, I will keep practicing.

 

[DaveO]

Here's a little tip.. Been racing online for over 10 years.. AI's are good for learning track awareness and for racing offline. But if you want to race online. Find a buddy and work together on tweaking setups and learning your brake points online, Also using Team Speak or vent, it's a great tool for practicing and communicating. AI's are great for offline racing. But if your thinking of taken the step to online racing. Start getting online in practices with other humans to learn how to drive with them. Braking points and learning your marks are way different with real people vs AI's. Reasons being, real people are NOT AI's and they don't do the same thing lap after lap. Trust me it works. I haven't won several championships for nothing..

later,

Dave

 

[Henderson]

Very helpful post Dave. Braking points are probably the hardest thing to get right in online or offline racing. Brake late, and you wreck the guy in front of you, and possibly half the pack. Learning with the AI is hard, but learning to drive against real drivers online is a whole different animal. I think for now, you are trying to just get through running with AI, correct? Still, braking points are major in this game. If you run in too hard, you will wreck yourself, whether you hit another driver or just climb "the hill." Like I said before, just run practice sessions with AI drivers for an hour or so at a time. Work on consistent laps with the setup, and work on passing the AI and understanding how they drive. If they beat you in a corner, change the setup and adjust to it so you can beat them back. Follow the better drivers (Johnson, Hamlin, Busch, Gordon) and see how they run the track. It helps.

Same thing online. Find one of the fastest drivers on the track, and either drive behind them or spectate and watch how they drive. I was doing that with a friend, and it helped me immensely at a NASCAR Heat race. Anyway, just have fun with it, and be patient. Driving down on a guy isn't going to help you out. The wreck with Stewart was as much your fault as his. The AI like to divebomb the corner. You just have to deal with it and adjust your racing style. Good luck man.

 

[JetlinerX]

Thanks for the tips guys! Been working on it, and found my best solution is being my own spotter/cheerleader. Just sitting in 26th or so on lap 10 or 50 saying... it's not worth getting parked, just to break a top 10... and who knows, you are already setting top 10 times, so you will be up there by the time you do 150 more... just keep picking away, the aggressiveness is not worth the result... until you have to.

Although, you know us men, we hate to be criticized for our driving, so once again, I personally think it's just me trying to learn the new style with AI, I drive on iRacing VERY well. Class A and all... so I dont think it's the fact that I am a bad driver, I think it's the fact that it's a very different sim.