Great lesson! One that I learnt with you, Scott, and seeing some Michael Schumacher's throttle data, then putting everything I've learned into my karting training and races. Worked WONDERS. Lap times cut by around 1s ~ 1.5s in a lap. Then, I applied this even to my daily, hahahahaha. It is useable for street driving as well, specially on snow. Saved my skin a time or two.
This content is brilliant, I've seen plenty of improvement in my SimRacing from watching your videos. Just applying the guidance on trail braking saw me improve by 1s. Same car, track and setup, but such a massive improvement. On throttle application, I still think one of the best explanations is still Jackie Stewart's one to James May on old Top Gear: if you shove someone suddenly, they're going to stumble, but if you put your hand against their shoulder and gradually increase the force applied, they'll lean into it and the car reacts the same.
Throttle on keyboard: Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-hold. Yup, that strategy works even for keyboard. And short shifting if necessary. Than can allow a bit of rear-slide here and there without big worry.
Hello Scott!! Watching from Tennessee USA! Love your videos on both channels. Learned alot but I've seem to hit a wall..I practice everything you teach about being gentle and subtle on and off brakes getting back on throttle looking far ahead and scanning back..but I can't seem to get any faster..it's very frustrating I'm still leaving lots of time on track and I can't work out why.. any help would be much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to teach us all this for free you are a real blessing to the people who can't afford lessons or truck days like myself. Love the content keep it up!! Cheers!!
@@JaradS99 not true low pressures are more for starts, if u want to do a time trial at a certain track it will sometimes be better and get u more grip in certain corners as well when it’s higher.
Please video about maximizing racing setup would be awesome. How to define (go with a high aero or low aero), stiffer or softer suspension, high or low camber /toe would be epic. Congrats on the video
Thanks for the Vision video. I never knew, until actually practicing it, how important where your looking is. Yes it is awkward to get used to. But, after tring and practicing it for a little while I knocked .2 off my lap time after only a short time. So with more practice ill be way quicker. Not only that it felt like it helped with my consistentcy. Thanks you so much. Helped out more than you know🤙
Can you make a video on how to handle a car without ABS? I feel like if I even think about braking in the Porsche Cup car in iRacing I'm gonna lock up and spin lol. I can drive the GTE/GT3 without much issue but the Porsche is just another beast all together. Thanks for the content.
Interesting info I do think code masters could include more info on setups, I tend to liftoff when sometimes going round corners, losing front end grip, makes you wonder if that’s what happened to Senna at tamburello.
Is it beneficial to drive cars with less than optimal setups because you need to be very careful with inputs? Or is it ultimately making me slower because of little bad habits like low cornering speeds
I think the general advice is to start off with slow cars so I don’t see why a bad set up wouldn’t help you get better as a driver, makes it far more technique based
If you're playing F1 2020, definitely do lots of practice in time trail with the default/balanced setup. It is slow and very understeery and forces you to refine your technique to get faster lap times.
Just started playing F1 21 on Xbox using a controller. Last F1 game I owned was F1 2010, so pretty rusty. Having a real hard time controlling the maximum throttle/break going in and out of corners. Any tips how to control this on an Xbox controller?
Super nice video as always. I have try it to do as you said about looking far ahead of the car, but then i cant "feel" the car and how behave on track. usually i feel the car from wheel forcefeedback and looking at the front of the car how she moves on the track , because i dont have a real feel of the car rotation like in real live to prevent if the car want to oversteer or understeer. so if i look ahead i dont feel the car on track. how to fix this in simracing? thank you
Playing f1 2020 with no tc at all, and i always get the same problem since i turn it off 50 hours of gameplay ago. It is always spinning at the exit of a slow turn, the turns that needs second or third or fourth gear on the exit, any idea how to deal with it? And i love to know how to make a consistent lap times too. Anyway, thanks to you scott and your team for creating your channels, it helps me to understand how to drive faster, and eventually, taking off all of the assists some short time after starting to play racing sims with steering wheel.
Are you on wheel and pedals or gamepad/keyboard? You have to be very smooth on the gas pedal (well, on everything) to avoid spin. You cannot do it without pedals.
I agree with M Cunha. Keeping or meeting the right velocity in corners with a gamepad is really hard. I tried it in Asseto Corsa. As soon as switched to wheel and pedals (after getting used to a new input device) my times been instantly 1.5 seconds faster.
I know its quite basic but it never really clicked in my head until I heard this th-cam.com/video/4-1D7RXS7-8/w-d-xo.html. Suddenly it was like a light bulb moment and I quickly found an extra second on most tracks I thought had already knew quite well. Sometimes we all have to go back to basics to improve. Thanks these great videos.
2:05 Actually disagree here. Accelerating is increasing overall grip not decreasing it. A racecar is always accelerating somewhere and F1 car having longer wheelbase than track will have less weight transfer under power than when cornering, so less grip reduction from tyre load sensitivity. And no you can't tell me it's "dynamic effects" on a car that settles as fast as you can push the throttle. I know we are simplifying stuff for youtube here, and the advice itself is ofc good, but imho when you have to lie to get your point across something broke down in the teaching system.
You got it wrong. Scott didnt said accelerating cause a lose of grip, he said not doing it on a smoth way does. It you jump on the gas pedal at the middle of the corner, like from 0 to 100%, you will have much slower exit than doing a smoth acceleration moviment. On the first type of driving you likely will get understeer effect and the need to get of the gas just before the exit to avoid going wide and out of track. All the good racing drive's brake and gas input lines on telemetry have a smooth shape, its not like an on and off swith.
@@mc1996 Note that im not arguing the conclusion, but the evidence. It's not uncommon to be right about something for wrong reasons. This is not a place for good debate on it (there is soo many sides to this it's not funny). So im going to leave you with food for thought: Alonso was known for having his throttle pedal stroke shortened so he could push throttle as fast as possible. Similarly Senna was often mashing the throttle too. The real reasons for why smooth throttle application is fastest (because it is) comes more from racing line theory than weight shifting and grip loss.
Great lesson! One that I learnt with you, Scott, and seeing some Michael Schumacher's throttle data, then putting everything I've learned into my karting training and races. Worked WONDERS.
Lap times cut by around 1s ~ 1.5s in a lap. Then, I applied this even to my daily, hahahahaha.
It is useable for street driving as well, specially on snow. Saved my skin a time or two.
This content is brilliant, I've seen plenty of improvement in my SimRacing from watching your videos. Just applying the guidance on trail braking saw me improve by 1s. Same car, track and setup, but such a massive improvement.
On throttle application, I still think one of the best explanations is still Jackie Stewart's one to James May on old Top Gear: if you shove someone suddenly, they're going to stumble, but if you put your hand against their shoulder and gradually increase the force applied, they'll lean into it and the car reacts the same.
Throttle on keyboard: Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-hold. Yup, that strategy works even for keyboard. And short shifting if necessary. Than can allow a bit of rear-slide here and there without big worry.
Mistake I often make is not fully coming off the throttle, which increases my braking distance
I've never simraced or raced before but your videos have me improving faster than I ever could have imagined, thank you!
Hello Scott!! Watching from Tennessee USA! Love your videos on both channels. Learned alot but I've seem to hit a wall..I practice everything you teach about being gentle and subtle on and off brakes getting back on throttle looking far ahead and scanning back..but I can't seem to get any faster..it's very frustrating I'm still leaving lots of time on track and I can't work out why.. any help would be much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to teach us all this for free you are a real blessing to the people who can't afford lessons or truck days like myself. Love the content keep it up!! Cheers!!
Thread analogy was perfect!
I feel that tires could be a good topic to cover as well. Potentially in the future?🙏
Always run lowest tyre pressures and enough rear wing that it wont kill the rears ez
@@JaradS99 not true low pressures are more for starts, if u want to do a time trial at a certain track it will sometimes be better and get u more grip in certain corners as well when it’s higher.
@@claterrberseker9340 Im literally one of the best league racers in Australia, the game mechanics are broken 👍
Please video about maximizing racing setup would be awesome. How to define (go with a high aero or low aero), stiffer or softer suspension, high or low camber /toe would be epic. Congrats on the video
I like the included use of telemetry in this video, very helpful
Cool bro you already have thrusmaster new wheel I'm so jealous lol can't wait to be able to order one stateside
He is being sponsored that’s why you see the wheel. He also has a fanatec setup which is way better.
@@jopvandam6820 I have a fanatec podium and a TG-T bro I'm well aware of the differences I wouldn't say way better but it is better
Thank you for your amazing content.
Thanks for the Vision video. I never knew, until actually practicing it, how important where your looking is. Yes it is awkward to get used to. But, after tring and practicing it for a little while I knocked .2 off my lap time after only a short time. So with more practice ill be way quicker. Not only that it felt like it helped with my consistentcy. Thanks you so much. Helped out more than you know🤙
Yep, that's what hit me the most, gonna work on that now, hope you're still shaving time off your laps ;@)
A very well explained video, Keep it up.
This is well detailed informations thanks!.
can u do a video on how to drive turbo cars probably? They behave alot different from NA
Amazing video Scott 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Do you have any advice on how to maximize the differential settings. In so confused with it
What do you recommend for steering wheel? 360? Or 270?
Thank you so much this really helped me a ton.
First 1 so helpful to me
Can you make a video on how to handle a car without ABS? I feel like if I even think about braking in the Porsche Cup car in iRacing I'm gonna lock up and spin lol. I can drive the GTE/GT3 without much issue but the Porsche is just another beast all together. Thanks for the content.
Can you do videos also on Rallying?
I advise you to change those terrible springs from the brake pedal and use an elastomer kit .. It changes your life but especially the braking ...
Great example provided at 3:00, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Interesting info I do think code masters could include more info on setups, I tend to liftoff when sometimes going round corners, losing front end grip, makes you wonder if that’s what happened to Senna at tamburello.
Can you do “Braking later doesn’t mean faster lap times” thanks 👍👍
This is me; break-later-to-get-best-time, understeer, crash. :P
th-cam.com/video/fonXd097vks/w-d-xo.html, his last video
it does, but only to a certain point
Is it beneficial to drive cars with less than optimal setups because you need to be very careful with inputs? Or is it ultimately making me slower because of little bad habits like low cornering speeds
I think the general advice is to start off with slow cars so I don’t see why a bad set up wouldn’t help you get better as a driver, makes it far more technique based
If you're playing F1 2020, definitely do lots of practice in time trail with the default/balanced setup. It is slow and very understeery and forces you to refine your technique to get faster lap times.
Is that the new Thrustmaster SF1000 wheel?
Yup
@@jordancollins637 thanks!
Just started playing F1 21 on Xbox using a controller. Last F1 game I owned was F1 2010, so pretty rusty.
Having a real hard time controlling the maximum throttle/break going in and out of corners. Any tips how to control this on an Xbox controller?
Where does the part of coasting or accelerating to maintain speed go in the 6 phases of a corner?
Cheers!
great vid...... still cant put what u teach into action tho, dirt rally it is i think......
Super nice video as always. I have try it to do as you said about looking far ahead of the car, but then i cant "feel" the car and how behave on track. usually i feel the car from wheel forcefeedback and looking at the front of the car how she moves on the track , because i dont have a real feel of the car rotation like in real live to prevent if the car want to oversteer or understeer. so if i look ahead i dont feel the car on track. how to fix this in simracing? thank you
Playing f1 2020 with no tc at all, and i always get the same problem since i turn it off 50 hours of gameplay ago. It is always spinning at the exit of a slow turn, the turns that needs second or third or fourth gear on the exit, any idea how to deal with it?
And i love to know how to make a consistent lap times too.
Anyway, thanks to you scott and your team for creating your channels, it helps me to understand how to drive faster, and eventually, taking off all of the assists some short time after starting to play racing sims with steering wheel.
Are you on wheel and pedals or gamepad/keyboard? You have to be very smooth on the gas pedal (well, on everything) to avoid spin. You cannot do it without pedals.
I agree with M Cunha. Keeping or meeting the right velocity in corners with a gamepad is really hard. I tried it in Asseto Corsa. As soon as switched to wheel and pedals (after getting used to a new input device) my times been instantly 1.5 seconds faster.
you really didnt explain my spinala's :(
I’m constantly behind by 30 seconds 😅. I stink
I'm one of those drivers who know these things, but just turn down the AI difficulty, because i'm too lazy to turn that knowledge into muscle memory 😅
Lol...same here 😁!
That is so me
Same as a bike when turning.look to where you want to go not where you're at.
too*
Can I double like?
I know its quite basic but it never really clicked in my head until I heard this th-cam.com/video/4-1D7RXS7-8/w-d-xo.html. Suddenly it was like a light bulb moment and I quickly found an extra second on most tracks I thought had already knew quite well.
Sometimes we all have to go back to basics to improve.
Thanks these great videos.
Why F1 2020? Why not some proper simulation, like rFactor 2, AC, iRacing, etc...?
early
2:05 Actually disagree here. Accelerating is increasing overall grip not decreasing it. A racecar is always accelerating somewhere and F1 car having longer wheelbase than track will have less weight transfer under power than when cornering, so less grip reduction from tyre load sensitivity. And no you can't tell me it's "dynamic effects" on a car that settles as fast as you can push the throttle.
I know we are simplifying stuff for youtube here, and the advice itself is ofc good, but imho when you have to lie to get your point across something broke down in the teaching system.
You got it wrong. Scott didnt said accelerating cause a lose of grip, he said not doing it on a smoth way does. It you jump on the gas pedal at the middle of the corner, like from 0 to 100%, you will have much slower exit than doing a smoth acceleration moviment. On the first type of driving you likely will get understeer effect and the need to get of the gas just before the exit to avoid going wide and out of track. All the good racing drive's brake and gas input lines on telemetry have a smooth shape, its not like an on and off swith.
@@mc1996 Note that im not arguing the conclusion, but the evidence. It's not uncommon to be right about something for wrong reasons.
This is not a place for good debate on it (there is soo many sides to this it's not funny). So im going to leave you with food for thought: Alonso was known for having his throttle pedal stroke shortened so he could push throttle as fast as possible. Similarly Senna was often mashing the throttle too. The real reasons for why smooth throttle application is fastest (because it is) comes more from racing line theory than weight shifting and grip loss.
There it is again - the fictional string connecting steering and throttle.
Has this bizarre idea ever helped anybody?