This is an extremely underrated video. Back in 2015 I saw this for the first time trying to understand how to suck less at Assetto Corsa, and the lightbulb moment of someone saying that the brakes move the weight of the car set in motion my path to being actually pretty decent! Came back to send this video to others who were asking my advice and I hope it's as helpful to them as it was for me. Might be a simple lesson, but understanding this means you'll understand almost everything about driving fast.
"Throttle and Brake together"?? As a rank beginner, I had no idea. I know this is an old vid, but if you see this, Empty Box...Thanks a hell of a lot...
Took the advice from this vid, used it and it helped me so much. I never thought of the wheels needing to be balanced through the corner for max corner speed. I've always concentrated on loading the front by trail braking a lot so I could make the turn. This would usually help me be able to get on the power faster, but my mid corner speed was so slow. I had been running the Star Mazda in Iracing at Okayama this week trying to just learn the car so I could move up to that series. Best I could manage was a 1:29.6. After using this advice, braking before the corner and letting the car just be balanced through the corner for max speed helped me increase to a best time of 1:28.0. ANyways, thanks for the videos. Really enjoying them.
It's really annoying to try to read the captions you wrote on the bottom while trying to listen to what you're saying. Good video though, and you broke down the complexities of weight transfer in ways that I think the iRacing tutorial couldn't.
Thanks man, I was getting frustrated after getting my first actual wheel and pedal set in the mail today, driving horribly and having to drop the AI down a whole 10 percent. After watching this though I was able to knock a good 2-3 seconds off of my time at Mid Ohio in a '87 M3 touring car in Race 07. I also finally felt fast without also feeling out of control and feeling like I have constant under steer.
Graham Hill- 2x F1 World Champion, 5x Monaco GP winner, Indy 500 winner at first attempt and Le Mans winner at first attempt. The only man to win the triple crown of motorsport under both definitions (Le Mans, Monaco, Indy/F1 WDC, Indy, Le Mans) Better than Andretti I think in terms of driving ability.
If you're not at least a onetime world champion yourself, you have *nothing* to think about other world champions' driving abilities! Google Dunning-Kruger effect instead. That's something you have to think about. Should keep you busy for a while.
@@Claude-Eckel many an armchair historian, which aidan is one of. He makes good content, but takes his own authority on historical matters when it is convenient to him tbh.
I always struggle with this, I understand the physics behind it, but in driving situations, I can never get the right amount of braking into the corner to take the fastest possible line/speed through the corner, and I always run around 11th or 12th, I feel like with this mastered I could run much faster, the video was really helpful.
Hey I wanted to say thanks for this video as it finally woke me up to what I already knew. My lap times have gone down a little but my feeling of being on edge is gone now that I use brakes and throttle to keep my car balanced through turns. The weird thing is that once you are comfortable and start hitting corners just right the less you end up using this technique.
Thanks a lot for this. I've been having some trouble trying to get on the same level with other players in circuit racing sims, but I reckon this will help tremendously. I don't know how this hasn't occurred to me despite me being a motorcyclist who knows how and why trail braking works on a motorcycle.
Im not that fast in the Elise. Here's a tip though, turn all the graphics down, max out framerate. BOOM, instantly faster. That bug in the TP completely eliminates lap times mattering. Hope it's fixed for release.
Fascinating, I learned something. I have been spinning out like crazy in the Lambos in Project Cars 2...so I thought I would try to figure out why; and they were seemingly at low speed too.
Tanks are a totally different animal. Tracks w/torsion bars running to every roadwheel... and an M1 engine w/tranny weighs around 8k lbs mounted in rear, but forward of the last wheel. Results in very good weight distribution. If anything tank struggles with too much grip and leaves rubber everywhere it goes on paved surfaces... but it can also turn on a dime. Which is surprising for a lot of people given how big it is. Moreso if you use neutral steering (only moves 1 track) or pivot steering (tracks move in opposing directions)... but it's easy to make typical car turns using the L gear. It's really meant for dirt, but you have to be careful in very loose dirt also - the rear part of the track can get trapped side-to-side in thick loose dirt... if you turn suddenly, the track will stay still and the sprocket will swing out with the tank... resulting in the track coming off the sprocket. A thrown track in thick dirt is gonna be a bad day or two.
I remember watching this video 4 years ago when I got into sim racing. Instantly took a second off all my laptimes and I never forgot that Andretti quote.(Still was a second slower than the top guys in my f3 league).
You're explaining the inertia, momentum, centripetal and centrifugal forces and also the banking [v = √ Rg (tanϴ +μs) /(1- μs tanϴ)] in much easier words. Love content creators like you who care about everyone, much respect
I told my friend the title and he mentioned the meme about the guy thats sitting at a table with the sign change my mind. So it was brakes are not for stopping, change my mind. Had me laughing for a good minute... great vid btw.
When a corner is feeding into another and I drive through them at the same speed, I accelerate after the first and brake (still above my level: trailbraking) into the second turn. Braking in this case or even just lifting the throttle for a moment helps turn the car in.
All I can say is thank you I know it's all common sense but your video helped me so much. I'm new to sim racing but I can drive in real life but this video has taught the best ways to handle the brake in a race car in a sim. I was having issues feeling what My car was doing even though I own a OSW direct drive wheel. I knew I would want the best so thought why waste money buying less to only want better lol So again thank you for the time to make this video, it has great advice and tips that have helped me greatly.
Stay at it, your left leg will eventually get sensitized to applying precise pressure as well. It took me a good while to learn to left foot brake too. In the beginning my left food too used to stamping on the clutch was only capable of doing on/off. What probably helped me as I first learnt it on a road car so the g-forces help you out at balancing the pressure. On a sim you don't have g-forces so initially its more of a guess work as to how much pressure you need to apply...
the reason weight = grip (or downforce = grip) is because friction (grip) is equal to the coefficient of friction (how grippy the tires are on the track) multiplied by normal force (the force exerted by the two objects on eachother, usually by gravity*mass) I know, no one really asked, but i love this shit lol
Oh please, Andretti was only "ok". Peterson was clearly faster and that was just in his generation, if Peterson had gone where Andretti had gone then he would have won everything.
Also, I suspect going so hard on the throttle pushes you outwards, forcing you to maintain high steeringwheel angles, again decreasing exitspeed. On a general note, unless a car gets unstable because you are pushing it, or special kinds of track layouts that might require otherwise, once the car is stopped you you are turned in, your steeringwheelangle will never become greater, while you throttle appliance will never go down.
Love these videos trying to learn road racing sim racing i been practicing on rfactor with the skip barber car so far been tough but these videos are helping
This is what I've been thought during many lessons on datalogging and driving technique, and I can guarantee that the guy who teaches me knows his things! PM me if you want to the story :) Great videos btw. Makes me reconsinder iRacing, eventhough I swore not to touch it with a ten-foot pole ever again.. :P
I have been trying to trail brake but it's really difficult to get the pressure just right. Sometimes I add too much pressure or press on it too early and the car turns in before the apex and then I have to make corrections. Other times it's not enough and the car understeers off the track. It is a great feeling though when you get it just right and the car pivots around the corner hitting the apex perfectly. But for me it's more of a matter of chance that I got it all right than being precise!
I was doing a good year tire test and this guy walks up to me, I’m sitting in the car and he says you know if you use a little break off the corner you’ll run some faster laps. I’ll looked at him like he was crazy and I’m thinking who is this freaking guy talking to me. When he left I asked my car owner who the bleep was that. Well the guys name was Bob Bondurant and how wrong I was.
Is this basically the same principles you'd use in rally driving on low grip surfaces? Obviously oversteer isn't gonna be desirable on tarmac, but the general feeling of moving the weight around remains? I realize it's a very simple question but it's just so I can conceptualize it properly.
At 11:54 you did not use the Clutch. Mine will not down shift unless I'm in a specific RPM envelope. I noticed we ARE talking about the same car because of the Number Sticker Color.
Question. Let's take an example of Dover. The track clearly. It is banked everywhere, but in the corner what would you do. I let off and the car just goes straight into the wall. Now would adding a bit of break or let off the gas only a little help? Or what would I do in that situation.
You want to get into the power as early as possible, you should typically be off the throttle and getting into it by the middle of the corner. If you mean on entry, you are probably overbraking and overdriving it.
Well I do that. (Note this game is not a sim but Ivan say it's just working with it). So I can get onto the corner good but not get a good apex. Or arch. I think it's arch. You'll see on my NASCAR inside line video what I do if you don't get it. I love arching/apexing the car. But on '14, it doesn't want to. And gets tight. I don't know exactly what to do. I let off but it just goes straight to the wall. I can't tell if that's what it's supposed to do or not. If not what's the best thing to do in that situation?
he did more then that, he started in karting, he defeated Nikki Lauda in 190E mercedes exibition race, .... and if he didn't pass away, I'm sure we would have seen him on ovals too. Andretti has great history in Ovals, ..and some road races in US .. but that's the thing, he did great in US .. but not all the best drivers raced there ... ) at least that's what I think
Hey Empty Box: minute 10:52 you said that blips are for shifting. You mean, when shifting (in sequential or semi-automatic modes like gt3 cars) you blip the throttle to compensate when the car generes a little weight transfer to the front when downshifting? Sorry if I missed something, my native language isn't the english, thanks!.
Blipping the throttle on downshift is done to keep the driveline of the car stable. If you don't blip you either feed the clutch back out (like most people do on their road cars - this is slow.) or you have the engine and transmission and drive wheels not doing the same speed which causes all sorts of chaos, similar to locking the rear wheels momentarily. When you downshift, the engine needs to turn more revs in the next lower gear, so without blipping the engine needs to speed up to the proper RPMs while it's in gear - not good. Blipping is just that, bringing the engine up to the same RPM that will be used in the lower gear while the engine is still in a neutral position between gears. Blipping is not done for weight transfer, it's about keeping the car from becoming unstable due to the driveline.
yes, I know and I do that in manual transmission cars, but I don't understand it in semi-automatic gt3 cars because it's supposed the computer inside the car does it for you, and it's so hard to do the things better than a computer but I'll give it a try, thank you for responding!
It would help if I was capable of left foot braking without either locking up or not braking hard enough and driving right past the corner every time. My left foot seems incapable of operating anything except the clutch.
The newer the car, the less likely you will need to. Early-2k's GT1s often had spartan dogboxes, requiring blips on downshifts; modern GT3s automate that out, so you need only ask for an up/downshift, and the car will do everything else.
I was wondering if you do any private or group driver instruction.I have watched a lot of your videos, and I think you have a lot of skill, and you are a good teacher. I am new to sim racing, but take it very seriously,( and I know you do too) and I am working hard at trying to improve. I would love to be able to get some tips from someone at your level. let me know if you are interested. thanks for your time.
Never used it with my DFGT pedals as I always planned to replace them, but yes. Pressure is better than travel IMO, it's much easier to be more consistent that way. Not necessarily faster, but I certainly feel it's easier, in the good way.
***** Do you like tweaking setups? If not, then iSpeed is all you need, and that you don't really need to pay for. iSpeed is a good tool to have regardless, though I will say I don't use it as much as I should. Otherwise, I don't have much experience with them. I thought you could use Atlas for your telemetry program, which is free?
Great video! I can recommend a book called “Going Faster - Mastering the art of Race Driving” by Skip Barber. It’s an amazing book that every wannabe driver should read.
Nice video "boxy"! I agree with much of what you said, but I do have a comment. You don't seem to practice what you preach. You go on the throttle very abrupt & agressively, exit the corner at WOT and then back off again to around 2/3 throttle to not overshoot the curb. Then finally go back on it, when the car is going straight. Getting the car turned, setting up apexes a smidge later and especially going on the throttle much earlier but delicately will probably yield better staight-line speed.
love your videos, but calling mario andretti the best ever!? i dont have a favorite driver but i like many (walter roehrl, jim clark, derek bell, ayrton senna, jacky stewart, etc.). but mario is definitly not on that list :)
Look, I love Senna, but I don't understand how why so many of you insist of putting him on this pedestal. A successful history in F1 doesn't automatically make a driver the "best of all time." What metric are you using? Race wins? Total career points? Over only a single series? Why not multiple series? How can you compare a drivers from the 80s-90s to a driver from the 60s? What about the 2000s? Different era, how can you compare? Sorry, but the emotional appeals just get tiresome.
+Mein Kanal! im 16 and have been driving for a few months now. this won't apply to real life every day driving. This is meant for driving a car near its limits and getting every bit of speed you can get.
+clasota15 I could do driving now too, but I'll wait until I'm 17. Yeah, but I didn't even know which one was the gas pedal :D. My question is: how many degrees of rotation do race cars have? 900?
I use both my left foot and right foot, if you want you can catch one of my pedal cam videos here - th-cam.com/video/Zkljq_67bFE/w-d-xo.html Depends on the car, depends on the situation for me as I'm comfortable with both feet and actually use both a good bit. Left foot braking is very common in racing today, especially now that modern racing gearboxes can tolerate more abuse by design so there is less need to use the clutch for anything outside of getting started.
Empty Box Thanks for the video. Only have 2 pedals atm but I'm getting T3PA's soon so I'll probably end up doing a similar thing. Do a lot of people alternate between using both feet for braking? It seems like something that would take a lot of getting used to.
SideFlame I honestly don't know, If you mean my foot switching thing from right foot to left foot braking mid brake zone, I think that is uncommon. I know a lot of people right foot brake for downshifts but use left foot braking for brake zones without a gear change though. Using both feet in general takes some time, but it's pretty handy just to be able to do so.
To see this in application, I encourage anyone to drive a Porsche 911. This might not make sense but literally half the steering is done with the brakes.
We're talking about Mario here. Formula 1 champ, 1978? Same guy who won pretty much anything else that isn't a LM24 overall in pretty much any car he ended up in. Not Michael, who got a shot in F1 in the 90s and more or less sucked at it.
I Drive instinctively. are you saying am doing it wrong? i can be quick i can be really kwik if i practice a track. and i learn the track as i play it and i learn the corners as i push the car and see how i can push the car around those corners. this is how i do it. ive seen vids tell me i need to go around the track look around corners for braking areas like a bill board i do this with instinct am a good driver. in game and on the road. in real cars it becomes more about your gears. because unless you joyriding your less likely to be racing. unless your a boy racer like i use to be. ive had a few moments ;)
What a dumb statement, Senna was phenomenal but considering how many disciplines of driving there are, different eras, and many other factors it's pretty much impossible to say who the GOAT race car driver. Only a fan boy would say something so ignorant. My question to you is, did you actually see Senna race or were you born too late and base everything on a documentary because there were several drivers around in F1 at the time that were close or right there with him, Prost, Mansell, and a young Schumacher come to mind first. I mean Senna was unbelievable especially at putting in those lap of the god type laps but damn the Senna fan boys have turned him into this super human figure who was way beyond everyone else.
If you break and throttle at the same time, do you use only your right foot or your left foot as well? Asking because normally using the left foot on the breaks is a sin but handling such precise inputs feels like it must need both feet.
Hey Genius, you might actually want to educate yourself. marioandretti [dot] com/career-highlights You sir, are an idiot. If you are going to make such a comment, least make sure you have a leg to stand on. I mean really, way to be an idiot.
from a layman. this guy's a total moron and understands buttfuck nothing about physics. and if you don't understand the basics of weight shifting (which can be done via break and throttle) what are you doing in a cockpit
This is an extremely underrated video. Back in 2015 I saw this for the first time trying to understand how to suck less at Assetto Corsa, and the lightbulb moment of someone saying that the brakes move the weight of the car set in motion my path to being actually pretty decent! Came back to send this video to others who were asking my advice and I hope it's as helpful to them as it was for me. Might be a simple lesson, but understanding this means you'll understand almost everything about driving fast.
"Throttle and Brake together"?? As a rank beginner, I had no idea. I know this is an old vid, but if you see this, Empty Box...Thanks a hell of a lot...
Took the advice from this vid, used it and it helped me so much. I never thought of the wheels needing to be balanced through the corner for max corner speed. I've always concentrated on loading the front by trail braking a lot so I could make the turn. This would usually help me be able to get on the power faster, but my mid corner speed was so slow.
I had been running the Star Mazda in Iracing at Okayama this week trying to just learn the car so I could move up to that series. Best I could manage was a 1:29.6. After using this advice, braking before the corner and letting the car just be balanced through the corner for max speed helped me increase to a best time of 1:28.0.
ANyways, thanks for the videos. Really enjoying them.
It's really annoying to try to read the captions you wrote on the bottom while trying to listen to what you're saying. Good video though, and you broke down the complexities of weight transfer in ways that I think the iRacing tutorial couldn't.
Just pause it and stop whining
@@WilXuH Yes definitely, because the medium of video was designed to be paused a lot by the viewer.
Thanks man, I was getting frustrated after getting my first actual wheel and pedal set in the mail today, driving horribly and having to drop the AI down a whole 10 percent. After watching this though I was able to knock a good 2-3 seconds off of my time at Mid Ohio in a '87 M3 touring car in Race 07. I also finally felt fast without also feeling out of control and feeling like I have constant under steer.
Graham Hill- 2x F1 World Champion, 5x Monaco GP winner, Indy 500 winner at first attempt and Le Mans winner at first attempt. The only man to win the triple crown of motorsport under both definitions (Le Mans, Monaco, Indy/F1 WDC, Indy, Le Mans)
Better than Andretti I think in terms of driving ability.
Graham Hill would quite happily tell you Jim Clarke was the greatest driver ever.
MarkDemand Official ...Jackie Stewart would tell you Jim Clarke and Fangio were the best. Andretti was a great but not the greatest.
If you're not at least a onetime world champion yourself, you have *nothing* to think about other world champions' driving abilities! Google Dunning-Kruger effect instead. That's something you have to think about. Should keep you busy for a while.
USAC Tripple crown he did not
@@Claude-Eckel many an armchair historian, which aidan is one of. He makes good content, but takes his own authority on historical matters when it is convenient to him tbh.
I always struggle with this, I understand the physics behind it, but in driving situations, I can never get the right amount of braking into the corner to take the fastest possible line/speed through the corner, and I always run around 11th or 12th, I feel like with this mastered I could run much faster, the video was really helpful.
I love the way you do your videos. No music, thorough explanation, and demonstrating.
Easy way to explain downforce : Imagine an airplane, but flying belly side up.
Easy way to explain airplanes. F1 cars with their belly up
Hey I wanted to say thanks for this video as it finally woke me up to what I already knew. My lap times have gone down a little but my feeling of being on edge is gone now that I use brakes and throttle to keep my car balanced through turns. The weird thing is that once you are comfortable and start hitting corners just right the less you end up using this technique.
Thanks a lot for this. I've been having some trouble trying to get on the same level with other players in circuit racing sims, but I reckon this will help tremendously. I don't know how this hasn't occurred to me despite me being a motorcyclist who knows how and why trail braking works on a motorcycle.
I mean... I ride motocross, doesn't help me at all here. Cars and bikes are totally different beasts
The captions are because Empty wanted to say so much more but wanted a shorter video so he gave us some of the workload :D
Im not that fast in the Elise. Here's a tip though, turn all the graphics down, max out framerate. BOOM, instantly faster. That bug in the TP completely eliminates lap times mattering. Hope it's fixed for release.
i already knew this, but i had to watch it because i simply love the videos you make :) Well earned a subscriber. ^^
hey matt thanks for the video.. this shaved at least 2-3 seconds from my laps and im much more confident going hard into the corner. awesome
Fascinating, I learned something. I have been spinning out like crazy in the Lambos in Project Cars 2...so I thought I would try to figure out why; and they were seemingly at low speed too.
Tanks are a totally different animal. Tracks w/torsion bars running to every roadwheel... and an M1 engine w/tranny weighs around 8k lbs mounted in rear, but forward of the last wheel. Results in very good weight distribution.
If anything tank struggles with too much grip and leaves rubber everywhere it goes on paved surfaces... but it can also turn on a dime. Which is surprising for a lot of people given how big it is. Moreso if you use neutral steering (only moves 1 track) or pivot steering (tracks move in opposing directions)... but it's easy to make typical car turns using the L gear.
It's really meant for dirt, but you have to be careful in very loose dirt also - the rear part of the track can get trapped side-to-side in thick loose dirt... if you turn suddenly, the track will stay still and the sprocket will swing out with the tank... resulting in the track coming off the sprocket. A thrown track in thick dirt is gonna be a bad day or two.
Have really enjoyed this Series Empty Box! Keep up your important work!
You should've taken turn 8 (Toe) at Watkins Glen (Boot) as an example of Throttle-Brake controlling. Just such a beast-feeling when you get it right.
I remember watching this video 4 years ago when I got into sim racing. Instantly took a second off all my laptimes and I never forgot that Andretti quote.(Still was a second slower than the top guys in my f3 league).
That's really helpful!Thank you for shareing your experience.I hop to learn further more in your upcoming videos!
You're explaining the inertia, momentum, centripetal and centrifugal forces and also the banking [v = √ Rg (tanϴ +μs) /(1- μs tanϴ)] in much easier words. Love content creators like you who care about everyone, much respect
I told my friend the title and he mentioned the meme about the guy thats sitting at a table with the sign change my mind. So it was brakes are not for stopping, change my mind. Had me laughing for a good minute... great vid btw.
When a corner is feeding into another and I drive through them at the same speed, I accelerate after the first and brake (still above my level: trailbraking) into the second turn. Braking in this case or even just lifting the throttle for a moment helps turn the car in.
You can use trailing throttle with your right foot, its just like blipping but keeping your foot in that position. It's awkward, but can be done.
All I can say is thank you
I know it's all common sense but your video helped me so much. I'm new to sim racing but I can drive in real life but this video has taught the best ways to handle the brake in a race car in a sim.
I was having issues feeling what My car was doing even though I own a OSW direct drive wheel. I knew I would want the best so thought why waste money buying less to only want better lol
So again thank you for the time to make this video, it has great advice and tips that have helped me greatly.
Stay at it, your left leg will eventually get sensitized to applying precise pressure as well. It took me a good while to learn to left foot brake too. In the beginning my left food too used to stamping on the clutch was only capable of doing on/off. What probably helped me as I first learnt it on a road car so the g-forces help you out at balancing the pressure. On a sim you don't have g-forces so initially its more of a guess work as to how much pressure you need to apply...
Different drive style here. I play more with the throttle on RWD cars. And more on brakes with FF and 4wd.
a great way to showcase these effects is driving on tracks with big elevation changes
the reason weight = grip (or downforce = grip) is because friction (grip) is equal to the coefficient of friction (how grippy the tires are on the track) multiplied by normal force (the force exerted by the two objects on eachother, usually by gravity*mass) I know, no one really asked, but i love this shit lol
i dont think you need physics to figure this out
Oh please, Andretti was only "ok". Peterson was clearly faster and that was just in his generation, if Peterson had gone where Andretti had gone then he would have won everything.
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There is another effect at play when your car is driving around in circles, and it is possibly one of the easiest ways to explain how the LSD works...
Also, I suspect going so hard on the throttle pushes you outwards, forcing you to maintain high steeringwheel angles, again decreasing exitspeed.
On a general note, unless a car gets unstable because you are pushing it, or special kinds of track layouts that might require otherwise, once the car is stopped you you are turned in, your steeringwheelangle will never become greater, while you throttle appliance will never go down.
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"MMMMMHMMMM, you go girl"
HAHAHA, true story
Barrichello never used LFB. Schumacher did
Best video that has helped me get better, thank you
Reminds me of my early Sim days on Gran Tourismo! I think they had a course called driving 101 on a skid track.
Love these videos trying to learn road racing sim racing i been practicing on rfactor with the skip barber car so far been tough but these videos are helping
This is what I've been thought during many lessons on datalogging and driving technique, and I can guarantee that the guy who teaches me knows his things! PM me if you want to the story :)
Great videos btw. Makes me reconsinder iRacing, eventhough I swore not to touch it with a ten-foot pole ever again.. :P
I have been trying to trail brake but it's really difficult to get the pressure just right. Sometimes I add too much pressure or press on it too early and the car turns in before the apex and then I have to make corrections. Other times it's not enough and the car understeers off the track. It is a great feeling though when you get it just right and the car pivots around the corner hitting the apex perfectly. But for me it's more of a matter of chance that I got it all right than being precise!
My god, I wish I watched this video 6 months ago
Mario Andretti is hilarious, you should see his bits in Dust to Glory, he made a rally truck driver piss himself.
I was doing a good year tire test and this guy walks up to me, I’m sitting in the car and he says you know if you use a little break off the corner you’ll run some faster laps. I’ll looked at him like he was crazy and I’m thinking who is this freaking guy talking to me. When he left I asked my car owner who the bleep was that. Well the guys name was Bob Bondurant and how wrong I was.
Is this basically the same principles you'd use in rally driving on low grip surfaces? Obviously oversteer isn't gonna be desirable on tarmac, but the general feeling of moving the weight around remains? I realize it's a very simple question but it's just so I can conceptualize it properly.
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At 11:54 you did not use the Clutch. Mine will not down shift unless I'm in a specific RPM envelope. I noticed we ARE talking about the same car because of the Number Sticker Color.
I actually did just notice how, I will need to test when I drive later.
Question. Let's take an example of Dover. The track clearly. It is banked everywhere, but in the corner what would you do. I let off and the car just goes straight into the wall. Now would adding a bit of break or let off the gas only a little help? Or what would I do in that situation.
You want to get into the power as early as possible, you should typically be off the throttle and getting into it by the middle of the corner.
If you mean on entry, you are probably overbraking and overdriving it.
Well I do that. (Note this game is not a sim but Ivan say it's just working with it). So I can get onto the corner good but not get a good apex. Or arch. I think it's arch. You'll see on my NASCAR inside line video what I do if you don't get it. I love arching/apexing the car. But on '14, it doesn't want to. And gets tight. I don't know exactly what to do. I let off but it just goes straight to the wall. I can't tell if that's what it's supposed to do or not. If not what's the best thing to do in that situation?
I have had some mysterious spins, it is called a game bug.
But great video!
he did more then that, he started in karting, he defeated Nikki Lauda in 190E mercedes exibition race, .... and if he didn't pass away, I'm sure we would have seen him on ovals too.
Andretti has great history in Ovals, ..and some road races in US .. but that's the thing, he did great in US .. but not all the best drivers raced there ... ) at least that's what I think
Hey Empty Box: minute 10:52 you said that blips are for shifting. You mean, when shifting (in sequential or semi-automatic modes like gt3 cars) you blip the throttle to compensate when the car generes a little weight transfer to the front when downshifting? Sorry if I missed something, my native language isn't the english, thanks!.
Blipping the throttle on downshift is done to keep the driveline of the car stable.
If you don't blip you either feed the clutch back out (like most people do on their road cars - this is slow.) or you have the engine and transmission and drive wheels not doing the same speed which causes all sorts of chaos, similar to locking the rear wheels momentarily. When you downshift, the engine needs to turn more revs in the next lower gear, so without blipping the engine needs to speed up to the proper RPMs while it's in gear - not good. Blipping is just that, bringing the engine up to the same RPM that will be used in the lower gear while the engine is still in a neutral position between gears.
Blipping is not done for weight transfer, it's about keeping the car from becoming unstable due to the driveline.
yes, I know and I do that in manual transmission cars, but I don't understand it in semi-automatic gt3 cars because it's supposed the computer inside the car does it for you, and it's so hard to do the things better than a computer but I'll give it a try, thank you for responding!
Kalamede
That Ford was a GT2 car without any auto blip, but yes, if the car has auto blip use it!
That's right. It goes in the square hole
Are you able to put a camera on your pedals? Just to observe your foot work. Thanks!! Great channel by the way!! Subbed
Please, talk about throttle braking.
The quote was from Jackie Stewart right? The Skip Barber book? I'm on chapter 3.
Crap typed it in too early. Andrettis OK. Like Jackie better.
It would help if I was capable of left foot braking without either locking up or not braking hard enough and driving right past the corner every time. My left foot seems incapable of operating anything except the clutch.
Quick question ; do you need to blimp when downshifting with a paddle shift gearbox?
The newer the car, the less likely you will need to. Early-2k's GT1s often had spartan dogboxes, requiring blips on downshifts; modern GT3s automate that out, so you need only ask for an up/downshift, and the car will do everything else.
I was wondering if you do any private or group driver instruction.I have watched a lot of your videos, and I think you have a lot of skill, and you are a good teacher. I am new to sim racing, but take it very seriously,( and I know you do too) and I am working hard at trying to improve. I would love to be able to get some tips from someone at your level. let me know if you are interested. thanks for your time.
this is basicly what they discribe as 4 wheel drift in initial D
Hey EB, do you recommend the pedal mod which makes the brake more pressure activated rather than travel?
Never used it with my DFGT pedals as I always planned to replace them, but yes. Pressure is better than travel IMO, it's much easier to be more consistent that way. Not necessarily faster, but I certainly feel it's easier, in the good way.
I used bungee cords wrapped around my DFGT pedals and the base to give it more tension/stiffness. If that's what you're talking about.
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Do you like tweaking setups? If not, then iSpeed is all you need, and that you don't really need to pay for. iSpeed is a good tool to have regardless, though I will say I don't use it as much as I should.
Otherwise, I don't have much experience with them. I thought you could use Atlas for your telemetry program, which is free?
Great video!
I can recommend a book called “Going Faster - Mastering the art of Race Driving” by Skip Barber. It’s an amazing book that every wannabe driver should read.
¿There are books about race driving? amazing
Nice video "boxy"! I agree with much of what you said, but I do have a comment.
You don't seem to practice what you preach. You go on the throttle very abrupt & agressively, exit the corner at WOT and then back off again to around 2/3 throttle to not overshoot the curb. Then finally go back on it, when the car is going straight. Getting the car turned, setting up apexes a smidge later and especially going on the throttle much earlier but delicately will probably yield better staight-line speed.
love your videos, but calling mario andretti the best ever!? i dont have a favorite driver but i like many (walter roehrl, jim clark, derek bell, ayrton senna, jacky stewart, etc.). but mario is definitly not on that list :)
One of the few drivers still alive for how long he has been racing.
Given the races he won, and the championships he won, I would say he undoubtedly one of the best. How you can say otherwise, defies explanation.
I'm a kiwi so naturally (when talking Indy) it's gotta be Scott Dixon
@@cmacdhon He only won the F1 Championship just because his teammate died
who is Mario Andretti is that the guy who tried and failed at formula 1
I know all of that but still cannot put a lap together :(
It's really nice video. Congratulations!
Look, I love Senna, but I don't understand how why so many of you insist of putting him on this pedestal. A successful history in F1 doesn't automatically make a driver the "best of all time." What metric are you using? Race wins? Total career points? Over only a single series? Why not multiple series? How can you compare a drivers from the 80s-90s to a driver from the 60s? What about the 2000s? Different era, how can you compare? Sorry, but the emotional appeals just get tiresome.
Are you braking and Throttleing with both or one foot
I don't understand anything... I never drove a street car. I am 15.
+Mein Kanal! im 16 and have been driving for a few months now. this won't apply to real life every day driving. This is meant for driving a car near its limits and getting every bit of speed you can get.
+clasota15 Yes, very much so this.
+clasota15 I could do driving now too, but I'll wait until I'm 17. Yeah, but I didn't even know which one was the gas pedal :D. My question is: how many degrees of rotation do race cars have? 900?
Everything just slides around in Assetto Corsa... :(
pretty sure they have 900° of rotation but I play with 900° on every sim. (especially r factor project d mod)
Never put your foot down unless you know you don't have to take it off again
How are you pressing throttle at the same time you brake?
+SideFlame I, like many other humans, possess two feet. :)
Empty Box
Not what I meant xD. Are you left foot braking? I thought that was only for rallying.
(new to driving, don't slay me pls)
I use both my left foot and right foot, if you want you can catch one of my pedal cam videos here -
th-cam.com/video/Zkljq_67bFE/w-d-xo.html
Depends on the car, depends on the situation for me as I'm comfortable with both feet and actually use both a good bit. Left foot braking is very common in racing today, especially now that modern racing gearboxes can tolerate more abuse by design so there is less need to use the clutch for anything outside of getting started.
Empty Box Thanks for the video. Only have 2 pedals atm but I'm getting T3PA's soon so I'll probably end up doing a similar thing. Do a lot of people alternate between using both feet for braking? It seems like something that would take a lot of getting used to.
SideFlame
I honestly don't know, If you mean my foot switching thing from right foot to left foot braking mid brake zone, I think that is uncommon.
I know a lot of people right foot brake for downshifts but use left foot braking for brake zones without a gear change though.
Using both feet in general takes some time, but it's pretty handy just to be able to do so.
To see this in application, I encourage anyone to drive a Porsche 911. This might not make sense but literally half the steering is done with the brakes.
this is awesome bro!!
Just wandering why you deleted videos 5&6?
Hey now, I said it was easy to say, not so much in application. :)
Great video. Thanks.
We're talking about Mario here. Formula 1 champ, 1978?
Same guy who won pretty much anything else that isn't a LM24 overall in pretty much any car he ended up in.
Not Michael, who got a shot in F1 in the 90s and more or less sucked at it.
very good tutorial Thanks!
I Drive instinctively. are you saying am doing it wrong? i can be quick i can be really kwik if i practice a track. and i learn the track as i play it and i learn the corners as i push the car and see how i can push the car around those corners. this is how i do it.
ive seen vids tell me i need to go around the track look around corners for braking areas like a bill board i do this with instinct am a good driver. in game and on the road. in real cars it becomes more about your gears. because unless you joyriding your less likely to be racing. unless your a boy racer like i use to be. ive had a few moments ;)
Short version: Manage your inertia
Great video.
Andretti could have been impressive .. but the best driver was and always will be Ayrton Senna ... at least that's my oppinion
btw. great video though
most famous words at Indianapolis... Mario is slowing down. Great driver though.
well done sir
got so dizzy watching this
Surely the title is a Evangelion reference, right?
The title is (not) a reference
Walter Röhrl is/was the best driver, no doubt.
Was the craziest, driving those very dangerous but cool Lancia 037s.
When it comes to Formula 1, yes. But there is more to racing than just F1.
Ayrton Senna is the GOAT everyone else is a good professional.
Noxvi Ayrton Senna was a GOAT in Formula One. But there are other people who are better in many different categories.
What a dumb statement, Senna was phenomenal but considering how many disciplines of driving there are, different eras, and many other factors it's pretty much impossible to say who the GOAT race car driver. Only a fan boy would say something so ignorant. My question to you is, did you actually see Senna race or were you born too late and base everything on a documentary because there were several drivers around in F1 at the time that were close or right there with him, Prost, Mansell, and a young Schumacher come to mind first. I mean Senna was unbelievable especially at putting in those lap of the god type laps but damn the Senna fan boys have turned him into this super human figure who was way beyond everyone else.
Fangio would like a word with you.
If you break and throttle at the same time, do you use only your right foot or your left foot as well?
Asking because normally using the left foot on the breaks is a sin but handling such precise inputs feels like it must need both feet.
Nice
Why are you drifting a sprint car on pavement?
Hey Genius, you might actually want to educate yourself.
marioandretti [dot] com/career-highlights
You sir, are an idiot. If you are going to make such a comment, least make sure you have a leg to stand on. I mean really, way to be an idiot.
Simple, but not easy..
good shit
Yea, after learning to properly heel-toe, this isn't so hard.
Thx matt
what game is this
Theory for a layman........
from a layman. this guy's a total moron and understands buttfuck nothing about physics. and if you don't understand the basics of weight shifting (which can be done via break and throttle) what are you doing in a cockpit
Sorry but your caption is confusing while listening you speaking. Plus i'm not native english speaker
This guy obviously doesn't know about Alonso 🤷🏼♂️