3 Quick Ways to Perfect Your Sim Racing Line

Your racing line is critical to being fast in sim racing, get it wrong and you'll be seconds off the pace.

Scott Mansell, racing coach from Driver61 and the new Driver61 Sim Racing channel explains how to quickly improve your racing line and lower your laptime.

The Driver61 Sim Racing channel is here to help you learn driving techniques, win races and ultimately fulfill your sim racing potential.

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[nicholasmills]

Bloody amazing. I followed your braking techniques and after initial rubbish. I sudden beat my lap record on monza by 2.5sec. Down from 157.6 to 155.1. Boy was I so thrilled. Big improvements in such a short practice.

[heaveneightyseven]

hey ! as the video was playing, i immediatly noticed my laptimes were improving just by looking further, as a consequence, it made me use throttle/brake more smoothly (because you give yourself time to react and adapt). the point is hearing these simple tips underlined my most frequent mistakes. thank you for your tips man !

[ordnajela]

Your explanations are simple and concise yet full of wisdom and extremely helpful! Keep up!

[BIG_WAVE_RACING]

I have been a professional driving instructor for about 14 years and the aspects on the videos you touch on and how you teach people here are excellent. I use some tools similar to this on customer dash cam footage in our classes at road courses here in the USA. I like coming to your videos to brush up on things sometimes and its also good to see a different perspective because I have gained a few tips from you myself. As racers we should all share and learn to increase the quality of competition!

[CookRacingUK]

'Don't look where you're going, look where you're going after that' wise words :D

[TheTektronik]

This is what I'm struggling with as of now and sometimes, I find myself oversteering and getting thrown off the track. Thank you for this gem of an information.

[starwarsfan]

Please make a video about when to shift in different cars when looking at the hp/torque curve and shift lights etc. I always see people shifting at different points on the 2019 Formula Hybrid car.

[tandanh]

At last someone who explains clearly. knowledge that can be applied

[dagby]

Your videos are very great. They’ve helped me a lot. I just got my Nordshleife time down to 5:22.164. Down 30 seconds from my best lap 3 weeks ago. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[АлександрКотов-зв]

Thank you Scott! You're only the one who can explain how to be faster and get wright moving for faster laptimes! Even English is not my language and i know it not on 100%, I'm understanding completely all by your hands moves and videos/pictures! Great job for others, just great job! 👍👏

[belislemathieu]

To me, the problem seems to be braking. I just cant brake as late as the fast guys

[PM_DraKKar]

the last thing mentioned about the limit being reached during a short period of time during a corner really got me thinking now. I dont necessarily do circuit racing i do narrow/canyon/hillclimb whatever you may call it for sim racing. I think this is one of the reasons why my times are always stuck in the same spot and behind some of the best out on whatever road am racing.

[mikemarchetta]

hands down the most beneficial thing you can do in real life and a sim... eyes. up!!

[MostlyBlindMitch]

Nice video. As someone who is legally blind with a 10 degree field of vision leaving me with zero peripheral vision, I can attest to just how difficult it is when you don't have/use all your vision.

[shaggy]

I love your videos, even on topics I already think i know plenty, i learn a little something. Thanks man

[lehmanp]

Thank you for these detailed videos! As a car enthusiast and casual sim racer these videos really help with what to actually focus on when I’m sim racing. I’ve wasted hours just mucking about not really learning anything new. Keep up the good work! 😊

[matigta]

Best playlist ever! You are really good explaining. Thanks!

[cdrseabee]

Is there going to be a video(s) on setup?
Thanks for the videos

[dimitris.]

I love your explanations they are simple, detailed and they apply on sim racing and on the real motorsport.

[ThisKory]

Most of this I already knew, but what you said last was actually quite useful, thank you for that. I think the simplest way to put it is that the smoother your line, the faster you are. Would this be correct?

It made perfect sense to me when you said if you're snapping the wheel to get a tighter turn-in when coming out of a corner, then this means you are exiting the corner too fast, which means you need to readjust your line, or exit the corner slower? Sorry, I'm just writing this out to better understand it all. I'm a new owner of a T300 wheel and I'm absolutely loving it so far. I love improving my lap times. There's something about it that feels so damn good when you manage to shave off a second when you finally get the right braking or take better lines through each corner.

Keep these videos coming! I'd love to see some advice for VR users.