The WORST Advice You Could Ever Get About Simracing

Has anyone ever told you to just train more to become faster at simracing? That's the worst advice in simracing! Joe has prepared 10 tips for you on how to improve your training and really get faster.
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[OverTake_gg]

What is the best advice you have to improve in simracing?

[TiagoJLoureiro]

i usually only have 2 advices:

1. Slow in Fast out - this is the biggest flaw most newbies have in the way they approach a lap.
2. Stop doing laps on your own and get yourself into races, all kinds of races, thats where you'll get real experience in the thick of things.

[davidshekhter]

My tip: race your own race meaning don't let other cars intimidate you or throw you off your rhythm and groove. It takes poise to remain consistent. This was one of my main issues as I would race fast but as soon as a car started creeping up behind me I would get nervous and lose Control. To combat this. I simply ignore the fact that there are cars around me and I raise my race. It's me against the track. (Of course maintain proper etiquette and don't ram the other drivers if you know what I mean.

[EdBert]

My training technique? (you asked)

Enter into a hotlap mode so I can chase my ghost, slowly whittle another 0.05 or better after a few laps, then watch my times steadily decrease as I try to push.

Eventually at about the 1-hour mark, I log off in frustration and play a different title. Which doesn't help moving from simcade to sim, or one sim to another, so I decide to play world of warships and blow up the things I cannot pass.

[mrfawkes]

Practice does NOT make perfect, in fact bad practice reinforces bad habits. Perfect practice makes perfect.

[themrwinston]

i made a 1v1 "mini game" to practice racecraft with my friend. the ruleset is essentially a touge style "cat and mouse" game with a points system. after some adjustments, it made for a really fun way to get a lot of practice in very little time as we were essentially getting rapid fire, back to back battles in various parts of the selected track that would award points to yourself or your opponent depending on what you can get right and what mistakes you might make.

[bpablo]

I started sim racing 2 years ago, acc. Was incredibly difficult at the beginning, getting 3 stars on monza took me almost 2 days. Now I’m constantly under 1:50 and even got into the 1:48s a few times.
Practice really does help, understanding what the car was doing through the wheel was massive learning curve. Not like a controller where you can just smash accelerate and brake worry free, nice smooth inputs seems key.
I still leave the racing line on even though.
Watching YouTube videos helped a lot, like this one 👍🏻
I can only speak for acc but yeah practice and the “drive” to go faster has helped me.

[DazDaz]

My advice.

Learn a new of track in your favourite car.
Learn a new car on your favourite track.

And if you can learn a new track in an open wheeler you will find it easier to spot apexes etc.

[tonic]

1. Slow in, fast out 2. Focus on areas you are losing time to others in races

[cptlatency]

Practicing a lot is a method I've lived by for a while, sure it's not the most technical advice in the world, but when someone asks you how to get better, you can't just explain the fundamentals of every single racing technique, from what I've found, the more time you put into something the more you get out of it, but learning should always be done at the same time, which is why this video is great for beginners, I just don't think practice is terrible advice

[b.s.]

Side note: if you have any chance, try VR. It is so much more intuitive when you have 3D vision in a 1:1 world scale... You will immediately drive better because you start to act like in real life.

[tesciu]

I mainly play ACC in LFM. My first tip for practice is to try to find enjoyment in hotlaping. If you learn to love it, it is way easier to learn new tracks and develop your skills on the tracks that you already know. Second tip is to learn tracks while developing your setup. It is very rewarding to see that you are faster and faster with each change.

[tamaslichtenberger]

what helped me a lot, and honestly I'm kinda missing it as point 11: know what you want to practice. A turn combination or exit of a corner, or just how to exit from the pits (what might be super helpful during a longer race). personally I think that after watching the replays it can be clear what has to be improved on a lap. and that needs to be practices and improved.
don't just make laps after laps because if ppl memorize something incorrect, it's a lot of work (any even more practiving) to fix it, after it has been realized that by that time it's just wrong what has been done.

[JallyTee]

I was always told to start from the back when starting out but for me it was bad advice. This put me with drivers that crashed out more often than not, I always qualify the best I can, this will put your car around other drivers at your level in the pack giving you a better chance of survival.

[rickjohansson]

It took me TWO years of everyday playing to get proficient with a stick shift, and I have driven those for 30 years. Practice does indeed play a part BUT my best advice is to pick a slow opponent and follow him around the track to learn the lines. My cornering advice: look for the 50 sign and slam on the brakes haha! Fine tune that on the next few laps.

[detroitarrow]

I just started sim racing and I can agree that around 30 minutes is definitely the way to go, it's exhausting mentally to keep that focus, definitely need to work on building up to getting into longer races, also depending on your wheel, it can be physically taxing.

[GiosSimCorner]

Those are really good tips. When im practicing I'll experiment with what gears I should be in on a turn. Also trying to take those same turns on different angles and different gears. Also DO Not use the racing line imo it will make your slower. Go slow at first you will naturally figure out the flow of the track after a few pace laps. Someone also mentioned starting at the back of the pack in a race so avoid collisions. I did this when I started my career in iracing but learned you have to be comfortable with other drivers around you. The best thing for me at least is to join a practice session server if your in iracing you dont have to worry about losing your IR or SR if you crash your crash just keep getting at it.

[kernfabian]

What helped me a lot to get my LFM Licence at Misano was a very in-depth trackguide from Nils Naujoks, wo rally got into every Detail of every corner. I practiced with this Sektor by Sektor and got my licence after 2 hours on a track I hated before. So: Shoutout to Nils😊

[bencegal]

Some more advanced advice is to use training tools. There are a few services which offers you telemetry data recorded by really quick drivers. You can compare them with your on data and you can figure it out on your own what you can do to be quicker. For example I turned out that my braking point, my minimum speed and the steering inputs are generally similar to the alien time, but I'm slowing the car down too quickly due to my poor trail braking skills. And it costs like 6 euros per months and a few hours weekly. Use every option to get quicker because we have every possibility to learn.

[Leynad]

The advices of Walter Röhrl helped me:
1. The entry should mostly be the slowest part of a corner.
2. Tyres are most efficient while braking/accelerating as straight as possible or carrying speed through corners
3. The biggest secret of driving fast is steering as little as needed.
And another simple advice to get up to speed: Be always on the limit😎