03-25-2021, 10:59 AM
Hi!
The BMW is a very good and safe car to practise on. Has ABS and traction control so it's quite hard to spin it around. Always good tip is to participate in a race after plenty of practice, drive safe, and after race you can run the replay of the race and jump inside the lead car and spy how the fast guys drive. In the case of this BMW, fast driving looks super undramatic and clean.
It's all about the proper racing line, being quite careful on the throttle on the corner exits (sliding is bad mmmkay) and braking early enough so your car is on balance in the corner. Learning to be fast in a slow car will teach you a lot, the fundamentals of the car handling and driving techniques are very similar even with the fastest of cars. In faster cars everything just happens a lot faster.
And what comes to your speed... IMHO if you have a lot of trouble staying on the track and lap time is +10s of the fast guys, you're better off with more solo practise. Being outrageously slow and getting lapped 2 times in a 20min race, you're causing unnecessary troubles and risk of collision to other drivers as lapping is always a bit risky, especially if the slow driver's driving is erratic, as it propably is. Also do practice racing with the AI, turns their aggression and speed up enough to represent real drivers better.
The BMW is a very good and safe car to practise on. Has ABS and traction control so it's quite hard to spin it around. Always good tip is to participate in a race after plenty of practice, drive safe, and after race you can run the replay of the race and jump inside the lead car and spy how the fast guys drive. In the case of this BMW, fast driving looks super undramatic and clean.
It's all about the proper racing line, being quite careful on the throttle on the corner exits (sliding is bad mmmkay) and braking early enough so your car is on balance in the corner. Learning to be fast in a slow car will teach you a lot, the fundamentals of the car handling and driving techniques are very similar even with the fastest of cars. In faster cars everything just happens a lot faster.And what comes to your speed... IMHO if you have a lot of trouble staying on the track and lap time is +10s of the fast guys, you're better off with more solo practise. Being outrageously slow and getting lapped 2 times in a 20min race, you're causing unnecessary troubles and risk of collision to other drivers as lapping is always a bit risky, especially if the slow driver's driving is erratic, as it propably is. Also do practice racing with the AI, turns their aggression and speed up enough to represent real drivers better.