[Andrea Piovanelli]

Good way to improve your laps is to spy on the fastest guys. Save your race replay, watch it by jumping into one of the fastest cars and observe how they drive. Both the racing line and the way they drive and use gears.

I do, and looking at the replay I see my problem is often with gears, especially the gear I use in slower turns that is lower than the optimal one. Racing lines are fine, even if I still lack a bit of focus in longer races. The lack of practice, in the case of the Mini race, gave me a sort of misinterpretation of how the car needs to be driven to get speed / results, which was quite different from my usual "try to keep it smooth" style I struggled a lot (meaning I practice a lot) to find, for example, with Mx-5.