Which car is the best to learn how to drive car properly ?

The Skip Barber Formula 2000 is the perfect car for either a complete rookie or a seasoned expert to hone their skills. A true racers car, it is balanced in such a way that it works well when driven well, and will work badly (often spinning off the track) when driven badly. If you don’t drive with good technique, it punishes you: It teaches you how to best drive almost every race car you will ever drive…

The first thing to note is that of the two configurations, the National version is both easier and faster to drive. The Regional version takes significantly longer to warm the tires, etc, but both configurations do have the same handling traits overall.

It is very important to keep the throttle down while turning, as this will keep the rear suspension loaded and the car more stable. Weight transfer is also critical, and any changes to throttle input on entry or mid-way through a turn, which will shift the weight away from the rear and cause “lift off oversteer”, will often lead to a spin.

Smooth input is probably the most important aspect of this car, and any car. You must smoothly turn in, carefully feed in the power, try not to fight it too much in the corner, then smoothly let the wheel run as you exit the turn. Always be aware how much the car moves around underneath you, the car will not react well if you put a wheel on the grass on turn-in: That loss of grip will be devastating.

Most importantly: Don’t give up on it. If you can adapt your driving style to this car, and drive it well, you will become a better driver in everything you drive. The frustration of spinning out will all be worth it if you can beat this car.

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In AC I think:

Lotus exige V6 cup , Ruf CTR . But It's must to drive this car faster than skip2000 that the problem of the beginner. In skip2000 even though you drive slow , the car will spin if you drive the wrong way.

May be F40 except the special extra, torque explosion when accelerate out of turn that make the special problem to the beginner can holding it.

What do you think?
These car that is similar technique to drive as skip200o . Not the car for beginner .
For ex. :
very clearly weight transfer and If you do a little mistake It's will tell you immediately.
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Update List from all of you: 19/1/2015

- Lotus 2-11, Ruf CTR, F312T, F40, Tatuus, exige V6cup.
- E92 M3, 458 stage3, KTM X-Bow, 1M, Abarth 500, E30 st1, Lotus elise

When you drive mistake these car will tell you, you must to try to find exactly why you spin or out of track. Love all of these car that tell you immediately that you don't drive car properly more than the car that try to hide your mistake.

Thank you all of you for share your list

 

BMW E92 M3 (street) @ Magione is the perfect combo for a beginner IMO.

 

Eh eh I am a novice and you give me a RUF, lol, I die in 5 minutes
I would choose a safer car to start with. I don't know the Skip Barber well, but if I get the kind of car, I would choose a non-slick tyres track ready one.
In AC we have the KTM X-Bow that IMO may be good: manual gearbox, track ready, difficult increasing with speed, etc. The only con I see is that its structure(better: its look) isn't that "normal" compared to old school track vehicles, but for the rest it seems to me a great car for learning.

 

I started this game on the DTM lol.

 

Unless you have an H-pattern shifter and know how to heel and toe, I wouldn't recommend the X-Bow or any other H-pattern car for a beginner. Also, it has no ABS so you will constantly be locking up the tires and consequently flat spotting them if you are a rookie. The M3 has paddle shift, so missing shifts and such is one less thing to worry about as a beginner, and any real world experience you have with RWD street cars is very transferable. Magione is short, easy to memorize, but technical enough that the skills you learn to be fast there will transfer to any other track.

 

The Yellow bird!

 

On RUF you could drive on lower boost, so it wouldn't be too fast.

 

With flat spotting, will it eventually go back to being normal?

 

Can't agree with this anymore! I am still a beginner and I would say ease into the H-pattern cars. Once you start learning vehicle dynamics, go to the Lotus elise.

 

lol., why not Mazda 787b

 

The KTM X-Bow R is a strange one. I was driving it nicely a couple of weeks ago at Vallelunga and Vallelunga Club, but I was having real trouble with the wheels locking up under braking at Nurburgring GP a couple of days ago. What puzzled me even more is that others were braking later, and yet not locking up.

 

The E92 M3 as Michael suggested is good for learning snap oversteer and dynamics of a FR car, but I'd recommend the Lotus Elise and Exige V6 S or Cup to truly learn throttle and steering management, and they're not that hard on the driver either.
@Christopher Low : Feeling is shared, no matter how much I play with the brake balance, it still locks up, but not completely, it's some kind of "half lock" if that makes any sense, and I can't make up if the rear locks as well...

 

Were they using aids?

 

I recommend the M3, there's no mistake.
I have 220h in AC and I'm still learning a lot with it (mostly using it for drift now, but still..)

 

The M3 is still a pretty tame car, once you put a few dozen hours into the game, I'd recommend trying every car gradually, it's pointless to master the M3 to perfection, you'll see what happens when you jump in a single seater afterwards .

 

If find I need to "calibrate" the brake pedal every time I start the game.

If I start the game and drive immediately then I get immediate lock ups like the pedal goes to 100% at 20% travel. If I start the game, enter the controllers menu and press the brake pedal before I drive I get normal travel....

 

If you can master the M3 after a few dozen hours, you are a natural born alien and you probably won't have a problem with any car in the game.

Nothing wrong with jumping from car to car just to experience them, but without 'mastering' one of them, i.e. learning car control skills along with correct racing lines, you aren't ever going to become much better of an overall driver.

 

You know what I meant, outright mastering as in knowing what the car will do when you push it to its limit, not going for the very best lap time, which is still a mistery to me since I'm no alien, but still, you will never learn proper car behaviour while using just one car, racing lines and car control skills are different depending on the car.