Alien Driving Tips/Help Needed: Nurburgring

What really impressed me was his braking point at the chicane.

 

With all this constant work, practice, and perfection everyone is doing to improve lap times on Nurburgring GP, with this car......
I dread the first days of multiplayer. Everyone is going to be blazing fast.
I can see already that I might be better to stay in the AI's world....

 

The trick is and this is hard to see without input screen, he is braking hard initially and while he starts to turn he releases the brake. It’s quite tricky but you get used to it.

 

The big bad enemy I am up against is lack of consistency. When lap times vary within 2 seconds, that ain't good. My mind must be too excursive.

 

It should be fine there seems to be enough people with all kind of times. But yea first day of multiplayer wont be easy haha but maybe by the time multiplayer comes out people are tired of the nurbugring GP

 

And?

 

You don't know? Those 3 liters missing are the reason he went so fast. With 3 liters more, he would have been in the 54s...

 

Man...And I always thought you claimed to be an average skilled driver. If you consider that average, I have no choice but to blow my brains out tonight. I'm going to leave a note...Please send cleanup costs to Michael H. C/O: ACC Nurburgring

I'm right there with you. Not only am I not fast, but 2 second swings aren't the exception...it's the rule when I'm practicing. I'm sure you're like me and over driving the car into corners. It's so frustrating when I sort of know what to do but can not freakin' implement it - at least, not consistently.

Anyone posting 1:55 lap times or so, would you mind sharing your setup details? We all know that car setups are going to be extremely important in ACC and even though an alien's car setup is probably too loose/fast for me, I'd still like to understand the theories of the faster drivers. Help some slow brother's out.

 

I see a lot of people saying stuff like "i take the same line" but the line is not what makes you go faster. Even a kid can take a good line into the corner. It all comes down at what speed you take that line. The major difference is actually how you use your pedals. Turning the car with your brakes and your throttle is a key point to go faster. Focus on your pedals control, learn about the traction circle and try to make it all work together. The nurburgring is not exactly the kind of track where you can take different lines, so anyone that knows a little about racing is already taking a decent line.

 

Wiseguys

I ment compared to the 60L Michael is driving with.

 

So i'm trying with 0 lt. of fuel.
WR incoming...
Checkmate noobs!1!!

 

I'm not using 60L, I am using this setup that was included with a Youtube video that was shared.

 

Well you were in that picture in your 2nd post

 

For Hotlap you need 4l of fuel (if you have fuel usage enabled) to get around the track. and each lap everything resets so 4l is enough to do hotlaping

 

Best I can do with default setup and no changes are mid fifty sevens. I make a handful of laps with just default and then I switch to the custom setup.

 

Is it even possible to enable fuel usage in hotlap mode? I had thought not.

 

I'm not in the 1:55s yet, but I'm scraping at its door with 1:56:1XX. I use Kunos' agressive setup with 4L fuel, TC & ABS raised to 6 and Preload reduced to 30. I also tried the setup Michael attached but can't make much of a difference with it yet.

 

1.55,6 with Kunos' aggressive setup.
@PhilS13 once said that for AC1 he could get within 1.5 seconds of his fastest lap on a default setup, I don't know what that difference is for ACC, but I think we should focus more on our inputs.

 

You are right.. for some reason i thought it can be..maybe since i was doing a lot of hotlaping in singleplayer and than stop on middle of the track haha

 

The most common mistake are watching real onboard as they are quite early on the accelerator while the car is much more stable in the sim. What I learned in AC(plane model general rule) it's about using the brake to turn, not really about balancing the car. The accelerator basically create a lot of understeer. A tad bit early would make the car deviate from the ideal racing line in the simulator. The inertia feel damped as a whole... It is preferable to be late at it & progressively use it more early closer to the apex at the exit phase once you get the hang of it. Avoid using the accelerator before the apex. On a sharp chicane, you got to trail brake past the apex.

The general rule is about stomping the brake & turn at the same time at the turn in, trail with twice the pressure(or hold & turn at the same time) after stomping it during the entry phase to force the rotation, trail longer closer to the apex & crank the steering about the same way(lot of steering lock near the apex, for proof of not drifting).​