Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25255992-20150817222709/@comment-26249703-20150819111011

Tips:

I tend to race against people in the top 500 to see where I go wrong if I'm struggling.

Personally I play with no assists and Tilt B, which gives me the most control over the car. It takes a while to get used to so don't expect instant results but you'll soon progress past your performance with assists on. My steering sensitivity is 5, it used to be higher but it was really hard for me with LMP1s and F1s so I turned it down.

In general, you want to adapt your strategy based on what comes next. If you're going through a set of chicanes, you want to keep momentum as high as possible without going off-track or sliding so you want to mainly maintain a speed by tapping the throttle and brake as you see fit.

If the corner is followed by a long straight, the time you lose at the exit is multiplied by the end of the straight, so don't brake late.

Ideally, you only want to brake once into a corner. If you're braking, then accelerating or coasting and then braking again, you're losing time, so find braking markers (line on the floor, vehicle on the side...) that you can use to consistently brake well for the corner.

You don't want to still be braking past halfway through the turn, but you can't always accelerate until past that point, so if that's the case and you slide, either coast or tap the throttle a few times to establish grip before accelerating hard.

Taking the "wide line" through a corner (ouside-inside-outside) is usually the best way to go, but you may find with very long/very slow and wide corners, riding the inside armco the whole way around by maintaining a specific speed will be faster.

As for tactics specific to this game: two-wheels off the track doesn't disqualify you, so use that to your advantage. Sometimes in really slow corner that has a barrier (e.g. first corner of Monza Junior), due to the physics of this game, you can get a faster time by steering shortly before hitting the barrier at full-speed and hitting it with the rear-3/4s of your car. Doesn't work all the time and is a bit cheap if it does work. Lastly, I recommend saving your progress, spending all your GC on upgrades or rushing R$ upgrades, then racing. If you have some left over, use that to refill your drive and rush your car's servicing. When you have the desired time, restore your progress: the times will be kept, though the rewards will not. I used to have one save logged-off social platforms with over 1,700 GC to use on TTs but I saved over that by mistake :P so be careful when saving and restoring saves, double-check if you're logged in or not and don't ruin your save for the sake of a TT!

Hope that helps a bit.