Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20180911114503/@comment-26388545-20180911165719

With the Hockenheimring off-track, you lose a bit driving out there, but then get a HUGE run on the start/finish straight to your advantage. The trick is getting back to the gas at the right moment and not going off-track as you enter and exit that area.

At Porsche Short & Long there are many areas the appear to be off-track, but they aren't. You have to watch the pylons, not the track lines.


 * The tight right/left chicane section a little while before the bus stop. You can take that area way straighter then most people think. On exit there is an entire lane that is NOT off-track, so you can widen the corner and carry more speed out.
 * The entire bus stop. You can also drive that very straight, pretty well arching the turn. So instead of left/right/right/left you can ALMOSTmake it one big right!
 * The very last turn has an area to the left the you COULD run onto if you needed to... but unlike Hockenheimring there is no advantage to it.
 * There's also a section at the top of the hill on Porsche Short that isn't off-track, but you can't use it to your advantage. Although I have passed there on "no off-track" races!

What's odd is that the bots will NEVER run in these areas. As such, assists are tuned to keep you from going there. So BA will brake even earlier and SA high will fight you there too. It's one of the biggest places where SA hurts you in Time Trials. For most other Time Trials, SA doesn't matter much.

If you've seen any of my Perpetual Endurance videos at Porsche Short, you'll know what I mean. You could go to 14:50 of this video where I only going off-track for a fraction of a second while contending with bots, you can see the lines I'm talking about.