Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 13)/@comment-170.55.161.34-20180118135354/@comment-28169398-20180118202622

"I couldn't afford to brake any sooner or I would never be able to keep up with 3 to 5 cars ahead of me."

That is what I used to think, but then I started to study some of Real Racing 3 Speed Junkie. Couldn't understand how he was so much faster when he broke so early. Then I realized he is a Last of the Late Brakers, and I was a Too Late Braker.

By braking earlier, you don't skid, which kills at least .5 to 1 second per skid, you are in control and hit the apex, and most importantly you are set up to accelerate out of the exit of the turn earlier than the bot cars.

The last part, set up to accelerate out of the exit of the turn earlier is the key. This means that at every point along the following straight your car will be traveling at a faster speed than theirs, assuming similarly upgraded cars. You can catch bots pretty quickly doing this. It seems counter intuitive, but it works.

That is why if you ghost a top WTTT player it appears that they are cheating because they "rocket" away from you on the straight, when in reality it is that they started accelerating a half-second earlier. In a car like the RSR that can accelerate at 0-100kph in 2.23 seconds, that means that they are 23kph faster than you are just leaving the corner. Still think you can't catch the bots with that extra speed out of the corner? It takes a lot of practice, but when you get it right, you'll be a lot faster than now.