Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190101000132/@comment-34913080-20190103013901

HULK7WGX wrote: So, I'd do better to race a ghost of someone like SJ to improve my times? This is the 3rd week ever I can actually register WTTT and TT's. I have much to learn As somebody relatively new to WTTT, my experience has been that it’s best to first spend a while to learn the basic track layout and car characteristics before loading up somebody else’s ghost. But once I feel like I have the basic line down, I find it very helpful to run against a ghost for one of the top drivers, because that really helps to show me which corners to work on.

Often I’ll find that I’m right on pace with the top drivers for the first first half to 2/3 of a track, but am really weak on the final few corners,because I tend to bail out of most hot laps before I reach the final few corners so have less opportunity to refine my lines there. Driving against the top ghosts really highlights my weak corners in a way that just racing my own ghost would not, and that helps me to know where to focus my energy.

That’s been my experience, at any rate.

By way of concrete example, today I got my time down to 1:20.276 following Nick’s ghost. Had a slight advantage on him right up to the final sector, then lost three tenths on the final two turns. So if I should opt to go back to work on the track, I’ll know to work hard on my line through the final sector. I now know that that is my weak spot (thanks, Nick).