Talk:King of the Ring/@comment-26388545-20181026050549/@comment-26388545-20181026231453

Hi there. In a lot of cases steering assist doesn't matter very much. In fact some great time trial drivers use it. However on certain tracks it really hurts you because it will try to force you into a certain race line.

There's two sections where this is really noticeable. One is the chicane on the back straight and the other is at the bus stop. Watch my run and you'll see I got huge gains on the bots at the chicane. That's because they are greatly over braking because they will not use that one section that looks like it's off track, but it's not.

Same with the bus stop. Watch a bot drive through that section and he will make a noticeable left right right left. Watch me take it and it's more of a big arcing turn.

I just remembered that I covered this in a tutorial video I did on Porsche short track endurance. It's a video where I do a lot of talking. I start turning different assists on and off and show you why they don't work and explain to you what I'm trying to do and how they're fighting me. Here's that video if you're interested. You can even enable subtitles and change the language if you want to. Although it's a little glitchy at times.



So that's how steering assist hurt you at this particular track. In general I do not like steering assist because when you go off track by accident or on purpose, it will fight you and waste your time (this is certainly noticeable in the video above). So you accidentally fly off track and try to get back on, steering assist will make you run somewhat parallel to the track and won't let you drive perpendicular to it, which would be the shortest path.

All that being sad, there's absolutely no way I could have made it 100+ at Indy Speedway Endurance in the Nissan "Godzilla", without steering assist on high.