Talk:2012 Vantage GTE Championship/@comment-32052843-20180908145023/@comment-159.205.253.197-20180910164548

@Amrosa,

Frankly, I still don't see how learning the track the other way around helps you adjust your style the right way around. The breaking points, the racing line, everything is different, and you are basically forced to learn a completely new track very quickly.

If anything, the other things FM do - like time limits, off-track and skid restrictions and, yes, standing-still-or-breaking-windows-ordoing-donuts-then-winning - serve the purpose much better because they push you into searching for new solutions, new ways to negotiate turns and curves to recoup lost time.

In other words, wholehearted yes to all the other stuff, but a resounding no to reversed runs. But it's also not as clear that FM really are so invested in teaching us how to play. The tasks are obviously designed to allow us to learn to drive a new car quicker, but there's a lot of imbalance here. You often end up knowing how to drive it very well on 1 or 2 specific tracks w/o really having a good feel for it, because you were forced to learn a specific race very fast, rather than learning to control the car in general.