Before I will even start each heat I use to visualise the out come of the start.
For example, I had a race at a track with the 3 first corners been taken like Turn 8 at Instambul Park but they where going to the right.
I was starting at the inside and thougt was thinking to really go agreside on turn 1 sunce I was the only one who was taking more kurb then the others and could use it to my advantage. I expected to overtake to overtake 2 cars, one on turn 1 and 1 on turn 3. But guess what happen I overtook 3 cars on the turn 3 braking zone from the out side.
Anyhow, the shart is something that I am average at but when you have lots of sim-racing experience you won't really think about what you are doing during the start of the race because evrything goes just way to quick.
A tip I got from a friend of mine is to not be an idiot and have your noise on the rear of the front driver. Because when you accelerate and if you manage to accelerate before the driver infront then you will be just pushing him forward and you won't manage to overtake him. So keep a very little gap so once the race starts you are ment to have the better acceleration and the correct gap to overtake him once you pass the start finish line.
Btw remember that even if you don't have mirrors you can block/push the drivers just so they won't manage to have a much better acceleration then you. Most of the times here people are braking a little bit when you do that so it could be used to your advantage here. (this goes for the mid-field, the top drivers wouldn't do such thing)
I am sure you probably know this already but when you are trying to overtake someone who seems to be quite good at defending or is running just a few tenths of a second slower then you try to really think and find where is he losing time to you and where do you gain time. Sometimes if you know that you got the better top speed you might need to make some space to then close the gap before the corner that leads to the longest straight and then pass him.
Sometimes I really forget that and it becomes a pain in the *** to overtake someone.
For example, I had a race at a track with the 3 first corners been taken like Turn 8 at Instambul Park but they where going to the right.
I was starting at the inside and thougt was thinking to really go agreside on turn 1 sunce I was the only one who was taking more kurb then the others and could use it to my advantage. I expected to overtake to overtake 2 cars, one on turn 1 and 1 on turn 3. But guess what happen I overtook 3 cars on the turn 3 braking zone from the out side.
Anyhow, the shart is something that I am average at but when you have lots of sim-racing experience you won't really think about what you are doing during the start of the race because evrything goes just way to quick.
A tip I got from a friend of mine is to not be an idiot and have your noise on the rear of the front driver. Because when you accelerate and if you manage to accelerate before the driver infront then you will be just pushing him forward and you won't manage to overtake him. So keep a very little gap so once the race starts you are ment to have the better acceleration and the correct gap to overtake him once you pass the start finish line.
Btw remember that even if you don't have mirrors you can block/push the drivers just so they won't manage to have a much better acceleration then you. Most of the times here people are braking a little bit when you do that so it could be used to your advantage here. (this goes for the mid-field, the top drivers wouldn't do such thing)
I am sure you probably know this already but when you are trying to overtake someone who seems to be quite good at defending or is running just a few tenths of a second slower then you try to really think and find where is he losing time to you and where do you gain time. Sometimes if you know that you got the better top speed you might need to make some space to then close the gap before the corner that leads to the longest straight and then pass him.
Sometimes I really forget that and it becomes a pain in the *** to overtake someone.
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