First rule to be fast driver - Driving Skills Ep1

Great video dude. I've been off and on simracing for the last 10 years. I started sim racing after winning a G27 in a GT5P 3 lap time trial event at a local electronics store i just randomly visited that day. Thought about selling it for a second but when i tried the wheel some more at home i just got addicted to racing. Raced so much with that wheel that i burned trough the motors in less then 2 years and got another free replacement wheel under warranty, so basically i got 2 free G27's lol.

Winning that contest started this hobby for me. And i'll try to explain my speed evolution and how i improved from there on as a total noob with maybe just a little natural speed to actually setting a record and multiple top 10 laps on GT Sport.

When i just started out i only knew the very basics of racing, like i knew generally what lines to take trough a corner but not much more than that. I was like 4-5 seconds of the pace compared to the fast laps after practice on a perticular track.

And that kinda bothered me, i thought i was pretty good, i won that wheel after all didn't i ? I'd watch the fast lap replays and to me it looked mostly the same as my own laps. I didn't understand, but i wanted to understand.

And so i started learning about driving fast. Reading and watching everything i could find about going faster and the dynamics of driving a car on the limit. I learned the point your making in this video how the exits are so important especially if they are followed by straights. But also how braking is one of the most important things. I learned how to apply the brakes properly, what trailbraking is. I learned about how the weight of the car shifts around and how that effects the balance and grip of the car trough a corner. I tried to learn as much as i could. As i learned about all such things and started to try to implement that knowledge in my driving i really started to see some gains. Now after practice i would be like 3 seconds of the fast lap pace.

Improvements but i still wasnt there yet. Putting the theory in practice took time, it's one thing to read or watch video's about how a car behaves trough a corner and what to do to go fast but to actually feel the car behave yourself and actuallly go fast is something else. It takes practice.

With my new found knowledge and speed i started getting more into online multyplayer races. And with that also came more practice. Soon i would be around 2 seconds of the very fastest. I started winning public lobbys and doing well in local leagues and just kept growing experience racing.

I got into the more competitive online racing. With rankings and leaderboards filled with very fast players. First with GT Acadamy time trials and iracing. I would get around top 350-250 and one time a top 100 in GT Acadamy with loads of laps and started off good in iracing climbing the first ranks pretty fast. After some time on iracing i kept improving and got at around 1.5 second of the fastest if i practiced much. But from there on i hit another wall. I got into the higher ranked lobby's and i wasnt doing bad but i also wasnt winnig races.

That last 1.5 second is actually the hardest to gain and it took the longest. It takes perfection. And what makes perfection ? Thats right, practice ! And experience ! Loads of it actually. At this point its not so much about learning new techniques to gain more time, sure there is always stuff to learn but at his point it is mostly about perfecting everything you learned and experienced over the years and trough practice end up being able to put it all together in one lap or race.

I was starting to get there when GT Sport came out. And then i really got into that game. I was putting allot of hours in it and climbed to the highest rank fast. I was racing the best on that game and usually fighting for the win. I had to at one point. The driver rating cap on that game sits on 75.000 points. To get there you basically need to win or be on the podium every race, finishing last would set you back days of progress. I got to a driver rating of 72700. I was qualifying in the top 100 top 50 regulary and sometimes even getting on the top 10 stars leaderboard. One time i even managed to set the fastest lap record on a daily race qualifying on Monza out of 17 thousand players !

That was basically my evolution of speed. When you read it like this you may think its gonna take years of grinding and in a way it is but remember like i said its been a on or off thing for me, there where times where i raced more often and there where times where i didnt race at all, its just a hobby but one i always come back to. There's just something about this virtual racing. When your in a race long battle or set a really good lap it can really get the blood flowing.

Nowadays i mainly just drive ACC for fun every now and then. But driving the sim has become like second nature to me now. Even if i havent raced for weeks or longer i can just hop on and do a couple of laps and be within 1.5-1 of the really fast guys ready to race.

Sorry if i went a bit on a rant here lol. I am just passionate about our hobby. Maybe someone who whas like me, 4 seconds of the pace not understanding why, will read this and maybe it will help them. I dont know lol cheers.

Tldr: Knowledge, implementing that knowledge trough practice, perfection through more practice.

BTW I love your setup man looks so good.

This WRX on a road course looks like it would bring great racing! Is it a series?

while others teach to be fast, you teach to slowly learn and give such awesome analogies. glad that i've found your channel

Wow . . .

Look man…I’m not kidding when I say, this whole video made me realize I’m not as bad as I think I am, not just at sim racing but life in general. We’re all trying to be perfect, and in pursuit of that, we fail to realize we’re doing far better than we think we actually are. Thank you. Didn’t click on here thinking that would be my main takeaway, but thank you.

Mr. *@Race Beyond Matter*, your intro with the beer pouring is funny af and got a subscribe out of me :D

Awesome video 📹

This video is 2 years old and still the quality is just there, you are awesome man, thanks so much for all your hard work!

Great video especially for a newer simracer like myself, the advice about training the mind and forgetting everything else in the moment makes so much sense and is something I am currently trying to learn to deal with.

Great video, thank you!👋

leave the corner 10 kmph\mph and you will arrive at the next corner 10 ks\mph faster than your follower

Old video, but helpful for me. What ive notice I do wrong is making the same mistake and expecting another result. I want to do a faster lap but get stuck in this loop where I drive the same on every lap.

Great videos!! Really enjoy them. No time for me to go and practice and get perfect!

I came here to be faster, instead... I got a life lesson. Love all your videos!

I admire your thirst for knowledge, and I appreciate that you have shared what you have learned. I am fairly new to ACC, and I intend to practice these things you are teaching.

Th@nks. Instead of running people wide or off track to impress your viewers with wins, You’re teaching us how to drive.

Respect.

That first statement has made my day. I am still new to sim racing, confined to GT Sport using the Gyro motion on the PS4 controllers to mimic steering inputs and am usually 1.5 secs off pace. I know GT is not considered a "true sim" but still it's an encouraging thing to hear. Hope to have a full sim set by the end of this year, wheel pedals and a cockpit.

Tanks, i try my best to Learn it:)

Present Moment Brilliant! Thank you❤💥

Beautiful words my friend, you are opening my eyes and making me look at sim racing in a very different way. God bless ✌

You are the closest one can get to a "racing-therapist" (me being a family therapist) :-) I am starting to love this channel :-)

this is why its so hard to stay in the lead unless u can go into autopilot mode and ignore ur brain

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Nice video!!! Do you have a video on your rig setup?

Great video once again ! Also if you see the live stats in F1, you always see Max Verstappen breaking earlier but getting a much better exit. Slow in Fast out, and i think we can see it worked out pretty well.

Is that a Bentley GT3 wheel thats in front you when you talking?

Excellent video. Good points, simply made!

Most excellent, and funny too!

This was amazing and opened up a new look into how and why professional drivers act, talk and have radio messages in a certain way they are masterminding there own mind

I tell everybody the exit is the most important at least that is what I believe and to many people try cutting the track of guys use all of the track you can it allows you to gain mroe speed coming out and allows you to push a bit harder exiting matters most lol of course there sre some situations you can't use all of the track but just saying it's best to come out not as deep go out a bit allow the wheel to not be as sharp it allows you to gain speed faster with holding traction/grip easier

When I'm having a bad day I can turn on race beyond matter boosted media or sim racing garage between you three if you guys can't calm my mood nothing can and that's a fact

Love your vids bro. I used to race street bikes irl...to old for that now and just getting into sim racing. It's funny, once I got VR my times went down. I can see the apex so much better in VR. I'm just grinding lap after lap to get better.

I wish that I'd had someone like you as a teacher back in school ;) great videos!

2 sec? I'm not fast that much :)

thank YOU

I don't know what his accent is, but I hear every letter he says. Crystal pronunciation

Best thing I heard in my 29 years of life ("you are not fucking timing machine") 😂🤣🤣❤️👌🏻 I love it and I'm going to start teaching your words of wisdom👏🏻👌🏻😎 great video bro.

i follow the paul newman driving style learn to drive slow car fast you learn these skills faster then in a fast car

What game is he playing?!

Nice video! Discipline is the hardest to master when you want to go faster. It is so damn hard to try to approach a corner slower when u know u need to go faster :)

Are u a real driver? Or a video gamer?

Oran Park???

In Australia?

What game is this

Shitty comfortzone 😂😂👍

Just a suggestion.....with your very heavy accent, It may be a better idea to not have any background music playing. I had a hard time hearing you and staying focused on your words. Just stopping by

Wow what is that rig? How do you have the screen like that? I want to build something like this can you guide me on the right path please? I just have a TV on a desk with my wheel attached. I do have a proper car seat though! I understand the dash and everything but how do you simulate the windows? Looks amazing!

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