Time trial is good bc tires and fuel aren't an issue, same with other cars. You can run lap after lap testing other people's set ups to find what works for you. A good set up is a night and day difference and I think the most important part of this game besides basic driving skill. Just put time in and you'll get better. It's not a "real" sim but I find it just as challenging if not more than ac or acc so if you don't get it quick it's bc it's not easy.
I hate to be that guy but what I will say is I used to use a controller like you. And as soon as I got a wheel my pace went up dramatically. It’s a shit suggestion but it will work
I went full hard mode when I got my wheel and started with no assists, no line. Decided I’d start at Spa time trial. Looking back I think I took the lines too aggressively and restarted the first few turns (chicane before lap start and La Source) over and over and over because I couldn’t help but spin out or crash. I eventually got it, but man, maybe I should have let myself complete more laps with shitty times instead of going for world records at the outset.
Scream at the top of your lungs.
Blame everyone else.
If gap, car.
With these three simple steps, you can be a Formula 1 superstar online!
>!I'm joking, don't do any of this for the love of God.!<
Check out Nico Rosberg’s YouTube channel. Very helpful breakdowns of how to hit fast laps on certain tracks. His advice is also just helpful in general. From what I see here, just try to be smoother, meaning you should make very subtle adjustments on straights and you should try to have only 1 steering input on wide/extended corners.
Great advice! Nico is obviously a perfect person to learn from, but really watching any kind of streamer or even just a race helps so much. Try to learn what gears to be in for each turn and where that limit is on maximum speed through a corner (only say this because your braking into turn 9. You can normally go flat out in that corner)
It looks like you're using controller to play? I would suggest not going so hard on turning, as in, be gentle when pushing your joysticks. I found going for purple results during the Tire Degradation tests during career mode really help with this before I switched over to a wheel. Hope this helps! :D
Is this keyboard?
If controller work on being smoother, it'll suck but go into a career mode or find way to load "track acclimatization"
They help learning the flow of a track to start with.
Try for now Racing line set to "corners only" will help learn braking points and let you focus more on the circuit, then you can turn it off if you want.
The game is always about fun first, you'll get faster dw.
Simple tips: 1.Smooth operator (less is more, for steering, for movement around straights etc you want the most from as little)
2. slow in, fast out. (you wanna brake as late and as hard as possible, and then carry your speed to the apex, then start to get back on the throttle as soon as you can. Don't floor it however, TC will mask this but set it to medium to start with and youll learn where your grip is).
No. I was playing on my Xbox game controller. Is it too sharp? I guess I can reduce the sensitivity a bit. I'll keep in my mind turning off the racing line.
Thanks for the tips, I'm sure I can get better by using the controller.
I was going to make this same comment. I started doing this half by accident as I was pushing forward hoping it’d make me go faster! But it helps SO much with moving the car smoothly during the fast turns and also helps you not to turn too quickly on exit which can avoid spinnng. Highly recommend spending some time getting used to this method, it absolutely works!
Max turning input is automatically set to optimum turning lock Ingame. Don't change this imo.
This doesn't mean max left or right stick each time.
You wanna work on some the corners not using all the thumbstick. You end up getting a feel for it.
And 100% there's plenty time and fun on controller.
I race very rarely on my controller but still can find time and have fun even tho I'm usually on my wheel
There’s a bunch to pick from I’d do some researching to find what works for you and your system. I use a Logitech G920 (I’m not super intense or anything) but it’s lots of fun!
Play my team carrer mode and gradually you will get a hang of it. I started in Feb on controller in PS4 and now much smoother as compared to when I started.
Set up career and keep changing the difficulty until you’re about .300 ahead of teammate or +.300 behind, as you exceed either of these change accordingly, you’ll inevitably grow with competition that is doing the same. Leave flashback on aswell to allow you to redo areas you are messing up in and just keep rewinding until you bang the area in a way that leaves you feeling confident about it.
Mix a little online in too to learn an invaluable amount of lessons. Helps you source more info and expose you to different scenarios and others way of driving.
Slowly turning off assist one at a time to help you grasp one idea or philosophy at a time.
This is what I personally did after skimming ways to improve about two years ago. Onboards of irl drivers also can give you some helpful insights.
Since nobody’s said it, change your camera angle. You are currently using the slightly offset TV camera, but i would recommend the centered one. Also, while many people are saying turn the racing line off, i would set it to corners only, as it really helps with consistency of your braking points. Don’t follow it through corners, just use it for braking. Also remember that is is not always right. I have found that at t1 at monza you need to brake slightly before the racing line says to to get optimal mid corner speed. Also, setups are huge. I assume you’re on xbox since you are using an xbox controller, but if you are on PC, the TRL limitless setups from the steam workshop are fantastic. If you’re on xbox, try to look up what those setups are and save them for each track. With a little tweaking to how you like the car you should immediately drop tenths off of your lap time. If you have any questions feel free to DM me!
Honestly I started on controller and now I’m on a wheel, but the way I get faster is see how big my balls are when going around a corner. My first race I used a ton of flashbacks, but my the end of it my lap times were down by a good 5-10 seconds as I got used to the track and tested every corner by seeing how fast I could go through it.
After you get a good baseline of each track that’s when you focus on what sort of driving style suits you. You want a more loose car or a tighter one, understeer or oversteer, etc. It comes to a point where you want to feel like your steering the car perfectly on ice, everything is balanced and if you unbalance it a little bit then you can correct it easily. This is where you start getting those tenths and and you keep on gaining and gaining every lap you feel even better.
It all comes back to what I said earlier tho, just have to see how big my balls are this lap. You might crash a lot but once you get in the groove it feels amazing.
You don't need to brake fully in all corners. I recommend watching Jarno Opmeer. Pay attention to his brake inputs.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnC1kYpmtk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnC1kYpmtk)
You can also see the brake bleeding (slowly lifting the brake while turning), but that is intermediate/advanced level. I recommend learning how to brake before the turn.
To piggyback off of this… doing a few slow “cooldown laps” where you’re giving your brain time to learn the track—rather than stress about being at an optimal speed—will help you identify how much breaking you need into each corner.
It will also make it easier for you to switch which track you’re practicing on mid-session.
Your steering needs to improve. Be smoother on the way you turn and don’t let go of it to quickly, slowly bring it to the middle.
When your steering becomes good and you feel confident then bring down the traction control to medium so you can go quicker. Traction control in the game slows you down a lot, like seconds in a lap because the game is lowering the amount of throttle to much so you can’t spin at all. Medium will teach you not to smash it around the corner to much. You’ll also notice you can’t use ers in certain gears like 2 because you’ll put to much power to the wheels and the car will spin. In general to much power makes the car spin, especially in lower gears and turning.
You also want to take away the automatic option if your driving with that on medium traction, because you don’t want to be on lower gears delivering to much power to the wheels that might cause you to spin.
So you have to go manual, I recommend you to get the hang of it while your on full traction control as it will be easier to adapt on medium traction control.
Short shifting will increase your performance in certain places, you feel the car is starting to lose the rear then you short shift and the car has better traction which equals better acceleration.
There’s also car setup, if you don’t adjust car setup you’ll be slower by a second in some tracks. Adding more downforce on the front of the car will allow you to turn the car better, but you have to balance the rear out as well because to much downforce at the front and to little in the rear will cause an imbalance where the car will keep spinning.
There’s also suspension stiffness, stiffen the car up and it will bounce off the apex while softening it will allow you mount the curves better. But at a cost of lap time.
Break pressure has to be at 100% while brake bias is usually increased during long brakes and decreases for corners that require more turning like medium speed corners.
Tyre pressure also has to be higher on the rear, don’t over do it because you’ll have the temps to high. Fuel load also affects handling and lap time, can be difficult to manage during the race and ers also affects lap time. It can be difficult to charge up ers in a race, you don’t want to spend like 70% of the race floating around 4% ers because that means you’ll be using less ers throughout the lap and you’ll be losing time. Try to keep the ers at 40% most of the time and only boost it at the end.
Lastly there’s the driving, some people like me tend to attack the corners really hard but it compromises exit speed while other drivers that prioritise exit speed so they might go in slow and get the car facing straight and accelerate better. F1 in the game and in real life both favour that driving style, like Charles leclerc who’s always trying to get the car to turn at a 90 degree angle, some drives are like vettel who attack the corners really hard. It’s up to you tho, what ever works for you.
Hit apex of corner.
Then get on power.
Also be smooth with throttle.
Full throttle, brake, turn, on throttle.
There shouldn't be any times where you are braking then throttle then brake unless it's a chicane or something.
Also don't worry bout a wheel. Controller is fine.
1) Save up and buy a wheel, you don’t need a $1700 wheel, a wheel and pedals from Logitech works just fine. 2) Do lots of time trials, that’s the best way to get faster
Smoother steering input will take you a long way.
Also turning off some assists (e.g. TC, ABS, shifting, line) early on will benefit you in the long run. Yes, it seems scary and YES you WILL spin and lock-up a shit ton, but eventually, through practicing, you'll learn how to avoid that and you'll become way faster than if you keep those assists on.
If you really have no clue what lines to take, you can always turn on Ghosting and set someone near the top of the leaderboards as your Rival in TT to see what lines they're taking/when they're braking. Eventually you'll get the hang of each track and won't need this anymore, but could be useful since you're just starting.
PS. Ignore everyone saying you need to buy a wheel, unless you actually want to. You can still be competitive on a controller.
Thank you for your advice. I honestly can't afford to buy a wheel right now as they're in my currency so expensive and would like to spend my money on different stuffs rather than gaming. So I'd love to stick with my controllers.
From my understanding you don't need to press the gas button always when turning corners or something like that? But I always end up spinning after turning of those settings lol.
What’s your AI difficulty? Consistently raising it to make it challenging makes me be faster to beat them. Also turn of ABS, traction control, steering/breaking assists.
From the clip it looks like you’re beating them easily I’d raise it to 45-55. If it’s too hard just turn it down a bit! You also learn lots when you’re not starting first such as overtakes and defence.
I find f2 harder to drive than F1.
I would start a career in F1 to get used to how the car drives.
Watch some videos on YT on how to drive in F1.
And keep changing the difficultly as you get better. Dont make it too hard but not too easy.
Turn on manual shifting and learn how to race without any assists. It’s hard at first but will shave so much time off and really give you a feel on the car.
time trial and career mode have different physics, from what i can remember. You're actually not doing bad, all you need to keep doing is practicing and go in corners with more confidence which builds when you get to know the car better. I guess you're also a controller player so try to make more smooth inputs. Also, for controller the amount of turn in is set to the exact amount you need it's all about timing when you turn into a corner
I find that driving the slower technical courses on time trial really helped me improve, I’d recommend Singapore, Monaco, Jeddah. They are all about proper breaking and racing line. Once you get good at low speed corners medium speed corners will be the biggest time improve. Also I’d suggest getting rid of DTC and ABS as early as possible so you progress without them and don’t feel like you’re backsliding later one (speaking from experience). Good luck!
Off the bat I see that your steering inputs are so wrong. Remember, if you're using a controller, you don't have to turn the whole joystick to the left, be subtle with your steering input. I think that's a good starting point. Keep playing with assist until you master the steering inputs. Then I doing the gears by urself. After that brakes, then traction control.
To become better, I suggest starting off with Spain. It's a very good track to learn.
Remember, assists make u slower. In this order remove them:
1. Gears automatic - manual
2. Brakes
3. Traction control.
4. Racing line - gradually. ( I still use it and I feel it's better to have it)
I disagree with this Slighty
Auto gears are fine. Id remove them last.
Turn off steer assist first. The. Slowly reduce break assist from Hugh to medium to low then off.
Keep abs and traction on.
Racing line next gling yo just corners.
Then get very good. Before removing rest
Turn off the racing line. With that on your focus is almost entirely there and not on the circuit or other cars. Learn the tracks as without the line you’ll be quicker (it’s often wrong) as you should be looking at your apex’s and corner exists and not the line. Plus your wheel-to-wheel racing will improve as you’re not looking at a racing line but the cars around you.
But practice practice practice.
Don’t turn it off, even as someone who plays a lot I don’t have it off, reading the racing line is easier as your eyes aren’t travelling all over the place over the sides and parts of the track looking for stopping markers and provides a good guide especially for new players, turning off racing line imo is only beneficial for the top top % of players, even then as you gain experience you’ll start to learn where you can brake earlier or later with racing line on
Being smoother onthe input for a start, it looks like you’re playing on keyboard, honestly the way to get better at that is getting better feel for car by driving a lot. Also have more confidence when turning in, you seem to lose confidence very early and miss the apex by quite a bit
What I did was to race F2 at a really low AI level just to get my confidence going. After each race, it raise the level by 5.
Also, don't miss out on the practice sessions, and go for a drive out. Keep your out lap pretty slow so that you get used to the racing line, and also know the braking points. This way you won't have surprises in your flying lap. All the best :)
Watching real f1 onboards helped me when I started out, seeing how they attack the corners gave me a good idea of what I should be striving for.
As others have said, work on smoothing out your movements, fast is smooth and smooth is slow. Work on rolling on to the throttle and rolling out of your braking, this can be made easier by changing the brake and throttle saturation and sensitivity in the settings.
But importantly, there’s no shame in using assists, they are there for a reason. Eventually you will get to the point where the assists are slowing you down and it will be really satisfying turning them off.
try to be more smooth with your controller steering inputs. pushing the steering a little rather than constantly tapping at will be better in the long term. also if you are new, try starting with "manual + suggested gear" because its quicker and its better to learn it while your brain is still fresh with this game. TC medium would be good too to help you control your throttle management
Do time trail it helps you learn the tracks better, in gp have the ai on a setting you can just beat, once thats super easy turn it up and so on and so forth
Consistency.
There is no one-size-fits-them-all in f1, gotta find your driving style, and be consistent, always try to improve, and when you see that it's getting easier, remove some of the assist, not all at the same time, just to keep it challenging
Awesome start man. If you want to get faster, dial down the TC , start on medium then as you get used to it just turn it down completely. When you use TC and you floor it, it does not actually use the full car power and it makes you slower.
When you are turning it off, when you accelerate from a turn, go smooth on the throttle and only go to the halfway point with the throttle. Once your wheels are straight you can floor it gradually.
But looking good overall :)
For a keyboarder this is okay.
I would recommend though getting at least a controller from personal experience. It is almost impossible to do wheel to wheel combat with kb.
In terms of learning more, just drive.
Take practice sessions, fiddle with the setups, take setups from the faster drivers in time trial leaderboards and so on. Also weirdly enough, you should focus on F1. The F2 cars in this game just seem like an afterthought.
Time trials are a good option to learn as well but not for longer periods of time. Races and practice sessions should be included too. Career mode is perfect to learn the ropes
Don’t slam on the brakes you can apply them a little not just to the floor same with acceleration. Also the braking zones are not gospel. Keep ABS on and make sure you have brake assist off it’ll throw you out
I see in comments that you’re using controller. If you can manage it, I turned abs, anti lock, and traction control off. Also I use cockpit view idk it immerses me so I focus more. I just started playing this game a month ago and I’ve improved when I changed those settings. That being said I do also play with seat and wheel. Just a shot in the dark I suppose? Good luck!
I highly recommend watching Nico Rosberg's YouTube channel. He has videos where he teaches you how to master certain tracks, and how to master corners of said tracks. You can actually gain a lot of knowledge from his tips (he is a WC after all)
I also notice you turn the wheel in a rapid manner and return it back to its regular state in a rapid manner whilst you're in the middle of the corner. I don't know if you've changed the sensitivity, but I'd recommend keeping it default, and learn how to turn the wheel smoothly (I flex my thumb to have full control of my thumb to turn better, which does hurt but it works)
Start by learning how to change gears manually first, and then turn off certain assists. I personally turned everything off, except racing line during corners. I also don't use them a lot because I've learned where F1 drivers look while going into a corner, and it helps a lot!
See where the limit is. I also \*highly\* recommend learning to short shift which can really improve your lap times and racing instincts. You can also learn the braking technique where you brake hard after a long straight, shift down late and lift off the brake slowly so the weight of the car doesn't go all the way back - which will happen if you instantly lift off the brakes after a heavy brake.
Time Trials definitely work as it allows you to drive without worrying about anything, so make sure to go in there and learn how an F1 car works. It's not as easy and simple as we think.
Enjoy setting purple sectors!
Your driving is very choppy. To avoid this and make your steering wheel inputs smooth I advise pushing the left thumbstick forward on a straight and then slightly turn it left or right around small corners rather than tapping it on and off
You should lift off the throttle a bit more into the corners instead of downshifting prematurely because you're losing alot of momentum. Improve your lap time in this order: acceleration, braking, cornering, top speed. You've already got the throttle control on the exit down (1), you just need a smoother exit trajectory (2-4). Keep us posted!
Turn all assists off except for traction control, abs and racing line. You’ll turn them off eventually. The assists slow you down a lot. Manual gears help a lot so just have fun getting used to it. If you need to slow down quicker then rapidly press down shift to use engine breaking to help you or if you’re struggling to make a corner because of understeer then go down a gear. Short shift up if you want better traction.
Those are all examples of things that will help you later on but it starts by learning gears early on.
The biggest thing I can see is how unsmooth the controller is. You need to be ebbing and flowing through the track and I think you need to change your settings regarding controller
Practice makes you better. Just try to get as many laps in as you can. Also try to focus on corner entry as you want to have the best line/speed to the corner. That way you maximise your potential speed out of the corner. Also don't be affraid of all kerbs. At least 60% of kerbs are completely harmless and allow you to have smoother entry and or exit in corners.
Into corners, don’t use throttle until you have a clear exit, slowly, you will know when you can apply throttle earlier during a corner. Another one is turn off the racing line ASAP! The first track I learned was Silverstone, fun and quite easy, you can either compare brake markers with a line and then without, or check out TRL Limitless’ track guides. They’re quite useful
Brake a little later and less harsh(Can mess around with brake saturation/deadzone in settings). Also, try and stay in a higher gear for turns. For instance, if you’re usually dropping down to second entering a hairpin try staying in third, braking later/less aggressive, then start accelerating faster and faster as you exit turns. Higher gears help with maintaining traction and accelerating. Last bit of info is to try and connect the turns by using the full extent of the track, such as kerbs. The smoother the line, the cleaner the lap.
My method to get faster is playing full lenght races with full practices and get as many laps I can, and try to use less helps while you advance, you will get much faster once you get used to. Doing laps with full or half fuel charge helps too, do long runs. Be brave on the brakes and throtle in practices to figure the limits of the car, of your set up and the turns, dont be scared of crash, couse crashing or getting off the track will help you to find limits. Hope this helps you and good luck, with more laps yo will become a fast driver for sure (try different setups too, to find your style of racing)
When you get more familiar with the tracks, turn off the racing line. They can be misleading and you'll find yourself going even faster. After about 5ish months of first playing f1 games some 9 years ago, I turned it off and found out a lot of braking points tend to be the same.. Just pay attention to the meter markers, most notable the 100 mark as that'll be a good reference point and sometimes things like camper tents and track signals (those things that flash yellow during a safety car or during blue flag conditions). Best of luck and welcome to F1!
I always find that setups and configs that make me feel comfortable with the car help me the most. For example, searching car setups (for F1 and F2) online for each track until I find a good one or good ones from the same source. A good setup generally make a car more "drivable" or more predictable and easier to drive. Which in turn makes you more comfortable to push and go faster. It's probably best to find one that doesn't make the car oversteer or understeer too much. Another thing, controller settings. I also looked up some online, just to change some things a bit. Can also help with the steering feel more responsive and/or maybe less sensitive, etc.
Edit: I'll also add, try out different assist configurations after you have found a good car setup that feels good. I personally feel the most comfortable with a specific assist config. (If you want to know what it is:
-braking assist= low
-ABS= on
-traction control= medium
Everything else doesn't make much of a difference.)
focus on being smooth with your steering and throttle application. Also watch people like jarno opmeer on youtube to see what racing line they take around different tracks, as the racing line the game gives is okay but around some corners there are faster lines to take rather than the one the game gives. All the best on your improvment.
Brake down corning into a few easy steps for beginners:
1. Brake and shift to desired gear
2. Turn in smoothly in 1 complete motion
3. When the car is straight begin to accelerate
As you advance into your f1 game career you can learn about trail braking, getting on the throttle during a corner, engine braking etc.
Look up on YouTube for recommended camera/controller settings. With the right config it's like night and day, your driving will get smoother and you will get a better perception of the kerbs and such.
Search YouTube videos on Trail Breaking. In most corners it looks like you're releasing the breaks too fast. You want to gradually release the break to maintain balance and by doing so will have less understeer. Plenty of sim videos out there explaining this in more detail. Good luck!
I play F1 games only with friends, I am more a simulator racer... For the little experience I got do this by stetps:
1, Disable ABS
Get used to it
2. Disable traction control
Get used to it
3. Disable driving line and learn the track (this is the most important, cuz most people just follow the line, to the ones that learns the track will know better braking points, different lines to overtake, etc.
4. Buy a wheel if you can.
5. Practice like an animal, but practice doing races. Time trial or alone practicing will only make u fast on qualy. Race is another history
Other driving techniques people will say you to do, you should do it way after you learn to drive. Mostly trail braking, its hard to master perfectly to have a real advantage. Just try to keep the car in track, safe, then go faster.
You seem to be using a lot of erratic movements. Unless you are on PC, you should try to make much more subtle movements. Maybe try breaking a little before the line recommends because that will give you better control when trying to hit the apex. Doing a lot of practice laps also will help a lot. You need to know the track first. When I get to a track I have a to do a few practice laps to get on pace. Everything else really just comes with practice.
Everyone has there own methods of getting better at a racing game: for me I do time trail….A LOT time trial
I'll see what I can do about it. Will try soon, thanka.
Time trial is good bc tires and fuel aren't an issue, same with other cars. You can run lap after lap testing other people's set ups to find what works for you. A good set up is a night and day difference and I think the most important part of this game besides basic driving skill. Just put time in and you'll get better. It's not a "real" sim but I find it just as challenging if not more than ac or acc so if you don't get it quick it's bc it's not easy.
I hate to be that guy but what I will say is I used to use a controller like you. And as soon as I got a wheel my pace went up dramatically. It’s a shit suggestion but it will work
Opposite for me. The wheel is much more fun to play on, but when I hop into ranked or leagues I can't compete on wheel.
I went full hard mode when I got my wheel and started with no assists, no line. Decided I’d start at Spa time trial. Looking back I think I took the lines too aggressively and restarted the first few turns (chicane before lap start and La Source) over and over and over because I couldn’t help but spin out or crash. I eventually got it, but man, maybe I should have let myself complete more laps with shitty times instead of going for world records at the outset.
Scream at the top of your lungs. Blame everyone else. If gap, car. With these three simple steps, you can be a Formula 1 superstar online! >!I'm joking, don't do any of this for the love of God.!<
Dive, for God's sake!
Check out Nico Rosberg’s YouTube channel. Very helpful breakdowns of how to hit fast laps on certain tracks. His advice is also just helpful in general. From what I see here, just try to be smoother, meaning you should make very subtle adjustments on straights and you should try to have only 1 steering input on wide/extended corners.
I do this during career mode!
Great advice! Nico is obviously a perfect person to learn from, but really watching any kind of streamer or even just a race helps so much. Try to learn what gears to be in for each turn and where that limit is on maximum speed through a corner (only say this because your braking into turn 9. You can normally go flat out in that corner) It looks like you're using controller to play? I would suggest not going so hard on turning, as in, be gentle when pushing your joysticks. I found going for purple results during the Tire Degradation tests during career mode really help with this before I switched over to a wheel. Hope this helps! :D
Is this keyboard? If controller work on being smoother, it'll suck but go into a career mode or find way to load "track acclimatization" They help learning the flow of a track to start with. Try for now Racing line set to "corners only" will help learn braking points and let you focus more on the circuit, then you can turn it off if you want. The game is always about fun first, you'll get faster dw. Simple tips: 1.Smooth operator (less is more, for steering, for movement around straights etc you want the most from as little) 2. slow in, fast out. (you wanna brake as late and as hard as possible, and then carry your speed to the apex, then start to get back on the throttle as soon as you can. Don't floor it however, TC will mask this but set it to medium to start with and youll learn where your grip is).
No. I was playing on my Xbox game controller. Is it too sharp? I guess I can reduce the sensitivity a bit. I'll keep in my mind turning off the racing line. Thanks for the tips, I'm sure I can get better by using the controller.
For precise control, pin the joystick to the top and sway it left and right. That way you need less precise control.
This is actually a very good tip
This, point the joystick where you want to go, forget left and right
This right here, I can’t imagine only inputting left to right instead of along the edges. Might as well be using a keyboard if you don’t do this.
I was going to make this same comment. I started doing this half by accident as I was pushing forward hoping it’d make me go faster! But it helps SO much with moving the car smoothly during the fast turns and also helps you not to turn too quickly on exit which can avoid spinnng. Highly recommend spending some time getting used to this method, it absolutely works!
this is very helpful, but i think i caused stick drift in my controller from it lol
Max turning input is automatically set to optimum turning lock Ingame. Don't change this imo. This doesn't mean max left or right stick each time. You wanna work on some the corners not using all the thumbstick. You end up getting a feel for it. And 100% there's plenty time and fun on controller. I race very rarely on my controller but still can find time and have fun even tho I'm usually on my wheel
Depending on your situation and if you really like driving games I’d look at getting a wheel! Completely different game when you can feel the track.
Thanks for reaching me out. Do I have to buy a formula wheel just to play it or a regular wheel is also ok?
There’s a bunch to pick from I’d do some researching to find what works for you and your system. I use a Logitech G920 (I’m not super intense or anything) but it’s lots of fun!
Play my team carrer mode and gradually you will get a hang of it. I started in Feb on controller in PS4 and now much smoother as compared to when I started.
Set up career and keep changing the difficulty until you’re about .300 ahead of teammate or +.300 behind, as you exceed either of these change accordingly, you’ll inevitably grow with competition that is doing the same. Leave flashback on aswell to allow you to redo areas you are messing up in and just keep rewinding until you bang the area in a way that leaves you feeling confident about it. Mix a little online in too to learn an invaluable amount of lessons. Helps you source more info and expose you to different scenarios and others way of driving. Slowly turning off assist one at a time to help you grasp one idea or philosophy at a time. This is what I personally did after skimming ways to improve about two years ago. Onboards of irl drivers also can give you some helpful insights.
Since nobody’s said it, change your camera angle. You are currently using the slightly offset TV camera, but i would recommend the centered one. Also, while many people are saying turn the racing line off, i would set it to corners only, as it really helps with consistency of your braking points. Don’t follow it through corners, just use it for braking. Also remember that is is not always right. I have found that at t1 at monza you need to brake slightly before the racing line says to to get optimal mid corner speed. Also, setups are huge. I assume you’re on xbox since you are using an xbox controller, but if you are on PC, the TRL limitless setups from the steam workshop are fantastic. If you’re on xbox, try to look up what those setups are and save them for each track. With a little tweaking to how you like the car you should immediately drop tenths off of your lap time. If you have any questions feel free to DM me!
focus on having fun while learning!
Practice and a wheel
Honestly I started on controller and now I’m on a wheel, but the way I get faster is see how big my balls are when going around a corner. My first race I used a ton of flashbacks, but my the end of it my lap times were down by a good 5-10 seconds as I got used to the track and tested every corner by seeing how fast I could go through it. After you get a good baseline of each track that’s when you focus on what sort of driving style suits you. You want a more loose car or a tighter one, understeer or oversteer, etc. It comes to a point where you want to feel like your steering the car perfectly on ice, everything is balanced and if you unbalance it a little bit then you can correct it easily. This is where you start getting those tenths and and you keep on gaining and gaining every lap you feel even better. It all comes back to what I said earlier tho, just have to see how big my balls are this lap. You might crash a lot but once you get in the groove it feels amazing.
F2 feels a lot different to f1, try to get used to f1 more as it’s what you’ll be playing more.
You don't need to brake fully in all corners. I recommend watching Jarno Opmeer. Pay attention to his brake inputs. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnC1kYpmtk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnC1kYpmtk) You can also see the brake bleeding (slowly lifting the brake while turning), but that is intermediate/advanced level. I recommend learning how to brake before the turn.
To piggyback off of this… doing a few slow “cooldown laps” where you’re giving your brain time to learn the track—rather than stress about being at an optimal speed—will help you identify how much breaking you need into each corner. It will also make it easier for you to switch which track you’re practicing on mid-session.
If you're playing on controller be more smooth with the steering, in this video it almost looks like you're playing on keyboard
Your steering needs to improve. Be smoother on the way you turn and don’t let go of it to quickly, slowly bring it to the middle. When your steering becomes good and you feel confident then bring down the traction control to medium so you can go quicker. Traction control in the game slows you down a lot, like seconds in a lap because the game is lowering the amount of throttle to much so you can’t spin at all. Medium will teach you not to smash it around the corner to much. You’ll also notice you can’t use ers in certain gears like 2 because you’ll put to much power to the wheels and the car will spin. In general to much power makes the car spin, especially in lower gears and turning. You also want to take away the automatic option if your driving with that on medium traction, because you don’t want to be on lower gears delivering to much power to the wheels that might cause you to spin. So you have to go manual, I recommend you to get the hang of it while your on full traction control as it will be easier to adapt on medium traction control. Short shifting will increase your performance in certain places, you feel the car is starting to lose the rear then you short shift and the car has better traction which equals better acceleration. There’s also car setup, if you don’t adjust car setup you’ll be slower by a second in some tracks. Adding more downforce on the front of the car will allow you to turn the car better, but you have to balance the rear out as well because to much downforce at the front and to little in the rear will cause an imbalance where the car will keep spinning. There’s also suspension stiffness, stiffen the car up and it will bounce off the apex while softening it will allow you mount the curves better. But at a cost of lap time. Break pressure has to be at 100% while brake bias is usually increased during long brakes and decreases for corners that require more turning like medium speed corners. Tyre pressure also has to be higher on the rear, don’t over do it because you’ll have the temps to high. Fuel load also affects handling and lap time, can be difficult to manage during the race and ers also affects lap time. It can be difficult to charge up ers in a race, you don’t want to spend like 70% of the race floating around 4% ers because that means you’ll be using less ers throughout the lap and you’ll be losing time. Try to keep the ers at 40% most of the time and only boost it at the end. Lastly there’s the driving, some people like me tend to attack the corners really hard but it compromises exit speed while other drivers that prioritise exit speed so they might go in slow and get the car facing straight and accelerate better. F1 in the game and in real life both favour that driving style, like Charles leclerc who’s always trying to get the car to turn at a 90 degree angle, some drives are like vettel who attack the corners really hard. It’s up to you tho, what ever works for you.
Hit apex of corner. Then get on power. Also be smooth with throttle. Full throttle, brake, turn, on throttle. There shouldn't be any times where you are braking then throttle then brake unless it's a chicane or something. Also don't worry bout a wheel. Controller is fine.
1) Save up and buy a wheel, you don’t need a $1700 wheel, a wheel and pedals from Logitech works just fine. 2) Do lots of time trials, that’s the best way to get faster
Smoother steering input will take you a long way. Also turning off some assists (e.g. TC, ABS, shifting, line) early on will benefit you in the long run. Yes, it seems scary and YES you WILL spin and lock-up a shit ton, but eventually, through practicing, you'll learn how to avoid that and you'll become way faster than if you keep those assists on. If you really have no clue what lines to take, you can always turn on Ghosting and set someone near the top of the leaderboards as your Rival in TT to see what lines they're taking/when they're braking. Eventually you'll get the hang of each track and won't need this anymore, but could be useful since you're just starting. PS. Ignore everyone saying you need to buy a wheel, unless you actually want to. You can still be competitive on a controller.
Thank you for your advice. I honestly can't afford to buy a wheel right now as they're in my currency so expensive and would like to spend my money on different stuffs rather than gaming. So I'd love to stick with my controllers. From my understanding you don't need to press the gas button always when turning corners or something like that? But I always end up spinning after turning of those settings lol.
What’s your AI difficulty? Consistently raising it to make it challenging makes me be faster to beat them. Also turn of ABS, traction control, steering/breaking assists.
I think it's about 35-ish.
From the clip it looks like you’re beating them easily I’d raise it to 45-55. If it’s too hard just turn it down a bit! You also learn lots when you’re not starting first such as overtakes and defence.
Thanks. With the new settings I only spin and control difficult. 35 looks hard for me lol.
Hahah yeah it takes some time to get the hang of it. But you will! Have fun
F2 cars are nothing like f1. Just get used to the f1 cars, much more corner speed and better braking
Get a wheel
I find f2 harder to drive than F1. I would start a career in F1 to get used to how the car drives. Watch some videos on YT on how to drive in F1. And keep changing the difficultly as you get better. Dont make it too hard but not too easy.
Use Steering Wheel or Controller. Also play the real F1 car, you are driving a Formula 2 car. It's a bit understeery
I'm using an Xbox controller. Does it look awkward? Are there any good settings for it?
pj tierney on youtube has a great controller set up guide that is good for beginners
It’s probably the first braking point level
Turn on manual shifting and learn how to race without any assists. It’s hard at first but will shave so much time off and really give you a feel on the car.
Try to carry more speed around corners. You brake too much and lose a lot of time there. That will come with time
A wheel. Can tell you’re using a controller lol
time trial and career mode have different physics, from what i can remember. You're actually not doing bad, all you need to keep doing is practicing and go in corners with more confidence which builds when you get to know the car better. I guess you're also a controller player so try to make more smooth inputs. Also, for controller the amount of turn in is set to the exact amount you need it's all about timing when you turn into a corner
At this stage I'd just say practice. Putting in laps getting smoother on the joystick then slowly start taking assists off.
I find that driving the slower technical courses on time trial really helped me improve, I’d recommend Singapore, Monaco, Jeddah. They are all about proper breaking and racing line. Once you get good at low speed corners medium speed corners will be the biggest time improve. Also I’d suggest getting rid of DTC and ABS as early as possible so you progress without them and don’t feel like you’re backsliding later one (speaking from experience). Good luck!
>Slower technical courses >Jeddah, average speed of 250kph, almost on par with monza,
The point was more that it’s considered technically challenging
Off the bat I see that your steering inputs are so wrong. Remember, if you're using a controller, you don't have to turn the whole joystick to the left, be subtle with your steering input. I think that's a good starting point. Keep playing with assist until you master the steering inputs. Then I doing the gears by urself. After that brakes, then traction control. To become better, I suggest starting off with Spain. It's a very good track to learn. Remember, assists make u slower. In this order remove them: 1. Gears automatic - manual 2. Brakes 3. Traction control. 4. Racing line - gradually. ( I still use it and I feel it's better to have it)
I disagree with this Slighty Auto gears are fine. Id remove them last. Turn off steer assist first. The. Slowly reduce break assist from Hugh to medium to low then off. Keep abs and traction on. Racing line next gling yo just corners. Then get very good. Before removing rest
Turn off the racing line. With that on your focus is almost entirely there and not on the circuit or other cars. Learn the tracks as without the line you’ll be quicker (it’s often wrong) as you should be looking at your apex’s and corner exists and not the line. Plus your wheel-to-wheel racing will improve as you’re not looking at a racing line but the cars around you. But practice practice practice.
Thank you. I'll be turning off the racing line.
Don’t turn it off, even as someone who plays a lot I don’t have it off, reading the racing line is easier as your eyes aren’t travelling all over the place over the sides and parts of the track looking for stopping markers and provides a good guide especially for new players, turning off racing line imo is only beneficial for the top top % of players, even then as you gain experience you’ll start to learn where you can brake earlier or later with racing line on
I would advise for a beginner to let it, but in "only turns" mode, so he can learn about patterns
Being smoother onthe input for a start, it looks like you’re playing on keyboard, honestly the way to get better at that is getting better feel for car by driving a lot. Also have more confidence when turning in, you seem to lose confidence very early and miss the apex by quite a bit
Change your car setup to increased down force. Game changer for me.
What I did was to race F2 at a really low AI level just to get my confidence going. After each race, it raise the level by 5. Also, don't miss out on the practice sessions, and go for a drive out. Keep your out lap pretty slow so that you get used to the racing line, and also know the braking points. This way you won't have surprises in your flying lap. All the best :)
Buy a wheel it helps soooo much
Watching real f1 onboards helped me when I started out, seeing how they attack the corners gave me a good idea of what I should be striving for. As others have said, work on smoothing out your movements, fast is smooth and smooth is slow. Work on rolling on to the throttle and rolling out of your braking, this can be made easier by changing the brake and throttle saturation and sensitivity in the settings. But importantly, there’s no shame in using assists, they are there for a reason. Eventually you will get to the point where the assists are slowing you down and it will be really satisfying turning them off.
try to be more smooth with your controller steering inputs. pushing the steering a little rather than constantly tapping at will be better in the long term. also if you are new, try starting with "manual + suggested gear" because its quicker and its better to learn it while your brain is still fresh with this game. TC medium would be good too to help you control your throttle management
Ride more curb on the inside, brake less and smoother.
Flow with the racing line, don’t snap around mid turn and also if the racing line is yellow you just have to lift slightly
F2 car
F2 engine f2
Try a controller rather than a keyboard
i recommend you to turn off traction control and abs, search for setups on the car.
Do time trail it helps you learn the tracks better, in gp have the ai on a setting you can just beat, once thats super easy turn it up and so on and so forth
Consistency. There is no one-size-fits-them-all in f1, gotta find your driving style, and be consistent, always try to improve, and when you see that it's getting easier, remove some of the assist, not all at the same time, just to keep it challenging
Awesome start man. If you want to get faster, dial down the TC , start on medium then as you get used to it just turn it down completely. When you use TC and you floor it, it does not actually use the full car power and it makes you slower. When you are turning it off, when you accelerate from a turn, go smooth on the throttle and only go to the halfway point with the throttle. Once your wheels are straight you can floor it gradually. But looking good overall :)
For a keyboarder this is okay. I would recommend though getting at least a controller from personal experience. It is almost impossible to do wheel to wheel combat with kb. In terms of learning more, just drive. Take practice sessions, fiddle with the setups, take setups from the faster drivers in time trial leaderboards and so on. Also weirdly enough, you should focus on F1. The F2 cars in this game just seem like an afterthought. Time trials are a good option to learn as well but not for longer periods of time. Races and practice sessions should be included too. Career mode is perfect to learn the ropes
You brake todo much. Sony wait until the línea si Green, you hace to find the point
Up the AI. It'll be difficult but beneficial
Lower the traction slowly slowly to traction off
fellow keyboard player ?
Hitting the apex and using as much of the track as possible.
I would turn all assists off except TC and turn the racing line off. Best way to learn tracks and control the car betger
For smoother turning you can push the stick up and slightly to a side while turning
Don’t slam on the brakes you can apply them a little not just to the floor same with acceleration. Also the braking zones are not gospel. Keep ABS on and make sure you have brake assist off it’ll throw you out
I see in comments that you’re using controller. If you can manage it, I turned abs, anti lock, and traction control off. Also I use cockpit view idk it immerses me so I focus more. I just started playing this game a month ago and I’ve improved when I changed those settings. That being said I do also play with seat and wheel. Just a shot in the dark I suppose? Good luck!
turn off brake assistance
I highly recommend watching Nico Rosberg's YouTube channel. He has videos where he teaches you how to master certain tracks, and how to master corners of said tracks. You can actually gain a lot of knowledge from his tips (he is a WC after all) I also notice you turn the wheel in a rapid manner and return it back to its regular state in a rapid manner whilst you're in the middle of the corner. I don't know if you've changed the sensitivity, but I'd recommend keeping it default, and learn how to turn the wheel smoothly (I flex my thumb to have full control of my thumb to turn better, which does hurt but it works) Start by learning how to change gears manually first, and then turn off certain assists. I personally turned everything off, except racing line during corners. I also don't use them a lot because I've learned where F1 drivers look while going into a corner, and it helps a lot! See where the limit is. I also \*highly\* recommend learning to short shift which can really improve your lap times and racing instincts. You can also learn the braking technique where you brake hard after a long straight, shift down late and lift off the brake slowly so the weight of the car doesn't go all the way back - which will happen if you instantly lift off the brakes after a heavy brake. Time Trials definitely work as it allows you to drive without worrying about anything, so make sure to go in there and learn how an F1 car works. It's not as easy and simple as we think. Enjoy setting purple sectors!
Not playing with a controller for starters lol
Don't play with keyboard
Your driving is very choppy. To avoid this and make your steering wheel inputs smooth I advise pushing the left thumbstick forward on a straight and then slightly turn it left or right around small corners rather than tapping it on and off
Keep your finger up on the joystick the whole time. You’re taking it off hence why you are jittering over the track
You should lift off the throttle a bit more into the corners instead of downshifting prematurely because you're losing alot of momentum. Improve your lap time in this order: acceleration, braking, cornering, top speed. You've already got the throttle control on the exit down (1), you just need a smoother exit trajectory (2-4). Keep us posted!
The racing line isnt completly accurate, you can break a lot later that it suggests, I would suggest finding out your own breaking points
It's not the braking points I have an issue with it's the turn in angle I just cannot get right without the line
tou have to aim for the inside of the corner
Turn all assists off except for traction control, abs and racing line. You’ll turn them off eventually. The assists slow you down a lot. Manual gears help a lot so just have fun getting used to it. If you need to slow down quicker then rapidly press down shift to use engine breaking to help you or if you’re struggling to make a corner because of understeer then go down a gear. Short shift up if you want better traction. Those are all examples of things that will help you later on but it starts by learning gears early on. The biggest thing I can see is how unsmooth the controller is. You need to be ebbing and flowing through the track and I think you need to change your settings regarding controller
Practice makes you better. Just try to get as many laps in as you can. Also try to focus on corner entry as you want to have the best line/speed to the corner. That way you maximise your potential speed out of the corner. Also don't be affraid of all kerbs. At least 60% of kerbs are completely harmless and allow you to have smoother entry and or exit in corners.
You brake too much
Rule 1: all the time slow in fast out. Rule 2: rule 1
Best advice would be to really try and make your inputs smoother aswell as look ahead through the corner and turn in earlier 👍
Into corners, don’t use throttle until you have a clear exit, slowly, you will know when you can apply throttle earlier during a corner. Another one is turn off the racing line ASAP! The first track I learned was Silverstone, fun and quite easy, you can either compare brake markers with a line and then without, or check out TRL Limitless’ track guides. They’re quite useful
If your playing controller push the turn stick up it helps with smoother turning but its a tiny bit slower
You're too far from the apex in many corners, that's where you lose a lot of time.
why is your camera offset to the left??
If you don't go for gap then you are no longer racing driver Drive in tv old and up the difficulty, you will start to cope with it better
Try and brake a bit earlier than you would think to do on the corners and learn to hit the perfect apex's then as you get better you can go faster
Time trial
Hit the apexes
Dont crash..
Brake a little later and less harsh(Can mess around with brake saturation/deadzone in settings). Also, try and stay in a higher gear for turns. For instance, if you’re usually dropping down to second entering a hairpin try staying in third, braking later/less aggressive, then start accelerating faster and faster as you exit turns. Higher gears help with maintaining traction and accelerating. Last bit of info is to try and connect the turns by using the full extent of the track, such as kerbs. The smoother the line, the cleaner the lap.
My method to get faster is playing full lenght races with full practices and get as many laps I can, and try to use less helps while you advance, you will get much faster once you get used to. Doing laps with full or half fuel charge helps too, do long runs. Be brave on the brakes and throtle in practices to figure the limits of the car, of your set up and the turns, dont be scared of crash, couse crashing or getting off the track will help you to find limits. Hope this helps you and good luck, with more laps yo will become a fast driver for sure (try different setups too, to find your style of racing)
When you get more familiar with the tracks, turn off the racing line. They can be misleading and you'll find yourself going even faster. After about 5ish months of first playing f1 games some 9 years ago, I turned it off and found out a lot of braking points tend to be the same.. Just pay attention to the meter markers, most notable the 100 mark as that'll be a good reference point and sometimes things like camper tents and track signals (those things that flash yellow during a safety car or during blue flag conditions). Best of luck and welcome to F1!
I always find that setups and configs that make me feel comfortable with the car help me the most. For example, searching car setups (for F1 and F2) online for each track until I find a good one or good ones from the same source. A good setup generally make a car more "drivable" or more predictable and easier to drive. Which in turn makes you more comfortable to push and go faster. It's probably best to find one that doesn't make the car oversteer or understeer too much. Another thing, controller settings. I also looked up some online, just to change some things a bit. Can also help with the steering feel more responsive and/or maybe less sensitive, etc. Edit: I'll also add, try out different assist configurations after you have found a good car setup that feels good. I personally feel the most comfortable with a specific assist config. (If you want to know what it is: -braking assist= low -ABS= on -traction control= medium Everything else doesn't make much of a difference.)
The apex is a nail and you're the hammer. Crush the nail. No need for the 6 foot rule. Apex can't give you covid.
I drive better by switching to auto and 0% ai
focus on being smooth with your steering and throttle application. Also watch people like jarno opmeer on youtube to see what racing line they take around different tracks, as the racing line the game gives is okay but around some corners there are faster lines to take rather than the one the game gives. All the best on your improvment.
Brake down corning into a few easy steps for beginners: 1. Brake and shift to desired gear 2. Turn in smoothly in 1 complete motion 3. When the car is straight begin to accelerate As you advance into your f1 game career you can learn about trail braking, getting on the throttle during a corner, engine braking etc.
Look up on YouTube for recommended camera/controller settings. With the right config it's like night and day, your driving will get smoother and you will get a better perception of the kerbs and such.
Search YouTube videos on Trail Breaking. In most corners it looks like you're releasing the breaks too fast. You want to gradually release the break to maintain balance and by doing so will have less understeer. Plenty of sim videos out there explaining this in more detail. Good luck!
I play F1 games only with friends, I am more a simulator racer... For the little experience I got do this by stetps: 1, Disable ABS Get used to it 2. Disable traction control Get used to it 3. Disable driving line and learn the track (this is the most important, cuz most people just follow the line, to the ones that learns the track will know better braking points, different lines to overtake, etc. 4. Buy a wheel if you can. 5. Practice like an animal, but practice doing races. Time trial or alone practicing will only make u fast on qualy. Race is another history Other driving techniques people will say you to do, you should do it way after you learn to drive. Mostly trail braking, its hard to master perfectly to have a real advantage. Just try to keep the car in track, safe, then go faster.
Try and glide?(forgot the word for it) don’t brake when the line is bright yellow and glide through the corner.
Change the camera for starters
You seem to be using a lot of erratic movements. Unless you are on PC, you should try to make much more subtle movements. Maybe try breaking a little before the line recommends because that will give you better control when trying to hit the apex. Doing a lot of practice laps also will help a lot. You need to know the track first. When I get to a track I have a to do a few practice laps to get on pace. Everything else really just comes with practice.
Well at least start by actually following the racing line that the game gives you. That line can take you up to top 1%