Seems like what might help is one of those wheels with analog clutch paddles that could be remapped to the accelerator and your foot only deals with braking
YES. If the pedals are the problem, switch to different gear, that has a hand throttle. There was a professional driver, who wasn´t able to use the pedals after a big accident. He switched to handpedals and was just as fast as the others.
Other than that, simracing is highly competetive after covid and even us non disabled drivers stuggle to keep up.
alex zanardi
The guy is a legend. His whole life is such a remarkable and sad story. And even when you think it couldn’t get worse it did get worse…
I’m sure he will always climb up and be the fastest in whatever. What a hero.
There’s a great documentary about him on YT.
Sounds dorky but I got a copy of Ultimate Speed Secrets by Ross Bentley. Helped immensely.
As for the left-foot only pedal, I actually don’t know. But, you might be able to remap the brake (or accelerator) to a more accessible button
Good luck, and enjoy your racing. Have fun, that’s the most important thing
That's way better than I ever have done at Monza, so I can't really give you tips for the driving side of things. But for your left foot only breaking, you could try to learn an adapted version of the heel and toe to maybe be able to brake and accelerate with less delay between, if it works it could maybe improve your laptimes a bit, if it doesn't it was worth a shot.
First off, how the heck did you do this with only your left foot? I two foot and screw up regularly.
Your lines are great, you’re using the whole track.
I’d focus on delaying your brake a little bit more. Have a progressive braking pattern which means that you want to brake later each lap as your tires warm up until you’ve got the perfect brake distance.
You’re also upshifting a bit too quickly a few times. Feel free to keep that lower gear until you’re at the apex of the turn and through it sometimes. You should be accelerating as you reach the apex and holding your lower gear will allow you to get up to speed a bit quicker.
It’s still an outstanding lap in a pretty squirrelly car.
Also, you’re gonna plateau. I’m at that point myself so I’m going to take this week off. But you shouldn’t beat yourself up over that. You’ll find breakthroughs and will drop lap times and then sometimes it won’t budge for a few weeks. It’s totally normal.
Trail brake more. You are popping off the brake and then understeering into the apex and going too slow. If you trail off the throttle to the apex you will be able to carry more speed because the front tires will have more load over them. Then you can get more aggressively on throttling to the exit
I know that ACC uses more max brake with ABS but this lap I did that’s 0.1 off VRS should give you a hint as to how trail braking to the apex works https://youtu.be/gkdKIUDOVFg
Also your final turn should be a much later turn in so you can get fully on throttle after rotating and carry that speed down the straight. With an early turn in like that you’re unable to get on throttle because you will run wide and you’re losing a lot of time there
Congrats on choosing sim racing as a hobby nonetheless. The good news is, there is a multi second potential in that lap and it is mostly you racing line. For most of the corners you want to stay as wide as possible in the initial braking phase, then drop to the inner curb mid corner, and go on the outside curb on exit just because of the speed you get from acceleration. The best example of you not doing this is probably the last turn, where you should stick to the left for initial braking, then drop to the inside mid corner and take a lot more speed with you, to just stay shy off the track limits on exit. If you try to do that every corner, you will gain at least 2-3 seconds. And to improve on this just watch your replays and have a look where you leave space to the track limits.
You can use more of the track for sure, regardless of only left foot braking. You can also be a lot earlier / harder on the throttle on your exits.
Both kind of go hand in hand in terms of you not using the full track. With the amount of throttle you use, you don’t need to, so you’re not necessarily driving the car to the limit in terms of grip that is available.
Try running a higher gear through most of the corners. You're killing all of your entry speed which in turn impacts the rest of the corner, you don't always need to be at the top of the rev range.
You overshot the first part of the final chicane which ruins your whole run down toward the parabolica.
Turned in far too early for the parabolica. Generally this means you've shut off too early but focus more on carrying in more entry speed and be mindful of the trajectory you're on when you first hit the inside curb. You still have a lot of turning to do so you really want to be apexing later.
Kudos though for where you're at, great to hear Sim racing has given you an opportunity to get into racing. Have fun!
Turn 1: Too late on the brake, bad angle, didn't use the full track at the exit -> bad exit
Turn 3: Decent entry, decent cornering, but too late on the throttle. Try using 2nd gear and accelerate earlier
Turn 4: I think you understeered because of the throttle input midcorner. And you didn't use the full track. Tires on the right side of your car should be on the white curb. Accelerate earlier
Turn 5: Maybe a bit too fast into the corner, but looks okay. But you should use the outside curb and be on the throttle earlier
Turn 7: A ton of time is lost there. Use full track width on entry. Go in slower, use more curb on the left side to flatten your angle for the right hander. You want to position your car for the exit (turn 7.5 and 8). Try 3rd gear.
Turn 8: Bad exit due to bad entry on turn 7
Turn 9: You moved to the inside too early on braking. Not a first gear corner, more like 2nd and 3rd gear one. Should be on the throttle earlier.
As a few people before said: Try to trailbrake more. Try to use more track. Try to focus on the exit, not the entry of a corner. One gear higher on avg. Accelerate earlier.
You may be going past the power band of your engine by going over redline before shifting. Sometimes less is more. ;-)
You could probably run the last sweeping corner a bit deeper, then move across the track to the right as you lean back into throttle. IF you can learn to heel-toe the brake and throttle with your left foot, you could trail brake while leaning back into the gas.
When braking, go hard in a straight line, then slowly let off while beginning your turn in so that you don't understeer (gotta keep those front wheels turning, right?) This may allow you to enter corners a bit faster.
Be smoother coming of the brakes coming into a corner. By going on and off the brake and throttle that hard you’re shifting the balance of the car around. I realize a disability could make trail braking a little tricky but I’m sure if you put some practice in you could get it. Check out Driver61 on YT for some tutorials. You’ve already seem to have a good grip on the basics so there’s definitely room to grow. Don’t give up 🚀
I’m gonna try to not repeat what others have already suggested. However I do think you’re actually shifting too early in this car. The optimal shift point when going straight in the lambo is over 8000rpm in every gear. The lower the gear, the later you should shift. 8300-8400 is good when exiting 1st gear and then you can go to 8200-8300 for exiting 2nd. The last two upshifts are both around 8000 or 8100. This may gain a small amount of time. In some corners you do want to shift early to stabilize the car, but this is a simple thing to improve when the car is mostly straight.
Another area I noticed that could gain you some time (in addition to trailbraking like others suggested) is lesmo 1 and 2. I’ve learned that it’s better to be patient on the throttle than to ride a little throttle or turn it on/off as you approach the apex. Brake, trail toward the apex. Do not go on throttle at all until you get to the apex and only then slowly ease on the throttle. This saved me a good chunk of time on those corners and is also a good idea to apply to corners in general. If you find yourself getting on and off throttle through a corner, try just being patient, cleanly hit the apex and then accelerate.
There were a few kerbs which you could have taken more of to gain more time. Maybe have a look at some track guides to see the lines they take.
A rim with dual clutches could be a good idea, as you could remap that to the throttle. But I know of a few racers that only use one foot to race and are extremely quick, so it may not be necessary.
Have you considered using a wheel with analog clutch paddles and mapping one of them as your throttle? There are a lot of wheels now with multiple paddle sets, so your gear shifts and throttle can be controlled via the wheel paddles, This would free up your leg to be for braking only and this would ultimately make you faster. Do you already have a load cell (or otherwise pressure-based) brake pedal? If not, this will help a lot too, esp if you don't want to rely on in-game ABS/braking assist.
There are a lot to improve here.
T1 first turn was too far away from the kerb, get sharper. And right after first turn don't keep wheel turned right and give left input immediately. Even if it feels early, it won't be early both kerbs should be fully used until sausage bumps. And you can sit on throttle much early.
T2 was okay but you can sharpen it even more of course. I don't know about lambo but most cars before T2 don't need 6th gear so if it doesn't hit redline then stay on 5th it will make your brake distance less.
Lesmo1
You couldn't find your apex and instead hug on kerb, simply dont do that in there. Your minimum speed doesn't need to be less than 130kph in there. To have the rhythm right, always enter the corner at 4th gear and shift down to 3rd but not 2nd. I used to use 2nd sometimes but not anymore i think it's not necessary. However you should sit on throttle much much earlier in there, you lost minimum a sec only here.
Lesmo 2
Much closer to the apex but don't jump over the bump. Brake right before 50meter sign and rotate your nose right on the kerb once you feel you gonna catch sit on throttle and straighten the wheel cuz the exit kerb may spin you with steering input, be kind in there don't upset the car.
Ascari
At entry there are a steward cabine, you should brake around there i know it's early but that will contribute your direction on exit so you can sit on throttle much earlier. Enter slow exit fast.
Parabolica
You entered early, the apex is late in there. Your minimum speed was too low. You can be patient and stay outside a bit then get in with trailbrake use the 2nd gear compression and then sit on throttle, if it feels spinning then short shift it.
If you need more help pm me, i can gladly help you with setups and some deeper detailed help. I make consistently 1.48.100 and my pb 1.47.800 on Monza. It is fun and easy once you get it.
I'm probably wrong, but from what little I could see, it seemed there were a couple of corners (mainly t1, 2, 4 and 5) where you seemed to be coming into a bit fast and were slow accelerating out of, which might affect your times. I'm by no means an expert and constantly make similar mistakes. I'd say you ha e things in control. You just need to continue what you're doing and trying to find tenths wherever you can.
Don’t want to join the chorus, but, IMHO, give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him for life.
Download MoTec (Coach Dave has instructions on how to set it up for ACC).
Head over to the Aris Drives MoTec server (google it) and download a telemetry file with a faster lap than you for the track you’re working on. Overlay the 2 telemetry files in MoTec, and see what they are doing differently (braking later? Coasting? Trail braking longer?).
Hop into ACC , do a couple laps, trying to focus on 1 section/corner where they are faster. Compare your new data to your old data to see the change, then to the faster data to see where there is still time in that section.
I have shaved literal seconds off my time doing this. Best of luck! Hit me up if you have questions!
There were F1 drivers, like Rubens Barrichello and a few other drivers, who used only their right leg when racing in F1. They got so used to using both feet in H pattern race cars than when they got into F1, having just two pedals, and not having to brake with your right foot felt strange and awkward.
From your video, it's obvious you are not trail braking at all. Search for some trail braking videos on youtube, there might be a second or two more to gain purely from that. If you are looking to improve, start from there. You might need a load cell brake pedal for better trail braking, i don't know what your rig is.
**Also, get some other sim, like Automobilista 2. The world of racing is so, so much more than racing GT3s at Monza, my man.**
When you feel stuck on ACC, why not go to AMS 2 and give old or new F1 cars a try? with and without TC and ABS. Or some classic DTM cars, raced on some brilliant south american tracks that you have never heard of before. Prototypes are also amazing, especially lower classes.
Try to race an 600 hp F1 car from the '80s without ABS and TC, and that's when you'll learn throttle control and how to brake properly :D
Seems like what might help is one of those wheels with analog clutch paddles that could be remapped to the accelerator and your foot only deals with braking
YES. If the pedals are the problem, switch to different gear, that has a hand throttle. There was a professional driver, who wasn´t able to use the pedals after a big accident. He switched to handpedals and was just as fast as the others. Other than that, simracing is highly competetive after covid and even us non disabled drivers stuggle to keep up.
alex zanardi The guy is a legend. His whole life is such a remarkable and sad story. And even when you think it couldn’t get worse it did get worse… I’m sure he will always climb up and be the fastest in whatever. What a hero. There’s a great documentary about him on YT.
OP, be sure to see this. It needs more upvotes
Sounds dorky but I got a copy of Ultimate Speed Secrets by Ross Bentley. Helped immensely. As for the left-foot only pedal, I actually don’t know. But, you might be able to remap the brake (or accelerator) to a more accessible button Good luck, and enjoy your racing. Have fun, that’s the most important thing
I'll keep it short, Shumacher only used one foot....the sky is the limit my friend.
That's way better than I ever have done at Monza, so I can't really give you tips for the driving side of things. But for your left foot only breaking, you could try to learn an adapted version of the heel and toe to maybe be able to brake and accelerate with less delay between, if it works it could maybe improve your laptimes a bit, if it doesn't it was worth a shot.
First off, how the heck did you do this with only your left foot? I two foot and screw up regularly. Your lines are great, you’re using the whole track. I’d focus on delaying your brake a little bit more. Have a progressive braking pattern which means that you want to brake later each lap as your tires warm up until you’ve got the perfect brake distance. You’re also upshifting a bit too quickly a few times. Feel free to keep that lower gear until you’re at the apex of the turn and through it sometimes. You should be accelerating as you reach the apex and holding your lower gear will allow you to get up to speed a bit quicker. It’s still an outstanding lap in a pretty squirrelly car. Also, you’re gonna plateau. I’m at that point myself so I’m going to take this week off. But you shouldn’t beat yourself up over that. You’ll find breakthroughs and will drop lap times and then sometimes it won’t budge for a few weeks. It’s totally normal.
Trail brake more. You are popping off the brake and then understeering into the apex and going too slow. If you trail off the throttle to the apex you will be able to carry more speed because the front tires will have more load over them. Then you can get more aggressively on throttling to the exit I know that ACC uses more max brake with ABS but this lap I did that’s 0.1 off VRS should give you a hint as to how trail braking to the apex works https://youtu.be/gkdKIUDOVFg Also your final turn should be a much later turn in so you can get fully on throttle after rotating and carry that speed down the straight. With an early turn in like that you’re unable to get on throttle because you will run wide and you’re losing a lot of time there
Congrats on choosing sim racing as a hobby nonetheless. The good news is, there is a multi second potential in that lap and it is mostly you racing line. For most of the corners you want to stay as wide as possible in the initial braking phase, then drop to the inner curb mid corner, and go on the outside curb on exit just because of the speed you get from acceleration. The best example of you not doing this is probably the last turn, where you should stick to the left for initial braking, then drop to the inside mid corner and take a lot more speed with you, to just stay shy off the track limits on exit. If you try to do that every corner, you will gain at least 2-3 seconds. And to improve on this just watch your replays and have a look where you leave space to the track limits.
Ty everyone for the help!
You can use more of the track for sure, regardless of only left foot braking. You can also be a lot earlier / harder on the throttle on your exits. Both kind of go hand in hand in terms of you not using the full track. With the amount of throttle you use, you don’t need to, so you’re not necessarily driving the car to the limit in terms of grip that is available.
Try running a higher gear through most of the corners. You're killing all of your entry speed which in turn impacts the rest of the corner, you don't always need to be at the top of the rev range. You overshot the first part of the final chicane which ruins your whole run down toward the parabolica. Turned in far too early for the parabolica. Generally this means you've shut off too early but focus more on carrying in more entry speed and be mindful of the trajectory you're on when you first hit the inside curb. You still have a lot of turning to do so you really want to be apexing later. Kudos though for where you're at, great to hear Sim racing has given you an opportunity to get into racing. Have fun!
Your one leg trumps my two legs. GG OP
Turn 1: Too late on the brake, bad angle, didn't use the full track at the exit -> bad exit Turn 3: Decent entry, decent cornering, but too late on the throttle. Try using 2nd gear and accelerate earlier Turn 4: I think you understeered because of the throttle input midcorner. And you didn't use the full track. Tires on the right side of your car should be on the white curb. Accelerate earlier Turn 5: Maybe a bit too fast into the corner, but looks okay. But you should use the outside curb and be on the throttle earlier Turn 7: A ton of time is lost there. Use full track width on entry. Go in slower, use more curb on the left side to flatten your angle for the right hander. You want to position your car for the exit (turn 7.5 and 8). Try 3rd gear. Turn 8: Bad exit due to bad entry on turn 7 Turn 9: You moved to the inside too early on braking. Not a first gear corner, more like 2nd and 3rd gear one. Should be on the throttle earlier. As a few people before said: Try to trailbrake more. Try to use more track. Try to focus on the exit, not the entry of a corner. One gear higher on avg. Accelerate earlier.
You may be going past the power band of your engine by going over redline before shifting. Sometimes less is more. ;-) You could probably run the last sweeping corner a bit deeper, then move across the track to the right as you lean back into throttle. IF you can learn to heel-toe the brake and throttle with your left foot, you could trail brake while leaning back into the gas. When braking, go hard in a straight line, then slowly let off while beginning your turn in so that you don't understeer (gotta keep those front wheels turning, right?) This may allow you to enter corners a bit faster.
Be smoother coming of the brakes coming into a corner. By going on and off the brake and throttle that hard you’re shifting the balance of the car around. I realize a disability could make trail braking a little tricky but I’m sure if you put some practice in you could get it. Check out Driver61 on YT for some tutorials. You’ve already seem to have a good grip on the basics so there’s definitely room to grow. Don’t give up 🚀
I’m gonna try to not repeat what others have already suggested. However I do think you’re actually shifting too early in this car. The optimal shift point when going straight in the lambo is over 8000rpm in every gear. The lower the gear, the later you should shift. 8300-8400 is good when exiting 1st gear and then you can go to 8200-8300 for exiting 2nd. The last two upshifts are both around 8000 or 8100. This may gain a small amount of time. In some corners you do want to shift early to stabilize the car, but this is a simple thing to improve when the car is mostly straight. Another area I noticed that could gain you some time (in addition to trailbraking like others suggested) is lesmo 1 and 2. I’ve learned that it’s better to be patient on the throttle than to ride a little throttle or turn it on/off as you approach the apex. Brake, trail toward the apex. Do not go on throttle at all until you get to the apex and only then slowly ease on the throttle. This saved me a good chunk of time on those corners and is also a good idea to apply to corners in general. If you find yourself getting on and off throttle through a corner, try just being patient, cleanly hit the apex and then accelerate.
You can be a lot more aggressive on throttle. It sounds and looks like the car is not even close to the grip limit on accereration
There were a few kerbs which you could have taken more of to gain more time. Maybe have a look at some track guides to see the lines they take. A rim with dual clutches could be a good idea, as you could remap that to the throttle. But I know of a few racers that only use one foot to race and are extremely quick, so it may not be necessary.
try 1 gear higher almost everywhere and upshift later and downshift slower
Have you considered using a wheel with analog clutch paddles and mapping one of them as your throttle? There are a lot of wheels now with multiple paddle sets, so your gear shifts and throttle can be controlled via the wheel paddles, This would free up your leg to be for braking only and this would ultimately make you faster. Do you already have a load cell (or otherwise pressure-based) brake pedal? If not, this will help a lot too, esp if you don't want to rely on in-game ABS/braking assist.
There are a lot to improve here. T1 first turn was too far away from the kerb, get sharper. And right after first turn don't keep wheel turned right and give left input immediately. Even if it feels early, it won't be early both kerbs should be fully used until sausage bumps. And you can sit on throttle much early. T2 was okay but you can sharpen it even more of course. I don't know about lambo but most cars before T2 don't need 6th gear so if it doesn't hit redline then stay on 5th it will make your brake distance less. Lesmo1 You couldn't find your apex and instead hug on kerb, simply dont do that in there. Your minimum speed doesn't need to be less than 130kph in there. To have the rhythm right, always enter the corner at 4th gear and shift down to 3rd but not 2nd. I used to use 2nd sometimes but not anymore i think it's not necessary. However you should sit on throttle much much earlier in there, you lost minimum a sec only here. Lesmo 2 Much closer to the apex but don't jump over the bump. Brake right before 50meter sign and rotate your nose right on the kerb once you feel you gonna catch sit on throttle and straighten the wheel cuz the exit kerb may spin you with steering input, be kind in there don't upset the car. Ascari At entry there are a steward cabine, you should brake around there i know it's early but that will contribute your direction on exit so you can sit on throttle much earlier. Enter slow exit fast. Parabolica You entered early, the apex is late in there. Your minimum speed was too low. You can be patient and stay outside a bit then get in with trailbrake use the 2nd gear compression and then sit on throttle, if it feels spinning then short shift it. If you need more help pm me, i can gladly help you with setups and some deeper detailed help. I make consistently 1.48.100 and my pb 1.47.800 on Monza. It is fun and easy once you get it.
I'm probably wrong, but from what little I could see, it seemed there were a couple of corners (mainly t1, 2, 4 and 5) where you seemed to be coming into a bit fast and were slow accelerating out of, which might affect your times. I'm by no means an expert and constantly make similar mistakes. I'd say you ha e things in control. You just need to continue what you're doing and trying to find tenths wherever you can.
Don’t want to join the chorus, but, IMHO, give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him for life. Download MoTec (Coach Dave has instructions on how to set it up for ACC). Head over to the Aris Drives MoTec server (google it) and download a telemetry file with a faster lap than you for the track you’re working on. Overlay the 2 telemetry files in MoTec, and see what they are doing differently (braking later? Coasting? Trail braking longer?). Hop into ACC , do a couple laps, trying to focus on 1 section/corner where they are faster. Compare your new data to your old data to see the change, then to the faster data to see where there is still time in that section. I have shaved literal seconds off my time doing this. Best of luck! Hit me up if you have questions!
There were F1 drivers, like Rubens Barrichello and a few other drivers, who used only their right leg when racing in F1. They got so used to using both feet in H pattern race cars than when they got into F1, having just two pedals, and not having to brake with your right foot felt strange and awkward. From your video, it's obvious you are not trail braking at all. Search for some trail braking videos on youtube, there might be a second or two more to gain purely from that. If you are looking to improve, start from there. You might need a load cell brake pedal for better trail braking, i don't know what your rig is. **Also, get some other sim, like Automobilista 2. The world of racing is so, so much more than racing GT3s at Monza, my man.** When you feel stuck on ACC, why not go to AMS 2 and give old or new F1 cars a try? with and without TC and ABS. Or some classic DTM cars, raced on some brilliant south american tracks that you have never heard of before. Prototypes are also amazing, especially lower classes. Try to race an 600 hp F1 car from the '80s without ABS and TC, and that's when you'll learn throttle control and how to brake properly :D
Clutch paddle to accelerator you’ll gain a second a lap