5 Beginner Mistakes You Should Avoid in Simracing

As a somewhat new sim racer (2 years) once you learn the basic fundamentals of sim racing if you really want to be competitive you HAVE to learn the tracks!! And no that doesn't mean drive around a new track 3 times and think you've got it. Learn the track by studying it. Drive the track slow and slowly make your way up. Thats the one advice I wish I had when I started

The best thing about sim-racing for me is when i get a guy with a similar or slightly faster tempo than mine and we have a racelong battle for position with multiple overtakes. Of course not all tracks allow it but at Monza and Zolder it's just a fantastic feeling.

I consider myself an advanced driver, both IRL and in simracing, but I must admit, these tips are really helpful and I still catch myself neglecting them. Great video!

While "racing" against my past-round-ghosts I came into realization that I must not always focus on pushing delta to improve lap times - sometimes it's already enough to wait the opponent to do a mistake so I can breeze past them while keeping stable pace. This makes wear-down management (tires, fuels and components) much easier too and help you win races rather than trying to push and end up doing mistakes yourself. Just keep applying pressure to the driver in front of you, sooner or later, if he isn't very cool under pressure, he WILL do a mistake while trying to get away. I sometimes (even now) wish I had this cool mentality while doing a longer race!

Thank you for an actually beginner friendly video. Most other videos for "beginners" involve gear, complex car tuning, and overwhelming advanced techniques. This one was very broad and helpful. Especially something as Basic as where to look.

Great video as always! I tip I like to use for people who are starting in simracing is to watch the race replays and learn with your own mistakes. I help a lot to improve and also take a look in the leaders to create a vision of the racing line and how they drive.

Excellent video! Using the curbs is a massive lightbulb moment. The curbs are where you’ll find the elusive “limit” that everyone talks about! If you aren’t driving at the limit of the track you aren’t driving at the limit of the car. Trail braking simplified: Brake INTO the corner (apex) and not FOR the corner.

The last part about expecting to finish in first... I see it so often on message boards for Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo, or pretty much any racing game. Everyone acts like if you ain't first you're last. Checkers or wreckers. I can't seem to get people to stop thinking this way. Yeah, we all would love to win, but we can't all share first place. You can take twenty of the top sim racers in the world and put them together in a race and only one will be first, but that doesn't mean the other nineteen are bad. Somehow seemingly everyone thinks that anything other than first place means you suck. That's a ridiculous perspective.

Psychological tip, don't focus on other players too much. I know first hand that when you see a player you respect and know is faster, it's too easy to lose focus thinking about them. You need to train your mind to treat all players the same. I just see them as AI personally. I don't mix any personal feelings into it. You give off body language when you drive and other players can sense this. So you need a "poker face" but you need to get good enough at it so that you can just do it without thinking. The second you start thinking about there players is the second you stop focusing on what you're actually doing and then you just start going in a downwards spiral. Just focus and be un relenting about it. Obviously easier said than done but this is the main difference with people who win and people who don't, not necessarily how good they are. I'm probably mediocre but I win a lot because my mind is strong. I learnt this at a very young age with guitar, learning to perform live and coping with the pressure. It's a technique where you embrace the adrenaline, feel it, enjoy it, and get into the zen focus state where literally nothing else matters.

My advice for beginners is: Don't try to sacrifice grip to get more speed than you need. You might get hurt. XD

2:04 oh, so I should be using and abusing of every curb! got it! picks the lambo dies

The number 1 purchase if you have enough money is get yourself some good quality load cell brakes. That is the most time you’ll ever gain. Not on one lap but with consistent inputs. It’ll give you more confidence and you’ll be able to pull off trail braking easier and be able to race lap after lap with fewer issues.

>Gets ACC on steam sale >Learn all of the tracks >Race against AI >Increase SA >Join rookie spa/monza lobbies >Try SA 70 nurburgring lobby >4 seconds off pole and gets screamed at for tapping someone a couple times i love sim racing

Having a passion for touge racing and being an avid player of Touge Life on Assetto Corsa, I’ve come to realize the importance of mastering the tracks. In retrospect, I regret not dedicating more time to learning a specific track instead of constantly switching between Akagi and Irohazaka the next day . Now that I’ve found my home turf, I can truly appreciate the nuances of each turn and elevation change. It’s a game-changer, pun intended!

#5 is so important. Nothing beats having a multi-lap battle with someone where there's mutual respect between opponents. My favorite is when they have a faster car but I'm the better driver, so it's just a big back-and-forth as I try to pressure them into mistakes and close any doors they might try to slide through. Anyone can jump into a race car and plow their way through other cars, there's no skill in that. True skill is having patience and treating every overtake as a small victory.

While tip #5 is by far the MOST important even after many years I find tip #4 is still something I have to remind myself of fairly often.

Thank you for this video! I literally just got my first rig set up this week and am enjoying learning GT3 on ACC. I will definitely be utilizing these tips!

Brilliant video!! I'm a super newb and all of this is spot on. I love the fact that you showed T1 at Monza, LOL. Most brutal chicane in racing. One thing that helps me A LOT are track guides. I watch them all the time. Especially after a session where I felt kind of off. Thanks for the excellent advice.

A lot of comments here echo the same thing, and I'll say the same: Study the track... and equally as important: Get comfortable with your car. Example: On Monza, I used to average about 1:51.00 with the GT3 EVO2 Huracan. I studied a few track guides, experimented with tunes and did some practice sessions, and I was churning out a sub 1:48 pace after putting in a few hundred laps of practice. Really getting all the small details down to muscle memory really helps you close the gap when you have the room to avoid position battles.

I was watching a review of Monza on Nico Rosberg's channel, he uses the F1 games to show you. And one point he sayd something that was revolutionary to me, because makes simracing more easier. On the straigh part of the track just before the curve he explain that when you dont know where to break, JUST LOOK AT THE GROUND looking for the signs made by the other cars tires... just that simple detail help me speacially with breaks points racing lines.