Since taking your "Motor Racing Checklist" course, all of those things you just talked about are how I approach getting up to speed. That's what works with your teaching: you explain the "why" of what we need to accomplish, rather than try and give point-to-point instructions (which will never allow a driver to really learn). I don't use track guides any more. Thanks Suellio!
Man I so appreciate the knowledge you’ve been so kind as to provide for us all for free on RUclips! It’s very respectable! The knowledge I’ve acquired from you and Driver 61’s university series is the only reason I’ve been half decent at sim racing 😂😂.
More or less agree. I like knowing faster drivers breaking points as a reference for my first laps on a track. This helps me get a baseline or starting point to work from.
In the end we're always doing both. The idea of the video is to prioritizing the testing phase or the driving the car phase more, not to NEVER use references or share telemetry and tips with other drivers. Brainstorming is super important too
Holy... new driver here (sim and irl) and been theorizing these topics on my own for a while since there really isnt much public content on this. Am trying more to figure out the track myself without crashing etc without videos / telementary data. Thanks so much for this!
Not only did you boost my confidence while racing from all of the videos I watched but you made me faster and more consistent on a real track. Yesterday I went rental karting and almost beat my brother who was in an adult kart while I was in a child's kart which is pretty slow. I was more consistent than him even though he was faster than me. I couldn't defend him off so he ended up overtaking me and got the fastest lap. Now all we need is a full defensive guide. Thanks Suellio.
Another Free Master Class from you Suellio and it's fun because since your Driving Style video I've been thinking about this "Rotation" approach but in a more intuitive way and as always this new video removes a lot of clouds in the process of learning to become a faster driver. As always thank you very much!! and keep growing, since the podium to which you will be able to climb is really high 💪💪
I'm very big on testing. Testing different lines at different gears best possible way to attack the curbs etc. I just started studying more of the telemetry data also started using the iRacing Active Reset feature more and more finding it very useful for turns that I have difficulty with.
Love just listening. Sometimes not quite sure what you’re explaining but something is definitely sinking in. I’m now 2 seconds faster, just don’t know why. Thank you so much.😊
suellio you consistently provide us with the BEST advice and im so grateful for that! you teach the exact things ive been looking for for so long in such an easy way. i would love to get coached by you but im not liking ACC so much anymore the faster im getting. maybe its my time to switch to iracing
Amazing video!! This advice is golden. I love that your goal is to make students autonomous and that you also teach them how. Especially in sim racing following the fastest ghost for 100 laps can make you really fast. But your advise teaches how to drive the car. Thanks!
I appreciate that content you create and share ! I dont drive in IRacing but in GT7 and your guides and tipps are awesome. You made me faster and more consistant. keep it up mate
Decidi aprender Interlagos com a BMW 235i do Assetto Corsa hoje e esse foi o approach que eu tentei. É muito mais prazeroso quando vc deduz algo e o teste confirma a suspeita. Ainda me bato em decidir a marcha, mas é parte do processo de aprendizado haha
@@SuellioAlmeida I got my throw up bucket ready! But I doubt I'll use it. When I watch a video, I want it all quick and to the point, but a book, I will sit down with a coffee and absorb every word, over and over. I like your recent comment about holding the wheel lightly, great advice !
Your teaching technique is perfect. Don't just tell the answer, make the student understand why so they can utilize the knowledge on all corner and tracks. Will be buying the course once I return to work. Thx for these videos those, the snippets help
i find i can go out on track and reach pretty much my top pace with in 10 to 15 mins. but i can make huge gains by following or learning from another persons line
I just discovered your channel and it's been so helpful! This video particularly. It's been working well for me, except for the fact that I crash and/or spin a lot while learning and testing a new track. Is that normal? Like is this how I should be learning it? By exceeding the limit? I just don't want to learn it in a bad way.
It's interesting that you're a pianist and that you bring that to sim racing, because I found that so many bad piano teachers are always talking about looking at the score, looking at your hands, etc. The greatest pianists don't use their eyes, they use their ears. The student needs to be able to hear the difference. And that's what I feel like your channel brings - Ive been looking at driving lines and telemetry data for 3 years but nobody has explained to me what it FEELS like to be fast. You are teaching me what it is like to experience being fast, and once I know that, I imagine that the rest will take care of itself.
To find the limit and driving the car to get faster. I admit you got me there about driving the line. I mean it’s fine, it’s how I roll as a normie, got decent pace, got pretty far, but not enough to be the alien. Not enough to be on the front row. Not enough to perceive what I should change to get what I want. I’ll rewatch this again and again, drill this into my head. Thank you :)
the way i find a gear for a corner is, i temporarily force the "only downshift when you need to" mentality and then once i learn the track, i try to find corners i can go a gear up in and make it work. being a gear higher is speed when it works. another HUGE point of finding speed, is finding "the trick". there's always some new corner you can cut, or something like that you didn't know about. watching a track guide, and other racers, is huge for this reason. stand on the shoulders of others, don't waste the work they put in. you need to start at knowing the meta strat for the track.
Happy to see your making your dream come to to race real cars. But if you don’t mind will you do a video on ACC on PS5 because that’s what I have. But even if you have It on PC just show some tips and tricks and what best car for beginners and anything else you think is important.
I understand the concept of rotation and finding it. But the thing I have trouble with now is with tire heat. When does the tire go from using 100% of its grip to overheating? Is testing that just a matter of taking 1 more kph through the corner until you understeer? How do you know if you're using 100% of the grip or forcing the car? Particularly with the ferrari at Willow Springs this week, my best lap is 2 or 3 tenths off the VRS time, but it feels like I'm forcing the car through the corner a lot. Thanks!
I wish sim racing games had a button like GRID has that allows you to rewind and just hit that corner a few hundred times for perfection. I’m a “chunk” learner rather than a whole track learner.
@@SuellioAlmeidaAlright Suellio. By the way thank you for all your amazing videos. It’s from your content that I have made the biggest improvements in my sim racing. You’re a great teacher and I look forward to more videos from you, keep up the great work🔥🔥🔥
Both are focused on Car Handling. The structure is the same, although the methods of delivery of the information are different. In a way, both complement each other, around the same topics
At what point do you need a coach for simracing? I always need countless of laps(hunderds) on a track to get average times on a track at best, even then i'm seconds behind the best drivers. For this reason i also don't enjoy learning new tracks. I have to watch other fast drivers to see what the are doing but i came to realize i don't learn anything i just copy them and not learning why the are fast. Hit the brakes here, hit the apax at that point, accelarate at that point, ... Even after many years of simracing i don't know even how to do basic driving techniques like trail braking and other techniques and don't get me started on car setups. I just slam the brakes, turn in, and try to be on the throttle as fast as possible again onto the next corner, that's basically it. I just don't know anything but i want to learn. I always feel a coach is just for the people who are on a certain level and need a coach to get to the top. Not for noobs like me. Even now that i want to learn i don't know in what order i should learn and what steps i need to take and how do i know i'm learning correctly or not. So, what advice can you give to a person like me? Where do i start?
Trailbraking isn't a surefire way to induce oversteer, if you're pushing the fronts too much you induce understeer. In iRacing it might work differently but the most neutral and therefore efficient rotation is obtained when coasting, because the tyres are only trying to find lateral grip rather than slowing the car down as well.
I disagree. Trail braking does not mean braking too hard to break grip on the front tires. It means adding a subtle amount of weight on the front to improve lateral grip without breaking the limits of longitudinal grip. Comparing optimal trail braking to coasting will always mean better rotation with trail braking
Car is still slowing down when coasting, just at less of a rate than trailbraking. Why would you want to get through a braking zone slower, when you can induce just as much rotation as you want and get back on the gas sooner? Barring the skip barber car... I can't think of any other car in iRacing that would benefit from coasting over trailbraking.
@@RYVENANT That's the point, iRacing requires you to trailbrake in every car and all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was faster in the wet too (when they implement it, of course). In real life it doesn't work like that, you're always creating some understeer when trailbraking and even if you manage a better rotation you do it at the expense of tyre wear, which is another thing I never really experienced in iRacing. The trick in the sim is to keep the tyres cooler by not scrubbing them, so obviously instead of pushing into the grip and letting the fronts take the load, what you want to do is to be very gentle on all of your inputs in order to stay inside a ridiculously narrow window to prevent your fronts from overheating. IRL this window is larger (we're talking slicks on a rubbered track) and it definitely allows for some more wiggle room. That said, going back to what I was saying in the first message, a car with a long wheelbase and that's very stiff (aka a prototype) will generate understeer if you trailbrake heavily, that's all I meant. It really wasn't my intention to take a dig at iRacing.
For people who are hesitate to buy his course, think of this as investment. Well you don’t get your money in return but you are ABLE to save lots of time. I’m working full time, while study for my degree 2 subjects per semester. I’m still able to practice effectively and efficiently. My iRacing went from 1.2k to 2.2k in 1 and half month.
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Since taking your "Motor Racing Checklist" course, all of those things you just talked about are how I approach getting up to speed. That's what works with your teaching: you explain the "why" of what we need to accomplish, rather than try and give point-to-point instructions (which will never allow a driver to really learn). I don't use track guides any more. Thanks Suellio!
"I don't use track guides any more"
So proud to read that!!! You've passed the Motor Racin Checklist test!! ✅
Man I so appreciate the knowledge you’ve been so kind as to provide for us all for free on RUclips! It’s very respectable! The knowledge I’ve acquired from you and Driver 61’s university series is the only reason I’ve been half decent at sim racing 😂😂.
More or less agree. I like knowing faster drivers breaking points as a reference for my first laps on a track. This helps me get a baseline or starting point to work from.
In the end we're always doing both. The idea of the video is to prioritizing the testing phase or the driving the car phase more, not to NEVER use references or share telemetry and tips with other drivers. Brainstorming is super important too
@@SuellioAlmeida fair enough
Holy... new driver here (sim and irl) and been theorizing these topics on my own for a while since there really isnt much public content on this. Am trying more to figure out the track myself without crashing etc without videos / telementary data. Thanks so much for this!
Not only did you boost my confidence while racing from all of the videos I watched but you made me faster and more consistent on a real track. Yesterday I went rental karting and almost beat my brother who was in an adult kart while I was in a child's kart which is pretty slow. I was more consistent than him even though he was faster than me. I couldn't defend him off so he ended up overtaking me and got the fastest lap. Now all we need is a full defensive guide. Thanks Suellio.
I really appreciate that you actually teaching and sharing your knowledge with good examples that makes it understandable.
Can't wait for the book. 😊
Another Free Master Class from you Suellio and it's fun because since your Driving Style video I've been thinking about this "Rotation" approach but in a more intuitive way and as always this new video removes a lot of clouds in the process of learning to become a faster driver. As always thank you very much!! and keep growing, since the podium to which you will be able to climb is really high 💪💪
Your tips never disappoint me, thanks!
Happy to hear that!
You're such an intelligent teacher. Thanks, man.
I appreciate that man!
I'm very big on testing. Testing different lines at different gears best possible way to attack the curbs etc. I just started studying more of the telemetry data also started using the iRacing Active Reset feature more and more finding it very useful for turns that I have difficulty with.
Love just listening. Sometimes not quite sure what you’re explaining but something is definitely sinking in. I’m now 2 seconds faster, just don’t know why. Thank you so much.😊
Correction. I’m starting to understand why. Inducing understeer is not what I want, but I feel it. I’m feeling the grip. Feeling the limit.
Congrats man! And thank you for the super thanks :) I'll keep posting banger videos!
Awsome break down of concepts. I like your systematic methods for testing and what is should be looking for.
suellio you consistently provide us with the BEST advice and im so grateful for that! you teach the exact things ive been looking for for so long in such an easy way. i would love to get coached by you but im not liking ACC so much anymore the faster im getting. maybe its my time to switch to iracing
Amazing video!! This advice is golden. I love that your goal is to make students autonomous and that you also teach them how. Especially in sim racing following the fastest ghost for 100 laps can make you really fast. But your advise teaches how to drive the car. Thanks!
I'm new to sim racing, and your videos helped so much. I've noticed improvement, and I'm hoping to sign up soon.
When he said Autonomous, . . . I subscribed!
I appreciate that content you create and share !
I dont drive in IRacing but in GT7 and your guides and tipps are awesome.
You made me faster and more consistant.
keep it up mate
I appreciate that ❤️
Great help. Gonna implement this right away
Your videos are the most helpful videos I've found in 3 years of learning
Thank you for sharing! ❤
Suelio and scott Mansell best simracing coaches on the internet
Decidi aprender Interlagos com a BMW 235i do Assetto Corsa hoje e esse foi o approach que eu tentei. É muito mais prazeroso quando vc deduz algo e o teste confirma a suspeita.
Ainda me bato em decidir a marcha, mas é parte do processo de aprendizado haha
You just amazing on what you doing !!!!
Well done ! I like that it's all very specific content, without any BS thrown in. Hope the book is similar.
book is so technical you're gonna throw up
@@SuellioAlmeida I got my throw up bucket ready! But I doubt I'll use it. When I watch a video, I want it all quick and to the point, but a book, I will sit down with a coffee and absorb every word, over and over. I like your recent comment about holding the wheel lightly, great advice !
@@CaptainCrunch99 I was writing it sitting down with a coffee, so the mind-to-mind flow will match hahahahaha
Your teaching technique is perfect. Don't just tell the answer, make the student understand why so they can utilize the knowledge on all corner and tracks. Will be buying the course once I return to work. Thx for these videos those, the snippets help
i find i can go out on track and reach pretty much my top pace with in 10 to 15 mins. but i can make huge gains by following or learning from another persons line
I just discovered your channel and it's been so helpful! This video particularly. It's been working well for me, except for the fact that I crash and/or spin a lot while learning and testing a new track. Is that normal? Like is this how I should be learning it? By exceeding the limit? I just don't want to learn it in a bad way.
It's interesting that you're a pianist and that you bring that to sim racing, because I found that so many bad piano teachers are always talking about looking at the score, looking at your hands, etc. The greatest pianists don't use their eyes, they use their ears. The student needs to be able to hear the difference. And that's what I feel like your channel brings - Ive been looking at driving lines and telemetry data for 3 years but nobody has explained to me what it FEELS like to be fast. You are teaching me what it is like to experience being fast, and once I know that, I imagine that the rest will take care of itself.
dude you just fucking nailed it
@@SuellioAlmeida congrats on your IRL win dude
To find the limit and driving the car to get faster. I admit you got me there about driving the line. I mean it’s fine, it’s how I roll as a normie, got decent pace, got pretty far, but not enough to be the alien. Not enough to be on the front row. Not enough to perceive what I should change to get what I want. I’ll rewatch this again and again, drill this into my head. Thank you :)
Wait … is this the best sim racing instructional video ever?
All of his videos are amazing. I’m an oval racer and I watch these and do a few road races a week to learn any information I can.
the way i find a gear for a corner is, i temporarily force the "only downshift when you need to" mentality and then once i learn the track, i try to find corners i can go a gear up in and make it work. being a gear higher is speed when it works. another HUGE point of finding speed, is finding "the trick". there's always some new corner you can cut, or something like that you didn't know about. watching a track guide, and other racers, is huge for this reason. stand on the shoulders of others, don't waste the work they put in. you need to start at knowing the meta strat for the track.
Rotation is the key!
Waw, i've never heard it explained like that before... Well, i'm off to test this on the sim, let's see how it goes :)
I'm definitely buying that book, someone reply when it releases (please)
Bro there's a waiting list so you get an email when it's released! visit my website, suellioalmeida.ca
What the heck! There’s coaching in racing, I would dominate so hard i just need a guy already in
haven't watched the video yet. but that thumbnail 😎
Happy to see your making your dream come to to race real cars. But if you don’t mind will you do a video on ACC on PS5 because that’s what I have. But even if you have It on PC just show some tips and tricks and what best car for beginners and anything else you think is important.
I like you and I don’t even know why
Waiting for that discount code. I hate being hard up.
I understand the concept of rotation and finding it. But the thing I have trouble with now is with tire heat. When does the tire go from using 100% of its grip to overheating? Is testing that just a matter of taking 1 more kph through the corner until you understeer? How do you know if you're using 100% of the grip or forcing the car? Particularly with the ferrari at Willow Springs this week, my best lap is 2 or 3 tenths off the VRS time, but it feels like I'm forcing the car through the corner a lot. Thanks!
I watched this and beat my lap time by 8 seconds
Guru.
can you make a video on how to drive electric race cars? they drive different compared to regular race cars and would be tricky to learn
Hey Suellio, I heard from oval guys to "drive the rear exterior/rear right tire". Is that the maximum rotation you're talking about?
yes!
I wish sim racing games had a button like GRID has that allows you to rewind and just hit that corner a few hundred times for perfection. I’m a “chunk” learner rather than a whole track learner.
iRacing has that! I have a video about it on my RUclips, look for Active Reset
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How much does the book cost?
25usd is the base price
@@SuellioAlmeidaAlright Suellio. By the way thank you for all your amazing videos. It’s from your content that I have made the biggest improvements in my sim racing. You’re a great teacher and I look forward to more videos from you, keep up the great work🔥🔥🔥
@@nevillemolokwu8598 Appreciate the feedback man! Will keep doing my best always!
Suellio do you prefer an understeery balance or oversteery balance?
Neutral, where you can induce oversteer or understeer whenever you want with driving inputs
3 or 4 good for me
Leeeeet's goooo!
Hi Suellio Can you please send me a link to your sim racing gloves and kayak shoes, because i cant find them anywhere!😂❤
Can you comment on the differences in content and technique between your online course and the book?
Both are focused on Car Handling. The structure is the same, although the methods of delivery of the information are different. In a way, both complement each other, around the same topics
Does this mean track guides are counterproductive in the long run, when learning a completely new track?
to a certain point they're useful but don't rely on them
At what point do you need a coach for simracing? I always need countless of laps(hunderds) on a track to get average times on a track at best, even then i'm seconds behind the best drivers. For this reason i also don't enjoy learning new tracks. I have to watch other fast drivers to see what the are doing but i came to realize i don't learn anything i just copy them and not learning why the are fast. Hit the brakes here, hit the apax at that point, accelarate at that point, ... Even after many years of simracing i don't know even how to do basic driving techniques like trail braking and other techniques and don't get me started on car setups. I just slam the brakes, turn in, and try to be on the throttle as fast as possible again onto the next corner, that's basically it. I just don't know anything but i want to learn. I always feel a coach is just for the people who are on a certain level and need a coach to get to the top. Not for noobs like me. Even now that i want to learn i don't know in what order i should learn and what steps i need to take and how do i know i'm learning correctly or not. So, what advice can you give to a person like me? Where do i start?
Hi suellio .... I'm new here.. i want to ask u if You make coaching on Assetto Corsa Competizione... THANK YOU SO MUCH 🫶
Trailbraking isn't a surefire way to induce oversteer, if you're pushing the fronts too much you induce understeer. In iRacing it might work differently but the most neutral and therefore efficient rotation is obtained when coasting, because the tyres are only trying to find lateral grip rather than slowing the car down as well.
I disagree. Trail braking does not mean braking too hard to break grip on the front tires. It means adding a subtle amount of weight on the front to improve lateral grip without breaking the limits of longitudinal grip. Comparing optimal trail braking to coasting will always mean better rotation with trail braking
Car is still slowing down when coasting, just at less of a rate than trailbraking. Why would you want to get through a braking zone slower, when you can induce just as much rotation as you want and get back on the gas sooner? Barring the skip barber car... I can't think of any other car in iRacing that would benefit from coasting over trailbraking.
@@RYVENANT That's the point, iRacing requires you to trailbrake in every car and all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was faster in the wet too (when they implement it, of course). In real life it doesn't work like that, you're always creating some understeer when trailbraking and even if you manage a better rotation you do it at the expense of tyre wear, which is another thing I never really experienced in iRacing. The trick in the sim is to keep the tyres cooler by not scrubbing them, so obviously instead of pushing into the grip and letting the fronts take the load, what you want to do is to be very gentle on all of your inputs in order to stay inside a ridiculously narrow window to prevent your fronts from overheating. IRL this window is larger (we're talking slicks on a rubbered track) and it definitely allows for some more wiggle room. That said, going back to what I was saying in the first message, a car with a long wheelbase and that's very stiff (aka a prototype) will generate understeer if you trailbrake heavily, that's all I meant. It really wasn't my intention to take a dig at iRacing.
Wait, i can do that
Would this also work in the real world
yes!
For people who are hesitate to buy his course, think of this as investment. Well you don’t get your money in return but you are ABLE to save lots of time.
I’m working full time, while study for my degree 2 subjects per semester. I’m still able to practice effectively and efficiently. My iRacing went from 1.2k to 2.2k in 1 and half month.
😍
if your not driving the limit your not racing
Real sim racers don't bother with bezel free kit.
This video just feels like a lot of disconnected rambling with no real point.
That tells a lot about your racing technique
Why is this guy wearing a race suit in his bedroom?
cause I can