Why SMOOTH is Actually FASTER Racing Games...
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If you want to drive fast in Racing Games, being smooth is almost as important as pressing the throttle in sim racing. I’m sure every assetto corsa sim racer the phrase, slow is smooth, smooth is fast. But a rare few actually know what it means, and how to implement it in their driving.
Many drivers fall into the trap of overdriving their car. Take SupraBoy69 here, he think’s he’s the dogs bollocks, caining his BMW around the track. But, the faster he goes, the more tense he becomes, and his driving suffers because of this. His steering inputs become more aggressive, jolting the car into every turn in gran turismo or forza or even roblox. His pedal work becomes erratic, and he starts losing control of his car. Sure, from the interior, his driving may look fast, and indeed, if you’re a good driver, you can be this aggressive and still be fast. But, you’d have to be exceptionally skilled to pull this of - and spoiler alert, SupraBoy is not exceptionally skilled. cameraman die
Meet Dorothy. She’s driving to the shops in her Honda CRX, going to pick up some cat food. She calmly threads the wheels through her hands, and steps on the accelerator as if it’s a brand new carpet. Sure, it may look slow, but believe it or not. If Dorothy was on a race track, travelling at the same speed as Supraboy, she would actually win in a race.
This is because smooth inputs keep the car more balanced. As your car is in a steady state, such as stationary in the pit lane, it’s as balanced as it’ll ever be - all four tyres have an equal load on them. Let’s say for example, they have 10 traction points each at this point, totalling to 40 overall. However, when you corner, the outside tyres gain more traction, whilst the insides lose traction. This is because the more load you put onto tyres, the more grip they have, and vice versa. But, this gain and loss of traction is NOT proportional, and the inside tyres will lose more traction than the outsides gain.
So, as we corner, the outsides have 15 traction points each, whilst the insides only have three. Meaning, we have only 36 traction points total, as compared to our 40 when the car was totally balanced.
Whenever you brake, shift, corner or accelerate, weight is shifted between the tyres. SupraBoy chucks the car into the turn as aggressively as he can. But, this means that more weight is shifted to the outside tyres, resulting in far less traction points overall. But Dorothy on the otherhand, glides the car into the turn. The weight is more equally balanced between all four wheels, meaning she has more traction.
So how can you also drive like Dorothy, whilst also being travelling at a high speed? Most people would make the same mistake as that twat in the BMW. The faster they travel, the more nervous they become. The more stiff their arms are, and the more rash decisions they make.
Well, in my time in sim racing, I developed a technique that helps with this. If I ever feel like I’ve hit a brick wall in my lap times, and can’t go any faster, I use this technique - and it works all the time.
What I do first is stop the car. Relax. Take a breath. Let the anxious energy flush out. Honestly, I try not to care about going fast anymore. I get in the mindset of just driving to the shops to buy cat food.
And here’s the most important part, I steer only using my fingertips. Not only does this make my steering inputs much more smooth, because I physically can’t put much force through the wheel, but it also helps get me into that mindset MASSIVELY. Sure, at first, I may be slower. But, over the course of a couple laps, I get into a rhythm. I drive the car like it’s brand new, off the sales room floor. I suggest it to turn in, rather than telling it to, and I never use my palms to do so. I shift as smoothly as possible, like I’m placing a delicate wine glass on my bedside table.
Sure, using your fingertips may seem pointless, but to me, it’s an invaluable technique to driving a car as smoothly as possible. You should try it, just like you should try this video, in which I tell you all about how to shift up and down correctly.
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Smooth is definitely faster racing games
Always has been
why waste time say lot words when few do trick
@@TSRB hardn't better, faster strongn't
@@TSRB facts mate🤷🤷
@@TSRB blassic
Definitly helps a lot to sometimes just stop the car empty the mind and then just drive for the sake of it.
No lape time to beat,
No race to beat,
just the car to experience :D
Lape???
like how calm he calls it a bmw🤣
Classic Toyota, uses so many outside parts for their cars.
Even in rally where you often find yourself having to throw the car aggressively to even make the turns, must of the time not being smooth enough will literally end your run.
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the editing and cinematics are underrated, simply lovely
"twat in the bmw" lol
Damn didnt know Toyota made body kits for the Z4
now u know :)
haha very funny
They also make bodykits for the Subaru BRZ
@@rodracer4567 you mean nameplates?
I'm happy to see tire load sensitivity talked about for once, I find that it's rarely talked about in these kinds of summaraised racing theory videos.
I often hear "weight is transferred to the outside wheels where it's needed" and I almost scream at my monitor thinking "NO, you don't NEED more load on the outside wheels!" Ideally the load is equally distributed across all tires, but this isn't realistically possible (your car's centre of mass would need to be on the ground). However reducing body roll will help with even out the load. Smooth driving will help with this, but will help even more with brief spikes in load transfer or simply exceeding grip limits by demanding too much of the tires all at once.
Anyway, good video, concise and accurate.
Controlling body roll doesn't change how much weight transfer happens though.
@@void_snw within reason body roll does have little effect, but with extreme body roll the centre of mass is displaced from the centre line and thus transfers more weight to the outside wheels.
Is that BMW of yours as tail-happy as the mod version of it you featured man? Because wow, that's fun.
2:44 i see what you did there
Meanwhile me, a broke keyboard player: yes, this will help.
(Great vid, once i save up for a sim setup I'll put this knowledge to good use)
Ah yes another fellow keyboard warrior
gang
i have no idea how anyone can play a racing game on keyboard, massive respect
Feels good to see fellow legends
Smooth Operator~
Carlos Sainz
Smooooth operator
I totally agree with your analysis. When I hit that wall you talk about (as well as actual walls around the track), I try and lift and coast. It's ridiculous how I can gain about a second (mostly on tracks or cars I don't know, otherwise its more like some tenths) while I had the feeling to be sending it around the track a couple of laps before.
In addition to the fact that it can lower the lap times (or at least keeping them the same), it helps relaxing as well as completing more consistent laps, thus improving actual track time before a mistake and finally optimizing your training time. You end up less frustrated and having completed more laps that gives more info for for a potential upcoming race
"his bmw around the track"
😆🤣
Me: *getting nervous while driving*
*remembers this video and its advice*
*stops my car to get into the mindset*
*causes a 25 car collision killing 5 people and injuring 11 spectators*
That’s pretty interesting, I play on controller and sometimes I drive as if my inputs are in slow-mo, which in turn leads to smoother inputs, stability improvements and better rotation
Really well made video!!
Instructions unclear, I stopped to calm down, got smashed into by another driver and now I’m banned for life
I’ve always thought smooth and calm is faster. Until I watched your videos on 4 wheel drifting around corners
At first I was like “no waaaay”
Then I tried it around Tsukuba and my lap times tumbled like crazy, then I was like “oh my God, no waaaaay!”
It’s not consistent by any means, so I don’t do it for races. But I reckon I need to find a way to be mega aggressive as well as calm
the answer is speed violence and momentum.
maybe you should try Inertia drifting where you use the momentum and weight of the car to take each corner, it helps you keep the momentum up after each corner without being to aggressive
@@apiestink I can hear Clarkson screaming: SPEED AND POWER!
I needed this video! I overdrive wayy too much.
This might explain why stiffer springs and ir sway bars can help even though they technically don't increase mechanical grip by that much?
They will better distribute the load between tyres so you don't transfer as much load in a turn?
yes but you need to be careful because the car is jolted left and right and stiffer could make the car more prone to oversteer
I have also come up with a technique to relax while driving
*glances over to bottle of jack daniels*
There should be a new Initial D stage about Dorothy on her way to buy cat food in her Honda CRX but every time she gets on the touge, street racing noobs appear
Thank you! ❤
Flying with your fingertips is a common adage for those that are learning to become a pilot. You don't want a ham fist your inputs
famous f1 driver like Jenson Button he was smooth as butter
This is analogous to a baseball player hitting more home runs by not trying to smash the ball so hard.
I drive like supra boy but I don't lose control of my car and usually for me being aggressive on makes the one behind me or the one in front to make a mistake from the pressure and fear that I might crash into them
hello there TSRB! i want the next vid to be about the mr2 aw11, mazda miata and honda CR-X del sol (the three roadsters)
P.S. is a suggestion
where can i get that CRX mod? ive been looking for one for ages now
One of the best video ive seen from you bro keep it up and thanks for the opportunity of thumbnail love yall bro ❤️
My fingertips are just far too powerful for this tip to apply to me.
Of course the goal and have a smooth resumption if you don't use traction control systems in yes racings, I used to put cars aside in the past, but now I use Smooth! Just enjoy the tour!
Instructions uncle, my fingers are gone.
i personally dont own asetto corsa and play beamngdrive, if anyone doesnt know the game its a car game but CURRENTLY not that much driving physics but more crash physics. there are race tracks but i usually just race on normal roads. so i have a big problem with random, strong inputs. but im gonna try be smoother on racetracks in game. really good video.
some days ago mine friend just went to my place and i said almost something similar. Just don't hold the steering wheel so hard, try to feel the car and go with it.
Many people make mistake by choosing too fast car to begin with, over 300hp is quite handful in real life on track if not experienced driver and in sim you don't even feel the g forces so a bit harder to learn. Start with slow car so at the end you can push it to its limits and continue to faster ones 💪
I consider myself as a smooth driver. One day I did a bit if hotlapping around Bathurst in a 2014 V8 Supercar. I quickly got a best time of a 2:07.8, but I knew I could be faster. But everytime I went into tryhard, I overdrive the car and bottled the lap (mostly at Skyline Corner). So I decided to do only one more lap and stop. Throughout the lap I refused to look at the delta and said myself „it‘s just a cruise lap, keep calm“. At the end, it was a 2:05.9, almost 2s faster than my previous pb and only 2 tenths or so off the irl 2014 pole time. In the replay you can really see how smooth I was, especially on the throttle. So yes, smoother is waaay faster in racing games.
if i tried the finger tip on my wheel i'd be sent to the emergency room 😂
Link for the CRX?
I wonder what’s the full name of the BMW version of the MK5 Supra
Someone once argued with me that coasting through a curb is bad because it's "the least stable state". I understand trailbraking and accelerating to rotate is a thing, what do you think about what he said?
As an engineer I think it's something like this, but anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:
When you're coasting through a curb, due to the lateral forces it applies to the car the resilting force on the car will be actually "sideways", but when you're accelerating there's a force pushing the car forward, making the resulting force become mostly forward, thus upsetting less the car
i just noticed the diss you threw at the mk5 by calling it a bmw lol
great vid dude
Oh my god dude i always love your videos! Didnt expect you here
wait what the math is not mathing
vid posted 7 min ago ur comment 5 min ago how did you watch a 4 min vid in 2 minutes or did u just comment before warching
@@plonk7105 i did i just commented half way through
my favourite part is he repeatedly calls the new supra a BMW
Could you play midnight racing again
Jajaja i also do that with muy fingers, but only when i know im gonna win and im un the last lap and in the outlaps
Explain all the cars edit in the thumbnails lol
Me on my mouse and keyboard settup
Sure smooth is fast but supraboy97 eventually learns to be more patient and smooth and ends up as an esports driver because you need to practice both sides of the limit. If your too nervous to step over that grip limit you never develope other important skills for serious pace and car control in unexpected situations. I Enjoy your videos, but wonder sometimes if you dont totally frame things in context so that contrary drivers like myself are compelled to add that additional engagement 😂😂😂❤❤❤
One of the few sim racers I trust not to succumb to groupthink
If one is always going fast you are slow - Cumbo Tzu
I play assetto corsa with mouse steering and I notice that I'm slightly faster in corner than my friend with his g29 🤣
That rhd Yaris is nice
Corolla*
@@exomotors7380 oh my days it says it on the back😂😂 oops
@@HPsawus tbh i get them wrong too, but the Corolla has a central exhaust and is a fat boi 😂
The mistake i've seen some people commit is thinking every race car is the same as an F1. 👍
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Petition to have more of supra boy 69
1:35 bro u sure, if the its the maximum traction its litteraly 0 kph
smooth operator is that a jojo reference?
I don't get it
carlos sainz reference lol
@@TSRB oh oke
@@TSRB Sorry, that's Sarlos Cainz for you.
I think the simplest way to put it is that corners exist in a racetrack to make going in a straight line more difficult, as that's the fastest way to go from point A to point B.
So whether it's your racing line or keeping the car balanced the goal is always to be going straight as often as possible. Super obvious but I don't believe many people consciously think of it as "My goal is to drive in a straight line as much as possible in spite of the corners"
nice
Please provide is with more information about your cat.
Dorothy😍😍
she a baddie fr
I was waiting on you to tell us that the was Supra-boy drives is making him/us **SLOW**. Alas, I was disappointed.
Ok
AYO IDK if u seen Jimmy Broadbents vids of togue racing 1v1s but u a togue guy and he is becoming a togue guy so you ass gotta message him asap and challenge him to a best of how ever many races u want on ur home turf togue and show him whos the boss on the mountains before its too late my man. now i know u got way less clout than him but u cant just let him have the togue yt scene all to himself u need to assert some kind of dominance obviously
Asphalt 9: Yeaaaaahhh.... NO
Now i will use this guy tips in a 2d racing game lol
What BMW?
the yellow one
@@TSRB Bloody Germans, copy pasted the abysmal Toyota design.
smooth faster racing games
Crx gang gang
*instructions not clear hit a wall and died*
Sory
no worries :)
good video, unfortunately it would be better if the the "a90 is a bmw" joke that was actually a funny joke or not on the video at all
But its true bmw supra or toyota z4 😂
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Ehh, it’s just a game.
it's a simulation
It s called toyota not bmw thank you
A Toyota that's made of 80%-90% of BMW parts... It's all sarcasm just to diss the MK5 as not being a genuine Toyota
Edit : Some extra research, the BMW Z4 and the Toyota MK5 both share some of the majority of parts, mostly due to them being in the same production line and are both built in the same factory. Only difference are the exterior and interior, everything else is practically the same parts. Although, the MK5's parts are tuned by Toyota, so there's that.
Milking the "don't overdrive your car" theory ?
That's like the 3rd vid you made on the topic on the last couple of month 😂😂
"slow and smooth and smooth is fast"
good video, unfortunately it would've been better if the the "a90 is a bmw" joke that was actually a funny joke or not on the video at all