Seeking to excel in one of the most intensive racing simulators known?
If so, then you really want to learn all the tips and tricks in a quest to improve your driving ability.
If you wish to join the ranks of the ‘alien’, you will need more than just a sense of rapid reflexes and timing.
Luckily, such sports will be ‘drilling’ you without the need of an excellent car from the beginning but rather a professional approach to the driving drills will be required.
So without further ado, here are some of the key recommendations that will help you become a pro in ACC.
Table of Contents
- What are the best tips to get faster in ACC?
- 1) Memorize all braking points
- 2) Make a “V” in the data
- 3) Master trail braking
- 4) Get yourself a good wheel and pedals
- 5) Get the best car setups
- 6. Using the Racing Line Assist
- 7.Be smooth on the steering
- 8.Focus on tyre pressures
- 9.Practice, Practice, Practice
- Conclusion
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What are the best tips to get faster in ACC?
The following is a list of 9 tips that you will need to use so as to get faster in Assetto Corsa Competizione.
- Memorize all braking points
- Make a “V” in the data
- Create a communique action plan.
- Getting good at Trail Braking
- Wagering money on components that the wheel comes with.
- Acquisition of the most efficient ACC car setups
- Utilizing the Racing Line Assist
- Be calm and smooth with the steering input
- Focus on tyre pressures
- Rehearsals and Overcoming
Now let us make a review of each of them individually.
1) Memorize all braking points
Braking points are the answer to which allows you to brake later on the cone that most likely sits over the chalk lap.
Without observing turns in detail and finding out your braking and turning points for each specific exercise, there is no way to gain lap time on a regular basis.
A valuable strategy is to pinpoint every single braking point since it will be easy to clear the track with speed each time and make you strive to improve yourself.
Not only will you keep getting better and better by lowering your best overall time, but also the way how you are going to compact all the race errors with less and less greediness.
2) Make a “V” in the data
That’s really all there is, push to the latest breaking point and soon get back to full throttle.
So for the low speed turns, you will have to smash the brakes and stay on it all the way through the apex such that a lot of entry time is gained without any worries to the exit.
Now it would be in the rolling phase where you will corner close, stay on the apex and wait for the pivot of the car and then it is full throttle ASAP not just grudgingly getting into throttle.
That’s why it’s easy to understand that if you open the throttle too soon before the car has completed its rotation you will create some push understeer and doing that will prevent you from reaching full throttle as you might need to lift off the brakes once more in order not to run out wide out into the grass.
So just wait for the rotation holding the brakes then try for a quick full steer (for slow speed corners, not high speed).
That which can be referred to as the “V” line. Also note circumstances of NC that it is not to be the racing line on the track. Rather, it is simply when do you want to be fast as possible throughout the corner under braking and out of it, not in it.
probably have to lift again to avoid running wide in the grass.
3) Master trail braking
There are many skills you have to learn in order to go quicker in racing simulations like Assetto Corsa Competizione, iRacing, rFactor 2, or any other sim game, and this one is one of the most crucial ones.
You will, in fact, want to ‘trail’ your brakes all the way through to the apex after reaching your initial initial hit on the brakes when you are near your braking point.
That will most importantly assist you in achieving more intense and effective braking and secondly, it will assist you in achieving more front load transfer and thus more front grip for the car rotation. In case you wish to maximize your gains on the entry – this will let you do it as well. Hence trailing pedals will. There’s much time aways from your laps.
Hence when your downshift down to draft make sure that you trail those brakes as awesome as you can. You would tilt those lap times down by how many tenths would be easy for you to operate without much annoyance.
4) Get yourself a good wheel and pedals
It should be obvious from the beginning. If you are using a controller or even worse a keyboard and mouse there is no way that anybody could come close to those times the Pros do.
But this will help you push your sim racing skills further, as it is an absolute must have.
Not only will it assist you in achieving better accuracy and smoothness on your input commands but it will also enable you to have improved car feel so that the best decisions on the race track can be made.
Same goes for pedals too. It is obvious that an efficient set of pedals will enable you to stop better and adapt to anything thrown on track competently.
No, I’m not saying that even the less ambitious ones will be forced to spend money on Podium F1 DD2 wheels, but at least some Fanatec or Thrustmaster can help you a lot more than a controller ever will.
The greater pressure pedals concern is usually how good will they be as hydraulic ones are usually preferred as the best and most precise for total cost worth as these are more expensive but with some entry level Fanatec pedals you should be more than good enough.
5) Get the best car setups
This one is pretty straightforward but most people still undervalue its importance.
To go quicker in this racing game, the car you will be racing will have to be adapted to the specific characteristics of each car and track you will be racing.
But then you can’t possibly expect to still be fast down the same slope in Spa or Monza if you are driving a Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo at Silverstone with that setup.
And every single track, car, and condition you race under will require its own specific custom setup.
Actually, it is not possible to drive the same qualifying set up in a 3 hours race since the tyres will most likely be worn out after 10 laps.
And also if it’s wet, you will have to change the whole setup once again to be quick in the rain, except if the rain comes whilst you are already racing.
So think about it and treat yourself to a few dollars a month and hopefully be able to practice how the Pros do it, by running the very same setups.
6. Using the Racing Line Assist
For those who are still in the dark, ACC contains an assist which basically leads you to the ideal line which a driver must always strive to achieve.
That might seem good only for evolution-rich novices who do not know new tracks, but even if you know the track very well, it can be very useful for finding braking points or points for making the turn in.
I am quite sure that if real GT3 and F1 drivers would have the same feature while trying to drive real race cars, they would be very satisfied as they would not consume as much mental energy to recall all those references or information that ranges in diversity.
So give the racing line assist a try and do not forget about utilizing it even with a good memorization of the track.
7.Be smooth on the steering
Being smoothly in control of the wheel and at the same time being aggressive with it is not an easy thing to achieve.
That is because both this and that appears to be something opposites, but please bear with me for a moment.
This is where some drivers’ belief of the need to constrain themselves is necessary comes in. Many drivers do not release the wheel at all and accumulate all their control in their muscle memory.
That is quite concerning because then, you will still make the car too controllable, which will benefit neither your tires nor your time on the track.
While self-regulating is important to increase pace you should not make it so easy where you end up losing pace killing all the spare energy going to recovering lost seconds. So a great compromise is needed.
When you will have reached that stage of smoothness, momentarily my simple advise is that I do expect people to be a little bit more harsh with the steering when turning into chicanes and very slow corners in particular. That will do the trick.
8.Focus on tyre pressures
Warriors on tracks are largely affected by these three items:
- The Driver
- The Tyres
- The Car Set Up
All tires should be perfect. This means that you have only 33.3% left of performance. You earned yourself a vote of that size. Sounds little but let’s say your tyres are up to speed and the driver (you, in this instance) as well then you shall be hovering somewhere down the excess of 70% of the maximum performance level.
And it will not take you too long to also get the same modifications that the Pros are using, and you will understand what I mean here when I say that you will be fighting in any on-line race for places.
On the downside, if the tyres dont come ‘on’ because of being too cool , then you will be drifting the whole, oversteering, and probably even garnering some graining.
On the other end too cold tyre pressures that were designed for the car should allow more into the corners and you are trying to overdo it after attempting that for about 150 laps too, you will again acknowledge yourself and quite possibly garner some blisters.
Having said that, slow track times will be the order of the day in either of the cases and that could mean taking the event to the wire or clean shaven without any form.
Thus regardless of cruising or hot lapping make it a priority to ensure you change the tyre pressures with respect to the changing track and weather conditions.
9.Practice, Practice, Practice
Furthermore you would want to practice as often as possible because that is the only time you will become faster and better at any given skill.
This means that you will have to set a specific time each day or each week to review these driving tips and make sure you do them all in order to quicken the rate at which you learn.
The more practice the easier it becomes, till the end with all these tricks it will be as natural as breathing.
Thus make sure that you don’t give up on practicing and do not seek for renders even though it may feel very hard to do initially. To anyone and especially to newcomers it is normal to be quite a ways behind at the start.
Everyone had to start from the bottom.
Conclusion
So here were everything on ACC driving I had for you.
Appreciated all your help regarding these tips and I hope you will make your racing skills up a notch.
Do keep in mind it takes time and i am sure that after enough practice you will be soon known within the world of sim racing.
So ensure you put in the effort and that you ensure that the efforts to achieve your dreams are fully rewarded.
Good luck and will catch you on the track 😉
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