Sim Racing Journey

A couple of weekends ago the Playstation Store had a sale on and I grabbed Assetto Corsa Competizione for half price. I’ve been playing AC Ultimate Edition up until now, but I thought it was worth seeing what ACC was like. It actually has a very different feel to it than Ultimate Edition, but its hard to put into words. I’m definitely not sure if I’ve got the Thrustmaster 300 set up correctly, but I’ll try tweaking it over time and see. I’m giving career mode a go at the moment, and although I have no idea what I’m doing, I’m having fun. I think I’m slowly getting better at practice laps but when it comes to racing the AI it’s a bit of a melee. Career mode started off with a Lamborgini at Monza, and after doing some laps in different conditions (dry, wet, night), you get to choose a car and then start doing some events at different tracks which consist of: practice laps qualifier 1 qualifier 2 race 1 race 2 You can adjust the settings, to change the duration of a session, but I left i...

 I finally cracked 1m54s in the Porsche 911 RSR 2017 at Barcelona in Assetto Corsa Ultimate. My lap times have slowly improved throughout the weeks, but now it’s time to move on from Barcelona. I started at Monza, then moved on to Barcleona, now my next stop is the Red Bull Ring — best lap time so far is 1m33s which leaves my current Personal Bests by track at: Monza — 1m57s Barcelona — 1m54s Red Bull Ring — 1m33s I’m thinking every month I’ll move on to learn a new track, but also come back and visit these ones briefly to see if I can beat my personal bests — this should be a good measure of progress! This video from Ermin Hamidovic is a great intro to sim racing that briefly covers a lot of good points. Something that I think has made a big difference for me is holding the steering wheel at 9 & 3 — turning seems to be smoother and it seems easier to straighten up and accelerate earlier. I’ve also dropped the force feedback on the Thrustmaster down from 100 to 55. I’ll proba...