**The Art of Sim Racing: Tips and Tricks from a Pro**

As an automotive journalist, I can attest that sim racing is no longer just a hobby for enthusiasts, but a serious form of competition. The main skill of a racing driver in any genre, including sim racing, is adaptability. This means being able to adjust your driving style on the fly, identify areas for improvement, and make adjustments accordingly. In the case of Steve from Super GT, who recently shared his tips and tricks with us, adaptability was key to shaving seconds off his lap times.

For Steve, it all comes down to smoothness. He focuses on making subtle adjustments to his pedal inputs, steering wheel movements, and braking techniques to achieve a more fluid driving style. This approach is rewarded in the game, where precision and finesse are crucial to navigating corners quickly and efficiently. As we watched Steve's clip of his foot inputs and steering wheel movements, it was clear that he had mastered the art of smoothness. He could steer through turns with ease, applying just the right amount of pressure to stay on course.

One of the key takeaways from Steve's tips is the importance of being in the moment and focusing on the task at hand. When racing, we often get caught up in thinking about our strategies and trying to perfect every little detail. But in reality, it's all about executing your plan flawlessly and trusting your instincts. For Steve, this meant letting go of his need to control every aspect of the car and instead, focusing on being smooth and consistent.

Another area where Steve excelled was in terms of braking technique. He could slow down through corners with precision and power, using a gentle touch to avoid wheelspin or lockup. This allowed him to maintain momentum and carry speed into the next corner, making his overall driving style feel more aggressive and dynamic. We were impressed by how smoothly he could coast through turns, applying just enough pressure on the throttle to stay ahead of the pack.

Of course, no sim racing session is complete without a bit of competition. Steve was kind enough to share his settings with us, which allowed us to try out his approach for ourselves. And let me tell you, it was eye-opening to see how much of a difference small adjustments could make in terms of lap times. By focusing on smoothness and precision driving, we were able to shave precious seconds off our own lap times.

As an automotive journalist, I have to say that sim racing has become one of my favorite ways to stay engaged with the world of motorsports. It's amazing how much you can learn about handling and racing by playing games like GT Sport. And it's even more impressive when you see pro drivers like Steve putting in hours of practice and dedication to perfect their craft.

If you're looking for a way to improve your driving skills or simply have some fun, I highly recommend giving sim racing a try. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, there's always room to learn and improve. And who knows, maybe one day we'll see Steve from Super GT trading in his simulator chair for a real-life racing seat.

**Interview with Steve from Super GT**

We had the opportunity to sit down with Steve from Super GT and talk about his experiences with sim racing. Here's what he had to say:

"For me, the key to success in sim racing is adaptability," Steve explained. "I mean, it's not just about memorizing a line or knowing exactly how much to brake – it's about being able to adjust on the fly and respond to changing conditions."

Steve also emphasized the importance of smoothness in his driving style. "If I'm feeling really aggressive and trying my absolute hardest, I find that I actually end up going slower," he admitted. "It's all about finding that sweet spot between power and finesse."

When asked about his approach to braking, Steve revealed that it was a key area where he focuses his attention. "I try to brake smoothly and consistently, using just the right amount of pressure to avoid wheelspin or lockup," he explained.

As for how much practice it takes to improve at sim racing, Steve was candid. "It's not just about putting in hours – it's about finding what works for you and sticking with it," he said. "For me, it's all about finding that smooth, consistent driving style that feels natural."

We also asked Steve about his favorite part of sim racing. For him, it's the sense of freedom and control that comes from being in the simulator chair.

"I love how immersive it is – I can just forget about everything else and focus on the task at hand," he said with a smile. "And when I'm playing, I feel like I'm really driving – which is an amazing feeling!"

**Sim Racing Settings**

For those interested in trying out Steve's approach for themselves, we've included his settings below:

* Game: GT Sport

* Difficulty: Medium

* Tires: Racing tires

* Car: Nissan GT-R Nismo

We hope this helps! Let us know in the comments if you have any questions or need further guidance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm Yuri I'm Jacob and we're going for a simulator drive the bags all here in this video we're gonna go over what we're using how easy it was to set it up being able to play with your friends and then we've also got a special section where Steve from super GT on YouTube is going to show us how to be faster check out his channel it's a good way to see what Gran Turismo sport for PlayStation was all about and then we've also got mr. MCA to do a lap guide for the one track that we race the most with our subscribers every night and den start to break just before the grass on the Left turns into the gravel break card for a moment then ease up on the brakes to let the card turn in while you're still slowing down so make sure you guys follow us on instagram at the straight pipes at URI tarian that's where we posed room codes pretty much every night and if you're actually playing GT sport already miss the MCA does lap guides for every single daily race all the time so check out his channel and definitely subscribe to that as well as super GT who's coming up soon alright so we're here with Steve from super GT he is going to show us how to get faster so the reason we're playing Gran Turismo sport is because we already had PS fours and pretty much all of our friends were already playing it shoutout to all the guys here's a bunch of the cool straight pipes liveries they've been using to beat us and also lose against us a whole bunch you guys really put some serious effort into your liveries so let us know in the comments which one you guys think is the best and the reason we're not playing for is is because we just don't have Xbox but it is cool because it does have a yellow prowler and an orange raptor yeah so Microsoft and Xbox if you want us to play that give us a call and we're also not playing a saddle corset because it doesn't seem to have as easy of a multiplayer as GT sport and then I just installed I racing apparently it's way more realistic way more competitive but I haven't really gotten into it yet and I racing is only for PC so it's definitely a lot more hardcore than the setup were used to for GT sport on ps4 so before we get into what gear we're using we should probably mention we're not sponsored by PlayStation or GT sport but it's just what we've been playing not yet okay so the setups we started off on the first thing I got was a Thrustmaster t-150 steering wheel and pedals because it was the cheapest force-feedback steering wheel i could find but the paddles that came with it are pretty basic they don't have that much feel I started with the exact same setup and I'm still using it so let us know in the comments which pedal and steering wheel we should go with next and I also started on the police he challenged just like Yuri I found that because I was looking for something that folds up and will fit in like a closet because I live an apartment and I don't have that much room for a full seat then lucky for us play seat managed to hook us up with a play seat evolution which still folds up but it's a much more solid set up and play seat are fans of what we're doing so they hooked us up with these chairs I got a black one here you got a red one there's a bunch of different choices check out the website for more and it's cool because these are pretty much around the same price as the challenge and they're like way more solid but they don't fold up as tight but they still fold up pretty tight and I just like to mention that play seat makes max Verstappen z' custom f1 chair which is pretty damn cool yeah once they come out with formula 1 2020 we got to get those full reclining f1 seats so now let's talk about the daily racing that we've been doing with our subscribers we've been using the N 200 Mazda Touring roadster for pretty much all of our races we've been using the super soft tires because it just makes it racing so much fun and then we also set the slipstream too strong even though it's not realistic it keeps the races so tight pretty much anyone can win any race and you can always catch up so if you do want to come race with us it's super fun I would highly recommend it follow us on Instagram we post the room codes on stories and if you're not sure about the track follow Mistah mca on youtube he did a lap guide for a dragon trail seaside which is the most fun track and it'll really help you eat fast and keep up with us and somehow he managed to pull out a 149 out of that track my previous best was like a really high 150 so he did a really good job on that track and then if you don't want to play with us online on GT sport you can also do the daily races which are going on all the time and this guy always puts out lap guides anytime I'm doing bad in a race I look at his lap guide and I improve my times by like two seconds and since we are racing with some really fast drivers shout out Sam he's a gt3 Cup driver we reached out to Super GT so that we could really hone our skills and see if we can get even faster all right so we're here with Steve from Super GT he is going to show us how to get faster because we've been playing this for a while and you know we kind of hit a wall so check out his channel on YouTube Super GT that's kind of what got me into playing Gran Turismo when I was looking it up I think I watched a lot of your channel before I like committed to buying it that's very very good to hear you're in the right place hopefully I'm not the quickest not the quickest we don't mind about quickest we just want the most YouTube list the best YouTube obviously of course yeah yeah you turn YouTube's cred is gold for us where do we find ourselves Laguna Seca in the Porsche 911 our sauce and I guess out of the start I'm getting a one twenty four point eight eight is my fastest Jacob what did you get I got a one twenty three point four and Steve you got a like a one twenty point nine and that took you a lot less laughs because you're actually pretty good at this games I'm gonna slash three seconds off 301 21 I want I want at least two off mine yeah one 21 is the goal let's go URI 121 any kind of trial break in at the end and I hope X again just after the sausage and then on our initial breaking so we've got the Thrustmaster t-150 pedal and steering wheel do i slam my foot all the way down and like keep it there or do i like slam it down and ease off yeah slam it down to begin with and then as you'll get into a corner you're gonna begin to ease off right wheels through the through the curb here second girls say a proper corner for trail braking so I'm always turning in towards the apex like this whilst on the brakes so turning and braking at the same time Oh 23 323 3 yes that's that's your fastest lap so far yeah there's a cool I'm actually enjoying this because it's like you don't get this other than actual real driving like with a coach right beside you oh for sure yeah no it's good so / - Yuri now so your fastest was twenty-four eight up to this point looking for that three board with the white line breaking just before it turning into the first corner there it is and keep it keep it keep it that's it that's really good okay so is that is that a correct way to trail break yeah so you went in you head towards the apex the moment you release the brake the car will just begin to turn a bit better she's got time that dead right so normally what you're slightly past the apex okay yeah 23 861 lat coaching and I'm already better good job see so what happened there did I break too late there I think that might be dirty tires once the problem with this track so this round is anything fix your tires yeah for the next of a couple of corners your tires won't have as much grip Oh like that that I never knew about yeah so when you start your truck races out do you like just do a whole bunch of laps I think I saw that you look at the fastest qualifying times and see what they did do you ever like go just by yourself and do it yeah I mean the best way to really realize because it's the problem for me sometimes I I go into a session and do six seven laps I don't know I don't know if I'm doing something stupidly wrong so now I need to just look at the number one time and go oh okay no they're doing that when they're doing this so let's just try and do that sometimes I was using to completely the wrong gear or for a certain chord or something like that and then how about like picking the fastest car do you always do that or do you kind of just pick whatever you want for qualifying yeah you always want to go with the quickest card usually I noticed between the regions because in North America people choose very different and varied cars you're much better than that and then us in Europe because everyone in Europe just goes for the quickest car all right so have you noticed any more errors or anything I'm doing better and now really I think the main thing would be like smooth power application and then over the course of maybe half a second you're going from no power to full power so I find that if you coast so no power no throttle it the car kind of just wants to turn a bit better okay so like on before you give gas like way to like a beat and then hopefully soon as you're on the gas to call those to straighten itself up okay and how did you figure all this stuff out do you just experiment or do you kind of naturally have like a gift for detecting that the car is doing in a game and I suppose just from years of playing games you just just work it out really as this translated to your real life lap times I'll say the main thing that is similar between real life and the games is of the mental aspect just you know churning out 20 laps without make a mistake if you can do that in the game that will help you in real life yeah I noticed on the other track with the Hyundai Veloster I think the concentration from the game really helped me out yeah I I think that's the main thing that really helps with just with mental things like not making mistakes not getting too angry if someone does something just chops across you or something like not losing your cool and I'll give too much pressure that kind of thing it really helps with that and we pretty much if somebody hits one of us someone else will take that guy out they don't realize that there's like eight of us on chat we're ruthless come on baby I can feel it yes 22:22 whoa that's really good man keeping my tires clean and that like letting off of brake and gas for rotation really helps yeah and the tighter you're turning and the slower you're going the more likely you are to spin you know you said you want to take the kerb from the start on the curb to make your turn better and faster yeah is there any disadvantage to riding on the curb for too long or should you only like kind of touch it when you need to it might unsettle your car a little bit it doesn't wear out your tires or anything like that or do damage to your car but it'll just slow down or no just slow down so slow you down because I see the RPMs jumping a little so as long as you can handle that like it's not exactly yeah something on Monza sometimes there's astroturf in it if you go in the astroturf it slows you down yeah dude this is super hard 28 laps in and like I have like four that are 23 seconds yeah yeah me too yeah it's difficult or maybe now you could spectate me and I could just talk for a lap maybe just turn it in Wow see there's like no panic when he's playing he knows everything we're still trying to panic our way through a lot of it pretty much yeah if you if you're going white just yeah don't panic just accept that you've gone wide you're going to lose time and just try to bring the car back by slowing it down nice and gently so I think most time if you try and fight it when you're going off the car we'll win and you'll go off so you brake then you're off of both pedals for about half a second to really settle the car down okay so I feel like I pretty much never did that until today twenty-one five what what do you find has the best community for all these games oh that's a tough one I mean I really like the communities of both games have been great for me you know the guys I've met in the well the world tour events of both games have been amazing Forza and Gran Turismo yeah how about I racing like what's up we don't understand how that works because it's like you got to buy a computer and die by tracks and something else please yeah it's a it's a lot more expensive it's not as accessible it's a lot more realistic of course you'll be immersed a lot more some of the best players in the world or in iRacing is very difficult to to get into but it's very rewarding if you if you have success on AI racing yeah I don't want to put that much effort into it I kinda just want to play this with my friends like a nice wagon play yeah I mean that's why I love Gran Turismo because it's not the most realistic ever of all time but it's pretty good and it's at the same time accessible for people and then even when I wasn't playing with friends like the matchmaking on the daily races was always like it always felt like really good about that and there's always a racist to do yeah there yeah I think the matchmaking is pretty sure I know obviously if there's gonna be rappers and you're still gonna get crashed at times but for the most part you're gonna have a close race with someone I can feel it - okay no I'm doing something wrong that's just exactly what I'm doing yeah I think that's the thing with getting better at these games no we've done what 35 40 laps here as long as you do you do something right once and you be like ah I've done it I know what to do now I know what it is that I need to do but it's just about doing therefore the amount of laps that you need to do to actually get it consist in every lap all of our bad habits have translated to simulators yeah it's it's just hard to know it's like I didn't feel anything yeah I never feel anything exactly if it's ingrained in the way you drive it it is really hard to undo it it really is so that's why racecar drivers are actually that much better in this game than we are yeah I think the main a main skill of a racing driver is adaptability they can just they could just change they know what they're doing wrong they just change it I'm focusing on my pedals just being smoother now that's it same lines yeah I think that's actually a tip I would give is and sometimes when I'm trying my absolute hardest and really ragging the car to try to get through that time I actually go slower but when I just real acts and just really focus on being smooth I actually go quicker I'll say smoothness is in this game really rewarded I think you know I mean you know how to steer out of inputs where most the time is won and lost what kind of know how to steer yeah we understand the line you'd be surprised what you could get away with being an automotive journalist we only do it for a job but well you haven't quite figured out steering yeah okay well I'm consistently getting like 23 is now basically come on get another 22 that is a good sign though if you're a few lapping consistently then that's always a good thing in itself because right now you're thinking about it consciously going into the corner that's actually difficult yeah when maybe later another another session when you're on your own and you have the freedom just to drive without you know me being here you'll just come more naturally okay yeah maybe it's like one of things I just gotta like right above my TV's so that I'm gonna do that in races yeah oh I know what I'm gonna do for the rest of tonight yeah I see potential for sure I definitely think and get down into a 21 and 21 is a decent lap time for this combination I mean I only just going to a 20 and Jacob you're only 410 soft URI was it like a second and a bit off is there anything that marries the bloom on we complain about our pedal setup maybe a little bit alright I'm pretty sure that you get the best player in the world on your sour pan de su say the number one times you know if I had to summarize a couple of things that you could maybe take away and improve on it would be just the overall smoothness and so you watched like the fastest guy their movement through the corner is so fluid the car is not dancing about at all it's just really nice and smooth yeah just better car control with the with the brakes and then the coasting through the corner on the exit of the corner just bits a bit more gentle on the power am I still look do I stop like I'm moving around all over the track and I being me but even just that straight there was a bit sort of jagged you could say the gang's all here alright so to end things off thank you very much Steve for showing us some tips and tricks trying to make us faster I do feel faster it's gonna take some practice though a lot of practice and I'm gonna need a copy or ghost and what are our settings for this one yes if you want to have a go this this is Group three Laguna Seca with racing medium tires and you're gonna give us a clip with your foot inputs as well right yes I'll give you a clip with my pedal inputs and my steering wheel input so you can maybe have a have a look at an use as a reference for later so thanks a lot to Steve from Super GT who shaved a lot of seconds off of both of our lap times we both got way more consistent so check out super GT his YouTube channel he does all this video game stuff yeah lots of sim racing it's not just GT sport it's AI racing as well and a couple of other things and he does live videos and recaps of races that aren't boring at all that was probably the best part of your whole channel is that it's so easy to watch I'm on it I'm truly honored and blessed thank you very much guys thanks man yeah thanks lot man it's fun it's overall Jacob how would you rate sim racing for the amount of money we've put into it honestly I stopped playing all video games a couple years ago but now that I'm into sim racing this doesn't feel like a video game this feels like driving so I love it but I'm actually kind of excited to get like back on a race track for real now I want to use all my concentration and skills and translate that back to real cars and if you're a professional racecar driver or an amateur race car driver or a Formula One driver give us a call we want to come play with you so big thanks to mr. MCA and super GT for all your help we're having a great time with the sim racing remember false on Instagram if you want to race with us and let us know in the comments what you want us to know about sim racing what are we missing out onI'm Yuri I'm Jacob and we're going for a simulator drive the bags all here in this video we're gonna go over what we're using how easy it was to set it up being able to play with your friends and then we've also got a special section where Steve from super GT on YouTube is going to show us how to be faster check out his channel it's a good way to see what Gran Turismo sport for PlayStation was all about and then we've also got mr. MCA to do a lap guide for the one track that we race the most with our subscribers every night and den start to break just before the grass on the Left turns into the gravel break card for a moment then ease up on the brakes to let the card turn in while you're still slowing down so make sure you guys follow us on instagram at the straight pipes at URI tarian that's where we posed room codes pretty much every night and if you're actually playing GT sport already miss the MCA does lap guides for every single daily race all the time so check out his channel and definitely subscribe to that as well as super GT who's coming up soon alright so we're here with Steve from super GT he is going to show us how to get faster so the reason we're playing Gran Turismo sport is because we already had PS fours and pretty much all of our friends were already playing it shoutout to all the guys here's a bunch of the cool straight pipes liveries they've been using to beat us and also lose against us a whole bunch you guys really put some serious effort into your liveries so let us know in the comments which one you guys think is the best and the reason we're not playing for is is because we just don't have Xbox but it is cool because it does have a yellow prowler and an orange raptor yeah so Microsoft and Xbox if you want us to play that give us a call and we're also not playing a saddle corset because it doesn't seem to have as easy of a multiplayer as GT sport and then I just installed I racing apparently it's way more realistic way more competitive but I haven't really gotten into it yet and I racing is only for PC so it's definitely a lot more hardcore than the setup were used to for GT sport on ps4 so before we get into what gear we're using we should probably mention we're not sponsored by PlayStation or GT sport but it's just what we've been playing not yet okay so the setups we started off on the first thing I got was a Thrustmaster t-150 steering wheel and pedals because it was the cheapest force-feedback steering wheel i could find but the paddles that came with it are pretty basic they don't have that much feel I started with the exact same setup and I'm still using it so let us know in the comments which pedal and steering wheel we should go with next and I also started on the police he challenged just like Yuri I found that because I was looking for something that folds up and will fit in like a closet because I live an apartment and I don't have that much room for a full seat then lucky for us play seat managed to hook us up with a play seat evolution which still folds up but it's a much more solid set up and play seat are fans of what we're doing so they hooked us up with these chairs I got a black one here you got a red one there's a bunch of different choices check out the website for more and it's cool because these are pretty much around the same price as the challenge and they're like way more solid but they don't fold up as tight but they still fold up pretty tight and I just like to mention that play seat makes max Verstappen z' custom f1 chair which is pretty damn cool yeah once they come out with formula 1 2020 we got to get those full reclining f1 seats so now let's talk about the daily racing that we've been doing with our subscribers we've been using the N 200 Mazda Touring roadster for pretty much all of our races we've been using the super soft tires because it just makes it racing so much fun and then we also set the slipstream too strong even though it's not realistic it keeps the races so tight pretty much anyone can win any race and you can always catch up so if you do want to come race with us it's super fun I would highly recommend it follow us on Instagram we post the room codes on stories and if you're not sure about the track follow Mistah mca on youtube he did a lap guide for a dragon trail seaside which is the most fun track and it'll really help you eat fast and keep up with us and somehow he managed to pull out a 149 out of that track my previous best was like a really high 150 so he did a really good job on that track and then if you don't want to play with us online on GT sport you can also do the daily races which are going on all the time and this guy always puts out lap guides anytime I'm doing bad in a race I look at his lap guide and I improve my times by like two seconds and since we are racing with some really fast drivers shout out Sam he's a gt3 Cup driver we reached out to Super GT so that we could really hone our skills and see if we can get even faster all right so we're here with Steve from Super GT he is going to show us how to get faster because we've been playing this for a while and you know we kind of hit a wall so check out his channel on YouTube Super GT that's kind of what got me into playing Gran Turismo when I was looking it up I think I watched a lot of your channel before I like committed to buying it that's very very good to hear you're in the right place hopefully I'm not the quickest not the quickest we don't mind about quickest we just want the most YouTube list the best YouTube obviously of course yeah yeah you turn YouTube's cred is gold for us where do we find ourselves Laguna Seca in the Porsche 911 our sauce and I guess out of the start I'm getting a one twenty four point eight eight is my fastest Jacob what did you get I got a one twenty three point four and Steve you got a like a one twenty point nine and that took you a lot less laughs because you're actually pretty good at this games I'm gonna slash three seconds off 301 21 I want I want at least two off mine yeah one 21 is the goal let's go URI 121 any kind of trial break in at the end and I hope X again just after the sausage and then on our initial breaking so we've got the Thrustmaster t-150 pedal and steering wheel do i slam my foot all the way down and like keep it there or do i like slam it down and ease off yeah slam it down to begin with and then as you'll get into a corner you're gonna begin to ease off right wheels through the through the curb here second girls say a proper corner for trail braking so I'm always turning in towards the apex like this whilst on the brakes so turning and braking at the same time Oh 23 323 3 yes that's that's your fastest lap so far yeah there's a cool I'm actually enjoying this because it's like you don't get this other than actual real driving like with a coach right beside you oh for sure yeah no it's good so / - Yuri now so your fastest was twenty-four eight up to this point looking for that three board with the white line breaking just before it turning into the first corner there it is and keep it keep it keep it that's it that's really good okay so is that is that a correct way to trail break yeah so you went in you head towards the apex the moment you release the brake the car will just begin to turn a bit better she's got time that dead right so normally what you're slightly past the apex okay yeah 23 861 lat coaching and I'm already better good job see so what happened there did I break too late there I think that might be dirty tires once the problem with this track so this round is anything fix your tires yeah for the next of a couple of corners your tires won't have as much grip Oh like that that I never knew about yeah so when you start your truck races out do you like just do a whole bunch of laps I think I saw that you look at the fastest qualifying times and see what they did do you ever like go just by yourself and do it yeah I mean the best way to really realize because it's the problem for me sometimes I I go into a session and do six seven laps I don't know I don't know if I'm doing something stupidly wrong so now I need to just look at the number one time and go oh okay no they're doing that when they're doing this so let's just try and do that sometimes I was using to completely the wrong gear or for a certain chord or something like that and then how about like picking the fastest car do you always do that or do you kind of just pick whatever you want for qualifying yeah you always want to go with the quickest card usually I noticed between the regions because in North America people choose very different and varied cars you're much better than that and then us in Europe because everyone in Europe just goes for the quickest car all right so have you noticed any more errors or anything I'm doing better and now really I think the main thing would be like smooth power application and then over the course of maybe half a second you're going from no power to full power so I find that if you coast so no power no throttle it the car kind of just wants to turn a bit better okay so like on before you give gas like way to like a beat and then hopefully soon as you're on the gas to call those to straighten itself up okay and how did you figure all this stuff out do you just experiment or do you kind of naturally have like a gift for detecting that the car is doing in a game and I suppose just from years of playing games you just just work it out really as this translated to your real life lap times I'll say the main thing that is similar between real life and the games is of the mental aspect just you know churning out 20 laps without make a mistake if you can do that in the game that will help you in real life yeah I noticed on the other track with the Hyundai Veloster I think the concentration from the game really helped me out yeah I I think that's the main thing that really helps with just with mental things like not making mistakes not getting too angry if someone does something just chops across you or something like not losing your cool and I'll give too much pressure that kind of thing it really helps with that and we pretty much if somebody hits one of us someone else will take that guy out they don't realize that there's like eight of us on chat we're ruthless come on baby I can feel it yes 22:22 whoa that's really good man keeping my tires clean and that like letting off of brake and gas for rotation really helps yeah and the tighter you're turning and the slower you're going the more likely you are to spin you know you said you want to take the kerb from the start on the curb to make your turn better and faster yeah is there any disadvantage to riding on the curb for too long or should you only like kind of touch it when you need to it might unsettle your car a little bit it doesn't wear out your tires or anything like that or do damage to your car but it'll just slow down or no just slow down so slow you down because I see the RPMs jumping a little so as long as you can handle that like it's not exactly yeah something on Monza sometimes there's astroturf in it if you go in the astroturf it slows you down yeah dude this is super hard 28 laps in and like I have like four that are 23 seconds yeah yeah me too yeah it's difficult or maybe now you could spectate me and I could just talk for a lap maybe just turn it in Wow see there's like no panic when he's playing he knows everything we're still trying to panic our way through a lot of it pretty much yeah if you if you're going white just yeah don't panic just accept that you've gone wide you're going to lose time and just try to bring the car back by slowing it down nice and gently so I think most time if you try and fight it when you're going off the car we'll win and you'll go off so you brake then you're off of both pedals for about half a second to really settle the car down okay so I feel like I pretty much never did that until today twenty-one five what what do you find has the best community for all these games oh that's a tough one I mean I really like the communities of both games have been great for me you know the guys I've met in the well the world tour events of both games have been amazing Forza and Gran Turismo yeah how about I racing like what's up we don't understand how that works because it's like you got to buy a computer and die by tracks and something else please yeah it's a it's a lot more expensive it's not as accessible it's a lot more realistic of course you'll be immersed a lot more some of the best players in the world or in iRacing is very difficult to to get into but it's very rewarding if you if you have success on AI racing yeah I don't want to put that much effort into it I kinda just want to play this with my friends like a nice wagon play yeah I mean that's why I love Gran Turismo because it's not the most realistic ever of all time but it's pretty good and it's at the same time accessible for people and then even when I wasn't playing with friends like the matchmaking on the daily races was always like it always felt like really good about that and there's always a racist to do yeah there yeah I think the matchmaking is pretty sure I know obviously if there's gonna be rappers and you're still gonna get crashed at times but for the most part you're gonna have a close race with someone I can feel it - okay no I'm doing something wrong that's just exactly what I'm doing yeah I think that's the thing with getting better at these games no we've done what 35 40 laps here as long as you do you do something right once and you be like ah I've done it I know what to do now I know what it is that I need to do but it's just about doing therefore the amount of laps that you need to do to actually get it consist in every lap all of our bad habits have translated to simulators yeah it's it's just hard to know it's like I didn't feel anything yeah I never feel anything exactly if it's ingrained in the way you drive it it is really hard to undo it it really is so that's why racecar drivers are actually that much better in this game than we are yeah I think the main a main skill of a racing driver is adaptability they can just they could just change they know what they're doing wrong they just change it I'm focusing on my pedals just being smoother now that's it same lines yeah I think that's actually a tip I would give is and sometimes when I'm trying my absolute hardest and really ragging the car to try to get through that time I actually go slower but when I just real acts and just really focus on being smooth I actually go quicker I'll say smoothness is in this game really rewarded I think you know I mean you know how to steer out of inputs where most the time is won and lost what kind of know how to steer yeah we understand the line you'd be surprised what you could get away with being an automotive journalist we only do it for a job but well you haven't quite figured out steering yeah okay well I'm consistently getting like 23 is now basically come on get another 22 that is a good sign though if you're a few lapping consistently then that's always a good thing in itself because right now you're thinking about it consciously going into the corner that's actually difficult yeah when maybe later another another session when you're on your own and you have the freedom just to drive without you know me being here you'll just come more naturally okay yeah maybe it's like one of things I just gotta like right above my TV's so that I'm gonna do that in races yeah oh I know what I'm gonna do for the rest of tonight yeah I see potential for sure I definitely think and get down into a 21 and 21 is a decent lap time for this combination I mean I only just going to a 20 and Jacob you're only 410 soft URI was it like a second and a bit off is there anything that marries the bloom on we complain about our pedal setup maybe a little bit alright I'm pretty sure that you get the best player in the world on your sour pan de su say the number one times you know if I had to summarize a couple of things that you could maybe take away and improve on it would be just the overall smoothness and so you watched like the fastest guy their movement through the corner is so fluid the car is not dancing about at all it's just really nice and smooth yeah just better car control with the with the brakes and then the coasting through the corner on the exit of the corner just bits a bit more gentle on the power am I still look do I stop like I'm moving around all over the track and I being me but even just that straight there was a bit sort of jagged you could say the gang's all here alright so to end things off thank you very much Steve for showing us some tips and tricks trying to make us faster I do feel faster it's gonna take some practice though a lot of practice and I'm gonna need a copy or ghost and what are our settings for this one yes if you want to have a go this this is Group three Laguna Seca with racing medium tires and you're gonna give us a clip with your foot inputs as well right yes I'll give you a clip with my pedal inputs and my steering wheel input so you can maybe have a have a look at an use as a reference for later so thanks a lot to Steve from Super GT who shaved a lot of seconds off of both of our lap times we both got way more consistent so check out super GT his YouTube channel he does all this video game stuff yeah lots of sim racing it's not just GT sport it's AI racing as well and a couple of other things and he does live videos and recaps of races that aren't boring at all that was probably the best part of your whole channel is that it's so easy to watch I'm on it I'm truly honored and blessed thank you very much guys thanks man yeah thanks lot man it's fun it's overall Jacob how would you rate sim racing for the amount of money we've put into it honestly I stopped playing all video games a couple years ago but now that I'm into sim racing this doesn't feel like a video game this feels like driving so I love it but I'm actually kind of excited to get like back on a race track for real now I want to use all my concentration and skills and translate that back to real cars and if you're a professional racecar driver or an amateur race car driver or a Formula One driver give us a call we want to come play with you so big thanks to mr. MCA and super GT for all your help we're having a great time with the sim racing remember false on Instagram if you want to race with us and let us know in the comments what you want us to know about sim racing what are we missing out on\n"