This is the ULTIMATE Sim Racing Mistakes List. If you want to become the best racing driver you can be, this is for you. If you just want to have fun and don’t care about your sim racing performance, then skip it without going to the comment sections saying "I just wanna have fun" lol. Some things are just not going to be easy to solve so get ready to get out of your comfort zone.
Ready? Ok, let’s go.
1- DO NOT use the ideal racing line! This completely fucks up your vision technique and you create terrible habits. Train your eyes and learn how to scan the track!
2- Do NOT use Driving Assists! Should I really explain this one?
3- Do NOT use the Chase camera. Onboard cameras like hood, bumper or cockpit view will be much better for performance and precision.
4- Look forward! Try to aim where you want your car to go. Scan the track, don’t just keep looking right in front of your hood. Your eyes have to be looking to the next target every second. Ever heard of Guitar Hero? The good players look at the notes as high as possible, as soon as they show up on the screen!
5- Don’t get right away in a race without practicing! Learn the track and be consistent before racing to make sure you improve as a driver in the future and prevent getting bad habits!
6- Don’t turn graphics up if you can’t keep your FPS high! High FPS is essential, and if you’re stuck with 60hz, turn V-Sync off to minimize input lag.
7- Don’t get used to a wrong posture just because you started with it first and it feels natural! Make sure your seating position is proper to prevent getting hurt in the future!
8- You’re not making sure you’re using ALL the track. When I say ALL the track, I mean AAAAAALL the track. To the centimeter! You may think you are but you are NOT. Align the white lines or grass to something in cockpit view to improve your track usage consistency.
9- STOP changing your line or angle expecting the car to behave exactly the same way! Find a line, align the car with the entry kerb or something and DO THAT lap after lap!
10- STOP Braking Randomly! Find braking references to the meter and brake there lap after lap!
11- Stop holding your breath while driving into corners! This makes you tense up more than necessary and your driving will be worse. Try to breathe normally while driving. Depending on how bad your habit of tensing up is, you should be slower for a few days until you get used to it.
12- Stop releasing the brakes quickly from full pressure to zero! You’re just popping up the front tires and understeering terribly, and you’re losing many seconds per lap because of this. Learn how to trail brake!
12 - STOP STRANGLING THE STEERING WHEEL! You’ll hurt yourself and have a much less fun experience driving. Instead, use the Light Hands Technique and feel what the car wants from you.
13- Stop doing blind laps! Just doing 500 laps without analyzing your driving is the easiest way to become a terrible driver. If you only believe in talent and nothing else, you might be creating bad habits that you’ll carry forever in your driving. FIND THE INEFFICIENCIES!
14- Stop applying the brakes too slowly. There are places to be smooth, but brake application should not be slow. You should take no more than half a second between initial application and peak pressure.
15- You’re using the wrong settings because you were lazy to research the right ones! Take some time to make sure everything is perfect, and that includes steering range, linearity of the pedals, deadzones, calibration, force feedback!
16- You’re using the wrong Field of View. Use a FOV Calculator and find your ideal one. You can increase it a bit, like 10% more, but keep it close to the ideal to be more precise, even if it feels a little bit too slow!
17- Stop keeping the steering fixed while turning into the corner! You should only keep the steering fixed if your speed is fixed, and this is very rare in motor racing! You should almost always increase your steering on corner entry and decrease your steering on corner exit, continuously!
18- KEEP THE HEEL OFF THE PLATE WHILE BRAKING! Unless you’re driving with an extremely light brake pedal, you should feel the pressure on the ball of your foot, and it should naturally lift your heel just a little bit!
19- STOP turning in with 100% brakes and relying on ABS. Learn how to control the brakes with finesse. Drive cars with ABS as if they didn’t have them.
20 -Stop looking directly at other cars while racing! Your peripheral vision is good enough to know they’re there. Keep looking for useful places on the track to know where you are.
21- Stop giving way too much space when fighting for position. This makes your pass actually more dangerous as you will most likely run wide on the exit and hit your fellow competitor.
22- DO NOT downshift randomly! Pay attention to the timing of your downshifts, they’ll play an essential role in the car balance on all stages of the corner, and have an impact even on exit, of course!
23- Stop practicing if you’re tired! If you’re plateauing and not improving at all, don’t let the frustration consume you. Take a break, watch a team mate driving, get up, stretch, have some sleep!
24- Don’t turn in fast while trail braking. Your front tires don’t have infinite grip! If you’re braking, turn-in slowly. If you’re coasting, changing direction, or accelerating, turn in fast.
25- Do not drive alone all the time! Try to compare your driving with teammates, help them improve and let them help you improve. This is a win-win for everyone.
26- If you go off-track, PLEASE don’t try to desperately come back on track. If you keep turning too much back to the inside, you’ll spin right away!
27- Stop releasing the brakes in a High Downforce car consistently! You should release it slowly on a straight line as you lose downforce, but then more quickly as you turn in, so your braking trace should have TWO lines, the second one being steeper!
28- Stop releasing the brakes too much on a straight line in a low downforce car! You should keep your brakes fairly flat on the same pressure, so release no more than 10% in that phase! Start actually releasing the brakes only when you start turning in!
29- Stop driving the same way in cambered or off-cambered corners! If there’s more grip, you should force the car more, if there’s a hill, or a crest, or off-camber, you should ask for less rotation, less deceleration, less acceleration!
30- Don’t coast. Having no brakes and no throttle should be a rare situation. For 99% of the cars, you should be trailbraking until you get back on power to get proper rotation and be able to brake later.
31- Stop driving purely through understeer. This means you’re not properly using the rear grip and carrying less speed through all corners. Rotate that thing!
32- Stop relying only on steering to rotate the car! Make sure you’re also consciously using engine braking and trail braking as tools for rotation!
33- Please don’t change your line if you’re the slower car in a multiclass being overtaken by a faster class. Let them do the job and prevent crashes!
34- Don’t forget to practice your pit entries! This can save previous seconds and penalties in endurance events!
35- Stop being under the limit for the sake of consistency. You’re in a simulator, if you’re practicing, abuse the car as much as possible. You’ll learn when sliding. You will NOT learn when not sliding.
36- Stop getting on half-throttle and understeering like a pig mid corner. Find the traction limit and stay there, so you keep the rotation where it was before!
37- Stop trying to gain rotation on throttle! This is one of the most dangerous ways to spin. You’re probably doing it because the car is understeering on entry and you’re compensating that. What about making the car rotate more on entry in the first place?
38- Do not turn in slowly in flat-out corners! You should turn in slowly if you’re braking, but much more quickly when accelerating!
39- Stop changing the car setup to solve your bad habits. Try to correct the balance of the car through driving inputs before you make changes. This will help you be more liked by your teammates in endurance events.
40- Don’t increase the brake pressure mid-corner too much! Although in some cases, you have to do it to compensate for a mistake on corner entry, trying to gain rotation on the brakes mid-corner should be avoided. Use it as a sign that you made something wrong on turn-in. The perfect line has your brake trace going DOWN and only DOWN all the way to the apex.
41- Applying the brakes too fast while coming from another corner. If you start braking as fast as if you were in a straight line but with the car completely unloaded on one side, you’ll instantly lock up the unloaded side or get into ABS and unsettle the car.
42- DO NOT go straight in between compound corners! If you’re sacrificing the line of a corner to improve the next one, use the lateral grip in every inch in between to improve your exit speeds!
43- Stop using the throttle on corner entry! Only a few cars with open-differential require maintenance throttle to control the balance. In most cars, braking and accelerating are like asking them to do opposite things at the same time. And the result is a lazy and unresponsive car.
44- Do NOT turn the steering linearly on corner entry in Low Downforce cars. If the car is low downforce, it’ll have V-shaped lines, which means your steering trace should be progressive and exponential, not linear.
45- Stop relaxing and hesitating after turn-in oversteer, which makes you under the limit for a fraction of a second before you turn-in again mid-corner. Try to make micro-corrections on entry but immediately come back to using the rears, so you keep them busy at all stages of the corner!
46- Stop correcting oversteer with Active Countersteer, where you’re actively turning towards the outside. Let the force feedback do the correction for you!
47- Stop braking the same way in elevation changes! If the track is going up into a compression, sometimes you can brake up to 20% more, and if the track is going over a hill, sometimes you should brake even 50% less!
48- Stop doing the same lines in double-apexes in cars with different downforce levels! If the car is high-downforce, the distance between the apexes should be smaller, and if the car is low-downforce, the distance should be much bigger!
49- When accelerating, make sure you time the speed of the first vertical application to the traction limit from corner to corner. If the corner tends to be oversteery on exit, apply it a little bit slower, like over three tenths of a second, but if the corner tends to be understeery on exit, apply the throttle more quickly, like over one tenth of a second, to keep the car rotating!
50- When correcting oversteer on entry, focus on inducing understeer with the brake release by letting the rotation of the car be a trigger for your brake release. This will make sure your front tires are busy and optimal at all times while you manage the rear tires and oversteer with your pedal release!
If you want to be a good driver, write down the ones that you identified with, then put them to practice. You won’t magically improve, so get your shit together and be disciplined.
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If you have any question, leave a comment and I’ll respond as soon as possible!
Remember to have fun on track ;)
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We have 3 follicles this round for our first cycle of IVF (40 years old currently 41 in July). Our doctor is giving us a choice of IUI or if moving forward with IVF suggests doing fresh transfer. We are not doing ICSI because we are using donor sperm. My question is: what really is the statistical difference between these two? To me they are both the same as regardless all 3 would be used simultaneously (i think? Is there a drop off with fresh transfer?).
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First off, I just want to say Im a Yankee fan and respect the heck out of Alonso. I think Alonso is the NL MVP if his season keeps pace. I forgot about Acuna....sorry Pete, but you'll be top 3!
But lately there has been a convo on Pete vs Aaron... and why Pete isnt getting the same love that Judge did last year.
I've got some points on the why, but first wanted to say I dont think we have to have a VS here. These guys are both NYC studs playing great ball.
Now to the question... why isnt Alonso getting the Judge-level love?
Answer: Because Judge is a better, more athletic ball player. Simple as that. Now add onto it Judge is personable/marketable, on the biggest sports franchise in the world...and it is no mystery.
While Pete is a stud...he's not on that level. He's def a weirdo haha. He's not as good of a D player, he's not even as good as a slugger and he's on a team that historically is not a perennial winner.
But this is baseball....so lets talk stats....

• Judge is a better defensive player.
  

  Player	Position	Fielding % 2022	Fielding % 2023
  Alonso	1B	.992	.998
  Judge	CF	1	1
  Judge	RF	1	.971

• Overall Aaron Judge is a better, more efficient hitter.
  2022
  

  Player	AB	Hits per AB	Runs per AB	RBIs per AB	HRs per AB	HRs per Hit
  Alonso	597	27%	16%	22%	7%	25%
  Judge	570	31%	23%	23%	11%	35%

  2023
  

  Player	AB	Hits per AB	Runs per AB	RBIs per AB	HRs per AB	HRs per Hit
  Alonso	202	24%	19%	23%	10%	41%
  Judge	162	30%	24%	23%	10%	35%

  Career
  

  Player	AB	Hits per AB	Runs per AB	RBIs per AB	HRs per AB	HRs per Hit
  Alonso	2165	26%	16%	20%	8%	25%
  Judge	2800	28%	21%	19%	8%	35%

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ECSTATIC 🇩🇰 0-2 🇷🇺 FORZE

Inferno: 11-16 Nuke: 10-16 Ancient
 
Congratulations to FORZE for winning the CCT 2023 Online Finals 1!
 

Map picks:

ECSTATIC	MAP	FORZE
	Vertigo	X
X	Mirage
	Inferno	✔
✔	Nuke
	Anubis	X
X	Overpass
	Ancient

 

Full Match Stats:

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 Queenix	36-45	85.0	75.5%	1.02
🇩🇰 maNkz	33-41	66.7	77.4%	0.98
🇩🇰 kraghen	36-43	80.1	75.5%	0.98
🇩🇰 salazar	34-38	61.5	69.8%	0.94
🇩🇰 Nodios	28-47	64.8	77.4%	0.88
🇷🇺 FORZE
🇷🇺 shalfey	49-33	95.5	88.7%	1.47
🇷🇺 Jerry	48-33	92.6	83.0%	1.38
🇷🇺 zorte	46-28	83.1	88.7%	1.38
🇷🇺 r3salt	39-35	81.1	83.0%	1.18
🇷🇺 Krad	31-38	70.6	79.2%	1.01

 

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Inferno

Team	CT	T	Total
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC	7	4	11
	T	CT
🇷🇺 FORZE	8	8	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 Queenix	23-22	104.3	70.4%	1.26
🇩🇰 salazar	18-18	63.7	70.4%	1.04
🇩🇰 kraghen	16-19	72.2	81.5%	1.03
🇩🇰 Nodios	12-24	48.0	77.8%	0.78
🇩🇰 maNkz	13-20	55.9	70.4%	0.75
🇷🇺 FORZE
🇷🇺 shalfey	24-15	96.4	88.9%	1.45
🇷🇺 Jerry	24-16	89.0	81.5%	1.29
🇷🇺 zorte	20-16	75.1	81.5%	1.15
🇷🇺 r3salt	18-17	68.7	85.2%	1.09
🇷🇺 Krad	17-18	75.9	70.4%	1.07

Inferno detailed stats and VOD

 

Map 2: Nuke

Team	T	CT	Total
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC	7	3	10
	CT	T
🇷🇺 FORZE	8	8	16

 

Team	K-D	ADR	KAST	Rating
🇩🇰 ECSTATIC
🇩🇰 maNkz	20-21	78.0	84.6%	1.25
🇩🇰 Nodios	16-23	82.3	76.9%	1.02
🇩🇰 kraghen	20-24	88.3	69.2%	0.93
🇩🇰 salazar	16-20	59.3	69.2%	0.86
🇩🇰 Queenix	13-23	64.9	80.8%	0.77
🇷🇺 FORZE
🇷🇺 zorte	26-12	91.3	96.2%	1.63
🇷🇺 shalfey	25-18	94.6	88.5%	1.49
🇷🇺 Jerry	24-17	96.4	84.6%	1.48
🇷🇺 r3salt	21-18	94.0	80.8%	1.31
🇷🇺 Krad	14-20	65.2	88.5%	0.96

Nuke detailed stats and VOD

 
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