For me anyway, I have found the perfect practice routine to get my lap
times competitive quickly. In a matter of few hours practice I took my
bests at Monaco from 1:30.xx to 1:27.xx, Spa from 3:23.xx to 3:19.xx,
Silver from 1:30.xx to 1:28.xx. and the 'Ring from 9:00-ish to
8:30-ish.
After you know the track well enough that you can get around
reasonably consistently (as I assume you already can at all the
tracks) do this:
1. Go to http://www.racesimcentral.net/
is Lights Ot Racing's track guides. I believe all the ones I have gone
though are by Russ Hodgson and they are great.
2. Carefully read the guide, you may only get a few insights here that
you didn't already know, but hey, improving one corner can easily mean
one second in some cases.
3. Download the replay from the track guide. These are times which
mere mortals can get close to on a good lap so the comparisons to
yourself are much more meaningful than GH's who's is in another world.
4.Go out and make a replay with the best lap you can make.
5. Using Spygirl, merge your best replay with the one from the track
guide.
6. Launch GPL, sit back relax and watch the merged replay very
carefully, especially how he gets back on the gas at every apex (for
the most part). Slow in, fast out. Be sure to sync on spots in Spygirl
if he is much faster so that both cars can go though the corners
together and you can get a real feel of the difference between the
fast way thru and the slow way thru.
Repeat 4. 5. and 6., maybe go back and re-read the guide, perhaps try
the setup from the site (I find them to be wonderful -- not full of
understeer and not too twitchy, they four wheel drift under power
wonderfully) or play with your setup, whatever. Keep repeating until
you are happy with your times.
For me, this works so well it ought to be illegal -- please don't tell
anyone in my league about this :)
Randy