>> Something I've noticed is that in my real car I'm sometimes very close to
>> change gear without clutching. It hasn't happen yet, but I've been close
>> :o).
>I was pretty close yesterday, let go my clutch to early :o
>But the worst thing is when driving my real car is that I always try to find
>the perfect line. Like in a right turn, it first put my left tires on the
>middle line of the road, then try to hit the apex at the left line in the
>middle of the corner, and then out to the middle line again. It's actually
>very cool on wide roads. But it must look very stupid :)
I, too, try to find the perfect line (within the limits of my lane and
- generally - of the speed limit.) There is a chicane (literally, it's
meant to slow down cars entering or exiting a village) on a road I
drive on regularly. On the way out of the village, it goes
left-right-left, and on the right side, there are some flat curbs.
Recently, somebody painted the curbs alternatingly red and white. I
mean, that's a deliberate temptation, isn't it? :)
BTW: I recently saw how beneficial sim racing can be for driving in
the real world: I was driving on the Autobahn and saw some smoke above
the track^M^M road ahead. I could not see what was the cause, but,
being sim-trained, I concluded "accident" immediately, rather than
assuming the more probable explanation - a peasant burning some straw
next to the road, or something like this.
Anyway, I slowed down a bit and when I came around the kink in the
road - bingo, a car had spun and crashed against the center guardrail.
[I wonder how the driver managed to spin there - it's a passage that
can be taken with 120 mph and more without a problem, provided the
right car.]
Well, there never was a real danger for me, since my car does not do
more than 80 mph downhill with a strong wind pushing, and I always
would have had enough time to see the crash before having to
participate in it. But in a faster car, the situational awareness
provided by extensive simracing might have actually saved me some
serious trouble.
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