Losing most time in the Braking Zone. Help appreciated.

[WildRover84]

Heya!

So, I've been training recently and also tweaking my wheel settings here and there (G27).

As a reference in Time Trial - to see if I am improving generally - I use Austria as a track, Ferrari as a car and the standard setup for better comparison. Currently my best is a doing roughly a 1:10:100, which I find not too impressive, especially considering that I feel kinda on the edge.

I found that I lose a lot of time in the braking zones before the slow/slower corners. Now, I know my way around trail-braking and I feel the threshold is good. But I can also feel that I have to hit the brakes way earlier in comparison to what other people do in videos (even people who are not on an absolute Pro-level) in order to get to the same entry-speed.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Is there something I still do fundamentally wrong, something I might be looking over?

As said, my wheel is a G27 and the only Assist on is Traction-Control on Medium.

[slcBerg]

Have you tried turning driving line on in the corners? I use it to learn the braking points

[TryHardNinja]

I have the same problem. I think in most of those videos they are using gamepads, which are quite an advantage this time around as far as I can tell.

If I try to increase brake pressure etc I just get lockups all over the place.

I am hoping CM can tune this.

[Serious Jobs]

Braking is broken in this game. It's is by far the most unrealistic brake sensitivity in racing game history.

[pasta]

Increase brake linearity so the initial pressure applied is very weak and increases as the brake is depressed further

[lolschrauber]

With pedals I don't have any problems putting the pedal all the way down and gradually take off the pressure the closer I'm coming to the turn

[TryHardNinja]

I've just found something that helps (a bit). Reducing the diff to 50% on the power off side seems to help me brake later.

[schoof]

try steam in offline mode and test again your braking distance! if the problem is gone then youve got a common steam problem...

[lolschrauber]

Originally posted by schoof:

try steam in offline mode and test again your braking distance! if the problem is gone then youve got a common steam problem...

what? that doesn't make sense

[SRR Krieg]

Originally posted by malse:

Increase brake linearity so the initial pressure applied is very weak and increases as the brake is depressed further

This. Also

braking in a f1 is different than say a GT car. So typically you will break and work your way down the gears then turn in to apex, yes. Try more of a trail braking approach so lets say you are going to take the turn in gear 2. as you down shift while braking hold third as long as you can while turning in and downshift to 2 at the apex (or at the last milisecond possible) keeping a slow in fast out mentality (turning in later). It is known that F1 dirvers take different lines than GT drivers. This is why. they make the turns wider, turning in later, so they can "slow in fast out". Obviously all courners are not equal but general rule of thumb...this applies.

Also replay videos are misleading. When you watch someone elses video you will think they are braking way later than you when in fact if you watch your video it will appear you too are braking later than you do. to explain this in as little words possible - watch your own video. it will appear you brake later than you do. ...just food for thought :D