Episode 29: How To Drive Front Wheel Drive Cars | Insider's Guide to Project CARS 2 

Thank you for this! Just started Clio Cup career, and the car was killing me. After watching this, I shaved 4 seconds off my lap t ime at Brands Hatch Indy, down to 52.5. Still needs more practice, but now I know how it should be done!

Hey Yorkie, I've watched most if not all of your series on Project Cars 2, And I've always been impressed, You really should start to make generalized sim racing videos, perhaps using PC2 as the video in the background to demonstrate, Because some if not most of the techniques you've described work perfectly in other sims as well, Like RF2/RF LFS / IRacing. I wouldn't want you to get somehow less viewers/subscribers due to the fact you're making videos that have "Project Cars" in them, even though they give good advice overall, I wouldn't want people to think that you're just making tips generalized to PC2. Although on this video, I'm going to have to say you didn't cover a few things as much as you should have, And covered a few more basic techniques you already described in previous videos, I sim race a lot, and front wheel drive cars have always been something that I adore driving due to the challenge of getting it 'right' But you glossed over one of the most important things about them. I want your videos to be the most informative as they possibly can be, I'm not going to tell you how to run your channel, But if I were a total novice coming to your videos for advice, I'd want to make sure this is the most accurate, dense pool of information so I can practice and get better from it, And or revisit the video to retain what I might have glossed over. Instead of what you said, "controlling the weight longitudinally" I would have rather you said you don't 'chase' a FWD car, You're more like the conductor of the train, so to speak, With a RWD car, horsepower nonspecific, If you ever end up going in far to hot, you'll notice you end up chasing up the rear tires to find grip (oversteer) And when that happens you're using a combination of throttle and wheel to keep the car on the circuit. FWD cars lack this mechanic, and it's done in reverse. I was so excited to see you mentioning the fact the rear tires didn't heat up as fast. I wanted to hear you talk about how the rear tires were essentially only there to act essentially as 'training wheels' Since they are inert and don't do much aside from just adding side rolling resistance. But it's how you treat them. The way you drive a front wheel drive car is almost akin to how you'd drive a motorcycle, The front wheels make the initial 'suggestion' and you follow it up by throttle and weight balance (like you had mentioned) But also wheel input is key. I feel you insisted to much on stability and drivability and not about how you can abuse this system. Since you don't have to 'chase' a FWD car even a forth as much as some RWD cars, you get into this state of being able to corner much more aggressively, and like you had mentioned get on the throttle pre-apex. Which is good, But how you do this is essentially using the Lift-Off oversteer to your advantage. And while you mentioned you can use throttle to fix/correct Lift-Off oversteer, you never mentioned why. FWD can be saved simply by just pointing the front wheels and leaning on it. If you're ever sliding sideways due to the rear tires loosing grip, you can quite literally treat the car like a pendulum, The rear of the car will follow the front since the front is actively "pulling" the rear along with it. This can be used to save the car, And when you 'exaggerated' the oversteer by getting off the throttle. I had hoped you would have went into why this works so well for these cars, Since doing that with a RWD car will normally end in tears. I also don't think you went into enough detail on how to get a front wheel drive car to stop. A RWD car can lock a tire or two sometimes, even though it's detrimental.. You tend to also just have a slight forward bias so if you do lock.. well.. you go straight on, But you tend to not lock the tires that are directly linked to your throttle. If you lock a FWD vehicle down in a heavy braking zone, for instance a crash or something.. It's possible to actually stall with the tires locking, although you wouldn't be hurt too much in a modern race car, A road car may not like this as much. And with that front lockup, you also lose control of steering since if the front tires lock.. well.. you have no steering and also no throttle control until you let off the brakes.. It's not different from braking in a RWD car, obviously any lockup is a bad lock up.. But in FWD it can be the end of your race if it catches you in the wrong spot. And as you mentioned, FWD cars are momentum based. You're always "pushing" a FWD car if you're in a race. You're trying to get every ounce of power out of them you can stand, so you have to take every liberty. Which links back to my first point, You never mentioned that key factor of abusing the rear tires/weight to your advantage as much as you should have. Anybody can drive a FWD car, The good people will be quick, especially if you've driven other cars that are 'harder' to handle.. But some of the fastest people I know in FWD cars will just be racing against that weight transfer, and that pendulum feel that I mentioned earlier. If you can use it to your advantage, you'll gain seconds over your competition. My next point would be that if you do go into a video (or another more advanced video) That you explain more about how different these cars drive compared to the rear wheel variants, How certain setup changes will affect how it drives, giving you a car you steer more with the throttle, Or steer more with the wheel, Tire pressures in the rear can affect the "slippery-ness" of front wheel drive cars. On most tracks you'll set them up different from RWD cars, and that will play into how different your mindset is when you start to drive these cars. Just a little thing you might want to add on if you ever go into a more advanced video. I'm sorry for the text wall, But I'm passionate about these racing oddities, and I've driven them for years, I just want to make sure the information is out there for anyone to hopefully enjoy them as much as I do. Also, Keep up these videos, I love hear your opinion and thoughts on all the videos you've made so far, The crisp information is always a pleasure. If you want to add me to chat more about this, Feel free, I have discord/steam should you be interested. I know youtube comments aren't the best at long-winded conversations.

I really enjoy your lessons, keep up the good work.

Don't take this as a complaint, I'm probably the only person with this issue that plays Project Cars. But I have no way of driving with a wheel and pedals because paralyzed from the chest down. This is my first real sim racing game and I loveeeee it. I've always loved cars in general but this game, even though it takes time to get use to because it's not as flashy as most games, but made me fall in love with motorsports. Long story short with out this being a failed essay with all the grammatical errors, can we please please work on finding a way to optimize this beautiful game for the controller. I know I'm one of few to none with my very particular situation but I'm sure theirs plenty of people who cant afford the wheel and pedals that love this game and can relate with me. Thank you keep up the good work happy you got the job you dreamed of!

Great tutorial! I just finished this series for my first time last week and had a lot of fun but it was definitely a challenge keeping the car straight at times. Brands hatch was definitely the trickiest race for me out of the series especially keeping it on the track over paddock hill.

Congratulations for the channel Yorkie, I love your videos. I'm going to make a suggestion for a future video: It would be good one about the durations of the different tires that we found in the game. How many laps can the tires sustain without losing performance? Answers to questions of this type. Thanks

Hey, great video, thanks! You should add "Renault Clio Cup" to the description or tags, so it can be found more easily.

I cannot help but notice you made no mention of the use of left-foot braking. Mayhaps it was a product of a low-powered car not really necessitating it, as it is a more effective technique in more powerful FWD cars, or perhaps you had already mentioned it in a video prior to this one. I just know it is a common tactic used by professional drivers, particularly FWD drivers (not to mention rally drivers, but I feel it is not as relevant here), since it gives even more precise control over the weight balance of the car. Beyond that, I love it. I am an FWD enthusiast, and it is so rare to see the drivetrain given the love it deserves. Too many people fail to adjust to the driving style needed to be fast in a FWD and try to drive it like the RWD racers they are accustomed to, and end up blaming their poor lap times on the car being "wrong-wheel-drive", and it is infuriating.

I always add engine brake lower the coast ramp to 20 and up preload to around 100 this will help cure lift off oversteer

I get why i struggled with it hahahah,im so unfamiliar with front wheel drive,as an open wheel racer and rear wheel car owner,so yeah,if i knew TC1 were Front wheel id change my approach

They look pretty fancy for project cars.

Hi is there a video you made where you drive RWD cars, particularly from GT4 series? I dunno why I struggle with them so much while I have no problems with GT3 even if they are RWD cars. In Assetto Corsa I felt like I was progressing while trying to learn how to drive RWD cars but in PC2 I just spin or am too slow all the time!

Your own setup on the car? IMO I think the rear sway bar it's maybe too much stiff, isn't it? It oversteers almost in every corner...

Have you used manual gear or automatic gear?

Do you really like pc2 that much? I don't know, I have it since february but I can't get the right feeling. I'm playing assetto since 2016 so maybe that's why. I like the variety of pc2 but the online lacks the immediacy of ac and saving every time the setup even if you change 1 gear ratio is boring as fuk