Im a 61 year old gamer, been playing since Pong in the early 80's. Ive played every GT game since the start but never bothered to learn the intricacies of the gearing. you have opened a major door for me. Now that I fully understand how to, I can race properly against my son who has a big sim setup but he did not (on purpose) show me how to fix gears. He's in for a rude awakening..... Thank you for explaining this very important par of GT. Jerry The beating will continue until morale improves...
Just want to say that I have always struggled to do anything with the transmission and after following your instructions I cut 7.4 secs off my record lap on Tokyo Expressway East.
Good guide for the 1st and last gear, but the crucial part for those gears between is not "just" spacing out equaly, but often depends on track layout. as you dont want to be shifting up close to brake zone or even mid corner.
Cheers for that man, my car knowledge is literally what I picked up from top gear and watching F1 occasionally so always just googled a tune and plumbed it in....I just had a play with a car after watching this and not only did I gain 30mph top speed but the car feels 1000x better to drive it's sooooo nice going around a corner in 1st gear and having the confidence to floor it out of the corner with 0 traction control and the car just drives instead of pirouetting itself into a date with Mr Barry R
I personally use a straight line track to figure out what my max speed is then plug that into the auto calc value. That way you only need to change the very first gear as the others are automatically tuned to reach your top speed.
Great overview, really distills the concept of gearing and gives people new to it a solid foundation to build from. With this, the understanding why, it’ll be a much quicker leap to adjusting the gear spacing per track as they chase seconds and fractions of seconds. Nice job!
Excellent video mate. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Something that explains the gearing in layman's terms. It's definitely something I'm going to try. Many thanks again.
Been looking for a gear video. I've always been intimidated by playing with the gears but I think this'll give me the confidence I need to make something like my Wawa 65 Mini a beast on the track
Fantastic. Had no idea, this is great content. Safe to say that you should get a good 1st gear that can take you around a hairpin in most cars, I notice I am taking 2nd with most cars around even the sharpest turns.
