How To Be Fast In Both An F1 & GT Car 

Step 1) be called James Baldwin

I have just started sim racing at age 68 and really enjoy it , mainly on ACC on PC . A 71 year old driver has just recommended that I can learn a great deal from your videos. I have subscribed and I am sure your videos will help me improve. Thanks and best wishes Brian.

I'm within a second of f1 esports but if I can get within 3 seconds of the top acc drivers it's a miracle, it's amazing how much the skills do not transfer when you consider it is just driving a car around a track. Saw a video a while back where an f4 or f3 driver was being trained in acc and I think I remember the coach saying that he is very clearly a single seater driver because of the way he throws the car into the entry and then fights with the car throughout the mid corner and exit whereas he should be gradually feeding the wheel in to the corner entry and then gradually bringing out steering angle, just from that he found 8 tenths or something stupid like that. Very different driving styles for the two cars.

You're really stepping up your youtube game, great video & well edited!

Love the editing and the music in this one, and great explanation. Feels really professional.

Definitely would love more content like this going into detail about differences and whatnot. F1 I understand quite well but I’ve been struggling with GTE cars especially since im new to them and even the LMGTE racing series IRL

James!!! Absolutely awesome video mate!! Thanks for always sharing your experience with us. If you happen to be taking any requests for upcoming videos especially with the new 1.9 update coming to ACC it would be very helpful to hear from you about how you make your GT3 Esports setups. Thanks JB 🤙🏽

Really great video James. Thank you. And can't fault the thinking. Cheers 👌

In the grand scheme of things I'd say they are decently similar (medium weight, high downforce, high grip) but great video anyways James, always good to hear your advice!

Great video, very interesting insight put in choice words Keep this up!

You’re growing as a driver, a RU-vid…. And more importantly your understanding how to get a drive- keep working on it dude

Thank you for using specific numbers when describing the steering! It's not a setting that I enjoy messing around with lol

Subscribed. Your video are top notch, James. Thanks for the info and wisdom!

Thanks James. I'm terribly slow in both, but your tips should make my practicing more fruitful.

Great video ty for the tutorial!

I love your attention to detail at 13:14 (ear scratch sound effect) LOL

2:07 honesty... Respect. That alone deserves kudos. Wish more people just straight up said it. I mean, its not a bad practice unless you overdo it, so just pointing it out is no shame at all. +1 from me mate for that alone and I haven't even seen the video yet.

Hi James, your videos are always so useful for a 'pleb' sim racer like me 😂 I've got a two hour race at Laguna Seca next week in the trusty McLaren on ACC, any setup tips and tricks you can give now you're associated with AMG Mercedes instead?

good luck at your new team. And i am looking forward to more rennsport video's.

Thx man !🤘🏼🏁

Great video. Very enjoyable to watch

You're an excellent instructor bro thanks for all the content

One thing that helped me, coming from GT to formula, was realising and visualising how heavy the car is and how much grip you have loaded up at the final moment before you start braking. Also, in the case of long bends, before I would tap the brake out of habit, but this was prematurely removing downforce so I was going through the corner on a "false limit" as it were. Gently rolling off the throttle instead greatly helped the delta; in a high-downforce car, the drag is such that merely lifting off can have the same retardation as full braking in a passenger car, so I went from braking to not even fully lifting, thereby keeping the downforce up. By being more aggressive before the apex I found a whole new limit, to the point where I was braking an entire marker board later in some cases. You really do have to push it hard on entry and just trust it to stick. Driving downforce cars is very entry-focused because you have all that downforce helping you on the way in and the lightness helping you on the way out, whereas GTs are too heavy to be so stop-start so smoothness and keeping the momentum flowing is key. This shit is way too much fun.

Just started binging all your videos and a new one drops mid binge

Awesome video. What would be nice is an interview with one of the F1 drivers about this.

You explained it well, thanks to you I was able to explain to my friends how they should be faster in the simulators :)

James: GT cars sail over kerbs like they’re not there McLaren 720s: 👀

the sim you're on matters too: iRacing and ACC handle driving aids differently especially on brake application. iRacing penalizes locking up more harshly even if you have ABS and so the driving style tends to favor being more careful to not lock up, while ACC is the opposite where you can smash the brakes on entry and worry more about easing off on exit I'm trying more of ACC now and I find myself having to semi re-learn braking having been on iRacing mostly before

Just awesome. Always enjoy your insights, regardless of sim or real racing.

Love the weekly uploads!

Very good explanation

always love to see you driving or just even talking, cheers mate

Love the video great information. Better in a GT3 car.😊👍❤️🇨🇦

I will like to see James Baldwin and Igor fraga competing

Great video mate!! What about prototypes like lmp3, lmp2 or lmdh/lmh? I feel they are like a hybrid between formula and gt driving style.

its a good day when jamie bald posts

it’s a MAJOR difference, to the extent that after I spent months away from ACC (my GT3 sim) and only did W12 races in iRacing, going back to GT cars took a week or so. The W12 is so smooooth, in the way you have to incur more steering, more throttle, or less braking. Wheres GT was finding momentum and kind of grinding out corners, though the inputs are still smooth. It’s funny how similar inputs can be SO different. and then I’ve thrown in the BMW V8 Hybrid and Porsche 919 just to really fk my brain.

Absolutely excellent video James - thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a clear and coincise way! Thank you!

Do an iRacing Mazda race, love to see that

hey question, do you race for Ferrari Driver Academy? something about your setups and shirt jsut tells me you drive for them :)

James: says optimally in the optimal way. Me: Bruh

Just what I need! Got pace in F1/F3 but no pace in ACC :(

Personally found GT cars better for me. However the launch handling model on f1 22 I was rapid. Unfortunatley them changing it dropped me back about 8 tenths compared to those I raced with. Was really strange. Hoping that on f1 23 they go back to that OG handling model

Whenever I try a 'fast' setup off the internet on ACC I find ya simply can't trail brake at all, literally almost not at all. Have to be back covering the throttle on turn in. Is it that about right or am I just trying to trail brake too much?

What about LMHs (Le Mans Hypercars)? A separate video perhaps?

I hope you get back into Real Racing again...I know there is a team that needs a good Driver like you working for them.

The time has come - to cover rf2's GT3 with your opinion!

For me it is more difficult to be quick in a GT Car mainly because I'm used to the higher downforce of Formula cars in different driving simulators!

I think the opposite to you in the last point because i feel that F1, even with tc and abs off, if you give it a week or two, you'll be flying but I have had acc for a year and i'm just not that quick

What do you think of the new gt3 update on I racing?

Ehy James Do u do 1 to 1 sim coaching?

3:10 in iracing defo woulda sent the car infront into a wall. Shame that kinda paint on paint racing ain't really doable in sims yet

You said F1 cars reward more aggressive inputs but don’t you need to be silky smooth with the throttle to put that power to the ground?

The happy median between gt3 and f1 is lmp2.

What's the intro song?

Wow!

Good luck Dan 😎 Enjoy 👍

Let's try to get some race videos that would be nice on a racing channel

Great video, but I wish the t camera endorsement wasn’t there. I know it’s sim, but it’s just a cheap way to go about it. That’s what crew chief is for.

if you want i can tell you how to be 5 seconds off pace in both

video on thoughts regarding cheating aids in ACC??

Use grip cheat codes like eSport drivers

F1 cars do have power steering, it's called called hydraulic power steering

Guys, I think James races for Ferrari

Step 1, get a red bull.😊

Can you send me a dd wheel please🙏 I'll race you for it

Is AMG cheating like Williams? I wish I could believe your answer.

He drives for Red Bull 💀

So he drives for Porsche, right?

I thought F1 cars had power steering! (At least in real life)

How to be fast in any car at all?

😸✌🏻

I politely disagree about lowering steering degrees helps driving the car in any way, at least for direct drive. You could have 3000 degrees rotation and still having the same feeling and experience just because you would not use that range anyway, and there is no power or reactiveness difference between 900 and 450 degrees, again, at least for direct drives. What really matters it's the in game range, not the range set in the wheel driver. Good games have the correct range already set by default anyway, not sure about other sketchy arcady games.

Step 1 install hacks

Well to be like most people these days, just cheat ...

You know I realize more with time ...these accents no longer feel intelligent ... Some nerd that can't change a flat tire playing video games ....

Being smooth and not over aggressive in f1 is even more important than gt id say. Because you have no abs or tc you will lock up or have wheelspin if you’re not smooth which loses you a lot of time. And things like trailbraking and slowly getting on the throttle are the epitome of smooth inputs. But maybe i misunderstood you. You know a lot more about racing than me

It's weird when you call it a sim, but use the t cam and translucent halo option.