What is Your DRIVING STYLE? Motorsports and Sim Racing EXPLAINED 

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Im definitely have a open wheeler mind, i have very aggressive inputs, i turn in immediately in corners, i do a lot of trail braking, and of course, i sometimes forget im driving a heavy car like a GT3 instead of driving a car with bunch of downforce and that feels like a feather.

This guy would be good at ANYTHING he tried. Logical thought process, clear communication style, CARING to teach key points. Subscribed for life

As someone who started on a touge in a car then started casually karting, it did indeed take me a few races to realize I was far over utilizing the brakes with the idea that harder braking was faster. It wasn’t until the following races that I realized I hardly had to use them at all. This indoor track happens to be very friendly to lift off oversteer, something that felt very natural in the kart. Shaved off many seconds once I realized that.

Suellio you’re truly a legend man. I genuinely get excited when I get the notification of a new video from you because I know I’ll be that little bit faster than I was just an hour ago.

Nice tips, thanks! Don't forget that most people will actually learn to drive on highly understeery road cars that give almost zero feedback to the driver and will never be taught anything about trail braking or weight transfer! It took me YEARS of driving to actually understand these concepts since modern cars do everything possible to make them invisible!

Man, Suellio.. I got to say, the level of this content is top notch. I can't even imagine how much time you put into this one! THIS IS WHY I SUBSCRIBED!

Wow. I voted on that survey and said I had no idea what type of style I had. I'm still not positive, but I'm thinking I developed open wheeler habits back in like F1 2017 that are plaguing me in GT3 cars now. Thanks as always!

I’m only half way through the video, but man, Suellio, you are an absolute gift that keeps giving. Thank you so much. I have no problem understanding things because you’re quite clearly a bloody good teacher. Love how profound yet concise your videos are. No fluff! Love it! 💪👊

I NEVER comment but felt like I had to. Suelio the openness, cross-domain-referencing, and willingness to experiment you exhibit alone are enough to eventually make you a top performer in anything you decide to focus on. I’m not a competitive racer but I do drive on track for fun and spend lots of time in simulators and your ability to explain differences and what advantages and disadvantages those differences create is really something special. Keep it up, please!

The entire concept of coasting and avoiding it is a game changer for me, thanks for putting this together!

A point about the braking percentage: In porsche cup cars, analyzing real car data, it's a mix between two games. You need to reach high pressures (90-100%) as ACC, but need to smooth release as iracing.

Honestly, i will never get tired of performance driving techniques videos. Thanks! 👌👍

As I’ve discovered from watching etiquette and rule videos is that I very much raise hell praise dale and set out to pass everyone as fast as possible and was 100% comfortable pit maneuvering someone to pass them if necessary, also blocking anyone from passing at all times

Dude this is an amazing video....I had a multiple "OHHHH" moments and I am starting to understand where I can improve both in sim and IRL!

And another banger of a video. Thoroughly interesting, educational and entertaining…great work Suellio!

haha i got my start in touring cars that you needed to be able to pitch the nose into the corner with the brake to induce that rotation and commit to power on exit. to this day with 1,000s of hours and miles across multiple sims this is still the fastest way for me to drive.

Even tho i started out in high downforce cars, drifting and rallying i still have a GT driving style and that helped alot :)

Amazing content mate, it really helps.Thank you!

I like racing games like AC and ACC for fun but I do enjoy these videos if it can help me have fun and improve laptimes the better

I subscribed to you half-way into the video before you even asked. What an absolute legend.

One of the best videos i ever see about The subject

Dude, you're the GOAT!

Brilliant video Suellio! I really enjoy your analysis of driving technique.

love the brotato background music A++

Such a good video, really good information provided. Subbed for the future! 😁

Wow Suellio, this is incredible work dude, loving the content.

A+ content, thanks for spending the time to do all this research

Always value your content!!! Super simplification of complex and compound explanations

This video is so powerful!

I just wanted to comment to say, thank you, Suellio. It’s my dream to hopefully become a racing driver one day, and I’ve been struggling for so many years with my driving. I have absolutely no childhood racing background, but I got hooked on racing and started with games and then gradually moved into more sim-based games. I’ve also started taking real life karting classes whenever I get the chance. I’ve almost always been slow and inconsistent in my driving with very little improvement, it made me doubt myself extremely. I always kept wondering if I was even good enough for this or if I should just give up the dream of racing. Just watching two videos from you and remembering lessons from my karting coach have already destroyed the idea of me giving up. Your videos have assured me that it is more than possible for me, with just endless practice and dedication. You’ve given me the idea to look at and improve places I would never have even thought to have looked. I’m going to keep using these videos and tips from now on and work endlessly on my driving until my dream becomes real. Thank you so much for these videos! You are an absolute inspiration. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll see you on-track somewhere, hopefully with me behind the wheel as well.

Excellent video mate. You explain things really well and don't waste our time. Keep up the good work. Subscribed:)

Suellio this video is everything i've been looking for for so long! i wish more people knew about the gold you provide

Omg this is crazy accurate to my experience, I did a lot of karting as a kid, did some drifting and offroad over the years and picking up acc as a sim I had huge issues with the amount of steering I needed to use. It was so uncomfortable to get used to, and even now I still have to remind myself to do more work on the brakes than steering with the throttle

man , i learnt so much from this video. you are amazing

with the sim racing one it is so true that we tend to focus alot on the front tires. I was just doing some laps on usui pass on AC the other day and i was trying to get a faster lap. I was thinking of ways to improve and decided im going to slide the rears out and focus on them instead of the front tires and as soon as i did this i easily smashed my fastest lap in it by over 3 second. Now seeing this video its a really good video and i hope it can help me progress one day into being a better driver! Great video man really enjoyed it and felt that passion and effort you put in!!!

Great video!

This video was awesome. Now my struggling in F1 22 makes sense. I used to play hours upon hours of drifting in Forza Motorsport 4 and fort 2 and 3 on my wheel and this video helped me realize I gotta drastically change my approach for that discipline of racing

If you wrote a book I would totally get it

thx suellio, recently I have been getting frustrated with braking and getting grip which i am driving formula student cars. after watching this video, I know more ways to solve this and try to slide like karts and learn neutral steering and the brake releasing techniques you mentioned. (p.s. I have always knew I struggle a lot in GT cars while being comfortable in high downforce good frontend formula cars and four stroke karts, but i didnt know why until now)

i’m rewatching your videos after a month and a half of full time sim racing and i understand so much more now. like i finally *get it* i can catch my habits, weaknesses and strengths in the act. thanks for these awesome videos, looking forward to learning more from your videos.

I feel like I should take notes whenever I watch these videos because they give me so many things to think about. Also, the story about Alana reminds me of something I do to help with my car control. Whenever I feel like I'm driving tense, death-gripping the wheel, and struggling to find that neutral steer zone, I go drive a rallycross car for a little while. When I feel good in that, I go back to the car I struggled in. Suddenly, I'm much more relaxed. I start rotating the car more aggressively, inducing a little oversteer to quickly find the neutral balance point. Since I am now anticipating the oversteer, it's much easier to control with confidence. Those little dirt sessions are a great way to get warmed up.

I'd love to see you do a video about more of the differences between the most popular racing sims, AC, ACC, iRacing, Automobilista 2, Rfactor2..etc. As well as well as which ones you think accurately simulate driving the best and the worst.

Man, I didnt know you were local to me (kind of, from Quebec but we go race at CMP at least once a year). Great video, good content, nice to see you out there with LDRC, seems like you had fun!

The thing about the dirt oval driver is rather neat! I particularly enjoy drifting in sims and games. I have a friend I race with who does not. I managed to convince him to spend some time racing me on dirt track in an NSX. Totally absurd, but it worked. We were in an online rally championship, and the exercise massively improved his pace, regardless of what surface we were on.

Ótimo vídeo suelio :)

This is probably your best video. At least for a beginner.

Dude thank you so much, I come from rally racing and had huge issues with oversteering in gt3 cars on track. Just watching this video helped me correct my breaking technique immediately and shaved another 7sec on the nurb Bless you my guy

This is amazing ❤

I took on "The Tail of the Dragon" in a chevy G20 cargo van! I got good! So good that I was keeping up with motorcycles! I did start on dirt go-karts when I was 5, I think that helped!

Man this was a great video I can’t do karting but hey this definitely helped great video!

💪🏻💪🏻 Thank you for all the content and info you provide

WOW, this is something I've been thinking about for so long on my SIMRacer journey, and I always get asked why no one talks about it? and I'm only going for 7 minutes and I had to stop to comment on my astonishment!! the number of concepts and the way you relate them is on another level, I can only say thank you!!

cara, seus videos estão muito tops e tem tirado muitas duvidas.....em algum momento vou fazer um coach com vc...parabéns cara...

I’ve been doing a lot of spa gt3 racing lately and I’m typically just driving touge and the braking far ito turn and getting on gas was something I noticed right away the difference it makes in the turn

These videos help me a lot I make alot of the mistakes you point out in this video I now know where to improve and what bad habits I need to shift 👌🙏

Obrigado Suellio,, I’ve been struggling try to find the right balance and pace and have watched videos of Marcel, Jarno, JD and Brandon and have learnt from them but I’m still way behind my own 17yr old 😢😅 Just watching this video has already changed my approach to my sim racing and hopefully it helps me improve my driving,, Again, Obrigado para o video 👌🏽 PS I loved your video of the ACC driving day out Muito bom 👌🏽👌🏽

Wow great tips here! He reminds me of some of the professional Tennis coaches I've worked with when I played tennis in High School. "I don't believe in NATURAL TALENT." "It comes from practice, learning proper techniques, your life experiences and pushing your self." I'm a completely new the sim racing. I did play quite a bit of Gran Turismo on PS1 and PS2 etc. I've been karting several times and did really well. Noticed braking helped turn the Go Kart quite a bit especially on a outside track where the speeds are higher and turning could lead to a spin out. Just needed to use more of the track and stay relaxed to get better lap times.

Glad to have found your channel. I havent sim raced for 2 years bc of IRL commitments but when i did I peaked at 3.3k iRating bc I can drive the Dallara F3 and nothing else. My biggest flaw is I think my skill is 100% subconscious. I have no idea what i am doing. I just do shit, look at the delta and subconsciously build pace based on that. Your videos motivated me to get back on iRacing to try and get methodical and drive more purposefully because they feel like they give me the tools to analyse what i am doing. Also your videos demystify what makes the alien drivers truly fast. I am a loooong way from ever being like them but it feels good knowinh its because they mastered specific techniques instead of just accepting that they are insane and I am not

I started with F1 games on the Playstation, then got into Forza series, and then Gran Turismo Sport. Since my roots are F1, I have been forcing that style of driving on every car in all the different classes. Now I understand why I'm slow in some areas and fast in others. Excellent video , thank you. Now a new subscriber. Makes me want to go buy a dirt kart. 1

This video made me remember that I started sim racing on nascar heat 5

Amazing and inspiring

i came to simracing from simdrifting and when you posted story in insta with snap oversteer on purpose saying it would be hard it wasn't hard for me ahah, but the only profitable skill from drifting is saving big slides or pushing car into the corner sideways, doing 360s without getting into the wall when being snapped hard and other things that helps me to navigate the car being in the unhealthy slide, but i wish i wouldn't get in this type of situations:D

I just started sim racing a year 1/2 ago. My biggest problem is over driving the car pushing it past its limit. Sometimes slow and steady wins the race.

Wow just thank you sincerly. So useful

Your. explanation about how to turn in when lifting or trailbraking helped a lot. I thought it could be this way, but now i know my feeling was correct. Thank you 😊

I appreciate the honesty in the differences between ACC and AC vs the rest when it comes to braking. Been watching many of your videos and tried the techniques of carrying trail braking into the turns. But watching other alien drivers on YT, it was totally different. Now i see your description of smashing the brake and letting off much faster relating to what I see in the aliens. Im still a bit confused on how to get faster in ACC at this point. Im not sure how to apply your techniques in ACC.

Muchos gracias por tus vídeos.

Interesting i know where i honed my skill is in full body stock cars well on racing games because i just feel at home and seeing this makes me understand a bit more of what i can do to gain a few tenths hopefully

So, you race at Calabogie, Mosport and Shannonville? ;) That's awesome!

y'know, i was a little bit skeptical at first, but as far as my experience goes, you nailed the offroad driver bit I started with simracing and the rare few rental kart laps, and the first time I went into something purely with learning in mind it was the Richard Burns Rally rally school; and yeah, I completely despise understeery cars, even worse if they're RWD since you can induce some rotation into pretty much any FWD car by left-foot braking and being precise with your throttle inputs, but man, if a car plows through corners that's it for me, it's the sorta thing I've gotta learn to deal with.

SUELLIO, Your style of coaching is spot on with my learning(I understand your explanations and able to apply). You mentioned Exageratting the skill(technique I used ski racing). How do u then refine that skill into being efficient? Example. I thought I was getting really fast cause my lap times were pretty good. However when o decided to focus o. Opening up the road and hitting the apex. I noticed especially in 🇲🇨 MONACO 🇲🇨 THAT I D I DROVE AT 2/3 throttle in was often beating my ghost!! So even though it felt fast I had to be slow. I believe TWO THINGS ARE HAPENING. One I am braking to early now as I progressed in ability to brake with gears. But I am still using same breaking point. And then my exit speed pretty sure I’m dumping speed. Developing my trailbreaking but still using old braking points. Then at end straightening my wheels out to fast especially hunting someone in front. The other thing that is happening is my turning at low speeds is smoother and cleaner. Finding the most efficient braking point TO SLOW DOWN ENOUGH FOR ENTRY IS BIGGEST PROBLEM.

i came from racing games with a lot of drifting and rallying with both keyboard and controller. so i paid no attention to the actual cornering and braking. i understeers a lot but instead of me getting better at braking, i got better at correcting understeers so i got moves with e brake. well luckily for me, i know this issue fast and was able to fix it before getting a wheel. now i got a wheel and i'm still working on doing proper braking. since i have no access to an ebrake now, i am forced to deal with proper braking. getting a wheel was a breaktrough moment for me since i thought since i have more control over the input compared to controller and keyboard i would have better braking and shit. turns out no. like you said. the first collected habit is the hardest to break. i still understeer and shit at breaking even though i have all these control when i tried my friend's wheel for the first time.

Ur so right ! I race karts and i love oversteer and still prefer an oversteery set up in my kart an ion the sim.

Hi coach, my first experience was as an ""extreme"" roller skater. First I was a Vertical/ Halfpipe skater at 17 yo. Did speed r-skating events on roads too, and even did 8 laps on the old Zandvoort track in 1983, man that was hard. That tarmac was too coarse/ rough surface for roller skating, and man those dunes are steep up and down. Up was "klúnen" (struggling walking style but then different) down-hill(-dune LOL) no gaining speed at all from the rough tarmac was too high resistance. But then a few years later my sponsor and boss held a skating event at the Dutch Army "tank practice terrain"" de Vlasakkers at Soesterberg (next to the American Airforce base Soesterberg) and there were the "Dutch mountains"" (LOL there are no real mountains in the Netherlands, just some hills(TIP: YT for ""The Nits, In the dutch mountains" for lols ) ) and I fell in love with Downhilling. Going fast was addicting, no brakes on rollerskates LOL So scouting out was crucial, no Barry R's some run of grass, and then Forrest or Cliffs (sort of). Anywho I came back there a lot, and have managed speeds in excess of 140 kmh's. And as I was too stupid to be afraid, I was very lucky to escape with my life (to keep it short it was painful but worth it) more than once. I got the hang of ""out-in-out" apex-ing without real braking abilities, only air to slow me down or some weaving techniques. I also went to real mountains in Belgium and Germany to act stupid dropping at insane speeds, anywho only in 1996 I first did some rentall Karting and in 1998 bought a PS1 and the rest is obvious. Worn out many Wheels and pedals, got married stopped in 2000. I got deforced, and started up again 2 years ago with a Logitech G920 on an Xbox S played F1 (2117 to 2020) Forza7/AC and ACC. 6 months ago, bought a good Desktop PC (i 13600k cpu/4070ti gpu/ 32 gb ram)and the Moza R5 (and the lite brake) dd set, on a kitchen table setup and went Iracing and I absolutely love it now. But the rookies series owwwwwww that was rough, unfair, and unpleasant too often, I almost gave up and took a break for ~8 weeks. Did some Automobilista2, AC, and ACC in the meantime. But because of you, Jimmy Broadband, Dave Cameron, and Super GT I got back to the best SIM imho, atm C class, Sr 313, and Ir 1266. Thanks for your part in this Coach!!!

Was that Calabogie I spotted in the irl footage? Amazing track

damn, I've never actually thought of these tips this gave me inspiration and maybe could help my irl driving this is exactly the reason why I watch such content, gives me insights and inspiration, thanks fam

Damn, I always just assumed driving style was just something that you had a natural preference for, not something that was molded by racing experience. I remember my first real experiences with sim racing were F12021 and F122. Considering how slippery 22 was, I think it made me adopt a smoother style and that's probably why I use oversteery set ups nowadays in the actual sims.

Hey Suellio I have to thank you because I did quit a loot of times iracing for beeing frustrated I'm simracing since 2016 and my driving was adapted to f1 cars the reason was because I always race on leagues of that kind on Assetto, Rfactor but now after have patient training and expose myself to a new knowledge I did get 1400 irating in 3 weeks and Im on 2700 and I think that will rise a loot more because thanks to you I know that the hard work is what really matters I did train a loot but with blind laps for example 2000 laps before a week without any progress and know the reason on my slowness is key to get better so again thank you for all

THIS VIDEO IS TRULY A MASTERPIECE ITS LIKE A DOCUMENTARY ON HOW TO DRIVE. DOING GODS WORK SUELLIO THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS AMAZING KNOWLEDGE WITH US.❤

Why this video has only 10k views?? this schould be watched by every one who are racing. btw can you explain me why i really love racing gt3 cars (mainly but every gt also) in assetto corsa and i cant get into acc, i dont feel car at all and it feels very diffrent

Brother, i love this video! Subscribed and saw how people are also subscribing 😂 you gonna be big one day, we are here to support you! Continue with the great video

i love all ur videos amazing love ur passion to racing always love to watch all ur vids , but to be honest with u i believe that the best way to learn is by urself i cant understand how caching someone else works or makes him faster as it has to be something he try and know it work with lot of hard work and experience as everyone is diff for me i was 0 experience and i didnt even know what is racing line is what it means lol and the fastest car i ever drove in real life was 120 HP lol and when i got into sim racing it was so weird at first but now i am good at it doing very good lap times always try to adapt to the car as much as possible regrade the setup

Cool, now I'm going to go look for another second and a half in Forza for the monthly rivals

Dirt oval is so awesome, true multi line racing where throttle control and car control skills are the defining factors in speed

I start sim racing seriously on Race07 with WTCC cars, and even now I still struggle on high power RWD cars that snaps the tail when throttle applied. For me that even include GT3 with low TC setting. I always setup a car that only oversteer on braking.

Amazing content. Thanks! How does braking differ in Automobilista 2 vs iRacing?

High quality content! Thank you! Is there a plan to create a video about GT 7 + PSVR2? Does VR make you faster?

Man I saw this video after I cancelled my iracing sub. I was in a cycle of struggling, frustration, time away, and repeat. Maybe in the future I'll come back and see if I can almost start with a clean slate of skills and habits

Even though I''m not a beginner, and I know pretty much everything you mention in your videos... Dude I have to say, your explaining is really next level. The way you mention things, the way you explain things and how deep you go into single points, is really astonishing. I think if I was a beginner, I would become better pretty quick thanks to only your videos. Please keep doing this, I believe people are gonna start getting into this sport because of you :D

My playstyle is rally. Lightweight peppy little cars that with be your best friend or your killer depending in how you handle them

A little bit of colin mcrae and alot of Valentino rossi and more of Fernando Alonso just pure precision and world class driving just for me of course 😅 👍

I didn't know you played GT7! 🙌

I play Gran turismo 7 and The crew motorfest. And I've learned that alot of the skills I have taught myself on gran turismo working on motorfest but I don't slam on the brakes I usually start with 50 then work my way up.

My driving style prefers predictable slight oversteer in the braking zone and corner entry and neutral to understeer slip on corner exit, one of my biggest flaws is hitting apex’s too early on certain corner types, an issue i don’t have with high aero cars. Early apexing can lead to a significant loss of momentum mid corner and over compensation with the throttle leading to snap oversteer when you touch a curb on exit.

Can u do an advanced video on the porsche cup car and the 992 and the difference between them plz Also as new newbie the ur channel ur doing an amazing job 😊

14:30 To your point about exaggerating techniques to learn them, and then shaving it back to detail. Two games that really helped me as someone new to sim racing were F1 22 and City Car Driving. F1 22 for obvious reasons, because the cars are so fast and jittery, like karts essentially. As a newbie, I crashed/spun a LOT in these cars, but it thought me to be smooth with inputs to prevent those situations as much as possible at my skill level. City Car Driving might seem off-topic since it's not a racing game, but it's extremely useful for someone learning how to drive with a wheel and pedals. The career mode in this game is really punishing and won't let you off with simple things such as going over a line or stopping too far from a stop sign on a closed circuit. It thought me to be more thoughtful about my inputs and it helped a great deal with coordination.

Can you do a video on how to deal with dirty drivers/bad racing etiquette? I've been having trouble with this on iRacing

What helped me the most was playing forza that caused me to learn what a racing line is which helped me develop fast irl

ACC has given me an appreciation for "smooth is fast" was interesting jumping back on Forza with this new found code of conduct. I'm very much an amateur but I am progressing fast with ACC. Sounds like Iracing is the next step in driving detail. Hope ac2 and renn are flawless on release.