Has Skippy changed your driving style or driving skill? For me, yes it has. I can drive Skip Barber Regional and National much better now using the proper method. This also affect my driving with the Classic Formula 3 cars and Nissan 370z. Haven't try other cars though. Still, my pace is as fast as Captain Slow.
I'm in the same boat. It's very good at giving a strong idea of principles like weight transfer, etc though. Things that apply globally to all the different classes. Guess thats why it is a great training car...haha Improving my skill? Well its hard to judge, but doing laps in anything surely will...
Now that you mentioned it, floor accelerator and keep it down, if running out of power, lift and quickly floor it again and keep it there again, never ever lift unless running out of power. When typical is floor the throttle, back off a bit and sensitively adjust throttle depending from if need to turn more or less. But then again skippy driving is not much different from my driving of low power cars in general.
I voted no, but this car would be ideal for learning new ways (styles) to drive. It can also help to learn how to control a slide better than any car I have ever drove in a sim. So really I could have answered the poll either way. I'm an experienced player, but I'm not really quick and never will be. I don't have the reactions of a top performer. I love these type cars because of that fact. I feel comfortable in them.
You're not the only one. I do like to cruise around 7 seconds off the pace in the FISI once in awhile though. My brain just can't handle those crazy fast entry speeds the extremely high downforce cars need.
I said yes and that is saying something because I've been driving spark f1 with default setup, full tank of gas, clutch and h-shifter. I strongly recommend revisiting the historic f1s to anyone who has conquered the skippy learning curve. I bet you'll be surprised.
Guh, I couldn't believe it...people said they were too hard to drive around Monaco....pish XD And yeah, clutch and H shifter is the only way to go with them for realism funtimes.
@Minibull thanks for the skippy fun drive at LRP mate! Next time we should try drifting instead of racing more often
Hahahaha! Yeah that was a hoot XD Weird thing was, when I actually wanted to drift, it seemed bloody impossible...guess I'm in the mindset of put on a load of power and turn the wheel, which in the Skippy means it just grips and drives XD
If I just could make AI skippy drivers to match my style... If looking corner section as a whole, from straight to next, I'm a lot faster trough that section than 95% AI, but when I'm settling to drive behind them, following their line, they are so much faster to exit from the corner, no matter how early I gun it they still pull away. But when I'm not near of them at corner entry, I can just fly past them at corner exits. Surely I enter corners sliding, and exit corners sliding, first to minimize time used for slowing down and second to go fast at straight so I'm early on throttle, sometimes I slide trough whole corner as car just likes to be more stable that way than attempting to drive AI way which causes just spinning as it is impossible to keep weight at rear.
