hehe, thanks for all your tips. I had some fun with the fz50 gtr on aston club, although I didn't break the world record

Now (mainly because of your advertising) I came back to that crazy xr gt and drove a few rounds. You can find them attached, so you have something to laugh at. Yeah, I was raping my wheel to break the 1:40... guess there isn't any chance I will break the world record with that car :P

I believe you that with practise I will be able to handle it and I understand now that this car is favored by the pro drivers because of its high difficulty. I still think the oversteering of rwd's in this game, especially the xr, is way exaggerated compared to reality. If this was realistic, I wouldn't be able to drive my fathers car out of the garage and woman would never get drivers licenses :P

XR stinks :P

ok, so after another (felt) 1 mio rounds I managed to get an 1:36:03 round (with NotAnIllusions setup), but the 1:36 seems unbreakable for me. Still I feel I have to get at least 1:34... until racing online, that must be possible, even for me. I'm not even under the first 500 fastest laps with my time.

I will now follow your advice to switch to another car/track. Already tried the xr gt on blackwood, but this car is the horror ! The oversteering is insane, I have yet to complete one round without crash.

I will choose the fz50 on aston club reverse, the car seems fine to control, I tried some laps with standard (race_1) setup and was 7 seconds behind world record. I will come back to the gti later, this is still my main discipline

first of all, thanks for the head-up guys. Just to answer a few details I may have forgot:

I use a ps2 wheel which also works on the pc. That shouldn't be the problem.
Further I am using sracers world record setup (with compound tyres) because my best laps I drove with this setup.

I also should mention that I am not a real life racer like many of you seem to be judging from some forum threads. Actually I drive even slower than my girl friend

I now drove some rounds for you, so you can look at my (non-existant) skills. As you can see, I am slow, but at least I am constant slow

I will now take a more detailed look at your tips and thanks in advance for any feedback to my replay.

Hi,

I bought the game some days ago and I have driven almost exclusivly the gti on blackwood because I hardly understand how people get lap times of 1:31...
I played much, in fact a lot more than I actually wanted, but I'm so freakin slow, that I don't dare going online.

I have read the setup stuff, but when I try to edit the setup, it gets even worse ! So I downloaded some setups of 1:31.. people and watched their replays. I was a bit faster then, but still more than 5 seconds behind though I thought, that I did everything like them and feel like I am driving at the limit. My best lap now is 1:36:20, but mostly I have like 1:37...

I see that I have lower speed in some corners (well, all corners...), but when I try to go the same speed as those people, the car will understeer and crash with the same setup !
What am I doing wrong, 5 seconds is so much and I'm so frustrated !