Advantage is very real indeed, your car is more stable when braking, you can apply more brakeforce without locking the driven wheels, and your car is in gear when you need it
It's not as noticeable in low-power FWD cars, but a high-power low-weight RWD on a bumpy track will be a lot less forgiving
I've made a quick lap at Blackwood in a LX6, here is what Heel-n-Toe'ing looks like in an telemetry analyzer. This is braking at the end of the long straight, it's not perfect but shows the basic idea. In this segment I'm going from 6th to 3rd, in 3 separate shifts, so I do everything pretty quickly. I'm using a G25 with a progressive brake mod (big name for a piece of rubber that works magic ^^ )
As you can see from the pic, you start braking first, and then press the clutch in. After that shift to new gear and blip the throttle at the same time, keeping the clutch in. Then simply release the clutch and voila!
The amount of blip differs with every car and gearbox setting. If you overdo the blip, the car will jump forward when you release the clutch; underdo it and you risk locking the driven wheels. It's just a matter of practice to get it right. But you will know when you do, your car will just slow down smoothly as if you didn't change the gear at all.
Also, have a look at the bottom graph, Slip Ratio of the rear wheels. This parameter shows how "locked" the rear wheels are, 0 meaning they are rolling freely and -1 meaning they are completely locked. To get maximum braking effect, the tires should be just slightly locked, about 5-10%. As you can see, I didn't do a super great job at keeping the slip ratio constant, but I kept it within a range of 4-7%, which is good enough for me
Try to get the timing right and keep a steady pressure on the brake pedal when blipping. I think a good way to start heel-and-toeing is without actually braking, by simply going up-down between 2 gears, making a blip on the downshift. Take the XRT to Kyoto and keep shifting betwen 2nd and 3rd, trying to make the transition as smooth as possible. Your feet will be doing the job without you thinking about it in no time!
Good luck, hope that wall of text helps
PS: Tristan, could you share your knowledge with us, in what situation is better not to blip? I can't think of any
Unless you deliberately wanted to cause oversteer at the last phase of corner entry when going around a sharp hairpin?..
Carbon fibre is taking over people's brains, they start putting it everywhere, without really knowing what it is in the 1st place. Your texture scaling is waaaay off, each bunch of threads of the fibre should be about the width of a match, whereas yours look more like bricks.
As for the temperatures, it looks pretty realistic to me, the temps decay exponentially, as they should: i.e. the higher the temp, the quicker it will cool down.
Another question coming your way, I know my way around photoshop pretty well, i was wondering if there is a quick way of mirroring the sponsor decals, but not their orientation. I.e. if we have following 3 logos:
Logo1 Logo2 Logo3
Is there a quick way to make them into:
Logo 3 Logo2 Logo1
Sometimes it's just a pain having to move all the logo's you've done on one side of the car onto another one.
As Sam already said, doing so would completely defeat the purpose of the whole CTRA system. I myself was astonished by the level of racing on CTRA2&3 after I got my silver license. Race1 might be relatively clean, but compared to the higher servers - it's like banger racing. Just earn your silver and you will see for yourself
I was going to start a new thread, but this seems to be relevant enough.
I was just having fun on my auto-x layout yesterday, and managed to turn my XRT upside down. And what I noticed seemed a bit odd, correct me if I am wrong. The friction of the drivetrain is very-very low. I did a little test, revved up the wheels to 60km/h, left the car in 2nd gear and pushed in the clutch. It took the wheels 1min20sec to slow down to 50km/h (i.e. loose 10kmh). I am no car mechanic, but intuitively I feel that free spinning wheels should expirience a little more friction, since they have to "drive" the differential, crankshaft, gearbox and part of the clutch.
I have vague memories of spinning a wheel of my grand-dads car and somehow I recall it didn't keep spinning for minutes
Let me know if you think I am wrong
You used to be able to do that long time ago, now the grill is a repeating pattern texture. You can probably remove the grill and put the logo on the radiator, dunno how it's gonna look though
Can't disagree with Iah H. on the "attention prostitution" verdict.
On the topic though:
If you were going say in 4th, and then shift into 1st and just drop the clutch, the wheels would probably skid (not lock up, for that to happen the engine must stall) for some time, until the revs match their rotational speed. This would probably also ruin yor gearbox and clutch In a FWD its not too much problem, while you still have control in the steering, in the RWD the slip in the rear wheels might be enough to cause a spin.
However I doubt anything drastic can happen when dropping down 1 gear, the wheels might just get a bit of slip for a second, but noting extreme like mentioned above
You must have been racing on the wrong server. If I was you, i wouldn't regret getting banned from there. Try CTRA Race 1. Sure, from time to time someone will bump into you, or not pay attention to blue flag, no one will ever do that on purpose. It's a pleasure compared to many other servers, only surpassed by the amazing racing atmosphere on CTRA Race 2&3