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get good hole-shots guide
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get good hole-shots guide
this is a guide for any new, or old player that is trying to take off fastest off of the starting line. if you want to be the first one to the first corner, then you have to obviously pay the MOST attention to the light, the nanosecond it turns green, you take off...but a lot of people do it very in-efficiently. when the light turns green, your instinct (and if you are coming from need for speed) is to dump the clutch and mash the throttle. this is very bad, in most if not all cars.

lets hold on with the explanation for a second, preparation for the green light, can be just as important. if you are driving with a wheel, with pedals, you want to before the green light, make sure it is in neutral, floor it, and stomp on the brakes, so you know everything is fully calibrated, so you don't have any mis-haps anywhere. you want to have the tachometer needle a few hundred, and maybe thousand rpm's below the rev limiter, you want to hold it there.

...do everything i said in the last paragraph. when you are on the last light, do not jump, or move a muscle, but you want to have your clutch pedal (if available) out just before it bites. when the light turns green you want to let your clutch out the very small amount that you need to start moving, and listen to your tires, for any slip at all, if you hear slip, dont give more throttle or less clutch, just leave it there, as you feel you are out of the wheel spin danger, you should floor it and let out the clutch completely. to get out in front, you should not worry about your clutch, and keep it floored, as you shift through gears, so you do not waste any time.

comment with questions. hope it is not too much to handle for new players.

P.S. if you use auto clutch, and shift, just apply what i said with gas, and dont let the wheels spin, but a chirp is good.

i will get a demonstration video.
#2 - amp88
LFS has too much longitudinal grip when the tyres are spinning, so for most cars you're quicker off trying to launch with full throttle and lots of wheelspin. If you try to balance the wheelspin so you're getting the "optimum" wheelspin it's very easy to bog the car down and the penalty for this is really big. The FO8 is probably the only car where you can make up a lot of distance by doing an "optimal" launch.
well, then maybe in the future this will be a gud guide
Except the term "hole shot" only applys really in motocross.
I wasn't expecting this to be a motorsport related topic at all tbh
#6 - amp88
Quote from dawesdust_12 :Except the term "hole shot" only applys really in motocross.

Not true. It can be applied to pretty much any motorsport where there are corners involved. It's often used in MotoGP.
Well, I've never heard it used outside of the context of Motorbikes at all.
*puts a fake mustache on* i personally think logitek has a very good guide going on, i vote for this being stickied *takes fake mustache off*
Quote from logitekg25 :*puts a fake mustache on* i personally think logitek has a very good guide going on, i vote for this being stickied *takes fake mustache off*

HE HE, at least shift to another account ! 

Only a joke. Now about the sticked threads: why not add a "Useful Guides" thread and list all the links there in different categories ? If anyone wants to talk about something related to the guide, add a post there, so everyone will see the thread in the first page. Sticked threads are usually dead because people hardly notice any changes in them.
A good tip would be to have calabrated your wheel and pedals, before you line up next to everyone on the grid

Also if you flat shift and dont lift the throttle between shifts, deoending on the car your in you can overheat the clutch very quickly, in LFS atm the clutch even when set on axis, is only really a simple switch

SD.
lol my clutch dosent feel like its on a switch and ummm it wont change gears without using the clutch if u set it up like me :P


no driving aids and no clutch help FTW
It does not feel like a switch, but if you're on the throttle with ANYTHING but full or no clutch, it's gonna burn.
I've never found a way to get off the line quicker in LFS than just mashing the gas and dumping the clutch. Even in the FO8, I get off the line quicker than most and it warms the tires nicely in the process so the car is more stable through T1.
Quote from Forbin :I've never found a way to get off the line quicker in LFS than just mashing the gas and dumping the clutch. Even in the FO8, I get off the line quicker than most and it warms the tires nicely in the process so the car is more stable through T1.

It's true.. Anything else is just more complicated and is very likely to mess up, which is not really a risk you want to take considering the amount of grip you have with the tyres spinning. Do this, and have an awesome reaction time = you get off the line really fast.
so what, do we need another tire physics update?
Quote from logitekg25 :so what, do we need another tire physics update?

yeah, and thats whats for example tristian is saying in almost every post

get good hole-shots guide
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