Learning the tracks - weird question
 

this will sound a daft question, is there a game like MotoGP 14, but that has the british tracks?
I remember Toca Touring Car had them all on the original playstation but it was car racing.

Andy

i don't know anything about computer games but i like on bike cam footage from youtube- there's dd footage from most tracks on there

Depends what you are trying to achieve - a computer game will tell you which way the corners go but it won't teach you the best lines, braking points and so on.

If you really want to learn the tracks you'll be better off with a dedicated track guide like the one from MCN (pricey) or maybe try the free one from Visordown.

MCN:
http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorc...uit-guide-2012

Visordown:
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-...ide/22760.html

Just the way the corners go basically, what comes next.

I find it really hard to remember the way the track goes on videos and the track guides.

Alas IMO the only way is to put the real track time in. Eventually as sad as it may seem you not only know all the turns, bumps, tarmac changes, different lines, braking points and gear changes. You can do it in your sleep. :)

That would not be me of course. ;)

yeah, just i remembered Toca Touring Cars on the playstation and it was a good way to learn the tracks, knowing where they went. just wondered if there was something similar you could get now.

I used to try to do that but in reality it was little to no use for me. Once you've been round the real track 3 times at most you know where it goes and I always find the real circuit seems like a totally different place to the game circuits.

can you join Class A if your a novice? or do you have to start in Class B?

Class A is open to everyone including Novices, only a few have gone that route in recent years, back in 2005 when DD was started and there was only one class many of the Novices were on 620s

Agree with pie man, I've been racing for 5yrs, can go round a dozen tracks with my eyes closed but know all my braking points and lines on only 2 maybe 3.
There's no substitute for being out there. Look for bargain last minute midweek track days or just turn up, 9/10 times you'll get on for an afternoon as someone always drops out.

Three steps for me.

I used Ghosts you tube with an MCN guide before I go to a new track. The videos help you get ahead of the game and have an idea of which way the track go. "Ghostie749"

But, you have to translate that onto the track, and for me I can learn all the braking markers and lines on the test day, but doing them is sometimes another thing! Still cant do top gear into the first corner at Cadwell comfortably although I know I should be doing it.

Then come race day all the markers change! Writing it down and changing them is beginning to work for me, but following people round at race pace seems to be the best way, you cant go into there in that gear, oh yes you can!

I never have done anything like that, I just turn up do 2 or 3 laps carefully if I don't know the track, then go as fast as I can, if you go slow you will learn the track slow,,, which is different to fast..?

Personally, I can't remember what I've read in track guides so I don't find them any help.

!!! I have never written anything down in my whole life

probably best not to use ghosts 'Pembrey' on board video...:eek:

Yeah, you'l loose a whole lot of time on the back straight doing its his way out of that corner!

You can go off line as well, and with the desired result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhQk50dy7nA