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Driving the limit of grip is something we all strive for. But it can be a fine balancing act between setting lightning fast time, and heading a** first into the Armco. Sound lke something you’re strugglign with with? Well make sure you concentrate, low down on how you can drive on the limit like a pro and do them infamous slip angle technique (lol)
Let me introduce you to my friend, the traction circle, I think youll get along. It’s probably the easiest way of teaching people the basics of tyre grip, which as you know, is the single most major barrier between driving like a pleb and a god. In the traction circle, there’s 4 axis. Braking, accelerating, or turning either way. Pretty simple right? Well, not quite. Because, before we see I teach you how to use it, you need to fully understand how tyres work.
So let me explain it in fortnite terms. Tyres can only take a certain amount of abuse before they give out. Our lovely michelins only have 100 health. Now stick with me here. Whenever we accelerate, turn or brake, the tyres take some damage. So for example, accelerating hard could do 40 damage , then if adding a bit of steering, doing 60 damage, the tyres health is depleted and they go to the gulag… or lose grip
It’s all about managing and balancing the amount of load we put onto the tyres. As a driving god, you’ll need to keep this basic principle in the back of your mind at all times, and always be cautious of how much damage you’re dealing to your tyres. But don’t worry if you cant do this, because there is a quick and easy way to visualise this, without needing to use one of two of those all important braincells.
And that is to use the traciton circle I mentioned earlier. This inner circle represents 100 health, or the limit of grip. And see that small dot? That’s how much damage you’re doing, it’s measured by the g forces exerted through the car.
So, if you accelerate, you can see we’re doing about 40 damage to the tyre, and the G forces are travelling rewarwards through the car. Throw in some steecircle too, and you can see we’re getitng awfully close to killing the tyre, or the limit of grip, and the g forces are now travelling rear and left. If you accelerate and turn too much, you’re going to go over the 100hp and lose traction.
But what if I told you that everything ive been teaching you so far is a big fat like? Well, more on that in a moment.
For now, I’m going to make a massive, baseless assumption about your driving skill, so make sure you listen up to know whether you should get offended or not. When you first try out the traction circle, it’ll look one of two ways, let’s call them noob 1 and noob 2.
So here’s noob 1. They/them aren’t utilising very much of the tyre’s health, and this is shown by the dot getting nowhere near the circle. This means they’re breaking too early, accelerating too softly or not cornering hard enough. They’re nowhere close to the limit of grip, meaning they are slow af.
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