"Racing is a gentleman sport(Besides Nascar)"

Today I overtook someone on Akina on the corner after the long straight, he had caught up to me on the straight and we braked side by side, I was on the outside, he on the inside. His style of driving is grip based while I drift, so that resulted in an epic drift overtake from the outside

Very few things are more adrenaline filling than waiting the whole race and finally seeing the perfect chance to overtake. It's so nerve-wracking as the defender knowing this. Seeing them disappear from your rear view mirrors and end up in front of you is like a jump scare.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a racing driver. Everyone on touge life

My best overtake was in sim (Underage at time lol) going against my friend from new york. They said about how they were great at rally and how on any streetcar race it's basically the same. If you've watched initial D, you probably know where this is going. We raced on highlands on asseto (They had no touge mods lol) They were in Lancer evo 5 and I was in the trusty FD. There's a corner at the end of a massive straight, I was behind since the start and noticed they only whent about 140kph, I knew you could take it at 160. Next lap and I tail them into the corner but turn left to the outside and sail right past them. Satisfaction at it's finest.

by far my best overtake was in a little battle with one of my good friends We were side by side going I'm coming out a slow right going into a sharp left and as i downshifted for the left my car whipped around i drifted around him info the corner and cleared it by a few inches it may have been luck boy did it feel good

1:21 * crazy for love starts playing *

on akina on the turn before the uphill straight, did a blind attack and won a braking contest and passed

TSRB, I love the aesthetic of this video! The retro filter and 4:3 aspect ratio! The old DVD/VHS style of this lesson is awesome! Keep it up, your videos are the best in all aspects!

tips from an oval racer (close quarters stuff is our speciality) -actively thinking "i have right/ownership of racing lines" is the quickest way to crash. You drive purely to what the other car is doing, rather than what "rights" you have in theory. At some point someone will not know you're there, or understeer, or whatever, and you driving with the mindset "i am obliged to x y and z" will mean you cant avoid the crash. -dont fall into the trap of thinking only the inside is viable. even beyond a cutback, sometimes just running around the outside of a defending car can be quicker. providing you can get far enough up to still have a nose in at corner exit, your momentum will pay dividends on the straight. -"slipstreaming" only works on straights. for road cars downforce isnt a factor, but for anything making use of it the moment you come to brake and turn you will have less grip. Generally if i'm following a car my way around this is to turn into a corner later, even if just by half a car width, to get some clean air on my splitter then cross over for a later apex and straighter exit -applying pressure is best done with braking early and soft, and steadily closing up to the car through the length of a braking zone. During the initial braking phase i'm always a slight early, giving me the freedom to brake lighter and give myself more time to observe my opponent's movements on approach. if i can go for a dive i can ease on the brake for a second to gain the momentum for a lunge, or i can moderate the brake to steadily close up as we come to the turn. -withstanding pressure is something you'll learn through trial by fire, once you're used to it you can have cars mere millimetres from your bumper and not deviate. my confidence for this comes through my knowledge that if im bumped, i will be able to maintain full control of my car and not crash, collecting any slide. always keep an eye in your mirror and if they're not going to stop in time, don't throw the block or ease on the brakes and run wide if it means getting out of the way. you shouldnt be intimidated by the mirror, you should be informed by it -relying on the element of surprise is another quick way to crash. as an oval racer, and one that prefers high banked short tracks at that, i quite enjoy taking the outside line which is a pretty obvious move. if i only shoot out last minute before my opponent even knows ive considered it, theyre likely going to turn in not realising im there and theres a collision. now contact isnt always a bad thing, never be afraid of contact, but itll unsettle both cars and we dont want that. late apexing to get a run down a straight, taking an outside line if the road has it viable, if there is an obvious way that they cant defend against its always a better option. (if my opponent takes a defensive line into a hairpin, chucking it up the outside is just a given that i'll do. pinch as much as i can on the turn-in, high centre, then bring it back down for a straighter exit and run down the straight. even if i cant complete the pass im making the other driver work harder and tire out.) -if your line pushes the other car to their detriment, at all, dont do it. like seriously dont do it. F1 fans will say "oh the inside car has the right to run the other car out of road" but thats just cheap, dirty, and if you're racing anyone (like me) that doesnt subscribe to this idea i will just let you go across my bumper. even if the margin is barely there, if there is a car at all beside you dont cut them off. if your quarter panel hits their front you're the one thats going to spin. dont forget that. -moreso than hard braking and hard acceleration, maintaining momentum is what'll get you around people. relying solely on heavy braking not only may end up in misjudging and going wide and dooring them, but if you're too focused on the braking rather than your speed at turn in you may well overslow without knowing and that other car will either hit you through not expecting it, or just blow past to the outside. a general rule of thumb thats just universal is "race people how youd like to be raced yourself." as much as i can be very aggressive, and moreso just awkward in where and when i stick my nose into spots. id expect the exact same back. the fact that im always keeping an eye in my mirror or for assetto corsa my radar too, means that im thinking "where would i go" as much as where will they go, and adapting accordingly. if driving with your head like that can come down to instinct, you'll be ok

My best overtaking story was on Akina on Assetto Touge Life #1 Server, the one with boost gutters. I was in GT86 and the guy in front of me was in Tuned AE86. I was holding onto him the whole downhill, but I couldnt overtake him cuz he kept blocking me everywhere, I managed to finally overtake him on the long serpentine gutter, I've been practicing using them and thankfully i managed to get him, BUT he over took me again, just before the long straight near the end of the run, so me full of adrenaline was like... last chance, i have to try something new... and on the S bend after the long straight, on the inside of the corner there is gutter that no one really ever uses, including me as I always span out on it, but i was like F it, i gonna loose anyways, so I slowed down a bit more then usual and went for the gutter, managed to grip both wheels, funnily enough eurobeat kicks in this exact moment. Anyways, we're side by side, literally slightly bumping into each other, he's on inside im on outside, head to head after S bend, next corner he takes a slightly lead again, I take the small gutter on another corner to hopefully give me a little boost, but nope, it screwed me this time and it threw me out into the barrier, managed to save it, but that killed my overtake, by that point he jumped in front and unfortunately won, i did however manage to get time of 4:36, which was my PR. AE86 driver wasnt the fastest, i know what these things are capable of, but i was still proud of myself, it was a mental battle

Easy, drive faster and try not to hit the other car... (depending on the game that second part might be less important) Seriously though overtaking is like the hardest thing in touge, sucks to b faster but unable to overtake. So much nicer when you do succeed though.

This video should be played as a tutorial before joining Touge Life servers, cuz the amount of rammers is crazy there. Playing sim game and literally can't chase at all and just keep bumping or straight up kamikaze you before the turns. On the other hand when I've met some cool drivers who drive respectfuly it always feels so nice, almost like a dream.

best overtaking moment happened just a few days ago. akina downhill, 5 (but actually 4) hairpins. caught up to this car after losing sight of the car behind me and decided to just go for a new PB, pretty much have identical pace. going into the first hairpin brake later and harder than I ever have going into that corner and just barely miss the guard rail while the other driver takes the inner line. The other driver goes wide and I manage to just barely pass on the corner exit. This goes back and forth for the rest of the hairpins until the final one where I manage to take a late apex and pass on the corner exit once again (same as the first hairpin). Then we proceeded to have a great battle for the rest of the mountain

Love the series. Also learning a lot from it. Thx man :)

Thanks for this guide! Even first 2 minutes made things much more clear for me!

racing right on the edge on the touge just centimeters apart from each other, and then seeing a line to overtake feels soo good

Very helpful, thank you!

Thanks for this!

Yet again another great video! Would love to see a follow up on defensive driving strategies as well !

I like how this whole thing was in 4:3 old school instructional video style

Great vid as always🤟keep on going

this is something I really really needed just getting into sim racing

Super helpful video! Thank you!!

I race competitively on gta touge tracks and these tips still help!!

Your guide are pretty usefull fr ! While teaching us some technique you always teach something really important that is racing "etiquette", some kind of gentlemen agreement ! Keep it up !

I expected this channel to have 1m subscribers plus but wow this is the lost gem of the car community great work man!

This retro style of video is AMAZING!

thanks for the help

Just started playing Gran Turismo, thanks for the tip!

Thank you!

Once a weird suv was Blocking the 2 lanes( going side to side on purpose to block anyone) ,2 cars between us gave up overtaking. Dark and long left turn ahead. I took the Suv back on the left lane, used car headlights on maximum ( to give a nice blow to his eyes), blinked right (faking going another route) and went to the right lane slowly, to make him move right too ( outside lane) . I heel and toe to second gear, turned my headlight off, took the left lane(inside ) and overtook, turning the lights on again when in parallel to scare him and protect myself. Blind attack has it uses. I have a Black car, also helps.

5:34 THANK YOU SO MUCH

I ve just seen this video and I ve just sent it to my friends, I hope they will watch this, they have some big problems with disrespecting other drivers while racing :D

good vid once again

There was this one time where I was playing a racing game that wasn't Assetto, and I entered the corner a bit to fast, but the gutter saved me and I overtook.

My best overtake was in fh4. I was using the ae86 and it lacked top speed but made up for it in the corners. So there was a long turn and there was me and a Mercedes’ who were battling it out. I had the outside like while they had the inside line. Because my car is a more corner capable car than theirs I was moving a lot faster while engaging into slip angle around them and passed them without any contact. I was so satisfied by that overtake and after months I still have yet to pass anyone with that much precision and speed

Thank you so much for the website!

When u said the outside to in... That's one of my favorite tricks and use it on tighter corners which 90% of the time works... It depends what car I'm using tho... If it's fwd it's a whole different ball game

aww man, was driving on the shutoku revival project server in a rx7 tuned being chased by a Lamborghini Huraican. we were coming up to the final turn before the rainbow bridge and with him gaining we entered the corner pretty quickly. As we started slowly turning entering the corner, he then tried dive bombing past me on the inside but ended up understeering. Hes was then slowly edging me towards the outside into the barrier but i managed to hit the brakes and downshift turning into the inside and passing him ! It was the best feeling ever and that guy was a really good driver the whole way. XD

overtakes on tight tracks feels awesome

0:58 Artemis - Elysian Fields is the song if anyone is wondering

When i was ripping through akina in my rx7, some kid in an 86 passed me on the straight. I thought he was going too fast but somehow pulled an inertia drift right in front of me.💀

Ok so about 3 months ago on a PC sim racing game I had 2 handicaps to deal with on a 3 lap race around a circuit with a lot of corners: 1. I was 100hp lower than my opponent. 2. He was driving an AWD and i had a RWD. So of course he took the lead on a long straight then he made the mistake of hitting the brakes too much on a long corner. I start to drift so i can get the late apex and end up blocking him completly, then somehow proceeded to win the race with a 7 second advantage.

It was on a go kart, played out exactly like an Initial D scene. I was on a slower car tryna defend the guy behind me. He went on the outside for the next right, so I moved slightly to the left. Suddendly dissapeared and I look right and that mf is on the inside of the turn. Felt like the r32 vs Takumi except he was Takumi. Damn that overtake was fire!

Great video's!!

More people need to see this

One of my Fav overtaking stories. We were on Akina(Of course this was public touge life server). He was driving an RX-7, smoothly as hell, by the way i have chosen fat R34. Before the hairpin, i don't know why, but he have chosen the left line when gutter was at right. I saw that and as fast as i can, i've took the gutter and overtook him.

on fortune island of fh4, there was a really good driver in a older 911. i was in a nsx modeled after the initial d one, and it was mostly fine tuned. we were on rather even ground, his car can take corners at a high speed and accelerate faster than me, but since i had aero i can hang with him for 1 or 2 corners before losing an insane amount of grip due to temp. so the game plan was that after all of the high speed sweeping corners, he should have a 5 second gap on me by the time we hit the switch backs. the second turn of the switchbacks/driftzone is where everyone misjudges braking, and to my benefit, he braked too much. I soon close the 5 second gap into just a quarter of a second by sliding around the outside at about 60 mph, and pass him at the third sweeping turn due to my extreme exit speed. however at the 4th corner he takes a inside line and i nearly missed the guard rails while in a drift. there is about a .2 second gap as we are leaving that corner, so i ride his ass until we come into a 260 deg turn. he goes off the guard rail and I win. i use hood view so that doesnt have effect on me.

Man I just can't wait to get my wheel I got a Logitech g25 (I know old) but it was a steal for 200 dollars. I've been watching all of your vids about techniques and taking all of it in. And asking my dad questions as he owns both of the American 86 models and did drifting, touge, and even drag with. I just want to get started. He's just as excited as I am for the wheel because we got assetto on our computers running mods and the 86. It just reminds me of when I was 4 and thought the 86 was the best thing in the world because of all the best motoring and initial d I watched ever since I was born.

best overtake I've ever done, I forget what touge map it was on, I think it was one based off a road in Switzerland or Sweden I don't remember, but I was in a Peugeot 106 my friend was in an RX7, we got to a hairpin and we were both on the outside line heading into the braking zone, right as I saw his brake lights come on I ducked low and ripped the handbrake to initiate a slide, I entered the corner just ahead of him but because of the move I did I lost a ton of momentum cuz FWD and I had to use the handbrake and the standard brakes to not hit the outside wall, but it didn't matter that much as the road was narrow and me being sideways meant he didn't have enough room to maneuver back around me and was forced to slow down significantly to avoid a crash at the corner exit, so once he began braking heavily to avoid hitting me I punched it to straighten the car out and pull away. shit was sketchy for a split second I thought I was just going to hit the wall and lose the battle, I kinda ruined both our split times since we had to slow down so much to not crash, but the move did work!

6:03 only thing I disagree with so far. You want your opponent to know you are going for a move. Think about the lance stroll and vettel (or Alonso, I forget) crash because of both drivers making late moves. If they move over to defend, move back to the normal line and focus on getting a good exit to set up a pass on the next corner. Sometimes you can make them defend when you want to to set up the pass on the corner you actually want to pass them on.

Really nice!

DJ Bailey music makes this just that much better :)

I was on wrc practicing my cornering and I decide I will go onto f1 2020, I am battling Hamilton to turn 1 at spa and he get the inside and overtakes me and I stay in 2nd for another 15 laps. I finally catch up to him at the last corner and I wait until he brakes, as soon as he starts braking I brake once my front tires get to his rear tires and I out brake him and then on to win the race after nearly hitting Russel who had spun

i learned many things from this video however perhaps the most important one is that racing drivers care more about making their quotes sound cool rather than give practical advice.

thank you tsrb very cool

Trail brake must be one of the coolest and most exciting methods to pass the opponents

dude heck yeah on the touge mod compilation on your sweet website, you are the best 👍

My best overtake was when me and my friend were racing and when we came to a long corner and I went to the outside and when coming out of the corner we were side by side and for the next upcoming corner I had the inside line and was able to pass him at the end of the corner

i have never sim raced but ur videos are addictive fr bro keep this shit up

Im liking the 4:3 videos. We should bring it back for certain types of content

hoping my rivals watch this so they can learn how to not be a rude person about overtaking

Hey , love your videos ! Can you make a video on a weight transfer drift?

Racing chivalry 101. Thanks man

Nice !!

Nice❤, btw is the 4:3 new style

Thx for the Website is missed that

Ok so my best overtake was in an akina corner (the one before the straight that leads to 3-5 corners that lead to another straight) It was a large corner no need to brake just some slip angle would work my opponent choose to grip and he braked and i overtook him and left him like 50 meters away And that was my first and best overtake

i hate how ur so underrated😔

I would also mention not braking as late as possible... You should brake earlier by around 10m, depending on the lenght of the straight... Brake early and hard, then modulate the brake until you are close to the car and you can put pressure. (By modulating, I mean brake: 100%, 50-100% depending on how fast you are slowing down) Braking as late as possible is stupid and dangerous, considering slipstream. Of course, do this only in battles, as in a time-attack, it'll only cost you time.

My overtaking story: My family has a good friend, who is a great racer to say the least. I've been battling him since I was 7-8 years old, and I am now 15. Last year, we organised a family & friends AC event. We all agreed to choose any car we wanted. He went with a GT3 Ferrari, and I went with a Group A BMW E30. He pulled away on the start, but I kept up, and we soon lost the rest of the grid behind. We were battling hard and on the last lap, last corner I spotted a gap. It felt like Initial D. He went too wide, as he missed the braking point by a meter or so, as I was constantly putting pressure on him. He went onto the curb, but was still a bit in front of me, but if I let him go there, he would've won, as he clearly had a faster car. I understeered, so I quickly ripped the handbrake and drifted the last corner on the inside to victory. On the previous lap I overtook him there too, but I was on the outside.

once i overtook gtr in gt sport in my gt86 by faking outside overtake but then i went for the inside and hooked the curb. (this was in a gr4 race in kyoto driving park miyabi)

1:21 *Crazy for love intensifies*

Oh hey 4:3 is the new style now? It's pretty cool

Real life at 1:17 : Let us take you though a documentary about how this car will be pancaked in a fraction of a second

Ive noticed in sim racing when I pull to the side to let a faster car pass, stop my car from smashing into a spinning car and letting that person get back on the track (assuming no one is behind me, plus they crashed once and will probably crash again, ill pass then) people usual flash their lights or say thank you

Kanata Livington (protagonist of MF Ghost,the successor of Initial D) uses the "Going Around The Outside Method" against an Audi R8 and an NSX in MFG Round 2.

As a public road user, if in doubt, never race at all. Easy stuff

9:40 CAN WE APPRECIATE THIS SLICK MOVE OMG

Best overtake i had was battling someone with a tuned rx7 in akina (im using the spirit one). Ik theres no chance on overtaking him on the first half cus he has powerful car ofc, so i tried to tail gate him until the consecutive hairpins. For some reason he did a drift and i did a gutter run. For a moment i feel like im in initial d lmao. Still lost tho cus he managed to keep up and overtake me at the last straight :,)

thx bro now i know how to pass takumi fujiwara in my dreams

Could you make a video on defending? Is much harder for me

I once overtook 2 cars into T1 in Baku. I felt like Ricciardo dude, it felt so good

I remember I had built a group A spec GTR in FH5 and got invited to race up a mountain with 3 other drivers. I eventually came to the guy in pole and overtook him after a good 8 corners and had slight contact because he decided to drop gear and hit the rear of my car. After I'd won. We all agreed to go down the mountain pass. - On the very first turn I took pole on a perfect turn-in and he T-boned my car off the entire mountain, using mine to slow his car.

Racing is a gentleman's sport Dale Earnhardt would like to have a word

recently yesterday I tried a to beat a old ferrari using a GT86 in a sim racing It's really hard to overtake tho. Plus I won't let my opponent get into any gaps, I take it so seriously tho, and couldn't even avoid collision only to tighten the gap. Only when I had enough tho, I usually try to tighten the gap of my opponent no matter what, but when that happens either me or the opponent will take advantage on the first place.

I do oval track racing at my local short track in real life and I remember a heat race where I was in the pole position starting the race and me and a driver were battling for the lead right as the green flag flew I was on the high side and he’s on my inside and he kept shunting me and he shunted me one to many times and I slammed him back and blew his tire and I went on to win the race

“What?! From the outside?!”

Me and my friends were cruising back roads and I did a blind attack and started a whole ass battle unintentionally

So it was not on assetto but its still an overtake, so i was behind a Miata (of course, TUNED) with my Mercedes AMG GT Black Series car. We were racing in the Nikko Circuit (Strange, i know), we entered turn 2 side by side, Defender on the outside Me on the inside We stayed side by side until the chicane, I braked more than the defender, switched to his right side, he went wide from the curb so i placed my car inside turn 4 and I managed to overtake him

1:21 chemical love moment”

“Racing is a gentleman’s sport” F1 And Forza Horizon players: Ya’ll hear somethin’?

Most people mentioned using drifting while overtaking someone gripping but that's the opposite in my story, I was in a Subaru STI 2004 and was against a Supra, it was the touge and the supra drifted every corner, one corner he had too much entry speed and went to the outside, went for the overtake and passed through the inside, out of sheer fucking luck, the next roads were quite tight (but still enough for 2 cars to drive in) and the Supra couldn't pass me later in the race, God if I was gonna choose the nsx (i was gonna choose it but decided the STI was better) I would have definitely slid and cause a collision.

awesome video anyways what happened to the website? cant seem to get in

I was driving behind a white evo on irohazaka and I was an inch away from hitting the wall on the straight because they were in the middle and I barley got through and passed

Whenever u tell your amateur friend to go first and there in a much faster car then u and then take the turn 2 wide while you in your light 240HP 86 overtake them in epic drift style. As you see there twilights disappear from the rear view mirror

And I hate to admit it, but the sub+like reminder got me. I have been watching a few of your vids and didn't sub. the reminder made me realize that and here we are.

one thing i'm trying to put in my head about patience, is: "you don't have to overpass every car on the first lap" bcz i somehow allways want to be the first the quicker........

As Fernando Alonso said... You always have to leave a space. Look at Hungary 2021, Alonso giving a master class on how to defend from a car 3 seconds/lap faster (Ham's Mercedes)