Coaching Time: Downforce In Sim Racing, All You Need To Know!
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 Published On May 3, 2024

Lifting can be fast. That's right, even though it sounds contradictory, it's actually widely known in pro-sim racing and real-life racing.

In this episode of Coaching Time, former F2 driver and professional driver coach Benjamin Bailly dive into the complex physiques of downforce.

Learn about:

🟥 Downforce in different cars

🟥 Weight transfer

🟥 Oversteer/understeer

🟥 The Max Verstappen Driving style.

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All chapters:

00:27 Understanding downforce – the difference from single-seater to GT
00:56 What is downforce?
01:26 Ben’s Downforce story
3:01 Lewis Hamilton
3:28 Downforce in medium to slow-speed corners
3:45 Ben’s technical corner
04:47 The water bottle example
05:48 Approaching a high-speed corner in a medium downforce car
08:32 Feeling downforce in a simulator
9:34 Direct drive wheelbase and downforce
10:30 Ben’s preference in NM
10:58 How do I feel understeer and oversteer?
12:41 How to catch understeer
14:55 How to correct oversteer
16:00 What’s best, oversteer or understeer?
16:34 The Max Verstappen driving style
17:18 The problem with understeer
18:07 Love for the Invicta Quick Release

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