I’m in need of some driving tips to help me become a better racer. I played for forza 3 but that is it. Just got forza 6 and want some tips 
Practice till you’re ready to pull your own hair out!
I’ll give you the same advice I gave a friend of mine. Start out easy, get a feel of how the game works. Make adjustments to your controller settings and find something that works for you. I’d suggest doing free play sessions and start with easy AI and work your way up. Then over time challenge yourself to try new things, watch other drivers and see how they run and take mental notes.
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You could try going on YouTube and looking for the essentials and driving 101 from cornering, overtaking, learning to tune, braking, driving without assists etc. Study in the ins and outs of driving and racing. Practice, practice, practice and more practice, you can always improve. Remember you may not be the best, but with more time dedicated in getting better, the more rewarding it’ll be for you.
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Start with assists turned on and as you become comfortable with your abilities, turn them off for a challenge and to become more competitive. The driving line, while not certain to give you the greatest of lap times, will still portray a basic idea of how to approach a corner.
This recent post had some excellent short videos to get you started
http://forums.forza.net/turn10_postst56048_Passing-101-and-other-useful-racing-tips.aspx
Plus my own personal set of tips:
Slower is Faster
The golden rule of racing. Racing is not about speed, racing is about control. If you cannot control your vehicle, then speed does not matter. Always, always, sacrifice speed for control. If you feel you are losing control, gently apply the brakes. If you think you’re coming into a turn too hot, you probably are. Slow down. Speed is the rabid dog on a leash. If your break the leash, you no longer have the dog.
Hold Your Line
Once you’ve picked a line, stay on it. This goes back to the fact that racing is control. Do not let speed change your line. Slow down, if you must, to hold the line. You are not the only one on the track, and you must never hit another vehicle or go off the track. You are piloting thousands of pounds of metal at speeds that could end a life in an instant. You must not interfere with other race cars.
Hit the Apex
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Therefore, the quickest path through a turn is through the apex. Whenever it is safe to do so, hit the apex. This is guaranteed to be the shortest distance you can travel and, usually, the straightest as well. This allows you to maintain the highest speed and provides the fastest exit.
Don’t Be Greedy
Racing is a competition, and as such, has a code of sportsmanship. To avoid collision, the passer must always yield to the passee’s line. If you sneak into an apex just before the car ahead of you does, that is dangerous and greedy. Racing is not about stealing opportunities and cutthroat maneuvers. Racing is about finding the fastest and safest path. Never endanger another racer, and don’t take lines that you know could cause a collision.
“No race has ever been won in the first corner, but many have been lost there.”
Basically, be patient. Especially at the beginning of a race, the cars are all very close together and collisions are extremely likely. Take your time and wait for the crowd to disperse before trying any aggressive maneuvers.
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Think of your controller as an egg in your hands. Dont crack it , be smooth with your inputs. Roll on, Roll off.
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Firstly, go to advanced controller settings and change all your inside deadzones to 0. There is no point in having them anything other than 0.
Switch handbrake and clutch (if you want to use clutch, which I highly recommend for most of the cars in the game.) Using the A button is waaaay better than LB because you can shift up and down while simultaneously hitting the clutch button with your thumb. It’s pretty easy to be honest.
Turn on the full race line, it’s not 100% correct but it gives you a rough idea on where to be. Personally I prefer the brake line, not so much because it shows where to go, I just use it as a brake reference. Also pick whatever other assists you want. I would avoid ABS, Stability control and sim steering. Traction control is nice in some S class cars and above but that’s about it IMO, it feels like a hindrance in anything below S class to me.
Pick a car/class, go to Rivals. Practice on Catalunya GP and work your way up, that track has a bit of everything when ti comes to high, medium & low speed corners. imo, that is the ideal track for learning. As for the car and class, I would suggest the 73 Trans-Am tuned by popaul199 (B600). It’s not the fastest car around there but it is capable of top 100 times and is very easy to use.
Pay close attention to what your rival’s ghost is doing, watch the replay if you must to see where they brake, where they are turning in, what speeds they are hitting in the corners, what gear they are doing them in and where they end up on the exit. The gearing part only really matters if you are running an identical car and tune.
NO dead pedals, as in do not let the car coast. When you are transitioning from brake/throttle in the corners it should be instantly. If you let the car coast you will either understeer, oversteer and/or lose too much momentum.
Learn to carry your speed. Hitting the apex is a must but keep in mind the shortest distance through a corner isn’t always the fastest, especially in the lower classes.
Just like a real car keep your eye on where you want to go, me personally I zone out on the white lines on the edge of the track when I am cornering. I don’t look at the curbs because sometimes I turn in too soon and cut it by accident.
Practice, be patient, don’t go balls out on the first few laps or you will just have a bad time and get discouraged.
Good luck!
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Actually the real advice would be to learn each track individually and learn where you can cut the track and put 2 wheels up on the curb. Learn to tune your suspension soft specifically for curbing your car. I always laugh at the unstable tunes in lobbies that go flying randomly trying to do a maneuver their car is not tuned to do.
Always drive manual with clutch and ABS off.
Everyone swaps the handbrake and clutch button and power shifts. It will take a day EACH to adjust to ABS off and manual with clutch. Just remember even the most terribly shifted manual is better than an automatic.
TCS can be used in A class and above, particularly on loose A class cars.
What the leaderboard drivers are doing is knowing the track inside and out. Every dip, bump and curb. The tunes are about 90% optimized parts and 10% proper settings. Its really just preference within reason on tune settings so long as you know how to tune soft springs, camber, tire pressure, and differentials, thats all there is to it.
With persistence you can keep shaving seconds off your laps. Almost everyday I find some new racing line with 2 wheels up on the curb that cuts off half a second on a track.
What people are trying to say is that driving precise is what leads to driving fast. “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast” is a bit if a misnomer. You can indeed fling your car with 1/8th of one tire still on the track and not tag your time :). Precision means stability, and hitting the racing line that you intended to hit. Even if you take a turn fast, but it isn’t how you predicted the turn would go, then you need to reanalyze your handling. Precision is the most important thing. Putting your car where you intended it to go at speed. That is driving skill.
Anyone can drive fast with literally 2 days of practice. Manual with clutch one day. ABS off the next.
Be smooth with the control sticks. Snapping the sticks back and forth will unsettle the car, as will mashing the triggers. Get the car turning and braking smoothly, and increase your speed as you learn the tracks. Slow down before the turns, and accelerate through them.
Turn off assists as soon as you can, they do make it easier to drive, but they “filter” the experience in the process. You won’t get a true feel for a car’s “personality”, or be able to drive it to its full potential, with them on. The advice about switching the handbrake and clutch buttons (a few posts back) is sound, once you’re using manual/clutch (and you should).
Avoid “assisted” braking and steering. They ruin everything. Use ABS brakes to start, and either normal or sim steering, whichever you prefer. Sim is trickier, but the cars are more responsive (IMO).
And do have fun. Pace yourself, don’t reach for a top-shelf supercar right away. Master the VWs and Kias first
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