driving school

one of the new options in gtr2 is the driving school. the main idea is great and i really like the opportunity to drive a certain section of a track over and over again without going around the whole track. this is really great if you want to work on some of your weak points. the challenge with the instructor is nice and encouraging and often not too easy. the lessons are increasing in difficulty and you have the chance to earn a gold gearwheel if you beat the instructor by a given amount of time. some lessons are a little bit hard if you don’t know the track, so not every lesson is really usefull for newbies, especially the passing lessons, for these you have to know donington a little bit more than just from a picture. what i really miss is a true teaching mode. you have the option to observe, to train and to attempt the challange. but if you don’t have any idea how to handle the situation you will have no chance to manage the challenge. there is no hint about brake intensity, steering speed, throttle application. for the first challenges of each lesson you will get a line on the road with different colors for braking, acceleration and for visualizing the best line. what i miss is some kind of graphics for the observation mode of the brake pressure, throttle level and steering angle, to demonstrate when should you do what and how. the recommentation of speed and gear is just what the instructor is doing and even as a semi-skilled driver, it is hard to manage to read the recommentation and to match the own speed to this. for the track lessons i miss a start lesson where the instructor shows you the whole track at low speed, like it is common for real world track trainings. overall, it is a very good idea and the lessons are great but i am not sure if this is really helpfull for newbies. right direction just didn’t gone long enough 😉

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