Absolutely. Glad you liked it 🙂

-James

Hey Richard,

Racing without TCS just takes some practice and being very careful with the throttle when you are trying to accelerate from a dead stop or in a turn exit. There are a few strategies that I use like feathering the gas pedal (lightly pumping it) to get my revs up and once I feel the car is under control I jam on the gas. It may sound counter intuitive, but sometimes patients with the throttle will improve your lap times…because you are driving under control. Try this video: Forza 6 Traction Control & Stability Assist Off Guide (Tips & Tricks)

Just curious are you racing with a wheel or a controller?

Checkout this video: Forza 6 Braking Tips also there is some good braking advice in this article F1 2016 tips. I wrote it geared towards F1 2016, but it is 100% applicable in Forza 6. Go to the section titled Braking Techniques for Racing and How to Apply Them.

Hope that helps. Keep me posted on how you are doing and if there is any other guidance I can provide.
-James

Glad that you enjoyed the write up. Ill add you as a friend when I fire up my console later. I probably wont be playing much FM6 due to F1 2016 and Assetto Corsa out now and Horzon 3 coming soon.

-James

Hey Nick,

Thanks for the comment. I appreciate your insight and passion regarding shifting. You have some great clarifying facts and I appreciate you sharing them.

Regards,
James

“The reason being is that the front end of the car should dip slightly less when you shift with the clutch. When the car dips on the shift you are losing time.”

What? This isn’t only wrong, it’s some of the dumbest s*#t I’ve ever read.

Cars “dip” from weight transfer, because either A. you don’t know how to tune your springs properly or 2. you are mashing the pedals like an ape.

Manual transmissions USED to be faster shifting. This was back when transmissions used pressures built up in the valve body to shift. Today’s cars have computers (Transmission Control Module, TCM) that facilitate shifting based on all the inputs (fluid temp, throttle position, speed, etc) and are faster than 99.9995% of the population. Any high end vehicle you drive that is “manual” does NOT have a clutch pedal, why is that if “manuals are faster”?

But there’s a problem with automatics, they steal power. With an automatic expect to lose nearly 50-75 hp BEFORE it gets to the wheels. So COULD a manual transmission vehicle be quicker? Possibly because of more usable horsepower, but it probably won’t be shifting faster.

There’s also the CVT, that doesn’t in fact shift at all but has 1 gear and a ‘band’.

“particularly because you can keep your accelerator down while you shift (Can’t do that in real-life though).”

Sure you can, it’s called Powershifting.

Hey Cambo,

Once you follow a tuner, you can’t see all of their tunes in one place unfortunately. Forza really didn’t do a great job of organizing that type of feature. When you follow a tuner it puts all of their tunes as the first results. For example: If I follow raceboy77 and he has a tune for a Honda Civic, I have to select the Honda Civic first and then open up search for a tune. If raceboy77 has a tune he will show up first in my results.

I actually like to go into the leaderboards and download tunes right from that section. This way you don’t have to be selected on the particular car you are downloading a tune for. The only downside is that you have to remember to apply the tune the next time you race that car…just cuz you download the tune, it doesn’t put it right on the car unless you are currently using that car.

Hop that is helpful and not more confusing 🙂 All in all the thing you need to know is that there is currently no intuitive way to see all the tunes available by one person in the game. The best place to do that is on the Forza Motorsport forum. There alot of tuners will show you which cars they have tunes for.

Regards,
James