I've actually never driven this track before - I didn't even knew the track layout. Just did about 50 Laps with the 650S and thought - damn, how can I get at least the 1:32:00. Then I witched to the AMG GT3 and on my 3rd lap with it I already got a 1:31:91. But I am actually shocked, how different both cars do handle. I now have 6 hours in the game and already love it :D Btw: Thanks for the guide. It really helped!
Great video. Finding the right car is a big way to improve times. I was on 1.35,9 with a McLaren and went down to 1.32,6 with Ferrari. After testing some setups i lapped at 1.31,3 and the biggest time boost was when i switched from my G920 to a fanatec CLS DD. The superior precision and force feedback gave me more car control and confidence and my laps went down to 1.28,1
Good to know that i should give the ferrari a try, I did 1:34.5 with the lambo, and 1:32 with the McLaren, hopefully the ferrari will have me seeing the 1:20's soon! Where did you find a good setup for Zolder?
Great guide! Just enough information to get started on working the track. Too many track guides are unnecessarily long and get too much into details. I also like that you are not giving out too specific braking points, since everybody drives and brakes in their own way/with varying skill level.
I watched that hour long Snetterton guide for the LFM license and it actually really helped in general with my driving, lots of explanations about why to do certain things with the brakes and the throttle. Though watching an hour long guide was incredibly tedious especially when you watch it a few times between practices
always helpful to reference these, been running zolder online the last few days for first time and could only get a 1.29.8 in quali, now I know where I am loosing a bucket load of time
@@goldenfalcon6702 Keep at it my dude, it's not rare for some people to practice a circuit for hours. When I learn a track, I see at least 2 secs of improvement each 45 min of practice.
I just tried the McLaren here for the first time. Changed a couple of things of the aggressive setup and managed a 1:30:582 on the race and a 1:30:687. No tyre pressures neither suspension changes. I’ll give the Mercedes a go for the next time and see if I can jump those sausage kerbs, as I was trying to avoid them completely with the Mc, trying to get the cleanest and fastest exit possible.
I saw the track changing a lot in the last 30y. Zolder is my hometown and i can say, after watching hundreds of hour, the second chicane(the one after the hill) is by far the hardest in real life. Its extremely bumpy and unpredictable. The game isnt even close
Great track video guides! Many thanks for these. It would be really really helpfull if you also show your pedals inputs in the videos too! Please consider that.
Yeah coming from gt and f1 and my braking is apparently horrible. Gt sport i could get within 3 tenths on most top times and f1 im 2 sec off of wr using a g29 and this game im 6 sec off. Only been playing a few hours but still
I wish you would show your brake power. But your videos are what made me better. Also I have a bad habbit of not using all of my brakes. I seem to have a habbit of braking earlier and for a longer time lighter then I should. I should be getting on the brakes and trusting it correct? I think I'm losing alot of time because of it. Also you just Rana. 1:27 like it was nothing. I remember a year ago the track record was like a 1:27.4 or 5 lol
@@TraxionGG for me is being a bless 'cause is my first ride in the majority of the tracks, and the metod u guys use to explain is very didactic and easy to follow! keep strong!
Quick question, would switching down to 1st affect my overall lap time in any way because i am much more comfortable to go down to 1st than to 2nd and to me it seems faster but that could just be an illusion with the rotation. Love the vid btw, definitely helped me improve on both this track and monza
This should help. Have gotten into acc couple days ago and was kinda stuck on zolder (my personal fav) around 1.33.5 but i'm far from cutting the chicanes that aggressively, i also seem to be a gear to low in a bunch of corners. Great stuff.
So are these target laptimes still valid or did the tyre model change after this causing laptimes to be slower? So far i have gotten it down to 1.30.6 so i'm surely moving forwards :)
my current record on this track is 1:34:45 in the jaguar, i can't wait to try to drag that under 1:33 with this video. also 1:27 youre an alien bro, respect
@@TraxionGG There is one more thing i failed to do... i see everyone has lowered the fuel amount, while im out there busting my balls for DAYS NOW with 40 freaking liters of PURE WEIGHT tossing around this god damned track hitting lower 1.34s. I will try tomorrow and see my result on low fuel
@@w201-og More than likely is your lines rather than the fuel. Put the brake pads number 1 as well, it helps a lot. Also be sure to have the right tyre pressures
I've ran about 10+ hours of practice here during the past week for a league race tomorrow. I can still barely get in the 1:30s. Every time I go over the first chicane curbs, I lose atleast 2-3 tenths. I've tried 3 different setups and none of them like the curbs. I'm the the AMG EVO also. This is so frustrating...At other tracks, 10+ hours of practice I improve more than this. I hate this damn track.
I played against medium AI and they couldn't make a lap below 1:36, I'm finding them too easy to beat. But I'm almost 10 hours focused on this track and I'm only starting to get consistent at 1:33! Reality stroke hard when I went online and saw almost everybody at 1:28~1:30. That felt bad. So many hours and still far from amateur level...
Thx on the guides they are my go to. I love Zolder, but turn 1 makes my butt clench. Why is it so sketchy. You make it nice and smooth in vid, but near enough every car I drive if you add the remotest bit if steering lock, even off throttle, the car just has an unrecoverable moment. Did 3 x 40 mins against AI for practice last night, the amount of times that corner ***d me ,
Came to look for tips to lower lap times here, but i`ve been driving pretty much as you instructed. Alltough I dont cut that much on the 1st chicane, jumping over the kerbs seem to kill my exit speed. I think I just need laps to get more consistant. Im hovering aroun 1.30 with the default agressive setup.
Cant get under 1.36 with my M4 😢but i see why, i need to brake at 120m where you can brake at 80m, cause otherwise i see the sandbox. Time to try other cars
I am not sure I understand the PRO, PRO-AM and AM times you post in the video, are those different cars fitting those categories which can go faster? If so, which car?
I really try and try and try and already changed to a fanatec dd and i get most of the track right but the curbs lift my car in the air to much and that takes away time and even spins me out alot i drove most oft the time with the m4 gt3 and did a 1:31.2 then i switched to the 296 gt3 and did a 1:31.4 in the first day using it, i really wanna get that 1:30 at least 😂 and i really want under 1:30
@@TraxionGG3 days later and i did it! Crazy what some track knowledge and getting used to the car does with the time (and the switch from fanatec 5 nm force Feedback to 8 nm) i did a 1:30.3 thanks man!!!!! And i even built up some time in some rounds to get a 1:29..something but i always ruined it somewhere but your Video helped so much!!
Not necessarily! I am actually the same personally, and I think it’s down to the speed on approach. The Monza chicanes are approached at a high speed, meaning every difference is amplified. If I brake 5 meters too late, I’m more likely to miss the apex, if I brake 5 metres too early, I give away time in the braking zone. Very tricky to master, especially if you are jumping between cars!
@@TraxionGG Interesting. Curious, then, that Monza is considered a beginner's track. I've managed a 1:31.1 on Zolder, but at Monza, I average 1:53, sometimes get 1:52 if I'm in a good rhythm, and, ironically, one time in a car I hate I managed a 1:51, which I've so far been unable to replicate.
can i ask you why you cut the right curb also in the first chicane? or is this different depending the car? i do 2:17.5s doing the jaguar but i usually avoid the Villeneuve chicane's right curb because it makes me lose 2 tenths, i managed to get it down to 2 tenths because it was more before, is this purely down to the car? appreciate the answer. i also noticed the audi's can get through there alot faster than i can with the jaguar, even with bump range and suspension stiffness changes.
Honestly, the car and setup will make a massive difference. I would be lying if I told you I knew the quickest line in every scenario, because each car will ride each of the kerbs differently. For example, I once raced the Mclaren around here in an endurance event and had to totally compromise at the chicane.... It was like a take-off ramp 😂 The best thing you can do is exactly what you are doing, trial and error. Find out what works best, but importantly what feels the most consistent in a race. This is one of those sections where your racing line and quali line may differ depending on how much of a risk you are willing to take 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting on the video!
2:17...? Wtf? Are you sleeping at the wheel or something? You could literally get a better lap time than that in a fucking Miata dude. Surely that's a typo. I'm a bit confused by that.
@@Haltzo lol? You're joking right? Dude, I could do sub 2:17 on a bicycle... My normal laptime is around 1:32.2, which is still pretty damn slow for Zolder.
Brake half way between the red and white barrier on the first chicane, then you show a trial camera view of you breaking half the length of the barrier before the actual barrier. Wtf is it?
@@RRSmurf That was the big one for me as well, as soon as I realised just how much of track I could cut, I found a big chunk of time😂 Experiment with the chicanes, especially the second one. You will be surprised!
Clearly this is an exploit-ey setup. Your braking points and jumping those curbs are not possible on most setups. It seems this game is more about exploits than real driving, it's kinda sad. I saw some exploits that basically had max negative tow on all four corners. Such a joke.
Your videos are top, top class, thank you so much, My best time is a 1.29.9 I just got a wheel(t300rs ferrari Alcantara) and its a massive learning curve.my best on controller was a 1.28.8 trying to get there haha
You are very welcome! Glad they have been helpful for you 😄 How are you enjoying the T300rs so far? It will take some time to get used to it, but ultimately you will be much faster and more consistent 😎🔥 - John
@@TraxionGG I must say, at first it was a massive shock to the system, feeling the ffb and learning how to drive with a wheel.(I've been racing on a controller for 15years since I was 11)but now 6 days in its starting to feel more natural..oh btw I improved again did a 1.28.7 thanks to your track guide!! thank you so much!
I think the t300rs is great value for money probably the best mid range setup you can get, then there obviously fanatec and all the DD wheels..but for now I'm very happy with the thrustmaster
FIA "track is within white lines", the more I race the more realize they lied to me
Zolder. No stewards watching track limits here :) similar to Missano. Track? Where ? Love the 10 second recaps. Nice work.
I've actually never driven this track before - I didn't even knew the track layout. Just did about 50 Laps with the 650S and thought - damn, how can I get at least the 1:32:00. Then I witched to the AMG GT3 and on my 3rd lap with it I already got a 1:31:91. But I am actually shocked, how different both cars do handle. I now have 6 hours in the game and already love it :D
Btw: Thanks for the guide. It really helped!
Awesome to hear it!
Great video. Finding the right car is a big way to improve times. I was on 1.35,9 with a McLaren and went down to 1.32,6 with Ferrari. After testing some setups i lapped at 1.31,3 and the biggest time boost was when i switched from my G920 to a fanatec CLS DD. The superior precision and force feedback gave me more car control and confidence and my laps went down to 1.28,1
Epic job! That’s great pace 😎
Is a t300 comparable to CLS DD
@@simonk5571 Never uses a t300 before but i imagine it is not at the same level.
Good to know that i should give the ferrari a try, I did 1:34.5 with the lambo, and 1:32 with the McLaren, hopefully the ferrari will have me seeing the 1:20's soon! Where did you find a good setup for Zolder?
@@ChristopherBurress Saw and compared 5 different free guides from here and then just play around my preferences.
Great guide! Just enough information to get started on working the track. Too many track guides are unnecessarily long and get too much into details. I also like that you are not giving out too specific braking points, since everybody drives and brakes in their own way/with varying skill level.
Glad it was helpful!
Agreed, nice video indeed
I watched that hour long Snetterton guide for the LFM license and it actually really helped in general with my driving, lots of explanations about why to do certain things with the brakes and the throttle. Though watching an hour long guide was incredibly tedious especially when you watch it a few times between practices
always helpful to reference these, been running zolder online the last few days for first time and could only get a 1.29.8 in quali, now I know where I am loosing a bucket load of time
1:29.8 bro I get 1:35 😭 💀
@@goldenfalcon6702 Keep at it my dude, it's not rare for some people to practice a circuit for hours. When I learn a track, I see at least 2 secs of improvement each 45 min of practice.
That chicane feels like it was ment for karts! 😵💫
absolutely love Zolder, maybe cuz i live 5min away but its my favorite track on ACC
Ben ook opgegroeid in zolder😊
These videos should get way more attention. Very helpfeul and very well done - thanks for sharing!
I just tried the McLaren here for the first time. Changed a couple of things of the aggressive setup and managed a 1:30:582 on the race and a 1:30:687.
No tyre pressures neither suspension changes.
I’ll give the Mercedes a go for the next time and see if I can jump those sausage kerbs, as I was trying to avoid them completely with the Mc, trying to get the cleanest and fastest exit possible.
Worth a go! The Mclaren's inability to ride kerbs compromise it hugely around here. Good luck!
@@TraxionGG thanks bud, I’ll let you know if I can improve that lap time :)
Just came back a year later to say, I have improved to a 1:27:2, just grind guys and girls and the times will come
Awesome to hear! Thanks for sharing 😄
I saw the track changing a lot in the last 30y.
Zolder is my hometown and i can say, after watching hundreds of hour, the second chicane(the one after the hill) is by far the hardest in real life.
Its extremely bumpy and unpredictable. The game isnt even close
Great track video guides! Many thanks for these.
It would be really really helpfull if you also show your pedals inputs in the videos too! Please consider that.
Yeah coming from gt and f1 and my braking is apparently horrible. Gt sport i could get within 3 tenths on most top times and f1 im 2 sec off of wr using a g29 and this game im 6 sec off. Only been playing a few hours but still
nice lap! id apprreciate it if you could share ur used setup aswell
So cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Got it!
And when you think you've cut enough, cut a little more.
And now I know where I'm going wrong with a 1:34. Braking way to early at about 150m most places
1:29.4 on a gamepad, thanks for the tutorial!
You guys are the freaking best!
I wish you would show your brake power. But your videos are what made me better.
Also I have a bad habbit of not using all of my brakes. I seem to have a habbit of braking earlier and for a longer time lighter then I should. I should be getting on the brakes and trusting it correct? I think I'm losing alot of time because of it.
Also you just Rana. 1:27 like it was nothing. I remember a year ago the track record was like a 1:27.4 or 5 lol
Good stuff man, was really hoping to see some car setup tips for suspension but this did help out a lot!
great video this is the exact track I'm trying to tackle and I still haven't reached the AM time. That's a good benchmark for me to work on. Thanks.
thanx guys! so many useful tips! great vid, as always !
Glad you are continuing to find them useful😄
@@TraxionGG for me is being a bless 'cause is my first ride in the majority of the tracks, and the metod u guys use to explain is very didactic and easy to follow! keep strong!
Quick question, would switching down to 1st affect my overall lap time in any way because i am much more comfortable to go down to 1st than to 2nd and to me it seems faster but that could just be an illusion with the rotation. Love the vid btw, definitely helped me improve on both this track and monza
This should help. Have gotten into acc couple days ago and was kinda stuck on zolder (my personal fav) around 1.33.5 but i'm far from cutting the chicanes that aggressively, i also seem to be a gear to low in a bunch of corners. Great stuff.
Glad you like it! Hope you get that time down
So are these target laptimes still valid or did the tyre model change after this causing laptimes to be slower? So far i have gotten it down to 1.30.6 so i'm surely moving forwards :)
my current record on this track is 1:34:45 in the jaguar, i can't wait to try to drag that under 1:33 with this video. also 1:27 youre an alien bro, respect
Best of luck, hopefully you will smash a 1:33😎
@@TraxionGGThanks! Down to 1:33:5, best possible just under 1:33...T1 and chicanes, I WILL beat you!
Thanks for this!
Just got a 1:31.9 today and I definitely wasn't using that much curb, I'll have to experiment more ig
Love these guides mate, thank you.
Great to hear, you are very welcome!😊
Thanks for the video, nice and fast explanation! Good content, keep it up!
Glad you liked it!
Great video. Thank you. Would like to have had the brake inputs as well.
Thanks very much! Guides that came in future (including America track pack) have all the inputs as well 😊
Love me some Zolder!
I spent 5 hours being afraid to cut that much! Lol i need a break but will try to replicate this. My best was 1.34.5
This track requires you to abuse the kerbs. Especially in the chicane.
@@TraxionGG There is one more thing i failed to do... i see everyone has lowered the fuel amount, while im out there busting my balls for DAYS NOW with 40 freaking liters of PURE WEIGHT tossing around this god damned track hitting lower 1.34s. I will try tomorrow and see my result on low fuel
@@w201-og you can easily lap 29s with full tank
@@w201-og 40 liters are hardly 2 or 3 tenths of a sec, at the most.
@@w201-og More than likely is your lines rather than the fuel. Put the brake pads number 1 as well, it helps a lot. Also be sure to have the right tyre pressures
Could you enable pedals overlay on the full lap replay? It would be helpful to see brake and throttle application.
Nice clear video thanks. Zolder is a great track but I can’t get under 1.34.
I've ran about 10+ hours of practice here during the past week for a league race tomorrow. I can still barely get in the 1:30s. Every time I go over the first chicane curbs, I lose atleast 2-3 tenths. I've tried 3 different setups and none of them like the curbs. I'm the the AMG EVO also. This is so frustrating...At other tracks, 10+ hours of practice I improve more than this. I hate this damn track.
I’ve been trying to cut like you do but I seem to get an invalid lap time constantly!
Great video! Thanx! 😍
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
great circiut
I played against medium AI and they couldn't make a lap below 1:36, I'm finding them too easy to beat. But I'm almost 10 hours focused on this track and I'm only starting to get consistent at 1:33! Reality stroke hard when I went online and saw almost everybody at 1:28~1:30. That felt bad. So many hours and still far from amateur level...
You are not the only person only tried hard but still only manage around 1:32
I can also relate but was not aware you could cut so much so curious what my next run will be after seeing this.
@@frederickyan 1:36 here. If i do like he says my car goes right in the grass, he just dint . Maybe iam to bad, i dont know.
That was a nice video you have put together.
Thank you very much!
@@TraxionGG playing on controller, as soon as i downshift i spin the car. guess i need more practice first.
My mistake was to drive this track for the first time using the Porsche 911 😂😂😂
@@Choccolicious me too
Thx on the guides they are my go to. I love Zolder, but turn 1 makes my butt clench. Why is it so sketchy. You make it nice and smooth in vid, but near enough every car I drive if you add the remotest bit if steering lock, even off throttle, the car just has an unrecoverable moment. Did 3 x 40 mins against AI for practice last night, the amount of times that corner ***d me ,
I noticed you seemed to shift pretty late. Why is that? The dash made it look like you were miles behind redline
Came to look for tips to lower lap times here, but i`ve been driving pretty much as you instructed. Alltough I dont cut that much on the 1st chicane, jumping over the kerbs seem to kill my exit speed. I think I just need laps to get more consistant. Im hovering aroun 1.30 with the default agressive setup.
That’s not bad at all! Sounds like you have it all together, just those last small margins. Best of luck 😊
My hometown❤
Is the 2019 porshe good for practising this track or not? (I’m using the amg and I’m new to acc)
Cant get under 1.36 with my M4 😢but i see why, i need to brake at 120m where you can brake at 80m, cause otherwise i see the sandbox.
Time to try other cars
my mclaren turn into a 1999 mercedes CLR during the LeMans with the amount of cutting needs to be done lmao
I am not sure I understand the PRO, PRO-AM and AM times you post in the video, are those different cars fitting those categories which can go faster? If so, which car?
So those are classes of driver, depending on where you consider yourself is what sort of times you should be aiming for. Hope that makes sense.
I live there
I really try and try and try and already changed to a fanatec dd and i get most of the track right but the curbs lift my car in the air to much and that takes away time and even spins me out alot i drove most oft the time with the m4 gt3 and did a 1:31.2 then i switched to the 296 gt3 and did a 1:31.4 in the first day using it, i really wanna get that 1:30 at least 😂 and i really want under 1:30
Best of luck, we believe in you!
@@TraxionGG thanks alot! Your Video already helped alot with those times, keep up the good work!! :)
@@TraxionGG3 days later and i did it! Crazy what some track knowledge and getting used to the car does with the time (and the switch from fanatec 5 nm force Feedback to 8 nm) i did a 1:30.3 thanks man!!!!! And i even built up some time in some rounds to get a 1:29..something but i always ruined it somewhere but your Video helped so much!!
Great Video! Great Video! Put the fucking map as well! Do not hide it!
Ha ha... AM time of 1:32 and me sitting here happy with a 1:33.2... jeez
They are all made up targets to try and help people push themselves, don’t worry😎 More corner cutting required?
Why do I find Zolder to be quite a bit easier than Monza? Isn't that backwards?
Not necessarily! I am actually the same personally, and I think it’s down to the speed on approach. The Monza chicanes are approached at a high speed, meaning every difference is amplified. If I brake 5 meters too late, I’m more likely to miss the apex, if I brake 5 metres too early, I give away time in the braking zone. Very tricky to master, especially if you are jumping between cars!
@@TraxionGG Interesting. Curious, then, that Monza is considered a beginner's track. I've managed a 1:31.1 on Zolder, but at Monza, I average 1:53, sometimes get 1:52 if I'm in a good rhythm, and, ironically, one time in a car I hate I managed a 1:51, which I've so far been unable to replicate.
can i ask you why you cut the right curb also in the first chicane? or is this different depending the car? i do 2:17.5s doing the jaguar but i usually avoid the Villeneuve chicane's right curb because it makes me lose 2 tenths, i managed to get it down to 2 tenths because it was more before, is this purely down to the car? appreciate the answer. i also noticed the audi's can get through there alot faster than i can with the jaguar, even with bump range and suspension stiffness changes.
Honestly, the car and setup will make a massive difference. I would be lying if I told you I knew the quickest line in every scenario, because each car will ride each of the kerbs differently. For example, I once raced the Mclaren around here in an endurance event and had to totally compromise at the chicane.... It was like a take-off ramp 😂 The best thing you can do is exactly what you are doing, trial and error. Find out what works best, but importantly what feels the most consistent in a race. This is one of those sections where your racing line and quali line may differ depending on how much of a risk you are willing to take 😊 Thanks for watching and commenting on the video!
2:17...? Wtf? Are you sleeping at the wheel or something? You could literally get a better lap time than that in a fucking Miata dude. Surely that's a typo. I'm a bit confused by that.
@@Kultivater lets see you do a sub 2.17 in the G3 Jag.
@@Haltzo lol? You're joking right? Dude, I could do sub 2:17 on a bicycle... My normal laptime is around 1:32.2, which is still pretty damn slow for Zolder.
@@Kultivater I seen this and made me laugh, 2.17, your car must powered by soup 🤣
Brake half way between the red and white barrier on the first chicane, then you show a trial camera view of you breaking half the length of the barrier before the actual barrier. Wtf is it?
Hi there, I said brake halfway between the 100 metre board and the red and white wall 😊
I can only do it in 1:36
With what car?
I am doing 1.39.....🤔
Hopefully this gives you something ambitious to aim for 😎 Just take it one corner and one second at a time!
Mid 1.34's on controller here... I'm not using remotely enough track!
@@RRSmurf That was the big one for me as well, as soon as I realised just how much of track I could cut, I found a big chunk of time😂 Experiment with the chicanes, especially the second one. You will be surprised!
bro, it's corner cutting
It was close to the limit, but fully legal for the whole lap! Key to being fast at Zolder is exploiting the margins as much as possible 😊
Clearly this is an exploit-ey setup. Your braking points and jumping those curbs are not possible on most setups. It seems this game is more about exploits than real driving, it's kinda sad. I saw some exploits that basically had max negative tow on all four corners. Such a joke.
Cheaters Circuit ...
Cutting the right amount is a skill in itself😉
stick to monza
Nice video. But that last 10 seconds conclusion please say it in normal time.
Your videos are top, top class, thank you so much, My best time is a 1.29.9 I just got a wheel(t300rs ferrari Alcantara) and its a massive learning curve.my best on controller was a 1.28.8 trying to get there haha
You are very welcome! Glad they have been helpful for you 😄 How are you enjoying the T300rs so far? It will take some time to get used to it, but ultimately you will be much faster and more consistent 😎🔥 - John
@@TraxionGG I must say, at first it was a massive shock to the system, feeling the ffb and learning how to drive with a wheel.(I've been racing on a controller for 15years since I was 11)but now 6 days in its starting to feel more natural..oh btw I improved again did a 1.28.7 thanks to your track guide!! thank you so much!
I think the t300rs is great value for money probably the best mid range setup you can get, then there obviously fanatec and all the DD wheels..but for now I'm very happy with the thrustmaster
Look at you guys and your track guides 🙃 very nice.
Glad you like them!