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Codemasters DiRT Rally is a simulated rally racing experience. To put up the best times in DiRT Rally it requires some sound rally racing techniques that often seem counter-intuitive to your natural driving tendencies. But racing games are racing games right? Unlike track racing you might only step on the clutch once or twice during an entire stage. So today I am going to break down the techniques used to create faster stage times in Dirt Rally and guide you on how to unlearn everything you thought you knew about racing! Many of these are applicable to any rally game like WRC5 or Sebastian Loeb Rally Evo, but mastering them in those games will be far less challenging. The corner numbers were established for taking the corners using as much of the road as possible with account for the racing line and stage obstacles. Memorizing this chart will do you a lot of good when trying to get faster times in DiRT Rally. You of course can run your race without the co-driver, but you certainly will have to take it a bit easier when you have low visibility coming over a hill. For more insight on the route notes you can get more info on the and a nice. Getting Your Settings Right If you are using a gamepad or a wheel the below settings are good baseline no matter your console. Try these and adjust as you need… Best Gamepad Settings for DiRT Rally Best Racing Wheel Settings for DiRT Rally Your degrees of rotation DOR may vary depending on the wheel you own. So far I have found the most enjoyable racing at 330 degress of rotation. Most modern Rally cars use 540, so if you are going for sim…try that if your wheel aloows it. If you want to make adjustments I would suggest raising or lowering the force feedback to your prefernce, leaving the wheel strength at 100, and chosing a wheel weight between 30 and 50. Preferences For the Preferences use Manual H Pattern and clutch…learning to drive manual will by much faster than automatic gearing. If you find that you are locking up the wheels to much when you brake, then lower brake saturation down to about 70. I have a brake in and it takes a lot for me to lock up. There is more great info on wheel settings for particular racing wheels at the. You can also see our best recommendations for a Dirt Rally wheel on or. The wheel settings above though should be applicable to almost. To get the most out of DiRT Rally, the best thing to do is apply real rally racing techniques. So lets get into it… Understanding Rally Driving Basics and Applying them to DiRT The video below discusses many of the rally driving basics with some and tips and tricks that I will cover more in depth in the article below. Drifting which creates sliding friction dynamic friction is what separates rally racing from track racing which requires static friction gripping friction. Driving fast on snow, gravel, mud, and dirt is much different than a race track where your tires can stick to the road. Here is the difference from a braking perspective between asphalt and gravel: When you jam on the brakes on either surface the cars weight shifts towards the font of the vehicle… On asphalt gripping fiction : You want to brake as hard as possible threshold braking in a straight line and not lock the brakes. Here you are using static friction; using the tires to grip and maintain control of your direction. This is because gravel does not provide much traction. This technique allows you to use the tires in 2 directions at the same time and mis-align your rear tires so that they can try to grab a bit of clean surface. Here is a good technique for initiating a slide for a left hand turn in a FWD car: One of the keys in the technique depicted above is keeping your foot on the throttle while you feather brake simultaneously…Ill speak more on that below in the section about left foot braking and driving FWD cars. For RWD cars the technique requires more finesse with the throttle. As you can see here, the Apex is the high point of the turn. On both track and rally course the principles are the same. Your goal is to create the lowest possible slip angle with maximum traction and position yourself for a fast turn exit. A well executed mid-apex racing line is fast and effective, but there is some room for improvement. The Late Apex Typically the late apex is faster than catching the mid apex because it allows you to get your car straighter faster. The key to catching the late Apex is it also requires a slightly later turn in. In the right-hander you see here, you would slide your vehicle through this turn on any surface other than asphalt. In either approach of turn it is best to come in under control and have all your braking and shifting done prior to turn in. Here is the difference between track racing and rally driving: On asphalt: You take a wide approach to the corner, identify the apex and turn in smoothly, start applying throttle when you hit the apex or preferably the late apex. Here you can see the different turn in points for a hair pin. Notice what happens when you turn in too early…. Whats crazy is the car is not even going that fast through the turn. The slide is so deliberate and executed perfectly! This is particularly true for All-Wheel Drive cars. Weight Balance Is the Key to Fast Rally Racing Understanding how to shift the weight of the car between the front and rear axles is imperative to putting up competitive stage times. So how do you overcome that? By transferring the weight of the car from one end to the other which has a huge impact on the direction the car will spin. By using the throttle and the brake you can increase traction on any given tire. This what I referred to earlier as steering with the throttle and the brake. The best thing to do is keep your front tires pointed straight ahead relative to the car, apply less throttle and simultaneously jab the brake. Weight will transfer forward, the vehicle will turn in, and you will slow down, slide a bit, and clean up your line. Shifting Weight to Open Your Racing Line If you want to pull off the racing line and open it up a bit then ease on the throttle and pull off of the brake. This will send the weight of the car to the rear which will straighten the car out, and open up your racing line. As you can see there was not many steering inputs. The technique described above is great for a mid to long length corner, but could quickly turn to trouble with a tight hair pin. This shift in momentum will create inertia to whip the rear end of your car around for a tight turn. Good Techniques For Front Wheel Drive Hairpin Turns In this video you can get some good tips and techniques for tacking hairpin turns in FWD cars. This guy uses the handbrake much more than I do, but his technique is VERY effective. The first 5 minutes shows him racing and then at 5:05 on the video he breaks down the technique. For some turns its worth it just to hold the E-brake all the way through the turn, just so you can control the car. Drifting with Rear Wheel Drive Rally Cars All the turn techniques described above are extremely effective for both FWD and AWD cars. While these techniques do work on RWD, the throttle must be handled MUCH more sensitively. Its easier to initiate a drift in a rear wheel drive car if you take care of all your braking pre-turn and then initiating a slide. This will help you hold the racing line, avoid understeer, and keep the car under control. This is what your driving inputs would like like for a RWD slide to the left: 10. On a turn exit, you need to ensure that your tires are pointing straight ahead on the road, before you unleash full throttle especially in RWD cars. Between the power surge and the terrain on a rally stage surface your car can shimmy quite a bit and lose you valuable time. Sometimes feathering throttle quick tapping is best to get you under control and accelerating. When to Use the Handbrake Most people love the idea of ripping the handbrake around every turn. It can also be extremely unpredictable…think of the handbrake like a blunt tool. The handbrake can be great to initiate a slide. For a FWD car you can tap it or even hold it through a slide, but for a RWD car it is better to tap the handbrake just to break traction on the rear wheels. The handbrake is particularly effective in a slow turn to help rotate the rear end of the car around faster, but a left foot braking technique will produce more predictable results. For players using a racing wheel on PS4 or Xbox One, the handbrake is a button on the wheel rims center column, which means you may be trying to cut the wheel and push a button at the same time, which is difficult. Note that in most AWD cars when you pull the handbrake it locks all four tires not just the rears. The Left Foot Braking Technique This applies mostly to folks playing with a , but the concept still applies to those playing with a gamepad. If you are using a clutch, occasionally you will need to slide your left foot over for a shift. The more time you can use your foot for left foot braking and off of the clutch, the better off you will be. Left Foot Braking and FWD Once you grasp handbrakes and left foot braking, there is something AWESOME you can do with FWD cars. Left foot braking can be used in lieu of the handbrake and even better it shifts the weight of the car in a more predictable manner. This accomplished by applying throttle and brake simultaneously. This technique keeps your front wheels spinning because the engine will overpower the brakes and the car will slow or lock the rear tires. Doing this when entering a corner where you want to slide around it, you can turn in and then apply the throttle and brakes at the same time. This will transfer the cars weight to the front and result in a more stable slide than using the handbrake. Essentially now you are using the brake to control the speed difference between your front and rear tires. When executed correctly you can make a FWD spin around on a dime. With certain FWD cars you can keep the throttle on the floor and apply the brake according to how tight you need to corner. The Corner Before a Long Straight Is the Most Important A rally course has tons of corners of varying degrees and difficulty, but the most important one to nail is the one prior to a straight patch of road. In rally racing you dont get a lot of long straights like in track racing. Here is where it is very beneficial to pay attention to your co-driver. He is always reporting 100 meters ahead and will let you know dont cut or run wide on the turn exit. If you have some straight away coming perfecting the the turn before it will help you maximize your speed down the straight. Even if you botch a series of corners, make sure you nail the last corner in the series. Honestly though nothing will ever beat practice and familiarity. Controlling a Jump Jumps in DiRT Rally are not some fist pumping moment where you can celebrate getting all 4 tires off the ground. A lot jumps have turns at their landing points and you better be prepared to get the car back under control. The hardest thing about jumps is most cars want to fly nose down. If you slowdown and hit the brake on the take-off you will most certainly land on the nose of the car. The key to a jump is to accelerate at the launch. The best way approach even for big jumps is to jab the brake and then get back on the throttle prior to the launch point. This will make the car jump with its nose in the air. Ideally you also want to land with each wheel at a different fraction of a second. Very hard to control in DiRT Rally though. The idea here is that you will get less off a power bounce off of your shocks. Effectively Managing Puddles Hitting the water incorrectly can certainly end your hopes of a fast time and maybe even your race all together. Similar to the the Jump technique discussed above you will want the nose of the car up and to go in as fast as possible in order to power through it. The best way to do that is right before a puddle brush the brakes and get the car nose up and then accelerate on your last patch of dirt before puddle entry. Quick Tip on Tuning While I am not much of a tuner. I got this trick from Stella Stig in his. Some of the cars seem to be extremely heavy on the front brake bias, which would shift to much weight to the front end of the car when you press the brakes. Before you start a race see where the brake bias is set in your vehicle setup. It can be pretty beneficial to knock the front brake bias down a little bit. I dont do this for every car, but sometimes after I get a feel for how the car is handling. Nothing beats practice and concentration though since some these stages take 8 to 9 minutes to complete. Playing DiRT with a racing wheel and pedal set is a bit easier and much more fun in my opinion. If you are curious about a racing wheel for DIRT, check out our. DiRT Rally Related Products at Amazon Hey Martin, Thanks for reading the blog and leaving a comment. For the you can go into the controller settings menu and see what all of the default settings are. From there you can make any button the handbrake that you want. There are other alternatives though that some people have used like setting the handbrake as the clutch pedal, setting one of the paddle shifters as the clutch pedal makes more sense if you own the , or using the shifter as a handbrake. Hope that is helpful, -James Thanks for all the tips. I was really good using the regular controller, and then bought the T150 wheel yesterday. The difference between the wheel and controller is crazy. But now that I read your helpful article, I will be getting better and better starting today when I get to play again. Wow thanks alot for that article, really helpfull! I was wondering about one thing though. You said the Pendulum technique is especially effictive for AWD and FWD. Basically asking if a Pendulum is always faster than a handbrake turn if you can manage it. If there is not enough room for a pendulum technique, I would probably rely on accelerating into the turn, taking a wide approach, cutting the wheel in to the turn and then popping the handbrake. This should kick out the back end of a RWD car and help power you through the turn. I also tend to handle all of my shifting before I pop the handbrake, Once the handbrake is engaged, all of my focus is on balancing the car through the turn.
