It's a fuck of a lot different on a race track. It's nothing like driving on an open road, it's more like driving like that - on the roads that go through your city. You're either mashing on the gas pedal or you're mashing on the brake pedal. If you have a straight section, it's only for a handful of seconds - time enough to try to get a breather and maybe a drink.
Then, you not only have to mash your gas and brake constantly - you have to do them at the exact same time every lap. It's called 'hitting your marks' and it means following the exact optimal line because a race is often decided by thousands of a second. Then, pit stops... Man, those fucking suck... It'll take you 20+ laps to catch up 10 seconds. You can lose 10 seconds in a pit stop simply by making the tiniest of mistake - and it doesn't even have to be you making the mistake - it doesn't even have to be someone on your team making the mistake, as in another team's behavior can slow you down.
Racing is frustrating as all fuck.
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