WRC - Colin McRae - Pace Note Lessons

Watch Colin do an interview onboard, the co-driver looks relaxed and handles the ride pretty well. This section is a lesson on how to handle pace notes.

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• colin
• mcrae
• pace
• notes
• interview
• lesson

[26gear95]

playing dirt 2 on the xbox 360 i find the pace notes come well in advance of the corner and there clearly spoken too. i think the co driver in dirt 2 is derek ringer but i'm not shure, could someone help me out plz?

[nolanbowling]

@26gear95

That's one of the many things real life drivers discuss before each and every stage. They refer to that as the stack. Some drivers will stack 3 to 5 notes at a time, were others only do 2 to 3. As for the driver reading the notes, IDK, and I don't think it really matters. The data processed is all that's truly important.

[205645240]

i got a question,

ie: 1 right,

is it better to shift into the first gear?

[nolanbowling]

Please read Sephiroth's comment. It all depends on the method that the notes are being read to you. In this situation, Colin's, yes.

[Sephiroth5300]

Colin used a reverse number system. A "One Right" is a very sharp turn and a "Six right" is almost straight. This was backwards from most drivers who used the number system. I myself on games use the opposite of Colin. A "Six right" is bad and a "One right" isn't.

[nolanbowling]

I've always done it like Colin... Thusly a 1 right is considered a 1st gear right. A 2 is a 2nd gear... Of course this is a theory of the proper gear but typically thats the way it's done, or at least how I've done it.

[mikeymike4g63]

Rest In Peace Colin. We all miss you.

[Sephiroth5300]

Here are the different styles of pace notes:

1. Number=Gear

2. Numbers go up for turns (i.e 1 right=easy, 6 right=hard etc.)

3. Numbers go down for turns (i.e 6 right=easy, 1 right=hard etc.)

4. Word System. Richard Burns used this. Turns are either easy, medium, hard, square, hairpin or sharp hairpin.

Those are all the kinds I've seen.

[dk86612]

"and sometimes we do get it slightly wrong!" love the legend's sense of humor.

[Arkitekt3813]

I love this whole instructional, but theres nothing much better than the sound of the car put over the sustained aerial shots.

Helo shots + car sounds = sublime.

[PorscheLieber]

@mignik01

Plus = Accelerate

Minus = Half throttle

[DVAFP]

@nolanbowling i do it the other way around, thats how i was taught. depending on the angle of the corner, 1 being wide and 7 being a hairpin. and each of those will be more descriptive like: late, middle or early, long, narrow, open, dont open, into or + after the corner and straight distances.

[keithswagler29]

what program/show is this from?

[GP3PocketSnare]

@mignik01 I think that's the camber of the turn

[mignik01]

@nolanbowling what is the minus and plus?

[MitoEirik]

@gasixteenb11 as in "KE LEFT/RIGHT" ? i think it equals to a 1 or 2 left/right

[1337gam3r07]

Haha, of course in any rally colin does he HAS to flip the car!

[KuostA]

@RyanPridgeon oh is that really? makes sense. thanks so much.