8 Things You All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

Recently we shared some of the things we all secretly do but never admit to when playing racing games, and you shared more hilarious suggestions!
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Whether it’s by crashing or simply clipping a kerb, rolling your car isn’t all that common in racing games but when it happens, you definitely don’t want to own up to it. It happens, you’ve just got to flip the car back over and get back to racing. And keep it quiet.

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Guilty. We’ve all bragged about how good we’ve been racing and our rapid progression up the order, but left out the fact that the difficulty is on one of the lowest settings. The AI are going so slowly, even a toddler could drive around them. But we still seem happy with a win, regardless.

3. Lapping the track backwards

As suggested by Yuwan Thayakaran
As suggested by Yuwan Thayakaran

We’ve all done this when we’ve got a bit bored of the game, or – as the commenter did – lapped the Daytona oval backwards in a Zonda R on Gran Turismo 6 to get the lap count up.

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This one is SO TRUE. When a game glitches on you or does something weird, which could or could not impact your race result, it’s only fair to compensate and make up some time by doing a little corner cutting, right?

On open world games like Forza Horizon 3 and GTA V, sometimes we like to drive around like we actually live there. You know, stop at the traffic lights, find a house and park there. Well, I do anyway…

6. Damage to cosmetic

As suggested by Rise Comics
As suggested by Rise Comics

We love racing games but hate damaging our cars by mistake, especially if it’s so bad you can barely keep driving. So, naturally, setting damage to cosmetic solves that problem. But we hate to admit that’s the option we go for.

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When you want to hit the brakes late for a corner but go a bit too far, there’s only one thing for it – use the cars ahead of you to slow down. This is particularly helpful if you’ve got the damage on cosmetic…

8. Do your own commentary

As suggested by xJamieK1
As suggested by xJamieK1

This one is especially relevant with F1 games, when you want to hear what your race would be like with commentary. So, you do it yourself and commentate, either out loud or in your head. We’ve all done this at some point.

Let us know if you secretly do any of these in the comments and be sure to check out the original post right here.

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Comments

The S2K Guy

I do barelling through all the online cars

12/18/2016 - 12:04 |
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Anonymous

Block the track to prevent anyone getting past

12/18/2016 - 12:09 |
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pissoffftwat

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Hamilton tactics

12/18/2016 - 12:48 |
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slevo beavo

2 things we all do

1 - when going round a corner we lean into it.

2 - when your understeering on full lock, turn your controller too in the hope the car will magically turn.

12/18/2016 - 12:12 |
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I don’t do either

12/18/2016 - 12:30 |
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I do that. The second one is because I used to play on the Wii where turning the controller steers.

12/18/2016 - 13:47 |
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Haha. Yeah i have no idea ehy we do that

12/18/2016 - 14:24 |
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you sir need to buy a racing wheel.

12/18/2016 - 16:37 |
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i lean OUT when going into a corner…

12/19/2016 - 11:34 |
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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

I’ve done all those things

12/18/2016 - 12:21 |
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Anonymous

In FH3 my driving is weird, I give way when needed, wait for a gap before overtaking and not overtake when a cross road is coming up, yet I never listen to the speed limit

12/18/2016 - 12:31 |
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Anonymous

When I was playing Forza Horizon 2 once, I was actually driving around in a Lexus GS.

12/18/2016 - 12:44 |
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Goniwè Jayçeon / Mufasa🦁

Drive around normally…Definitely in GTA V/ GTA Online (Xbox 360)…
Especially when you make a badass ride…
I normally hit a cruise from Downtown (My apartment) to Blaine County and back home…all just in cruise mode…

12/18/2016 - 12:45 |
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ChrisKutcher

Ive actually cought myself putting hardest difficulty on before even ive tried the game.
Usually I have to set it lower but I try to keep it at highest possible, so I have to really drive without mistakes to even be on podium.

12/18/2016 - 13:02 |
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Anonymous

I once did the Nurburgring in reverse….

12/18/2016 - 13:04 |
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Rick Hendrix

Luuk_885 past precies

12/18/2016 - 13:18 |
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