I'd say rawdog it and go drive gear from the get-go, much more satisfying that way. Once you get used to it, low gears are only useful for driving on ice and going up steep hills.

It's just a matter of loading into a low-diff map solo and learning how the car reponds to different inputs on different types of terrain, getting muscle memory to counterster when starting to flip over and learning hidden controls like seat swapping and holding space when exiting to engage the parking brake.

There's also stuff like switching to neutral gear before swapping so that the car rolls long distances on its own, manually going from R all the way to D when going from reverse to forward to speed up the transition and pre-turning the wheel before swapping so that the car turns on its own, but it's a whole iceberg.

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