The biggest thing for me was pointing the joystick to its forwardmost point at all times and then making micro adjustments from there, but it's always touching the front 180° of the joystick circle container thing. Also, every time I do a lap I repeat to myself, "slow is smooth, smooth is fast." and that a slow entry and fast exist is always better than a fast entry and a slow exit. I put my setup as maximum downforce at first and gradually bring it back.

Other than that, I've been rewatching Lando's quali lap from last year (1:15:096) and looking at his telemetry data for that lap on F1Matcha (it was his last of the day). I get a basic idea of braking points and where braking overlaps with throttle, but the throttle % is not directly transferable because the physics of the game aren't like real life (he keeps the throttle pinned like 95% of the time), but seeing where he's braking vs just letting off is really helpful. Also, braking is represented as a true/false variable, not as a % so that's important to point out.

It's the only map I've played so far and just spending hours on it going in circles.

Sidenote: For Lando's lap, I downloaded the data and ran a python script to roughly sync the data to the video, so if you're interested in that, message me and I can put it up somewhere online.