Hi there,
 
I am playing Test Drive Unlimted on PC platform using an X-box controller with mapping very close to the actual console game.
 
I love the game a lot and love to just take a random drive in the island of ... (sorry I can't remember the name).  Need not to say, I need to win the games in order to earn enough $$ to buy better cars.
 
My question is very simple: how do you do cornering in TDU?  TDU is really my first racing game and more often than not, I lose control of the car and crash onto the structures nearby.  Or I brake so hard so early so much as that I also lose the race.
 
So far, all I can do is ... (1) release the gas, (2) brake the car to 40-50mph, (3) make the turn (sometime I need to brake while turning and at times lose control of the car), (4) step on the gas.
 
Is that the recommended approach?  Please enlighten me.  Many thanks.