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- eran0004
The only reason he didn’t run the other car off the road was because the Renault driver got out of his way! When you’re side by side, you’re equal. If the Audi driver has the right to squeeze his opponent then the Renault driver has the same right. So then your rules allow for cars to just barge each other?
The only reason why he didn’t run the Renault off the road was because he left sufficient space to the left.
When the cars are side by side they need to give each other sufficient racing room, approximately 3/4 of a car’s width (given that there is some space outside of the track edge, i.e. the white line). They do not need to share the road equally.
Both drivers have a responsibility to avoid contact, but side to side contact that is not the result of sudden direction changes is typically considered to be just a racing incident and are not penalised.
In this case there are no sudden direction changes and there is plenty of space left for the Renault.