A very good question and I think hard to answer. The most difficult part in a race are the first 2 laps for me. If I'm to carefull in order to avoid contact, I get run over, if not I risk to cause the trouble myself.
But after all, in long term it never went out well for myself when I answered rudeness with rudeness
My main problem is that I can plan and make a move safely to get a good overlap (door mirror) but get a lot of nudges to make me back out again. In my eyes, the move is 3/4's complete but lately it's nudge nudge nudge to track limits and I either back out or risk a big incident. Usually for them, not me, hence the original question. For years, I've backed out of these moves and thought I'd try forcing the issue for a change. It didn't work.
I also race hard and fair.
I'll protect the line so they can't take the inside line, but I stay on the line under braking. I don't move under braking. I do however change direction when I try overtake somebody on the inside and the car in front protects the inside line right before braking. I will lift, move from the inside back to the outside and brake just to get a better drive and exit out of the corner so I'll overtake the car in front on the exit instead of during the turn.
When something goes wrong for instance, I totally missed my braking point and take somebody off, I'll wait until the car I knocked off resumes and I'll drive behind it.
Good advice if both parties have good race craft. What do you do if the person in front does 2, 3 or even more defensive moves though? That's the sort of driver I'm talking about. Trying to maintain their position by any means but looking for the added bonus of running you off track.
I've only done x2 sport races since my few months off and I'm now SR:A for the first time in a long time (was SR:99).
Some overly aggressive defending from some and then just people not aware of what's going on around them. I can't bring myself to race at Suzi as I can't help but feel my SR will plummet even further due to the nature of some of the corners inviting people to poke their nose into corners where an overtake just isn't on.
If people are overly aggressive over a period of laps, I will try and pressure them into an accident. I don't want to overtake them and then be a victim of an outlandish divebomb later in the lap lol.
I must man up and just jump into some races and whatever will be will be, but standards of some seem to have dropped sharply while I've been away
To be honest, it's been rough going since the penalties were relaxed (rightfully so) but there
are people out there who'll give you a clean race and if my little experiment in aggression is anything to go by, play it safe rather than expecting the same level of race craft back and you'll be fine.
If you want to race at Suzuka, do it. Don't put your love of a track below what could happen to your rank as rank's always recoverable. Waiting for Suzuka to come back to the weeklies might mean a long wait...
Dot the I's and cross the T's with your line at Suzuka as it's a bugger to pass plus with it being 10 laps, it's shouldn't be anywhere near as frantic as the sprints. If I don't do a lobby tonight, I'll be giving it a whirl. I'll just close my eyes at Degner 1.
"Aggressive" is such a nebulous description. "Dirty" is another somewhat nebulous term.
Dirty implies intent to do harm or to ruin your race. I think it's "dirty" when someone unnecessarily squeezes you off the track or when they weave excessively to prevent a pass, to the point of risking their own race to hinder you.
What is aggressive to one person is dirty to another. Then, of course, there is the "overly aggressive" and we've all seen those. That's when someone makes a move that can't happen without contact.
There's a time and place for all of these practices.
I've pulled out of the pits and had to content with a back-marker, on worn tires, on an in-lap, trying to keep me from passing. You'd better believe that's a tie to be overly aggressive or even dirty.
I play the game as I do any sport, you play the "whistle" which in our case is the penalty system. If the system allows it, no foul. It's up to you to decide if it's in your best interest or not.
To me, aggressive is trying a pass where you really shouldn't while dirty is deliberate contact or multiple moves to impede a driver. My experiment with aggression was to try and hang on to overlaps I'd already got and trying to force the issue. Watching the top guys and gals races, my overlap is good and usually successful. In
my races, it's who manages to come out of the corner unscathed.
I managed to complete most of the passes but usually at the expense of a penalty after they go for a big hit and crash themselves. Lesson learned.
The plan is to 'git gud' or at least, 'git gudder'...
See if I can get myself up to a supposedly better class of opponent and who'll hopefully throw less curve balls at me.
I've been playing on my jasonrowe account so if we've met on track, thanks for the clean and exciting racing.
... I'm talking about an impression I have ( and please allow me to leave it at that without going into details ) that more and more people have started to incorporate gaming tactics and weird track behavior into their racing just to be successful. And that's not me, simple as that.
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