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On the first point, panic braking at that point on Pouhon would eventually send me spinning in this car. I figured they were both going to end up side by side, not the undercut, since I did it in the previous race (see video below). I was already going slower than usual and by the time he cut across I was committed. Still my fault, not making excuses, but the only other option would have been to not attack at all.
Not sure if sarcasm or not. If you've been watching my other videos you would know this is highly uncharacteristic of my style. I've maintained an SR99 since I started except for the occasional night where the penalty system faults me for something I didn't do. But after participating in half a dozen races that end like the link above, you get tired of it and start racing right to the edge of what's acceptable. There are a few drivers at the front of this daily race that respect each other and we all race clean...but then there are a few that start hitting you and it goes south real fast.
I had 3/4 overlap before we passed the braking cone marker, I was 3/4 past him before the apex, and I had speed adjusted to give him room on exit before his nose turned into my my rear bumper. Aggressive? Yes. Assassination? No. I honestly think it it was an ill-timed crossover based on how hard he turned in.
You decided to stick your nose up alongside another car (after tapping it first) approaching a fast, dangerous corner, then utterly failed to take any kind of care about running side-by-side through that corner (like, by taking a shallower line) and smashed him off the outside of the road. And gave him a penalty for it, judging by how he falls down the order approaching Les Combes.
Uhh no, he didn't get a penalty for it. It doesn't look like I didn't take care because his nose unsettled my car and I had to correct for it. He could have run along side me...and if I don't go for a move when I have overlap and the inside line, I might as well not race at all.
Smashing other people out of the way isn't racing to start with.
Are you sure? You can't see penalties in your mirrors, only if you look back, and once you "passed" (also crowded off the track) the green car we can't see a split any more. He already had a 1s penalty, but fell off on the Kemmel Straight even further (given the same 1s penalty to the drivers in front of you didn't make so much difference), and eventually finished tenth...
I don't need it to know someone's beside me. If they aren't in front of me, they aren't behind me, they are beside me and I will leave 1+ car widths from the racing line from entry until exit. This can be seen in my other videos where I end up battling for an extra corner or two because I don't cross over until I know for sure the other driver is behind me. The radar is for people still driving on the roof of their car.
100% correct, and if you want that kind of racing you'll never get it in this game or from this company. Go to iRacing if that's the experience you are after. As long as PD has a ****** penalty and rating system, drivers are going to have to pick a race here and there that they play catch up with the misdeeds of the system. If drivers gets punted and lose multiple positions every other race, they're going to take greater risks with passing to make those spots up the next chance they get.
Great rule, if everyone adhered to it. In all my years of playing this game and getting punted and side swiped several times a night, I've only seen drivers do this at most a handful of times. If I recognize the driver name from previous races, I'll wait, but most of the time I just keep driving and see if they get back to my bumper and when/if they do, I lift mid-way down the next straight and let them go by. What really sucks is when you yield to them and they insist on ramming you anyway.
It's sticky at the top of the page.
Yeah, me too. I've already got the corkscrew figured out for that car. 👍
Ignoring the deliberate 'revenge' punt in Pouhon, you drove into the side of other cars as if they weren't there three times in that video. You did it right from the start, which you said you "misjudged" where the car was. The radar would have stopped that.
The radar is for people who don't seem to realise that there are cars alongside and keep driving into them as if they aren't. Like you did three times in that three-lap video (and on a previous video at Alsace in the 208s, also right at the start of the race).
Got it, thanks alot!
