Blue Moon hated me today, I usuelly excel on ovals, purely because there's less corners = less chance of failure
one thing that bugs me is that oval racing needs a totally different mindset from circuit racing, you actually need to wait behind cars a lot more rather than just throw yourself up the inside. slipstream is everything in setting up a pass, but that will only get you so far and you need to work to actually get the pass, here's a rant I had earlier;
one race I was pole so defended very hard holding as far left as I could on the straights, one clever *beep* decided he would get my slipstream out of T1 which is fair enough, then while I'm sat in lane 1 hard on the left, he decides he's going to go off track to make the pass, we get to turn two and I am not moving, I'm on the track and have my nose ahead, my racing line, he should really have backed off, sat behind me and tried to chuck one up the inside to T3, instead he decides to scandi flick into me and wipe me out because I wouldn't move over for him. I do a 360, gain god only knows how much penalty and he carries on scott free. to add insult after the race he calls me out and reports me!
Now fair enough my defending has been aggressive, but I have never once purposefully moved into a dangerous position or divebombed/pushed/rammed. if I'm infront I will use all the track but I don't weave around, I come off the corner and slowly move as far left as I can and hold my line there. just coz you are in my slipstream and gain a few mph on me does NOT give you the right to act like a total *beep* and think you can force me off the road, your task is to get round me in a clean and safe manner and if you can't do it back off and try again.
/rant
I'm no angel, but if you are on track and find yourself ahead of me/blocking my line, I will give you space. If your being an idiot I'll squeeze you and force an error but I would never ever ram someone because I feel entitled.
other than that I have nice and clean race.
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