Not sure if anyone else is getting these I am B/S rated and at Inter Lagos if I slightly tap the bumper of an opponent even though it has no effect except maybe give them a little extra speed down the straight I get a 10 second penalty and my race is rendered pointless leaving me to stop and let the penalty count down, or just leave at a cost of 20 SR points.
Is this the new improved penalty system?
Race ruined on Lap 1 and still no way of leaving a race without a SR lose, mean while several times I have been knocked or eased of on turn 1 and 4 and when I look the other drivers penalty free....
I thought the size of penalties was being reduced, this seems worse than before?
I thought it was just my bad luck, yet out of the 18 races I ran on Nordschleife yesterday (sitting at home with a bad back) nearly half of them I ran with a 10 sec penalty on the clock, either from accidents or an inexperienced early braker suddenly braking outside braking zone. (the biggest risk when you don't qualify).
Clipping a car spinning out, they were already a lost cause or sometimes when they hit me they recovered while I went of f track 10 sec regardless.
Bumping the car in front that hit the car in front of them, no effect on positions or going off track, 10 sec regardless.
Bumping the early braker, no effect except putting them back at the correct speed for the section, 10 sec regardless.
Only in one case I had such an inexperienced driver in front of me that I inadvertently ended up bumping him off track. It was like he had never driven the track before braking and swerving all over the place, perhaps he was drunk.
I never got a red rating for any race though and the 10 sec was usually reduced to 5 sec or less by racing normally. That didn't used to happen. A lot of people were ghosting in and out inviting more risky "try to drive through ghost" behavior.
Meanwhile bumping people off the track sideways nearly always went penalty free. Small bumps from behind, 6 times in a row until the car behind finally managed to get me to go wide, no penalty. Putting a nose against my inside rear bumper and simply run me off in the corner, no penalty.
The update really is for the dirty drivers and carefully driving behind cars waiting for an opportunity to pass safely is the dangerous thing to do. Poke a nose on their side, run them off and you're golden. Being the unwilling third party in a bump is the way to get a 10 sec penalty. I'm guessing since the first bump doesn't register, the car that did the initial bump isn't flagged as having caused an accident. Which means that if you now bump that car due to his unexpected excessive sudden slowdown, you are seen as trying to punt them in the braking zone, 10 sec. The car messing up his braking goes free and gets his speed back from the car behind, the car in front of him is pushed wide, the car behind him gets 10 sec. That was my experience on Nordschleife yesterday.
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. That was enough for penalties, and that was nearly every lap. If I slowed enough to actually make it, I got knocked by other drivers into that zone, and *still* get the penalty 
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still I now need one pole and one victory for the trophies 
