Race C was an absolute catastrophe. Because the car is so slow many riders try to overtake in the first turn. In the first 4 laps I was rammed there each time off the track. Later it was better. But in the last two rounds I was divebombed there again. In both cases, the riders were way behind me and had no realistic chance of a clean maneuver. I suspect these drivers have made the collision quite conscious. Without me as a brake block, these drivers would probably have flown to Tokyo with their braking point. But in both cases it worked for them. I have lost a lot of time and got time penalties of 2 and 4 seconds while they have slipped a bit over the tracklimit but otherwise hardly lost time. I guess even they gained time because they slowed down so late. Of course there is also the place they have won.
In Fuji you can thus divebomb other drivers in T1 without a penalty as long as you then briefly leave the track. Especially with the slow car this week, you can realize something quite easy. This idiotic rule that says that the one who leaves the track after a collision is automatically the victim and the other is automatically the offender must finally be changed. T1 in Fuji is the best evidence that this rule is nonsense and deliberately exploited by some drivers.
Don't forget it doesn't matter if the off-track / wall collision happens before or after contact
Last week I had a race where someone cut the esses on Bathurst, normally a 7 sec penalty and hit me when getting back on the actual track. His overtake was successful, no shortcut penalty for him, 3 sec penalty for me.
If you get hit you have to go off track yourself to avoid a penalty.
I won't be racing much if at all this week. Fuji is at the bottom of my list for racing online, as well as N200. I prefer longer circuits so average circuits cut in half are even worse. Plus N100 only invites more contact. It seems the slower the cars the more people make contact. Suzuka is a decent track, just not as a sprint race.
Astro bot until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out! Perhaps I'll drive Mount Panorama in VR a couple times to reminisce all the great races of last week. I completed a ridiculous amount of races at Bathurst last week and it's now by far my most raced track, also thanks to it being a weekly race C twice already.
My top 5 tracks
1. Mount Panorama, 556 races, 13 wins, 247 top 5, 3981 total laps
2. N24 + Nordschleife, 461 races (184+277), 73 wins (11+62), 307 top 5, 590 total laps
3. Brand's hatch, 421 races, 23 wins, 247 top 5, 2879 total laps
4. Monza + no chicane, 322 races, 70 wins, 235 top 5, 2072 total laps
5. Suzuka, 305 races, 19 wins, 99 top 5, 1793 total laps
Suzuka is on a lot or it wouldn't be in my top 5. I wish Big Willow would be on more often, GR.1 racing is a lot of fun on that track, as well as GR.2, GR.3 and I even enjoy it with Nxxx on sports tires. The fear of going off track keeps the amount of contact down.
. I did 4 races last night, mostly in an attempt to claw back SR for better race matching. I found that the lower down the SR scale you fall, if you are low DR like me, the crappier the match ups are. 
. I started off ok, but then people from behind got pushy and I ended up dropping back to P8 with one orange SR. SR went up 1, DR dropped nearly 400. Not the best start for the week 
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. I had cars ghost and then un-ghost in front of me which gave me an orange SR with time penalty. Between that and getting rear ended a few times left me finishing P7 with a red rating. It was not a pretty race. I did find that the Evo handled the same in qualy as it did in the race, which was a nice surprise. The hair pin was reasonably easy, the back end just steers around when you give it the boot part way round. Usually most other cars would under steer onto the grass. I found the same thing with Forrest Elbow. 
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. I came across a familiar name, and I was pretty sure it was familiar because they had been on bad behaviour before. Sure enough I was pushed aside when I slowed to not hit the car in front 
. Finished P13. Lost 320 DR and gained a whole 6 SR. Back to SR/S. 
