"Daily" Race Discussion [Archive]

[Groundfish]

Wow. Tried race b. Of course, every time I try to use mr, it is always bad. I’m dumped mid chicane and t1 here comes Huracan. He gets a slight run and sticks in the nose on the first left lap 1.
I held it together as he bumped and ran off course trying to force himself inside, but then I was trying to get away so bad I ran wide at Degner, powerslid into Degner 2 where he doesn’t even swerve or slow and hits me again.
I fall from 9 to eleven. I’m hoppin mad. I was trying to push past the tenth place driver and catch the aggressive Huracan, and got inside nose to nose at spoon entry. Well, normally I never would get that aggressive, and we contacted and ran wide. I don’t think he even bothered to try and run side by side just turned right into me.
So, I looked up mr aggressive, he’s like 20 days in to “this” career and up to like 40k with all q times top 300 in region. Hmm I think it’s an alternate account to an experienced player.
I was gonna switch back to a more stable car and go lookin, but you know what?
That would only hurt me. I pulled to last after causing the incident at spoon, almost quit, and didn’t cross the finish line.
I will say this. I think running an mr car in a or b is suicide. One time I switch cars and this happens.
Tcs on maybe asm, heavy stable car...Until then I won’t go in country.
I haven’t raced much lately, but seriously, seems like maybe it’s getting a lot worse.
Others are saying it, now it happened to me.

 

[Pigems]

Wow. Tried race b. Of course, every time I try to use mr, it is always bad. I’m dumped mid chicane and t1 here comes Huracan. He gets a slight run and sticks in the nose on the first left lap 1.
I held it together as he bumped and ran off course trying to force himself inside, but then I was trying to get away so bad I ran wide at Degner, powerslid into Degner 2 where he doesn’t even swerve or slow and hits me again.
I fall from 9 to eleven. I’m hoppin mad. I was trying to push past the tenth place driver and catch the aggressive Huracan, and got inside nose to nose at spoon entry. Well, normally I never would get that aggressive, and we contacted and ran wide. I don’t think he even bothered to try and run side by side just turned right into me.
So, I looked up mr aggressive, he’s like 20 days in to “this” career and up to like 40k with all q times top 300 in region. Hmm I think it’s an alternate account to an experienced player.
I was gonna switch back to a more stable car and go lookin, but you know what?
That would only hurt me. I pulled to last after causing the incident at spoon, almost quit, and didn’t cross the finish line.
I will say this. I think running an mr car in a or b is suicide. One time I switch cars and this happens.
Tcs on maybe asm, heavy stable car...Until then I won’t go in country.
I haven’t raced much lately, but seriously, seems like maybe it’s getting a lot worse.
Others are saying it, now it happened to me.

I agree, the racing in Sport Mode seems to be deteriorating fairly quickly right now and it sucks, because it was really fun before. Hopefully something is done to fix it sooner rather than later.

 

[sturk0167]

Wow. Tried race b. Of course, every time I try to use mr, it is always bad. I’m dumped mid chicane and t1 here comes Huracan. He gets a slight run and sticks in the nose on the first left lap 1.
I held it together as he bumped and ran off course trying to force himself inside, but then I was trying to get away so bad I ran wide at Degner, powerslid into Degner 2 where he doesn’t even swerve or slow and hits me again.
I fall from 9 to eleven. I’m hoppin mad. I was trying to push past the tenth place driver and catch the aggressive Huracan, and got inside nose to nose at spoon entry. Well, normally I never would get that aggressive, and we contacted and ran wide. I don’t think he even bothered to try and run side by side just turned right into me.
So, I looked up mr aggressive, he’s like 20 days in to “this” career and up to like 40k with all q times top 300 in region. Hmm I think it’s an alternate account to an experienced player.
I was gonna switch back to a more stable car and go lookin, but you know what?
That would only hurt me. I pulled to last after causing the incident at spoon, almost quit, and didn’t cross the finish line.
I will say this. I think running an mr car in a or b is suicide. One time I switch cars and this happens.
Tcs on maybe asm, heavy stable car...Until then I won’t go in country.
I haven’t raced much lately, but seriously, seems like maybe it’s getting a lot worse.
Others are saying it, now it happened to me.

It was probably Pigems, on his 4th account.

 

[Pigems]

It was probably Pigems, on his 4th account.

Well who told y...I mean, nope, not me.

 

[Groundfish]

Sheesh that stinks. Back to 99 after 2 more, but had a guy spinning in the middle of spoon exit unghosted hit him, of course he straightens and goes and I’m playing with David Hasselhoff on the beach.
Last race I was doing well probably going to get up to sixth I think and a guy trying to run from me comes across track unghosted Degner 2 exit.
Lol he was cool, I told him no worries. It happens and that’s racing.
I didn’t see any black cats today so I dunno. I seem to be plagued. Either that or this A stuff is way too intense for me. I’m not gonna play punt to win.
That said last 2 races were good normal stuff. I saw the perp who irritated me, but he knocked another second off his qual and I couldn’t catch. He’s on the list!
Lol, I’m taking myself waaay too serious with these races right now.
It is fun. I just dunno if I wanna put my good account on the line when it seems no one else is.
Looks like maybe a new account for me will happen soon so I can chill. Down about 3000 dr from just idling and not crossing the line.
These people in these daily sprints...It’s a SPRINT! Lol all is good, thanks for the comments my friends.

 

[Tea_Leaves]

Wow. Tried race b.

I read this before racing on it again only to be purposely punted by a clown at Casino who had 12+ seconds worth of penalties at SR S no less (granted, this SR doesn't mean an awful lot). Not sure what happened with his cornflakes. He also quit right after doing so. I thought it was funny how this happened to me after reading your post.

 

[Groundfish]

I read this before racing on it again only to be purposely punted by a clown at Casino who had 12+ seconds worth of penalties at SR S no less (granted, this SR doesn't mean an awful lot). Not sure what happened with his cornflakes. He also quit right after doing so. I thought it was funny how this happened to me after reading your post.

Yeah, be careful out there!
My message to the player who made my list of course was unanswered. I dunno, to me it’s not a death match.
I mean I get it right. In order to gain dr you only need equal sr to the letter. I mean if my life depended on dr gain, I’d punt anyone who slowed me, or almost anyone I thought I could. I get that the game setup is what it is. I think they should change it to where maybe at a certain point no dr can be gained if a penalty is incurred or something. Maybe say at mid b you have to maintain 90 plus sr or there will be no dr gain.
People play too much for dr right now I think. Maybe it’s something to do with fiat coming up, I dunno.
Seems to me if I wanna race that it’s c race or fia and that’s it. It’s too easy to just get close to a person and bump em. Maybe correlate sr down to minus dr points or something.
Seems right now it pays to be dirty. I think @Voodoovaj was right again.
I think that trying to fix the pen system might just be too difficult, but they could link the dr score to sr more directly which might eliminate the motivation for this behavior.
I think people that play dirty are trying to amass dr as much as possible. If being dirty took away dr directly, you might see a different sport mode. Instead of a meaningless orange sr down, make it orange and red sr dr down. Make it hurt too, not like 20 points, maybe 150-200 min per hit. Penalty? more...Make sr a minimum requirement for dr gain above a certain point. I dunno just thinking out loud...
I will say undoubtedly, when I began the game to now, the racing is dirtier now in dailies...a lot dirtier.
So that means either use alt account or don’t race pretty much unless it’s a c race. It’s taken me so many hours to get this account where I am now at...If I cant trust sr99 dailies, then I won’t race em. Also truly, if that was you (anyone reading)at spoon entry side by side, I’m sorry it was an out of body anger experience the likes of which are quite rare for me, you had nothing to do with the car ahead, and I fell to dead last as you saw.
If that wasn’t you...Welcome to sport mode! Lol
Cheers

 

[O604]

[QUOTE="Groundfish, post: 12670492, member: 300050" David Hasselhoff[/QUOTE]

Which one?

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[CrimsonKing]

Autopolis is such a nice track. Pleasantly surprised by the great races I've had so far. Somehow it reminds me of Brno wich is a track I love.

 

[GT5Power]

@Groundfish That's actually a very good idea. You gave me another one: Instead of complicating DR by making it subject to change during races, they could just hardcode it so that you only gain DR if you finish with a blue or white SR (you can always lose DR regardless of what happened to your SR in the race). For example, let's say I win a race and am to gain 1000 DR. If I have a red S, then this DR gain is negated and my rating remains unchanged. If I finish with a blue S, I bag my 1000 DR. I think this would deal with people punting everyone out of the way to win.

If that's too harsh, they could introduce a system where each SR point you lose takes X% away from your intended DR gain. In my example, if my SR drops by 1 during the race, I get, say, 900 DR instead of 1000.

 

[sdi_03]

@Groundfish That's actually a very good idea. You gave me another one: Instead of complicating DR by making it subject to change during races, they could just hardcode it so that you only gain DR if you finish with a blue or white SR (you can always lose DR regardless of what happened to your SR in the race). For example, let's say I win a race and am to gain 1000 DR. If I have a red S, then this DR gain is negated and my rating remains unchanged. If I finish with a blue S, I bag my 1000 DR. I think this would deal with people punting everyone out of the way to win.

If that's too harsh, they could introduce a system where each SR point you lose takes X% away from your intended DR gain. In my example, if my SR drops by 1 during the race, I get, say, 900 DR instead of 1000.

Only down side to this, would be the bump draft players. If someone bumps you, you'll lose SR and in this case DR also.
Some of the players are kids, its not possible to get these (or some adults) play nice without severe penalties.
Problem is, that PD will lose players, if there is too much difficulty in races.

Full damage to C race, bigger penalties to B and A with current system. Not sure if its possible to alter the races this way.

Race C that I had last night, was super clean. I was driving against S, A+, A and B players. Started 5th on the grid and finished 4th.
I got the 4th place when Spread_Nuts drove his tyres to the death, he still could keep in hitting distance from my rear bumper.
3lap we drove in that train, not a single contact. Really opened my eyes, that racing in sport mode can be fun and clean.
All the 14 players that is seen on the pic I posted, has blue S. Just hope that it would be like this always

 

[Lion-Face]

I'm live on Twitch - Watch me at twitch.tv/lionface74

Some semi competent Daily race c driving for a bit. Mic quality still the same, improvements coming in the future

 

[Scuderia Paul]

Some people say you shouldn’t sit so close to a big tv. To each his or her own.

My mum used to tell me not to

Never did me any harm

I remember seeing a couple of years back on a tech show that the recommended viewing distance is '1.5 x Screen Size'. Mine is pretty much bang on that actually.

 

[gtpierre]

So I did 4 race B yesterday evening, and I finally reached SR.S.

First race was OK, a bit of pushing, I was SR.82 at the end of this almost clean race.

Next race was a gigantic cluster****, my SR dropped to 60 something, I passed like 7 people in the first 3 turns (you can imagine the mess), and then I got pushed out. Same happened late at the chicane and later in the spoon. By the end of the 2nd lap, the sign 150, 100, 50 were not anymore up at the chicane.

I wanted to stop, but I decided for another race. I was qualified 11th i think, and before the start, all cars from the 9th to the last stopped in the chicane for 4-5s (weird bug?). So the pack was split in two groups, the good thing is that the second group (9th-15th) was driving homogeneously, clean and well, and we caught up with the last of the first group at lap 2. I gained few positions and my SR went back up.

The last race was pretty cool, I qualified 4th, ended up 1st without having to pass anyone, as they all did a little mistake in the first or second lap. Clean victory. DR went to14644 and SR to 81.

Interestingly, the dirtiest messy race of the evening was my first ever SR.S race.

 

[AK84LFC]

I hate those "auto spins" I can run over the same rumble strip 9/10 laps but on that one lap the game will decide my car should be pointing in the other direction and spin me around. So frustrating. Happens to me alot at 130R and the exit of the 90 degree right after the degner.

 

[GT5Power]

Only down side to this, would be the bump draft players. If someone bumps you, you'll lose SR and in this case DR also.
Some of the players are kids, its not possible to get these (or some adults) play nice without severe penalties.
Problem is, that PD will lose players, if there is too much difficulty in races.

Full damage to C race, bigger penalties to B and A with current system. Not sure if its possible to alter the races this way.

Race C that I had last night, was super clean. I was driving against S, A+, A and B players. Started 5th on the grid and finished 4th.
I got the 4th place when Spread_Nuts drove his tyres to the death, he still could keep in hitting distance from my rear bumper.
3lap we drove in that train, not a single contact. Really opened my eyes, that racing in sport mode can be fun and clean.
All the 14 players that is seen on the pic I posted, has blue S. Just hope that it would be like this always

Thanks for pointing that out. Bump drafting should indeed be fixed before any modifications are made to the SR system. Maybe they can write special “bump draft detection” code; repeated light contact at increasing speeds is most definitely bump drafting. Alternatively, stop giving out penalties for the slightest bit of contact. An inconsequential tap shouldn’t warrant SR Down. If light contact is not a problem anymore, bump drafting probably want be either.

 

[Suntek]

Yeah, be careful out there!
My message to the player who made my list of course was unanswered. I dunno, to me it’s not a death match.
I mean I get it right. In order to gain dr you only need equal sr to the letter. I mean if my life depended on dr gain, I’d punt anyone who slowed me, or almost anyone I thought I could. I get that the game setup is what it is. I think they should change it to where maybe at a certain point no dr can be gained if a penalty is incurred or something. Maybe say at mid b you have to maintain 90 plus sr or there will be no dr gain.
People play too much for dr right now I think. Maybe it’s something to do with fiat coming up, I dunno.
Seems to me if I wanna race that it’s c race or fia and that’s it. It’s too easy to just get close to a person and bump em. Maybe correlate sr down to minus dr points or something.
Seems right now it pays to be dirty. I think @Voodoovaj was right again.
I think that trying to fix the pen system might just be too difficult, but they could link the dr score to sr more directly which might eliminate the motivation for this behavior.
I think people that play dirty are trying to amass dr as much as possible. If being dirty took away dr directly, you might see a different sport mode. Instead of a meaningless orange sr down, make it orange and red sr dr down. Make it hurt too, not like 20 points, maybe 150-200 min per hit. Penalty? more...Make sr a minimum requirement for dr gain above a certain point. I dunno just thinking out loud...
I will say undoubtedly, when I began the game to now, the racing is dirtier now in dailies...a lot dirtier.
So that means either use alt account or don’t race pretty much unless it’s a c race. It’s taken me so many hours to get this account where I am now at...If I cant trust sr99 dailies, then I won’t race em. Also truly, if that was you (anyone reading)at spoon entry side by side, I’m sorry it was an out of body anger experience the likes of which are quite rare for me, you had nothing to do with the car ahead, and I fell to dead last as you saw.
If that wasn’t you...Welcome to sport mode! Lol
Cheers

There's a reason why I haven't played on my EU account for months.. Bar the top of the crop races, dailies are usually a massacre led by people with good racing times who just don't care about clean racing because, why, they know they'll get away with it.

I find asia to be a bit better.

 

[I_Leak_Oil]

I remember seeing a couple of years back on a tech show that the recommended viewing distance is '1.5 x Screen Size'. Mine is pretty much bang on that actually.

I guess it’s quite subjective, VR certainly isn’t that.

I might measure it tonight but I can reach out and touch my 26” screen from my seated position. It feels ok and immersion is great for such a small screen, wish it was 4K though

 

[drummingcat]

That’s always fun too eh!! Guy decides to jump back on with incoming traffic lol. Oh well, it is what it I guess, at least we’ve got something to play and kill time with.

On the plus side I ended up beating my Supra time by 3 tenths after that, so thanks to that guy for being a Richard and convincing me not to do any more races tonight.

Your consistency is brilliant. Nice lap.

 

[Tea_Leaves]

Maybe say at mid b you have to maintain 90 plus sr or there will be no dr gain.
People play too much for dr right now I think.

Part of the problem is that it's not very hard to regain SR which encourages dirty driving. The idiot that punted me was likely sent back to SR A but since it's not a tall order to get back to SR S, he'll likely end up doing it again. I agree DR and SR should influence each other more. Maybe you should be limited to gaining 25% of the DR points you would normally obtain if you end up having negative SR after a race. At least that might be an incentive for more cleaner driving.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

@Groundfish That's actually a very good idea. You gave me another one: Instead of complicating DR by making it subject to change during races, they could just hardcode it so that you only gain DR if you finish with a blue or white SR (you can always lose DR regardless of what happened to your SR in the race). For example, let's say I win a race and am to gain 1000 DR. If I have a red S, then this DR gain is negated and my rating remains unchanged. If I finish with a blue S, I bag my 1000 DR. I think this would deal with people punting everyone out of the way to win.

If that's too harsh, they could introduce a system where each SR point you lose takes X% away from your intended DR gain. In my example, if my SR drops by 1 during the race, I get, say, 900 DR instead of 1000.

A lot of people only care about winning. DR and SR are not a measure worth pursuing for them. In fact lower DR and SR makes winning easier.

Either SR needs to get harder to obtain with for example multiple clean races required to advance up a level or introduce resets for collisions so it will be impossible to win by driving dirty. Instead of a minor penalty for bumping someone off, reset back to before the corner.

Both ideas are flawed of course. It's easy to get a clean race bonus with an easy pole to flag race, which is how the win at all cost, ram people out of the way crowd keeps re-entering SR.S in the first place. For the second, anything you do to make contact more harsh will punish the victim as much as the aggressor due to how simple the penalty system is.

However the odds are stacked in favor of dirty driving. There's a good chance you get away with it and all you risk is a minor penalty and easier races to look forward to. If the risk is getting reset with a standard 3 strikes DQ then perhaps people might take more care. The get bumped from behind SR Down or penalty needs to get fixed first though.

 

[CurbHog]

I don't know what it is but I'm really not feeling Suzuka any more. It used to be one of my favorites as I have been driving it a lot in F1, but some people have said it is slippery and I feel some of that. The Huracan feels heavy and the only car I could get a decent time out of was the BMW. I clocked in at 2:11.013 on the best lap.
The C race on the new track is not something I like either, the track has too many turns to be fun and I can only imagine the bump fest during a race.
The GR2's are hard to drive when just touching the curb on the throttle throws you off ..
Enough complaining, I'm looking forward to next weeks races as I think I saw someone posting that interlagos will be featured.

Stay thirsty .... Ch

 

[lewis f1fan]

definitely, just do a few laps with your favorite car and play around and you will notice a difference. I generally run the 911 Gr3 with -2 or -3 on most tracks.

Thank yo

 

[Rexracer702]

Raced at Suzuka last night. Did a few laps in the Lambo, and dropped into the 10's (finally), so I decided to enter. Started 4th. Took 3rd coming out of Degner #2 and into the hairpin, as 3rd got sideways a bit and lost his drive. He tried to pinch me off, but I had the inside, and about 10 mph on him, so he really didn't have anything to work with. I had over 1 second on him coming out of spoon. Spent the rest of the race watching the gaps and trying to make time on 2nd place. I got back 2.5 out of 3.5 seconds that he had on me by the end. Ran a 12 flat, and a couple of 11.7's, so I'm pretty happy with the race. 6 seconds down on the winner in a 4c with his fastest lap at a 10.2.

I'll probably run a long stint this weekend in the 4c looking to set a good time. I just need to get smooth. I remember last time with this combo...I really had to push and hit every apex to get into the 09's. I'm sloppy so far this week.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Apparently you only need a 1.12 to be competitive on Suzuka for DRB SRB. The game placed me at third place with the lead cars qualifying at 1.10 and 1.11 respectively. I thought it was going to be a runaway 1st and 2nd with me being the gatekeeper at 3rd but the 1st and 2nd place drivers could not string together 2 clean laps consistently. Meanwhile I just keep throwing down clean 1.12s from the second lap onward.

Surprisingly both drivers would have issues with the Dengar curve scrubbing into the gravel a few times there. As I would pass each lead driver they would completely self destruct and try to hammer their way back to the front by dive bombing and shoving other cars from the inside, making their laps even worse. At no point was either car more than 3 seconds behind me, which they could have easily made back in 2 to 3 laps. One driver ate the wall twice at the Casio triangle trying to dive on people, he was DQ's and dropped. After a third wipeout on Dengar the other car disconnected and I was free to collect the win with an unchallenged last lap.

I'm definitely not fast but at least I can keep my tires clean for a whole race.

 

[GT5Power]

A lot of people only care about winning. DR and SR are not a measure worth pursuing for them. In fact lower DR and SR makes winning easier.

Either SR needs to get harder to obtain with for example multiple clean races required to advance up a level or introduce resets for collisions so it will be impossible to win by driving dirty. Instead of a minor penalty for bumping someone off, reset back to before the corner.

Both ideas are flawed of course. It's easy to get a clean race bonus with an easy pole to flag race, which is how the win at all cost, ram people out of the way crowd keeps re-entering SR.S in the first place. For the second, anything you do to make contact more harsh will punish the victim as much as the aggressor due to how simple the penalty system is.

However the odds are stacked in favor of dirty driving. There's a good chance you get away with it and all you risk is a minor penalty and easier races to look forward to. If the risk is getting reset with a standard 3 strikes DQ then perhaps people might take more care. The get bumped from behind SR Down or penalty needs to get fixed first though.

Well, there's never been a rating system that dealt with people who tanked their ratings on purpose to win easily. So, PD might as well do something about those who progress illegitimately. Maybe a DQ could bring with it a temporary ban, like an hour. This could still be overkill though, not to mention unfair penalties leading to unfair DQs... Or they can force dirty players to start last with a time handicap in top split races It's a vicious circle and I don't know if we're better off the way it is right now...

 

[Dorofint]

Yeah, be careful out there!
My message to the player who made my list of course was unanswered. I dunno, to me it’s not a death match.
I mean I get it right. In order to gain dr you only need equal sr to the letter. I mean if my life depended on dr gain, I’d punt anyone who slowed me, or almost anyone I thought I could. I get that the game setup is what it is. I think they should change it to where maybe at a certain point no dr can be gained if a penalty is incurred or something. Maybe say at mid b you have to maintain 90 plus sr or there will be no dr gain.
People play too much for dr right now I think. Maybe it’s something to do with fiat coming up, I dunno.
Seems to me if I wanna race that it’s c race or fia and that’s it. It’s too easy to just get close to a person and bump em. Maybe correlate sr down to minus dr points or something.
Seems right now it pays to be dirty. I think @Voodoovaj was right again.
I think that trying to fix the pen system might just be too difficult, but they could link the dr score to sr more directly which might eliminate the motivation for this behavior.
I think people that play dirty are trying to amass dr as much as possible. If being dirty took away dr directly, you might see a different sport mode. Instead of a meaningless orange sr down, make it orange and red sr dr down. Make it hurt too, not like 20 points, maybe 150-200 min per hit. Penalty? more...Make sr a minimum requirement for dr gain above a certain point. I dunno just thinking out loud...
I will say undoubtedly, when I began the game to now, the racing is dirtier now in dailies...a lot dirtier.
So that means either use alt account or don’t race pretty much unless it’s a c race. It’s taken me so many hours to get this account where I am now at...If I cant trust sr99 dailies, then I won’t race em. Also truly, if that was you (anyone reading)at spoon entry side by side, I’m sorry it was an out of body anger experience the likes of which are quite rare for me, you had nothing to do with the car ahead, and I fell to dead last as you saw.
If that wasn’t you...Welcome to sport mode! Lol
Cheers

I think that's a very good idea. You are absolutely right, the races are getting dirtier and the behavior of many drivers more and more aggressive. I predicted that months ago because the system rewards such a behavior. But nothing has been improved in the system over the months. The developers just do not care about the penalty system. That's why I find DR grading basically good if the SR drops. Such a thing would be easy to realize. The problem is still the unjustified SR deductions then even DR cost. I had such a case yesterday. I have been divebombed by a completely over-mated driver. Even after he was in front of me, he has constantly gone over all limits. He was constantly on the verge of a crash. He was always in the grass with one or two wheels. As a result, he caused false SR deductions and time penalties for the drivers around him. Once he was only able to prevent his spin by leaning on me. I've got another 2 seconds for that, I do not even think he did that on purpose. I think he did not know the trick to give other time penalties. He drove just so over all limits and has triggered this. If you look at him, he probably thinks he did everything right. He won places in the race and other drivers were punished. The game gives him no indication in this case that his behavior is wrong. And so it happens with many drivers. It's no wonder that the races are getting more and more aggressive. Riders who are over-motivated and have no racecraft will be rewarded in their behavior of the game yet. Here is the fundamental mistake in the system. The developers just do not seem to want to get that. It makes no sense in the viedeos to demand a driving behavior and then reward in the game exactly the opposite. But this contradiction does not seem to bother anyone. Your idea is basically very good but it will fail like so much else on the faulty penalty system. We have had a very similar discussion about real damage a few month ago. Basically, real damage would also penalize many aggressive drivers. But even there the fundamental errors in the system would make the whole pointless.

 

[Tea_Leaves]

I decided to race at Autopolis again using the Xanavi with a P16 starting grid without qualifying. Boy, was it a bloodthirsty race.

T1 somehow ended up being fine with no punts or people driving off but this was the calm before the storm. At T11, 5 - 6 cars ended up flying off with me and my poor Xanavi being lost and confused, just barely managed to escape the carnage.

Now along to T14 approaching T15, I was punted and hit P10 off but somehow managed to stay on the track. I felt bad but I kind of had no control over this. I noticed a collision with P8 and P7 where P8 seem to be out of for blood and purposely knocked off P7 at T18. I tried to stay behind him but noticed he was zig-zagging along where he seemed to half lose control at T1. I kind of had no choice but to pass him since I had several drivers behind.

He didn't like this so he ended up throwing himself into me at T5 where we both went off the track. Later, he span out at T10 right before the hairpin. I was in traffic leading up to the end of L5 where I decided to pit since given the nature of the race so far, it was a lot safer to stay out of traffic. I went up to P8 with a 6 second lead since most pitted on L6 and it wasn't bad from there on out. The early pit was the saving grace, I guess. I finished P7 and 7 people DNF which is probably the most I've seen so far in this race. Not sure if I should try racing it again.

 

[RZQSPEED]

Race C qualifying time for me now dropped to a 1:35.0xx

 

[Groundfish]

I have to go back in time to the games release.
The system was quite good except that you could get punted under braking then penalized. Fix that.
To me link dr to sr more directly. Make any contact from car behind the car behinds fault.
At least make it strict again.
I’ll be on alt account going forward. Oh yeah limit qual laps per player to 10 for the week.