You extract only the parts that suits you.
I only extract the parts that are actually relevant to the application currently under discussion
DTG last corner obviously doesnt have straight section between two turns
Driver2 uses the situation, shortens the corner radius (goes slower) and eventhough he has no chance of overtaking driver1 in the corner
This was a comment that had been bugging me and had not been addressed.
Under no racing rules THAT I AM AWARE OF ANYWHERE does whether driver 2 actually completes the overtake or not weigh into whether or not he has the right to occupy an open racing line through a sector of the track.
As long as he maintains his position within his, in this case inner line and leaves open at minimum a full car width of unobstructed open racing line which in this case would be leave open the outside racing line to driver 1 then he has met the obligations he needed to meet to have made a legal racing move in this situation.
It could be said that driver 1 while maintaining an unfamiliar line on the circuit to his normal racing line in that section could have resulted in driver 1 making a mistake that would indeed have cost him the position.
That scenario we will never know because driver 1 did not maintain his outer line available on the track and turned into and hit driver 2 who did maintain within his inner racing line leaving the outer line available as he should for driver 2.
Any way you look at this the results still come back to driver 1 did not maintain his racing line period and turned down into the inside line which was already occupied by driver 2.
The following is a diagram of the Dragon Trail Garden track map. Although the straight section between the two corners in the discussion is actually very short it is still a straight section none the less.
I do not see how by the track map you can actually even remotely and by the farthest stretch of the imagination consider this section of track a continuing radius corner.
Now just for fun and to add even more to the controversy the following is a diagram of the Nascar Bristol Oval Track.
Now notice how this track has its corners numbered 1-4.
Now that there is no distinctive straight between the corners and for the most part the track maintains a constant radius between turn 1 and 2 and turn 3 and 4.
Does that mean that another car does not have a right to overtake a lead car using an unoccupied lane except before turn 1 or turn 3 because the lead car may be planning on changing lanes at some point before the next corner?
The current discussion seems to indicate this is the direction or opinion that some seem to exhibit even as ludicrous as that idea may be in reality.
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