Did 3 races on Daytona. I like how close it is, and I like it that it's the slower group 4 cars this time. There is more margin for error, and the field is ridiculously close together (at least for a long portion of the race), even in lower DR B lobbies.
That being said. The way to overtake is push to pass apparently. In all 3 races I lost places in the first lap due to people barging their way through. In the first race I got pushed on the grass in the infield and had to recover from the back. Finished P12 after a nice fight with P11.
In the second race I was doing okay. In lap 4 I was P9, entering turn 1. The car in front pushed another car off the track. That person responded by a retaliation punt in the next braking zone, but hit me instead of him sigh. Again I had to go from the back, this time with severe damage. The guy punting me was 5 seconds behind me, and quit after a few laps. I was 12 seconds behind the pack (which was P1 all the way to P12 within 6 seconds of each other). So dull I had to drive all those laps completely by myself, instead of having fun within the pack of racers.
In the third race someone again pushed me off, and again the perpetrator just drove on. After the pitstops I was again right behind him and I couldn't resist pushing him wide in turn 5. I am not proud of this, but I just had it with all this clumsy driving. It's okay if you bump me around, but just wait up when it happens. Now it just seems that everybody wants to get the highest finishing position possible, at all costs. I saw this behavior again at the finish line. I was in a nice battle for P7, I was P9 and bumpdrafted P8. He could overtake P7 and I could follow, maybe even overtake them both, only for P7 to cut short over the grass and finished in front of us without getting any track limit penalties.
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