I didnt expect it to work either, but it seems to work. You do become dog slow with all the brake checking, so it only works if you are already higher in the order. But hey - if you cant beat them, join them.
“An eye for an eye, and the whole world will be blind”
You either can except that taking the higher ground and being
the that person doesn’t always give you the results you deserve, you become that person people say hello to and will race you fairly.
Or you can be part of the problem teaching the people behind you what erratic driving looks like, that is very similar to the way a certain meme driver causes his havoc….
The SR system is too simplistic I agree, that said I have quite a few videos uploaded in DR B and A lobbies where nobody loses SR as everyone was fair and mature, I also have a few examples of clumsy, rubbish or malicious driving.
I very very rarely get messages about my driving, and even this week a VR streamer called out my “bad driving” only to watch the replay and see he was wrong and I was indicating and apologise. So you really have to factor in how we things were and what actually happened may differ.
For example ignoring the brake checking which is really not cool.
Imagine a scenario where you are gonna take the defensive tight line but you wait really late to do this, the car behind could see this as a block, you’ve also reduced the decision making of braking distances and proximity in to a much smaller window than showing your intentions early. It’s this sort of racecraft thinking that is missing for a lot of people.
The more time and visibility you give to the person behind the less likely you going to get in to these situations where the margins for distance and reaction time are too small.
One last thing I will say is that you can’t really mock the sportsmanship thing if you do things that are unsporting yourself regardless of reason. There is a bit of irony and hypocrisy there
