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It's not as it seems. The Beetle is underpowered, I got a run onto the the esses and judged it about right to make a straight-forward pass up the inside in the 2nd best passing spot on the track. I got almost too good a run but if I lift I lose momentum so had to make it work around the outside of the final turn before the braking zone. I leave plenty of room but he gets a bit of a wobble and tags me, from there I keep my wheel straight but seems i was not aimed square so possibly drifted a mm to the left (it is hard to tell but playing devil's advocate).Very respectful racing all round. Honestly it looks and probably was you trying to take the widest line and they were there. In the moment in the busy phase it all gets complicated.
Nobody did anything malicious or wrong.
I just don’t think that was the place to try anything, it makes it slow and complex/messy. You were much faster and there are more definitive passing places.
Just my 2p/2c
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Watching back a bit slower and considered it looks like you kept trying to get the wider line and rear ended someone.
I think this is one of the prime examples of visual drift and honestly a symptom of why we all feel race craft is poor because decision making isn’t good. Side by side in the fastest part of the track? While the front pack drives away?
The cars in front are all bunched, so are going to have to brake earlier. This is not a sign of weakness or opportunity….its just how the race is playing out.
Not at you Neville but man this is most of the problem is that there is zero appreciation of the actual race just positions.
At you Neville you have big boy pants, this is all cool (but a bad idea) and you rear end a person. That is on you, the brake is always there.
It's here where you get it all wrong. The next series of contact leaves me unstable, the car get a bit of air, bit loose out back and I shoot long but I am a passenger at that point. This was hardly the desperation move you make it sound, there's basically 3 solid passing spots on this track and this is as good as any of them.
Regardless, fact remains, both replays look different and that is weird as per @cyirush experience.
I just noticed something, watch the white line that frames the track to the left of my competitor, in both POV he drifts twice from near that line to the right and back again so I think we both sort of accidently merge a bit.
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