Did a race, thought I’d cancelled the entry but walk back in to the room on poll starting the rolling start intro….i hadn’t even turned on my VR yet. Quick scramble pray it doesn’t need play area calibration and off I go, didn’t even have time to top my wine up before the race!!!
Managed to bring it home but….
But….
I genuinely think people try to race above their ability not in a malicious way but by believing they are fractionally better than they are at
1. Reading what’s happening ahead and leaving enough margin
2. Understanding what defensive driving really means and it’s not just taking the inside line
3. Believing they need “the slip stream” and to be 2 inches behind the car in front to “keep up”
4. That their anticipation and reaction times are better than they think
Not a lot of people race with any room for error, they keep the margins way to close things like distances in to complex areas, braking to late with the incorrect belief this will gain time, not patient enough so will try to pass in some of the worst places logically to actually pass without it being a mutually assured destruction..
It’s not even about sportsmanship but just lack of realising they are playing a game that presents (and can be played as an arcade game) but something a little more nuanced than it appears on the surface.
Here is 48s of people chasing positions rather than being more aware and cautious.
I should have ran this on longer as one of the drivers involved did wait for who he hit and dropped to the back with a 4s pen as well, fair play him.
