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I'm guilty of being one of the forum warriors I guess. I like talking a lot and well, more often times than not, it gets me in trouble lol.
Not necessarily because the RUF is quicker. Realistically it's maybe only worth 2 or 3 tenths in my opinion.
The racing after the initial mayhem is usually no different than any other series. A few wrecks here and there because of a misunderstanding or lack of respect from two or more drivers. It's just those first 5 laps or so that cause the problems. Because there has never been a series where you have a group of 15-20 cars run nose to tail together for 5 laps straight, nobody has got even the slightest of clue as to how to race in that sort of situation. Most of the first 5 lap incidents that I've seen are a driver getting caught out by the "Accordion Effect." What usually happens is that they will either rear end the car in front, or they will dive to the inside for a really late overtake. Either way, it usually causes a fair amount of problems.
There's also the lack of patience argument that is pretty prevalent in every iRacing series starts. People think that being a hero on the first few laps when things are way bunched up will make things better. I think I've shown multiple videos here where I've either stayed station even though I could have overtaken the driver in front, or I've even been known to let people by quite easily despite being for position. In the end, I'll usually still finish in front of those people or can race my way back up once things get spread out.
Having really good Racing Awareness is something that is really important in a series this competitive and unfortunately, it seems that many have yet to learn this.
Patience is something that is drifting away from the sport in real life as well. Even though, I think it's the most important part of racing and I've benefited from being patient more than a handful of times in real life as well as in the Sim.
The "heros" are the main problem but lets not forget the lap 1 "I'm going to drive safe, as in 25MPH under the apex avg speed, braking 25M early" and the "My Q laps was 1 in 100, my race pace is split 2 at best". Those groups have given me more headaches than the "I think I'm Senna" guys in the RUF series.