PSA: Please hold your line after an accident

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If you get off track or reset. Please pick the side with less of the driving line and hold it until you're up to speed. Keep to the side and leave it to the drivers behind you to find a safe way around. Don't try to cut across to get out of their way...

Good example of what not to do.
 
well this applies sometimes but whichever side you go off on, when you get back on, stay on that side, it could cause confusion. Some argue to "always pass on the left!" but if someone goes off left (brands hatch turn 1), and they come back on, you don't know if they're going to cut all the way right to "get out of the way", so the person who went off should stay on the edge while getting back up speed and you (passing) see them coming on so you should change your line just a bit to pass on the right, then resume the normal racing line after.

in summary, yes I agree with you and I've rear ended many people who have gone off (didn't ghost) and come right back on but cut out of the way while I try to pass but they end up cutting me off so I give them a lovely speed boost. sigh, such is life.
 
I've had someone do that on purpose to me to get a speed boost, yet I don't think that was his intention right before a corner :)
I usually try to stay right on the edge to build up speed, which can be a problem if you happen to be on the inside of a corner. Watch the mirror and go off track if necessary, a secondary collision will only cost you more time as well. And crossing the road is never a good idea.
On Tokyo, just say your prayers and hope for the best...
 
It's similar to when players pit out on fast courses ie monza when players go over to the racing line and you hit them because they don't look where theyre going
 
If people just eased slowly back onto the track instead of desperately careening back on with no regard to who might be there, that would be a huge improvement on its own. Sometimes the worst scenario though is when people get placed back on the track right in the middle of the road. I have no idea why PD does this, but it instantly creates a road hazard for other drivers because they don't know when the ghosting will end. PD should really put the car back on the track outside of the driving line.
 
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PD should really put the car back on the track outside of the driving line.
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At S safety rating you should have to put yourself back on the track. PD shouldn’t be doing it for you.

If they are going to put people back on track they definitely need to adjust where they do it.
 
Worst is losing it right on the racing line in a corner. Either folk will take avoiding action or just imagine you're not there & plough straight into you. Not a nice feeling wrecking other folks races.

If offline will scrabble back without going near the racing line but if situated sideways at a hairpin then sorry peeps, nowt I can do.
 

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