The Arrogance of an Elitist Player

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You're contradicting yourself.

Your definition clearly says "Allow the following car to pass at the earliest opportunity". This means, leave the racing line to let them pass - not "carry on, they'll sort themselves out"

I'm sorry, but your understanding of the blue flag is incorrect.

Also, I never stated it means "move off the track". It means leave the racing line - when safe to do so - or maintain the line if in a corner.


No.What that means is he must allow the fast car to pass as soon as possible and not "race" against him in any way.Two different things.
It can be done by giving up the racing line OR actually keep the racing line and let the fast car pass using another line without problems.In some series,the "AM" drivers -and even the PRO drivers- (GT3 or FIA WEC) usually do not give up the racing line "moving out of the way" because the officials tell them to "keep the racing line,when they are getting lapped".Want to know why?
Because the safest way to get lapped is to have the most predictable "body" language,so that the fast car would not have to guess where the lapped car is going to go or break in order to let him pass.
Again I ask you,can you point me to an official racing rule -in any major racing series- that clearly states that blue flag=get out f the racing line in order to get lapped?
 
There are a surprisingly large volume of fast drivers who can't consistently stay on the track. These guys run all laps on the edge of control which gets them good pole positions but then they blow it and fall apart in the race usually acting frustrated that they can't easily pass "slower" drivers cleanly, not realizing that the rest of us are actually taking the presence of other cars into account during our laps.

Might I suggest calling it the "Marc Márquez syndrome"? :D
 
I had one last night, he crashed earlier, then while I was having an awesome tight clean race with another player for 3 laps, he crashed into my behind, bumping me into the player I was racing. We both managed to recover, yet at the next turn he rammed into me again and send me off the road. I caught up with him at the pit where he was serving his penalty at the pit entrance...

After the race he said it was not intentional, thanks for ruining a great battle.
 
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I had one last night, crashed earlier, then while I was having an awesome tight clean race with another player for 3 laps, he crashed into my behind, bumping me into the player I was racing. We both managed to recover, yet at the next turn he rammed into me again and send me off the road. I caught up with him at the pit where he was serving his penalty at the pit entrance...

After the race he said it was not intentional, thanks for ruining a great battle.

Yeah, I just had one this morning that I was lapping up. First thing I noticed is that he did not ghost, did PD change that yet again? He was also slowing me down as he was only maybe 5/10ths a lap slower so I couldnt get around him easy but the guy behind me was gaining, luckily there was only 1 1/2 laps left.
 
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