Right those are FIA official irl rules. GT Sport states in the video that it’s a non contact sport.
If I’m not mistaken at release this game at any contact penalized both cars, but everyone hated that so much they changed it.
Interestingly in FIA Blancpain gt it’s stated in the irl rules that a pro driver involved in an incident with an amateur will be more heavily penalized than the am which matches again your idea about severity of pen in game when it’s A vs D
So like in game for yourself running from the back, the game should be strict on pens unless you are in a room of all a or above.
As far as how to race re friendly nudge passing, whether it’s by design or not, the fact is in a slow car it’s not gonna give you a pen. I think in any car the ‘nudge’ is not penalized so that’s what happens. I’m prepared to race like that.
I’d say there’s a personal view of good and bad racing, but irl if you can track cut for example to save time every racer will cut if it helps them. In this game if a little rub is allowed, if I want to I will rub on by.
That’s racing. That’s maybe not by design but that’s what it is. You push as far as possible without getting a pen...
As said by Sven the comparison with real life FIA race is a bit useless, particularly when it comes to track limit.
Cutting the track can get you a huge penalty if repeated in FIA races. Passing through the pit gets you something like 15s loss minimum and you have to consider the tyre temperature that falls down and will affect the next lap or two laps.
Cutting the curbs also affects the car. In any FIA race that is over 1h, you can be almost sure that if you hit the curbs regularly, you will get a flat or the suspension will break. In endurance races, the teams actively communicate with the drivers to tell them to calm down with the curbs.
If we were getting a broken suspension after hitting 10 big curbs or going fast in the grass, and that we needed to pit to fix it, the track cutting would stop very fast. But gt sport can't be that realistic
I think I'm really gonna look for some league or private clean lobby because it's too rare to find clean drivers, and even if they are clean, the penalty system jumps on the first occasion to penalize someone.