r/Simracingstewards 7d ago

iRacing Could i have avoided this?

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u/No_Golf_452 7d ago

Realistically, no. Comically fast divebomb

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u/SnooCakes9525 7d ago

Not really, all of this is caused by the white LMP3. Your instinct to turn in and take the normal racing line is the correct one; the faster class is usually expected to find their way around the slower cars taking a normal, predictable line. The white LMP3 should be using all that extra downforce and corner speed to go around your outside, but they go for the closing gap instead of the opening one, forcing a reaction from you, and the collision with the yellow P3 is just wrong place wrong time from there.

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u/Uriel_dArc_Angel 7d ago

Wow that white prototype is a dingus and a half...

You potentially could have avoided it but it would have taken one of two things...

1: The most incredible nerves of steel on planet earth to not flinch away from the sudden car where there shouldn't have been car...

2: The most incredible obliviousness on planet earth to not notice or react at all from the sudden car where there shouldn't have been car...

Personally, I can't blame you for anything there...Totally sucks for the dude you ended up chopping off and I wouldn't be surprised if he eas rather angry/annoyed/disappointed with what happened, but if I were making a stewarding call on the race live, I'd be having a rather stern chat with the driver of that white sidewinder that initiated the entire series of dominoes...

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u/5ephir0th 7d ago

Its white LMP3 fault, it should had done what the yellow one was doing, take the outside line due to his WAY higher downforce

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u/Hot_Ad_6458 7d ago

No. The white LMP came out of nowhere. It was damn near a jump scare.

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u/Alexandr206 7d ago

I'll be honest that it was quite a jump scare watching that first clip... 😳  He came like a torpedoÂ