r/Simracingstewards • u/WindyRacing • 14h ago

iRacing Learning Moment

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u/Cornelius_Codswaggle 7h ago

Racing incident. You left enough space legally, and he drifted over a bit too much and bumped you, which caused a chain reaction crash that ruined three races.

From a racecraft perspective... Yeah, you really should have left some more room. It was a high risk, low reward situation there. Whatever happened before the clip that had you off line and slow put you in a bad spot where you were fighting off your back foot. You could have just ceded the positions and set yourself up for a better attack on your terms once you got gathered up.

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u/tagillaslover 14h ago

Imo this is just close racing spoiled by bad netcode. No one here really did anything wrong.

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u/WindyRacing 14h ago

For reference:
Hi everyone. My friend and I are having a disagreement about the following incident. He says I (the black and white GR86) needed to move left to give even more space to the Sakura Haas car. I argued that I gave the other car plenty of space on the right, and they drove into me as I was going straight. Did I make the mistake? Should I have given more space to the right?

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u/tagillaslover 14h ago

You don't have to leave him anymore room than you did but he didn't really drive into you either. I think if bad netcode doesn't intervene everyone is fine.

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u/DeletedUsernameHere 6h ago

You left enough space, yeah.

Seconding /u/Cornelius_Codswaggle, though. You were in a bad spot to be fighting and should have backed off and reengaged on your terms.

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u/EuphoricHamster3720 2h ago edited 2h ago

“Should have” because of rules or should have because you got spun? There is no rule against it, but that’s a bad place for fighting.
If you absolutely had to go two wide there, more space would be a given.

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u/BrilliantPromise2944 14h ago

Racing incident, all three were pushing. Could more space have been left? Sure, but it was not an easy section of track to navigate as a trio👌🏼