Well, no one bothered to write a rule of duels between different classes. No one ever thought that one day there would come a brave racer who would decide to defend his position to a car that can go 10 seconds per lap faster.
But there you go... you proved them wrong.
No GT2 car was 10 seconds per lap faster than me in that race. Maximum was more like 5 seconds on their best lap and 2 cars were only just 2sec per lap faster at best. I did in fact pass them in 2 races there. If that hadn't been the case I might have driven differently.
Anyway, thanks for the compliment.
Honestly Sermilan, if this was a different combo, I probably would (and often do) make what room I could for a 'faster' car, but having more than one GT2 car already behind me in this race, and not seeming to have that much speed difference (for whatever reason) I chose to defend my position. In any case, there is no rule against this and our standard overtaking rules are perfectly in sync with this- a 'faster' car should have no problem overtaking a 'slower' car in exactly the same way a car in the same class would. That is, they should gain overlap & the right to a corner then pass, or pass on a straight where there is room. There is simply no excuse for hitting another car, unless they are swerving dangerously. I made no erratic moves here.
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drive erratically,
Check - I wasn't, I was driving in a straight line.
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ignore blue flags,
Check - no blue flags here.
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overtake under a yellow flag,
Check - no yellow flag here.
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deliberately obstruct a driver from a competing team,
Check - this appears to relate to a blue flag case.
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obstruct other drivers trying to overtake you,
Well, this is ambiguous, so from our own rules, which are clear regarding overtaking:
O-5: Ahead drivers have the right to choose any line down a straight. The ahead driver may make one move to block the opposing car, and one move to return to the racing line before the next corner - Unless the opposing car has overlap.O-6: Ahead drivers have the right to take any line through a corner, unless an opposing car has overlap. He didn't have overlap. If he had, this wouldn't have happened. see my comments above.
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force a driver off the road in order to overtake them or to avoid being overtaken by them.
Oh...wait - isn't this what happened to me? Thanks for pointing this one out.
"However, manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers such as premature direction changes, deliberate crowding of cars towards the inside or the outside of the curve or any other abnormal change of direction, are strictly prohibited and shall be penalised, according to the importance and repetition of the offences, by penalties ranging from a fine to the exclusion from the race."
I didn't make a premature direction change - he made a premature attempt to pass.
I didn't crowd him towards either side of the track - he didn't have overlap.
The Schumacher incident is indeed interesting, but it seems the problem here was that he made 2 moves to defend, thus becoming a block.
You can't say my driving was in any way as seen in that example. I wasn't swerving for a start.
He who dares wins!
Unless they aren't in a GT car, in which case they simply get knocked off the track...
God thing most of the drivers ain't that stubborn to push their wrong attitude no matter what and waisting our time here
Your stated intent to push drivers out of your way is the wrong attitude. And if you find this thread a waste of time, simply don't read or post in it.
I just wanted an explanation from Yek about why my race was ended by his action, and if it was just a mistake, then fair enough. It just didn't seem that way.
It's interesting, and very sad, seeing all the opinions from certain drivers who seem to think it's ok to crash other cars out of the way. It isn't. Read and understand the rules...
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What I'm more interested is... Kiyoshi, what did you expect to gain by blocking that GT2?
He's different class.. were you going to block him all the way thru?
What did YOU gain by it, except causing an accident?
I didn't do this blindly. This was lap 3 & there were 4 GT2 cars behind me at this point (5 if you add Nils just moments earler...) and one only just ahead. The 'faster' class clearly wasn't doing all that well on this combo, so I expected to not lose time by staying ahead in those turns & not compromising my right to the corner.
I didn't cause the accident, unless you are going to claim that it is because my car was on the track & in front of another?
Looking back at Yek's race, I especthe was annoyed at having been held up unfairly by another driver earlier in this race, so was intent on staying ahead of Harvey. That is the probably explanation, and he isn't a bad driver, but that
does not excuse crashing.