Valerio Vinassa
PrestoGP Veteran
look ahead in T3 T4 T5 in lap1
We've got different interpretations of that rule I guess (which happens!). As I took it to mean "when I'm close (within 0.5 seconds-ish) and attempting to pass, the slower car will help complete that pass (such as by lifting on a straight)". So I tried to use our speed difference to start a pass, trying to get a run around your right hand side exiting that corner with a confident exit. Then leave it up to you to make sure I'm through before the fast chicane starts later.Hey April, first of all sorry for that it was a pretty stupid accident from me, but what happened was I read in the rules you should let the car that is lapping you come close and then let them through and as you can see in the clip you got close in that corner so I wanted to move out and let you pass, I didn't expect you will move out of the racing line to pass me
We've got different interpretations of that rule I guess (which happens!). As I took it to mean "when I'm close (within 0.5 seconds-ish) and attempting to pass, the slower car will help complete that pass (such as by lifting on a straight)". So I tried to use our speed difference to start a pass, trying to get a run around your right hand side exiting that corner with a confident exit. Then leave it up to you to make sure I'm through before the fast chicane starts later.
We all have different ideas of how best to do this. And I must confess, my attitude is probably coloured a lot by multi-class endurance as I've made VEC a very high priority over the last two years. Where non-position passes tend to still require you use your extra speed to complete passes, especially on slower classes. And I admit that's not necessarily the correct attitude for open wheel racing.
It's not always necessary for the slower car to go off line for non-racing passes to work. You can still 'let the faster car past' while they're off the normal line and you're on it. Just gotta handle it on a situation-by-situation basis, try to read what's going on and make a judgement call on how best to do it.
I won't chime in on what the 'correct' interpretation is more than this (though I welcome the other admins and members to correct me if I'm wrong ). I don't know how much experience you've got, but after like 7 years of playing these racing games and almost 5 years at Presto I still feel like I'm learning new things.
Hopefully you didn't get any significant damage from the incident and still felt good for the rest of the race. I think you just narrowly avoided the wall? I didn't have any remarkable damage, I set my fastest lap of the race after that incident.
We've got different interpretations of that rule I guess (which happens!). As I took it to mean "when I'm close (within 0.5 seconds-ish) and attempting to pass, the slower car will help complete that pass (such as by lifting on a straight)".
The object of this rule was to make it so that the slower car didn't have to make any unpredictable moves off the racing line or to suddenly dive off track as we used to see quite regular. The main idea is that in a situation like you both found yourself in where it was hard for Nace to suddenly let you pass with the speed diffrence is that Nace would've stayed on his present course (taking the corner as normal) and that April would initiate the pass on the outside, this would minimise any time lost for both parties and would allow the faster car to pass in a normal way without having to predict which side to take.