After a nudge at T1 that sent me into the barriers, and a complete comedy of errors with Billy as we both tried to get our cars facing the right way and back onto the tarmac, we were both a looooong way adrift at the back of the field. The only plus point was that I still had 25 laps to try and catch up
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It was a long chase and there were times when I wondered if I would ever catch another car!! 6th place was probably the best that I could have achieved from that miserable start.
I was aware of the "white lines" issue and during qually ( and also during the race ) I tried laps where I kept 2 wheels inside the lines, and other laps where I took the fastest route and cut the corners. I reckoned that the time gained was worth up to 3 secs a lap if I really maxed out the corner cutting, but still stayed off the grass.
There were some laps where I exceeded the white lines even when trying to be "good", simply because I ran too deep into corners or tried to catch a slide. There is no doubt that by far the fastest way around here is to exceed the white lines, much as F1 does today with the kerbs etc.
Whatever the arguments for, or against, the nominal track limits, I think that it would be an impossible task to monitor all cars for all laps and to penalise those who crossed the lines. Turning on the "track limits" would probably result in zero finishers as it is so easy here to go a little too deep, or because you have compromised your line by a poor entry into the first corner of a complex you are running too tight, or too wide, for the next corner.
Maybe if there are enough people interested we could run a fun race with the track limits active....that would be quite illuminating