UKAC Season 8 Season 8 - British GT3 Series - Brands Hatch - Apr 22

[Flavus Periculum]

http://wiki.grandprixlegends.info/index.php?title=GPL_Recommended_Driver_Behaviour#Corner_Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbfjeIZc7g

[phspok]

I had a similar incident a couple of weeks ago in a different league, where I was tapped from behind and went off into the barriers, was a short race
so pretty well ruined my race. There were rules I read about which basically said if there's contact it's the guy in front's fault.
I might find those, but the point is, you can usually find a version of the rules that suit your argument. I didn't post an incident
report because, it would be that I moved over, or the guy behind pushed his nose up the inside... so I left it.

These are the overall rules for passing in the top level SROUK pages:
https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.msg65156#msg65156

If you feel wronged you can put in an incident report, if you have and you don't like the ruling, then you can appeal if
you want, and another moderator (there are several) will have a look at it.

[Mark J]

I hope you do book the incidents Flavus, as you cost me 3 penalty places for the Silverstone contact!  which I still think was a racing incident 
I saw you get nerfed off ahead in this race,  unfortunate,  as could see you had good pace in the McLaren. It was a bit tricky and unfortunate that the Audi was warping in the race.

Last round should be a corker at Donington and 4 cars all within 10pts of each other from 5th to 8th and a few close together up front too.

Series stats look bad in that about 13 signed up drivers only made 2 rounds or less  Not sure why as the racing has been pretty good and enjoyed the British GT series angle. Not putting race threads up until a couple of days before the race doesn’t help promote though 

[Flavus Periculum]

@ Mark - The incident at turn 1 that you saw when you were following was down to lag so very difficult for drivers to avoid contact when that happens  .
However I raised an incident report for the above clash because my interpretation of the site rules is that it is all about the racing line turn in point - quote "you must establish substantial overlap with the car ahead before a corner's turn-in point to have the right for room to be left for you by the ahead driver". Therefore if an attacking driver has no overlap at this point then the attacking driver is fully responsible for any contact. E.g. An attacking driver on the opposite side of the track to the racing line will not gain any overlap until the lead driver slows to turn in. Then the attacking driver can easily gain false overlap by just braking later, going in faster, and claim that they have overlap when the inevitable collision takes place on or near the apex. Not so easy at the end of a long straight but not a lot skill required to poke a nose in front on faster corners. The main reason I put in incident reports is so that I can learn who is at fault and hopefully avoid similar incidents in future races, it is not a personal attack on anybody, its for my benefit as I am always looking to improve and avoid incidents. Overtaking and also defending always carries risk and I never like to risk spoiling somebody elses race, even if it means finishing farther down the field.

[Jeffrey]

Here is my review on the incident after the appeal:

There was no overlap at the moment of turn in for the corner and the manoevre was purely dependant on the defending car leaving the door open and giving space. Because there is hardly a braking zone for this corner, you need to be alongside at the moment of turning in:



However, the McLaren steers in quite a bit earlier than normal which could have caught the Porsche out. This is the turn in point a lap earlier:



The contact between both cars is really minimal, but the outcome seems a bit exagerrated by the collision model.

I'll leave the original verdict in tact. The Porsche was a bit overambitious with an attempt there, but the McLaren was a bit unpredictable while defending.