UKAC Season 16 Season 16 Formula Easter - Pannonia-Ring - Jul 15

[Bob]

Unfortunately the two race format and reverse grid second race are the reason for my absence on recent Wednesdays.

[Mark J]

Oddly despite the carnage, I really enjoyed both races. Think I finished 5th in race 1 despite having to short shift for ages after my engineer told me ‘don’t think we are going to make it on fuel’ about 10mins into the race 
Race 2 I was nerfed off at T1 despite not changing my line and staying to the outside  but just shows how many silly incidents there were that I went from dead last to 1st over the race distance (Threw that short lead away literally as I thought ‘ican win this’  ) and then finished 3rd after getting spun round with 1.5 laps to go whilst 2nd But still finished the race smiling as had good pace in race 2, had dodged many of the incidents and even held off the flying Tim and had a brief spell battling Fabri

Unfortunately you may be right in thinking reverse grid isn’t working for race 2. With the finite close racing required with these, there is maybe too much variation in speed and racing lines amongst the grid to avoid incidents. Add that to the ‘none  shall pass’ mentality of a few (even if they cock up) and it’s chaos. 

[Fabri Fibra]

Add that to the ‘none  shall pass’ mentality of a few (even if they cock up) and it’s chaos. 

Exactly.
Overtaking, especially with cars, is often an agreement between the two drivers. Both must think of "how to get the two cars through without making a mess".
This is completely missing from most simracing players (I mean in general, in all groups or open servers). Accidents almost always happen for really stupid reasons and often even after a review they are or can be judged as racing accidents, because it is enough that only one of the two drivers has not been cautious enough to make contact.
"Ops, racing contact", "eh but your noise was 30 cm behind mine", "my line was the racing line", etc etc.
Thinking instead about how you would drive in reality would help a lot.

Surely "racing sims" are badly designed and neglect the damage model. With serious damage to each hard contact and related forced withdrawal, people would learn to be more careful.

Obviously mistakes and misunderstandings are not and will never be a problem for me, all can wrong.

[SRW]

I just about learnt the track before the end of practice, i really like this track. There were noticeably less incidents this week. I had plenty of close racing and some good fights in both races.

Although i have done hundreds of races here at SROUK most of them have not involved close battling like this. I had a few moments in the second race going through corners side by side where i think i might have made contact with others (although i have triple screens it is still hard to know exactly how far up people are and how close they are from actually touching you). If i was at fault i apologise