Moderator's Report
Server replay time: 138s
After travelling through T1 alongside SRW and having some light door to door contact after hitting the inside kurbs, Kimi is slow exiting and finds himself sliding to the far right of the circuit.
This allows Stefan to pass cleanly to Kimi's left on the run to T2.
As SRW is returning to the track on the left and travelling slower, Stefan positions himself towards the centre of the track for his manoeuvrer.
After recovering from his slide to the right, kimi moves back across towards the left and drives straight into Stefan, who himself is moving slightly left under braking having realised he won't catch SRW in time.
Stefan's Car was visible in Kimi's mirrors as he moved left exiting T1 to make his pass, the arrow from the stock app clearly moved up alongside Kimi's car to the left while he was out of view and he was alongside and visible through the side window before the contact occurred. In Helicorsa the positions of the 3 cars were also very clear on the lead up to this incident.
After the incident Kimi did not wait for Stefan or re-dress the contact.
When a driver makes a mistake and/or ends up off line for any reason they do not have a right to just drive straight back onto the racing line.
As the fault is clear in this instance and the place was not re-dressed the full penalty of 2 positions is applied.
It is strongly recommended that Helicorsa is used by drivers as it massively increases the situational awareness of it's users (It should be noted that this sort of incident is much rarer in ACC when away from public servers as that has a built in equivalent).
Server replay time: 284s
Approaching T2 Kimi has braked on time but missed his turn in point and run wide leaving a car width to his right on the inside. Stefan has braked on time and makes the apex which allows him to turn inside Kimi.
Kimi is continuing to slow in an attempt to turn down onto the apex when contact between himself and Stefan occurs.
The racing rules are very clear on mistakes of this nature:
"If the driver ahead runs wide and provides an opportunity for the following driver to get alongside, both drivers are responsible for leaving each other racing room."
This can be found at the top of the following link :[url]https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.msg65156#msg65156[/url]
As Stefan was under full control and would have made the corner, the fault in this contact is not his, he was under no obligation to slow or redress as a result.
For future reference for correct procedure; on the same lap and the same corner, Matteo and Maxime find themselves in the same situation - Matteo out-brakes himself and misses his turn in point. He recognises his mistake and leaves room for Maxime on the inside who is already moving to take advantage.
No contact or even significant slowing of the opponents occurs as a result.
