I really don't know why. But when I joined LFS back in 2007 I used to race on CTRA a lot.
People were just different. Of course there were crashes, contacts and all this stuff. But there was no spectate policy, no crash ratio detector nothing like that. When someone crashed me he just said sorry and that was enough for me, because we had a nice battle and crashes happen. There was at least a try not to ram anyone, simply people more often thought they're driving a simulator and they need to act a little bit fairly. LFS was meant to be taken as a simulation, not a game.
Today it's just wrong. I have no idea how or why, but people has changed. I could get rammed out of the track and receive not a single sorry or something like that. It's like LFS nowadays are playing 10 years old boys, who have no idea about anything. Back in days it was somehow smarter in any ways.
I don't blame anyone here. I just think the community has changed. Simply LFS is more or less dead. So there is only this public racing and majority of drivers doesn't take it serious. When spectating them, it's like they say to themselves "it's only a game, nothing to worry about, I'll just floor it thru T1 and I'll hope for luck".
Back in days it was more like "Omg, I am driving with all the people I saw in league races, I need to act like a race driver by every occasion." I have mine nice shining XRT and I don't want to crash it even if I was forced to brake a little bit more.
To sum it up, it's the people who has changed, back in CTRA I was racing all the best drivers from 3id, spdo, Pallu the ultimate mouse driver who was never a team member and I can continue forever... Also team less drivers acted more like 20+y old clever guys. Today I race against some random driver from say UK who just received his LFS licence from no idea where, seeing that culture of today's races he thinks he's doing everything right even if there's a contact or crash. In past, this behavior and overall acting on track... Was just different. I can't help myself. Hawk.