A bit selfish is it not? Considering you gained no damage and I did make an attempt to let you regain your position, but for whatever reason you slowed down too then braked which lost your positions. Then when you see Niki going 130mph into our car and into the other cP car while the SC has been deployed you really gotta wonder if there's any point as the differnce in the incidents is huge.
What I mean is I barely touched the rear of you car and it sent you sideways, where as Niki ran into us at more than double the speed we were doing. The second incident where Niki hit us again was just another case of lag though, the car behind touch Niki and sent him flying and he can't be blamed for that.
I'm really sorry for that SC hit into T1. 1st time they said SC deployed and there was no SC. And this time SC was on track. My teammates haven't said me on TS that SC is on track so i tought i'll drive on. Then I sow cars standing! They haven't drive even 30mph... so no time for braking.... sorry dudes, and at the end it all went out good for Mercury anyway
concidering it made your WHEEL go crazy i cant do anything, technical glitches are not my reponsibility, not to mention your well known personal vendetta against PWRL
In a real race series there would be a limit of the number of times they would tolerate you running around ignoring a black flag but you are correct, it isn't written into the IGTC rules so there's nothing to protest. Honestly, I thought the penalty was for lap 1 contact which was why I thought it unsporting that you would be able to use that to your advantage. Given that it was merely for the wrong car number it's no big deal that you stayed out tbh. Good stint.
I think that we should REALLY go over the IGTC rules and make sure everyone understands how to act with regard to safety cars. We lost a lap because the two cars ahead of us wouldn't pass the safety car for the whole caution period (the leader was directly behind us). Honestly I have no idea why we're using a safety car at all. It's not like we're trying to protect marshalls or corner workers cleaning up something on the track (which is what safety cars are really for).
replay will be saved, the SC is for dangerous cars on circuit such for example if i had seen car 11's damage before hitting 02 then i woulda brought out the SC and the damage wouldn't be done
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Well, even after some of the things happended I never thought "Oh i'm gunna complain" it's a league for fun and I wasn't saying that you shouldn't get me punished because you never lost much time, but because it never caused an accident and really is one of those things that happen. I guess you would complain if you thought I did it on purpose, but I doubt I would have slowed down at all if I did.
As for the drive through, even the MoE don't have a rule against taking your drive through whenever you feel like it.
But really, we didn't know what it was for, on here it said we had the wrong skin or something on, but just said "02" when our number in the race was "21" (We didn't realise that the organisers chose the numbers for us) So with this confusion we didn't know whether it was a mistake that we got a drive through or what it was for. So I guess it was really int he hope that it would be revoked or we would be told what it was for.
On the note of the safety cars.....didn't think they were pretty well done at all, I only ever had 1 and that was near the end and since I was behind the sc car everybody on the track was driving, nobody was stranded at the side of the road or anything, yet we still continued and done another lap.
The safety cars kindov made and broke our race, as the first time Pickard had to pit was from the safety car and Niki running into us (Reminded me of the Alonso incident back in Brazil a couple of years ago ) and once we had pitted we came back out pretty much where we left off. Then later on Rooble got tangled with a backmarker in T1 and again we had to pit, but with a SC car out shortly after, we lost nothing.
Then it was our chance to take the hit at the end a 20 odd second lead broguth down to 6tenths, was pretty tense driving as the cold tyres could never heat up and it was like driving on ice. Pleanty of pressure from Jack at the end, never gave up.
I agree regarding the concerns about the safety car - on one side, I like the idea, but the idea gets wrecked (no phun intended) when ppl can't even drive slow in a safe manner or don't manage to get a feel of the situation (especially when SC pits).
Niki got got hit twice during same straight by the same car with a pretty heavy speed - the road was wide and lots of room to be on. I felt like some ppl just didn't belong on the track (no offence, but thats how I feel).
I don't want anyone to think I'm talking about there shouldn't be room for slow teams. Not all all, but I expect ppl to be able to drive safely - like.. another example: A driver making way to let me pass, only to run into a side wall... meh.. I saw that several times. Ppl going straight.. and hit side walls.. sorry, but lol guys.
To make way is pretty much secondary if it means putting you in an awkward position - and chances to affect the lapping car will be even bigger.
I saw lots of bad driving - granted, SO4 isn't that easy but that doesn't mean ppl should do faster speeds or maneuvers than they can control.
As I said ppl just can't drive slow - the safety car is basically a mobile T1 all over the track... even though ppl know they aren't allowed to pass, they still get close enough to cause nasty things.
You may say that's because of the narrow streets etc and SO4 is the extreme - I say, yes, it's an extreme example that shows that safety car just doesn't work in this league.
cP#1 lost an entire lap because some drivers didn't pass SC. It's too random in a bad way and thats not racing.
Thanks for the race!
But I am very disapointed on how MANY drivers didn´t respect full course yellow. Already in the running start we got passed..and hit! During the race, under full course yellow, some drivers were pushing our car from behind in several seconds even that they pushed me into the car in front. What in earth is the idea with that? ....and what kind of behaviour is this?
Several time I have seen cars passing under full course yellow. If this rule about passing should be respected in the future, people has to be punished with 30 sec in the final result. If people by accident passes another, you hould go back immediately to your correct position. It happened to me once.
I just wanted to say thanks guys, I for one had a blast! We had some personal oddness at the beginning and a few real life hickups so I hope we didn't get in the way when we dropped in.
Dad had some issues with being disconnected (that went away after he took over from me for some reason) When I joined I realized I had not set my fuel load, pitted, did a few laps, realized the setup wasn't working, tweaked, pitted, out again, realized i screwd it up more, pitted..oops wrong display name. changed that, out again,...realized, damn...wrong skin, pitted, changed skin files, back out again... sheesh. BUT I think I managed to stay outta tha way when I needed to and I got to race at times too
