I wonder why he started so far back... he's obviously way faster than most of the other cars, both in terms of skill and in vehicle.
That said, he was a really aggressive passer... I mean, he had to be sometimes to fight through that pack, but there were a few times where he forced the inside line even when he was barely beside the other cars. If I drove like that in LFS I'd be clipping rear quarterpanels all over the track and getting banned from the server. I guess it just takes faith that the other drivers are skillful enough to notice you in their blind spot. Or not caring if you hit them, since it'll be worse for them than you at that angle.
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Off topic, why is it that high-performance gearboxes are so often "backwards" of what I expect? For a sequential, I'd instinctively push forwards to upshift and backwards to downshift, not the other way around. And I so often hear about paddle-shifters where left is up, and right is down... backwards of my instincts again.