Yep very annoying, at Canada as we exited the cicane i got a good run and was up against the wall on the exit with the other guy who was ahead of me at my right. Rather than giving me room he pushed me over into the barrier, another example was at Susuka's turn 8 (please see
here for info on which turn that is). I had taken a defensive line on the way towards turn 8 and a guy from behind tried to go around the out side of me, rather than backing off and accepting he wouldn't make it he stuck with it knowing as i turned in i would run to the outside of the turn due to the amount of speed i would be carrying and because of that i would not be able to aviod hitting him in less he avioded me. He did not do that and on the exit of turn 8 we touched and i got blamed and a given negative rep for been unsporting. I can never recall seeing a real F1 driver overtaking or even trying to over take there, i don't mind a fair challange but to try and overtake in places that are out of the question and then blame me for it is not right. If i course a crash i will wait for the guy who i hit to take his position back even if that means i full to the back of the field and out of contention for a good finish.
I think to be honest the online gameplay needs to be changed a little so that people who course accidenets and like it can be delt with by the player like when someone joins a session the host must accept there request to join at which he/she can read any reviews, see rep etc. If the person is bad then they can either reject there request to join or ban them from ever joining any of the sessions the host sets up. This would make the online coding a little different but it would mean better management of who can join and who can't.
Also people who crash should have ranking points taken away from them, at first i would have said this is a bad idea but i am seeing more rank 50 player's trying to do things that are just stupid and knowing the chances are the other drivers will jump out of there way or make a mistake due to loss of consantration or because they try to take the corner faster. Or the rank 50 player (which i see more often now) just barges there way past neglecting what corner it is and if it would even be possible to pass at such a corner, also the rank 50 players take corners using as much track as possible (thats fine) but when cutting the corner and running all four wheels off the track on the exit (thats not so good).
I don't race with manual gears so i know trying to catch a guy who does will be very testing, so if i get into a position that know i can't progress up from i will pass myself as best i can to the car behind rather than trying to see how quickly i can try and catch the car ahead which is most likely not going to happen and resault in me spinning of something. This i do not see online, the 3 lap stint races are all about speed and how good your car control is, i would like to see a new option added to sprint races. 5 lap sprint with everything as it is in F1 2010 been random but also the weather been random, also a 1 minute timer as a pose to a 30 second timer when setting up your car and someone selects go to GP.
Anyway thats off topic, i hope the team can come up with something that will punich the regular crashers or give the player the power to accept or decline people from joining there sessions.