SEASON 9 RACE 4 SINGAPORE INCIDENT REPORT

[Chirlie Williams]

i knew vince was there so missed apex ti give him room and i run near rumblestrip thinking im safe but his car slides across into me , i feel i do not have to leave the track so someone has enough room that is just comprimising my race and if i passed someone there i would have had a post that i cut lol and is its a presto rule you have to leave parts of the track if others are slideing near your car ? that would make it a rather unfair rule. i felt as if i went wide enough and couldent go any wider without going over rumble on right wich would have bumped my car up n slowed me down alot
all videos show vince out braking me but the consequence is him geting onto racing line then drifting across it towards the end ,i know i am to blame for serton aspects of the incidents but i do feel i left enough room but car slides into me and i do not deeviate from rumble line but this is just my opinion .
It was a great fight and battle i just felt there was to much contact at same corner in the race when we both should have learned from lap 1 .

thanks for taking the time to look and give your opinion nico

 

[Kurt Kjellin]

Incident lap 7 - I hit Kurt who has just been in an incident with Valter.

My analysis:
The way I remember it, it all happend very fast, and I was unable to avoid contact. Looking at the replay I am unsure if I could/should have reacted earlier. I was focused on getting the apex and then throttle out of corner without spinning and noticed what was ahead too late. The only leasson I could learn is to try to keep a better eye on what happens ahead (or improve my reaction time), but all in all I see this as an unavoidable incident.

I think I also should take some of the blame for not standing completely still.
Like you said it all happened very fast and I tried to keep an eye on the map to see how many cars that came into the curve so I did not notice that the car was moving forward. It was such a little push so that it was not noticed when it happened. So that's why it is not on my report, if I stood still you might have passed, perhaps very close but without contact.
Next time it happens, I promise to keep my foot on the brake pedal.

 

[Nicolai Nicholson]

and is its a presto rule you have to leave parts of the track if others are slideing near your car ? that would make it a rather unfair rule.

Yes, we have a rule, or guideline, that we do all we can to prevent an incident. What you should have done was to take avasive actions when he comes sliding towards you and post a video and comment after the race if you were unhappy with the pass.

 

[Chirlie Williams]

ok will do nico

 

[Valter Ostman]

I win the season contest for the most clumsy attempt. I'm sorry for not waiting instead of going for it. It would have been much wiser. Here you can see what a mess one mistake can lead to when we are in traffic.

 

[Reik Major]

I agree with Nicos analysis about the 3 situations with Vince and Chirlie.

When watching those 3 scenes the first time I initially thought that the overtaking car being on the inside just should have left more room on the outside. Then it could have been a nice side by side battle for some more corners, because the overtaken car could have "survived" on the outside and maybe fight back.

Other then that it looked like cool fighting.

 

[Sean Greenlaw]

Ye a great way of thinking could be leave a little more space and great incident free racing will happen
If i go inside to pass i try and divide track into 2 lanes like normal road and stay to that lane round the turn until i see car in mirrors, this gives car your over taking has room if he manages to to fight back like Reik says.
1st 1 if Vincenzo does this, 2nd if Chirlie does this and last 1 abit of both, they would have had some amazing side by sides with no contact .

 

[Vincenzo Cavaliere]

Thanks so much Nico for great analysis, also Reik and Sean, I agree with it

I'm not able to make good analysis for my poor English, thats was my frustration, google translator sometimes change that I want to express..

My opinion, when we have incident the persons do not have to use negative adjectives like "aggressive or crazy" We have to make a serious analysis with timestamp and video if is possible.

I think this Race was a very good fight

See u all at Suzuka,

 

[Tim McIver]

I think you are still misunderstanding the word 'aggressive' Vincenzo. Crazy would perhaps be quite an unhelpful word to select but aggressive is not a bad word. If an real F1 driver was not aggressive he would lose his job.

 

[Reik Major]

You're right Tim but I understand Vinzenco very well.

However I'm very happy with the outcome of this conversation.

 

[Vincenzo Cavaliere]

First of all, apologies to everyone for my reaction

Thanks Tim, I understood, you are right, I take this word like a Racing , my frustration was because any moment I drove aggressive,.

on first incident, I accept I do not leave enough room but I leave, my point off view this incident was avoidable, on the picture you can see a space about a 1 or 1,5 meter to the right I think Chirlie have a space, I know to close.. only as it said Nico, I take him for surprise...,

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