As I said I was 1st for a few meters, then I sow Gary doing a “Barbosa” but on the right side over the pit exit, which I can “eat” since it was the 1st lap.
What I mean with “eat” is that I could/can leave with that… with the way you did your move from 4th to 1st.
Observing your evolution from the word go, we can see that a bit like Rafael Barbosa you overtake the 2nd on the grid going by his right side and at certain point your left tires were a smidge of being fully outside of the track (but they weren’t and that is what counts) and I don’t have a problem with that.
.[FONT="]Now the problem is, we couldn’t all 3 do the turn side by side, if we did only one would come out.[/FONT]
That’s a preview as good as they come (almost a fact); you weren’t in my position (in the middle) where I could see both of you… one on the right, the other on the left.
I can assure you (as I’m seeing the replay right now) there was no space for me between you and Rafael and our lines would have crossed.
Unless you expect some “touching” and “squeezing” wish I disapprove (and avoid at all costs) since the car losses performance and it is a bit like the boots race (the AI) and puts us all in a big “grey” area.
[FONT="]so I played the chicken role, and took the feet off the accelerator and gave the road to them…. I wonder if I didn’t, what would have happened, one day we will know[/FONT].
Look, we only raced together 2 or 3 times, and as far as I remember, we never raced close between us, so we don’t know each other’s way of racing. But now I know you a little better, you leave room, good, next time I will take this into account.
This all matter (point 2) is peanuts, not that important; at the exact moment, I was a little upset for a fraction of a second, as from my point of view it seemed you counted with the others to solve the situation. Kind of “Yes I will majestically do this corner with my ton ½ car and leave everybody peaking up the pieces behind me if need be”.
Now I know I got the wrong impression, you were in attention with the others, you leave some room, good (my bad).
Notice that although, I consider Rafael by far the main culprit of the all situation (see point 1), I in any way I want/wanted him to have a stop & go or any kind of reprimand by RD, the situation wasn’t that serious and I much prefer to have a race adversary… after all, with that start, in that race, I overtook him 3 times and that had a special flavor.
The all objective of the 3 points was just this
[FONT="]we don’t win races on the 1st corner[/FONT][FONT="], especially endurance races [/FONT]
Nothing more, nothing less.
Another matter, sort of connected with this one…
As most of you know, the original
Paul Ricard didn’t had that chicane right there at the start, it was a straight until the now
4th corner.
I don’t know for sure why the
moder putted the
1st grid spot on the left side of the track being a left turn the first turn (
should be taken from right). Unless the outside line (the faster one) as to give room to the inside one... "
grey area" aproach warning
I suspect that in
RL this might happen because the
right side is the dirty one (
rubber marbles) since in race no one goes over that side (
illegal, pit exit, after the last turn one must stay left and only come fully right after the end of the pit exit), perhaps a better service would be done by moving the 1st spot to the right side of the grid even
though in RL that might not be the situation (I've seen many races in Paul Ricard with all sort of grid dispositions).
