I got rammed out of shape at 3 spots:
turn 2 (Griffins Bend) - the right hander after the 1st long straight
turn 20 - the end of Conrod straight
turn 23 (Murrays Corner) - the last corner
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At turn 2, it's happening when I'm in hard braking. It's mostly the Huayra or Speed 12 comes with unbelievable speed and from nowhere. It's like I'm hit by a missile, and I'm already on the wall when I realize this. It's mostly OK because there's still a long road ahead, I have time to catch up.
Turn 20, or in the Conrod straight, it's relatively manageable to me. I can see them coming, and I can also block them successfully. They tend to be careful before the S. It's more difficult to deal with when I'm pushed at the side of my rear half, especially on unstable cars right before the turn. Sometimes they do this dirty trick on me. (like what the US policemen do to the criminal in the high way as I see on the youtube... )
At turn 23, it's similar to turn 2. They'd catch up with unbelieveable acceleration in the short staight after the S. Then there could be 3 situations:
1) one of the chasing car rams me at full speed when I'm in the braking zone, brings me to the sand with it, and the 3rd car takes the lead and win;
2) similar to the above, the following car is already sitting on my rear bumper before the braking zone, pushing me straight. I hit the brake earlier but still can't take 2 cars slow down properly because it keeps on pushing when I'm braking. Again, 2 in sand, the 3rd win.
3) I defend my position successfully at turn in, but the following car pushes me at the moment when I'm accelerating out of the corner. The oblique push with overwhelming power makes me spin. My car swaps ends right before the finish. Drop to 5th or 6th when I finally recover.
It's the most tricky at the final corner, annoying, actually. I lost count how many times they brought me down over here. It's dirty, I hate it.
Say, it's obvious that I have better pace in the previous laps, so I catch up. And I'm also fast enough to overtake. And then, they just fight back in a way that I feel suddenly disabled. Bad joke, not funny at all.
It can only be avoided by a lead of more than 3 or 4 sec., but I can't do that with handicap, or I'd need huge luck, which is usually not there.
I'd love to take some degree of challenges with the cars of lower pp and do the hard works and get the reward. However, with such a design of irrational AI and a moving goal, I lost the interest to dig deeper.
Unlike the S 10-lap Ascari in which I keep finding lower and lower pp cars to win, these tricky seasonal events just punish me when I'm with lower pp cars. I think I'll only do it with enough pp to keep away from those nuts.
As I've seen there's no such situation in the excellent replays of WhoosierGirl & JogoAsobi...
