Here's another from US dailies. Gr4 seems to be prime for this type of dirty driving.
This guy was 1 sec behind me at the start of the final lap. I drive conservatively to make sure I don't bin it, knowing that I've got that much time on him, and he does get a good run on the back straight. But I know he's in an Alfa, and that I've pulled a gap on him every prior lap down the back straight because the Subaru is so much more powerful, even breaking the tow if an Alfa is in it. So as long as he doesn't punt me, I can cover the apex and hold my position.
But he decides instead, to hit me from behind, send me into the grass, and then drive on to what I assume was a massive celebration for his success in P5. He LOL'd me in the lobby chat after I called him out on his poor race craft and congratulated him. I bet he really enjoyed a night with his lady friend after, as well, she must have been so impressed.
This was in the top split for this race, and there were guys at the front who had fastest 100 QT, I think. So I don't know how much better the Dailies can get, if this is the pinnacle of the pool of players.
US Dailies are broken at this level. Unless you're in the top 5 and amongst the fastest in the region, you have no chance. Not to win, but not to have a fun race anymore either. I have no delusions of winning... a top 5 is a good result for me and all I'm shooting for. But these idiots that think this is racing... makes the game not fun.
I do think PD need to ditch the no SR/DR update Race A idea, too. It's A) cultivating bad manners amongst the playing base and 2) taking away another forum for clean fun driving... it used to be, if you were clean and fast, Daily A was a fun hang out because you could avoid the carnage behind you most times, and race against the small number of clean drivers up front race after race. I think
@BenRod @Dairyworker and BrownBeast know what I mean, as we often would share the top 5 spots with the carnage all behind.
I will admit I did squeeze him on the apex. At the time I thought I gave enough room at that point. I don't blame them for the bump, I've done it before. Contact like that I don't mind as it was in the heat of the moment and we were fighting for a spot. I would have conceded the position once we got to turn 1 honestly. There was no way I was going to make that turn without going way wide. Good to have another set of eyes on this. I don't want to blame others if I was the culprit of the incident and not learn anything.
The same thing happened to me at Road Atlanta this week in the Nations Cup race. That last turn is really challenging and I'm not surprised to see from
@hollowkatt post that it causes carnage IRL too. The apex is weird, a little like the last turn at Big Willow, but in a sneaky way that you do end up squeezing people more than you realize. Knowing that tricky and insanely fast T1 is at the end of the front straight means you don't want to give up that turn before you enter the final turn, but that's what you're doing if you concede the apex. So you defend it harder than most, and at a funny angle in most cases. I think it's the kind of thing that if you're racing IRL, you talk about in the drivers' meeting and prepare yourself for, because the consequences are severe... it's fast. Expensive and costly to your well-being if a mistake is made. But that's the problem in GT7... there aren't consequences. So you concede and cycle yourself down the order when there's a challenge, or you get punted trying to defend yourself reasonably. Those are 99% of the outcome choices. And it's making the game not fun.
