This is why I use an alt account on Dailies now... to avoid the idiots and also because the penalty system is so screwed up that it's impossible to race clean if you want to overtake anyone ever. Or, you can just ride around behind people and finish where you qualify. But with the usual Senna-wannabes (two of them with replica helmets separately caused me to lose 20 SR in two consecutive races this afternoon by swerving in the last turn of Suzuka).
But the penalties are so stupid:
1) guy loses it in a Scirocco, (and I get tapped from behind) ...I cannot avoid touching his rear bumper (and I get overtaken in the process of trying to) and
I get a 2 sec penalty (on lap 1... a death sentence for that race), and a SR reduction
2) lap 2 in the sale race, another guy in a Porsche loses it in the same complex, and then turns into me, and again I get the time penalty and another SR reduction
3) Next race, I leave a guy 200 yards on the last lap, because he's losing it every other corner, but he bins it so bad in the last corner that he ghosts, so I try to clear on the outside, but this Senna fan isn't done causing trouble, and swerves into me after ghosting, in the final turn of a Daily Race A (after he bullied his way to the position in front of me at the start, which I yielded to afterward to avoid just this thing.)
1)
(SR DOWN and 2 SEC PENALTY) (to the moron that thinks I should have known he'd inexplicably drop a wheel on the inside curb of that first apex, and thus nearly bin it in front of me, when there was no one to his outside, when he was on a perfectly fine line on entry, go stuff yourself. Tapping him ever so lightly, after giving him three car lengths on entry, and he screws up a turn that way, was in no way a driving foul on my part and didn't merit a 2 sec penalty that immediately put me in last place.)
2)
(SR DOWN and 1 SEC PENALTY) (notice also that I'm hit from behind by the Lambo, which is a factor- him being right on my rear means I had nowhere to go but beside the Porsche, and that I had help getting there when he hit me... also got no penalty) (to the moron suggesting I should be able to see the future and not be on the throttle, see prior statement, and recognize that what I did was get beside the Porsche because I knew the Lambo was potentially going to punt me into the rear of the Porsche, which would have sent him off, earned me a sure penalty, and perhaps ended in a worse ball-up. So being beside him here is not the problem. Getting turned into by the Porsche is. Stuff yourself if you want to argue about that.)
3)
(SR DOWN - I WAS ONLY RUNNING THIS RACE TO GET MY SR PATCHED UP FROM PRIOR CRAP SO NOW I AM FURTHER IN THE HOLE)
So my spotless record is not at the moment, and if I wanted to run an FIA race I'd have to rehab it again before I could earn any useful points and compete against people that I deserve to. Stupid, stupid system.
I completely agree about giving people a bit of room but not everybody has got the message. I had a race yesterday where the two in front were battling door to door, I could see it wasn't going to end well, lifted off a bit to give myself room to deal with their fallout, then got hit from behind and received an SR down. Sometimes you just can't win!
this is one of the worst things about current system. Hair trigger for contact in front of you but then also assigns penalty or SR downs when you get rear ended, and as you’ve said, often as you are trying to avoid someone in front or give room to a row ahead of you, like you might IRL. But: penalty either way. It’s a no-win, unless you just concede positions, which is not racing.
