Sorry SG15 but it's not a great day because of football... It's a great day cause my new PSN ID is GTP_Litchi 👍
I hear you. But it all comes down to each driver. If everybody is sticking to the rule "Do not floor it before the car ahead of you go", the start will quickly becoma a single file from a double file.
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Making the field roll single file from the very beginning would lead to huge distances between the front and the back of the grid.
Well, pretty much what is supposed to be everyone's main goal, is to get down to single file by turn 1.
Honestly, our starts are getting good to the point where it doesn't concern me anymore. We've achieved a pretty good balance, some of us still get a little anxious early on in long races, but it's not guaranteed that 3/4 the field will crash in the first 10 laps.
So I'm happy with what we have.
From a technical standpoint, it's silly to line up beside each other and try to get in line, when we could just start in line. So while we can say "we're supposed to try to get single file right away", clearly we're leaving passing an option on the table, and we want to be able to make a pass or two by turn one if we get 'the jump'. 💡
I think we drive well enough lately that double file works great as is, with the right drivers.
To be honest I use the car directly in front of me, and if I see myself really getting a jump on someone I ease into partial throttle and peddle them, trying to fit in the largest gap front and rear I can fit into.Like I said, I just prefer single file... just answering Denilson's query.
I'm pretty sure the safety record comes from enough people like me not caring about the start. I don't start racing until Lap 2 in this series. I know there probably would have been a turn 1 pile up in the monaco sprint if I hadn't given the spot to GV going into the first turn. (which I did because even though I was in p2 on the inside line I've been around GV enough at the starts to know that he like to be really racy at the beginning so I backed off and let him cut across into turn 1 and filed in behind him.)
So IMO it feels like there's enough people who's sole focus is avoiding chaos that it works out. I know I'm not the only one out there.
But back to my previous post... what does "the car in front of you" mean when there are two cars in front of you? Are p2 & 3 both watching p1? or is p3 supposed to wait for p2 to go? It's the 'trying to get a jump on someone' bit that I don't like about the whole business. It just ends up pretty random since it's not like each row is gassing it when they hit the s/f line, it's all based on the vague notion of "the car in front".
The car in front of you means.. The car 1 spot ahead of you.
You can watch the Monza replay, and watch me holding my throttle until welsh go. I do not go when Redreevos go.. But as I said, not all does that. And I've also lost a spot to false starters... Which is a shame. But I don't bother that much. The worst one was Joshua1994 who overtook me at Monaco. Not the nicest track to loose a spot at.. Especially not when driving an NSX.
Joshua1994, I'm not tring to call you out or anything. We're all good! 👍
I'm always looking at the car one spot in front of me, not the car directly ahead of me.
By the way, now I see me being mentioned... I hope I haven't been too aggressive at starts! If I am, please do tell me. I would never want to be a problem for the other guys 👍 . In any case, those who know me from before PURE, racing in the Integras, would know that I never got into any clash with other drivers, so I'd like to think I'm rather clean
i now this a off-topic here but today it' a great day!!! a Football Club (soccer for our american friends ) called Barcelona will pass today over Real Madrid in the quarter final of the spanish cup jijiji go Barça gooooo
Can someone join my room and spectate my quali?
Boy, this thread really died.. Where's everybody?
Only one who's not racing this week is Minion.. I expect the rest to show up.
Ran a best of 2'15.5xx and I think I'll be lucky to run a low 15 for qualifying, just hope I can make D1
Boy, this thread really died.. Where's everybody?
Last I checked, I couldn't log onto the servers. I will check again now.
BTW - Nice qualifying time teammate 👍
Lol, I'm here, no worry
But I met a girl at the new year party night so now, I have a new gf. I'm finally not single . So, I'm not every day and every hour on the forum
But no worry guys, I'm here 👍
Boy, this thread really died.. Where's everybody?
It's "dead" because all procedures and stuff are solid. Nothing to discuss I guess.
I am answering your question with the answer you gave me last week when I asked the same question.