Question.
What are the contact rules for drivers in the same class? Am I allowed to, keyword following, tap a driver in order to disturb his or her rhythm and pass? It's a relatively high level technique, imo, because of the difficulty to properly gauge such contact without having the opposing driver spin out or go off course.
There wouldn't be a way to really gauge whether that move was performed intentionally or not so while it's not within the spirit of most racing rules it's not something that can get you penalized unless it's obvious to tell.
I don't like that strategy at all. I've never even heard of someone describing that move in practice. I've only seen drivers knock eachother out trying to get 'round in the last lap of a close race, not used as some high level maneuver. Maybe in police chase videos or Nascar.
One should try everything they can to not touch at all and if I was in front it's up to me to stay as stable as possible, we should all be prepared to get unsettled by any sort of contact but it shouldn't be expected that we might have to deal with intentional bumpage. But like I said, it can't be regulated really so we'd have to use the honor system, each racer knows what they're doing and what they did.
Good racing doesn't come from setting out as many rules as possible trying to get everyone in the same mentality. Just like in society every driver has their own personality and will react to situations completely different than the person racing next to them.
Good racing comes over time, just like learning to go fast. Although now in order to have cleanly you just have to practice driving with other people. After a while it will get a lot better so I won't tend to complain early on.
There's just two major things to keep in mind when racing:
1 - Races are never won in the first corner but they are often lost there.
2 - Your braking points change when driving behind someone, you
must adapt or you will run into them.
Overtaking is pretty obvious in knowing when a good time is. Everyone should know when passing's a bad idea on a certain part of a track.