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[wheelsportaddict]

Originally Posted by Robin_D

Ok I've had Iracing for just over a week and i'm getting oh so frustrated.

I'm a fair driver. If someone has the line I will put up a fight for so long but then let them through. All without incident.

However, it seems every other Tom, Dick (quite literally) and Harry, just doesn't give a hoot. Just had an MX5 race on Lime Rock. I started 8th and was up to 5th on the first lap. Guy behind me in 6th was being pushy and I was watching this however he decided that a damned good love tap was enough (4x) to let me know. I let him through and went pursuing him.

Coming into the final stages and I'm latched on to 2nd and 3rd place. 3rd place is all over the place and i'm going for moves and poking it around. I get my nose cut off in to T1 and then into T2 he runs wide and then shuts the door mid corner.

Result........ Broken steering and a DNF along with 12 penalty points.

Cocknobs.

How long do I have to race for before I find decent people to race against?

I know the feeling. I did an MX-5 race a couple of weeks ago at Lime Rock and was going well, started 6th on the grid, was in 2nd coming out of turn one after a banzai start but got pushed out wide on turn 3 and had to coast across the grass and was running in 7th at the end of lap 1.

By lap 12 I was back up to 4th after a couple of retirements, within sight of 3rd place and catching as they had handing issues. The guys in 1st and 2nd were catching me and by lap 15 were close enough that I started giving them room to get through. This went on for a couple of laps, before 1st place got through on the pit straight and 2nd was about 2/10ths back.

I spent a whole lap giving him every opportunity to get past, thus slowing myself down and ruling myself out of 3rd place until we got to the pit straight on lap 17/18, where I pulled to the right hand side to let him go on the racing line, where he decided to side swipe me in to the end of the pit wall. This resulted in me having to run the last couple of laps with 'cross-eyed' steering and dropping to 8th by the flag.

Now maybe he thought I was holding him up, but even so, that's no excuse for nurfing me off and ruining my race. Admittedly, I didn't put in a protest as I didn't know how, but I was very pee'd off, so much so that a full post-race war of words ensued.