[Russell Sobie]

Yeah, the Monza races this week I've been in have all had multi-car pile ups at turn one. I love Monza... it's the circuit I learned PC sim racing on back in Race'07, but it almost feels like this track should be banned outside of organized league play or something. Even folks like me that lift and drive a carefully held line through that chicane on the first lap still get plowed into from behind because no one practices going through that chicane in anything other than optimal racing line. I guess I would add that to a list of tips for new drivers: Practice going through turns that are frequent overtake turns (like chicanes) at many different entry and exit points at varying speeds.

Off topic: I would love it if there were a racing sim that would allow users to set up the state of a race that could easily be restarted and replayed over and over. Imagine how useful it would be to practice overtaking an AI at the last chicane at Spa a dozen times a minute, rather than only getting to practice that once every 1000x laps because that track is so long? Just set up a spawn point for your car, as many other AI cars as you want, and give everyone a starting speed. Hit a button, and it resets to your saved state so you can iterate as fast as possible. I currently do this for race starts, but even that is time consuming.