07-10-2018, 02:15 PM
It's doable with any car except the very old soft suspension pre 1980 ones where staying on a track itself on vintage tyres and boat like suspension is a challenge, even if you steer somewhere it takes a while to do anything and then it slides sideways out of corners constantly.
With DTMs? No problem. As long as drivers don't crash each other on entry you can legitimately overtake on inside line through the Eau Rouge chicane. Is it easy to do it fast with an E30, no and it will probably drift on uphill but it can do it side by side through the whole 3 turn chicane. Is it fast to do it, no but then no corner is fast when you gotta go side by side, if one lets the other go then it is not that slow at all and they both can go through fast with no one having to drift or anything. Is it better to wait for straight to overtake? Sometimes yes sometimes not, always depends on the current situation.
Most fast drivers will do the overtake before Eau Rouge or in it if they have the extra speed and overlap. If the defending car wants to block it should block soon enough before there is any overlap at all and block in such a way that there is no space left on the side to exploit/use for an overtake, driving middle of the road there is not blocking it's being undecided what to do.
If you're fast and you see some hot head trying to overtake you into Eau Rouge or before, then let them, teach them a lesson by overtaking them back on the straight afterward.
The basic rules are fairly simple and well defined for decades in simracing:
https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Rules_of_Clean_Racing
Using mirrors and being aware of cars around pays off. If you can't do it and refuse to learn it then use some of the helping apps AC allows you to use, in fact it defaults to those indicators being enabled.
The incidents in Eau Rouge and elsewhere can be avoided by not pushing or bumping opponent cars beside you be it on corner entry, mid corner, corner exit or straights.
With DTMs? No problem. As long as drivers don't crash each other on entry you can legitimately overtake on inside line through the Eau Rouge chicane. Is it easy to do it fast with an E30, no and it will probably drift on uphill but it can do it side by side through the whole 3 turn chicane. Is it fast to do it, no but then no corner is fast when you gotta go side by side, if one lets the other go then it is not that slow at all and they both can go through fast with no one having to drift or anything. Is it better to wait for straight to overtake? Sometimes yes sometimes not, always depends on the current situation.
Most fast drivers will do the overtake before Eau Rouge or in it if they have the extra speed and overlap. If the defending car wants to block it should block soon enough before there is any overlap at all and block in such a way that there is no space left on the side to exploit/use for an overtake, driving middle of the road there is not blocking it's being undecided what to do.
If you're fast and you see some hot head trying to overtake you into Eau Rouge or before, then let them, teach them a lesson by overtaking them back on the straight afterward.
- driver 1 hot head + driver 2 hot head = both want to be in front go side by side too fast = contacts = crash
- driver 1 calm + driver 2 hot head = driver 1 hot head + driver 2 calm = one driver slows down and lets the other go first through the chicane, no issues
- driver 1 calm = driver 2 calm = they both slow down and go side by side slowly, no contacts no crash
- rejoin track poorly by disrupting cars on track or crashing into them = wreckfest, wait for cars to pass or use a safe place to rejoin where you can be seen and are not driving into racing line, it is 100% responsibility of the car rejoining to do it safely and not disrupt other cars on track, use sideviews, mirrors, map, real time time distances etc. and then rejoin when there is a big enough space and you won't suddenly jump in front of anyone or into their raceline, there is a huge space after Eau Rouge on the left side on straight to rejoin, never do it on the horizon corner, behind it on right side in blind spot or mid uphill, you have to realize cars are gong 200km/h with almost no space to maneuver to avoid you even if they wanted to and you're probably doing 50km/h at best trying to crawl back on track
The basic rules are fairly simple and well defined for decades in simracing:
https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Rules_of_Clean_Racing
Using mirrors and being aware of cars around pays off. If you can't do it and refuse to learn it then use some of the helping apps AC allows you to use, in fact it defaults to those indicators being enabled.
The incidents in Eau Rouge and elsewhere can be avoided by not pushing or bumping opponent cars beside you be it on corner entry, mid corner, corner exit or straights.