[Roman Yakubovich]

It's not so much that you not win time by running wide but more that you don't realy lose any. I see people doing it lap after lap and  you get the feeling they aren't even trying to keep it on. I drove the audi TT cup on catelunya yesterday and got a 10 second penalty for running wide a tiny bit. It's a tough balancing act.

Considering Copse, wider you go offtrack more time you lose. To be honest I don't know why AC devs didn't do so everywhere so that there is no need in stupid cut penalties. They did it in Copse but it seems they didn't do it in Stowe - you can run even over astro and don't lose any time.

Talking about Barcelona - no idea why they didn't do that on the outside of T3 and the chicane (T-whatever). In a recent race on Lotus Exos I had to recover from the back after start pile-up, got in the slipstream/opened up too early in T3 and ended up off the track, got 10 secs / 35 kph penalty after losing big time by going there -> lost track positions -> "earned" valuable extra incident points while serving penalty and repassing guys -> lost championship. Damage is not wild, but it seems this could be fixed easily, that's what makes it look stupid in my eyes.

Overall - yes, it is a tough balancing act. You should know some tricks about where you gain time by going wide and where you lose time.