[Michal Janak]

Just my two cents: Example from GT3 at Nürburgring: Me and leader did a Pitstop at roughly 30min mark. I tried to undercut with switching to softs. He pitted a lap later, he came out of pits close to me and we fighted for the win even if we were just P5 and P6 at that moment. (This battle is reasonable as we both had decent gap to P3 so could aford to loose some time)


Then I approached a car that did not pit driving in P1, it had meds on for about 45mins already. Me with fresh softs and trying to get away from batteling guy behind me was having a pace advantage of nealy 1.5 seconds a lap. He defended like it was going for the race win with driving defensive lines, blocking, and even edgy stuff like driving one off the track in mercedes arena. (This battle is totally unreasonable as he would fight for P5 after his mandatory pit stop, with defending he went around 1s a lap slower than nomal and I was 2.5s a lap slower including almost an incident and position lost against the guy behind.. All in all the guy lost 10-15 seconds in that fight resulting in 3 positions lost at the end of the race... he finished P8 or so)


So you can choose: fighting "nice" fights or be smart and race for top position.

just like i thing, this "nice" battle can usualy lost race to both sides, racer after puit can lost his win because drivers behind him catch him and nontactical defender loses too, and higher posibility for crash you must count too, for me when i know the situation, why hold someone clearly faster like fight for life, nothing to gain there