[Russell Sobie]

Contact is definitely part of racing, i don't think anyone would deny that contact won't ever happen. In simracing, it's a bit different though, because there's warping, because of client, or server lag, plus the collision box of the cars is a vastly simplified one, so there can be ghost contact, thus contacts should rather be tried to avoid in most cases. Of course, it still happens, and that's ok, it's just that people should watch out a bit, and try to avoid contact where they can.

This. Also, in professional racing in real life, everyone on the grid is a super hero compared to 99% of sim racers. Any sort of contact is likely easily dealt with by folks who live and breathe this stuff on a daily basis, whereas most of us have day jobs.