Huh. That seemed close.

EDIT: cleaning youtube too... everything must go. Video deleted to migrate to new host.

I don't see anything wrong with that move. It seemed that as you moved left to the outside of the turn the car ahead seemed to hesitate and you can hear him lift and reapply the throttle a couple of times. Weather due to your actions or as the car lost momentum (Due to the lifts) you made the pass.

I have no racing experience whatsoever. but, I've played forza.

I would guess its putting too much confidence in his ability to stay on the inside. If he has too much momentum, he goes to the outside a bit, and boom bang bam ouch.

amiright?

jimbbski wrote: I don't see anything wrong with that move. It seemed that as you moved left to the outside of the turn the car ahead seemed to hesitate and you can hear him lift and reapply the throttle a couple of times. Weather due to your actions or as the car lost momentum (Due to the lifts) you made the pass.

I pinched him to a tighter line. He had to lift to keep from pushing me into the armco. I was half a tire off on the outside so he left me only exactly the room he should. I guess that is what you call trust

lnlogauge wrote: I have no racing experience whatsoever. but, I've played forza. I would guess its putting too much confidence in his ability to stay on the inside. If he has too much momentum, he goes to the outside a bit, and boom bang bam ouch. amiright?

Yeah - you do don't do that with people who have rookie 'X' stickers on the car but for the most part the BMWCCA and NASA guys are good racers. You get to know who is risky with close quarters pretty quickly.

I'm going to credit you with good racecraft for that pass. It's not your fault if he got nervous an lifted just enough to lose momentum. You saw it unfolding, you knew your car, saw the hole open up, saw the relative difference in energy, then the zen part of your brain kept your foot in it for the pass. Well done!

It looks to me like you were a race car driver driving a race car. People who don't want to press an advantage (even in 30th) should keep running HPDE. :)

I liked it.

He made his mistake and you gained your advantage on the previous corner. Had you not gone outside, that would have been wasted, and your exit from the second corner would have been compromised.

You had no choice. You don't make that move, you need to go home, turn in your man card and start knitting.

I raced for a number of years and I see nothing wrong with that pass.

I believe that there is what we call racin!

In my group you need to have front of your car up to the driver at turn-in in order to require the other racer to give you room through the corner. However, your action doesn't look horrible to me; plus I think it shows a competitor using sound judgement and good racecraft to avoid an incident. Racing is fun, fixing is not. Jcamper

Cool, you just drove on around him. Why not?