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Originally Posted by Fairfax 944
But for those laps that I was held up in traffic, and didn't know how fast or slow the cars were behind me, was I wrong not throwing a pass to the guy behind me? I don't think so, because I didn't know if the person behind me was faster or slower as the pace was quite slow.
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Hmmm... good question. Like Kurt, I think the answer is "It depends". From what I've seen, often times the conductor won't give a pass to the #2 guy because they are similar in lap times - say #1 does 1:29s and #2 does 1:28s. #2 is faster, clearly, but not a LOT faster. So you get situations where #1 pulls away on the straights, but is caught in the carousel. #1 thinks "if I can just nail the carousel, I'll put some time between us" or "I don't want to be stuck behind this guy". And so no pass and the battle between #1 and #2 goes on lap after lap - meanwhile, #3 is one of those gods of DE, the "real" race car drivers like Scott running 1:26s who are being held up by your slow asses and being deprived of the opportunity to prove to the scouts in the stands from McLaren what they can really do.
In red, there is significantly more awareness of who is who and how fast (relatively) everyone is. I know in general who is faster or slower than me, so if I do get stuck in a train (like, for example, during red/black combined sessions) I'll typically let the faster guys go, even though I'm "next". One thing about doing this is it will often break the mental block of the train conductor - a new car in the rear view gives him that "holy shit" moment and gets the arm out the window. This followed by you coming up behind him immediately after will typically earn you a pass as well. So, in your situation - if I spent two laps behind the conductor without a pass, I'd let the guy behind me go if for no other reason than to try and break the log jam.
Then again, some guys are just egotistical douchebags who will never believe anyone is faster than them and will always be train conductors. These guys have zero track awareness and I like to think we keep them in black
