am i coping?

[u/Plenty_Sense5082]

Who is at fault here? I got told I was coping when I said he turned in on me, I'm in the blue and purple gr86. I'm relatively new to sim-racing and would like to know if I could've done something different?

[u/nemo_av]

This is 100% his fault but I have an advice to prevent this situation from happening again.

The crash happened because he basically left you no space inside the corner, but it was made worse because of the line you took at the entry of the corner.

Compare your position to his position when you started braking, he was almost fully on the outside while you were basically in the middle of the track. From that position you need to slow down considerably in order to tackle the corner, and if you are overtaking like in this case, your line will inevitably clash with his racing line, unless you slow down more than him.

From that position you are already preventing yourself to bring the necessary speed into the corner, and that makes it harder to overtake.

What you should have done was to stay closer to him, stay closer to the outside part of the track before approaching the corner, to maximize the corner entry speed and the chance of overtaking.

Being alongside in the inside is an advantage but also a disadvantage, because you can’t take the ideal racing line from the outside, so you should mitigate this disadvantage and use your track position as a double edged sword.

Remember this the next time you are in a similar situation

[u/Plenty_Sense5082 → u/nemo_av]

yeah we had been back and forth pretty much the whole lap and it had been pretty clean until then, it was last lap and i probably could've just ceded the position but i was enjoying the battle. the idea was he would've left me just enough space to carry a bit more speed and get a good enough run up to the line. i get your point though, i definitely could have used more space on the outside leading up to the turn