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Re: Rules for Overtaking
Posted by 'SimonS' on 23 Sep 2012 @ 12:16

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The rules are badly written and appear to allow this behaviour.

The fault seems to lie in the rule that permits the "one move to defend the position" without any limitation or definition of defence or position and actually specifies moving across the track as a legitimate procedure.

I was told by a steward that guidance had been issued but how and what was left to my imaginataion.

As far as I can see:

1) You may not make contact nor deliberately cause contact to be made

2)You may adjust course on leaving a corner to assume a new racing line. That course does not have to be the optimum racing line and may make it difficult for a vehicle behind to initiate an overtaking manoeuvre.

2a) You may not move to block an overtaking manoeuvre that has already been initiated.

3) You may not squeeze a kart off the track either to the inside or outside. If a kart has established an overlap, it is entitled to one kart's width of room

But:

"we collided and I t-boned him."

I cannot see how you did this on the straight. But then I define T-bone as meaning that you hit him more or less square in the sidepod, not that you sideswiped his rear corner and spun him across your nose.

If you did T-bone him because he had started his turn into the corner and you were travelling too fast to negotiate the corner within that one kart's width that he was obliged to leave you, then yes, the CoC was right. And if you did T-bone him, then it was you that made the contact.

Essentially, if you are over on the inside edge of the track and couldn't get round the corner with your front wheel glued to the white line and there is a kart outside you, then you were going too fast and should have braked earlier.

Message Thread:

Rules for Overtaking by 'Cannar' (23 Sep 2012 @ 9:54)

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'EtheT' (23 Sep 2012 @ 10:13)

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'Aquila' (23 Sep 2012 @ 10:53)

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'Aquila' (23 Sep 2012 @ 10:55)

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'Liam' (02 Oct 2012 @ 20:51)

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'SimonS' << You are here!

Re: Rules for Overtaking by 'RCexcel' (24 Sep 2012 @ 21:35)

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