Most of the time you can pretty much predict what's coming and prepare
yourself. Still, I would advice you to be the aggressor: punt before
getting punted, that way you don't have to guess what the AI is going to
do and thus, you can retain the control of your car.
If an AI car hits you and never goes off, it's just because he initiated
it and consequentially, could predict the behavior of his car much better
than you, the unsuspecting victim.
An extreme example:
If you will, you can be a kamikaze too... A while back in Chatham my
Panoz was considerably slower through the oval section than most of the
AI cars. Otoh, I usually caught them on the slower, curvy section, but
couldn't quite slip past them. Frustrated, I adopted a technique that
should've earnt me a black flag for sure. In one of the curves where I
usually caught the AI cars, I started to push them, just so much that it
would make them spin.
If you time it right (accelerating out of the curve), you can actually
make them spin with just a gentle push (won't hurt your car) to one
corner of the AI car. My "track record" for that race was six inflicted
spins and one off-road.
Obviously, I'm not encouraging anyone to drive like this. But it does
demonstrate that you don't have to put up will all the AI tricks, they're
just as vulnerable as you are.
I would advice you to steer clear from the most heated fights, take
advantage of the few overtaking opportunities and mistakes of the others
and if you're really battling it out with an AI car, don't let the AI to
take the initiative. Place yourself so that you can control the
situation.
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Antti Markus Peteri
15 miles. your dim light shines from so far away
- Soul Asylum, Promises Broken
