rec.autos.simulators

Hi

I first tried racing yesterday
and couldn't help notice they are
blue flagging me during the warm up ! !

Blue flag is for racing use to indicate a faster
car is about to lap you.
But I am in warm up !!!

Track officials are really over enthusiatic
with their flags

--
regards

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Singapore

Nope, all the flags count in every session... yellow, blue, red, black and
green! :)

During practice, a blue flag means there is a faster driver coming up
on you, it is different than a blue flag in a race because it doesn't
signify that you are getting lapped, but usually you will want to get
out of their way so you don't ruin a qualifying lap.

I think sometimes you get the blue flag when the guy coming up on you
isn't that much faster than you, but again just take it as a warning
that there's a fast guy coming, if he gets close then just move aside and
let him through, you will appreciate the same behaviour by other drivers
when it is you on a qualifying lap and coming up on someone fresh out
of the pits.

Seeyas on the track.

--John (Joao) Silva

Quit driving like an old lady then! :) *kidding*

True. Sportsmanship dictates that you give way to a faster driver in
qualifying if you have just left the pits (i.e. you're on an "out lap") or
are otherwise not on a hot lap.

However, the converse is true if you *are* on a hot lap in qualifying. It is
sporting of faster drivers not to disrupt your hot lap by filling your
mirrors. By definition, if a faster driver is at all impeded by your
presence, he's not posting a best time. So there's absolutely no point in
running up your gearbox trying to force you to yield. On the contrary, it's
the responsibility of the faster driver to position himself on the track so
as not to inhibit his run or to disturb the efforts of others.

In motorsport, a faster driver will slow somewhat to allow proper spacing if
he finds the track congested ahead. The term used is
"trolling"...substantially different in meaning than in the context of
newsgroups! :)

In GPL, the use of V/Shift+V in a stationary car makes proper spacing
relatively easy to achieve. Use Ctrl+V to return to your***pit view.

Jack Rambo

but what am I to do ?
it's only warm up !

everyone is behind each other in
warm up , right

| Nope, all the flags count in every session... yellow,
blue, red, black and
| green! :)
|

Its not a warm up its basically qualifying for the race and your holding
someone up so get out of his way.

 Todd.

Speaking of sportsmanship:  The other night I was racing at Zandvoort (I think
on Jack Rambo's server) and I was running in the top 5 in my Honda for a while.
There was a fast Lotus racing with a Ferrari ahead of me and they were pulling
away, then when I came up to Hugenholtzbocht  (the hard left before going up the
hill) I noticed the Lotus on the right off the track working to get back on, and
the Ferrari was waiting for him just ahead.

Of course I sped past both - only to get passed a little later - but after
thinking about it I figured that the Ferrari must have been at fault for the
Lotus' miscue, and stopped to wait for him to get righted again.  This was
during the race, not warmup.   I think that was a great example of "True
Sportsmanship", don't you?

The strangest AI pileup (not caused by me) I've seen was at Mosport.  Siffert was
limping around the track trying to get back to the pits with a damaged car when
it completely quit on him right after the 1st gear right-hander before the long
back straight. He was stranded in the middle of the track, not in view of the
other cars.  As the leaders came around to lap him, they all got collected in
what became a huge log jam.  I was merrily trundling around in about 10th,
managed to steer wide of the mess and moved up to 4th.  Pretty goofy.

Dave Ewing