Originally Posted by
al dente
scott - i agree aboput the braking thing in racing. only problem is when you get a bunch of cuys coming down a 200 ft long straight, then jabing the binders, you tend to see alot of cars going alot of diferent directions. especially on asphalt, where traction is sketchy to start with. it is not good for the racers or the spectators to have a pile up in first corner every lap, and the anouncer gets tired of saying "watch the end of the straight.
Originally Posted by
syndr0me
And if you actually slow down to take the turn properly, the guys behind you drive it in hard and run up your backside. So you basically have to blow the turn to avoid being taken out. I brake all over the place in asphalt racing, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing in every situation.
Yes and yes...but both situations related are still DRIVER issues. If someone drives up someone's a$$ into the first turn the race director needs to "man up" and dish out penalties. I'd say restart and the offender(s) starts at the back of the pack 5 (or even 10 on your big tracks) seconds after the pack starts. If the penalty for being a bozo is high enough you get fewer bozos--I think the t-shirt says "being stupid should hurt".
By compromising the design of the track to account for bozos you're designing to least common denominator and thus dumbing-down the challenge for everybody.