Is it just me, or has iRacing been feeling more like bumper cars recently? I haven’t been playing iRacing for too long, so I’m curious about others’ perspectives, but recently it’s felt like the driving standard of those competing, even in higher splits, has dramatically dropped. I’m constantly competing with people using others as brakes for corners, taking out half the pack in like the first or second lap when acting like a hero makes zero sense. Granted I’m not the fastest out there but it feels like people’s common sense to back out of a manuaver or willingness to take a corner 3 wide without changing speed or breaking zones has dramatically increased as of late. Just wanted to see what others takes are. Maybe I’m just getting to sucked in as of late and letting little shit affect me, but it’s killed a lot of fun these past couple weeks. Maybe the lower splits just had more people focused on learning the craft vs people on higher splits thinking they are max verstappen, idk.
Since COVID it has been a bit more rough in terms of race craft. i dont think its gotten worse since then but if you competed before COVID you would notice a huge difference.
I haven’t competed before covid but as someone else pointed out f4 has one of the highest incident counts and I just finally made the plunge to buy some maps and have been maining that series which could explain the difference I’m seeing from the higher split ff1600 series. Might just play in the ff1600 d ranked series until I’m at a higher license level for now. Thanks for the insight, though