This is why you need to be very careful with TF - and remember: if there is an accident then the only people who care who is to blame are the Police and the Insurance company - you are still walking home.
First thing is first - in TF, it is a public road and you are supposed to drive on the right and overtake on the left. However, a car behind is generally considered to be responsible for ensuring that an overtake is safe and hitting the back of a car is usually blamed on the car behind. As such, the blame game if they had hit could actually go either way and would thus probably have been evens. (Unless one or the other failed to stop of course - the local law really don't view that in an acceptable light).
But the most important part:
Partyvan wrote: I assumed...
As they say : assumption is the root of all f**k ups. In TF the one thing that you should not do is assume. In particular you never assume that a car has seen you. You equally should never aim to pass into an apex. Your approach is into the blind spot of the car that you are passing, they are almost certain to be focussing on the exit and unless they have both seen you and are expecting you to overtake then the gap that you are aiming at WILL close every time. This is the reason why overtaking on bends is banned on track days - it practically guarantees that collisions will take place sooner or later.
If it is going slowly then you can overtake a GT2RS in even an R4R Swift without doing anything so daftly impatient.
As for complaining about cars being impolite and not moving over and waving you through : it is TF - they don't have to do that. It wasn't in the briefing that they didn't have or on anything that they were not given to not read. That is the point, and indeed the fact that on track days people are required to show consideration is just one more reason why they are better than TF.
And finger pointing isn't relevant either - for every super car who has held me up when I was in a FWD rental there are at least as many people in hatchbacks that have thought that they were winning a BTCC race by being in front of me in the 911. Nobody has yet explicitly blocked my in a Suzuki, but plenty of shed jockeys have done when I was in a GT3. Even on DH, which is true ignorant f**kwitery... :nooo:
First thing is first - in TF, it is a public road and you are supposed to drive on the right and overtake on the left. However, a car behind is generally considered to be responsible for ensuring that an overtake is safe and hitting the back of a car is usually blamed on the car behind. As such, the blame game if they had hit could actually go either way and would thus probably have been evens. (Unless one or the other failed to stop of course - the local law really don't view that in an acceptable light).
But the most important part:
Partyvan wrote: I assumed...
As they say : assumption is the root of all f**k ups. In TF the one thing that you should not do is assume. In particular you never assume that a car has seen you. You equally should never aim to pass into an apex. Your approach is into the blind spot of the car that you are passing, they are almost certain to be focussing on the exit and unless they have both seen you and are expecting you to overtake then the gap that you are aiming at WILL close every time. This is the reason why overtaking on bends is banned on track days - it practically guarantees that collisions will take place sooner or later.
If it is going slowly then you can overtake a GT2RS in even an R4R Swift without doing anything so daftly impatient.
As for complaining about cars being impolite and not moving over and waving you through : it is TF - they don't have to do that. It wasn't in the briefing that they didn't have or on anything that they were not given to not read. That is the point, and indeed the fact that on track days people are required to show consideration is just one more reason why they are better than TF.
And finger pointing isn't relevant either - for every super car who has held me up when I was in a FWD rental there are at least as many people in hatchbacks that have thought that they were winning a BTCC race by being in front of me in the 911. Nobody has yet explicitly blocked my in a Suzuki, but plenty of shed jockeys have done when I was in a GT3. Even on DH, which is true ignorant f**kwitery... :nooo:
