rFactor 2 Round 3 Birmingham Superprix - Sat Mar 18, 2023

There was no way of avoiding this bug close to barrier or far away from it, its random and its not our fault, john is already aware of more details about the bug, its completly random you can go ahead and watch the vod, the moment i got it i was far from the barrier same as paul, and problem is you don't get a penalty point u directly get a stop & go
and there is no way of avoiding the penalty because as soon as the warning shows on ur screen, half a second later you get the penalty so not even time to process & slow down.
the way i see things should have gone, is as soon as the bug was discovered the race settings should have been changed to remove track limit rules (since this is a street cuircuit with no where to cut the track its okey to do so) rather than deal with the aftermath of a faulty track mod converted from an older game engine to a newer engine with a modified track limits system.

 

Mark, I am not sure if you know this bug or not. It is random! I watched the replay over and over and there were people going closer to the barrier than me and they did not get the penalty. The other thing is that it did not assess points it just gave a ridiculous 43 sec stop & Go. It is not really fair to say we did not take note of what John said. I agree with Oussama that knowing, there is nowhere to actually cut the track, and that fact that this bug is random, the penalties should have been disabled for this race only. It is not right when we take this stuff seriously, it is being broadcast and contenders for the championship are taken out from no fault of there own. That is the only reason I kept racing was because, to me, this was obviously something totally out of our control, and I thought the positions would have been adjusted accordingly. I will continue as I enjoy the competition with my fellow racers but I would be more upset if I was in the battle for #1 in the championship.

Just my thoughts!

 

John, the bug is random. I set up race and did 10 laps going as close to the barricade as I could without touching it and did not get one warning or penalty. It is a pity about this bug because that is a really fun track and it would be fun to race again. All we need to do is turn of the penalties on that track only.

 

Naa dont feel bad for me.
your just taking a shortcut from responsibilitiy

 

Very True Mark. I agree and I totally accept the admins decision. I do not lay any blame and I have no hard feelings towards the admins. I was upset that the random penalty gods chose me as one to be sacrificed.
In my reply to the decision, I was only trying to say that, as far as I can see, it is random, because I cannot replicate in a race scenario and in the replay there were many people going close to the wall there but only two penalties were given.

It's in the distant past now. We will survive...lol

 

In other leagues where they don't ask for donations on their website and do invest in their project because they love it, if a race was done on a faulty track, the drivers are never blamed for falling vicitim of a bug.
instead the race result is deleted all together and no points are awarded to anyone.
In our case where the bug is actually random, your saying if people go 3 wide on staright finishline and the only way to avoid being giving an unjust penalty is to compromise their race by slowing down or moving away from the bug or lit just take on the bug and compromise their race, as a competitor the least you expect from a league is to serve justice and not say we already defined the bug (inaccuratly) in a track we knew is broken and after knowing all of that not even thinking of what to do to limit the damage, and then say its your fault especially if your fighting for championship.
and last point is your broadcasting this championship so the fact that you have a fight for the championship and not seing the ammount of content your getting for free from us racing door to door, litteraly destroyed by what you are doing.
i'm not gonna try to justify anything anymore its all over now youv proven your point the moment asking for a formation lap became an insult.
like i said im moving on from this championship i will use the time that i would invest here to another league and wish you all the best of luck.
Congratulations to Kiriil he won it fair and square. and i advise the admins to review their actions/statements

 

we are alsso giving you content for your youtube channel, so your saying we dont have life/work to do? i lit had to call off my work on saturday to make it for silverstone and keep the championship alive. im not gonna win anything if i win the championship btw.

 

Oh wow. I know it's frustrating when a track bug ruins the race. I had this recently when I raced the Imp. Leading the race I had no idea that the track is in heaven and that it takes so long to fall in the pit lane again. But the admins invest so much time to show us so many new tracks and cars and it can happen that some are not that good. On my side I had no problems at all after avoiding the side wall.
@Oussama Knani, I don't know what John promised you if you win the championship, but I want that too! Seriously, it sounded on the broadcast like it wouldn't make any sense to you to race with us if you don't win the championship. I enjoyed our race before I made the mistake and I hope you will join us again for the next races.
And just a reminder from me: please see the Rules and Regulations on SRO.
And especially this one: "The use of the Esc. key in Qualification"
John actually posts it again for each event.