Happy wrote:You can't do much more than say it's up to individual drivers to judge how slow they should go to avoid the dings. Sometimes you will get over taken by drivers who don't slow down for dings and they will be the ones that go pop pop.
Basically if you can drive around the track and avoid all the crashes by slowing down for them, you're going to do pretty well anyway
That didn't work for me at hillside, horrific...getting spun around and made part of the trackside objects for a few laps (waiting for a gap to rejoin) certaintly didn't help....
A year or so ago I woulda just gone for it, slowing down for accidents what's that for..Days of Thunder approach...lol...now I probably err on too cautious side..at least I dont feature in the "caused big ding you !@#$%" discussions much if at all.
All about getting the balance right for me now and improving in key areas like catching and holding a draft, pitting and safe passing when it counts.
California was great in practice, race time all the great ideas went out the window, I judged slowing for accidents badly, different lines both opened the door to wide and made passing just a nightmare, slow in fast out approach was fine if running with someone with similar lines, but mostly I just got frustrated at getting cutoff or held out, even inside first 20 when I thought at least that I was faster.
Overall in hindsight I didn't adapt to the conditions well enough, got outta step on stops, failed to latch on to the right trains and wore my tires out trying to get round mobile roadblocks. In a word frustrating.
Ah well..all grist for the mill.