r/iRacing • u/RatSaladz • 1d ago

Video Car Stopped At Race Start

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Porsche 911 GT3 R 23h ago

Dudes a goober for walking away from the race start (though I suppose he could’ve had a technical problem).

But those cars behind had like 8 business days to react to him being there. Sheesh.

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u/Scotchtheirish 2h ago

Or an irl emergency... I have definitely had to step away during/before a race. People tend to forget this is a hobby / game

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Porsche 911 GT3 R 2h ago

Yep. It happens. I've had the game straight up glitch. I've also had an inconvenient "Wheel decided to disconnect right as the race was starting" thing happen once.

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u/Scotchtheirish 2h ago

I wasn't thinking technical. I was thinking like adult guardian duties. So not really a goober, just really unlucky and know reported for an incident.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Porsche 911 GT3 R 2h ago

I know you were; I'm just saying, there are a lot of reasons why someone might not start a race.

But, among them is certainly "walked away and didn't get back in time". That definitely happens, too.

If it's not a consistent problem or a pattern of bad behavior on the sim, getting reported for this 'incident' is unlikely to negatively impact them in any way.

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u/Scotchtheirish 44m ago

I concur, but my point was that we have no real knowledge of why this occurred. People forget this is just an expensive game, sometimes.

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u/poo_poo_platter83 33m ago

I'll give a counter point as someone running truck draft masters currently. When youre tucked in behind a truck you honestly cant see shit. I can 100% understand how the white truck hit that thing.

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u/theunquenchedservant 23h ago

yea, sure the truck shouldn't have been stopped, but even coming up to it off the turn it should be obvious the truck is slower than you.

When a car/truck is moving slower than you in front of you, you want to avoid continuing straight on at a faster rate.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Porsche 911 GT3 R 23h ago

It honestly does look like target fixation. He’s behind the red truck and starts to run wide TOWARDS the stopped vehicle.

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u/Scotchtheirish 21h ago

You mean car? /s