Minorating.com (drivers thread)

I think more useful for ppl trying to move up a grade than ppl already in A... I only check it when I've had a shocker and know I've been in some big crashes and my message log is full of crash messaged

 

Yeah I get that for guys on C and below it's interesting. But if on A or B for a long time why bother?

 

Because we don't get mad enough by the contacts alone, we JUST NEED to see our pain in numbers.

 

I have never checked my grade or CP, and I have no interest in doing so.

 

Sounds like some weird fetish

 

Don't you mean YOUR braking point

Just joking with you... 50m early is a little on the early side

 

I had a similar encounter last night. After some tight laps in Monza the guy in front of me missed the apex of the Ascari chicane and in the moment he noticed I would exit the corner faster than him he stomped on the brakes right in front of me. 1 CP with 97% for me, hooray.
And that guy had a B rating...

 

Still getting pinged CP for after race incidents... have to actively bail way off track and into pits to avoid pinballers...

 

Here's the video:

(action starts at 1:17)
Watching it again, I think I might have saved from the contact if I backed up some more, but on the other hand I did lift the throttle and everything would have gone fine if he didn't stomp on the brakes.

 

He was clearly either messing about or not using his mirrors properly, so the contact was entirely his fault.

 

Thanks for confirming my point of view, Christopher.
Sadly MR thought it was my fault, but nevertheless I managed to get grade A this weekend.

 

I dont get it, what did he try to do, get back to another line, block you or did he somehow lose control of the car? I think a contact like that is hard (impossible?) for mr to realize it wasnt your fault.

 

The guy had oversteer twice in Ascari, the second time he hit the brakes at quite an angle. I wouldn't say with 100% certainty that he did it on purpose, but there is a chance he lost control or was simply struggling with the car.

 

It almost looks to me like he was moving from side to side in an attempt to warm his tyres. Whatever the case, he clearly wasn't paying enough attention.

 

This happened on the very last lap of the race. A bit late for warming the tyres, I guess.
As I had been chasing him for quite a while, he should have known I was right behind him.
I think he simply tried to get back on the racing line asap. Not sure if the braked (Braked? Broke? Did brake?) on purpose to fool me, but this was just the last bit of a foul move overall. If you make a mistake it's up to you resume the race without compromising your opponents. (Unless your last name is Maldonado, of course.)

 

From the video I would have thought it was a practice/qualy or a lapped driver in a race since I couldn't even see him at the start of the video, so you gained very fast on him.

Do you still have the replay file? If so, have a look at his driving with the drivers camera position. Maybe he is a gamepad user since some of his movements seem quite weird and jerky.

 

Two laps before the video I got hit in the back entering the first lesmo and spun into the gravel. He must have made a mistake, too, so I could gain so much distance in the last lap. At around 0:52 you can see him driving an odd line up to lesmo 2, so I think he had an incident there and did everything to save his position.

 

Ok, I see.
I noticed that he wasn't visible until the Lesmo's and noticed he came from an unusual position.


Anyway, just to be clear, it was his fault, but I'm not 100% sure it was deliberate.

 

Yep, as I thought, he had a special moment in the lesmos: http://185.120.80.22:50042/lapdetails?lapid=277620

The more often I watch the recording, the more I agree.
While racing and from the driver's view it looked like an "Oh there you are already. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" action.

This goes on my "things the guy in front of you might do just as you thing you've got him" list.

 

Just a thought regarding how minorating does grade drivers and as it is purely there for rating people in traffic. I wonder if it may be better if it purely based its rating on contacts per combat and attack kilometre? I think this would be the better indicator as this is used to get people into A or B and I think to be A you need to be high at combat/attack with low contacts per km. But does the non combat/attack range really say anything about how a driver is in traffic, this also may make it harder for some regular A drivers that may jump into servers first and just lap til others join. If they do this too much with not as much racing their grade drops due to low combat but the contact per km is also very low.

If rating the last 1000km of only close quarters driving I think it would likely give a better and more accurate grade to all, meaning some of the poor drivers in traffic seen at times in AB only servers wont get in and everyone would be rated based on their driving in traffic, not how many of the last 1000km they managed to avoid the traffic they probably normally hit. Even some fast guys aren't necessarily good in traffic and may hit most cars they pass but don't see many cars in 1000km so they have a fairly low contact count.