Why do some people dislike wide roads?

Just curious because I love wide roads provided the LINE is narrow and have fun finding the line on wide roads ; especially in vintage supercars.

Also, the variation in possible/chosen lines provide ample passing opportunities.

These reasons are why I also like historic airfields race locations ; especially with insane cars like '37GP.

Why do some people dislike wide roads?

 

On wider roads the racing line is probably the same as any other road but there's a much larger margin for error, so pulling it off feels more rewarding to most people.

 

There's a reduced sensation of speed unless you're driving a very powerful car.

However wider tracks can produce good racing though and tend to suit modern faster race cars.

 

Basically because they're wide.

 

N00bs can overtake them too easily.

 

Because they are a danger to Hedgepigs and other wild beasties?

 

People are rigid. If something new they try, has cons, that what they usually do doesn't, then they ignore/don't look for the pros.

 

A wide road doesnt necessarily make it that much easier to pass, for ultimate pace you still need to use the entire road and mostly 1 line. However many dont and so arent very quick or hard to pass there Also blocking and driving very defensive pretty much wont work well on a wide track for anyone so thats the one advantage.

I will race anywhere in anything but prefer a more technical tighter track prefering the challenge these give, that includes finding places to pass people they didnt think was possible. I love people that say you cant pass somewhere then you do it on them clean with nothing they can do about it.

Wide tracks may make poorer drivers look better by staying on the road but they are generally far from using it to its linit and so are a fair bit slower. Lines are also open for more creativeness and so quite often the gaps between quicker guys and average ones are even larger making the racing actually worse on wider tracks.

Also bad drivers on wide roads tend to be more likely to move across the road into others they were unaware of caused by the bigger distance that may seperate cars side by side. Mostly into corners they do their extremely wide late apex leaving room for a bus on the inside. You take the apex and they still go for it even after its no longer there for them and you have a collision.

 

For the same reason some people dont like fantasy tracks. Some people are dicks.

 

I like fantasy tracks that do seem like a realistic road, make a fantasy track with extra wide roads and quite different to anything else then you will find more so called dicks.

 

My reasons are that on wide road or track its hard to me to know when to brake,corner is harder to "read" sense of speed is different to normal track....I just dont have fun drivin them when this problems LoL.But its not the rule for me I love Barcelona GP but on the other side I hate Monza Silverston Imola Spa and BCC hhaha.2nd thing I dont like are tracks with to much straight line parts so boring ....

 

Very philosophical. Like asking why some people don't like minty chocolate. Preference. Nothing more to it. You like WOT action with fast cars, good for you. Others like 1 lane mountain passes even if there is no chance for an actual race or they can't even complete a run and have to retry 5 times. You might like drag racing, others might like rally. What is confusing about it?

 

I dislike them not because they are hard but because they are easy.
Paraphrasing JFK.

 

For lone cruising, BCC can be a whole different challenge if you limit yourself to the correct side of the road. And I'm not even talking about proper dual lane use.

 

For me it's a simple thing really, it doesn't make me feel the speed, the narrower a road is, the higher the sense of speed is, which is crucial in a game where 80% of your senses are ignored, and I like to challenge myself into contained tight spaces, which is why I will always take a touge-type circuit over something like BCC .