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Whats makes a good and smart driver?

Hi Racers,
today I want to write about Safety and Fairness in F1 2012.

I think everybody of you have had the problem of getting pushed away by another racer. It doesn't matter if it was with intention or late braking, its just very annoying for the guy ahead. In Codemasters F1 2012 these crash festivals happens quiet often imo. But now codemasters introduced a new component which is great! The guy who produces the crash often also spins! Unfortunately the collision control in the game has a sync problem in online lobbys at the moment. So you need a strategy to avoid collisions. Lets go back. What are the reasons for unfair/dangerous driving attitudes?
Well in a simulation you can't get injuries nor is there a risk that you can get "real life" problems by doing silly moves. But in my opinion the main problem is that some drivers forget an important thing in F1. The DRS Zones. I don't really get it why people don't use that zones for smart overtaking. Why not saving fuel behind someone for half the lap and then overtaking with Kers, DRS and Full Power Engine Mapping on the straight in a clean move. Think about your real life. There are risks everywhere. Smart and intelligent people reduce them. Its the same in racing. Why taking the risk? Lets make a bit of game theory.
A) There is a 50 percent chance that you overtake quickly without timelost by trying to overtake him instantly and in a risky way. On the other side there is a 50% probability that you crash with the racer ahead.

B) A smarter way would be to reduce the risk by waiting for the drs straight, and overtaking with kers,drs and Full Power Engine Mapping.
Lets assume you have a 10 percent chance of ending in a crash by that move. The only investment for this massive reduction of risk is to give away about half a second due to staying behind the guys ahead the whole lap until the drs zone straight. Lets make a table for 10 imaginary races.

As you can see its pretty obvious that the more races you drive carefully, the more you will benefit by strategy B). You may say that this is complete nonsense. Indeed you may end up in crashing 10 races in a row also with B) especially when meeting the wrong guys.But the more races you drive the more you will end up in the statistic mentioned in the table. Its about elementary probability and calculus. I want to end up this little article with a final note.
In the table above you we assume that we only make one overtake in the whole race. Imagine you make in average 7 overtakes in a race. Which one is the better strategy?

This article was pretty basic. But often it is important to go back to the basics. Its like in mathematics. If you don't get the basics, it will bite you. When you like this article free free to share it.
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