Chris Laming medal 5345 3 days ago
It's been reported to me that the top two in Elite are either one person or two collaborating by sling shotting each other with boost and DRS which has resulted in one manager leaving the league. What's the best way to sort this?
Red Craigie medal 5062 Super Mod 3 days ago
Hi Chris
I think I recognise both of the accounts. I'm going to reach out to the two people I believe they belong to and I'll try see what their version of events is.
Just for clarity, have you seen one using boost to slingshot the other ahead to their own detriment yourself. That's the part of the report I'd still be inclined to check out even if it is two separate people.
Chris Laming medal 5345 3 days ago
Thanks for getting back to me. I haven't seen it myself I'm too far back, lol. It has been reported to me by one of our longest members.
Red Craigie medal 5062 Super Mod 3 days ago
Hi Chris
I can pretty much confirm it's two different players and not one person using two accounts. As I said I recognised both accounts and who they belong to. And they both confirmed to me independently they are racing in your league.
I've also had a chat with them to try figure out if they are working together, I've dropped you a private message with some specifics from discussions i've had, it seems to me that there is no evidence of unfair play. But please keep an eye out and get in touch if you have anything extra to add and i'll do my best to take a look at it.
Chris Laming medal 5345 3 days ago
Thanks for your help Red. One thing I noticed was that in the Spain race the top two were 12 seconds ahead of third place. Also, they often finish consecutively, 4th and 5th, 3rd and 4th etc.
Red Craigie medal 5062 Super Mod 3 days ago
Personally I would say finishing consecutively backs up the position that one isn't sacrificing their boost to help the other one.
This would usually separate the cars and leave the one sacrificing themselves vulnerable to others, although there are scenario's where they could possibly maintain this if one didn't use all of their boost by the finish.
As for Spain, I can only look at race results the car that came in 3rd place usually seems to be about 10 seconds back from the lead, and the car who was most regularly challenged them, which I understand to be the player that left, ran what I would consider to be a bad strategy and ended up 13 seconds back. The pit lane in Spain is 25 seconds, so to 3 stop in a 50% no refuelling race would require you to make up those 25 seconds on tyre compound differences and race distance fuel level alone, over 31 laps.
That means you need to be on average 1.24 seconds a lap faster across the race to make a 3 stop work. Seems a tall order to me but I've not run much NRF at 50%.
These situations are very tricky. Without observing the actions first hand, it's all interpretation of the available data only.
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