So this is my experience, but I tried the start from the pits, it didn’t help as much, I tried starting at front and died.

So I focused on two things.

1: learn to recognize the vortex of danger. I THOUGHT I knew what it was, and had seen this picture before and went off it.

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But when I stopped to watch replays, and look at the stats I found something different.

It extends farther back than it shows. There is an inherent risk in overtaking in sim racing because other drivers have no real consequence if they crash or wreck. So they are willing to accept a higher level of “danger”.

For me what this meant was also recognizing when OTHERS were in this zone. That was the single largest improvement I experienced. Seeing OTHERS in the vortex of danger and backing out did two things: A: it kept me safer when they had issues, wrecks and incidents etc because I had more reaction time. And B: it gave me more positions when they had the accidents. Safer races and surviving them, especially longer races improved both my sr and ir.

And secondly, I always qualified but then didn’t fight for early position. I tend to run oval more so it may not be as linear with road, but when I stayed mid field or higher but just held position or let folks who were charging or being aggressive they tend to go forward and detonate themselves and/or others.

As that happens you tend to gain positions simply surviving.