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I dont think this is worth worrying about, LFS lets them know, just concentrate on what your doing & where you're gona make the pass. Please dont become one of those Blue flag spammers who think they own the track.

Having seen DGW on track I dont think that was the angle he was coming at this from. I would imagine, although he can correct and clarify himself later obviously, it is more from a planning perspective.

It seems sensible to assume that the car you are lapping has his own priorities and may not always be aware that a faster racer is appearing behind them. If you know when the car in front is being given the blue flag warning, you may be able to hypothesise when they will allow you to get by.

For example, approaching a corner. Has the car in front been made aware there is another racer closing early or close to turn in? With this information you might be able to make a more educated decision on whether to close up in case they leave the door open for you on corner entry or to give them some breathing space to compensate for newer drivers (who might have much longer braking zones or strange lines). You can then plan on waiting for a better opportunity when they have composed themselves and made a decision. Of course i may be overthinking this, thats what a morning reading about significant overlap and race theory does to you.

Do you know what the exact criterion for the blue flag appearing is? Is it a certain time gap or a certain distance? None of the threads ive searched has any concrete info on it nor does the manual. If its not out there ill just have to acquire a "feel" for it.

EDIT: Beat me to it.

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But I guess you still don't know when the driver in front actually gets the blue flag message

If its me, i normally like to indicate the appearance of a blue flag on my screen to the lapping car by panicking, losing control and veering off the track into a barrier.

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But he adds such value:

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You should try using /join inside the pit screen, hehe. If you click join after typing /join in pits everyone sees, XXX already has a car. And you can feel very special. And I am very off topic.

Actually im not fond of the shift + combos and was thinking of setting up a nice wheel hotkey for it. Although, now that most of my F key binds consist of sorry, im so sorry, im really really sorry, oh god im really really so sorry.... im running out of room and may have to use them afterall....

Thanks for the swift answers chaps.

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The only way I can think of is just finish last I'm sure thats not what you want.

This "technique" fitted in very well with my early driving skill but unfortunately i seem to have outgrown it...

Mr Rodgers, JasonJ, thanks, that is exactly what i was looking for. I had tried going to pits and then back to the race but it always dumped me back in my original grid spot. It seems that on servers where there are 12 people + just running a clean race without incident (even though im by no means a fast driver) can normally bag you a top 6 finish, often even better. I then have the nightmare of starting at the front of the grid and trying to avoid the madness of t1. This way i can concentrate on my driving a bit more until my experience and confidence is increased. Im not too worried about missing a spot as i normally try to avoid too full servers anyway as all those cars, crashes, blue flags etc still freaks me out.

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T chat command: /join

Wonder if that would work with an F key bind....

Thanks guys.

Is there any way to start yourself at the back of the grid each race without leaving and rejoining the server?

This would be quite useful for me while im learning and until i can get a wheel which will allow a quicker start. At the moment T1 is a nightmare as there always seems to be cars passing on both sides and taking it easy on the way in seems to get me rear ended a lot of the time. Until i can get more used to the hurlyburly of the start just taking a back position and concentrating on the race would be great for me.