Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33870577-20180821001632/@comment-27123099-20180822183605

Well, I can't say I'm an expert on cutting as I tend to avoid it in most cases. I am slightly surprised I guess that more than 4sec can be saved (net, since the penalty is 4sec), by utilizing some of these cuts. But, naturally, it will be course specific as well and Spa seems to be one where advantage can be taken.

I suspect that FM will analyze the data from this week and make adjustments. Then, they'll either increase the penalty to deter advantageous cutting everywhere, or they'll (hopefully), scrap the idea and go back to the previous method with instant fail for off-track.

I really doubt they'll let this method continue to be the norm, not after they specifically barred off-track previously. I think the execution of this method has just not been fine-tuned accurately. It just took a few hundred thousand players running laps to finally find the weakness which apparently wasn't uncovered in their internal testing. Rikardo 83 wrote: This is not an "I told you so" post. I can confirm cutting in WTTT works! Thas is my best lap with cutting. Without short cut it was 1:42.600