There is another thing about it too that made me quit racing basically all together.
So since i do not like new cars that basically means that there is no pickup racing what i do not like anyways since i would rather drive on agreed times and make my schedule fit that and practice.
There is couple types of leagues. Ones driven by mostly amateurs and slower drivers and some might have a core of very good drivers either as good or bit below esports drivers.
When a person who is bit below esports people arrives on amateur league what tends to happen is the driver sees if the ruleset is not tight enough anyone of that caliber will basically abuse any potential loophole to ruthlessly dominate the competition. But if the person actually sees that the league could do better if some rules were adjusted. Ie relating to lapped cars and etc. They will resist the suggestions if the driver suggesting that is not from the original amateurs but happens to be the new driver who is clearly faster than the people who raced there before.
No matter how the faster driver tries to help the league to make racing easier for everyone the excuse they say is that drivers "Fast driver priviledge" and that how they dont know how its to be a slow driver.
The only problem is that everyone starts from somewhere and was not fast driver when they started but worked themself to be better and put alot of work to master the art of driving and people talk to the person like they dont know how it is to be slow.
This is basically jealousy or pure laziness from the person. Why would person get hatred for simply putting the time and dedication to become fast? If on top of that person had to learn to drive again after injury with gamepad and pedals due to injuring their shoulder and having to learn to drive without simwheel and relying on a thumbstick to steer what already bleeds 0.5-1 seconds per lap just to keep driving without screaming in pain.
The only real reason to be slow is that person has real physical handicaps when it comes to racing or is simply too old. Like in real racing any of these will reduce the speed around the track. It's purely a matter of reaction times and physical fitness and experience. This is going to happen to anyone who is fast now or in the future. Eventually they are not able to compete with the younger people due to aging.
I have done some self analysis on this since 2020 and generally unlike in real racing it seems you can keep yourself very fast until around 55-65 mainly due to accumulated experience and mastery of skill covering over the degradation of reaction speed and physical ability.
Still if someone lacks the ability does not mean they are excused to bad driving manners. The least people can do is atleast make sure that they are predictable but the problem is that most leagues are not willing to push people to improve when they clearly still can.
Then there are leagues where the admin weaponises the stewards to make sure the admin always wins and each time someone can challenge them they slap arbitary penalties for minor infractions just because they dont want to lose and keep the image of being fast.
So basically there would be 3 drivers on equal points for last race and the admin retroactively slaps a penalty on one of the drivers in a way that benefits the admin most and gets the title just because they were afraid someone would beat them.
When this kind of stuff seems to be a pattern of a league like that and people just accept it as a part of the game.
Then there is the third option, setting your own league and hoping you did not accidentally pick wrong cars that are too hard to drive or that the race is too long for most people. Generally people do not like more than 50% real F1 distance. 100% already cuts most people out of it. Most people are also deathly allergic to any types of rules trying to clean up the racing or even having 15 minute warm up so people can have toilet breaks before a long race or warmup the racefuel car since slower people think such warmup benefits the faster drivers when its the slower driver who benefits since the faster driver has most likely already practiced the car with said load before the raceday during the week leading up to the race.
I have done that in the past and its pretty ungrateful job. You are at the whim of the people that do they feel like racing or not.
Honestly if simracing actually dies i would not cry over it at all. It is what it deserves.
