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Originally Posted by Robbie
For NASA, if you pulled a move like that and the outcome was the forward person got punted, you'd be in for a penalty as you did not have enough of your car alongside to "earn" a gap. NASA requires your front bumper to be alongside the door to earn a space alongside another car. If someone dove under me like that in a club race and punted me off, I'd protest that person.
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...unless the punter had 2 tires off track. Seriously.. a lot of serious racers refer to this as the "NASA Punting loophole". Basically in NASA, you only have to leave someone 3/4 car width of room, which is asinine. Most other groups require you to leave them 1 car or 1 car+1 inch. So in NASA if you have 2 tires off when you make contact you are considered to be trying to avoid the incident but really, any driver
really knows that if they need to punt someone they just need to have 2 tires off to do so without repercussions. Read those rules closely, this is one of the many things NASA gets really wrong.
However, none of this applies to the Senna/Prost incident but I wanted to put it out there anyway.