Please refrain in making any abusive/hateful comments towards the people within this video, I do not condone it nor is what this video is trying to achieve. It is simply once again a discussion regarding recent events within the F1 community and how we can avoid doubting drivers entirely in future. Not sure where there is a huge BLUR square across random parts of the video: will be processesing this change that will update in a few hours!
What comes to my mind at first is: Thomas was completely irrelevant at first half of esports season and, all of a sudden, he became The fastest driver by far... this is somewhat strange, at least. As my grandma's always told me: "You cant prove sth doesnt exist". So, Thomas cant prove he's legit
let's say - as a thought experiment: Thomas Ronhaar is intentionally doing something to achieve what he is achieving. Furthermore: if Thomas Ronhaar where to reveal that something he is doing - we would all agree that it is not cheating. should he be made to give up his advantage?
He does NOT need to prove it. YOU'RE the one making the assessment, YOU'RE the one with the burden of proof. YOU'RE the one casting the doubt and making the waves.
But that is not a proof. And he does not need to proof anything bacause "innocent until proven guilty" still exists so speculations without proofs are pointles.
F1 Esports needs to host in an arena or something like most tournaments did before Covid. Using spec machines and gear that are regularly inspected for suspect programs, that would prove once and for all if he's legit or not, providing he joins/qualifies.
Exactly, the only way to put this topic to bed, once and for all, is to have a controlled test. I.e. a Race at the F1 Esport Arena, Live, where all the drivers play on the same spec machines...
Another thing that could be very nice, is for F1 teams to be obligated to have their drivers sign a contract where they would say that they would never cheat or use any illegal means to gain advantage in any official esport events where they represent their team, and have huge consequences if they are found out to have cheated at a later date. Having that mental pressure would be immense on a driver if he is actually cheating, while those who don't, wouldn't mind it at all.
You can't be first at everything: straight line speed,cornering speeds, traction...; there's no way because the cars are the same and he's racing against the best drivers in the world. Also the fact that he's ignoring all this mess makes me think he's guilty.
another thing is he litterally went from last on f1 2021 in league races and when some of them didnt even have esports drivers for all 19 other positions, there was some league racers but not on an esports level and now suddenly hes basically 1st most of the time on this game, something is clesrly up.
Just doesn't make sense, these drivers dedicate their lives to find every thousandth, for Ronhaar to just come in and find multiple TENTHS, ON EVERY TRACK, that's just absurd.
It's a game not governed by actal limitations of real physics. So giving him the benefit of the doubt he might have just figured out a glitch/exploit/trick that nobody else has. Like there was on GT Sport with the ABS for example. Or, arcade warning, like there are countless ones in gta 5 racing or trackmania. That being said, no secret trick that can be done without external modification of the game is worth getting your reputation ruined over or even getting banned. So the possibility of it just being that is getting slimmer the longer this goes on for and the bigger it is getting.
During todays PSGL Q3 when Ronhaar spun Dani Bereznay said: -"Off course, without the extra grip, it is difficult to keep the car on track". To someone who doesn't know about this, it sounds like he is just talking about the rain, but I'm sure he wouldn't have said "extra grip" if he thought Ronhaar was legit.
Honestly, I admire what both Alpines were doing today. If they for whatever reason cannot speak out on the matter, they can at least shed some light on the case doing precisely what they did today. I couldn't help but watch Luke and Dylan with a smile on my face tbh
I don't understand how cheats work for the F1 games but is there anything other than screenshots, gaps and opponents claims indicating he is cheating ? It seems really emotional but without any fact backing the claims
@@toxik420 Eh, sure not concrete facts per say but the ppl behind the apparent mods/cheats Ronhaar is using have said in private DM's there is a guy on the esports grid who transfered from xbox to pc and is now in F1 esports which is what Ronhaar has done. Also there have been a lot of comparing on traction and for example one of the biggest ones are the last few laps against Jarno is Spain. Rohnaar was on a lower downforce setup yet still gained up to several tenths out of corners and fairly often carried more corner speed aswell, and also to add he had lower ERS deployment despite Jarno being right behind him which doesn't make much sense honestly.
@@toxik420 The only concrete evidence would be if Ronhaar gave out his gamefiles post race. Obviously that'd require extreme control of this after a race for anyone to buy they aren't altered files. And it would need to be a race where he dominates. There's no "hard 100% proof" - but there's plenty of proof of "weird" things that are very hard to explain. F1 setups are about balance. You sacrifice top speed for traction in corners. Somehow Ronhaar can achieve both with zero compromise. He out speeds people on the straights, and he also has enough grip, to go 100% throttle 10-20 kph sooner than everyone else. Now, is it possible he is just accelerating PERFECTLY every single time and that amount of acceleration is actually possible? Hard to know. Is it possible he can also get the highest top speed? See, that's where there's a big problem, because unless there's some setup settings that are bugged in some sense, there should not be. It SHOULD be impossible. The problem is, without seeing the setup, it can not be verified that he should be able to reach that top speed. Because clearly, technically you CAN reach that top speed. And you CAN reach that amount of grip (Well, that one is harder, you might not actually be able to, but it's more blurred). But you shouldn't be able to do it at the same time. And due to e-sports, they clearly don't want to give setups away, as it makes other drives know where you're strong and where you're weak. Though I guess for Ronhaar, if it is setup related, he'd be afraid everyone else don't need to compromise between grip or top speed. He also brakes a lot lighter than other people, he doesn't apply nearly as much brake for as long as other drivers. Even high downforce setups would struggle to brake as light as Ronhaar and still bleed as much speed as he does. Unfortunately for Ronhaar, having a "little" more grip, would explain ALL of these things perfectly. He can run a low downforce setup to get insane top speed, and increased grip would mean he doesn't need high downforce to out brake or accelerate others.
you can tell by the way that he can put the throttle down so much, he must be using some sort of hack that allows the car to push more before the tyres slip. im not the greatest f1 franchise driver, but the fact that he can take just as good lines while cornering faster AND accelerating earlier without spinning out is just insane.
I might be talking out of my arse but, especially on F1 22, the track conditions are client specific in online races, not server side. So another alternative to using something like a grip hack is to tweak your client a little for better track conditions which is ultimately the same thing but much more different to prove
What comes to my mind at first is: Thomas was completely irrelevant at first half of esports season and, all of a sudden, he became The fastest driver by far... this is somewhat strange, at least
This is what I was feeling too. I don't remember much he did before this recent form he has. Plus the amount of time and effort all the drivers put in, and he just suddenly leapfrogs them all, doesn't seem legit.
It should be so easy to have an indestructible anti cheat. Trackmania nations forever, an arcade racing game made in 2008, uses replay inputs to discover cheaters. the fact that a multi-billion dollar company can't do the same is ridiculous.
But you can have a custom firmware in the pedals, for example. Think Fanatec V3 rumble kit. It vibrates when your tyres slip. By the same exchange of information pedals rumble kit get, you can program pedals to go on the throttle 100% only when possible.
@@PPedroFernandes By slowing down time in off stream attempts, which you cant do for live streamed races. Trackmania physics is deterministic so cheats like the alleged traction cheat is very easy to spot if f1 is the same
The only way to truly make this fair would be for any official event to be run on standardised hardware that isn't owned by the driver. They'd have to all meet in a warehouse and pick a machine.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino what moba you are talking about? When dota (literaly the bigest prized money for esport) doing their major tournament i dont think they ever catch a team cheating.
@@kimz8916 Azubu Frost had to pay a 30k fine in a League of Legends tournament because they were watching the audience broadcast of the match on the large screens behind them to know where their opponents were. Forsaken from the OpTic team was caught using aimbot during a CS:GO tournament. 11 StarCraft players were banned in a tournament in 2010 because of match fixing. Two Chinese teams were VAC banned from a DoTA2 regional league because of cheating as well.
isn't the game deterministic? codemaster should simply implement application level software sensors to capture and record the car setups and all the inputs provided by input devices such as steering wheel, pedals, keyboard etc... Once all inputs from all drivers and the relative track evolution conditions are gathered, to get a race "validated" the race shall simply be replayed and simulated offline to check any delta difference between the recorded version and the replayed simulated one to discover if any player has tweaked his version of the game... From a Cybersec guy, the alternative is simply to ship and force E-sports driver to install and use only the SAME Windows version, provided direcly by codemaster with anti-tampering solutions implemented and Operative System process-level monitoring, disallowing the capability to run any unwanted application and without any administrator privileges assigned to the user accessing the underlying OS and the game application, solution that is fairly unpracticable for non-arena-like environments.
U still have the hardware variable. I dont know if its true in this game but there have been other online games with physics calcs and hardware would change the aspects that relied on physics. Usually if your physics computing is weak you would gain an advantage vs the high end machines with great computing
F1 gamer are not deterministic. It happens both in dry and wet, but it's more noticeable in the wet, as sometimes the same input gets you no grip, because as the game doesn't actually calculate driving through a bit of the track with more or less water (Just puts you in "low grip mode" when it rains) what the game does is randomly affects your grip levels. Trying to get TT records in the wet is not very popular because of this "RNG"
IMO, silence speaks a thousand words, i have no doubt that if any other F1 Esports drivers i.e, Jarno, Bari, Lucas, ect, were accused of something this serious they would have spoken out already. I dont know if they have or not but HAAS needs to comment or put out a statement too as he is under their employment and its their responsibility to make sure that there is a level playing field. I also think that the orgs have a big responsibility towards this aswell, there is no reason why F1 Esports cannot go/haven't gone back to LAN in the studio, it is now a inexcusable that they keep saying they cant due to safety or whatever.
Those throttle and steering inputs in the Q1 lap, IMO, can't be done without larger oversteer unless there's some form of traction control or manipulation to the grip. I mean, if we have the KP/h, known RPM, steering angle, throttle % and engine map, shouldn't it be possible to calculate theoretical grip levels to see if such forward acceleration would even be possible?
You could likely calculate close to a "range", but finding 1 number that proves or disproves it? Doubt. The amount of factors are way too many. You could probably find a value that is 100% impossible, but Ronhaar is probably well within the possible range, as no human can drive perfectly up until impossible. All he has to do, is cheat just enough, that he can get a tiny bit closer to the impossible grip values, as he can't drive perfectly either. I mean, look at his lines, no way he drives those lines with AI (traction control) beating throttle precision.
@@slimlacy2 You might be overestimating those ranges, especially since straight line top speed and cornering speed contradict each other. 2 km/h on the Bahrain straight means a low downforce setup, but then he beats other drivers by ~10% in the low speed part? That looks like it would be outside the possible range.
@@slimlacy2 Race team engineers routinely can calculate the precise combo of steering angle, throttle input, and braking force that would induce traction loss. It gets to the point where they "fuel map" engines tailored to the driver so their "lead foot" in a slow-speed corner like Monaco won't spin out the car. It's up to EA/Codemasters to work at extracting telemetry to arrive at these computations, but they are 100% possible. iRacing leagues regularly use telemetry to validate realistic performance levels to driver inputs and ban for discrepancies.
On the note of not being able to perform on a stage or outside your home: the mark of a true champion is when you are able to perform under all or most circumstances, not just those in which you are comfortable or best at.
The "I play better on my own rig" is a perfectly response, but that also makes it the perfect cover story. No one can monitor you at home, while events taking place in arenas are heavily monitored.
Oh, he can be monitored pretty easily. There are memory addresses where the grip levels etc. are stored (and that's how, in fact, the cheats are done, by changing those addresses). To prove he's not cheating, using his own equipment and at home, he has only to show in real time during a livestream those memory addresses (with the same program - i.e. Cheat Engine - that he almost surely uses to cheat) and prove that they are and remain at their default value throughout all the session and that he is able to do the same things he does now with those values remaining unchanged. If he can, then he's not cheating and he will prove such a thing definitely (so that nobody can say nothing anymore after that), if he will suck (as he will most surely do) then you can be sure that he's modifying those addresses for his benefit. He will use the same equipment as always and he will be at home, so no more excuse to use. Pretty simple.
@@lavir74 Don't even need to go that far. He is under contract with HAAS, they COULD say they need to vet the machinery and want to monitor anything he uses for official races in their name. They won't, but they definitely could.
I have a wild theory its AI assistance. Like AI is influencing his imputs to correct his mistakes. Watching him drive just STINKS of Tool Assistance. I think its far more complex than a simple grip hack. It why hes so comfortable with the situation. If they go to test it by simulating his driving, they will find it technically is possible. But what makes it genius is that HIS AI is trying to EMULATE human movement so its a computer program thats gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to detect unless someone outs him.
@@timothykeller9419 that certainly is a wild theory, but you could be right (if he is cheating of course). The only issue with that is how fidgety his q1 laps are, yet still being fastest, AI won't simulate that as seen by normal ones in any other game. I personally think that setting the in-game grip from "1" to "1.05" through an external application would explain q1 laps and the mistakes he does make while still having the pace he does
Yes indeed, he is relatively close to Ronhaar over 1 lap and definitely one of the fastest over 1 lap lately....easily beating other experienced esport drivers. If Ronhaar is cheating I'm sure there are a few others who are cheating and some of them we are not aware of.
Apart from the fact that you can use Cheat Engine while in online lobbies, he could probably be playing at 300FPS. The curbs will be glitchy but apparently the grip levels go up with it (cant test, I‘m to bad). Though a solution would be simple. The issue here is that cars+setup are Peer2Peer based. So if the game would be coded differently that could be avoided. I‘ll tell you how: Have the server grab the data and setup from each car upon entering the race. Then determine how engine power, grip level and degredation will be from those values. Send it back to the car and have the car run with these. There has to be a slight tolerance but if the values will be higher than set tolerance, the driver gets disconnected. This also would eliminate the uncapped FPS play, since that would result in the physics being different. Simple, yet effective for now.
I would say the way he proves without LAN event now is to go to a trusted man, race on that mans rig (at an expense of someone else, not Thomas) and if he can come up even within a tenth, I would believe that it would prove his legitimacy.
He's all over the kerb as well, it's just not possible. I haven't played much of this year's game but I know from previous games and from other people that you just can't do that. Unless he somehow has medium traction control on, which Im fairly certain he doesnt
@@denmister100 Dude, he's an esports driver. Imagine he'd won the grand prize $750,000 by using illegal tools. He shouldn't stay silent if almost all his competitors are accusing him of cheating.
I was once falsely accused of cheating by a guy for a year on DCS World. And I would also not entertain that D head. And reply to his stupid sh*t. It still pisses me off thinking about it. D head asking me to proof I was not cheating. Get out of here.
@@Dolek135 Maybe he shouldn't stay silent but he can, he has no obligation to respond. At this point most have already made up their minds so I doubt anything he says now is going to change that so why waste energy. He is so much in other drivers heads now that they are just running him off the track, which is kind of funny but also a poor way to deal with it.
Hard to tell, huh. Remember when we had our queries about Otis Lawrence? I certainly hope Thomas is legit. Would mean his driving is super quick.... hopefully 🤞
I have actually tried to see if the amount of throttle and the amount of grip is actually possible on normal game files. I wanted to do this by using some sort of macro that simulates a steering wheel or controller. Can anyone help me with this, cause I am not that familiar with that?
for me its very simple if so many pro drivers claim he is cheating there has to be something these guys put so much time in it they just know... there was something like this in Trackmania where guys where cheating, to prove it they wrote a programm to show imput and track how they drive . maybe its possible to do the same in F1 game track and save the inputs and then test them on another Pc so there will be 100 % the same inputs and u will directly see if he´s cheating or not .
This resembles a lot the story of a rainbow six siege player. his name is shaiiko and he was accused of cheating by virtually everyone as well, even got banned for a faulty mechanism in the anti cheat. sat out a year then went on lan and destroyed everyone. if thomas does the same then we know he's just insanely talented
stuff like throttle sensitivity is definitely not illegal. But you'd assume ONE other of the best of the best esports drivers would eventually figure it out too. It seems unlikely Ronhaar is the ONLY person in the world with access to some setting that does this ingame. Look at the 60 FPS things, LOADS of people especially outside esports knew about it long before it caught on in esports.
@@slimlacy2 Me and a friend discovered the 60 fps thing by accident XD I was playing on PC, she was on Xbox, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why monza kerbs were sending me to the moon while she could eat them for breakfast
I think its different if your just in a regular league race. But when pretty much the whole Pro Series drivers are claiming or hinting someone is cheating. At that level i think you would have to prove your not cheating. And I think it would be up to the organizers to launch an investigation at the very least. Even if Ronhaar does not try and prove his innocence. For the integrity of F1 eSports and its future survival.
As a racer myself you should look up Engine inertia ! inertia is the inherent property of a body that makes it oppose any force that would cause a change in its motion. A body at rest and a body in motion both oppose forces that might cause acceleration. The inertia of a body can be measured by its mass, which governs its resistance to the action of a force, or by its moment of inertia about a specified axis, which measures its resistance to the action of a torque about the same axis. -
Good video JD. Can't wait for the LAN to come back, it was always more exciting to see everyone in the same room :D LAN is the most effective anticheat
Yes, I agree, sometimes drivers don't perform as well away from home. But the world record holder at damned near every track should be able to demonstrate super human speed, whether or not he can match the times. There would be sectors where his speed would be demonstrated.
I have a contention with you JD. The point about him not performing well if he is in a LAN setup makes it super easy for him to just make excuses. If all the drivers are on a LAN system then it's an equal basis for them to have a proper and fair assessment.
As much as the premise is he needs to prove he's not cheating. I think it is on the ownace of the other drivers / F1 eSports to prove he is cheating. There are so many accusations in many things in life and everyone jumps to calling them guilty. Is there some evidence that seems suspect. Sure, but I think there has to be indisputable proof before everyone jumps to conclusions.
Waiting for the new video with Alvaro Carreton showing his hack files on stream, then tweeting that he uses it as part of an investigation into finding out what is and isn't possible, outside of Esport/League races to help determine who is cheating. Then Jarno backed him up and vouched for him. That tells me one of two things. 1: All Esport drivers use an "allotted" percentage, which allows them to achieve the insane times they do. Jarno is simply helping save face by vouching for Alvaro so it dies down and no one is the wiser. Perhaps Ronhaar is using more than the agreed upon percentage, and that's why most Esports drivers are out to get him. 2: He's actually telling the truth, and other drivers as well have been using hacks outside of league races to determine what is and isn't possible and by doing this, they know Ronhaar is cheating.
Jarno didn't necessarily back him. He said in his interview with Jimmy, that he knew about them before the stream incident because Alvaro had told everyone he had them for that same reason. It seems f1 e-sports drivers don't have a huge amount of experience with game development companies because no company asks a user, even a pro player, to download an external program and run it for them. That is a huge liability risk, what if it happened to have a "virus" or create a backdoor? The company would be liable. If a company wants to test a hack, they simply download the hack themselves, and then they throw it through a de-compiler like IDA and reverse the source code. If they can't get a clean source dump, they can run a memory sniffer, like cheat engine which is probably whats used to create the hack in the first place, to look at what the code does in memory. Some hacks can be simple file replacement and those can be opened by notepad. Companies never ask a user to download an external file or test a hack. Alvaro lied to everyone, and they were naive enough to believe him. It's possible he did DL them just to test, but not at the order, advice, or well wishes, of EA or Codemasters.
i think we need to raise the conversation regarding the actual cheats themselves with the intent to eventually figure which cheats he might be using. need websites, names, YT channels, forum posts etc
Have the game devs spoken on the subject yet? Can't see them being happy with the negative press as it's starting to gain traction in major media outlets.
Yes, he should prove his legitimacy, same as every other person on the grid. F1 eSports NEEDS to be played on LAN, and while that isn't necessarily possible with leagues like PSGL and WOR and so on, it would give us all the answers we need. The fact that he is so adamant about being "more comfortable" at home is a classic cheater move and until he changes his tune there's no reason to believe the accusations aren't accurate to some degree.
I used to have an issue on F1 2015 or 2014, and I'm still not sure how it happened: It seemed when I had even a small contact, my car got faster, more grip and speed, causing me to be as fast as others, but on harder tyres, or just gap everyone on the same tyres. My theory was it had something to do with an overclock on my pc, but after undoing the overclock, it kept happening. It caused me to retire from any competitive racing, since I couldn't guarantee it would be fair racing.
In your setup, you can either be faster in a straight line or have high downforce to have more speed in turns. No car can be both fastest on the straights and quick on the corners when the cars are equal performance
In order for people not to be fed up and eventually rage over him. This whole thing needs to be adress properly. He needs to put out a statement and the PSGL needs to launch a proper investigation. Simple as that. No hate , just measurements to set a fair playground. You need to take those cheating accusations seriously. If he cheated , lifetime ban If he did not cheat, he is insane and i dont want to hear anymore hate against him.
There's a bit of an issue in the video There's a permanent blurry square occupying 40% of the screen that I suspect was not supposed to last over a minute
I think it's pretty likely that thomas ronhaar is cheating, but when they get to a lan event he will still perform. He probably is still a top 10/top 20 player in the world. Often people think that when someone cheats its because he is a bad player and needs cheated performance to equalize. But its often the exact opposite, where really good players cheat. Maybe some of you remember the cheating scandal of Trackmania (a racing game with mainly timetrials and not full races). There many where discovered to be cheating by running the game in slowmotion offline to be more precise and then uploading these runs. The big scandal was the Riolu was doing this alot, even tho he was arguably a top 5 player in the world, many wondered why he would feel the "need" to cheat, but it's just that at the absolute highest level of play, these slight boosts become even more needed. I could see this F1 esports to be a similar case where one of the best players in the world is using cheats to minimaly gain an advantage, and if you take his cheats away he will still be in the top 10, just not setting 0.25s faster laps than everyone else.
I know it's a different game, but Ropz's situation in CS:GO was pretty similar to this. What was the solution? Face it invites Ropz to their Headquaters to prove he is legit. Why Codemasters doesn't do the same thing? Every esports had his fair share of cheating scandals.... If Ronhaar - one of F1 esports biggest and controversal player rn - is accused for cheating, why didn't they invite him to prove that he is innocent, and making an official statement about the whole thing? Either exploits or grip hack, I think F1 esports need to do something about it.
Another story with a pro R6 player. There's a video on RU-vid that is definitely a good watch. He was dominating everyone, some of the pros thought he was cheating and his reputation got ruined, and it was never even proved
if it was a setup exploit wouldn't TT rule that out since he has a majority of TT records and his setup on them is the same as everyone else at the top?
To be the best at something is incredibly rare. It takes so much time and effort to become that good at something that very few people become the best at something. But if what I'm understanding is correct; This Thomas guy is so much better than all these other drivers who are absolutely the best eSports drivers in the world then it would benefit Thomas greatly to prove he isn't cheating. I don't normally agree with the sentiment that players should have to prove they aren't cheating constantly... But thomas should just agree to do it once. Show everybody once and for all that you're legit and everyone will back off and agree that you are without a doubt just the best driver.
The fact PSGL disables their comments makes it that much worse. News flash, everybody ignoring or poopooing on a situation, doesn’t make it go away, and doesn’t make the people suddenly think the other way…
I haven't followed this drama. But what is easy to fix, is that someone invites him over to an event or house. Give him the same exact setup he uses at home, but computer/settings/sensitivity etc is setup with him and a third party together before they make him go. Theres been a lof of this going on in the COD community after cheating accusations, and it's been working pretty well for the accused. Fresh setup, and installs. And they keep performing the same.
You are making a mistake. Thomas has not to prove that he is not doing something because he can’t. You have to prove that Thomas is cheating. By now, you had only show that he is very fast. You have to prove that what is he doing is impossible without cheating
Honestly. Just watching his inputs in his driver cam prove to me he's not legit. To get the amount of entry speed he has the car has to have a very strong front end and he has to use the brakes to rotate to car. He's not doing that he has 0 counter steer on entry he's not managing the rear end at all. It's pretty clear he has a sizeable amount more grip than the rest both front and rear.
He doesn't have to prove he's legit. The onus is on everyone who thinks he is not, to prove it, and a bunch of competitors crying "He's cheating!" is not proof. At worst it's a bunch of sore losers, and at best it's suspicion. Explain how he is achieving his performance, replicate it, and show that he is actually doing what you have explained. That's the proof that would be expected by the event organisers, if not the game developers.
There’s 2 things that are really suspicious to me. The fact that he refuses to drive from anywhere but his own home when none of the other ESports drivers have a problem doing so at their team facility. Also, just the amount of improvement he’s shown from 21 to 22 is a massive jump that seemingly came out of nowhere. Went from being average speed with the ESports grid in 21 to consistently the fastest guy at basically every track in 22. Plus now with all the news coming out about 15 of the 20 esports drivers and the way everybody has been racing him just more or less confirms it for me. The ESports guys know something that we don’t and they’re not saying anything publicly because they’re told not to or else..
I find it hard to believe he's not cheating... But I also understand he doesn't need to prove himself to absolutely anyone if he is in fact legit, even more so considering, as you said, that cheats can be hidden from the public. It's a waste of energy trying to prove you're legit when odds are, people will continue to say the contrary. If he is legit, or not, once LAN is in session, everything will come to light 💯
Why should he prove he is not cheating? Normally they have to prove he is cheating and that´s not possible in this case until you see It on his PC. Everybody can assume he is cheating but nobody can prove It 100%. Maybe he is A F1 Esport God? 😀
Get in touch with a tool assisted speedrun person and have them develop a tool assisted input with a specific car configuration. Post-race and without a break in recording have him run that tool assisted input lap with the same car configuration and if the lap looks identical to the tool assisted run then he's not cheating. Can even do this for all competitors.
For me it is quite simple. If you are innocent than you have nothing to fear so just show people open access, come play in a public arena and just prove it. The fact he refuses to do any of that and then deletes time trial runs is just not something an innocent person would do.
I wonder if there isnt just something about his setup that messes with the physics. Usually if u have poor physics computing u gain an advantage in many games. Seems counterintuitive
Its just really hard to know what is really happening here. I do think its odd that if you have found a "magical perfect set up", lets say its because of that, your teammates cannot perform to be in the top 8 every race. Because maybe he is faster and so teammates wont be in the top 3 with him but they cant manage to finish in the top 8? very odd. I think at this point with how covid has gone down in some countries we should be able to make face to face competitions with the same gear to everyone. F1 is ruthless no matter what so if you cannot perform in that then you cannot tell me you are the best, and, if you do still perform the same way putting the best times and performances then you prove your worth.
I think Lan is the only way like you said. There's too much cheating accusations right now. You need the controlled enviroment. And not just 1 LAN. but seeing how everyone performs over multiple LAN event.
