It is a point less , but if they could get a frakking clean sheet that would even out since he would get a point for that as well . <| sep |> Well I ' m a dude and I enjoyed it very much <| sep |> when hakkinen went flat , his mentality was , either I crash , or I overtake him so taking the corner flat was a huge risk in ' 99 <| sep |> Don ' t click on upraisedawings 247 links <| sep |> The hard part here would be finding the optimal strategy and proving that it ' s optimal . If you just want an algorithm that performs decently without worrying about optimality or proof then yes , it ' s easy and you should just stop whenever you ' re ahead . But the link I gave exhibits an algorithm which does better than that unfortunately the algorithm in the link is not conceptually justified in any way that leads one to expect it ' s optimal . This is a very hard problem .