Originally Posted by
Radish_legs
of course it's completely different than real racing. For one, you are never free-wheeling. Relatively little draft. Breakaways are harder to accomplish. Use of power-ups changes things. The strategy is different. If the level is too high, then race down a level. I probably can't hold wheels in an A race, but I can win a B race. In the race I recently won, my avg power was 3.6 w/kg. 2nd place was 3.9 w/kg. It's not all about w/kg.
You can win a B race, on Zwift, but not in real life?
I win multiple p/1/2 races a year, but I can't win an A race on Zwift. For that matter, the last few times I entered a race as a B I didn't win, either!
Zwift takes most of the racing out of racing. Which means a lot of it is simply about power.