I noticed this yesterday in a race while using Sauce. I have a draft gauge for when I am doing races and in the race I was doing, when a user would drop a burrito and move to the front of a group of say 10 riders, it seemed like draft completely went away. I realize that the burrito makes it so a player is un-draftable, but if you are in a group of riders, my assumption was that the draft would only decrease by the amount that that specific rider was contributing. Instead, it seemed like it would case an un-draftable shadow across the group and you would also lose any draft from players within this shadow.
Maybe this is how it has always worked and I have never noticed, but I just didn’t expect that a burrito would cast a full “no draft” across the entire group. I assumed that you would just lose the benefit from THAT rider.
The cones of the burrito is much more narrow than actual draft. Most of the time steering to the far left or right put you in a burrito free zone. Of course behind works too as burrito extends only 5-6m.
Even the best riders will suffer from the burrito effects but they will suffer much less.
But what not to do is dangle from the end of the peloton where someone in front of you might get dropped.
Super niche but fun realization today is that you can use a burrito to super tuck while mid pack.
It is an interesting PU
Someone else suggested making them like Rock/Paper/Scissors with a way to counter the burrito, such as using a van. (either by pairs counteracting each other or by a true chain of Van beats Burrito beats aero… or whatever makes sense)
1 burrito is boring, you guys need to learn to stack the burritos on the same rider. See someone get hit by a burrito? Wait till that one ends and put another one on them right after.
