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If this is true then please identify these riders to the coaches so they can be asked to redo their induction.
Nobody should be riding "all over the place" or moving without looking in the intermediates, however fast they think they are.
As for your question, experienced racers leave larger gaps to "rush" when they are overtaking, the GB squad call this "space to race". Following a wheel closely then pulling up and into the wind to overtake requires significantly more effort to complete the overtake. This sort of thing is coached at race training but isn't covered on a Saturday morning which is intermediate track skills. Even elite riders look before they overtake if it involves a significant movement, watch any keirin at world level. They just do it quickly and very well.