There should be a safe zone around the flag pickup where defenders won’t be able to deny flags. This would keep defenders from crowding the flag pickup which can make for a pretty boring game when several defenders do that.
Like a 5 meter radius around the flag pick up location will ghost the defenders car.
They have to stay in motion (unless that’s been changed/broken) otherwise they get ghosted, and there’s a good margin of “where” the flag can get picked up - ie, you don’t have to hit it. I usually fly past the “defenders” and still manage to grab the flag, even though I got nowhere near actually touching it. It’s worked out to be a partial workaround to that problem, although it doesn’t fully address it.
I wouldn’t object to changing that, however I think I’d rather see a change so that the opponent actually has to MAKE CONTACT to deny your flag - don’t know how many times I’ve lost one from like 2 feet away.