I had a good day of racing yesterday at the Nordschleife without qualifying. Well good and bad. I had 10 victories from the back, but also 2 DR resets
I started at SR 40 after a disastrous race the day before and it is impossible to get SR past SR.B from the back at race B. A clean race is worth at most 5 SR, one SR Down (penalty or not) is -10 SR, thus at least -5 for the race. Two is at least 15 SR lost for that race. At SR.C and lower you get more SR for races (up to 2.5x at SR.E) so there one SR Down still gives you some blue SR. From 50 SR that boost is all gone, hence SR.B is a dead end at race B. SR.B is also a lot more dirty than SR.C and lower.
It's weird, up to SR.C I usually have no problem at the start, everyone follows closely but carefully through the first few turns. Get back in SR.B and someone comes bowling through before the start, every damn time. It was the same when I was going between SR.A and SR.S. SR.A good start, get matched with SR.S in the back, bowling alley. There seem to be two plateaus where people like to be. SR.S, we're at max SR. time to drive dirty to gain DR. SR.B, well can't get beyond this anyway let's go rumble. SR.A, I want to get back to SR.S to rumble, better be careful. SR.C, DR reset looming better be careful. Thus the yoyo SR ride continues.
It doesn't matter for fun anyway. There are still plenty clean fast racers to have contact free races with in the second part of the race. I had some awesome close chases, bumper to bumper, side by side through twisty bits all contact free (SR.C) But also idiots that go out of their way to ruin it at the end with brake checks and deliberate ramming (SR.B) That happened in SR.S as well when I was there on Monday and Tuesday so might as well race in low SR where the chances at close victories are much higher.