Well so far 3 races in I've had 2 OK races and one where I kept getting punted by anyone. I know I'm not great, but I need to learn and one thing I struggle with is passing. So starting from the back and only making good passes, have only made one slight mistake so far and didn't even knock him off just off line but I slowed and let him back in place, it's hard work but it's teaching me something. Now applying this to people who are the same level as me is not going to be exactly the same, but if I can get better at passing slower players maybe I can get better at passing the faster ones.
I'm not some youtuber that will make a questionable move and then ask his audience if it was OK, I make a questionable move (on someone who has played fair) I always give the place back if it's possible to do. I'm just trying to get better and I recon if I can't get to B from the back then I probably don't belong there anyway.
I see that your motivations and intentions are good and please excuse my earlier tone. Let me pass on some advice/suggestions that I have received or learned along the way.
The guy in front of you is typically faster, that's how he got there after all. He is also not a pushover so you cannot just naturally swoop in and pass him. You need to latch onto a draft, be patient, observe a mistake and then craft a way past without a collision. That is hard! A good place to learn is to travel in the inevitable packs that form in a race. When racing with your peers that pack will find you. Either it will catch up to you or you will catch up to it. Learn to stay with that pack, be stable, hold your lines, be predictable, don't crash, all while looking for a weakness and then exploit it and emerge at the front. Sometimes that pack will be better than you and you will fall through it. No worries, there is more where that came from. That will help you more than driving from the back. Plus, those C and D backmarkers are
cray-cray as they don't know when to brake!
Next up, you belong in B if you can find a positive and constructive way to get there. A good QT is a positive thing, that is what I mean by not handicapping yourself.
Kudos the top players who start from that back. They are typically clean and supportive. I understand the rationale when noQT racing is more interesting than pole, fastest lap, and a lonely 20 second victory.
@Norrin Radd, you and I do not have that sort of problem.
The other alternative are the AI races but that just does not compare to the adrenalin rush of competing with real people. Boring!
