Another typical Monza night with the exception that I never left SR.S. It got close though, down to 81 SR after some shenanigans. One 10 sec penalty from someone messing up in front of you already means a red rating at A/S.
One of those 10 sec penalties came from the side effects of ghosting.
The car further ahead tries to serve his penalty, the car in front of me thinks he can pass through yet the first car unghosts on his bumper. The car in front of me panics and does an involuntary brake check earning me a 10 sec penalty. Why do people serve penalties in lap 1, in traffic, with a car right behind. Should be reason fro DQ imo, yet the game says slow down...
Another ghost penalty
A recovery not making any attempt to stay out of the way as he is ghosted anyway. I can't slam on the brakes as there's a car right behind me, so I do what the game wants me to do and go through. Not, he goes solid while we are overlapped, bang noise, 4 sec penalty.
The game needs to stop unghosting cars on top of other cars. This whole ghosting is pretty dumb anyway. In another race a car that crashed in T1 merged with my car and we drove together to and through the next chicane, occupying only 1 spot on the track. It was efficient use of space I guess. Yet without ghosting T1 would be a standstill. Perhaps the game should slow down the car that is behind instead of letting cars draft ghosts which keeps them merged.
Anyway on the short way back to 99 I managed to score a victory:
This one was worth 419 DR, instead of the 3 DR I got for the DT Seaside victory from the back.
Second place earned me more. At the 23:30 race I got 1126 DR for second place surviving this room
That was a max SR room, well at least it was at the start of the race...
And those starts! Starting from the back doesn't really work if there's still more non qualifiers behind you. I only had the luxury of starting 20th once, 19th in another race yet usually I still get 3 or 4 cars behind me. Starting from the back looks like this:
Best to brake a little early and coast through the mess as smooth as possible. In one race I went from nearly last to 4th place before Ascari. The gif on the right is the first part of it, went to 5th after the second chicane then another place up next corner.
Monza had some 'nice' characters again as well. One guy got called out by 3 people after the race (including me), a true serial diver. Yet he ended with a blue rating as the only thing you can do with a dive bomber in A/S is make room, let him cut you off, or get a penalty. Looking him up on KP he only recently made it to SR.S. I guess with 400 races with SR and DR at B and lower, you pick up quite a few bad habits. That was the only race I lost some DR as I finished 8th behind him, he was just too dangerous to pass for a third time.
My last race of the day was great again, finished 2nd, clean race bonus (105K credits, not bad actually), which puts my DR at 36.9K, so much for getting back to DR.B.
