A & B would be good:tup:Next up:
Civic for the one make.
Tokyo was pretty good, netted a couple of wins. Too bad the last 2 races weren't clean. I won the one before last with a 5 sec penalty at the finish carried from T1. Someone turned into me, I get the penalty and -3 SR for the race. Last race I got punted off in the last turn on lap 2, still made it back to 4th yet no SR gain, will have to leave my SR at 96 tonight.
Even being an S/S driver I can relate to this, it happens quite often to meTook to the GR4 race with a qualifying time that I dare not mention here
Started 15th, worked my way up to 12 and felt I was going to finish to 10 (not impressive for u guys but a victory for me cuz it's the 1st time I went manual trans online).
The guys I passed clearly didn't like it and both put me off the track at different times. I received a penalty on one of them, despite being the car that got rear ended as I was breaking into a corner
Ended up 17 out of 18 as 1 guy quit. Otherwise, I would have been dead last after being rudely treated.
It's possible I would have finished last anyway, but I would love to have found out cleanly
My SR remained neutral, didn't go up or down.
My progress also was too fast in this game, I now have 23 wins and I don't think there will be a lot more being added in the near future.
. Was up with the big boys (door number was between 12 and 16 for all 5 races) and managed to finish 8, 2, 6, 6, 6. Even the P8 finish earned me 279 DR towards a total of 2736 for the night.
. I carry on thinking about how to maintain my position and clear the penalty and then I cross the start line and it's 6.7 seconds, I reach T1 and it's 7.7 seconds! So, distracted by the timer and thinking where to park to serve the time penalty, I just miss my braking point and hit a car who was already passing through the turn (luckily it was only a small bump and he continued ok) but my time penalty is now 17.7 seconds . So I stop and serve the penalty, in which time I drop to last. So, from dreams of a 6th place finish to last within half a lap . I managed to gain a position and finish 15 but, due to the race only being 5 laps I finished with red SR (-21 having checked this morning) 
and a DR loss of 993 (71 per position so at least I know everyone was better than me ). Next race, in SRA, I start 3rd but with just 2 x DR A ahead and the rest DR B behind. Clean race, victory number 26 and SR up but only 7 points, so back to low S. DR gain of 610. Next race, same drill (start 3rd, victory number 27 but gain just 4 SR points due to a minor contact with another driver incurring 1 second penalty apiece). DR gain 479. OK, so next race I am pitted against a few similar AS drivers, starting 4th, but the rest DS... some absolute cock flies into T1 seemingly without braking, taking me out, I hit another car and get 3 second penalty. I limp on and finish 4th, which is fine... but I lose 7 SR points, putting me back to SR/A (and despite a 4th placed finish I lose 87 DR) . I race again starting 2nd, I want a clean race but have to be careful of the DR Bs and Ds behind... again some overly aggressive idiot goes to fast into T8 (? first one of the slow curves) bumps me off track and in trying to recover I make contact with another driver. I end in 2nd but lose 8 SR and gain just 10 DR! I am now a mid SR/A . End of night.. Good plan Robben... thanks guys... I finished 16th after a few guys spun out but lost 520 DR - just 34 per position, so I'm against people a LOT better than me... I don't enter again for the night.
over 40000 now amongst seas of 911s. I think in those 3 races, there was perhaps 1 Corvette, 2 AMG and 1 guy in a Vantage.
Very nice report:tup:Awesome weekend all in all....
Friday night raced Yama Reverse 5 times. Qualifying time of 1:40.858 put me in top 0.7% in the world (226 of 31105) - my first sub 1% Qualifying position
Saturday was the turn of Interlagos.... set a 1:31.968 which was good but not amazing (top 1.6%). Had two really good races starting in 4th then 3rd, a couple of Spaniards from ART up front then me... good battles and finished where I started. By this point I have 3 clean race streak (1 carried over from Friday plus these two races) and gained 560 and 710 DR respectively. Then race 3 I get moved "up"... me and the two ART guys are now pitted against a load of S drivers, I manage only a starting position of 9th and I think they had 6th and 5th. By lap 3 I am up to 6th and I have passed an S rated driver (who I clocked from the matching grid) and just concentrating on my race, dreaming of the DR I will gain until... the last corner of lap 2, I cut the corner of the curbstones as always, but this time (with another car just behind me) I cut slightly too much and get a time penalty - 5.7 seconds
I think the lesson I learnt from this, after setting what is for me a really good qualifying time and earning two clean races, is: serve penalties immediately. If I had pulled over and served my 5.7 seconds, I could have finished the race lower mid pack and would have probably not had the other collisions which caused me to lose 21 SR points, so I'd have maybe got a neutral SR at the end or lost a few points but remained in S. By continuing and the time going up, distracting me, hitting someone else, I caused myself a nightmare and dropped into SR A and low S (which is a different world by the way to 99 points...).
So, I think yesterday that I need to recover SR and then I can start racing properly again... so I decide to do Race B (I will just sit at the back and get SR up), but I get matched with DR B-D... so I can't finish too low. And I hate Tokyo but I only had about 30 mins in the morning so it was the only choice. I start 12th and finish 8th but lose 2 SR and 500 DR
Evening was better... did some practice on Suzuka and then entered some races starting 6th and 4th, finishing 3rd and 2nd. Due to being SR/A and low S, I was amongst mixed grids so only gained 570 and 220 DR. But now I am back up to SR 99 after gaining 14 and 16 SR points in the two races. Confidently I enter another race, to be given grid 20 (changed to 19 after someone dropped out) and door number 20
Wow... I have rambled
tl;dr - set some good qualifying times, had some really good races, had some really bad races, but overall good weekend gaining 3500 DR
I noticed in the pre ace screen that the game said I had a very poor connection for this race so I tried not to get too close to the other cars at the start in case I lagged into themEven being an S/S driver I can relate to this, it happens quite often to me
@JR98 why didn't you drafted past P1 after the start?
B for meToday's Race A is... let's just say perplexing
and after smashing my previous best at Interlagos (going from top 10% to 1.65%), tonight is the turn of Nurb GP! Top 2% here I come 
Thank you. I was positively surprised that one person wasn't angry to come up against a faster driver. I fully agree with you and also see it as a challenge to try and keep up with faster drivers, observe the lines and braking points and become faster myself. I really enjoy Mount Panorama (my favourite racetrack ingame after the Nordschleife) and I am fast(ish) on this track because it doesn't get boring for me and I am sort of a perfectionist so I always try to improve my laptimes and achieve 'that one perfect lap'.Congrats to your wins and thank you for the compliment.
I know a lot of lower rated people complain about having to race super fast guys, to me it's always an honor and the possibility to check my own pace when trying to keep up as good as possible
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Surprisingly well-mannered races in general ... 5 races for me, 4 poles, 4 FLs, 3 wins
Btw I wondered if you're a member here, now I know
See you later mate
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What's your time bro? And car...? Citroen?Race B erased all my frustrations
Got into a field with 3 other DR S drivers, as well as 5 DR As. Gobbled them up and got me a win. YummyView attachment 723282
