Since it's working again I can now see my last weeks roller coaster ride in detail.
Monza propelled me to DR.S last Saturday.
Then it was all downhill until I discovered that the 2nd controller I use was starting to fail. I alternate between 2 controllers, 1 always charging. On One of them R2 apparently started to fail. Finally at the end of the last steep down slope I payed attention to the throttle input as I was sucking so bad I couldn't believe it anymore. I wasn't even able to keep up with the last car. It turned out the throttle would not go past 90% and getting worse....
I marked the controller as broken and play tethered now when the charge gets low on my good controller, yet then I started draft bumping on Bluemoon bay and fell off a cliff
The game didn't even give me penalties or SR Down on screen for the bumps, simply demoted me an SR level after every race...
Then the long climb back up started marred by a bunch of disconnects (some voluntary, interruptions).
I enjoyed driving in B/S more though. Now I'm back in A/S, the unfair penalties are back as well.