Turn three on lap 2 and 3, lap three mostly and the big off at exit of turn four on lap 4 (unsafe reentry and you cut through the grass). You don't have to pull a penalty to hurt you SR, not all out of bound excursions result in time penalties even though they can hurt your SR.
I dont quite understand your post Sarkazmo. Did you mean by finishing first your SR should go up ? The result is affecting only your DR rating. There are a lot of bad drivers that are fast. That is the reason why there is DR and SR.
So regardless of penalties your SR is depending on sportmanship. It would be easier if you could post the pre-race and post-race kudos stats. Maybe you just lost 1 SR that race ?
I don't have the Kudos scores before and after to compare. I don't know how many points were taken away but without incurring penalties I don't see why I was deducted even a single point. PD is hiding these negative SR events and that's just not right. With no penalties I should've finished with no change in SR at worst, positive SR at best. If every single touch removes SR, if running wide removes SR, if "unsafe reentry" removes SR it should be listed on screen or in a log or something! With the system the way it is people get points removed and never know why!
When your DR can be taken away from you because of low SR this invisible system is a slap in the face for drivers. Under certain circumstances one could lose 20K DR points and never get a penalty, how is that fair? If I do wrong, fine, give me a penalty. But to take points away without penalty of even acknowledgement of the loss, that's BS.
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@Sarkazmo If for you the SR and DR levels are relevant you should’ve just checked the Kudos stats. How can you complain about loss of DR/SR when you are not actually tracking it ??
PD did not want the levels to be seen (other than E-S stats) because its just about racing and the system putting you together with similar racers. It is not intended as a ranking system climbing up to the highest ranks.