I started a new account yesterday and without even running a career race or online race I am already level 22 and still have several special events to do 24 will be cake.
Is funny cause I preordered the game from Game Stop so it starts me with the Nascar and the F1 stealth. I went straight to the Nascar on the ring and ran that with no mods to the car, won it on the first try and jumped from level 0 to 16. I went on to run the Intermediate AMG school, the Nascar school and the remainign races in Seasonal events 2 as well as the level 16 rally event and the last race in bonus race 3 and am almost at level 23 already while my stat sheet says I have 6 wins.