1st race of "B", today. I started in 6th.....but I certainly wouldn't finish there. At the 1st chicane, a bit of carnage ensued and multiple people got spun, put off the track, etc. I was the unfortunate soul who got put down to dead last (16th). After rejoining the track, I made my way up to 15th. Then the 16th place person quit; back down to last. I made up another spot (14th), then the person in 15th quit (last place, again). Thanks to some others spinning and running wide at various spots, I was able to climb back up to 10th. And that's where I finished. I had some really good practice laps before the race and was feeling good about my 6th place start. But it wasn't meant to be.
2nd race went MUCH better. I started 6th, again. But this time I finished 2nd. There was a bit of carnage at the 1st chicane, but nothing like the previous race. I made it through mostly unscathed and had moved up a spot to 5th. Coming through Ascari, I gained another position thanks to someone spinning. On lap 2, I moved up to 3rd thanks to the person ahead making a mistake at Roggia. And I was content to stay there for a podium finish. But on the next lap, the 2nd place car spun at Ascari and I moved up to 2nd. Us in the top 3 were running pretty close together (less than a second between each of us) and we were pulling away from everyone else. 1st and 2nd were doing a bit of battling up to that point and I was hoping it would slow both of them down enough to where I could make a move. But with 2nd place spinning, that allowed 1st place to go on unchallenged. I kept within a couple seconds of him, but he was a bit quicker through the corners than I was. Still, I'll take that 2nd place finish and be happy. It definitely makes up for the previous race.
Also, it pushed my DR up to B (11887) 😎
Ran a couple more "B" races. The 3rd race didn't go so well. I started 8th. I was moving up pretty good, until the 2nd lap. I was coming up on a GT-R and was about to pass him going into Curva Grande. He moved over to block (he was on the inside so I was going around the outside), pushing me further to the outside and causing me to go into the sand. That allowed everyone else to pass me. I worked my way back up to 12th and finished there. I was having a decent race up to that point. I actually caught up to him again and saw him push some others a bit wide so they wouldn't pass him. Again, not for a podium spot. This was for 10th or 11th place.
On race 4, I ran wide at Curva Grande myself and wound up down in last. I started 12th, so I lost 3 spots (only 15 people in the lobby). I worked my way up to 11th thanks to other's mistakes. I honestly can't believe I did such a stupid thing like that on the very 1st lap. Otherwise, it was a decent race. No other mistakes from me, just that 1st one that cost me a LOT of time. My DR suffered a bit thanks to those last 2 races; it's still a "B", though. But my SR went back up and I'm at "S", again. Hopefully that will put me in some better lobbies with fewer and fewer idiots whose only goal seems to be making others miserable and causing them to wreck or spin.
! Some good racing in this one!
