I've decided Saturdays will be my online Daily race runs (at least until I get to 50 Sport races; I have 27 on the GTP account and 1 on the Plus account done to get a free car). On the GTP account, I first grabbed a Bugatti Chiron engine from day 3 of the Christmas holiday login campaign, then went to see if I could improve my very-marginal C DR while keeping my solid S SR rating with the Manufacturers Cup Corvettes that I somehow still have.
First, because it the race that had the earliest start time, was the Gr.4 at Brands Hatch in a mixed B/C room (with even a couple B/S drivers), starting in the very back and 16th. I had made it as high as 9th thanks solely to dropouts and off-track excursions by others, but I spun while avoiding somebody stalled in the middle of the track on the last lap, and ended up 11th of 12 who stayed around until the end. Needless to say, I lost the last bit of bar on my DR, but somehow I stayed a C driver.
Next up was the Gr.3 at Sardegna. It was an all C/S room, with me starting 15th of 16 on mediums. My only gains were from those who did many laps on medium tires compared to my first-and-done strategy, and a drop-out. My 12th-place finish (clean) relegated me to mid-D DR status (which is, honestly, where I belong).
While I waited for the next race slot at the Nurburgring, I took my 4-star Wheel of Despair, which gave a non-S camshaft for a rather expensive car which has the S camshaft available. As I don't want to burn any of my maxed SR, I once again didn't take a qualifying time, while once taking the BMW M3. I set off 11th in the all-D field, in the middle of 3 cars that didn't take a qualifying time. The first part of the race was ruined by somebody with a real dodgy connection flopping all over the place, then some idiot who had just taken a penalty decided to put me in the guardrail and then block me into the wall again coming out of the last corner, ruining my race and, as I didn't want to just pop out in front of 8th and 9th, left me last among those who completed the lap. The thing that really cheesed me was he improved his SR.
On the Plus account, after taking my 100,000 Cr. for day 2 of Christmas holiday login campaign, I started the Daily trilogy with a mid-E DR/upper-mid B SR. I rented a hometown Jaguar F-type Gr.4 for the Brands Hatch race as that had the most time for qualifying. I set a lap just under 1:35.0 in a 2-lap session, much faster than the 1:38.1 in the Corvette on the GTP account. That got me 3rd starting position in a mixed D/E room. A mistake on my part dropped me to 4th, though I still slightly improved my SR.
At Sardegna, I rented a Ferrari and set a 1:43.2 time in a 2-lap qualifying session on medium tires, a half-second faster than I did on the GTP account. Again, I set off 3rd in a mixed D/E room, well off the front row's time, though they were both on soft tires. I was the only one on a first-lap-only medium strategy, so I gave up 2nd as the car that started 2nd had a horrible start. I had nothing for the driver who crossed the finish line 1st, as I was 37 seconds behind, and I actually was 3rd across the line. However, both the cars ahead of me forgot to change tires, so I got the win. In fact, the only other driver who finished on the lead lap and remembered to change tires (3rd place in the final order) finished 45 seconds behind. Though I once again missed the CRB (probably because I went through a ghosted car stalled in the middle of a turn facing sideways), I once again improved my SR slightly, to low-A, though my DR remained unchanged again.
Before heading to the Nurburgring, I took my 4-star marathon ticket. While it kicked out the usual low-showing cash prize, it was the 2nd-highest-possible 500,000 Cr.
I was able to take a shake down the Porsche 911 for not-quite a lap. In an all-E room, I started 4th of 11, the first of those who didn't take a time. Third-place, honking his horn throughout the part of the race I was near him, tried to drive right through me on the first corner, but ghosting saved me, and I quickly lost him. I didn't have anything for the top 2 though, finishing 3rd. I had another improvement in SR, but that attempted wrecker did as well.
I finished the 3 races with the same mid-E DR, but a fresh mid-A SR. It was a DR disappointment, but a SR triumph.