i used to be an a safety rating, and because of some rammers dropped to b and now i want to get to an s safety rating how do i do it, and does going off track or touching someone without getting a penalty going to affect my safety rating.
The best way to improve your safety rating is finishing races without penalties, contacts and off track incidents (penalized or not). To do so, it’s preferable to qualify and start as high as possible then let the chips fall where they may.
But the greatest way to improve your safety rating is to ignore your safety rating. Don’t check it at all, do your best and move to the next race.
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thanks that is what i have been trying.
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I don’t think it’s been fully explained, but if you get a warning/investigation and no penalty, that doesn’t affect your Safety Rating. Basically, if you have +0.00 at the end of the race then that’s a positive.
It’s unclear if your rating is calculated on a per race basis or per lap/distance, so a Long clean race might be better than a Short clean race.
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I was wondering that.
Mine went from S to A, then I had a next race where I was getting rammed from pillar to post, it gave me a 2 second penalty for someone side-swiping me.
Then when the finish came, I checked as I logged out & I went down to E.
Came back on the next day did one clean race & it shot back up to S.
As far as qualifying goes, sometimes (it dont happen very often) I can get a pole time, or maybe a top 5.
But when the ramming starts in the first part of the lap, I usually end up towards the back or last.
I generally dont try & qualify because of that.
Weird huh?
I used to not qualify but you have much cleaner races if you qualify.
Also today I spent around 2 hours and got my safety rating from b to a.
I read somewhere on Reddit that 10 races of no penalty’s will get you an s safety rating is that still true or is it now 50 since that is what they changed it to?
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Avoid penalties and collisions during a race.
If you accidentally cut a corner and the penalty system is trying to determine your penalty if you slow down quickly or like maintain a speed while it’s doing that you can get away w no penalty I’ve noticed. Which is cool because penalized my self for the wrong doing so to speak. After some races I finally went from a to s.
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Why put so much emphasis on the safety rating if it has no value. If you have an S, A, or B, you will all end up in the same lobby. Other players cannot see your ranking. It has no significant impact on the selection of players for the race. This rating exists in a vacuum. Just as an element of the interface.
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Are you sure because I feel like when I have a higher safety rating the races are more safe and competitive.
I had an S rating, my friends had A and B, and we found ourselves in the same lobby without much trouble, without using the invite system. I would check how it works with lower ratings, but there are no such players in my environment. As for cleaner, safer and more competitive racing, in my opinion, it’s random. If the game has rush hours and is played by a lot of adequate and fast players, you have mostly good races. The rest of the time you can ride with just 
animals.
Yes I think it matters what time you player and what day.
Not in my experience. Qualifying up front often seems to paint a huge target on my rear bumper at the first turn.
I tend to not bother qualifying. Unfortunately the way they seed the field you end up with lower quality drivers at the front with you. First turn deaths occur often. Most times I’m at the back with better drivers who have not qualified. We run the field and storm to the front as the poor drivers slowly fall off the pace and we pass them. Some bad actors will attempt to stop our progress. Happens.
Since safety rating doesn’t seem to have an impact on the lobby distribution I don’t care about it. But I check it after eventful races due to “science reasons”.
I have 5+ races without a penalty and must be in S, then get 2-3 pixel-wide track limit penalties in a 20 minutes race and went to A when I checked out of curiosity.
I assume the severeness of the penalty decides the impact on the rating. And track limit violations are harshly penalized when you have good pace and won’t slow down after going off track.
Collisions on the other hand are hardly punished.
Yesterday a S-class driver wiped me (driving B-class) through Degner at Suzuka. I lost over 5 seconds, he got 40m penalty.
To make up for the time loss I pushed too much, overextended the 130R turn by a few pixels and got 56m for it.
Thus, he probably got a minor impact on his safety rating than I did.
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Lately when I can play, I don’t even qualify, I do some testing in racing configuration.
I start from behind and come up. I enjoy it much more like this.
Safety rating is A with 4500 points, more or less.
Convinced the safety rating is bugged or something since last update.
3 races completing last night. No pens and S rated when I turned off.
Just came on today to notice I’m now E rated.