[James Blint]

Even IMSA/FIA have driver ratings with Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum (call it 6-7-8-900). Here it matters for splits, not such a big deal on US servers most of the time, but will often make a difference on EU servers where you have more splits, like youtubers weekly single race championships or the daily evening 1h race since you need the rating to able to compete in split 1 for championship points. Everybody has been through this anyway at the beginning, and it's not that bad to spend a few weeks in lower splits even if you have level for more. I remember having really tough races in split 2 in my first GT3 champ. Get the good points (still 80 for a win), with the least incidents and you are out of there in no time.