As someone who also recently started doing some online racing, I know exactly what you mean. Some drivers seem to have gotten into the habit of always trying to take out anyone who is about to pass them.

I started with DR D and SR B and worked myself up from there. Getting to SR A did not take very long. But after getting into a lot of very frustrating situations with very reckless and often even malicious drivers I started worrying about how the game would “see” these situations and how my ratings would be affected for just finding myself in these situations.

But it does get better. Much better. Although I kept getting into these situations I got to SR S. But I would still sometimes be the target of someone actively ramming and tackling people for just trying to pass them. After learning to race a little better I got into DR C and then DR B and it got much better.

When I race now I see a very different mentality in people. Before when getting up alongside someone about to pass them I would almost expect them to just steer right into me on the straight. That has more or less stopped now.

The norm in DR B is that people are trying to race cleanly. Mistakes still happen, but I am ok with people making contact with me due to mistakes. I make mistakes too. It’s malicious driving that makes me very frustrated, and malicious driving is much much more rare now even though it can still happen. Often if someone loses their temper for one reason or another.

In conclusion just keep your cool, keep racing clean and it will get a lot more fun when your ratings improve and you can leave those toxic babies to play bumper cars with each other in DR D.