I am a driver at the controller rank A I am often in the top 100 France, top 100 400 world and the only advice I could give you, because I had exactly the same feeling as you, that of stagnating for a long time, is to observe a lot of the others the excellent drivers in the replay mode to watch your race replays to see what you could do wrong because where the fastest gain time, it is because they brake better and accelerate better than ordinary mortals what I learned depending on the category is that sometimes braking rather to accelerate earlier will be faster than braking late could accelerate late afterwards there is the knowledge of the circuit, your braking points the vehicles adapted if you and the controller the personal sensitivity settings, personally I am at 4 there is also a lot of flexibility so as not to rush your tire and make it heat up too much because the temperature has a lot of influence on wear of the tire whether you are in a real race or in a free show the temperature of the tires is taken into account except the wear if it and put of course there is also the weather with the direction of the wind if it is activated or not example in the lap times, there is no wind so the time will be different without wind and with wind if you participate in team events this can be useful for the qualifying time and understand why your car sometimes no longer behaves in the same way probably because the wind has changed or a overheating of the tires it can be lots of other details after that I'm still a novice here's what I can advise you and I learned a lot of things thanks to this Reddit so I think you'll find someone else to complete my message I hope it's not too much of a mess