Lenman

D+ events are only for owners of the current season, so you need the year one pass or S3+S4 deluxe. So that's intended by codemasters. I can't say anything about your other problem, sounds weird. Maybe buy another R5 car?

Then you could just turn it up before starting the night stage, and drive with lights off. Disabling it during a stage doesn't help. I don't think it's such a big problem anyway...

Top 3 gives you a promotion to the next tier. If you keep getting podiums in all events, that should be enough to make it, as most AI drivers tend to have very inconsistent performance across events.

I think the H1 monthlies are mainly for new players who still need money. They give very high rewards (at least 1 million credits), more than any other class's monthly.

The automatic transmission is pretty good for figuring this out. It will shift at higher rpm on 1st gear, then switch to the 5-5.5k that @2technical mentioned.

Have you tried a different class? Some are easier to learn than others.

"six right - caution: invisible rocks inside - into ....."

Just retire from every event, that will drop you to a lower tier.

The headlights on all cars look really bad. The rest of the car has high quality, but then the headlights are just a low-res texture. Is there some setting that I missed, that would either make the texture high-res, or even turn the lights into detailed 3D models? Here are two examples of what I mean: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1885848115 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1886263241

Your Turbo is broken. You can't repair it currently, it's a bug. Wait for the next patch (version 1.10), they already announced a fix.

Seems like this has been fixed on the server side somehow. Very sneaky Suddenly my repairs were taking a really, really long time, and a car reset gave me a huge penalty 😄 It took me a while to figure out that maybe my engineers had been reset. 👍

No hillclimb in DR2

GTRTech shares a bunch of setups on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ05BZF9F6q2xKyV6viCBGg/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=5

The upgrades will still be there when the patch hits, so it wasn't wasted.