I agree. While I have no problem with adding a ghost lobby for every class, I personally don’t have any interest in them. I tried to of the ghost league lobbies but I found them really boring. I actually would rather do rivals.
I also don’t find many online races where people are ramming you on purpose. At least not at first. Instead I do find is that most of the racers in public lobbies don’t have much online racing experience and just don’t know who to drive in close proximity. As a result, those in the middle and back of the grid try to use their hot lap brake points when the cars in front are slowing down earlier and they are unable to stop in time. Then throw in a number of inexperienced drivers that are trying to run their normal racing line through turn 1 where cars are 2 and sometimes 3 wide and the collisions multiply.
I’ve observed this to be the cause of most turn 1 pile ups that I’ve seen as well as many pile ups later in the race. The racers who get taken out are immediately frustrated and do whatever they can to get back on the track ASAP and almost always drive straight into traffic causing another pile up. The cars at the back of the grid don’t want to let the guys out front run away with the race so instead of slowing down they try to push through causing more collisions and the frustration builds.
In most cases when the field spreads out, I find people calm down but occasionally I find someone (likely fueled by frustration and a misunderstanding of many early collisions) decides to start ramming people on purpose. But more often than not, it seems like inexperience to me.
When I say “inexperienced”, I don’t mean they are slow. Often there are very fast drivers who have developed their skill through rivals and the career mode but have never experienced good clean private league racing so have never learned how to drive safely with others. I don’t know how this can be fixed unless Turn 10 figured out a way to reward drivers for driving clean in close proximity to others or possibly penalize those that don’t???
More ghost lobbies are certainly not going to teach others how to drive safely with others.