Pinnacle Division was pretty good last night, plenty of clean racing going on. We had about 15-20 people in most races with multiple people and cars winning (even I won a race, which is rare considering how good the top Pinnacle drivers are).
Some circuits still bring up the inevitable Sector 1 pileups but once that’s cleared the racing has been solid.
Getting really tired of random grid starts, IMO grid positions should be set by the fastest laps in the previous race.
They are in Leagues.
I’d like that to also be the case in general Hoppers; that way the faster/cleaner racers have a chance to get around Turn 1 before the inevitable happens.
It does not seem to work properly in leagues, even if I get the fastest clean lap I still start in the middle of the group more often than not.
Clean laps are always above dirty ones. I had a race at Rio last night where I got smashed up on Lap 1. Instead of competing for position I dropped to last, got come clear air and set a clean lap. That put me on pole for the next race.
Sometimes when a new person joins the room they’ll start at the front, but other than that the grids are laptime-based; you can look it up in the Game Settings during Intermission.
Actually I don’t believe it is always based entirely on fastest lap. If you race with me in Pinnacle, you know that I usually put down rather decent lap times. Lots of races I’ll have the fastest lap and it’ll be clean. That should NORMALLY be a guaranteed pole position start for the next race, but sometimes it doesn’t happen.
What I typically see in those cases is that somebody new has shown up to the lobby, and for whatever reason the game puts them at the front.
This has led to a behavior I’ve noticed lately in which people who can’t typically compete for fastest lap leave and rejoin league lobbies multiple times because they know that it could result in them being put in front. Rather stupid IMO.
You should earn your spot in leagues. Period.
This is getting really frustrating now, once again I’ve been in a lobby where I cant see half of the racers in the lobby. This time didn’t realise until after the 1st lap, its making it look like I’m intentionally wreaking people.
It’s a connection issue; before I got my new router in October I was experiencing similar. These days if my connection drops I get multiple cars stuck on the grid but it’s a relative rarity.
Ugh, amazing pinnacle lobby going. 21 people. Had like 10 races in a row with no hiccups, then the lobby disconnects, and nobody comes back 
Pls fix Turn10. Tho props on this league. It’s the best in like a month at least. Extend an extra week k?
edit: also I couldn’t hear anyone the whole time. Annoyed me so bad lol. Seems sometimes the game just bugs and you can’t hear anyone even you unplug your mic.
Were all in another lobby, nearly full again, still cant hear anyone though
That was a nice lobby we had earlier, I could only hear 2 people talk though.
I joined for the last hour, as I prefer to compete in races with more than 10 people. Didn’t do as well as yesterday but still snuck in the odd podium.
Another good night of racing this evening, we had a solid group of 15 together for a few hours. Multiple drivers and cars winning and lots of close racing. Only 1 Disconnect too for a change.
That being said I’ve been racing for 4 hours now and not seen a single wet circuit come up.
I’m glad you had some good racing PJT, I couldn’t join a lobby all night that had more than 1 or 2 in it. Very frustrating.
Happy new year to all.
Tonight’s session was rather good; a bunch of the regulars were in Party Chat for a few hours and we had plenty of good races. I pulled my way up to 11th on the leaderboard by the end of it.
It was a good League this week, I’ll keep that GT350R for the A/700 Hoppers. Hopefully next week’s League is just as much fun.
Wish they’d leave recently-closed Leagues up for a few days instead of deleting them when the final session finishes. I wasn’t in that session so I’ve no idea who won or where I finished!
Exotic GT League is up. S Class. Sounds like it could be a good one.
If you use the shoulder buttons, you can see past lobbies.
So annoyed i missed this league due to…well,xmas and new yrs
Whens the next one kick off?
Correct, you can see the most recent League results by pressing RB.
The next set of Leagues are already up. I’ll make a new thread shortly.
So you can! Thanks chaps.