Thanks everyone for the kind hospitality, and especially
@Nail-27 for accommodating my very, very late request to get in on the action as a one-off. I dropped out of the second race because someone indicated I was lagging. This is not normal for me; I have a slightly smarter than the average bear connection. I just ran a Speedtest.net query to Seattle (opposite side of the country from me) which indicated a 30 dl / 6 ul with a 94 ms ping. That should be stout enough to race in a full room assuming your servers are set up correctly, which is unfortunately not the case for GT6 (though I do believe it is generally good).
Unfortunately my schedule is such that I cannot be a regular participant but the 4/5's of the race I did run was fun. Hope you guys enjoy the rest of tonight's races . . .