I wonder if PD reads at least this thread?..
Anyway, here is what I have experienced and what I would like PD to know about the FIA championship.
I took part in all 8 races.
Unfortunately only 2 races were real races, remaining 6 was just me racing against the clock - all other players were just standing on starting positions and I had to go around them since they were not ghosts and I could crash into them decreasing my PFP. I need to underline the below:
Polyphony Digital - those are FIA signed races and this kind of connection problem can not happen in championship of such a importance.
To be clear - I have absolutely no connection issues in other games (although I am on NAT2), I have my PS4 set as DMZ on my router and what is the most important I had not a single "empty" race in daily races - and I did about 20 daily races before focusing 100% on FIA championships.
Also, just to clarify - I am not posting to whine about the connection issues the game is clearly facing - I am writing so that PD could read about it and do something about it. This is the test season after all and perhaps we will be able to help this way to make the real seasons optimized?
As an important piece of information - all 6 races, that were not races at all, had one thing in common - at least one player was a ghost before the race started. In 2 real races no players were ghosts on start. And in all the races (8) my car did not show as ghost on start (at least for me). I believe there could be some issue with starting procedure?... Perhaps the procedure is too long and something changes while all the players are showed?
And to end - I have won 0 of those 6 "empty" races
due to 3 factors:
1) During the starting procedure my car hits the car in front and goes back than hits the car again etc until countdown and after the countdown, when I have the control over the car I am already loosing around 30s? 1m?
2) I have to slow down, on every lap, before the finish line to overtake 19 blocks of concrete laying in the middle of the track.
3) There were always some very fast guys on the grid
In the two normal races I was 2nd and 9th. I have already written about the 9th place race (got pushed off of the track 4 times but I was PFP B back then).
The race I was 2nd in, was the one on Dragon trail II - I even was 1st for about 2 laps but couldn't take the pressure from #2 car
Although I upped my game and almost got him on last lap - cut his lead by half on the lap from 3s to ~~1,5s
- I believe he was also starting to get nervous
- and in this race I was already PFP S and the race was 100% clean
In overall I find the championship so far as a negative experience due to the connection issue. Apart from that, when racing in PFP S races all is good, the experience changes to very much positive
I also like the 3 rankings for every championship. What I would add to current state of the gameplay is being able to record best lap replay both from the race and from "free training" - I am not 100% sure how is it called in English version of the game.
That would be all - a long post, however I did not want to create separate threads or double post.
Regards,
P.
all othere garage members were gifts and rewards, plus 4 cars for mileage points and 2 cars lend by Nissan. 
I lost it, from there on the car slipped every now and then and lost completely. But I did set the fastest overall lap though. 
it has that Ikea shelf on the dash. Hahaha
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