Unless I'm mistaken it seems that the pre race grid shows your connection to the Oceania server, the server we only use for FIA races. As soon as we go to the race we then see the connection to the Japan server instead.
I envy the South Americans who at least sometimes used to get a win at the expense of the North by hosting on their end.
Even if we get an entirely Oceania grid I suspect the Asian servers would still get priority at joining us all together.
We used to get both servers, somewhat alternating. Until this last week's change in software. From then on, I only ever saw at best 3 yellow bars, and often worse. In the race though - the pre race showed Australians with 5 green bars, and lower for other places. But as you say, at the race the connection was poor.
I started a new account this week, I race for 6 days with one day where I raced a fair bit.
Too_Blitz account, started one week ago, at "E" and at zero points for the first 5 races, then you get 2,000:
My Blitztoo account (some of):
1 5825 C 75 A
2 9058 C 84 S
3 17167 B 83 S
4 24743 B 94 S
5 27061 B 99 S
6 31487 A 82 S
7 31549 A 76 A
Blitztoo:
74 35974 A 90 S
75 35763 A 92 S
76 35778 A 88 S
77 36447 A 99 S
78 35757 A 99 S
79 35930 A 85 S
80 36058 A 99 S
81 35794 A 89 S
82 37888 A 99 S
83 35857 A 99 S
84 35344 A 89 S
85 37283 A 99 S
86 37934 A 99 S
87 40038 A 99 S
88 40725 A 99 S
I think its clear that I am now mostly a 99 SR. I don't want to play rough.
But in two so called "races", I went from 99 to 76. And the day before it dipped as well.
In the bad race, I lost a huge amount of SR at the end of a race, yet, I never hit a car or left the bitumen (black top). But I'm Australian, so after the recent change, the connection is always poor, so I must have hit other cars ... or ran off the track ...
?And example of the new environment, was where there was one Japanese car, and the rest were Australian. Maybe Friday night. 12 all up ... and when the race was about to start, the single Japanese guy had 5 green, and the Aussies all previously with 5 green, they'd lost all those good connections, the green bars had all gone, and one Aussie guy had a red bar only, the rest of us had three yellows although some were orange.
its no fun to be on pole, and then realise at the first corner your car is a random object which lacks grip, steering precision and has random brakes.
i much prefer to race the Japanese and those people from other countries. GTS was working fine until this latest change in PD's software. And the more from Japan, the worse it gets.
At least return PD to swapping the servers around. Or give Oceana and also South America the same architecture that the pro GTS ring series has. Otherwise there's no point in driving well, and that means, there's no point in driving on line inside the GTS "hell".