I say it's best to add an XP system, that way you can have a match making system that takes the XP a racer has along with their record. That way you would have top drivers facing one another and not a dog show where the not so good drivers get trounced all day.
Net more cash when you race against tougher competition, the more high XP players in a room, the higher the overall winnings. This would definitely encourage great racing, especially if you have a vote at the end before the credits are transferred to remove the idiot racer who cheats to win or drives unfairly. Is there replay save feature, this can be used to review races in case we need to report morons.
There should definitely be a stunt course, I mean we have these wonderful physics might as well see it in action doing things that would make car makers cringe
Side NOTE;
what the hell people, I am thoroughly upset by the fact that almost no one by now has at least one headset for use on their PS3, seriously how cheap are you? They gave away 2 Bluetooth headsets one was with Socom and the other was WarkHawk, there is no excuse to be online and not have a mic. Stop with the typing, I don't have time to read anything while I'm driving, a simple "I'm on your left is much easier to react to", how the hell do you expect to type that while having your hands full of steering wheel? Stop the BS, high time you used your mics...even your old USB mic will work. Don't use those cheesy cheap static producing mics either.
Sorry just had to get that out, had a game with these silent idiots online...one idiot would ram me, the others wouldn't say where they were so I can't avoid you if I don't know you're there.