You know you have private lobbies so you can practice until your heart's content while still being active in case any of your buddies want to drop in to play with you. Plus you wont have to ruin anyone's day or worry about random's entering your lobby and mucking your practice up. It's a win/win for everyone when you use your private lobby.
It does work, sadly enough other people need to have the same feelings that you do and also hit the "Vote to kick" button. It's not a public vote when you use it. Instead it quietly adds up votes until it gets enough to remove the host from the lobby. I know it works because a bunch of us once got stuck in a good lobby being run by a European (I forget his exact nationality). He was content to just hot lap his way into eternity so we told each other to vote him off since he wasn't getting the point that we wanted to race (I don't think he even realized he was host since the original host had left) so we booted him.
I have a few things that grind my gears so forgive me for the long and heated vent.
1. People who don't know how to pass. They lean, cut corners, bump you out of the way, slide under you even if there isn't any room to slide under you. The usual mess.
2. "STREET CARS ONLY" rooms full of fully-tuned almost-race-cars with Racing soft tires.
3. Somewhat related to above: Hosts who don't know how to set up their room to prevent vehicles they don't want from entering. Ex: If you don't want race cars, don't allow racing tires and limit the race by PP so if anyone does enter a race car, it'll most likely have a disadvantage.
4. Race hosts that kick good and clean racers simply for not following their word-of-mouth rules without a warning towards/confirmation by said racers.
5. Self-serving race hosts who setup the PP or HP/Weight knowing their car will be dominant.
6. Well-intentioned if optimistic race hosts who call for fast cars yet remove all of the nannies. I'm sorry guys and girls, but few if any of us are professional racing drivers with years of experience. Hell some of us might not even have a few months of experience in Gran Turismo. When you combine fast cars with mediocre drivers who want to win on the first lap, you get chaos. Lots of chaos.
and finally....
7. THE BIG ONE: Allow me to start first by saying that I do like Nurburgring! It's simply a beautiful track and a challenge in it's own right. However, in races over 450PP it's simply a terrible place to race online with other drivers. The track is too narrow to allow passing and when you combine this with high speeds you get plenty of cars in the grass and barrier. Also, if you simply MUST race on the Green Hell (appropriate name, really) I urge you to please use the TypeV or 24h configurations as they're much much much more suited for grid-racing starts.
Plus, you can spend the whole race working a small lead over someone only to watch it evaporate on the last, long stretch when your competitor(s) use your slipstream to shoot by you. This is especially bad in races with any amount of boost on as I came to learn the hard way in a shuffle race.
In all, the Nordschleife section of the Nurb should be reserved for very very long races or testing (AKA The same way it's used in real life). For short sprints with lots of fast cars driven by poor drivers... it's just not effective. Please stop using it.
However, it's a good deal of fun to race on in slower cars!
Anyhow, that's all I can think of for now. /end fuming rant
1. Yes try to avoid contact as much as possible but I hate whiners that
think every pass has to be perfectly clean. Online rules clearly state that
if someone is along side you more than half way then U should do your
best to give them room to the inside. If you pinch down and they slide
up into you it's just racing. I mean I don't understand the sliding into you
comment. If there's no room and they didn't cut the corner then they hit
you in the rear. If they see room to your inside and try to overtake you
they just cant say oh well were in the middle of a corner so I'm gonna let
you stay ahead. If said person gets to your inside you gave it to him, if
he slides up into you, again, that's racing. I can't see how someone gets
to your inside unless you leave it open. You don't get to pick your line
thru the corner if someone is on you, it's called defensive driving, protect
the inside. That's why Online rules state, you get one move on the straight
away to protect your inside, meaning you don't have to give room to the
inside if said driver is not along side you. Cutting corners I agree with you
Fully.
2. "Street cars only" simply means NO race cars or RM'ed cars. Example; If
you want to race an RM'ed version of the Corvette Z06 against a Z06
Vette with aero and wing from GT Auto and you don't think the Rm'ed
version has an unfair advantage, you need your head examined. What is
wrong with someone wanting to keep things competitive?
3. See above!!!
4. I agree they should at least give you a chance to set-up your car to
what they want.
5. How is it that they are setting up the room so they can be dominant.
race a car that is equal to what they have the room settings at. Again,
maybe they just don't want someone coming intot he room with an unfair
advantage.
I fully agree with you on 6. and 7.
Sorry for not knowing about the multi-quote feature.
nice one 
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