F1 23 Ranked Multiplayer - Itemised Feedback

Yea I'm pretty sure the ranked system is actually worse at separating skill levels than it was in F1 22 for the following reasons:

1. The way in which you gain ranks favours time played rather than actual performance and you are put in fresh lobbies when you enter your first race. This means you can enter a race towards the end of the week and only need to do a quarter of the races someone who started at the beginning of the week would need to do. Equally, someone who puts in a lot of time and comes 7th every race could beat someone on points who puts in less time but finishes first each race. So it's not truly a skill representation of progression.
2. The first lap ghost car system in safety rating B is actually a hinderence to good racing mainly because the cars aren't visibally ghosted all the time, meaning people don't know when the ghosting ends or whether the ghosting is on at all until they have made contact with someone to find out. If you're going to have a first lap ghost system then the cars should be visually ghosted the entire first lap so people know when the ghosting ends. This is particularly an issue when safety rating lobbies are merged because of a lack of players. ( I also think this first lap ghosting is bugged and does not turn off in normal multiplayer lobbies at the moment. This is a separate bug)
3.  It is possible to gain safety rating vs AI or in single player and this carries over to your multiplayer races. So everyone, even those who don't normally perform clean laps in multiplayer can easily hold and maintain A saftey rating. The safety rating needs to be much more penalising so that players are appropriately put in lobbies of equal driving capability, or lack thereof. Getting brake checked or rammed off the road by A safety rating players is all too common in ranked multiplayer and this shouldn't be the case. The top safety ratings should end up with clean drivers if the system was working well.