I had been getting pissed off with this as well. I kept using Quick Race to join races and three out of four lobbies I joined were just driving round in circles on either that stupid Criminal Records track or Down the Drain (which can at least be fun once or twice).
Last night I just said fuck it I'll host some races even if there is only a few people in the room. Anyway, no real takers to start with but one of the BGAF guys joined me and then another guy, after a few good races (nice one Jedeye, clean and fast as ever) it was back to me and one random but the room did
eventually fill (eight players anyway) and we had some really good races in a number of different classes. I had I think my first SUV race, a couple of compact races and a few others on a whole manner of tracks, it was nice to get a bit of variety for a change and I don't think I saw a Dubai spec chrome Adder all night!
Quite a few who joined and stayed made comments along the lines of "at last, finally a room with people racing not grinding!" so I think there is a growing frustration with "Closed" not meaning closed and more generally with the number of yawn-fest grinding lobbies.
Anyone who enjoys racing, feel free to add me, my PSN is in my profile.
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