Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
a patch could be made to help out on a steering wheel.. things like the wheels auto-resetting can be turned off so this would be totally manual and tied to your wheel position. i think the same could be achieved with the throttle so you can hold the revs at any point (then use the brake pedal to brake and reverse..)