Maybe it is for a reason, but I can't see why people's hotlap times get compared by handicap time when having the same amount of hotlaps in a certain rank.
Of course this isn't an issue when you have done all hotlaps for that rank, but if you have 4 out of 18 hotlaps done and you have set 4 world records on Aston Cadet, Fern Bay Club, Aston Club and South City Classic, at the moment you would be below someone who has done some regular times on the longer configs (Aston GP, Kyoto GP Long, etc.).
The above seems kind of unfair to me, and it can be easily solved by comparing the Distance to benchmark percentages instead of the times.
Of course this isn't an issue when you have done all hotlaps for that rank, but if you have 4 out of 18 hotlaps done and you have set 4 world records on Aston Cadet, Fern Bay Club, Aston Club and South City Classic, at the moment you would be below someone who has done some regular times on the longer configs (Aston GP, Kyoto GP Long, etc.).
The above seems kind of unfair to me, and it can be easily solved by comparing the Distance to benchmark percentages instead of the times.