The corner pole in turn 1 of Nurburgring GP is always laying on the track. It's like I ran over it 5 months ago and it never resets. The track map at Sonoma long is messed up. I would love to see an option in the dedicated server that lets the server kick all players who don't record a qualifying time from the race. I think that would give us midpackers a better chance of competing since we won't get punted off the track in turn 1 by all the boneheads behind us that didn't bother to post a qualifying time. Thanks for listening.
My guess is it's positioned too deep into the ground, so when your session starts and physics engine starts working it just pushes the pole out of its place and sends it flying to the track. And it looks like AI drivers try to avoid hitting it and sometimes create an unnecessary mess in the first corner.