[2022] Times in ranked being delayed due to lag resulting in the time sharing that delay

When i begin to play a ranked match, there is a brief period of lag wherein the cars remain frozen when i drive past them, this lag has no in-game effects, as after a brief period of time, the cars go back to normal and if they were ahead or behind me, then they return to a place which looks like where they'd end up if the lag didn't occur. This is not where the issue is however.

The issue takes place if this occurs at the finish line, when it happens here the lag that occurs effects my car, and the time i get doesn't register until the lag has past, and on a number of occasions said lag has caused me to come 4th instead of 1st which has cost me legitimate ranked points (the most recent being very frustrating, which is the origin of why i've finally decided to write this). A case may be made that the result of this is the same as the lag statement before, and the cars that overtake me were actually ahead of me before the lag anyway. The issue with this however, is that the final time changes from what it shows me at the finish, because when the game lags at the finish it freezes on the time i finished with, showing me where i should've come, and then presents me with a new time after the lag, which is what the game registers.

I enquired in a game shortly afterwords with others to see if they experienced the incident as well. I had one response stating a similar thing, and putting the cause down to lag as well. Now with this i will admit by having a laggy connection i am the catalyst to this incident. However many others also have lag on this game, long before i ever started Trackmania, and this issue only began to occur in the last week. On top of that, i was of the perception that in a lobby, the game took your inputs separate to the times of others to ensure that the remaining time was accurate to the inputs i put in, yet this has proven that in ranked that is not the case.

I feel like i've covered every avenue of the issue i can, if anyone has any solutions that can help me from preventing this, or if other people have experienced this issue as well, please mention it so i can stockpile accounts of the same issue occuring. Thanks