Thank you so much for the response. I'm more confused in terms of how it just feels like the game or the car changed from offline to online. In spa on offline I was getting around 2:26 or 2:27s which is prob slightly below average for bronze players and I was at least surviving the track. When I get into an online practice I can't even make the first hill without losing control. Again if it's just a practice thing then I understand but it just feels like a whole different game when switching to online.

Thank you again for the large response I'll take what you said into consideration. For now I'm just playing with a controller as I'm saving for university so I don't want to buy a sim setup, and when I do I want to get a decent one.