I dont understand why some of you are against inviting friends to ranked lobbies.
If implemented correctly there is nothing to worry about.
Player with a higher safty rating can join friends with a lower rating if they want to.
And most of the time i spent in F1 2018 me and my friends had the most fun in ranked and it worked great!! (there were dirty drivers from time to time i agree but that Was because there were no mechanisms for preventing dirty drivers to join serious lobbies)
I would Like to know from you guys why you think that ranked would be unplayable if codemasters would implement that Feature the right way.
I think ranked would be much more Alive and a lot of people who left f1 because of this would return.
(sorry if my english is Bad šFirst Post)