Originally Posted by: turtleCZ 
I noticed before start of the races are with frame drops and it's new.
On PC, at least, the game has never held a good frame rate in the pre-race animations. You can have a PC that can do 200fps in the races, but it will still have inconsistent frame rate for the pre-race bits. Digital Foundry commented on it in their video, so it's not new for XSX.