Anybody else suffering small glitches [like tiny game freezing] during online play since this new Text Chat came with 2.70 update?

It caused me to "pinball" off side walls at some stage in more than half the races due to the micro freezes, and the track appearing that half a second after it normally would.

I suffered this last night during a Avalon meet,I don't know if it was just the sheer weight of messaging that was going on [the right hand corner of my screen looked like a gray strobe light at some points,I gather the PULSE guys were racing/texting at the same time]

I just had to quit,I was getting in a foul mood rather than enjoying the racing.