- 880
- New York
A couple of notes -
Overall time is generally set in more favorable track conditions.
But it's likely that people with qualifying 'overall' times have already set a qualifying special event time and then overwrote it with an even faster time.
It's also likely that there are people with qualifying times that do not use the leaderboards.
That being said however the track-car combo that corresponds to the event are usually one of the more popular ones so it is a pretty good indication of what is possible.
AC achievements used to be significantly easier when the game just came out. Then patches came out that made adjustments to the physics but the qualifying times were never adjusted themselves. But that does seem intentional as the new i.e. the Porsche challenges also have the same kind of brutal cutoff.
What do you think about the difficulty of AC achievements? I feel like their difficulty takes focus away from what i consider the next level of competition - the leaderboards or online play and discourages beginners.