I had a glitch happen to me earlier that might explain some questionable scores on the leaderboard... I'm not sure if it's repeatable, I tried once to mimic what I did but it didn't work. I just restarted because I didn't wanna be that douche on the leaderboard with an obvious bogus score, but it meant that I was starting with 48 seconds on the countdown instead of the normal 20 seconds.
I'll admit, part of me wanted to run it just to see what I'd end up with, but I didn't want to risk the score being posted.
You're doing well! I've seen up to 1.9s for the bonus now, so I know a lucky run could get me a higher score, maybe one more checkpoint. It's time to restart when you find a dead taxi in the middle of the x-over
TC off just helps so much to rotate the car though. I haven't tried but I imagine TC would make that tight loop annoying.
I've settled on suspension in the middle anyway, might even try a click firmer. Gears a click shorter, diff a click more locked, and brakes a click rearward. Not convinced that any of it has made me any faster!
Thanks, I'm up to 766k now, the last lap always kills me as there is always a taxi crawling through the apex of turn 2 so I have to slow waaaay up or just yeet it over the kerb and that usually is what keeps me from making it to the checkpoint there or the next one. Somehow that taxi never ends up wrecked someplace else on the track for me.
Biggest bonus I've had was 2.6secs, but I perfectly used the door of a taxi to go around the crossover, and have never been able to replicate it.
One "tip" I've found for those who are running out of time approaching the crossover... you can go either direction around the crossover you want. The "normal" way (counter clockwise) is faster, but it takes longer to get to the checkpoint. If you won't have time to get to the checkpoint going the normal way, you can go clockwise and you will hit the checkpoint sooner and extend your time. It's too slow going clockwise to make it to the next checkpoint, but it's a way to sneak a little extra score in right at the buzzer.
I like the gears where they are stock because you do the whole track using only 3rd and 4th. Sometimes need to drop to 2nd at the crossover if a taxi disrupts you, but normally as long as you keep a little wheelspin for rotation it will stay up far enough in the RPM to still have good drive off the corner.
The new cars and their customization options are awesome, can't wait to see what else Season 2 has in store!
One interesting quirk I've noticed about the Hoonicorn replica is that the default livery has a similar look to
the Ford Fiesta Ken Block used in Gymkhana 3. 
It also has a livery that I crudely refer to as "eye****ing stripes" that was on the Hoonigan Focus RX cars one year.
It also has a glitch too, on the hood some of the stickers for some of the liveries are mirrored down the center, but if you change to one of the other hoods, it will fix it.
Any new tracks in the update?
One new track, with forwards and reverse variants. Street circuit with Gran Turismo Seattle vibes.
I guess that prompted a cleanup, so tonight it looks like this on PC...
