Oh you cheating little...

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Famine
There isn't a car behind you. There's three cars ahead of you.

However, there's no possible way for the situation I described to be true without "massaging" of the times. I set off 12 seconds behind the car directly ahead of me. I passed through the third and fourth splits level with him - that's a 12s advantage - and finished only 5s ahead of him.
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"Massaging" seems to be the right term here.

Having played the rally events a few more times today, I've noticed a bit of a pattern - I easily win the first two stages, then lose the rest with some highly suspect results. This may sound a little tin-foil hat, but some of the results have been rediculous. Not least because I rolled my car on one stage yet finished 4s ahead of the 2nd place CPU car. My 4th and 5th stages have also had plenty of examples of the CPU making up time from seemingly nowhere.

I'm not saying the timings are of a F1 2010 made-up scale, but they just don't seem right.

And before there are another half-dozen "well, I've beaten it" posts - I'm not saying it's impossible to do, I'm just saying that the game seems to let you take the lead early on, then pulls the rug from under you feet a little unfairly.
 
As for the Karts and many other events in GT5 you can use that rubber band slipstream effect to your advantage if you struggle to beat it outright. Just stay in second position until the last lap, you will find that while you are in second position it is a lot easier to maintain pace and you can time your pass so that it is an easy pass and so the AI doesn't have an opportunity to get near you again.
 
ScouserInExile
The second one was on karting advanced - the 2nd place CPU kart got a sudden burst of speed and slammed into the back corner of my kart and flew off the course, but out-paced me while going sideways across the grass, depsite me going flat out at this point.
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I have noticed that carts Can actually speed up on the grass a few mph. The loss of traction seems to allow the motor to rev up and speed you up slightly.
Its quite noticable when you do this at daytona speedway.
 
Famine
There isn't a car behind you. There's three cars ahead of you.

However, there's no possible way for the situation I described to be true without "massaging" of the times. I set off 12 seconds behind the car directly ahead of me. I passed through the third and fourth splits level with him - that's a 12s advantage - and finished only 5s ahead of him.
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Behind you time-wise. But that still doesn't match up to what you are saying, admittedly.
 
I couldn't understand why I was being destroyed by the opposition on the advanced Tarmac stages. Then i realised it doesn't automatically change you to inters or wets ithe rain. Gold was simple after seeing that. I think my silver in slicks was the better drive though.
 
I used the Berlinette R/S Coupe for the beginner and amateur(except for gravel), did amateur gravel in a WRC Impreza '08, and all the final level in a souped up Delta S4 Rally Car.
 
I will admit a couple of times The karts somehow pass me when Im already maxed out (I dont let them behind me so they can overtake so easily), like they got slipstream from nowhere.
 

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