I was winning in a BMW M3, then I was passed by 2 Mercesdes on the long straight, not with much time left, I was able to draft one of them, and outbrake one on the last corner. Phew!
My most amazing 'should have crashed but didn't quite' pass was in mission 34 going past the AMG around the outside of that really fast sweeper - the one you have to brake for after a long, flat-out twisty bit, a few corners before the Karussel. My SLR drifted around the outside, only missing the armco because of its sheer power (another point for no TCS 👍)
Well I was at a Track Meet fixing up my drift settings (I dont like Practice because the ghost gets distracting, damn you ADD). I was on Trial Mountain in my '93 Honda NSX and the lead car, an Infiniti G35 Coupe had caught up (I spun out earlier). I initiated a drift on that one hairpin after that long straight between trees that comes after that tunnel. so i initiated tha drift on the inside of the G35 before he turned. It looked so cool, because while my car was sideways going through the turn, it looked like he was about to hit my door. Kind of like a T going through the hairpin. I should have taken a photo.