Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32545704-20170806214411/@comment-29898480-20170807004640

You're right that other conditions are making bot slowing much less important. FM doesn't want these newer SEs to be bot slowing fests. I'm not sure it's completely irrelevant though - on 8.3 I passed for the lead in the final corner, and would have lost if the lead bot was a few seconds up the road. Without bot slowing, I might have had to go back and do a better run. But most of the challenge was meeting the other conditions.

Also, it appeared that bot slowing stopped working in the later stages of Furai Rising.