Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38573979-20191101193924/@comment-35356197-20191120225622

Speaking as a programmer, I second some of the responses above. Including the option to turn off the ghost would be a pretty trivial feature to add. If you think about it, they already have to support the "no ghost case" (e.g. the first time you run the track, or when the opponent's ghost is "missing").

This is just FM being lazy. It's not the first time, either. Remember when they changed the split timer to include the penalties and then claimed it would be technically infeasible to change it. That was clearly a bogus excuse and they did change it in the next release.