Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-40170966-20190917205217/@comment-34556626-20190918100640

PDQCarrera wrote: Perhaps it's latency and/or, if car starting 20 yards behind you finishes 10 yards behind you, they beat you. It is not a 1st to the finish-line race, it's a lap time race. It is definitely first to the finish line, so the further back you start, the bigger handicap you get (because you have a higher score, so you are the better player). They count the total lapsed time from start to finish. There is obviously the 20+m lag that FM have acknowledged.

But sometimes I've noticed when my connection is bad, everyone else just falls behind massively and then when my connection gets better, they suddenly zoom to in and around me. I've also started races where the entire field has left before me, but I still get placed based on my overall lapsed time (went from 8th to 4th while finishing on track 400m behind)