Talk:Ride The Storm/@comment-27239273-20151220133218/@comment-24.228.81.248-20151221032439

The time shown for the leaders when you quit a race at the beginning are always slower than they are if you actually run the race (as tested by the very method you suggested, of hitting retry, etc,). This seems to have something to do with the algorithm used by the game to calculate the time spent when the race is not actually run and perhaps something to do with how their average speeds will not be very high when you quit T the beginning. Whatever the reason, it is like this in both special events and in the main series. I have not been able to get a clear explanation from support (I asked a long time ago) why this is, but it makes the times inaccurate as compared to the Speed Snap and High Speed challenges, where you are given real goals even if you don't compete. However, even this inaccurate time gets longer when you quit and retry a race for those races where slowing the bots works.