Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33870577-20190209191606/@comment-31433854-20190210142028

bot management only influences the competitor distances. Bots in the actual race are generally the same, though sometimes weird things happen, such as a whole bunch appearing, or sometimes super fast bots showing up (i've been passed before!), but these appear to be bugs (hard to believe in this game, I know).

Bathurst used to be one of the more interesting enduros when there were 3 very slow bots that started behind you. They would cause a traffic jam towards the end of lap 3 or beginning of lap 4, and allow you to get the timer back up. However, the monkeys removed that (but left the old TSM scores which led to some difficulty).

Also, on some circuits, bots disappear at some point on the track. It is easist to see this on the map at Mullenbach. This is why if you stop the car with 90s on the timer, even on a short track, you will not be lapped by a bot.