Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20181114220216/@comment-31433854-20181115143811

Whenever the race has actual bots on track, it gives you bot difficulty based on how you are performing in the series compared to other players. However, the bots can only go so quick, and it is much slower than a human can do, so cups etc are never the actual time or manner in which a TSM drove the race. Cutting, channelling RaduTan, etc, to lower your elapsed time on the race will get you faster bots (up to the ceiling) on subsequent races. If you do the 10-lapper w/o cutting, you will never get the top bots even though you are lapping most/all of the field. Why? Because so many players have run that race so many times cutting, which lowers their ET, which shifts the bot-difficulty distribution.

All that being said, in races where the TSM is not being emulated (e.g. Enduros, speed snaps), you get their real time/speed/distance to compete against.