Let’s have a qualifying race!
I think adding a qualifying race before an actual race might make interesting gameplay. Normally when you start a race it will put you in a position based on your difficulty. What if you still have that same difficulty but could start anywhere based on how you qualified.
How it would work is at all cars will be on track evenly spread out and will be racing for the fastest time rather than position. It would be 3 laps around the track. Once qualifying done the race order would be the fastest car in the front the slowest in the back for the real race. It would be a game changer for gameplay.