Decided to have a first at try the autocross mode in Rivals. Racing the Virginia route, I hit a few gates, got a few penalties and set what I thought would be a fairly poor time of about 3 and half minutes. Then saw that my time was like 2 minutes slower than the top of the leaderboards. I didn’t think I’d been ‘that’ bad. Figured I’d check the some of the top 10’s replays to get some hints and tips, and it appears they’re just all driving the track as if it’s hot lap mode. Hitting (or completely missing) almost every gate, taking the normal racing line, and making literally zero effort to pass through any gate. Yet they have the top leaderboard time and got zero penalties for any of it.
Is this mode just completely broken at the moment? Or am I missing something about Autocross mode?