Cheaters Online Already?

Been playing on the Xbox Series X since early access, and for the most part the game has been amazing. Online racing is where its at for me but this afternoon I encountered an interesting issue on Featured Multiplayer, GTX Sportcar Series, Hakone 13 Laps. The two players who posted the fastest qualifying times also finished the race with 0 pits. The race preset restricts you to stock tyres, and you can’t change between soft, medium or hard. They both began the race with only 4 laps of fuel. However at the end of the race, both players had not pit once during the race. In the replay you can see their cars hit 0 fuel and continue. Is there something I’m missing here?

Everyone else ended up with 1 pit minimum for a tyer change, or to refuel. But these guys never did?

There’s someone using auto + all assists who is 3 to 4 seconds faster than second place on VIR Subaru BRZ Rivals and Maple Valley Corvette Eray Rivals. The latter has a saved replay and you can see how slow it is, even stopping for several seconds before crossing the line. Using a stopwatch, the actual time is over a minute slower than shown on the leaderboard. Definitely something wrong here. As you’d expect, the rest of the leading times are no assists + M/C.

I hope FM doesn’t suffer from the fake leaderboards that have plagued Horizon 3, 4 & 5, that Turn 10 and Playground Games continue to ignore.

Okay so I have a question?
I tried online a couple of times but the deliberate wrecking of people and non catchable cars I don’t do that anymore but I do a lot of free play and now all of a sudden I will be leading the race and it’ll drop me down to sixth place when no one has passed me and I can’t catch the cars cuz they keep pulling away from me I was just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this