Horizon 2 Ai

I picked up Horizon 2 yesterday and while it is even better than the first one, I have noticed something that is very annoying and I am wondering if anybody else is experiencing my problem or if maybe I just suck. I have played up until the rally championship so far and during the rally and supercar championships, it seems that the ai cars are just much faster than mine. In the Supercar Champ. I drove the GS Lamborghini Superlaggera with a twin turbo upgrade and weight reduction putting me at the top of the class. In the modern rally I am driving a Evo X and am at the max points for the class. The current difficulty is at pro and I am using manual with clutch and a controller. I can usually get in first place but whenever there is a long strait, it seems like the opponents fly by me. I end up playing a game of jumping in front of the AI so that I can actually finish first.

Might be something with that difficulty. I play at highly skilled (one below pro I think) and I leave my cars stock, but I have no problems maintaining my lead. I have had times were my car is near the bottom of the class (like 609 and others are 680+) and I have been able to keep up. You just have to cut corners and drive aggressively.

yea, when I first started playing the game I raced on highly skilled and could finish with a huge lead, but as an example, I was in first place on a rally race and came around the corner with the opponents a little behind me, there was only a straight to the finish line but by the time I got there I was in sixth place. the only way I could win was to move in front of the opponents so they couldn’t pass me. I didn’t crash the entire race so there was nothing wrong with my car, it just seemed like the opponents had insane acceleration and I couldn’t go faster than them even with my car maxed out.