Impossible to catch leader car

What’s up with the skill level of the leader car, it’s impossible to catch unless I start in second grid position, which never happens.
I’ve even tried setting the skill level to “new racer” and by the time I’ve passed all the useless drivatars that crash into me, the leader car is long gone.
By the end of a 5 lap race the leader car has lapped all the others by over a lap, so it seems that this drivatar is set at “unbeatable”,
Anyone else notice this?, is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix it (besides driving 300x times faster :)).?

You aren’t the only one to notice this. There are multiple threads about it. Common problem. I believe that they are working on a fix for it. Luckily in career mode it makes no difference if you come 1st 2nd or 3rd.

Ok, thanks. Good to know.