Worst answer ever. It’s almost by no means a separate thing.
The winning racers of a list don’t receive rewards for anything but rather XP winners being rewarded the most, so as the layout on the online XP results championship-like display which is somehow made to divert most players’/racers’ attention to XP, whether intentionally or not. Plus it’s impossible for even the ultimate racing nerds to outperform just a fairly-experienced “drifter” who manages to not break his chain for a minute or two in XP battles within a same race.
As a result most online players I’ve seen in collision lobbies rather focus on drifting at back or half-drifting half-racing, which creates total mess for 1st half of any race in crowded lobbies/pissing off the only few collision competitive racers I’ve known of. These days there’re NONE competitive racers at all in collision lobbies and I hate the even more unrealistic nature of no-contact racing …
@HyperSpeeder There’s one last defense line for proper racing if u interested: S1 no-collision lobbies. Prepare to get trashed often.