It really annoys me, is there a way to do it? Or is it always turned on?
If it is, would be a good thing to add in a patch, an option to turn the it off.
Just pick a faster rival,i have found this helps my times also.
What may help:
There is a bug (I guess it is). Start rival, finish race and in the next menu press “restart”. The rival’s time is displayed (and to beat of course ;)), but there is no ghost.
Once you beat the initial rival the ghost disappears.
Press start in the race, select HUD, in there is an option to have ghost always on, always off, or rivals only
There are some track in rivals where I can turn it on. off, rivals only, and they never turn on.