I guess the developers wanted to keep people playing and mastering tracks down the line, but holding these items back just seems arbitrary and weird. … The net code in general seems a bit strange, with rolling starts in races resulting in cars turning the wrong way or bumping into one another, and the whole feel of some of the car collision and restarts pulls the curtain back a bit, revealing that the developers are sort of fudging some things to keep the races from … …

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