I have played this game for a long time and have beaten it, but it lacks a lot of things that would have made it more realistic and easier to play. I'm going to go with natasha8384 on this one.
The game itself is pretty good, but during races, people with the same car as you will just get ahead of you even if your at your top speed. Most of the time, you will need to stay focused only on the game because if you make one mistake by hitting a tree or something, your pretty much going to have to start the race over due to the fact that most of the time, the AI racers are always right behind you. I've only had a few races where the racers would not be behind me and they were all at the end of the race pretty much. The AI's are always difficult and they are easily able to keep at the same speed while making a sharp turn while us non-AI's would end up going into the ditch or worse. It's AI system is poorly built. I cannot really complain otherwise unless I should say that they should have made these weather effects in the race to be outside of races. It would have made the game a whole lot more realistic.