it happened to me again that i have 5k cash in game and no car that is the 2nd time and i already had the bast car with a lot of updates :S will wait and log in again in few min. will see if it will be allright,...work for me last time anyway shortcuts,...."el diablo" at the beginning of the race you can turn right avoid the trees, over the hill and pres "r" it gives you huge advantage ,...the worst one is in "wild island banks" here you make left at the start and hit the gas,...when it restarts you you make another left across the river then it restarts you again so you go for a race until you hit left turn where that water tower is (there is also wooden sink holding water) if you cross river here you get to the finish line and you can see my record how fast this can be done hope you find my ghost runs will be exploring other ways just hope i don't get banned,...i'm always using practice run but someone who will bet and get my ghost car to beat with me cheating will be very upset better fix this things with some kind of fence or something ,...BTW any chance of seeing manual shifting gears ?