Er, I think I may have annoyed a few people last weekend when there were quite a few drift races cause I finished first in every single one of them. But believe it or not, I'm not rushing. I'm not driving in race mode, trying to not to slide, I just do it like I did drift races in NFS games: drifting for the corners, and going fast for the straights. I did a duel drift race with Jarno and he was going all over the place, turning left and right even in the straights. Maybe the solution would be that you lose points for being slower than a certain time set for a race and gain points if you're quicker?