Hopefully I cleared somethings up. Also if you do your runs on twitch don't forget to highlight it so it can be saved. If you do it on youtube make sure you take out the ending credits song so it doesn't get blocked world wide.

It's done manually as far as I know looking at other people's run and how you start the timer is when you select difficulty here is a clip for that here and you stop it when Marcus Blackwell the guy in the Aston Martin One-77 Crashes and the clip is here for that one

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It depends what category I'll start off with Any%. Also sorry for the long detailed description maybe someone will come along and shorten it but I like explaining my points fully.

Porsche 911 Carrera S - This is mostly what I've seen the community use mostly because of it's normal handling, okay acceleration and very good top speed. For any% I'd say this is decent but others will say it's the best so it depends and also how experienced you are with the game too. I feel like it will start dropping a bit in stage 3 because that is mostly top speed but you would have weak nos so I don't think you'd get up to top speed consistently so I wouldn't see the point, it's a good car for people who play on difficulties like normal and hard so I'd recommend if you play on those difficulties.

BMW M3 GTS - This car is very good for beginners since the handling is easy, acceleration is somewhat better than the Porsche 911 Carrera S by a little bit but has somewhat neutral top speed. In Any% it would be good for the most part but it will stiffen up on difficult corners despite it being easy to handle ironically. This car I'd say is good for beginner players or you can use it regardless though.

Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake - Very iffy with other people but I'd say it's perfect for Any% if you are quite knowledgeable about the physics in this game. Why I'd say it's good because the acceleration first off is what you need for a category like this in my opinion. The bad things about it on the other hand is the handling, it isn't something that will be simple to use so at first you will think it's shit but you just need to learn how to use this car and I'd say it's recommended if you play the extreme difficulties. Top Speed is also pretty low so you have to keep a good speed consistency on top speed tracks at all times otherwise you lose time.

I can explain NG+ and Extreme but I think they're kind of explanatory in itself but if you want me to explain I will. Again sorry for the long explanation.

I had this happen before but it's really rare but I guess the code messes up some how for the third racer. I wouldn't worry about it again though.