Sorry, but this thing that happened to me earlier needs a play by play dialog to go along with it.
Monoco GP race, starting lap 30. My 1st class Bob, A. Knight, is in 5th place, the other 4 cars are evenly spaced out across a 3 second gap. We finally gained 5th on lap 29, the highest we'd been, and we only got that spot because someone spun, other than that, he's only passed 2 cars all race.
I give up, I tell Bob "we lost, go crazy, do whatever" and prepare to reset to my save (I'm a sore loser
) But, I give my Knight a chance, if only for entertainment value. And entertain, he did.
Across the line for the final lap we come, in a stunning move that he didn't make all race long, he dives and brakes hard for the first corner, cutting to the inside. The other car rapidly has to cut his speed, stunned by the maneuver. Knight takes 4th place coming out of the corner and pushes hard up the hill.
Coming through the esses, Knight has caught 3rd, he rides the bumper through the 90 degree corner and they head for the hairpin. He tries to open the door into the hairpin, but it's too tight, he backs off. But wait, his move caused 3rd to enter the corner poorly, there's a tiny little door there! Knight pounces on it like a starving lion, getting on the left side of his victim. They head for the right hander, Knight has the advantage as his rival has to slow down extra for the turn as he can't gas through it normally. Driving on the edge of control, Knight pounds it through the corner and clears for 3rd place.
At this point, I'm screaming at Knight to keep it up and bring it home in first or in pieces. He makes a tremendous run through the tunnel, screaming out the other side. He smells blood, and makes an extremely aggressive cut to the inside heading to the hell rail chicane. 2nd place isn't about to give up without a fight though, and he gives Knight absolutely 0 margin for error between the rail and his car. Knight decides to show off the huge brass weights loaded in the vehicle, and takes the dare from 2nd. Stunned that he actually went for it, 2nd backs off and Knight is by.
The leader has a bit of an advantage, and there's not much track left. At this point I'm jumping up and down begging him to keep up the clinic he's been putting on all lap. He roars down the straight, desperately trying to catch the leader. He brakes incredibly late into the left hander, but keeps Jesus from taking the wheel and powers through. He's nearly got the leader's bumper, but the chicane is coming up. He looks left, then right, but decides to follow the leader through the chicane. They slide left into it, then back to the right. Knight was riding his tail for a reason. He wants the win, and he wants it badly. Coming out of the chicane, he gives the leader a SHOVE, getting the tail end loose. As the leader tries to regain control, the door opens wide. Knight guns it. By the time his latest victim regains control, it's too late, Knight is clear by several carlengths.
He blows through the last few corners like a graceful butterfly on steroids and takes the win in the most amazingly mindblowing display of AI ability I have ever seen on any racing game.
And yes, I have the replay of it too if anyone wants to see this in action