So I did end up grabbing this as a present to myself, I've been enjoying it so far seeing as I haven't played any of the previous iterations (i.e fresh stages to attack, which has been a joy). I do have to ask though, is there an issue floating about where the selected difficulty doesn't "take" per se? I was incrementally bumping it up through the WRC3 portion, and on 2 or 3 events the 1st stage AI times would be a lot slower (25, 30 seconds) compared to the subsequent stages.
This culminated in me setting the WRC2 Monte-Carlo event to 140 and... well, it would be polite to say the AI was nowhere for the entire event. Just under a 7 minute gap to second place with the "long" option selected for rally length, and I'm going to assume they're not all imitating Austin Powers every time they navigated a switchback...
As an aside, is it obvious when there's multiple team offers at the end of a season? Only had the one to seemingly choose from regarding WRC2 offers, unless more pop up when you decline the one that's presented to you first?