Originally Posted by: TheFearChannel 
Hello fellow players!
I have been stuck at this last one for hours now and find it absurd as I do everything else on much higher difficulty. Every time there's this rubber banding, tight cornering, speed monster Ford Ut '14 in first position from the start and now matter if I use my own or the fast HSV there's no coming near it.
Any tips as I can't do anything else until I finish this and right now I'm wasting my day.
Cheers!
Might try setting the AI Difficulty to Unbeatable, start the race, the pause and quit the race. Restart, set to Highly Skilled and race.
Sometimes this resets the AI when they are locked in a certain behavior. Also, I assume you have a good tune to work with.
I found the AI pretty reasonable for this round, but just luck of the draw.
Hope this helps!
So I tried that rewind button, took me all the way back to Forza 2....