I just verified a Saturn run which beat my previous record on the Beginner: Automatic category, but looking at the videos side by side, I really can't call it entirely fair to compare the two versions.

I'll go ahead and make some video explaining my points in more detail, but if you look at the last lap in the Saturn version, the player hits the wall in the last turn twice. The first time in which NO speed is lost at all! And the second hit brings it down to about 270 km/h. If this was the Arcade, that speed would have been reduced to 240 if not lower.

Small bumps like that continues to happen in both videos, and yet, the Saturn version tends to get punished a lot less than the Arcade.