Just a tip for anyone, try and avoid finishing with a Clean Sector or a Clean Event, as it is slower during the event ending sequence.

I always try and touch some dirt or failing that I graze the wall.

I might look into making a further change to timing runs, stuff like this along with the fact many different storage options can be used on all consoles means it's never going to be completely fair, menuing between events is also laggy and affected by loading too, I think the best option would be switching to LRT on the boards, removing loads out the equation completely and runs will be timed using the cumulative time of the events added together in one sitting, from GO to crossing the finish line, this will be accurate considering the majority of events have an in-game timer. Events without a timer like drifting can be timed manually using livesplit and added to the total, this way PS4 & PS5 can be merged and nobody will have an advantage.

Being rewarded timewise for making a mistake, whether it be on purpose or not isn't great all, plus pre loading events to improve load times before starting a run seems to be a thing also. LRT removes all of this.

Will probably just leave it as is and keep PS4 & PS5 separate, LRT just isn't really viable, especially when timing longer 100% stuff, plus I noticed someone on the board has their livesplit covering the IGT too